The Village Church: The Trilogy
from the tax-collectors-and-sinners dept.
I listen to a lot of sermons on the bus to and from work. Mostly, I'm looking for teachings and theology. I they come in as podcasts and I delete them once I've listened to them. Every so often, I find a real star.
Matt Chadler, Lead Pastor at The Village Church in Highland Village, Texas had one such sermon on January 7th, 2007 (it says 2006, but you know how it is around the top of the year).
Chandler goes through Luke 15, where Jesus gives us three parables. Here's a small excerpt:
I'm hoping tonight that you begin to understand the New Testament now, specifically the gospels. I mean, do you want to know why the woman walks into the room and finds Jesus and falls at His feet and cries on them and takes her hair down and wipes them? Do you know why she's doing that? Because until this point, she's alienated from God, exorcised from the church, she has no hope of salvation, no hope of restoration, no hope of repentance, and yet here's Jesus saying, “The prodigal. The prodigal is why I came.” Do you know why that woman comes out and breaks open that bottle of perfume and pours it on His feet? Do you understand why Zacchaeus presses in to hear Him. If you don't understand why the religious elite were so infuriated with Him, here it is, Luke 15. He's saying to them, “This epic celebration, this party, the thing I'm doing with tax collectors and sinners, they're a precursor of what's to come. I'm doing now what will be done on the final day. I'm doing now as an example of what the gospel is. I'm doing now what will be the gospel from this moment on. Come, eat and break bread.”
You can find the sermon audio, notes, and transcript here: The Trilogy.
Posted: Saturday - May 12, 2007 at 04:23 PM |
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