Pastor Mike Impact Ministries

Yesterday in our chat we talked about the new garment and the new wine in the closing verses of Luke 5. Today we want to look at the New Sabbath that Jesus was bringing into existence as He paves the way for the future ministry of His disciples and the Church.   Remember already in Luke 4, in His hometown of Nazareth, the religious leaders and crowd attempted to kill Jesus because He claimed to be...

Matthew the tax collector, also called a publican in the New Testament, had just been saved and called by Jesus to be His disciple. Obviously, this formerly despised sinner is excited and wants his old publican friends and others to rejoice with him. He prepares a great feast and even invites Jesus and His disciples. The critical Pharisees, who must have been nearby, are quick to criticize the dis...

34 And He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days."   Luke 5 records the early days of the earthly ministry of Jesus. He is teaching and preaching in the synagogues of the region of Galilee, calling His disciples to follow Him, conf...

After these things He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, "Follow Me." 28 So he left all, rose up, and followed Him. 29 Then Levi gave Him a great feast in his own house. And there were a great number of tax collectors and others who sat down with them. The events in this passage probably took place shortly after Jesus healed the paralyzed ma...

22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, He answered and said to them, "Why are you reasoning in your hearts? 23 Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Rise up and walk'? The four men brought their friend to Jesus to be heal. After making their way through the crowd, getting him up on the roof, breaking a hole in it and then lowering him down to Jesus something very...

18 Then behold, men brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed, whom they sought to bring in and lay before Him. 19 And when they could not find how they might bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the housetop and let him down with his bed through the tiling into the midst before Jesus. One of my favorite stories in the Gospels is this one found in Luke 5:17-26. To get the full pictur...

17 Now it happened on a certain day , as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them. 18 Then behold, men brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed, whom they sought to bring in and lay before Him. Today we will begin looking at the next section of v...

Jesus has been with Peter on the boat catching some fish and teaching Peter a lesson in how he was going to become a fisher of man. At the end of that passage, Luke 5:1-11, Peter, Andrew, James and John, left all and followed Jesus and immediately they come upon a leper “in a certain city” as they are ministering in other parts of the of the area of Galilee. Notice it says, “in a certain city”.  ...

In Luke chapter 5:12, a man came to Jesus in a certain city and he was full of leprosy. He sees Jesus and he falls on his face and implores him, saying, “Lord, if you're willing”. This happens right after Jesus called the disciples to follow Him, and to become fishers of men. Leprosy is a picture of sin. Here is a man who is an untouchable leper, an uncurable disease, but he sees Jesus. That's the...

For several days now we've been looking at Luke chapter 5:1-11. In these verses Jesus preached to crowd, and they pressed upon him. He gets in the boat with Peter and preaches from the edge of the shore and then He launches out into the deep with Peter and they catch a bunch of fish. And then he commissions Peter, James, John, and I also believe Andrew, to become his disciples and they forsook all...

So when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all and followed Him.   Jesus is in the process of calling his disciples and training them to be fishers of men. Remember that this is all happening on the north side of the Sea of Galilee in a little place called Capernaum, where Jesus preached to the crowd. Then He asked Peter to put his boat out a little from the shore. Then He told him...

We are looking in Luke 5 where Jesus is in the process of calling His first group of disciples to follow Him. Jesus is in the boat with Peter and Andrew. James and John are in their boat alongside them catching the largest number of fish they have ever caught in their professional commercial fishing business. Now Jesus is asking them to leave that and follow Him.   When you read this passage in Lu...

Saturday October 19 When Jesus is in the Boat Luke 5:4-114 When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, "Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch." 5 But Simon answered and said to Him, "Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net." 6 And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was b...

Luke 5:4-11 4 When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, "Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch." 5 But Simon answered and said to Him, "Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net."   On this occasion in Luke 5, Jesus is preaching to the multitude that is pressing upon Him. He sees two boats nearby, one of which...

Luke 5 begins with Jesus preaching to the multitude on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee near Capernaum. He has been healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, causing the lame to walk, feeding the hungry, casting out demons, in the surrounding region of Galilee. On this occasion, Jesus is preaching to the multitude that is pressing upon Him. He sees two boats nearby, one of which is Simon P...

Jesus has begun the three and a half years of His earthly ministry. He is healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, causing the lame to walk, feeding the hungry, casting out demons, and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom to the multitudes. But Jesus needs help! On this occasion in Luke 5, Jesus is preaching to the multitude that is pressing upon Him and He needs help. He sees two boats nearby,...

Luke 5:1-3 1 So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, 2 and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets. 3 Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.   Fir...

First let me say a word about our little grandson Luke. Many of you probably saw Kimberly’s post last evening about Luke having to go into surgery again for another shunt failure. It appears that the surgery went well, but when he came out and was in post op his oxygen level dropped to 36, he was turning blue, and they called a code blue. The anesthesiologist came in and bagged him and was about t...

Before we start our study in Luke 5, we want to review the last part of Luke 4 to get the background to our chat today. Remember Jesus had begun His earthly ministry in the region of Galilee. On the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee in the village of Capernaum after teaching in their synagogue all day, He healed Simon Peter’s mother-in-law and then others came to be healed. Jesus continues to h...

Today we will finish our study in Luke 4 where Luke shared several things about the early ministry of Jesus. First Jesus was tempted by the devil in the wilderness and successfully overcame him and his temptations by the Word of God (vv. 1-13). Then Jesus begins His teaching, preaching and healing ministry in the dark region of Galilee (vv. 14-15). After becoming well known, Jesus went back to His...

Jesus returned to His hometown of Nazareth and had been rejected. He didn’t throw in the towel and quit, but “He went down to Capernaum”. He went down to a dark place where demons, evil, and wickedness abound. And it appears from all the Gospels, that as a result, great numbers of people were afflicted with various sicknesses, blindness, and diseases.   Jesus shows up as a great Light in the midst...

Then they were all amazed and spoke among themselves, saying, "What a word this is! For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out." 37 And the report about Him went out into every place in the surrounding region.   Jesus returned to His hometown of Nazareth and had been rejected. He didn’t throw in the towel and quit, but “He went down to Capernaum”. He went down...

Jesus had just preached His first recorded message in the Gospel of Luke in the synagogue of His hometown of Nazareth. The message began with the people in amazement at “the gracious words that proceeded out of His mouth” but ended with the people “filled with wrath” attempting to kill Jesus by throwing Him over a cliff on the edge of the village. Instead of receiving Him as the Messiah that He to...

In this passage Jesus is preaching His first recorded message in the Gospel of Luke in His hometown of Nazareth in the synagogue on the first Sabbath that He was there. He begins His message by reading from the scroll of Isaiah, one of the favorite prophets of the Jewish rabbis. In our English Bible, Jesus was reading from Isaiah 61:1-2. Many of the people present knew that Scripture by heart. The...

These verses in Luke 4 reveal to us what happened on the first visit Jesus made to His hometown of Nazareth since He began His ministry in the region of Galilee. We are not told which day of the week Jesus returned so He might have been there for a few days before Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. I can only imagine that the village is all excited about His visit. They have heard all about the miracle...