The antidote to “woe” is the grace that Christ bestows. This message was given on May 17, 2015 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info please visit: www.newcitychurch.ca

1. When We Find
Jesus Insulting
The Gospel of Luke 11:45-54

2. God Gives Us His Words of Eternal Life
Luke 11:45-54
Found on page 870 in our guest Bibles.
Today’s Scripture:

4. Does Jesus
have the right to
contradict you ?

5. When We Find
Jesus Insulting
The Gospel of Luke 11:45-54

6. 37 While Jesus was speaking, a Pharisee
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asked him to dine with him, so he went
in and reclined at table. 38 The Pharisee
was astonished to see that he did not
first wash before dinner….

7. 39 And the Lord said to him, “Now you
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Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup
and of the dish, but inside you are full of
greed and wickedness. 40 You fools! Did
not he who made the outside make the
inside also?

8. 41 But give as alms those things that
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are within, and behold, everything is
clean for you….

9. 42 But woe to you Pharisees! For you
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tithe mint and rue and every herb, and
neglect justice and the love of God.
These you ought to have done, without
neglecting the others.

10. 43 Woe to you Pharisees! For you love
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the best seat in the synagogues and
greetings in the marketplaces.

11. 44 Woe to you! For you are like unmarked
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graves, and people walk over them with-
out knowing it.

12. “Woe”
Prophetic Declaration
to grab attention &
to awaken people to
spiritual danger

13. We can try to impress others
with the outside, but God knows
what’s on the inside.

14. 45 One of the lawyers answered him,
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“Teacher, in saying these things you
insult us also….”

15. 46 And he said, “Woe to you lawyers
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also! For you load people with burdens
hard to bear, and you yourselves do not
touch the burdens with one of your
fingers….”

16. 4Rest
th

17. “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you,
and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly
in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
~ Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospel of Matthew 11:28-30

18. 47 “Woe to you! For you build the tombs
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of the prophets whom your fathers killed.
48 So you are witnesses and consent to
the deeds of your fathers, for they killed
the, and you build their tombs….”

19. 49 “Therefore also the Wisdom of God
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said, “I will send them prophets and
apostles, some of whom they will kill
and persecute,’ 50 so that the blood of
all the prophets, shed from the founda-
tion of the world, may be charged to

20. “…to this generation, 51 from the
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blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah,
who perished between the altar and the
sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be
required of this generation….”

21. 52 “Woe to you lawyers! For you have
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taken away the key of knowledge. You
did not enter yourselves, and you
hindered those who were entering.”

22. 53 As he went away from there, the
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scribes and the Pharisees began to
press him hard and to provoke him to
speak about many things, 54 lying in
wait for him, to catch him in something
he might say.

23. Why does Luke record this
account in his historical
biography of Jesus?
Important Question

24. The antidote to “woe”
is the grace
that Christ bestows.

25. “Yes Dear”
The Stepford Wives

26. Have you made
Jesus into a
Stepford god ?

27. The Pharisee Saul The Apostle Paul

28. “I count everything a loss compared to
the surpassing greatness of knowing
Christ Jesus, my Lord.”
~ The Apostle Paul in Philippians 3 ~

29. Assignment
Give Jesus carte blanche
over your life.

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