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1. Night of Worship and Prayer // March 30 @7pm - Join us this Wednesday evening at 7pm for a specail night of worship and prayer. 7pm in the Auditorium.
2. DNA - New to CalvaryMac? Lunch on us! // April 17 after 2nd Service @12:30P - Are you new to CalvaryMac? Come enjoy lunch on us to discover what we’re all about. If you’re new to CalvaryMac, or if this is your church home and you’d like to get more involved in the life of our church, then this is the place for you. Register at CalvaryMac.com/dna-lunch.
3. Author’s Group // Every 3rd Wednesday - 9:30am in the Living Prayer Room - Today we welcome our own Shelli Owen for this month’s Author Spotlight. At CalvaryMac we value writing as Kingdom building tool. If you’re an author and want to develop your writing skills, join our Author’s Group. Everyone is welcome. Just come the 3rd Wednesday of every month and meet us downstairs in the Living Prayer Room.
4. Youth Bike Trip 22 // July 23-30 | San Juan Islands - 8 Days, 7 Nights biking, camping, hiking, swimming, on the San Juan Islands in Washington. The highlight of the youth ministry calendar. Early Bird Rate Availbable until May 21st. Register at CalvaryMac.com/Youth
5. Emergency Team // Looking for medical and mental health profesisonals - CalvaryMac is looking for medical and mental health professionals who are willing to respond to incidents that may occur during church hours. We would like to have a list of individuals who are willing to “pinch hit” as well as a team of individuals who are willing to be available on a regular basis during church functions. Please contact Crystal at crystal.brown@growthandcongruence.net.
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Mountain Rescue: A True Story of Unexpected Mercies and Deliverance by Shelli Owen
During spring break in March 2013, Mary Owen, a twenty-three-year-old student at George Fox University, went missing. She was an avid adventurer and outdoor enthusiast who had previously hiked the 2653 mile long Pacific Crest Trail (PCT).
This is a story of the agony one mistake can precipitate, a story of blunder, peril, and reckoning on a hazardous mountain at a dangerous time of year. It is a compelling story of obsession, the allure of the outdoors, intense longing for adventure, entrapment in the wild, and Providential survival. It is an unforgettable story of prayer, faith, and hope, and of days of silence, turned into song and resurrection.
Many people have asked for this story to be written. The book includes Mary’s account, her parents’ perspectives, along with a collage of contributions from other people who became part of the story as it unfolded in real-time.
SERMON NOTES: LUKE 20:27-21:4
Spiritual Blindness is Illogical.
Brian had gotten so accustomed to a distorted view that he didn’t realize how
SIGHT - the ability to see
SPIRITUAL SIGHT - the ability to see that God is working.
They were unable to trap him in what he had said there in public. And astonished by his answer, they became silent. —Luke 20:26
LUKE 20:27-36 // THE SADDUCEES TAKE ON JESUS
Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question. “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless. The second and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children. Finally, the woman died too. Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?” —Luke 20:27-33
While both the Pharisees and Sadducees served on the Sanhedrin (the 70 member Jewish supreme court), Luke has been focused on the Pharisees. But now, for the first time in Luke, we’re introduced to another
Any question from the Sadducees on the resurrection was not to learn from Jesus, but to find a way to make Jesus look
By skeptically embellishing a law to somehow prove their perspective on Jesus, the Sadducees are the ones who will look foolish,
When someone is spiritually blind, they can build seemingly logical arguments. However, these positions tend to flow from a place of
Jesus replied, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God’s children, since they are children of the resurrection. —Luke 20:34-36
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth.”
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth.” —Genesis 1:27-28a
Our sexuality (who we’re attracted to, have sex with, or who we marry) isn’t who we are. Sex is what we do to fill the earth. Our
Jesus is saying, “You’re
In other words. “Your question makes rational sense to you, but to God it’s absolute
God has prepared many surprises for us in eternity. We don’t know specifics on what’s in store, but we do know (because of who
LUKE 20:37-40 // JESUS TAKES ON THE SADDUCEES
But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”
Some of the teachers of the law responded, “Well said, teacher!” And no one dared to ask him any more questions. —Luke 20:37-40
If Abraham, Isaac and Jacob did not live on in resurrection, then God could not say that He is the God of Abraham, and would instead say, “I
No one dares to ask Jesus any more questions because not only is He too smart for their traps, but he uses Scripture to
LUKE 20:41-44 // JESUS EXPOSES THE SADDUCEES’ IGNORANCE
Then Jesus said to them, “Why is it said that the Messiah is the son of David? David himself declares in the Book of Psalms:
“‘The Lord said to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies
a footstool for your feet.”’
David calls him ‘Lord.’ How then can he be his son?” —Luke 20:41-44
Jesus just finished correcting the ignorance of the Sadducees on the resurrection and the reality of angels. Now he’s quoting from the book of Psalms to say, “Guys your beliefs are wrong. You reject the rest of the
King David understood that His Son (a future descendant and successor to the Throne), who would be the Messiah, would be
LUKE 20:45-21:4 // JESUS COMPARES LEADERS SEEKING MAN TO A WIDOW SEEKING GOD
While all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples, “Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.” —Luke 20:45-47
The Jewish leaders are spiritually blind because they are
If you seek the world you’ll find the world and end up just as spiritually blind as the Jewish leaders. However, if you seek
Their prayers have nothing to do with worshiping God, but only worshiping
They exceedingly wealthy at the expense of widows, and Jesus concludes by
As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” —Luke 21:1-4
The rich gave out of their worldly abundance, but remained spiritually blind. The widow gave out of worldly poverty (all she had to live on), because she had spiritual
Spiritual Blindness is Illogical. Spiritual sight makes everything clear.
The key to spiritual sight isn’t forcing what you think and feel upon God. That’s like wearing the wrong prescription. Rather allow God’s Word to
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