35 Luke 9:37-45 (The failure to cast out a demon)

Comply or Crash: Christian Maturity is Obeying Jesus
Luke 9:37-45

I. Review/Background
II. Narrative
1. Down the mountain (9:37)
Mark 9:14
2. Boy with an unclean spirit (9:38-39)
Mark 9:21-22
3. Disciples’ inability to cast it out (9:40)
4. Jesus’ evaluation of this generation (9:41)
5. Jesus’ casts out the spirit (9:42)
6. The crowd’s response (9:43)
7. The reason behind the failure to exercise.
Mark 9:28
8. Death prediction (9:44-45)
III. How should we then live?
1. Be prepared after the mountaintop
2. Evaluate our generation
Romans 12:2
3. Consider our spiritual weaknesses
Isaiah 56:7 / Acts 2:42 / Colossians 4:2
1 Thess. 5:17 / 2 Chronicles 16:12
4. Never become mature in your own eyes
5. Listen to Jesus