This Lord's Day (September 1, 2024) at Rainsville First Baptist Church

This Sunday we will return to the Gospel of Luke as I have a purpose to preach through this gospel over an eight-to-nine-year period.  In fact, it was 2017 when I first started preaching through Luke and with great expectation I return to where we left off in late 2023.

This Sunday we will pick up in Luke 16.  Let's be reminded of what Dr. Luke is doing in this section of his gospel.

Luke 14 has given us the mandate of a disciple of Jesus...to follow Jesus completely and without reservation.

Luke 15 reveals the type of Father we have...one who receives sinners and rejoices over their salvation.

Luke 16 deals more intimately with following Jesus by speaking about the disciples' relationship with our money and material possessions.  All of the material in Luke 16 is unique to Luke except for verses 13-18.

It is interesting to note one-third of all the parables of Jesus deal with the relationship of his followers with money and their material possessions.

It is in the context of the love of money Jesus addresses the Pharisees in verses 14-18 and at the end of his talk, he mentions divorce. 

This caused me to think about the issue of marriage and divorce and I want to do a short series of messages on "Marriage:  The Gospel Reflected" beginning this Sunday.