2. Do you remember:
WWJD?

3. What Would Jesus Do?

4. Who Would Jesus Nuke?

5. Summer Reading Plan The Gospel of Luke
Today Luke 9:51-56

6. As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” But Jesus turned and rebuked them. Then he and his disciples went to another village.
Luke 9:51-56

7. Wait, what?

8. As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” But Jesus turned and rebuked them. Then he and his disciples went to another village.
Luke 9:51-56

9. As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” But Jesus turned and rebuked them. Then he and his disciples went to another village.
Luke 9:51-56
This is His mission.

10. As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” But Jesus turned and rebuked them. Then he and his disciples went to another village.
Luke 9:51-56

11. between Samaritans and Jews
As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” But Jesus turned and rebuked them. Then he and his disciples went to another village.
Luke 9:51-56
religious conflict
between Samaritans and Jews

12. As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” But Jesus turned and rebuked them. Then he and his disciples went to another village.
Luke 9:51-56
the wrong way

13. Disciple Questions:

14. Where are they off or mistaken?
Disciple Questions:
In what ways do the disciples do a good job of following Jesus?
Where are they off or mistaken?
How are they being called to change?
How am I being called to change?
What is the challenge to our church today?

15. The next two points are obvious...

16. We/the disciples get it wrong when -

17. we DO it our way and DON’T follow Jesus’ example.
We/the disciples get it wrong when -
we DO it our way and DON’T follow Jesus’ example.

18. We/the disciples get it wrong when -
we DO it our way and DON’T follow Jesus’ example.
The Solution? Thinking/feeling like Jesus.

19. The last two points are obvious BUT...

20. STOP!

21. BE engaged in your faith by remembering the big questions:

22. Who can I double check with to make sure I'm thinking clearly?
BE engaged in your faith by remembering the big questions:
What would Jesus do?
Why do I think that?
Where is that written?
Who can I double check with to make sure I'm thinking clearly?

23. Who can I double check with to make sure I'm thinking clearly?
BE engaged in your faith by remembering the big questions -
What would Jesus do?
Why do I think that?
Where is that written?
Who can I double check with to make sure I'm thinking clearly?
Back to Luke

24. What would Jesus do? Nuke the Samaritans.
Back to Luke

25. Back to Luke What would Jesus do? Nuke the Samaritans.
Why do they think that? God wants to destroy our enemies.
Back to Luke

26. Back to Luke What would Jesus do? Nuke the Samaritans.
Why do they think that? God wants to destroy our enemies.
Where is that written? Exodus, 1 Kings
Back to Luke

27. Back to Luke What would Jesus do? Nuke the Samaritans.
Why do they think that? God wants to destroy our enemies.
Where is that written? Exodus, 1 Kings
Who can they double check with? JESUS and...
Back to Luke

28. NO

29. Peter and Paul

30. How are they being called to change? How am I being called to change?
Peter and Paul
Disciple Questions:
How are they being called to change?
How am I being called to change?

31. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.
But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.
1 Peter 15b-16

32. “If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. On the contrary:
“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:17-21

33. Back to our obvious solution...

34. Thinking/feeling like Jesus.

35. Understanding Jesus’ sadness.

36. As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” But Jesus turned and rebuked them. Then he and his disciples went to another village.
Luke 9:51-56

37. “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.”
Luke 13:34

38. As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes.”
Luke 19:41-42

39. Jesus sadness?

40. They (we?) are missing the gift and the joy
Jesus sadness?
They (we?) are missing the gift and the joy
of the Kingdom of God.

41. They (we?) are missing the gift and the joy
Jesus sadness?
They (we?) are missing the gift and the joy
of the Kingdom of God.
Jesus is seeking and saving EVERYONE!

42. Who can I double check with to make sure I'm thinking clearly?
Call to Faith
BE engaged in your faith by remembering the big questions:
What would Jesus do?
Why do I think that?
Where is that written?
Who can I double check with to make sure I'm thinking clearly?