Four Principles of Stewardship:
1. God owns everything, I own nothing.
2. God entrusts you with everything you have.
3. You can either increase or diminish what God has given; He wants you to increase it.
4. God can call you into account at any time, and it may be today.
Main Idea: We grow in our understanding of the gospel as we learn how Scripture points to Jesus.
Luke 24:18 - One of them, named Cleopas, answered and said to Him, “Are You the only one visiting Jerusalem and unaware of the things which have happened here in these days?”
Luke 24:19-24 - …“The things about Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word in the sight of God and all the people, and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to the sentence of death, and crucified Him. But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, it is the third day since these things happened. But also some women among us amazed us. When they were at the tomb early in the morning, and did not find His body, they came, saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said that He was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just exactly as the women also had said; but Him they did not see.”
Luke 24:27 - Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.
Luke 24:44 - Now He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”
I. Learn How the Writings of Moses Point to Jesus
A. Genesis 3:15 – Promised Redeemer
Genesis 3:15 - And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel.
B. Genesis 22:18 – Promise to bless the nations through Abraham
Genesis 22:18 - In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.
Galatians 3:6-9 - Even so Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham. The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.” So then those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer.
C. Deuteronomy 18:15 – Promise of a prophet like Moses
Deuteronomy 18:15 - The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.
II. Learn How the Prophets Point to Jesus
A. Isaiah 61:1-2 – A ministry of good news (Luke 4:18-19)
Isaiah 61:1-2 - The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners; to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn…
B. Isaiah 35:5-6 – Authenticating His ministry through miracles (Luke 7:22)
Isaiah 35:5-6 - Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped. Then the lame will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will shout for joy. For waters will break forth in the wilderness and streams in the Arabah.
C. Jeremiah 29:10-14 with Daniel 9:2, 20-27 – The coming of the Messiah and His death
Jeremiah 29:10-14 - For thus says the Lord, “When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans that I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.”
Daniel 9:21-26 - …while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering. He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding. At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision. Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.”
III. Learn How the Psalms & Writings Point to Jesus
A. Psalm 110:1 – Messiah would be the son of David & his Lord (20:42)
Psalm 110:1 - The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
B. Psalm 118:22 – The Psalms Predicted the Rejection of the Messiah (Luke 20:17)
Psalm 118:22-23 - The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief corner stone. This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
C. Psalm 118:26 – Jesus’ Entry into Jerusalem is a picture of the Messiah coming (Luke 19:38)
Psalm 118:26 - Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord; we have blessed you from the house of the Lord.
D. Psalm 16:10 – Jesus will be buried and risen
Psalm 16:10 - For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.
IV. Learn How Themes Point to Jesus
A. The Passover: Christ as the ultimate sacrifice
B. The Temple: Christ as the ultimate place of worship
1. Their hearts were on fire
Luke 24:30-32 - When He had reclined at the table with them, He took the bread and blessed it, and breaking it, He began giving it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him; and He vanished from their sight. They said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?”
2. They went back to confirm that they had seen Jesus
Luke 24:33-35 - And they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found gathered together the eleven and those who were with them, saying, “The Lord has really risen and has appeared to Simon.” They began to relate their experiences on the road and how He was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.
3. They fulfilled their mission to be His witnesses
Luke 24:48-49, 52-53 - “You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.” … And they, after worshiping Him, returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the temple praising God.
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