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Jesus Among Other Gods
Luke 6:17-26
Luke 6:17-19
17
And he came down with them and stood on a
level place, with a great crowd of his disciples
and a great multitude of people from all Judea
and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and
Sidon, 18 who came to hear him and to be
healed of their diseases. And those who were
troubled with unclean spirits were cured. 19
And all the crowd sought to touch him, for
power came out from him and healed them
all.
Luke 6:20-23
20
And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said:
“Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the
kingdom of God. 21 “Blessed are you who are hungry
now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who
weep now, for you shall laugh. 22 “Blessed are you
when people hate you and when they exclude you
and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on
account of the Son of Man! 23 Rejoice in that day,
and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in
heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.
Luke 6:24-26
24
“But woe to you who are rich, for you have
received your consolation. 25 “Woe to you
who are full now, for you shall be hungry.
“Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall
mourn and weep. 26 “Woe to you, when all
people speak well of you, for so their fathers
did to the false prophets.
What do we worship?
Romans 1:24–25 24 Therefore God gave them up
in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the
dishonoring of their bodies among
themselves, 25 because they exchanged the
truth about God for a lie and worshiped and
served the creature rather than the Creator,
who is blessed forever! Amen.
Psalm 63:1-3
1
O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and weary land where there is no
water. 2 So I have looked upon you in the
sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. 3
Because your steadfast love is better than life,
my lips will praise you.
Philippians 3:7-8
7
But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for
the sake of Christ. 8 Indeed, I count everything
as loss because of the surpassing worth of
knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I
have suffered the loss of all things and count
them as rubbish, in order that I may gain
Christ
When Christianity says that God loves man, it means
that God loves man: not that He has some
‘disinterested’, because he is really indifferent,
concern for our welfare, but that, in awful and
surprising truth, we are the objects of His love. You
asked for a loving God: you have one. The great
spirit you so lightly invoked, the ‘lord of terrible
aspect’, is present: not a senile benevolence that
drowsily wishes you to be happy in your own way,
not the cold philanthropy of a conscientious
magistrate, nor the care of a host who feels
responsible for the comfort of his guests,
but the consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the
worlds, persistent as the artist’s love for his work and
despotic as a man’s love for a dog, provident and
venerable as a father’s love for a child, jealous,
inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes. How
should this be, I do not know: it passes reason to
explain why any creatures, not to say creatures such
as we, should have a value so prodigious in the
Creator’s eyes. It is certainly a burden of glory not
only beyond our deserts but also, except in rare
moments of grace, beyond our desiring.
- CS Lewis