Luke 13:10-21 | How to Know You’ve Encountered God’s Kingdom | Pastor Aaron Garza
Pastor Aaron Garza delves into Luke 13:10-21, exploring how Jesus demonstrates the reality of God’s kingdom through healing and parables. This sermon addresses the common human tendency to create a Jesus in our own image, contrasting it with the true Jesus revealed in Scripture.
Key themes explored in this sermon:
- The True Nature of Jesus’s Kingdom: Examining Jesus’s healing of the woman on the Sabbath and the parables of the mustard seed and leaven, revealing how God’s kingdom often works in unexpected and seemingly insignificant ways.
- Challenging Preconceived Notions: Addressing the dangers of projecting our own expectations onto Jesus, as exemplified by the Jesus Seminar and the synagogue leader’s reaction.
- God’s Kingdom: From Small to Great: Emphasizing the pattern of God’s kingdom, which often begins with small, seemingly insignificant acts and grows into something significant.
- The Power of the Holy Spirit: Understanding how the Holy Spirit continues to expand and grow God’s kingdom in our lives and in the church today.
- Living in God’s Sabbath Rest: Encouraging believers to trust in God’s sovereignty and find peace in His plan, even when things seem uncertain.
- The importance of seeing others the way Jesus see’s them.
- A contrast between the expectations of the Kingdom, and the reality of the kingdom.
- A call to trust in God’s work, even when we do not see it.
This sermon encourages listeners to trust in the true Jesus of Scripture, to recognize His kingdom at work in their lives and in the church, and to live with hope and confidence in His ultimate victory.
Key verses: Luke 13:10-21.