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This is the audio from the August 27, 2023 sermon, “Good News: Learning Something New”, shared by Tom Lemler at the Deer Run Church of Christ.

Text: Luke 6

Today I continued a series from the gospel of Luke as we gaze deeply into God’s Word to find the good news of Jesus shared with us by Luke the physician.  As we continue our Good News From the Doctor series, we find that as Jesus went about life on earth He used the everyday activities of life to teach lessons about God and how we can live in ways that please Him.  While all of His teaching was based on the truth of God’s Word that many of His listeners would be very familiar with, He taught in such a way that they would constantly be learning something . . .

• Necessary: (Luke 6:1-5)

  • Many of the lessons Jesus taught the crowds were designed to teach them the necessity of living in relationship with God.  When the religious leaders watched Jesus and His disciples, they often observed actions that seemed contradictory to their understanding of what God required.  In our text today, Jesus makes it clear that the necessity of life and caring for the needs of people was the application of God’s Word.  When we choose to be taught by God’s Word and the example of Jesus, we find that we learn what is truly necessary.

• Eternal: — (Luke 6:20-23)

  • Because the world we live in is full of trouble, it is very easy to get caught up in the difficulties of life and even begin to question God’s goodness.  When Jesus begins to teach about the blessings of things that don’t sound that desirable, he does so with the purpose of teaching us to see with an eternal perspective.  Jesus made it clear in His teaching that all who would follow Him would face troubles and opposition of various kinds.  But He doesn’t just warn us of the troubles, He reminds us that He has overcome the world and that an eternity with Him awaits all who persevere and are faithful to the end.  When we choose to be taught by God’s Word and the example of Jesus, we find that what we learn is eternal.

• Wise: — (Luke 6:46-49)

  • Because most people want to be thought of as wise, we often define wisdom according to our standards and thus struggle to understand the nature of true wisdom.  As Jesus teaches the crowds, He addresses the fact that many want to claim association by calling Him Lord but few want to actually do what He says.  Jesus teaches that the one who hears the Word of God and does what it says is the one who truly understands the transforming power of God’s wisdom.  When we choose to be taught by God’s Word and the example of Jesus, we find that we learn to be wise by applying to our own life everything within Scripture.

Today, what will you learn that is NEW?