Highway To Heaven

Question 1

What passages does this lecture include?

Answer 1

Luke 9:51-10:37

Question 2

Luke 9:51

Answer 2

• journey section of Luke
• journey was physically towards Jerusalem, but destination was heaven
• cross was waiting for Jesus in Jerusalem
• highway to heaven goes through the cross

Question 3

What did Jesus want his disciples to know in Luke 9:51?

Answer 3

A) Who he was – the Son of God!
B) His plan – to die on the cross

• nobody was really sure who Jesus was, including the disciples
  1. disciples asked who Jesus was after he rebuked wind and water (Luke 8:25)
  2. Herod thought Jesus was JTB raised from the dead (Luke 9:9)
  3. Crowds thought he was JTB or Elijah (Luke 9:18-20)

Question 4

Luke 9:28-31

Answer 4

Jesus wanted to show them who he was and so he takes inner circle to Jerusalem
- Peter, James and John

Moses and Elijah appear to them on a mountain
- Jesus was culmination of the law (Moses) and prophets (Elijah)
- complete fulfillment of both law and prophets

Question 5

Luke 9:34-35

Answer 5

Still didn’t understand Jesus
- “A voice came from the cloud, saying, ‘This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen him’” (Luke 9:35)

Question 6

THREE POINTS

Answer 6

1.Self-Sacrifice Paves the Way
2. The Highway to Heaven is Traveled by Few
3. Tested Along the Way

Question 7

Luke 9:57-62

Answer 7

Jesus on the road to Jerusalem, encountered by 3 guys

Question 8

1st guy on road to Jerusalem:

Answer 8

• Jesus told him the Son of man has no place to lay his head
• Jesus slept in other’s houses, implying we won’t have a home on this earth

Question 9

Quote about homes from C.S. Lewis

Answer 9

“Earth is the only Heaven that non-Christians will ever experience, and the only Hell that Christians will experience”

Question 10

2nd guy on road to Jerusalem:

Answer 10

• Wanted to go bury his father; Jesus says let the dead bury their own dead
• unlikely that father was already dead since he was traveling
• likely waiting for his inheritance
• Jesus calls him to follow him immediately

Question 11

3rd guy on road to Jerusalem:

Answer 11

• Wants to say goodbye to family; Jesus says he’s not fit for service in the kingdom of God
• looking back in farming causes oxen to veer off course
• path to heaven only through the cross of Christ

Question 12

What do we desire to do as Americans?

Answer 12

Get rich
- desire to get rich is to desire the hardest possible path to heaven (Luke 18:25)

Question 13

Luke 18:25 PASSAGE

Answer 13

“Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich
to enter the kingdom of God.”

Question 14

What do we sometimes falsely do in teaching the Bible?

Answer 14

• negotiate people into the Kingdom
• teach mix of Christianity and the American Dream

“God doesn’t call us to enhance our talents for the world… but to give them up to God and use
them for the Kingdom!”

Question 15

Luke 10:1-24

Answer 15

• Jesus says pray for workers; too many people that are open and too few workers to study with them
• no such thing as disciple that doesn’t work
• WORKER = DISCIPLE = SAVED
• Workers are few = true disciples are few
• you don’t find workers, you make them

Question 16

How was Jesus hardline in training his disciples for the ministry?

Answer 16

• sends them out with nothing
• pairs them up 2 by 2 and sends them off
• no extra wallet, bag, tunic, staff, no protection just go!

Question 17

Why do we send out mission teams with money?

Answer 17

Luke 22:35-36
- Jesus imposed financial hardships on them as a test of their faith

Question 18

What was the purpose of sending them out with nothing?

Answer 18

Training
1. Trained them to share their faith
2. Trained them to deal with rejection
3. Taught them that joy does not come from success in the ministry
4. Taught them gratitude

Question 19

Trained them to share their faith:

Answer 19

Pushed them to keep sharing because if they didn’t find open people, they wouldn’t eat

Question 20

Taught them to deal with rejection:

Answer 20

• if one isn’t open, shake the dust off your feet
• Jews used to wipe the dust off their feet and stomp on the ground as sin of judgement towards Gentiles
• unopen non-Christians = spiritual gentiles
• shake dust off your feet towards those that aren’t open to the gospel

Question 21

Taught them that joy doesn’t come from success in the ministry:

Answer 21

“However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written
in heaven.” Luke 10:20

Question 22

Taught them gratitude:

Answer 22

Can’t be more concerned with numbers of members in our churches than with amount of workers
- people you lose are often the people that aren’t working anyways

Question 23

What happened when the teachers of the law tested Jesus? (Luke 10:25-37)

Answer 23

They were the ones put to the test
- if we’re still on earth, we’re being tested!

Question 24

What does this parable expose about the Pharisees? (Luke 10:25-37)

Answer 24

They were not men of God
- sought to justify themselves
- sought to over define things to identify what they didn’t have to obey

Question 25

Where were the priest and Levite going? (Luke 10:25-37)

Answer 25

From Jerusalem to Jericho
- road to heaven was through Jerusalem
- they were going the wrong way!

Question 26

What’s the significance of a Samaritan helping the man on the road?

Answer 26

Slap in the face to the Jews

Question 27

Perspective of the Samaritans:

Answer 27

Gentiles were hated, but the Samaritans were hated even more
- they were half-breeds. Jews had intermarried with Assyrians during the exile and became known as the Samaritans
- looked at as compromisers; “weak-sauce”
- Jesus approves of this person because of his heart to obey regardless of his ethnicity

Question 28

What’s the main sin of this parable? (Luke 10:25-37)

Answer 28

• sins of omission
• desired to do the minimum
• wanted a definition so that he could exclude what he didn’t want to obey, but there is no exclusion in the kingdom
• we always do the maximum!

Question 29

What happened when the ICOC fell? (Luke 10:25-37)

Answer 29

Everyone argued about what the Bible did or didn’t say
- These are stupid questions since we’re to give the maximum possible
- people over define Scriptures bc they don’t want to obey (hunting loopholes)
- if anything, we’re doing a lot less than what the Bible calls us to do
—-gave up EVERYTHING
—-met up EVERY DAY

Question 30

What’s the significance of Jesus calling us to make disciples?

Answer 30

Didn’t tell us an exact way of how to make disciples
- movement is unique and has a plan
- we’re getting the job done and if anything we’re asking too little and not too much