First Baptist Church Delray

First Baptist Church Delray

Sermon Application Questions

August 17, 2025

Pastor Steve’s Message: “The Sent Life”

Scripture: Luke 9:1-9 (ESV)

Review the Exegesis of the Scripture

Read Luke 9:1–2

And he (Jesus) called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal.

1. What were the twelve disciples finally going to be able to do with all they had witnessed Jesus say and do?

2. Did it matter that Jesus’ disciples knew nothing of His upcoming crucifixion, burial, resurrection, and ascension into heaven? What does that tell us about how the Lord can use us even though we don’t fully understand Him or the Bible?

3. Why did Jesus give the disciples power over demons and disease when He sent them out?

4. How does this help us understand why Jesus doesn’t heal everyone?

5. What was their primary assignment?

Read Luke 9:3-4

And he (Jesus) said to them, “Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics. And whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart.

6. What additional instructions did Jesus give His disciples as He sent them out?

7. How did Jesus want to physically differentiate His disciples from traveling philosophers in those days who went from town to town spouting all kinds of interesting ideas and asking for money in return?

8. Why might Jesus have instructed the disciples to be satisfied with the initial housing that they would find in each town they entered?

Read Luke 9:5

(Jesus continued) “And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”

9. What did Jesus tell them to do as a warning to people who did not receive the good news of Jesus, illustrating they were leaving the sinfulness of the people behind?

10. What would Jesus have expected them to remember about neither positive nor negative results being dependent on them?

“For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.” (Luke 6:43-45)

11. Does this mean that we should only share the good news of Jesus once and then move on?

12. Are there people and situations that clearly reject Jesus and we need to step away from them?

Read Luke 9:6

And they departed and went through the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.

13. Did the disciples go do exactly what Jesus assigned them to do?

Read Luke 9:7–9

Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had been raised from the dead, by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the prophets of old had risen. Herod said, “John I beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” And he sought to see him.

14. Why should we expect to be misunderstood by people who are worldly? How does I Corinthians 1:18 further explain it to us?

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Make Personal Applications of the Lessons

15. Which comparison helps you best understand the difference between knowing Jesus and being on mission with Him?

a. sitting on the bench and getting in the game

b. flying over the coast and swimming in the ocean

c. being with someone else’s grandchildren and being with your own grandchildren

d. seeing a picture of pizza and enjoying the taste and aroma of pizza

16. If you are living a sent life, describe how you are driven by your personal experiences with Jesus:

a. How does your initial salvation experience motivate you?

b. How do worship experiences motivate you?

c. How do the times when Jesus is so real you could almost touch Him stir you?

d. How has each time He has called you to something new spurred you on?

17. If you are living a sent life, describe how you are powered by the Holy Spirit:

a. How do you discern that the power and influence come from Him?

b. How do you sense Him speaking through you?

c. How do you recognize that He is already at work in the people He wants you to reach?

18. If you are living a sent life, describe how you are provisioned by the Holy Spirit:

a. How has He met your personal needs?

b. How has He connected you with who He wants you to reach?

19. If you are living a sent life, describe how you have left the results to Jesus:

a. Name someone who rejected the gospel message that you tried your best to share with. Were you able to refuse to take the rejection personally?

b. Name someone who received the gospel message you shared with. Were you able to refuse to pridefully take the credit?

20. If you are not living a sent life, consider whether you have either never experienced salvation in Jesus Christ or have forgotten the single most important experience one can have, a human response to a spiritual invitation to a new nature, moves you from a life of death that ends in torment to a life of vibrant experience of Jesus that ends in an even better life. Have you had the life changing experience of being born again?

21. Recall your salvation experience, whether it was more like a slow realization of a sunrise or more like a sudden lightning bolt that hit you:

a. Just as a marriage begins with a wedding you need to remember regularly, what was it like when you were first born again?

b. Who was involved in helping you along?

c. What did it feel like?

d. Who did you tell?

22. Remember what Jesus did:

a. He lived a perfect life for you.

b. He paid for every sin you would ever commit.

c. He has designed a meaningful and important life for you.

d. He has solved your biggest problem, the problem of death.

e. He has prepared a place of you.

23. Will you re-commit to living a sent life, or perhaps receive for the first time this salvation that Jesus offers?

24. Make plans to live a sent life:

a. Will you take some time to write down and practice telling your Jesus story so that you are ready to share the gospel and how you received Jesus?

b. Will you assume that where you are is where you have been sent?

c. Will you be intentional and prayerful about where you go?