Jesus in Galilee: Public Ministry Begins – Part 3 (Luke 8-9) | Mike Mazzalongo | BibleTalk.tv
All right so Luke-Acts for Beginners. This is lesson number five Jesus in Galilee, Public Ministry Begins, and part three of that section.
We’re going to try to cover Luke chapter 8, verse 4, all the way over to Luke chapter 9, verse 50.
In the introductory lesson, at the very beginning of the course, I mentioned the fact that there’s a lot of material contained in the book of Luke.
That also appears in Matthew and Mark The gospel writers, as I said, used one another’s material, And sometimes they would use one another’s material and then add details that the other did not add.
I said that because of the length of Luke’s record 24 chapters and the time limit of this class’s 13 sessions, I would briefly review the passages already covered in Matthew and Mark’s gospel and spend more time on the material unique to Luke or Passages only repeated one other time in the book: It’s a question of triage, which passages are more specific to Luke that we may not have seen in the other gospels.
So today we’re going to look at the third section of the first main part of Luke’s work And which is Jesus in Galilee Jesus in Galilee That’s the first main section.
It goes from Luke, 1, 1 to Luke, 9.
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We’re in the last section of that main part And in this third part, Luke, 8, 4 to 9, 50.
Every event, every miracle, and every teaching is also contained in either or both Matthew and Mark, except for one passage at the very end of this section. So let’s start with Luke chapter 8.
If you’re following along in your Bibles, We begin with a parable of the sower and the seed Not going to read that pretty familiar, I mean not going to read it all right away.
This parable is contained, as I said, in both Matthew and Mark’s gospel.
It’s.
The first parable spoke Of all the parables that Jesus spoke.
This is the first one that He speaks So in verse.
Four, When a large crowd was coming together and those from the various cities were journeying to Him, He spoke by way of a parable, So Luke notes that Jesus’s popularity is on the rise as people not only from his town.
Capernaum is coming out to hear Him, but people from other cities as well are coming out to Him In verses, 5 to 8 Luke recounts, Jesus’s parable of the sower sowing the seed on different types of soil.
You remember this On the rocky road.
Excuse me on the road on the rocky soil, on the thorns, and then, of course, on the good soil And the results of this, the road, the rocky, the thorn, those types of soils, no growth, But on the good soil, a variety of growth that takes place. Let’s skip ahead to verses, 9 and 10.
His disciples began questioning Him as to what this parable meant and He said To you.
It has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest, it is in parables so that seeing they may not see and hearing they may not understand, Since this is the first time that Jesus teaches using the parable style, His apostles Want to know two things, one, the meaning of the parable, and why has He begun using this style of teaching Jesus answers their second question? First, Why parables? Why parables? Why are you teaching this? The word parable comes from a Greek word, which means to lay beside You have something, and then you lay something beside it, That’s.
What that word means to lay beside It was a teaching device used to compare ideas or things to provide.
Excuse me, to provide greater understanding In Jesus’s case, He was providing a story about something physical that could be easily understood a sower sowing seed to teach them about something that they could not see and had trouble grasping, and that was The growth of the kingdom of Heaven, So the apostles, knew what parables were.
It was a device commonly used by other teachers, It wasn’t just Jesus using this.
Other teachers used parables as well, But they wanted to know why Jesus started using this particular device to teach the crowds.
So Jesus explains that He’s going to use this device to teach His disciples about the growing kingdom, how it’s established and how it grows, and what’s? The purpose of His mission And, at the same time, shield unbelievers and opponents from understanding the meaning of His teaching.
In other words, they’re just going to get to the surface.
They’re not going to get the understanding, So in verses 11 to 15. He then goes on to give the deeper meaning of what the parable teaches about the kingdom – And this we have gone over Matthew explains this Mark explains this.
We’re familiar with this particular parable.
Then He goes on to do or to teach the parable of the lamp Chapter 8 beginning in verse, 16, And he says Now.
No one after lighting a lamp covers it over with a container or puts it under a bed.
But he puts it on a lamp.
Stand so that those who come in may see the light For nothing is hidden that will not become evident nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light So take care how you listen for, whoever has to him more shall be given, and whoever Does not have even what he thinks he has shall be taken away from him, And His mother and brothers came to Him and they were unable to get to Him because of the crowd, And it was reported to Him.
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Your mother and your brothers are standing outside wishing to see You 39, But he answered and said to them.
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My mother and my brothers are these: who hear the word of God and do it So once Jesus has explained why He uses parables and how to interpret them. I mean the way to interpret the parables is to realize that Jesus, He’s, the key.
He’s the key that opens the door to the meaning of all the parables.
He follows up with another parable, A second parable that calls on them to do.
Two things one to be ready to proclaim to the world the things that they will learn from Him and, secondly, to be attentive to His teaching.
Because the more you believe and learn the more you will understand And then on the other hand, the less you believe and learn the less.
You will understand To the point where you will not believe and understand anything.
So there’s.
No, there’s no static point in following Jesus: You’re.
Never you get to a point and it’s.
Like I’m good. I don’t need any more.
It’s, never like that.
If you continue believing and seeking understanding, God will continue to give you understanding to enlarge your knowledge of Him and His will.
That, in turn, will strengthen your faith, which will build your hope, which will motivate your it all works together as a process.
But if you stop believing, if you stop understanding, if you stop taking in the word, then it simply begins to shrink down to the point where you no longer understand easily, Then your faith begins to shake and eventually you don’t believe at all And fall away, So this last admonition to His disciples is a continuation of what He explained about His use of parables.
Some because they believed in Him would gain more insight and knowledge from Him, And those who didn’t believe would only understand the story of the parables, but not the meaning which He provided, And the important thing is understanding the meaning is what nourishes spiritually.
I mean, if you understand the surface part of the parable you’re entertained.
Oh, that was a nice story.
Yeah, I get that story.
Yeah isn’t that what life is like That’s, all you get, But if you have the key, which is faith in Him and go deeper into the parable to find the real meaning that nourishes the spirit and that’s the difference. Eventually, the nonbelievers would lose interest altogether and completely miss the coming and the fulfillment of the kingdom.
We see that later on don’t, It’s interesting to note here that Jesus uses the initial disbelief of His own family as a way to establish the importance and necessity of faith in Him to access the things of the kingdom.
His family wanted access to Him, but they’re, not believers.
He said this is my family here These people, who have come to hear Me hear the word to learn from Me.
My family didn’t come to do that.
They just came to see me And we find that in other places They came to see Him because well, this thing is getting out of hand.
You need to come home, So He’s showing my own family.
They you’re, my family And I think a lot of people in the church feel like that too.
They have a physical family who is nonbelievers and they love them and they, of course, they esteem their family And they’re close to them, But their real family is the church family.
They’re, the ones that they share their lives with and their faith with. So even His own family has to believe if they want to enter in No partiality with God.
So Luke changes scenes here And he describes in successive order three miracles that Jesus performs during a trip across the sea of Galilee Luke has described several instances of Jesus’s teachings and now follows up with a demonstration of His power that serves to confirm the Credibility and the credentials of the teacher Himself, It’s one thing to have teachings, but why should we listen Well, then you see the miracles and you realize oh okay, This isn’t just any teacher.
This teacher is special.
This teacher has power.
So all of these miracles again are recorded in both Matthew and Mark.
We’re only going to summarize and re-review them.
We’re not going to read all the passages We just don’t have time.
So the first miracle is Jesus stills, the sea chapter 8, 22 to 25.
The first miracle takes place while they’re in the boat crossing the lake.
According to Jesus’s instructions, He said let’s go over across the lake. Luke says that Jesus went to sleep and after this, there was a fierce storm that threatened to capsize the boat.
It must have been a bad storm because several of the apostles were experienced sailors and yet they feared for their lives.
So if the sailors are afraid, you better be afraid Now, Jesus as we know, calms the storm by speaking to it, commanding it to stop as opposed to various incantations or sacrifices used by pagan religions to influence the weather Right, A rain dance and whatever Offering up a virgin Something to appeal to the gods to stop the weather.
Jesus simply says: stop that be still, And it stops Now.
This isn’t the first miracle they witness The water to wine in Cana.
That was the first miracle, But this one is done in its element: It’s on the lake and of a nature that other miracle workers in the past liked to the prophet Elijah.
He had never done a miracle like that.
This miracle forces them to reevaluate, who Jesus is – I mean they’re thinking.
Who is this guy? Who controls the wind and the sea by His word alone? Is this just a teacher or a prophet? The Messiah Is more than this, So they came to Him in fear, perhaps hoping He could pray and ask God to save them somehow, but they weren’t ready for His reaction and the demonstration of His divine power.
Hey, let’s ask Jesus. He’s, prayed and the people who were sick got better.
Maybe He’ll pray for us and He’ll save us from the storm.
Jesus completely surpasses their expectations by calming the storm Not by well.
I’ll help you row, Let’s get an extra man, and let’s row.
We’ll row ashore.
No, He does the thing they least expect.
He speaks to the wind and the sea and He calms them.
So Jesus merely rebukes the apostles for their lack of faith.
Their fear was an indication of their lack of faith.
He says And He asks them. Where is your faith? I wonder how many times Jesus asks us that question.
Sometimes after we’ve been through a difficult thing: whatever it is.
Illness, financial career struggle, the family just a terrible time, and we’ve gone through it for a year or more or whatever, and we’ve whined and moaned and got mad and done silly things and said silly things and given up and tried to get.
We went through all the motions and then finally, we hit that calm water again, and I wonder sometimes how many times Jesus said: where was your faith Yeah I get it.
You’re saying.
Thank you now Now that everything is fine.
You’re saying.
Thank you there.
Your faith is fine.
Now, Where was your faith during the storm? The second miracle, the demoniac cured chapters 8, 26 to 39, Again no time to read but a familiar story. This is another miracle described again by both Matthew and Mark.
The healing takes place once they land on the other side of the lake, where they were met by a demon-possessed man.
Jesus has shown His power over the elements and in this instance, He both converses with the demons and orders them out of the man and into the herd of pigs nearby Again, we know that story.
This not only demonstrates His power and authority over spiritual beings but also that man was actually possessed by evil spirits and not simply suffering from some type of mental illness.
You ever wonder why.
Why did he do that? That was such a strange thing Because I’ve heard people say well all those demons possessed that can all be explained away by modern psychology.
He was psychotic or he had a psychotic break or he was schizophrenic.
It can all be naturally explained Really.
How do you explain the part about the pigs running into the lake? How do you explain that conversation? It’s also interesting to note that, even though Jesus’s closest disciples had not yet grasped who He was the evil, spirits not only knew who He was, but what their ultimate judgment and punishment would be, And, of course, that would be they would be Cast into the abyss Verse 31: they say that don’t do that to us not now So Luke describes how the demon-possessed.
Man is immediately returned to his right mind and how the villagers are alerted after they heard of pigs running into the sea and drowned after the demons entered them. The people reacted their things, how The same way as the apostles With fear And they asked Jesus to leave the man formerly possessed with the devils sent back to his home region of Decapolis, meaning the region of the ten cities, {diez} ten cities and he’s going to witness about his healing Now in another book Mark Chapter 6, verse 53 to 56 Mark explains that later on, Jesus returned to this area and this time was well received, as people came to Him for healing.
So between the lines, we understand that the groundwork for this was laid by the demon-possessed man who obeyed Jesus and returned to his home region, to witness his healing at the hands of the Lord.
And so, when the Lord came back to this region, the people were prepared And they received Him.
Then the third miracle, the woman with the hemorrhage and the daughter, the young girl, raised Again not going to read this Don’t have time A familiar story.
Luke closes out this section by describing two miracles that are intertwined, that Jesus performed when He and the disciples crossed back over the lake and returned home.
So a miracle on the lake, a miracle with the demon-possessed man on this side of the lake they get back into the boat and they go over to the other side of the lake When they get off the boat there.
There’s the woman with the hemorrhage and there’s the synagogue leader, So the scene takes place several days after their return.
We learned from Matthew 9 that, after returning home Jesus heals a paralytic, He calls Matthew into service.
He dines at Matthew’s house, which was by the sea of Galilee, And that makes a lot of sense because, as a tax, collector, much of his business was to gather taxes at the port where goods were coming in and fish were sold and all that Business While He’s, teaching a crowd of people who have gathered at Matthew,’s house in Capernaum, the leader of the elder of the local congregation named Jairus, appears to Him to come and to heal his young daughter, who was at home dying of an Undisclosed illness, So Luke forges several details because this incident is also described again in Matthew and Mark, And so he summarizes the two miracles.
So let’s do Jabirus’s daughter Jesus accepts to go to his house to heal the child. He’s interrupted for a time by a woman also needing His help, And during this delay, the child dies.
Jesus eventually gets to the house and He resurrects the child back to life And then the woman with the issue of blood.
It’s, interesting that Luke, the doctor would add the detail that no one, not even doctors, could heal this woman who had suffered from this condition for 12 years.
He’s, the one that gives us that detail, not the others, So she is healed when she touches Jesus’s cloak, And the Lord forces her to publicly acknowledge that she was healed to confirm her changed status from unclean to clean and to Witness her faith in Him Had she been healed and sneaked away.
There was no way that the public would know that she was clean.
She’d still be separated from society By acknowledging that she was healed publicly and going to the priests to fulfill the rituals involved.
She was completely restored Not only healed physically but restored socially to an acceptable position within her society.
So Luke finishes with the description of Jesus’s miracles and will now turn to the ministry that He will entrust to His apostles and disciples.
So we go to Chapter 9, verses, 1 to 6.
The apostles are sent out. Jesus spent a considerable amount of time, teaching performing miracles, and preaching in His home region of Galilee before heading to Jerusalem and the greater challenges awaiting there He instructs and sends out the apostles on the initial tour of, ministry.
Doesn’t it make sense, It makes so much sense.
Doesn’t it Isn’t that the way we would probably do something if we were organizing a team to do something, Sell books, door to door, or canvass an area or whatever it is in a certain area?
Wouldn’t we show them how to do it and teach them and train them, And the first time we send them out Do Broadway shows open on Broadway?
Well, no, they open off broadway right Little theaters somewhere in New Jersey and somewhere in Oklahoma.
You know what I’m saying: Small venues where they get the bugs out where they get a little experience before they hit the big time.
Well, they’re up in the north.
He sends them out in the north First mission journey Not going to send them out to Jerusalem to face the priests and the Pharisees and the scribes the big boys.
No, no! No! No! We’re going to go to the small towns We’re going to go to the small synagogues We’re, going to practice a very normal way of approaching things.
So in only a few verses, we see how thoroughly He equips them In verse. 1.
It says – And He called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all the demons and to heal diseases.
So He equips them with spiritual power which will give authority to their preaching People at that time could trust the message because they see the power behind the message You say: Jesus is the son of God.
He’s, the Messiah Prepare The kingdom of God is at hand And the people are going yeah sure, uh huh, Where’d you get that message from, Oh and by the way, the paralytic, you’re healed, the blind person, you’re healed, the sick person, you’re healed, the person with dropsies, you’re healed.
Okay.
Now the message begins to have some authority Because of the power behind it.
Today the power is the Gospel itself.
The miracle of the Gospel is what Not, what I do.
It’s the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.
There’s the power Witnessed how, By our holy lives, Verse 2. He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to perform healing, So He provides them with the content of their message.
The kingdom is near Today.
The message is that the Kingdom is here: You need to enter into the kingdom Verses three and four, And He said to them.
Take nothing for your journey, neither a staff nor a bag nor bread, nor money, and do not even have two tunics apiece.
Whatever house, you enter stays there until you leave that city, So He supplies their provisions.
The Lord will care for their needs.
The fact of staying at one place no begging door to door.
We don’t want you to be begging in the square begging door to door.
No! No, If you find someone who receives you, you stay there for the duration, Verses, five and six, And as for those who do not receive you, as you go out from that city, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.’Departing.
They began going throughout the villages preaching the gospel and healing everywhere, So He provides for their emotional needs. They will be rejected and even persecuted, But their response is not fear or revenge or guilt or disappointment.
Their response is witness Witness.
They are witnesses of judgment.
For those who receive the message, but refused the message, Don’t get mad Don’t start a fight.
Don’t get hurt.
Just understand that you’ve done your job.
It’s the same way.
Today.
Our job is not to save Our job is to proclaim If we have proclaimed and we have witnessed the proclamation with our own lives.
We have fulfilled our ministry, How many people do I know? Well, I’ve been working on my uncle for thirty-five years and I brought him to church and I preach the gospel to him and I’ve shown him the videos and the films, but I failed. No, you haven’t He’s failed.
Not you, You’ve succeeded.
You’ve persevered in giving a witness.
You’ve persevered in the teaching and encouraging You’ve persevered.
He’s the one who failed.
He’s the one who has refused the message.
You’ve done your job.
So the results of their ministry verse 7 to 9.
It says Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was happening, and he was greatly perplexed because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead and by some that Elijah had appeared and by others that one of the prophets of old had risen.
Again, Herod said 39, I had John beheaded, but who is this man about whom I hear such things and he kept trying to see him, So their preaching was so effective that it reached the ears of Herod, who was the ruler of the Galilee region. Luke reports that this evil king was perplexed. He thought John, the Baptist had somehow come back to life from the dead Because he had had John beheaded Being a superstitious man.
He thought.
Oh, John, the Baptist has come back to haunt me (he’ll remember that night in the Go-Go bar …when I got kool with PINK).
Another result: the people in the region, it says When the apostles returned, they gave an account to Him of all that they had done Taking them with Him.
He withdrew by Himself to a city called Bethsaida, But the crowds were aware of this and followed Him and welcomed them.
He began speaking to them about the kingdom of God and curing those who needed healing So as a result of their preaching.
Even more, people were eager to see and hear Jesus, Not them Their preaching was successful.
They’re bringing people to the Lord.
They were not making disciples for themselves.
The people wanted to see the Lord Himself now. Then, of course, we get to the five thousand fed Just to put that up, So the apostles are sent out.
We read about the results Now Luke talks about the five thousand.
Another episode is described by both Matthew and Mark.
Suffice it to say that this gathering is another sign of Jesus’s growing ministry and a direct result of the apostles preaching in the region.
How else did they get together, five thousand men? How else did they get such a big crowd together? Well, they’ve been out on a preaching tour from town to town, synagogue, to synagogue, town square to town square.
Eventually, what happens? Well, people come together.
The miracle of the multiplication of the bread and a fish to feed five thousand serve the apostles at once.
Again, demonstrates Jesus’s, ability to meet every need in every circumstance it showed the people that His teaching was based on power as well, not persuasion, So the apostles did healings, and that were encouraging.
That confirmed the word that they were preaching, But these people have a history of prophets and miracle workers.
They go well. Okay, let’s go see the big guy.
Let’s go see the person you’re talking about And they come to see.
Jesus A huge crowd And He does a miracle they had never seen before to demonstrate His power.
So now we’ve got the disciples making disciples.
Jesus has a warning: the cost of discipleship The scene changes, and we find Jesus alone now with His disciples.
After these incredible events, So let’s read a little bit it happened that while He was praying alone, the disciples were with Him and He questioned them.
Saying 39, Who do the people say that I am and they answered and said’John, the Baptist and others say Elijah, but others that one of the prophets of old has risen again and He said to them 39.
But who do you say that I am and Peter answered and said 39, The Christ of God 39, But He warned them and instructed them not to tell this to anyone saying 39, The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders And chief priests and scribes and be killed and be raised on the third day, Jesus gets to the heart of what He has been preparing them for.
First, His identity is To recognize and accept that He is the divine Son of God.
He has a plan. He has a plan for His disciples of what they’re to understand And the other thing is His mission.
His mission is the cross To go to the cross, The death and the resurrection once revealed.
Jesus then describes the true cost of being His disciples, And the true cost is everything that you have Verse 23 And He was saying to them all 39.
If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life.
For My sake, he is the one who will save it, For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory and the glory of the Father and the holy angels.
But I say to you truthfully: there are some of those standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.
So part of the training is to know the true mission and calculate the true cost of what the mission and the missionaries will pay All right.
We move along or Luke moves along.
We’re following Luke, We’re not following me.
I’m following him: Next, the transfiguration chapter 9. Now I include the transfiguration in the section on ministry to the apostles because three apostles are given an extraordinary opportunity to see Jesus in a glorified state.
This experience should put beyond a doubt their previous confession, that Jesus is the Son of God and, as such, shares a divine nature with Him Remember.
The big problem was not that the apostles believed that Jesus was the Messiah.
They were accepting that He was the Messiah.
The hard part for them to accept was that He was divine.
That was the hard part.
Now the prophets had said that when the Messiah came, the messiah would be divine.
Luke refers to this a little bit later on in his book.
That was the hard part.
So doing the miracles of the bread and the fish? Yes, that’s more proof that He’s special. He’s not just a rabbi, not just a teacher, but truly this Messiah, This powerful prophet, if you wish, But bringing the three up to the mount of transfiguration and allowing them to witness His transfiguration that’s more than just proving to them that He Is a miracle worker That’s demonstrating to them something special about His essential being That He’s, not just the Messiah, but He is the divine Messiah.
They believed that He was the Messiah but needed further proof concerning His divinity.
Jesus goes beyond the performing of miracles to prove it So let’s read this passage Some eight days after these sayings He took along Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray, And while He was praying the appearance of His face became different and His clothing became white and gleaming And behold, two men were talking with Him and they were Moses and Elijah who appearing in glory, were speaking of His departure, which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.
Now Peter and his companions had been overcome with sleep, but when they were fully awake they saw His glory and the two men standing with Him And as these were leaving Him Peter said to Jesus’Master.
It is good for us to be here.
Let us make three tabernacles One for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah, Not realizing what he was saying.
While he was saying this a cloud formed and began to overshadow them and they were afraid as they entered the cloud, Then a voice came out of the cloud saying 39.
This is My Son.
My Chosen One listen to Him And when the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone And they kept silent and reported to no one in those days any of the things which they had seen.
So after this event, we have the healing of the demon-possessed boy again in the order that Luke is laying all this out. Chapter 9.
So after this episode, Luke describes another miraculous healing of a demon-possessed boy that the apostles left behind had failed to heal.
Unlike Matthew, Luke does not explain why He only explains what Jesus does.
Jesus, perhaps sensing, that these events are making the apostles confident for the wrong reasons, reminds them again that He will eventually be killed, but they still don’t understand Let’s face it.
You’re, seeing your boss, your leader, doing miracles, Feeding 5 000 people miraculously appearing glorified like a divine being, And He’s your leader and you’re His follower.
Well, what else are you going to think? How else would a human being feel? I don’t know about you, but I’d be thinking boy.
I have backed the right candidate.
I’ve got the right guy right here.
Imagine I mean He’s doing all this And I’m one of only 12.
I could see the heads begin to swell and the pride begin to puff And, of course, what happens Well, who is the greatest Who’s? The greatest Jesus is warning about His impending death to keep His apostles focused confirmed here And the apostles. Perhaps provoked by Peter and the others who witnessed the transfiguration 39, we saw something you didn’t see’39.
We have an insight that none of you have 39.
He brought us to the top, not you guys.
I mean it’s so human.
They may have thought or argued that the greatest were those who performed miracles or witnessed visions or were favored by Jesus Jesus reminds them that the one who believes in simple faith without the witness of miracles or visions has both the blessing of the Father and the Son.
John, who was with Peter and James on the mountain of transfiguration, reveals their collective sense of privilege.
We are Jesus’s apostles, And how does he show this? The little story? They stop someone else who was doing miracles in Jesus’s name.
They stopped him from doing that And note that he says that this person does not follow them.
They go to Jesus and they say this guy over here.
He’s doing miracles in Your name and he’s not following us. He didn’t say, but he’s not following you.
They say he’s not following us All of a sudden.
They’re the ones getting a little too big.
The Lord answers John and closes this section with a mild rebuke telling John not to create enemies out of people unnecessarily.
So let’s summarize.
That was the five-minute bell.
So Luke finishes out this account of Jesus’s growing ministry in and around His hometown of Capernaum by the sea of Galilee.
In our next lesson, we’re going to begin the section where Jesus prepares Himself and the apostles for the stiffer opposition.
They’re going to face as they head for Jerusalem in the south.
Here are only a few of the many lessons that we can draw from the material we covered today. Just two Lessons: number one: where’s your faith, I mentioned that before.
Where is your faith? Jesus posed this question to His apostles after He calmed.
The storm Faith is demonstrated during the storm of life, Not during the calm sea.
Ask yourself where my faith is, Not why isn’t this storming over When things go wrong.
That’s the right question to ask during this storm: How is my faith responding to this storm And not, please, God stop the storm.
He knows the storm is there And He knows exactly how long the storm is going to last No use asking Him to cut it short or why or anything like that, You need to be asking yourself.
I include myself in this.
How’s my faith? Doing here, How am I doing here, Lesson number two Jesus is never late, They told Him, it was too late.
The girl had died, no use coming, Only those whose faith is weak, see Jesus as being late or not fair or He doesn’t care, But the reality is that Jesus is never late.
He’s never early for the faithful who wait on Him patiently. His timing is always right, Always All right next week, Luke 9 51 to Luke 11 54.
That’ll be the section that we cover as we continue our study Survey kind of a study if you wish, through the book of Luke All right.
Thank you very much for your attention.
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