Matthew 22:37-38 37 And He said to him, "'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' 38 "This is the great and foremost commandment. Matthew 22:39 39 "The second is like it, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' John 13:34-35 34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." Matthew 28:19-20 19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." LUKE 11:14-36 27 While Jesus was saying these things, one of the women in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, "Blessed is the womb that bore You and the breasts at which You nursed.“ 28 But He said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it." 29 As the crowds were increasing, He began to say, "This generation is a wicked generation; it seeks for a sign, and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah. 30 "For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation. 31 "The Queen of the South will rise up with the men of this generation at the judgment and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here. 32 "The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. LUKE 11:14-36 33 "No one, after lighting a lamp, puts it away in a cellar nor under a basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light. 34 "The eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness. 35 "Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness. 36 "If therefore your whole body is full of light, with no dark part in it, it will be wholly illumined, as when the lamp illumines you with its rays." Romans 8:29 …“to be conformed to the image of His Son.” LUKE 10-19 THE PEREAN MINISTRY OF CHRIST Luke 9:51 When the days were approaching for His ascension, He was determined to go to Jerusalem; 7 Chief Divisions of Jesus’ Life (Chad Laird) Division Location(s) Chapter(s) 1 Jesus’ Divine Preexistence Heaven Jn. 1 2 Jesus’ Divine Birth/Childhood Egypt/ Nazareth Mt. 1-2, Lk. 1-2 Jesus’ Divine Baptism/ Temptation/ Early Jordan River/ Judean Mt. 3-4, Mk. 1, 3 Judean Ministry Wilderness/ Jerusalem Lk. 3-4, Jn. 1-4 Mt. 4-18, Mk. 1-9, 4 Jesus’ Divine Galilean Ministry Capernaum/ Sea of Galilee Lk. 4-9, Jn. 5-7 Mt. 19-20, Mk. 10, 5 Jesus’ Divine Perean/ Late Judean Ministry Jericho/ Bethany Lk. 10-19, Jn. 7-11 Mt. 21-27, Mk. 11-15, Lk. 6 Jesus’ Divine Passion Week Jerusalem/Bethany/Jerusalem 19-23, Jn. 12-19 Jesus’ Divine Resurrection/ Appearances/ Jerusalem/ Galilee/ Mount of Mt. 28, Mk. 16, 7 Ascension Olives Lk. 24, Jn. 20-21 Harmony of the Gospels (Adapted from John MacArthur’s Study Bible) Event Location Matt. Mark Luke John Latter Judean and Perean Ministry Ephriam Commissioning of the seventy On the way to Jerusalem Luke 10:1-16 (Perea) Ephriam Return of the seventy On the way to Jerusalem Luke 10:17-24 (Perea) Ephriam Story of the good Samaritan On the way to Jerusalem Luke 10:25-37 (Perea) Jesus’ visit with Mary and Martha Bethany? Luke 10:38-42 Jesus’ teaches His disciples how to pray ? (“a certain place”) Luke 11:1-13 (parable of the persistent friend) A blasphemous accusation (Jesus casts out ? Luke 11:14-36 demons by the power of Satan) MAIN POINTS: 1. Luke 11:14-15 – Opposition Tactic #1: SLANDER (Accusations) 2. Luke 11:16 – Opposition Tactic #2: SIGNS (Demands for Miracles) Last Week Last 3. Luke 11:17-26 – Jesus’ Answer to Slander 4. Luke 11:27 – Opposition Tactic #3: SIDETRACKS (Interruptions/Diversions) 5. Luke 11:28 – Jesus’ Answer to Sidetracks This This Week 6. Luke 11:29-36 – Jesus’ Answer to demanding Signs 4. OPPOSITION TACTIC #3: SIDETRACKS (INTERRUPTIONS/DIVERSIONS) • Luke 11:27 While Jesus was saying these things, one of the women in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, "Blessed is the womb that bore You and the breasts at which You nursed." • The key verse as to why Mary is not be worshipped/venerated like the Catholics practice (Catechism of the Catholic Church Sections 456-511) • They believe Mary was also immaculately conceived of a virgin (immaculate conception) (conceived free from original sin – CCC 490, 491) • They believe Mary was sinless as the “Mother of God” (entire unique holiness – CCC 492, 493) (called “panagia” “the all-holy”) • They believe Mary as a perpetual virgin • They believe Mary is a mediator and should be prayed to (the Rosary) (“Hail Mary” ) • They believe Mary is a co-redemptress and the “Queen of Heaven” • They believe Mary is to be “venerated” (statues of Mary) but say this is “different” than worship • They believe Mary was taken supernaturally to heaven without dying (Assumption of Mary) • They believe Mary cooperated in providing salvation (The New Eve) • They believe Mary the Mother of the Church is the mother of all believers and has a part in joining them as a member of its head/Christ. MARY IN THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH The Immaculate Conception Pius IX convened the First Vatican Council (1869–70), which decreed papal infallibility. The doctrine was not dogmatically defined until 1854, by Pope Pius IX in his papal bull Ineffabilis Deus.[1] Pius was a Marian pope, who in his encyclical Ubi primum described Mary as a Mediatrix of salvation. In 1854, he promulgated the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, articulating a long-held Catholic belief that Mary, the Mother of God, was conceived without original sin. 490 To become the mother of the Savior, Mary "was enriched by God with gifts appropriate to such a role.“132 The angel Gabriel at the moment of the annunciation salutes her as "full of grace."133 In fact, in order for Mary to be able to give the free assent of her faith to the announcement of her vocation, it was necessary that she be wholly borne by God's grace. 491 Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, "full of grace" through God,134 was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854: The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.135 492 The "splendor of an entirely unique holiness" by which Mary is "enriched from the first instant of her conception" comes wholly from Christ: she is "redeemed, in a more exalted fashion, by reason of the merits of her Son."136 The Father blessed Mary more than any other created person "in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places" and chose her "in Christ before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless before him in love."137 493 The Fathers of the Eastern tradition call the Mother of God "the All-Holy" (Panagia), and celebrate her as "free from any stain of sin, as though fashioned by the Holy Spirit and formed as a new creature."138 By the grace of God Mary remained free of every personal sin her whole life long. By the twelfth century, the idea of the Immaculate Conception of Mary was widely accepted in the Roman Church, although there was still strong opposition to the belief. St. Thomas Aquinas especially objected that, "If the soul of the Blessed Virgin had never been stained with the contagion of original sin, this would have detracted from Christ's dignity as the savior of all men." Many others stood with him. Thomas recognized that if Mary were without sin, she would not need a Savior; the Bible would then be wrong in saying Jesus was the Savior of all men and that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; there is none righteous, no not one." Thomas of Aquino'; 1225 – 7 March 1274 MARY IN THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Mary’s Obedience and Sinlessness "Let it be done to me according to your word … " 494 At the announcement that she would give birth to "the Son of the Most High" without knowing man, by the power of the Holy Spirit, Mary responded with the obedience of faith, certain that "with God nothing will be impossible": "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be [done] to me according to your word."139 Thus, giving her consent to God's word, Mary becomes the mother of Jesus.