Luke 7:11-17

Luke 7:11-17

1. We learn what sorrow SIN has brought into the world.
2. We learn how deep is the COMPASSION of our Lord Jesus Christ's heart.
3. We learn the almighty POWER of our Lord Jesus Christ.

"How much we ought to hate sin! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, dallying with it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred."

"Our Lord Jesus Christ never changes. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His heart is still as compassionate as when He was upon earth. His sympathy with sufferers is still as strong. Let us bear this in mind, and take comfort in it. There is no friend or comforter who can be compared to Christ."

"Let us pray for our children, and faint not. Our young men and our young women may long seem traveling on the way to ruin. But let us pray on. Who can tell but He that met the funeral at the gates of Nain may yet meet our unconverted children, and say with almighty power, "Young man, arise!" With Christ nothing is impossible."

Questions:

1. Ryle states: “how much we ought to hate sin! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, dallying with it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.” To what degree do we hate sin? Are we praying for grace to see sin for what it is, and to hate it more?

2. In our prayers, do we believe that Christ Jesus is compassionate toward our suffering and sorrows? That He has sympathy in our weaknesses?

3. When is the last time we thought about the resurrection hope we have in Christ? What steps will we take, by God’s grace, to put this great truth before us?