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Series: The Three L’s That Will Change Your Life and Your World
Scott Maze
Luke 10:1-24
Today, it's not unusual to see small white decals on the back of vehicles in the DFW Metroplex. Sometimes it is 13.1, where the driver is proud of her accomplishment of running half a marathon. While other times it is, you'll see 26.2, where the person has evidently run a full marathon. The idea of running a marathon comes from ancient Greece and the Battle of Marathon (490 BC). Legend has it that a man ran from the town of Marathon to Athens, or what has come to be known as a marathon. He ran this marathon in order to proclaim the good news of victory before he died. In the Battle of the Plain, so called because it occurred on the Marathon Plain, a man was commissioned as a runner. He took messages from the battlefield back to the city of Athens. He ran the entire distance, twenty-six miles, which is why we call races of that duration marathons. This runner ran all the way from the plain into the city of Athens to bring the gospel, Greek word that simply means good news, of the Greek victory at Marathon. So the herald would tell the townspeople of a military victory and then he would head to the next town to tell them as well. So in one important way, preaching is journalism - it's telling good news.
We launch into a mini-series this morning as we enter the tenth chapter of Luke. We continue our study of Luke's gospel, line by line, chapter by chapter, and sentence by sentence. Over the breadth of this single chapter, we'll identify three L's to change your life - labor (today), love (next week), and listen.
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. And he said to them, ''The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Go your way; behold, ...
Series: The Three L’s That Will Change Your Life and Your World
Scott Maze
Luke 10:1-24
Today, it's not unusual to see small white decals on the back of vehicles in the DFW Metroplex. Sometimes it is 13.1, where the driver is proud of her accomplishment of running half a marathon. While other times it is, you'll see 26.2, where the person has evidently run a full marathon. The idea of running a marathon comes from ancient Greece and the Battle of Marathon (490 BC). Legend has it that a man ran from the town of Marathon to Athens, or what has come to be known as a marathon. He ran this marathon in order to proclaim the good news of victory before he died. In the Battle of the Plain, so called because it occurred on the Marathon Plain, a man was commissioned as a runner. He took messages from the battlefield back to the city of Athens. He ran the entire distance, twenty-six miles, which is why we call races of that duration marathons. This runner ran all the way from the plain into the city of Athens to bring the gospel, Greek word that simply means good news, of the Greek victory at Marathon. So the herald would tell the townspeople of a military victory and then he would head to the next town to tell them as well. So in one important way, preaching is journalism - it's telling good news.
We launch into a mini-series this morning as we enter the tenth chapter of Luke. We continue our study of Luke's gospel, line by line, chapter by chapter, and sentence by sentence. Over the breadth of this single chapter, we'll identify three L's to change your life - labor (today), love (next week), and listen.
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. And he said to them, ''The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Go your way; behold, ...
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