Spiritual insight is a gift of God’s sovereign grace to those who humbly welcome Jesus into their lives. This message was given on July 27, 2014 at New City Church Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For More Info: www.newcitychurch.ca

1. The Gift of Spiritual Insight
~ Luke 10:1-16 ~

2. God Gives Us His Words of Eternal Life
Luke 10:21-24
Found on page 868 in our guest Bibles.
Today’s Scripture:

3. Are you
a happy
person ?

4. “I’m a very tormented
person. I have a lot of
demons I’m wrestling
with. But I want to be
happy. I have moments
of happiness. I can’t
say I’m never happy. !
I’m working towards
knowing myself !
and I’m assuming !
that will bring me
happiness.” ~ Madonna

6. The Gift of Spiritual Insight
~ Luke 10:1-16 ~

7. In that same hour he rejoiced in the
Holy Spirit…
Luke 10:21

8. In that same hour he rejoiced in the
Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you,
Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
that you have hidden these things
from the wise and understanding
and revealed them to little children;
Luke 10:21
yes, Father, for such was your
gracious will.

9. “We do not want this man to reign over us.”
~ Luke 19:14

10. “I want atheism to be true and
am made uneasy by the fact
that some of the most
intelligent and well-informed
people I know are religious
believers. It isn’t just that I don’t
believe in God and, naturally,
hope that I’m right in my belief.
It’s that I hope there is no God!
I don’t want there to be a God;
I don’t want the universe to be
like that.”
~ Prof. Thomas Nagel,!
New York University

11. Dr. Eta Linneman
!
Professor of Theology
Braunschweig Technical University
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Professor of New Testament
Philips University, Marburg
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Society for New Testament Studies

12. “At that point God led me to
vibrant Christians who knew
Jesus personally as their Lord
and Saviour. I heard their
testimonies as they reported
what God had done in their
lives. Finally God himself
spoke to my heart by means
of a Christian brother’s words.!
By God’s grace and love I
entrusted my life to Jesus.

13. “He immediately took my life into
his saving grasp and began to
transform it radically. My
destructive addictions were
replaced by a hunger and thirst
for his Word and for fellowship
with Christians. I was able to
recognize sin clearly as sin rather
than merely make excuses for it
as was my previous habit.

14. “I can still remember the
delicious joy I felt when for the
first time black was once more
black and white was once
more white…. Suddenly I was
convinced that God’s
promises are a reality, that
God is a living God, and that
he reigns….

15. “By God’s grace I experienced
Jesus as the one whose
name is above all names. I
was permitted to realize that
Jesus is God’s Son, born of a
virgin. He is the Messiah and
the Son of Man….”!

16. “God opposes
the proud, but
gives grace
to the humble.”
~ The Apostle Peter in
1 Peter 5:5

17. “All things have been handed over
me by my Father, and no one knows
who the Son is except by the Father,
or who the Father is except by the
Son and anyone to whom the Son
chooses to reveal him….
Luke 10:22

18. “I am the way, the truth,
and the life. No one comes
to the Father except
through me. If you had
known me, you would have
known my Father also.
From now on you do know
him and have seen him.”
Philip said to him, “Lord
show us the Father, and it
is enough for us.”
~ The Gospel of John
Chapter 14

19. Jesus said to him, “Have I
been with you so long,
and you still do not know
me, Philip? Whoever has
seen me has seen the
Father. How can you say,
‘Show us the Father’? Do
you not believe that I am
in the Father and the
Father is in me?”!
~ The Gospel of John
Chapter 14

20. Then turning to the disciples he said
privately, “Blessed are the eyes that
see what you see! For I tell you that
many prophets and kings desired to
see what you see, and did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, and did
Luke 10:23-24
not hear it.”

21. “…that which we have
seen and heard we
proclaim to you also, so
that you too may have
fellowship with us; and
indeed our fellowship is
with the Father and with
his Son Jesus Christ. And
we are writing these things
so that our joy may be
complete.”
~ The Apostle John in
1 John 1:3-4

22. Why does Luke record this
account in his historical
biography of Jesus?
Important Question

23. Spiritual insight is a gift
of God’s sovereign grace
to those who humbly
welcome Jesus into their lives.
Summary

24. Become like children1

25. “Truly I say to you, unless you turn and
become like children, you will never enter the
kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles
himself like this child is the greatest in the
kingdom of heaven.”
~ Jesus of Nazareth in Matthew 18

26. ~ Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662
French Mathematician & Philosopher

27. ~ Blaise Pascal
Year of Grace 1654,
Monday November
23…from about half
past ten at night to
about half an hour
after midnight, FIRE.
God of Abraham, God
of Isaac, God of Jacob,
not of the philosophers
and scholars.

28. ~ Blaise Pascal
Certainty. Heartfelt joy.
God of Jesus Christ.
My God and Your
God…. Joy, joy, joy,
tears of joy. Jesus
Christ. May I never be
separated from him. !

29. Cherish your Saviour’s choice2

30. ”I know nothing, nothing again,
that is more humbling for us
than this doctrine of election. I
have sometimes fallen
prostrate before it, when
endeavoring to understand it. I
have stretched my wings, and
eagle-like, I have soared
towards the sun. Steady has
been my eye, and true my
wing, for a season;
but, when I came near it,
~ Charles Spurgeon
1834-1892

31. “… and the one thought
possessed me—“God hath
chosen you from the beginning
unto salvation”—I was lost in
its luster, I was staggered with
the mighty thought; and from
the dizzy elevation down came
my soul, prostrate and broken,
saying, "Lord, I am nothing, I
am less than nothing. Why
me? Why me?"
~ Charles Spurgeon
1834-1892

32. Christian Lambert Photography: http://www.flickr.com/photos/christiantlambert/11700460465
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