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Our sermon this morning comes
from Luke 22, verses 28 through 38. This is a second part of the
sermon where we're standing with Christ in the midst of our trials. Jesus here is coming to the end
of his first earthly ministry and his work. He knows that he
is about to go, be arrested, and be crucified. And he's coming
to his disciples and he's speaking to them these words. Luke 22,
starting with verse 28. You are those who have stood
by me in my trials. And just as my Father has granted
me a kingdom, I grant you, that you may eat and drink at my table
in my kingdom. And you will sit on thrones,
judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Simon, Simon, behold,
Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat. But I
have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail. And you,
when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.' But he said to
him, With you, I am ready to go both to prison and to death. And he said, I say to you, Peter,
the rooster will not crow today until you have denied that you
know me three times. And he said to him, when I sent
you out without money belt and bag and sandals, you didn't lack
anything, did you? They said to him, no. Nothing. And he said to them, but now,
whoever has a money belt is to take it along, likewise also
a bag. And whoever has no sword is to
sell his coat and to buy one. For I tell you that that which
is written must be fulfilled in me. And he was numbered with
the transgressors. For that which refers to me has
its fulfillment. And they said, Lord, look, here
are two swords. And he said to them, it is enough. Pray with me. Father, help us
now as we come to your word. Please speak to our minds. Please
speak to our innermost beings and be glorified as we think
rightly about you and rightly about the circumstances of our
lives. Please show us how to love you.
Please show us how to respond to you and all the temptations
and all the tensions of our life. It is in Jesus' name we pray.
Amen. When are you tempted to deny
Christ? When is this burden placed upon
you? When Jesus looked at Peter and
he said to him, you will deny me. When he looked at him and
says, Satan has demanded to sift you like wheat. Where is that
in your life? When Peter heard that, Peter
imagined this situation where Jesus was going to be on trial.
Peter would be brought up and stood next to him and they would
ask the question, do you deny him? And Peter said, I'm ready
for that. I'm ready that as I'm looking
at Christ, as I'm standing with him, I'm ready to say, no, I
will go with him to death. You and I, we probably have that
same sensation. We imagine if we were put up
on trial, we would say, I stand with Christ. Well, we look at
the work of Satan and Satan moves very differently than the ways
that we would expect. Satan, he comes in and he sneaks
in and he whispers and he puts you in a situation where he's
just calling you just a little off sides. just a little bit
in this moment. If we look forward and we'd see
where Peter was tempted, he wasn't stood up on trial, he wasn't
standing with Jesus, he was just warming himself by the fire at
that moment. Somebody says, wait a second,
your accent, where are you from? Aren't you one of his? Probably
didn't even recognize in that moment that what I'm doing is
denying Christ. in our own lives? Where are the
pressures and the tensions for you? Where are the commandments
brought up and mocked? Where is Christ mocked in your
life? And how are you doing in those
moments? To stand with Christ. To stand for Him in the midst
of your trials. Now I promise you, we're all
gonna fall. We're all going to do these exact
same things. We're going to do them in our
minds. We're all going to do them in our hearts. We're all
going to do them with our hands. It will be a reality in every
single person's life. Now, I invite you at this moment
to just go ahead and take a sigh of relief. It means you're not alone. It means when you sin, you can
say, Jesus knew this was coming. When you sin, you can say, my
preacher sins too. When you sin, you can say, Peter
sinned, Paul sinned, Moses sinned, they all sinned. Christ came
because you and I would sin. And He still loves us. He still loves us. While we were
the enemies of God, while we were yet sinners, the Father
gave His Son and Christ laid Himself down for us. Your shortcomings,
your failures, the times where you deny Him in your life, even
these things do not separate you from the love of Christ. We see the attitude and the posture
that Christ presents and he places on Peter and he says, but Peter,
I've prayed for you. And when you return, strengthen
your brothers. We understand from scripture
that Christ stands and he is always making intercession for
you. When you fall and you land in
that muck pile in the midst of your sin and you say, ah, here
I am again, Christ, even in those moments, says, right. But I prayed
for you. And when you return, strengthen
your brethren. See, this is standing in Christ. It's standing in Christ when
we understand that when we fall, and that it will happen, we're
going to get up again. We understand it. We will bear
it. Being a Christian will be patterns
of confession and repentance in our lives. An excitement in
the acceptance that we continuously have in Christ Jesus. That we
are rescued and we are saved. So the point this morning is
that we are standing with Christ in our trials. So standing with
Christ in your trials doesn't look like you this victorious
warrior in the sense that you've beaten every sin in your life,
and that you have absolutely overcome, and you shine as the
righteous one in the midst of your house, or you shine as the
righteous one in the midst of your church, or you shine as
the righteous one at your job. We stand with Christ, who shines
as the righteous one. He is the one who overcomes. He is the rescuer. He is your
salvation. So these trials are going to
come and they're going to be like those waves that knock you
down and knock you down and knock you down. Do not be surprised
when fiery trials come against you. Do not be surprised when
your knees are skinned again and again from stumbling. But
see this as your calling, as your opportunity to come back
to Christ and to stand in Him. Now, as we are standing and as
we take our stand in the gospel, and this is what Christ was preaching
all along, and this is why he was being rejected, he was putting
love for God and love for neighbor higher than other people's opinions
of him. He would heal on the Sabbath,
at which time all the lawyers and all the preachers who were
there would say, nah, sinner. He would eat with tax collectors
and sinners and all the lawyers and all the preachers said, no,
sinner. And he was rejected and he was
put down again and again. You too, as you stand for any
form of righteousness, will indeed be put down again and again. Our fourth step, which is our
first step this morning in part two, is stand with Jesus in rejection. So I'm going to be placing a
bunch of heavy things on you this morning to show you the
reality of what the Christian life is going to look like in
this world. It's going to be rough and you're
going to be put out from the in crowds as you stand with Christ. Verse 28, you are those who have
stood by me in my trials. We run to John 1, 11, and we
see Jesus being rejected and put out there. It says, he came
to his own, and those who were his own did not receive him. We can look and see this as a
practical reality of Jesus's ministry. He came to his own,
and his own did not receive him. you will find this very likely
playing out in your life. If you are a first-generation
believer in your family, you are going to find yourself coming
to your own and your own not receiving you. In whatever circles
in life that you travel in, if it's your house, if it's your
family, if it's your job, if it's your workplace, if it's
the community of Eastvale, wherever you live, you will find this
reality, you will be rejected as you take stands for the gospel. And I'm being careful at this
moment to say, taking a stand for the gospel, because it's
by the gospel we must be known. being known in Christ as we stand
with him. Now, this rejection, we have
the satisfaction, though, seeing that we are not undone in this
rejection. Jesus was rejected, we will be
rejected, and we are with Christ. John 15, five, Jesus makes the
statement, I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides
in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit. For apart from me
you can do nothing." You see, as you are rejected by the world,
you are still actively being received by Christ if you are
standing in Christ. We do not fear their rejection. We do not fear their wrath. Because
we have the acceptance of Christ. Matthew 28, 20. When Jesus gives
the Great Commission and He says, go out and make disciples of
the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, what's He say next? What are
the last lines of Matthew? And lo, or behold, or look, I
am with you always, even to the end of the age. We are standing
in Christ. John 15, 19. If you were of the
world, the world would love you as its own. But because you are
not of the world, but I chose you out of the world because
of this, the world hates you. Some of you have experienced
that. Some of you have gotten so uncomfortable in different
circles or in a workplace, you had to leave. You are not of
the world. If you were of the world, the
world would love you. But since you're not of the world,
it says it hates you, as it had rejected Jesus. Luke 10, 16. Now be careful here. This is
the scripture, and this is absolutely true, but I'm also warning you,
knowledge puffs up. Don't be puffed up with this
one. Luke 10, 16, the one who listens to you, listens to me.
And the one who rejects you, rejects me. But the one who rejects
me, rejects the one who sent me. So this is saying, as you
are speaking the truth, and they are rejecting the truth, they're
rejecting Christ, and they're rejecting the Father. Don't get
cocky with that. but stand in that in humility.
We humbly bring the truth, not because we're the shining righteous
one, but because we cling to the shining righteous one. That's
where we are in that. And this is a bit of what we're
looking at later on when we talk about the rewards and the throne. So we'll come back there. So
our next step, standing with Jesus, is going to be a bit of
bearing the awkwardness. You think I make things awkward?
I know I do. Jesus made things much more awkward
than I do. Jesus would stand up in a situation,
he would stand up in church and say that exact thing everybody
was hoping he wouldn't say. He would just lay it out there. He would speak the truth clearly
and plainly, and he would make everyone around him squirm. We have the obligation to stand
with Christ even in the awkwardness. There's the awkwardness in John
chapter six. You could just read that whole
chapter to see the awkwardness of Jesus. How he just lays it
out for the people and applies the tension. We see an awkwardness
that exists in the midst of the church in verses 37 and 39. And I'm looking at John six verses
26 through 68 specifically. But verses 37 and 39, Jesus says,
the one who comes to me, I will certainly not cast off. It is
the will of the Father that all that he has given me, I lose
nothing. In verse 44 and 65, no one can
come to me unless the Father draws him, and I will raise him
up on the last day. Jesus displays and shows an awkwardness
there and saying, I rule over salvation. It is mine. You all want your free will and
you want salvation to hinge on you. Jesus would pound the pulpit
and say, no. All that the father calls to
me, he says, will come to me. And he says, I will lose none
of them. This will make you strange in
the church in the United States of America. This will make you
a minority in the church in the United States of America. This
will make it an awkward situation that you stand for the sovereignty
of God over salvation. but it is what Christ says and
we stand with him in the midst of it. Jesus brings out other
heavy truths and strange statements. He looks at them all as they
are looking at him and starting to wonder, do I want to follow
this guy? And then he says in verses 53 through 54, and by
the way, you have to eat my flesh and drink my blood. Jesus says
strange and hard things. Later on, as he was talking with
Peter, He says to Peter, so do you want to leave? People just
start leaving when he says, God rules over salvation. I rule
over salvation. You want life? Eat my body. Drink my blood. And they all
start leaving in droves. And Jesus turns to Peter and
says, are you going too? Peter, at that point, whatever
he was thinking of the crowd at that point and where they
were going, whatever he was thinking of his livelihood, he shrugged
and said, You've got the words of life. Where else can I go? Christ makes it hard. He speaks
hard truth. He speaks truths that are awkward
in our culture. He speaks against same-sex marriage.
He speaks against fornication. He speaks against all of these
things in our culture. And it's awkward. And it's hard. And people imagine we're doing
the opposite of what we're doing. People imagine you're speaking
against love. But when we speak the words of
Christ, we're speaking true love. And we stand with Christ in the
midst of this. Again, verses 66 through 68 in
John 6. As a result of this, many of
his disciples withdrew and were not walking with him anymore. So Jesus said to the 12, you
do not want to go away also, do you? Simon Peter answered
him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal
life. Our next step, number six. Now
we get to do the positive swing here. Look forward to the great
rewards. Verses 29 and 30 from Luke 22. And just as my Father has granted
me a kingdom, I grant you that you may eat and drink at my table
in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve
tribes of Israel. We look here and we can ask,
well, what are we talking about here? And we can say, well, immediately
in this world, sitting at my table, we have the benefit and
the blessing of the Lord's Supper. This picture that He loves us
and our opportunity to display our accepting of His offer of
salvation. This display as we proclaim the
Lord's death until He comes. I struggled with this picture
of them sitting on these thrones, judging the 12 tribes of Israel. That was why we ran to Revelation
chapter three. Jesus said, the one who endures
to the end will sit on the throne with me as I sit on the throne
with my father. The throne is that picture of
judgment. Now let's take judgment and ask, what is judgment? What
is it to judge? The judge is to declare between
right and wrong. You and I, as we have been given
the words of truth, we have this blessing. We know right from
wrong. We can look at the apostles going
forth and preaching and proclaiming the Kingdom of God. Proclaiming
what is right and what is wrong. And declaring Christ Himself
is right. Christ Himself is King. You and I are in that place.
We have been given the truth. We announce, we even announce
the judgment, the discernment of Christ between right and wrong. These great rewards to which
we look forward, 1 Corinthians 2.9 makes this statement, but
just as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear
has not heard, and which have not entered into the human heart,
all that God prepared for those who love Him. Take that scripture
as an antidote for sin. when you're tempted to run away,
where you're tempted to deny Him, where you're tempted to
indulge in the flesh. Because in those moments, we
imagine that we can make a meal better than Jesus is going to
make for us. We can give ourselves a higher pleasure. We can give
ourselves a higher honor. We can give ourselves a better
safety if we indulge in the flesh, if we do not stand with Him.
But here He says, you can't even imagine what I have in store
for you. the blessings, the goods, the
riches, if you will stand in me. Psalm 73, 28 gives us a bit
of that picture. But as for me, the nearness of
God is my good. I have made the Lord God my refuge
so that I may tell of all of your works. We see the great
beauty that we have also in Romans 5, 17. For if by the transgression
of the one death reigned through the one, much more those who
receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness
will reign in life through the one Jesus Christ. Your sons and
daughters, we reign with Him. And our next step is that pattern
that we will be looking for in our own lives, in our own hearts,
and in one another's lives, and in one another's hearts. Verse
32, But I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail. And you, when once you have turned
again, strengthen your brothers. I'm not looking for people who
never stumble. I'm not looking for people who
never fall. I'm not looking for people who
never sin. Christ has made it clear, that's
not who you will be. You who sin, even you who doubt, I ask you the question, do you
call on Christ? Do you call on Christ when you
sin? Will you call on Christ when
you doubt? Will you look down at yourself when you fall and
you're seeing the ground far too close once again? And will you stand up? Will you return
to Christ? Will you trust in His righteousness? Will you trust in His salvation?
Proverbs 24, 16, For a righteous man falls seven times and rises
again. It's not that a righteous man
never falls. See, I invite you to keep coming
back to Christ. I invite you to keep coming back
to His fullness, to His love, to His grace, to His mercy. Proverbs
26.11 gives us that disgusting passage. It says, like a dog
that returns to its vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.
I ask you, if a dog can return to his vomit, can you return
to Christ? If you've run after these sour
and these disgusting things, can you run back to Christ? Can you take that sweetness and
that warmth and that forgiveness? Can you live in that? Can you
dwell in that? You who doubt, I invite you back. Every time you doubt, I invite
you back to that warmth. to that acceptance, to that salvation,
to be in that place of Christ. Here is sweetness. John 1.14,
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we saw His
glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace
and truth. That's who I'm offering you this
morning. The only begotten of the Father, full of grace and
truth. And I ask you, you who sinned,
what do you need? Grace. Guess what? He's full of it. Full of grace. You who sinned, what do you need?
Truth. Guess what? He's full of that
too. I invite you to this warm place
of standing with Christ in your trials. The temptations in your
heart, in your mind, in your home, in your workplaces, in
all the shadowy places where you find yourself. Stand with
Him who is full of grace, and truth, and endure to the end
with Him in this grace, in His truth. Pray with me. Father,
thank You for loving us. Thank You for blessing us. Thank
You for praying with us. Father, thank You for the opportunity
to turn to You again. We thank You for receiving us
again and again. Please, Father, help each of
us Particularly those of us who doubt. As we doubt ourselves. As we may doubt our own faith.
As we may doubt our salvation. To fill us with Your grace. To
fill us with Your truth. As we stand in You. As we love
only You. As we trust only You. Champion
of our salvation. The guardian of our souls. Our
great Savior and King. It is in His name that we pray.
Amen.
Stand by Jesus in Trials, Part 2
Series Luke
| Sermon ID | 39211442535075 |
| Duration | 29:11 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday - AM |
| Bible Text | Luke 22:28-38 |
| Language | English |
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