Download Lesson: 3.9.20 Class Notes – Luke 17.1-10

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How can we have such faith and offer such forgiveness? We must live in humility, knowing our place in the stream of life. God is master and we are slaves. We should not look upon a life of ongoing forgiveness as a great accomplishment. We should see it as the normal act of the life of faith. Forgiveness is what Jesus expects of us.

Download Lesson: 10.6.19 Class Notes – Luke 11.33-36

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If you are truly receptive to Christ (v. 36a) and there is no hardness of heart in you toward him and his message (v. 36b), then you will truly shine with the light of Christ and his gospel (v. 36c); just like when a shining light illuminates you with its rays, so will Christ illumine you” (v. 36d).

Download Lesson: 6.16.19 Class Notes – Luke 9.10-17

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Q: How are we to live in light of this text? The Lord’s command, “You give them something to eat” is simply a restatement of the Great Commission. The lesson is that if we give Jesus what we have, He can multiply it to feed the spiritually hungry multitude.

Download Lesson: 1.20.19 Class Notes – Luke 6.36-37a

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In Isaiah 55:8 we read that God’s ways are not our ways. If we want God’s blessing in our lives, we must go God’s way, which is usually counter to the ways of man. Man’s way is to go easy on ourselves and judge others more harshly than we judge ourselves. God’s way is to be merciful toward others and to judge our own sins. Since it goes against our flesh, it is something we must constantly work at if we want to please God and experience His blessing.

Download Lesson: 1.13.19 Class Notes – Luke 6.32-35

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Jesus emphasizes the need for the believer to continually love, do good, and lend. Even as God has been gracious to believers “while we were still sinners” (Rom 5:8; cf. “ungrateful and wicked” in this verse), so we are to give freely in return.