Category: Studies in Luke

If you reject Jesus as your King or ignore him, you will not know Jesus as your friend but as your Judge. If you reject Jesus, the loss will be yours, and it is a loss too great to bear.

Jesus has all the authority of heaven and earth and therefore calls us to live for him, not to earn his acceptance but as a response of thanksgiving to him for his kindness to us in creating and sustaining the world, in dying on the cross for our sins, in rising again, for our salvation.

As a church family we must focus on the primary activities of prayer and preaching. It’s easy for secondary things to push out the primary things. And as Jesus did, we want to examine the Scriptures to ensure the all of the ingredients of worship are included in our services. Are the churches in Scotland squeezing out prayer and preaching by giving them little time? It’s easy for this to happen. Our services must concentrate on honouring our heavenly Father.

What’s your response to Jesus? If you wish people would just keep quiet about him then you’re in a dangerous place. You cannot have a neutral response to Jesus. Either we trust in him as our Saviour and King, or we reject him as King and act as if we don’t need a Saviour.

Friends, Jesus is the King, who offers you peace. Will you submit to him? Will you trust him? Will you follow him?

It’s not what we do that earns us a place in heaven; that’s a free gift, through believing that what Christ has done on the cross. That’s how we get pardon and forgiveness. It is all of grace, all of God. There’s nothing we can do to earn even a part for that. But we will know whether we have believed by the way we respond.

Christ has given us all we could need for living a real, authentic, Christian life: Let’s walk in the daily walk of faith and use the investment that God has made in us, for his glory alone.