Bible Readings:
Isaiah 61:1-11
Acts 11:19-26
Luke 4:16-44
Sermon Outline:
Isaiah 61:1–3 (NKJV)
1 “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
3 To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”
I Christ – the Anointed One
II Christians – the Anointed ones
Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 12
QUESTION 31. Why is He called CHRIST, that is, Anointed?
Because He is ordained of God the Father, and anointed with the Holy Ghost, to be our chief Prophet and Teacher, who fully reveals to us the secret counsel and will of God concerning our redemption; and our only High Priest, who by the one sacrifice of His body has redeemed us, and ever liveth to make intercession for us with the Father; and our eternal King, who governs us by His Word and Spirit, and defends and preserves us in the redemption obtained for us.
QUESTION 32. But why art thou called a Christian?
Because by faith I am a member of Christ, and thus a partaker of His anointing; in order that I also may confess His name; may present myself a living sacrifice of thankfulness to Him; and may with free conscience fight against sin and the devil in this life, and hereafter, in eternity, reign with Him over all creatures.
Daily Light – MAY 26
MORNING
Our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep.
The chief Shepherd.-“I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me…. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.”
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.-“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”-“I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak.”-For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
HEB. 13:20. 1 PET. 5:4. JOHN 10:14, 27, 28. PS. 23:1-3. ISA. 53:6.
JOHN 10:11. EZEK. 34:16. 1 PET. 2:25.
Exodus 34:6–7 (NKJV)
6 And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
1 John 4:8 (NKJV)
8 …God is love.
1 Corinthians 13:4–8 (NKJV)
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
1 John 4:10–11 (NKJV)
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.