Jeff Tacklind’s message on Luke 5:17-26
Sermon Notes:
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Questions to consider…
1.When God looks into your heart, what does He see? What are you hiding that needs His touch?
2. What in me resists being set free? Where have I grown resistant to what God wants to do in my life? Where is unbelief holding me back from abundant life?
3. What are the longings and passions of my heart? How can I bring these before God with boldness?