2015-06-07: Luke-The Investigative Gospel – Who Then Is This Jesus?

Sermon Audio: Who Then Is This Jesus?
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Luke 11:14-26
Duration: 19:44
Size: 9.03 MB

Luke-The Investigative Gospel
Who Then Is This Jesus?
Luke 11:14-26

We have just that sort of case before us this morning, the incident relayed to us in Luke 11:14-26 presses three relevant questions upon us.

1. Is Jesus the Son of God As He Claims?
Since they could not deny the power that Jesus possessed, the man had indeed been delivered; they question the source of his power.

Perhaps like some today they thought of themselves as being open minded, willing to be convinced if enough evidence is presented.

2. How Do I Know He is Who He Says He Is?
If Satan’s goal is to destroy and Jesus is reversing that destruction by healing, then how can he be in the service of Satan.

Logic would demand that the religious leaders acknowledge that Jesus was God or that His power was God’s power and yet in the face of all the evidence they refused.

3. What Must I Do In The Face Of This Evidence?
There are only two sides, God’s side and Satan’s side. There is no other side.

If a man or woman is empty and without God, then a vacuum exist in their soul and that vacuum will be filled by something.

The entire Christian faith all of its claims and all of its promises hangs on the witnessed, historical verifiable event, the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.

There is no middle ground; you cannot be neutral about Jesus, Who do you say that he is?