Title: The Transfiguration (31)
Series: Luke
Author: Zach Terry
Text: Luke 9:18-36
ANNOUNCE: Welcome home, Private Eli Johnson. Eli has completed basic training and is enrolled in Advanced Training with the National Guard. Private Johnson is a member of our church and a graduate of Fernandina Beach Christian Academy. He is the first of our students to serve in the armed forces.
INTRODUCTION: The Christmas season offers us an opportunity to reflect on what theologians call the hypostatic union of Jesus Christ. The mysterious way in which His Divinity and His Humanity co-mingled. The text before us today does the same.
CONTEXT: Luke places this event immediately following the feeding of the 5,000.
TEXT: Luke 9:18-36 (ESV)
18 Now it happened that as he was praying alone, the disciples were with him. And he asked them, "Who do the crowds say that I am?" 19 And they answered, "John the Baptist. But others say, Elijah, and others, that one of the prophets of old has risen."
This is the same line of answers Herod had contemplated back in verse 8. This was an unenlighted attempt to reckon with the miraculous powers of Jesus. Some speculated that John had been raised. Others that Elijah had returned on his firey chariot. The rest favored the view that he was one of the other OT prophets.
Then, in verse 20 - 20 Then he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
Those are two of the most significant questions raised in all of human history.
Charles De Garmo once said, "To question well is to teach well."
I have found that many of the young people in this generation do not know how to answer questions well. They tend to misdirect or answer the question they wished you had asked. Perhaps a method they picked up from our friends in D.C. Present company excluded, of course.
Asking the right question at the right time can do more for a person's education than a thousand lectures.
Notice that the first question was broad, and the ...
Series: Luke
Author: Zach Terry
Text: Luke 9:18-36
ANNOUNCE: Welcome home, Private Eli Johnson. Eli has completed basic training and is enrolled in Advanced Training with the National Guard. Private Johnson is a member of our church and a graduate of Fernandina Beach Christian Academy. He is the first of our students to serve in the armed forces.
INTRODUCTION: The Christmas season offers us an opportunity to reflect on what theologians call the hypostatic union of Jesus Christ. The mysterious way in which His Divinity and His Humanity co-mingled. The text before us today does the same.
CONTEXT: Luke places this event immediately following the feeding of the 5,000.
TEXT: Luke 9:18-36 (ESV)
18 Now it happened that as he was praying alone, the disciples were with him. And he asked them, "Who do the crowds say that I am?" 19 And they answered, "John the Baptist. But others say, Elijah, and others, that one of the prophets of old has risen."
This is the same line of answers Herod had contemplated back in verse 8. This was an unenlighted attempt to reckon with the miraculous powers of Jesus. Some speculated that John had been raised. Others that Elijah had returned on his firey chariot. The rest favored the view that he was one of the other OT prophets.
Then, in verse 20 - 20 Then he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
Those are two of the most significant questions raised in all of human history.
Charles De Garmo once said, "To question well is to teach well."
I have found that many of the young people in this generation do not know how to answer questions well. They tend to misdirect or answer the question they wished you had asked. Perhaps a method they picked up from our friends in D.C. Present company excluded, of course.
Asking the right question at the right time can do more for a person's education than a thousand lectures.
Notice that the first question was broad, and the ...
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