In Luke 13, Jesus reminds his listeners that there is a universal need for repentance, no matter the circumstances of their lives. The door to the kingdom is narrow, and for now, is flung open wide with an invitation to all to enter. But Jesus also warns us that at some point, that door will be closed. Join Pastor Matt as we study this passage and hear more about the relentless grace of God that pursues each and every one of us.
“Shalom is God’s design for creation and redemption; sin is blamable human vandalism of these great realities and therefore an affront to their architect and builder.”
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., Not the Way It’s supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin
“Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.”
Brene Brown, Dare to Lead
“Repentance is a continual lifelong act. It is not something done once and for all; it is the soul’s daily bread and drink.”
Charles Spurgeon
“Grace relentlessly pursues, relentlessly forgives, relentlessly transforms, relentlessly restores, all of which we relentlessly need.”
Paul Tripp
“We are part of that great movement whereby the hopes and fears of all the years are brought together and addressed by God. And, as we hear that gentle and powerful address to our own hopes and fears, we are called to become, in our turn, the means whereby that same address goes out to the wider world.”
N.T. Wright, The Lord and His Prayer
“We are stewards of what God has said, but heralds of what God has done. Our stewardship is of an accomplished revelation; but an accomplished redemption is the good news which we proclaim as heralds.”
John Stott
“The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient towards you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”
2 Peter 3:9
“He has done everything. All you need to do is believe and be willing.”
R. Kent Hughes, Luke: That You May Know the Truth
“Come Thou Almighty King“ by Felice de Giardini, Tommy Bailey, Sarah Gehri, Nathan Mickle & Tom Yarbrough
“There Is A Fountain“ by William Cowper and Lowell Mason
“Here Is Love Vast as the Ocean“ (Everlasting Praise) Music: Robert Lowry, Words: William Rees, tr. William Edwards, Add. Words, Music and Arrangement, by Matt Boswell and Kristyn Getty, Orch. by John Langley and Paul Campbell
“Come Unto Jesus“ by Thomas Moore, Laura Story, Jordan Kauflin, Thomas Hastings, Matt Merker
“Doxology” by Thomas Ken and Louis Bourgeois
All songs are used by Permission. CCLI License #2003690
Leader: To our God and Father be glory forever and ever!
People: My soul magnifies the Lord, And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
Leader: To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, The only God, Be honor and glory forever and ever.
People: I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God While I have my being.
All: To our God and Father be glory forever and ever! Amen!
Come, oh come, most gracious comforter of afflicted souls and helper in tribulations. Come, cleanser of sins and healer of wounds. Come, strengthener of the weak, comforter of the downtrodden. Come, teacher of the humble and destroyer of the proud. Come, devoted father of the orphans, gentle protector of widows. Come, hope of the poor, reviver of
the sick. Come, star of the navigator, port of refuge for the shipwrecked. Come, singular glory of those who live, singular salvation.
Come, most Holy Spirit, come, we ask, and have mercy on us.
