Sermon Studies on the Gospels: ILCW Series B

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“True greatness is determined, not by deeds which receive the greatest outward attention, but by humble service which is often scarcely recognized.” (Page 322)

“All who insist that these are comments on the Lord’s Supper are missing the point. It is a spiritual eating and drinking to which Christ here is inviting us; he is encouraging a very intimate union between the sinner and the Savior, established through the Holy Spirit’s gift of faith. To ‘eat and drink’ his ‘flesh and blood’ is to believe in the crucified Christ with all of one’s being. It is a union of the most intimate kind.” (Page 295)

“Thirty years later Peter insisted that the event on this mountain was neither illusion nor myth: ‘We were eyewitnesses of his majesty.… We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the sacred mountain’ (2 Pe 1:16, 18). John also wrote, ‘We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father’ (Jn 1:14). ‘That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim’ (1 Jn 1:1).” (Page 110)

“First, he demonstrated for them that God’s kingdom (God’s gracious rule in the hearts and minds of believers) was meant also for children. Faith is not primarily a matter of the intellect or the will, but a matter of trust in Jesus and in the promises of a gracious God.” (Page 331)

“Jesus rules out all thoughts of work-righteousness. The gift of eternal life cannot be earned by sinners. It can be received only through faith in the merits of the sinless Savior.” (Page 281)