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Luke Dave Royes Luke Dave Royes

The Test of Prosperity

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: Luke 12:13-21
April 4, 2025

Sermon Notes

Luke 12:13-21: “Someone in the crowd said to [Jesus], “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbiter over you?” And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat drink, and be merry.”’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

Outline:

1. The main point

2. The shocking exhortation

  • A particularly blinding sin

  • A particularly captivating sin

3. The exposing parable

  • Our delight is in God

  • Our security comes from God

  • Our eternity is with God

4. The truth about treasure

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Luke Steve Estes Luke Steve Estes

An Angel, a Virgin

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: Luke 1:26-38
December 22, 2024

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Luke 1:26-38: “In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”

Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”

“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called[a] the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. For no word from God will ever fail.”

“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her.

Outline:

1. The angel

2. The place

  • Far from Jerusalem

  • Of “inferior Jewishness”

  • The town of Nazareth

3. The time

4. The virgin

  • Her need for a Savior

  • Her modest role

  • Her godliness

5. The conversation

  • Gabriel’s graciousness and Mary’s fear

  • Gabriel’s reassuring message

  • Mary requests an explanation

  • Gabriel’s astounding, mysterious answer

  • Gabriel’s help to Mary’s faith

  • Mary’s courageous, submissive reply

6. The applications

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Luke Steve Estes Luke Steve Estes

A Pleasant Company: Jesus, the Twelve, and the Women

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: Luke 8:1-3
November 17, 2024

Sermon Notes

Luke 8:1-3: “After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him, and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; Joanna the wife of Cuza, the manager of Herod’s household; Susanna; and many others. These women were helping to support them out of their own means.”

Outline:

1. Three familiar scenes of 21st-century people

  • Major TV networks watched by older folks

  • Hollywood scenes of the supernatural

  • The situation in the Middle East

2. A scene of some first-century people

  • The twelve

  • “Some women”

    • The women in general

    • Mary Magdalene

    • Joanna

    • Susanna

3. The man who drew them out of darkness

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Luke Tyler Estes Luke Tyler Estes

Dayspring From on High

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Speaker: Tyler Estes
Scripture: Luke 1:76-79
December 19, 2021

Sermon Notes

I. Introduction: The winter solstice helps us to enter into Zechariah’s prophecy.

II. To whom is the light given?

A. To those who sit in darkness (v. 79).
1. Darkness of delusion.
2. Darkness of depravity.
3. Darkness of despondency.

B. To those who sit in the shadow of death (v. 79).

III. What is this light that is given?

A. Not just light generally but a sunrise (v. 78).

B. Jesus shines as light to us:
1. By revealing.
2. By reviving.
3. By directing.

IV. For what reason is this light given?

A. Because of his tender mercy (v. 78).

B. Because he is faithful to keep his promises.

V. For what purpose is this light given?

A. That we might serve God (v. 74).
1. “Without fear.”
2. “In holiness and righteousness.”
3. “Before him.”
4. “All our days.”

B. To guide our feet into the way of peace (v. 79).

VI. Application

A. Gratitude: We have clearer and brighter knowledge of this sunrise than the Old Testament saints did.

B. Focus on God’s promises.

C. Imitate God by showing tender mercy to others.

D. The light of the gospel is all-encompassing: Live all of life in fullness of life and fullness of joy.

E. Are you still sitting in the darkness of your sin? Repent, believe in Christ, and be saved.

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