Thursday Aug 15, 2019
The Parables of Jesus | A Sharp Rebuke to a Foolish Interruption | Luke 12:13-21 | Week 6
Before we look at this text, please join me in prayer. Our Father, we gather together today to worship you in the name of Jesus. I thank you for every person who's here today. Thank you so much for South Fellowship. Lord, wherever we're at today---emotionally or spiritually or physically---I pray that you would come and meet with us in a very, very personal way. That you would show us, experientially, your overwhelming, never ending, reckless love that you have for each of us. Lord, we thank you for your Word, and now as we look at this text out of Luke's gospel, Lord, I pray that your Spirit might enlighten our minds, touch our hearts, encourage us, so that each and every one of us might go a little bit deeper today in our walk with Jesus. It's in His great and glorious name that we pray. We ask all this in His name. Amen.
A long time ago, before there were Republicans and Democrats, before there was the Constitution or the Bill of Rights or even the Declaration of Independence, there was ROME. Rome was originally a Republic but it eventually unraveled due to a long series of civil wars. Near the end of the Republic a young man by the name of Octavian rose to prominence. The great Roman statesman and orator Cicero said, "Octavian is a talented young man who should be praised, honored and eliminated." But in the years after Cicero said that Octavian eliminated all of his enemies, including Cicero, transformed Rome into an Empire and took on the title Caesar Augustus...
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