Jesus is Lord

Welcome to No Compromise Radio Ministry. Back here in the proverbial studio, which is nothing more than a table here. I wonder how many hours I've sat here doing shows. It's a long time. Anyway, you can write me, mike, at nocompromiseradio .com.

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Enough of that. Enough of that. Today we want to talk about Jesus. Again, no surprise there. Christ for Pardon, Christ for Power, Duplex Gratia, and I don't think I'm going to change the name. I thought about it, Justin Bice, but I decided not to.

If I'm ever back in Tennessee, it's Buc-ee's for me. Didn't even try to rhyme. Didn't try to rhyme. Haven't talked about what I'm sitting here drinking for a long time. I'm sitting here drinking Celsius.

I don't want to get hooked on these things, but they make it seem like it's really good for you. Essential energy, accelerates metabolism, burns body fat, no aspartame, green tea, ginger, guarana seed, no high fructose corn syrup, no artificial colors.

But I'm sure it's horrible for you. But it is what it is. Today we'll talk about Jesus and Luke 10. Remember last time? Remember last time? Of course, on Wednesdays we have the YouTube, and then Tuesdays, Thursdays I'm trying to record new shows, Mondays a sermon, and Fridays a rerun.

Hopefully all up and coming back on now that I'm feeling better. Thanks for praying for me. Go in for a little checkup here soon enough for leukemia. Make sure it's still all gone, and I think the answer is going to be yes.

Thankful for that. Hope to see you at the Pactum Conference 2025, October 3rd and 4th, I believe, 4th and 5th. 3rd and 4th. But Sunday as well, I think there's a Sunday school there. Michael Beck, Harrison Perkins, Chris Larson, Pat Ebendroth, and I'm just the brother.

I'm the token brother. My topic is the gospel and sanctification, something I want to talk about. But I thought I was an antinomian. I thought I was just lawless, crazy. I guess compared to neonomians I might be, but remember, same problem.

Neonomism, antinomism. Let's just get a right view of the law, right view of the gospel, right view of first, third uses. We'll be set. Luke 10, as I said last time. By the way, let me just give you a little re-do, re-repeat of what I was saying last time.

You come to Luke 10, and here Jesus sends out the 70 or the 72. He tells them to pray. He tells them to watch out. He tells them to go. He tells them to heal. He tells them what to do when they get to a town, what happens if they're accepted or rejected.

He instructs them. He does everything. And if we're not careful, we turn Luke 10 into a passage on how to evangelize. You know, what do we do first? Instead of Luke 1, 1 to 4, this book, these 24 chapters in the book called The Gospel of Jesus According to Luke, it's about Jesus.

And so, lots of times if I go to a passage and I think this is harder to preach, not because it's exegetically more difficult to understand, hermeneutically harder to grasp, but it just doesn't seem to preach as well, right?

Let's put it this way. If I'm asked to go to another church to preach, and I am sometimes, one and done, then I try to pick something that is Christ-centered, wonderful, makes me excited, good for that congregation.

I've already preached it here, and it seemed to be well-received at the congregation here, and all those factors. Sometimes maybe they'll ask me to preach on a certain topic, and I ask them why, but I probably would never lead with this, Luke 10, 1 to 16.

I mean, it's great. It's fine. It's inerrant. It's infallible. It's sufficient. It's authoritative. It's reliable. It's good. It's there for a reason. But it just doesn't have, from the human perspective, from the frail, sinful human perspective, it's like, not that I don't want it in the canon, but, you know, we're going to get bogged down.

Is it 70 or 72? And people get bogged down with, is this the same deal as Luke 9, where Jesus sends out the 12? It kind of sounds like it. What's the focus? Oh, here's 72, and it seemed like it's more to the Gentiles, you know, expanding toward the Gentiles at least.

More judgment stuff here. But if we say to ourselves, this is about Jesus, then we're going to be fine. More than fine, to quote the Switchfoot song. I used to like Switchfoot. I don't know what happened.

Maybe they wanted to be too mainstream, too secularly approved of. We just make up words as we go. Luke 4, it's the temptation of Jesus and how He overcame it, as the last Adam praised the Lord. Luke 17, you know He's the Messiah because He can heal lepers.

I think that hearkens back to Luke 7. Luke 10, we don't want to immediately, we can secondarily, but not immediately talk about, here's instructions for evangelism. Jesus was an evangelist, you should be too.

Jesus directed His evangelist to do these things, here's some good principles that we can take from it. Fine, dandy, good, no problem, but not the best. What's better than dandy? They said John Owen was a dandy.

Did he preach in a Geneva gown? I think he had a wig on, though, that's for certain. I think he had some stylish boots. I remember Pat, my brother, you should be listening to the Pacton, by the way. You know, it is super-seated no-co.

Part of it is Pat's smarter, part of it is Pat just knows how to do things. And I'm sure I'm on the way out, right, after 16, 17 years of daily radio, I've said everything I needed to say, why am I still talking?

As David Byrne of the Talking Heads would say, you're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything. Just laugh at your own jokes, sitting in the room by yourself. And I am doing that, although it's not a joke.

It's not like I'm saying, what's the difference between Benny Hinn and a dog? A dog can heal. It's not that. I know. I still remember going to the Westroads. It was a mall in the suburbs of Omaha, now it's like in the heart of the city.

And we would go see a Westroads movie theater on a Saturday, probably in the middle of the winter, right, because there was nothing else to do. Just a movie marathon of all the battle, all the Planet of the Apes.

Planet of the Apes, battle for the Planet of the Apes, beneath the Planet of the Apes. What were the other ones? I don't know. You probably remember. Christian Harris probably does. Today we're talking about Jesus from Luke 10, because that's what Luke is all about, and the focus is on Jesus.

And if the focus is on Jesus, you can be excited about it, and you can say, I can't wait to preach this. One of the first things you see when you look at Luke 10, one and following, as Jesus appoints 72 others and sends them out and pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers, go your way, behold, I'm sending Luke 10, 16, the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.

This whole sending thing, it's an extension of his own ministry, where Jesus was sent into the world to save sinners. Jesus is sent into the world to save sinners, for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

Top priority. Sinners can't save themselves, they're desperately needy, they're going to stand before God one day, and then what? But when you realize the Father in eternity past made a pact, an agreement, a covenant with the Son, the Son would go rescue the bride and redeem them and hand them back to the Father, as it were.

Here, Jesus, obeying the Father, he has a mission, and that mission is he's sent to go save sinners, and this is an extension of his own ministry. He sent out the 12 in chapter 9, and now he's sending out 70, 72 others.

Christ is resolved, setting his face toward Jerusalem to fulfill the will of his Father, no matter what's going to occur, and he's sending these men out in the same way. Be determined, be resolute, there's going to be betrayal, suffering, and death, but this is my plan, and you're going to be an extension of my plan.

And before I get to these towns, you go first and essentially be like John the Baptist. I have come to save sinners, and I will obey the Father, and I'm setting my face like a flint to quote Isaiah chapter 50.

I will do the Father's will. I will become obedient. I will humble myself and become obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Luke, commentary written by R .C. Sproul, Jesus was not distracted or diverted from his mission.

He set his face to go to Jerusalem. That means he went with resolute determination, knowing exactly what awaited him there, betrayal, suffering, and death. So when I think of this passage, I think about Jesus, the sent one.

The mission is continuing, right? Remember with the Samaritan village in chapter 9 verses 51 and following, the Samaritans do not want to receive Jesus because his face was set toward Jerusalem, and when James and John, his disciples, saw that, they said, Lord, do you not want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them and Jesus rebuke them?

I'm here to save. The second coming, damnation, judgment. First coming, salvation, forgiveness granted. The wrath that's going to come down from heaven, I will bear. I will assuage. It's going to be me, not anyone else.

I just was looking at this. Did I pause that button or did I not? Huh, interesting. Well, if there's no intro on today's show, you know why. I'm going to try that again. Let's see. If I do that. Nope, can't hear it.

I guess we're going to be safe. Spencer quits, and now I'm on my own. I did not realize how much work Spencer had to put in to this. I had no idea. You know, I'd give him a little Christmas gift and say, thank you.

I should have been giving him gifts all along every week. Spencer, thank you. That's amazing. And then now, of course, you'll tell the quality of the show goes down, because before he'd edit things to make me try to sound better, look better.

Jesus is bearing wrath. He's not going to pour it out on people, and that's not his primary purpose. And you know, if they reject him, of course, and we'll see that later in Luke chapter 10, that's for certain.

He would absorb wrath, not unleash it, in the ultimate sense, in this coming. No, the second coming, he would do that. God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him, John 3, 17.

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. So, there will be the only Son, the only begotten Son of God, I bet you it says.

Why is ESV doing that? Crazy, crazy world ESV. John 12, if anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I did not judge him, for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. The point is, saving mission.

Jesus is on a saving mission. And if you look in the Old Testament, Isaiah 42, you'll see that. Isaiah 61, bringing good news to the poor, sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives.

The opening of the prison to those who are bound, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. Ezekiel 34, I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down. I will seek the lost and bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak.

This is the Lord Jesus coming to rescue, to save, with peace and salvation. Zechariah 9, 9, behold, your king is coming to you, righteous and having salvation as he, humble and mounted on a donkey. He shall speak peace to the nations.

This is Isaiah 53. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, but he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. Upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

Healing, forgiveness, salvation, peace—Jesus is on that mission, and he continues that mission by sending the 72. He's sent to obey. He's sending these men to obey, offering himself as a sacrifice. Herbert Bavink said, the obedience of Christ is not only passive in suffering, but active in the willing dedication of his whole life to God's law.

When he set his face to Jerusalem, he was consciously fulfilling the Father's will, advancing step by step toward the cross. And now he sends these, because his purpose is to save. So you should see this as his dedication, as his willing obedience to the Father, out of his love for the Father and obedience to the Father, he willingly, John Owen said, and cheerfully submitted to every command of God, neither turning aside for fear nor shrinking back for shame.

And because of all of that, then you can say, oh, and I'm called as a disciple too, and I'm going to go evangelize, and I want to have an extension, I want to be an extension of the saving purposes of God by evangelizing.

That's how you get there. Then you can say, you know what? As a pastor, I say to myself, and now I say to you, dear listener, when's the last time you evangelized? Well, I think the last time I did—and this is probably my shame that it was two weeks ago—but I guess I evangelized last Sunday when there was some unbelievers there.

Yeah, I get paid to be good. You get paid for nothing. You're good for nothing. When you mess up the joke, it's no fun, is it? I know. I know. Everything just... You know what I was talking about now?

Oh, so Beau Beckendam, he's a pastor at Christ Church Carpinteria. My daughter and her husband attend the church there, and I've attended before. Beau is a great preacher. Neat guy. I have a lot of respect for Beau.

And we were walking on the beach, just talking and catching up, and we ran into this couple, and I think he was from South Africa. He lives here now. We were talking about all kinds of stuff, and the water, and I don't know, porpoises.

And he was actually kind of within a foot of me, like within my personal space, as we would kind of touch each other while we were talking in kind of a friendly way. And then I said, well, here pastor, you know, do you live locally?

Yeah, we do. How long? 40 years. Well, my friend Beau here, he's a pastor here locally, and he tells people every week how to have your sins forgiven. Something like that. And that guy goes, I don't sin.

And then he stood back like five feet, six feet, seven feet, walking backward, and he said, I don't sin. And I said, well, you just sin by saying that. You're a liar. The truth's not in you. Went downhill from there.

This passage is about Jesus. Jesus the One on mission. Jesus the One who is the King who appoints. Who is Lord over nature, Lord over supernatural, Lord over the weather, Lord over people. He's Lord over people.

I'm writing that down. Lord over people and everything else. The Lord appointed 72 others. I read that Luke calls Jesus Lord more often than Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Ownership, authority, majesty, William Hendrickson says, that's what the word Lord is.

He appoints. And you know what? Like I said last show, at the end of chapter nine, who could ever follow Jesus? Suffering, killed, death, persecution, cross. Nobody's ever going to follow. The cost of discipleship's too hard.

How do you deny yourself? Impossible to do, humanly speaking. I'll go wherever you send. I'll do whatever you want. Thankfully, something we call the effectual call, Jesus turns people's hearts so that they do follow Him wholeheartedly.

I mean, because what keeps us from following Jesus wholeheartedly? It could be security, it could be a home, job, father, spouse, personal pleasure, comfort, rewards on earth, popularity, friendship, leisure.

If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife, his children, his brothers, his sisters, he cannot be my disciple. Hate even his own life. Who does that? Well, no one does unless Jesus appoints, and He can appoint anybody He wants, and here's 72 people that He appoints.

Unbelievable. No, believable. Amazing. Sovereignty of God. Calling out men for salvation. Our God is in the heavens. He does whatever He pleases, and Jesus was pleased to call the 72, ordaining whatsoever comes to pass.

The Most High, the Lord of heaven and earth, subject to none, influenced by none, absolutely independent, God does as He pleases, as only He pleases, and always as He pleases. That sounds like an A .W. Pink quote, but it didn't say that in my notes.

I'm going to give him credit, though. Come on. I think that is. I'm going to give him credit. That sounds just like A .W. Pink. When I first got saved, and I read—well, I didn't read Pink when I first got saved.

When I first was moving toward more of a Reformed understanding, and I read Pink, the attributes of God, and then the sovereignty of God, I just thought, man, God is too small. By the way, the attributes of God is free, I think, online even.

Jesus appoints. He's King of all creation. He's King of the moon and the stars and the sun, and they're His servants, Psalm 119 says. Do this, don't do that. I mean, He does that to the stars. He's sovereign over all history.

He's sovereign over eternal life and who goes there. And so, we believe that He effectually calls men to Himself, and they follow. What else can I learn about Jesus here? I can learn about His purpose of salvation, His sovereignty.

How about His equipping? What a master, what a friend. He knows exactly what's going to happen. He knows what these men need, and so He's going to equip them. I mean, that is a good Savior. He says you better pray, because you don't want to depend on your own strength, so therefore pray earnestly.

Go to your Father. He's going to say in chapter 11, soon enough, that if you ask, it'll be given to you. Seek, and you'll find. Knock, and it'll be open to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, it will be open.

What father among you, if a son asks for a fish, will, instead of a fish, give him a serpent? If he asks for an egg, will he give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, to those who ask Him?

Jesus is going to equip them. Men, this is urgent. Don't carry money, knapsacks, sandals, all that stuff. You just need to get going. No long greetings on the road. We're in haste. You're going to live by faith.

You're going to live with this urgency. You are going to get rejected, and there's going to be judgment one day, and judgment is horrible, so get going. Very specific training. I'm going to give you my authority, so when you speak, it'll be having the same authority that if I were speaking.

I'm going to equip you by giving you the Spirit of God. I'm going to help you in every way, shape, and form. Jesus the Equipper. That's Luke chapter 10. How about Jesus the Compassionate One? He said in verse 9 of chapter 10, heal the sick in it and say to them, the kingdom of God has come near to you.

Of course, healing in the Bible is to authenticate the message. The message is true. It is to authenticate the messengers. Lots of people running their mouths, how do you know what this guy says is true?

Well, he just raised somebody from the dead. I think I should listen. And also, we can't forget to show God's compassion. When Jesus came to heal, yes, listen to His message and listen to Him, because no one can do those healings except God, but also to show His compassion.

Compassion, kindness, mercy. He's a Savior, a merciful Savior. And when you think of mercy, don't think of anything except compassion in action. That's what you should think of. The CIA, let's redeem the CIA.

Compassion in action. We saw the crowds, Jesus had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless like a sheep without a what? Shepherd. That was Matthew 9. Matthew 14, He went ashore, He saw a great crowd, and He had compassion on them and healed their sick.

There we go. Matthew 15, Jesus called His disciples to them and said, I have compassion on the crowd because they've been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. Matthew 20, Jesus in pity touched their eyes, and immediately they recovered their sight and followed Him.

His compassion, Spurgeon said, wasn't a sentiment, but mighty active principle. He had pity, and He helped heal the leper, who wasn't even asked to heal the widow of Nain's son. He just raised her, raised him rather, had compassion on her, and said, don't weep.

And so we think, that's my Savior, I need compassion in action. I need mercy, I need pity, compassion from the high priest. He knows what it's like to be tempted, to be full of sorrow, to have these emotions, to be burdened, to be persecuted, and so He understands.

What about the last thing we can learn from Jesus in this passage? That Jesus is so holy, so wonderful, so majestic, that if you reject Him, you deserve to go to hell. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Uri is the Greek word.

It sounds like a shriek. Uri! Like when you're getting thrown into hell. No, we don't want that, because Jesus is majestic, and so Jesus, the One who is awesome, let's make sure we don't reject Him. Every sin damns, but there are worse sins, and there are worse places in hell that we learn from this section with Tyre and Sidon and Capernaum and Chorazin.

Yes, it's a sin to hate in your heart, but it's a worse sin to know who Jesus is and then say no to it. The judgment for those who reject. Rejection of the gospel and Jesus leads to a greater condemnation, heavier judgment, greater the guilt, degrees of punishment.

We want to be very, very careful. Jesus is so exalted that to say no to Him makes you deserve to be punished. Scary, is it not? The holiness of God, the sinfulness of sin. The Bible says He hates all those who do evil, especially the evil that says Jesus isn't God.

See, where's Spencer when I need him? Jesus isn't the Savior. Jesus does not grant forgiveness. Jesus is a lunatic. Jesus is a liar. All those things are very, very damning. But there's hope. So today, you have hope to believe in the Lord Jesus.

He's compassionate. He's merciful. He's sovereign. He appoints. He's on a mission to save people like you if you're not a believer. My name is Mike Abendroth. This is No Compromise Radio Ministry. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved.

Saved from your own sin. Saved from your own self. Saved from the torments of the dam. Saved from Satan's clutches. What a Savior.