Luke Seen from the Perspective of the Gospel of the Water and the Spirit (V)

Preface

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:12:46 +0000

To read the Gospel of Luke is not merely to learn, as knowledge, what Jesus did and taught. It is to know through the word what God has done to seek and save lost sinners, and to believe in the heart the gospel of the water and the Spirit that Jesus Christ completed with the baptism He received from John, the Cross, and the resurrection. Volume 5 of the Gospel of Luke shows how the person who has believed in that salvation must serve Jesus as his own King, use everything he has received from the Lord for the preaching of the gospel, and live with the hope of the resurrection and the second coming.

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Ch19_01_Biblical Exposition_Part 1 Understanding the text passage by passage and its gospel-based interpretation

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:12:36 +0000

Luke chapter 19 shows Jesus who seeks and saves lost sinners like Zacchaeus, Jesus who will come again with kingly authority, the humble King who enters Jerusalem, the Lord who weeps as He looks at the city that refused salvation, and the Lord who cleanses the temple. We will examine each text in turn through the general interpretation of its context and the perspective of the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

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Ch19_02_Biblical Exposition_Part 2 The King who seeks and saves the lost

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:12:31 +0000

In Part 1 above, we examined each passage of Luke chapter 19 through the general interpretation of the text and the perspective of the gospel of the water and the Spirit side by side. Now, following the flow of the same text, we will examine in detail the salvation that comes to find lost sinners, the life that is faithful to the entrusted gospel, and the will of the King who entered Jerusalem and of the Lord who cleansed the temple.

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Ch19_03_Questions and Answers on Luke Chapter 19

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:12:26 +0000

Luke chapter 19 records the events from Jesus meeting Zacchaeus in Jericho to His teaching daily in the temple in Jerusalem. The contents can be divided into five parts. First, verses 1–10 are the salvation that came to Zacchaeus. Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector and a rich man, climbed up a sycamore tree to see Jesus. Jesus called him by name and stayed at his house, and after receiving Jesus, Zacchaeus confessed that he would share his property with the poor and repay what he had extorted. This was not the price of salvation but the fruit of change that appeared in the person who received Jesus in faith.

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Ch19_04_Sermon_Live your life of faith on God＇s side (Luke 19:1-10)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:12:19 +0000

I have finished expounding, from chapter 1 through chapter 16, the righteousness of God revealed in the Book of Romans—our Lord who is the righteousness of God. When a work is finished, I think of the Lord who said, “It is finished!” and it is truly good when a work that was begun is brought to a good conclusion. Since it is good to share together whatever one has done, I share it with you. Because there are parts in the Book of Romans that speak of the whole Bible, if you read it through at least once, it helps you greatly when you hear other words.

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Ch19_05_Sermon_Admit that you are a sinner (Luke 19:1-10)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:12:15 +0000

God loved us human beings and came to visit this earth. Our God abandoned the glorious throne of heaven and came to find you and me, to save us from sin and make us God’s people; He gave us everlasting life and life itself, gave us the remission of sin, gave us every spiritual blessing in heaven and every rich blessing on earth, and took upon Himself all the diseases and infirmities of our flesh.

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Ch19_06_Sermon_Who is Jesus？ (Luke 19:1-10)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:12:09 +0000

Because of the heart that wanted to find out who Jesus was, Zacchaeus caught the Lord’s eye and received the remission of sin. Jesus was entering Jericho, and in that town there was a very famous man—the chief tax collector. A chief tax collector, in today’s terms, is the head of a tax office. This man was enormously rich. In the old days as now, those who work at the tax office handle much money and are wealthy.

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Ch19_07_Sermon_The one who follows the Lord (Luke 19:1-10)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:12:05 +0000

In today’s passage there appears a man named Zacchaeus. Zacchaeus lived in the region of Jericho. This man’s characteristics were that he was short and that he was a chief tax collector. In today’s terms, his position was something like the head of a customs office.

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Ch19_08_Sermon_Engrave the word of the Lord on your heart (Luke 19:11-27)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:11:59 +0000

In the word of Luke that we read today, too, a scene of settling accounts appears. Looking at the word: a certain nobleman was to go to a far country to receive a kingdom. Before leaving, he called the servants of his house, distributed ten minas of silver, one to each, and told them to do business till he came back. To make a profit—that was the master’s will.

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Ch19_09_Sermon_Let us become donkeys that bring refreshment to the Lord＇s heart (Luke 19:28-40)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:11:53 +0000

I have in me a heart that longs for the gospel of the water and the Spirit to be preached to the whole world as soon as possible. I want the gospel to be preached so that the heart of God and our hearts may be refreshed together. The gospel of the water and the Spirit must be preached faster, and I often feel impatient. Still, the speed at which it is being preached has now become very fast. Book orders come in from many countries of the world—Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Britain, the United States, India—and every day the gospel is being delivered to no small number of people. It is a truly thankful thing. Yet when I think of the world’s population of six billion, an eager desire arises: I wish we could preach to tens of thousands a day and finish preaching to all as soon as possible.

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Ch19_10_Sermon_We must testify to what the Lord has done (Luke 19:28-41)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:11:49 +0000

The life lived as the Lord’s worker leads on to believing and proclaiming the things the Lord did for us when He came to this earth, and to revealing the glory of God. That work has continued without ceasing. The disciples loosed and brought a colt on which no one had yet sat. They did according to the word: if the owners ask why you are loosing it, say, “Because the Lord has need of it.” The disciples brought that colt to Jesus, threw their outer garments on the donkey’s back, and set Jesus on it, and they took off their outer garments and spread them on the road. In fact, the life in which we believe in and meet the Lord, receive the remission of sin, become workers, and live carrying the Lord is exactly like this.

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Ch20_01_Biblical Exposition_Part 1 Understanding the text passage by passage and its gospel-based interpretation

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:11:43 +0000

Luke chapter 20 begins with the question of the religious leaders who refuse to acknowledge the authority of Jesus, and continues with the parable of the wicked vinedressers, the taxes paid to Caesar, the resurrection of the dead, the identity of Christ, and the word about the hypocrisy of the scribes. We will examine each text in turn through the general interpretation of its context and the perspective of the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

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Ch20_02_Biblical Exposition_Part 2 Jesus who taught salvation and the resurrection

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:11:38 +0000

In Part 1 we examined each passage of Luke chapter 20 side by side through the general interpretation of the text and the perspective of the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Now, following the flow of the same text, we will look closely at the authority of Jesus, the unbelief that rejected the Son of God, the life that must be given to God, the hope of the resurrection, and the true identity of Christ.

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Ch20_03_Questions and Answers on Luke Chapter 20

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:11:32 +0000

Luke chapter 20 unfolds around the authority of Jesus, who teaches in the temple in Jerusalem, and the disputes of the religious leaders who oppose Him. First, when the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders made an issue of the authority of Jesus, He asked them in return whether the baptism of John was from heaven or from men. They did not follow the truth but calculated the reactions of the people and evaded the answer.

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Ch20_04_Sermon_Those who have received the authority to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit to the whole world (Luke 20:1-8)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:11:27 +0000

The word authority refers to power. It means the actual power to exercise dominion and influence over another being, or the potential for such power. The word might means the same, and the word right means being granted the qualification to do as one wills. When Jesus came to this earth and was teaching the people and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes, together with the elders, came near and asked Him: tell us by what authority You are doing these things, and who gave You this authority.

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Ch20_05_Sermon_God who made the rejected Son the chief cornerstone of salvation (Luke 20:9-19)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:11:23 +0000

The relationship between the owner who made the vineyard and the vinedressers who worked there was clear from the beginning. The vinedressers were not the people who had made the land or established the vineyard; they were people who had received from the owner a place to work in it. Jesus said, “A certain man planted a vineyard, leased it to vinedressers, and went into a far country for a long time” (Luke 20:9). Yet when the owner sent his servants to receive some of the fruit, the vinedressers beat the servants and drove them out, and finally they even killed the son, the heir, to make the inheritance their own. They did not merely confuse what was entrusted to them with their own; knowing the owner’s rights, they plotted together to seize them.

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Ch20_06_Sermon_Render to God the things that are God＇s (Luke 20:20-26)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:11:18 +0000

The words the spies offered to Jesus sound, on the surface, like an excellent confession of faith. They complimented Him, saying that He spoke and taught rightly, did not show personal favoritism, and truly taught the way of God. Each of those words did not contradict the ministry of Jesus. But they did not speak in order to believe the truth; they approached in order to obtain a word by which to hand Jesus over to the authority of the governor. They spoke right words while hiding a wicked purpose. Luke records plainly that they approached having “pretended to be righteous” (Luke 20:20).

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Ch20_07_Sermon_The hope of the resurrection and the Millennial Kingdom (Luke 20:27-38)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:11:14 +0000

In this world countless people are living in despair. But today I want to tell you the fact that for us there is no despair. As flowers bloom even in the fields a storm has passed through, even if this world ends and perishes, I believe that our Lord will begin the Millennial Kingdom anew. So I live in hope. For a while my heart was very heavy. There is the second coming of Jesus and there is the Rapture, so we must be born again and receive the remission of sin—this is the gospel I have preached all along. Yet the whole world is growing darker and darker. We are now facing the night before the storm. We are living in that stillness, that quiet, before the storm comes.

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Ch20_08_Sermon_Christ， the Son of David and the Lord of David (Luke 20:41-47)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:11:09 +0000

The chief priests, the scribes, and the elders asked about the authority of Jesus; the spies tried to catch Him in His words over the tax question; and the Sadducees brought a complicated case to deny the resurrection. Jesus answered every question with the wisdom of God, and finally no one dared to ask Him anything more. Then Jesus asked them a question. If the earlier questions were traps to bring Jesus down, the Lord’s question revealed the center of salvation that people must know. It is the question of who the Christ is.

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Ch21_01_Biblical Exposition_Part 1 Understanding the text passage by passage and its gospel-based interpretation

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:11:04 +0000

Luke chapter 21 begins with the offering of the poor widow and speaks of the destruction of the temple, the fall of Jerusalem, persecution and the signs of the end, the second coming of the Son of Man, and the life of watching and praying. We will examine each text in turn through the general interpretation of its context and the perspective of the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

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Ch21_02_Biblical Exposition_Part 2 Believe the word and wait watchfully for the second coming

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:11:00 +0000

In Part 1 we examined each passage of Luke chapter 21 side by side through the general interpretation of the text and the perspective of the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Now, following the flow of the same text, we will look closely at the faith of the poor widow, the prophecy of the destruction of the temple, the life that testifies to the gospel under persecution, and the faith that waits watchfully for the Lord who is coming again.

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Ch21_03_Questions and Answers on Luke Chapter 21

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:10:53 +0000

As the continuing signs of the end, Jesus spoke of wars between nations and kingdoms, great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, and fearful sights and great signs from heaven. These signs show that the world fallen in sin is not eternal and is moving toward the judgment of God and the second coming of Jesus. Wars and disasters existed before as well, but as the last days draw near, worldwide confusion and fear grow, and people become so afraid, thinking of what is coming upon the world, that their hearts fail them.

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Ch21_04_Sermon_Let us look at the signs that will appear in the last days， have hope， and be faithful in preaching the gospel (Luke 21:5-10)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:10:48 +0000

We have looked at the word up to verse 11: “There will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.” In the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke this content appears in great detail. The disciples asked Jesus what would happen in the last days. They asked Him to tell them the signs of the last days, and the Lord spoke the answer to that in these words.

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Ch21_05_Sermon_The Lord who turns tribulation into an occasion for testimony and makes us lift up our heads (Luke 21:5-28)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:10:44 +0000

People spoke of the temple adorned with beautiful stones and donations, of its beauty and its scale. The temple, raised with long and careful labor, looked as though it would not easily be shaken, and the pride of the nation that possessed that building was great. But Jesus pointed to the very temple people were marveling at and said, “These things which you see—the days will come in which not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down” (Luke 21:6). To men’s eyes the solid stones came into view first, but the Lord knew the day those stones would fall and even what would follow after.

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Ch21_06_Sermon_Believe the written word (Luke 21:5-38)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:10:40 +0000

After Christmas we come to hold the service that sees off the old year and welcomes the new. Then this year passes and we greet the new year. A year has gone by as if we had taken one day’s nap. How quickly it has passed—while we fretted and bustled over our work, this year has already drawn to its close. I believe next year will pass even faster. The year after will be faster still, and the year after that faster yet, and rushing on without pause, I believe we will meet the Lord. Looking back, we have worked much and been busy with much, but the time has passed truly quickly.

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Ch21_07_Sermon_Take heed to yourselves (Luke 21:29-36)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:10:35 +0000

I want to share from the word we have read today. The Lord spoke in a parable: “Look at the fig tree, and all the trees. When they are already budding, you see and know for yourselves that summer is now near. So you also, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near” (Luke 21:29–31). Just as, when a tree sprouts, we see it and know that summer is near, so when we see those things happening that He spoke of before, we are to know that the kingdom of God is near.

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Ch21_08_Sermon_Believe the word that will by no means pass away and watch always (Luke 21:29-36)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:10:30 +0000

When the trees sprout, a man knows summer is near without checking the calendar again. The change before his eyes tells him the season has drawn near. Jesus did not speak of one fig tree only but told us to look at all the trees, and said that when the things He had spoken of before appear, we are to know that the kingdom of God is near. The signs the Lord spoke of tell us that the kingdom of God is actually drawing near and that His word is surely fulfilled.

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Ch22_01_Biblical Exposition_Part 1 Understanding the text passage by passage and its gospel-based interpretation

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:10:26 +0000

Luke chapter 22 begins with the betrayal of Judas and the last Passover meal, and continues with the dispute among the disciples, the foretelling of Peter’s failure, the prayer on the Mount of Olives, and the arrest and interrogation of Jesus. We will examine each text in turn through the general interpretation of its context and the perspective of the gospel of the water and the Spirit.

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Ch22_02_Biblical Exposition_Part 2 Jesus who gave Himself to accomplish salvation

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:10:20 +0000

In Part 1 we examined each passage of Luke chapter 22 side by side through the general interpretation of the text and the perspective of the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Now, following the flow of the same text, we will look closely at the salvation of the Passover and the new covenant, at Jesus who came as One who serves, at the prayer needed in the face of trial, and at the grace of the Lord who raises up His weak disciple again.

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Ch22_03_Questions and Answers on Luke Chapter 22

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:10:12 +0000

Luke chapter 22 begins with the plot to kill Jesus and the betrayal of Judas, and records the Passover supper and the new covenant, the teaching on serving and the foretelling of Peter’s denial, the prayer on the Mount of Olives, the arrest of Jesus and Peter’s denial, and the interrogation before the council. At the center of all these events stands Jesus, who obeys the Father’s will and saves sinners.

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Ch22_04_Sermon_Jesus is the God of power (Luke 22:7-38)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:10:06 +0000

We must pray before God. For God must help us. When things are hard and difficult we must pray, and when a matter is too heavy to bear alone, we must share the problem with one another and pray together for one another. When we do so, I believe God helps us. God is our God, and He is the One who hears our prayers. Therefore we must live praying with the faith that God answers our prayers.

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Ch22_05_Sermon_Have ten thousand instructors in the church and learn (Luke 22:14-30)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:10:01 +0000

Jesus led the Lord’s Supper in person. Praying Himself, He lifted the bread, broke it, and spoke like this: “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me” (Luke 22:19). After the evening meal He took the cup and spoke likewise: “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you” (Luke 22:20). So He shared the bread and the wine with His disciples and held the Lord’s Supper.

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Ch22_06_Sermon_The serving King who established the new covenant with His own body and blood (Luke 22:14-30)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:09:50 +0000

Jesus knew fully that the suffering of the Cross had drawn right in front of Him. He knew that Judas was the one who would sell Him, and He knew that the disciples would soon scatter and that Peter would deny the Lord three times. Yet the Lord did not avoid the place of the last supper, but said, “With fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer” (Luke 22:15). The Lord prepared that place with His disciples in order to fulfill the Father’s will to save sinners.

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Ch22_07_Sermon_The Lord who has given us the grace to serve (Luke 22:24-30)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:09:46 +0000

We live doing the work of the gospel. Doing that work we make our living, and above all we strive to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit more widely. For a person to live as a person, there is much to prepare, beginning with food, clothing, and shelter, and none of it is simple. But my heart is always set on serving well the brothers and sisters of the churches across the country and preaching the gospel more widely. For that I always pray and prepare, that we may set the work in order and gain stability, preaching the gospel much and also living as people ought to live.

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Ch22_08_Sermon_We receive answers when we pray giving our hearts to the Lord (Luke 22:39-46)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:09:40 +0000

Amen. Today’s text speaks of the Lord going to pray. The Lord had a care upon Him. Without a care one does not pray, and without a want one does not pray either. Prayer is precisely asking for help. To plead, “Help me,” is prayer. To rely on the Lord and rely again, to entreat Him for help, pleading and imploring and clinging to Him—that is prayer.

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