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Speaker 1: we're going to be doing Luke chapter ten. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and turn it real quick. Perfect, There we go.
Speaker 1: So Luke ten is where we're at. Let me get
Speaker 1: to here. There we go. Okay, so we're going to
Speaker 1: start at Luke ten. One the seventy sent out after
Speaker 1: these things. The Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent
Speaker 1: them two by two before his face unto every city
Speaker 1: in place where he himself was about to go. Then
Speaker 1: he said to them, the harvest truly is great, but
Speaker 1: the labor are few. Therefore, pray the Lord of the
Speaker 1: harvest to send out laborers. Into his harvest, go your way. Behold,
Speaker 1: I send you out as lambs among wolves. Okay, so
Speaker 1: what do we need to gather there? Okay, so I
Speaker 1: send you out as lambs among wolves. Now you probably
Speaker 1: would that's not very like. That might not motivate people, right,
Speaker 1: But he's just letting him know because Jesus is the way,
Speaker 1: the truth to life. So he's just telling him the truth.
Speaker 1: You know, he is sending them out as lambs among wolves.
Speaker 1: Of course, you know he wants them to be the lambs,
Speaker 1: because what do you do. The way that you attract
Speaker 1: people to the faith is by being the lamb, not
Speaker 1: the wolf. Right, you don't want to be the wolf attacking, slandering, cussing, yelling.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be that wolf. You want to
Speaker 1: be the lamb, which is where you know you would be. Sorry.
Speaker 1: You might hear my kids in the background. They're actually
Speaker 1: transferring room from my room to their room. I apologize.
Speaker 1: I'll give them one second. Looks like they went over there. Okay, perfect,
Speaker 1: all right? So yeah, so the way that I interpret
Speaker 1: that is, you know, the way you attract people to
Speaker 1: the faith is by by sending you know, you know, honey,
Speaker 1: attracts way more than salt and vinegar, right, So honey
Speaker 1: is better. So, you know, being a lamb is you
Speaker 1: know you're gonna be a good person and you're gonna
Speaker 1: be good and that, but there's gonna be wolves around you,
Speaker 1: so you do need to be careful, you know. So
Speaker 1: he's just letting him know that.
Speaker 2: So, uh, Carrie, carry neither money bag knapsacked, nor sandals,
Speaker 2: and greet no one along the road.
Speaker 1: But whatever house you enter, first, say peace to this house,
Speaker 1: And if a son of peace is there, your peace
Speaker 1: will rest on it. If not, it will return to you.
Speaker 1: And remain in the same house, eating and drinking such
Speaker 1: thing as they give, for the labor is worthy of
Speaker 1: his wages. Do not go from house to house. Whatever
Speaker 1: city you enter and they receive you, eat such things
Speaker 1: as are set before you, and heal the sick there,
Speaker 1: and say to them, the Kingdom of God is come
Speaker 1: near to you. But whatever city you enter and they
Speaker 1: do not receive you, go out into the streets and say,
Speaker 1: the very dust of your city, which clings to us,
Speaker 1: we wipe off against you. Nevertheless this that the Kingdom
Speaker 1: of God has come near you. But I say to
Speaker 1: you that it will be more tolerable on that day
Speaker 1: for Sodom than for that city. So wow. So Jesus
Speaker 1: appoints seventy two others and sends them two by two, right,
Speaker 1: and then he's emphasizing the importance of partnership in the ministry.
Speaker 1: The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. This
Speaker 1: highlights the urgency and need for the labors in God's kingdom.
Speaker 1: Jesus this instructs them to rely on God's provision and
Speaker 1: to bring peace to the households they enter, demonstrating trust
Speaker 1: and faith in God's care. So that's why he doesn't
Speaker 1: want them to carry the money bag, the knapsack, nor sandals,
Speaker 1: and he wants them to literally like rely on the Lord. Right.
Speaker 1: So this is going to teach them faith, right, and
Speaker 1: that's what we need that sometimes you know, what can
Speaker 1: our what kind of faith do we have if it
Speaker 1: can't be tested? You know, this is a way to
Speaker 1: to build these these disciples up right. And then also
Speaker 1: it says, but whatever house you enter, first, say peace
Speaker 1: to this house, and if a center piece is there,
Speaker 1: your peace will rest on it. If not, it will
Speaker 1: return to you and remain in the same house eating
Speaker 1: and drinking such things as they give for the laborers
Speaker 1: worthy of his wages. Do not go from house to house.
Speaker 1: You know, this is you know, an example of that
Speaker 1: would be, Let's say you go in to a house.
Speaker 1: Let's say the person, a person that's you know, a
Speaker 1: little less fortunate, that says, hey, you could stay at
Speaker 1: my house, right, and you're like, okay, and then you
Speaker 1: go and you stay at their house. And then someone
Speaker 1: that's rich that has this, you know, these this beautiful
Speaker 1: house and stuff says hey, come come stay over here instead,
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, okay, I want to stay there instead.
Speaker 1: That's what's way better living, you know, he said, don't
Speaker 1: go from house to house. The person that offered you
Speaker 1: the house first, you know, stay there and just show
Speaker 1: them that you appreciate it. It's not about the conditions you're
Speaker 1: living in. It's really about that person asking you and
Speaker 1: inviting you in and you staying at that house. Right.
Speaker 1: And then it says, whatever city you enter and you receive,
Speaker 1: you eat such things as they set before you. Don't complain,
Speaker 1: don't say oh I don't eat that. You know, they
Speaker 1: want they want you to they want you to be
Speaker 1: have hospitality, you know, it says, and heal the sick
Speaker 1: there and stay to them the Kingdom God has come near.
Speaker 1: And say to them, the Kingdom of God has come
Speaker 1: near to you. But whatever city you enter and they
Speaker 1: do not receive you, go out into the streets and say,
Speaker 1: the very dust in your city, which think which clings
Speaker 1: us wipe off against you? See that that's a it's
Speaker 1: very uh. Jesus is very straightforward on that one, all right.
Speaker 1: And also he's straightforward when he says, it'll be more
Speaker 1: tolerable on that day for Sodom than for that city. Sodommego.
Speaker 1: Mora got destroyed obviously, right, So he's warning them, you know,
Speaker 1: and uh, man, pretty pretty important stuff. So let's check
Speaker 1: this out. This is the next verse is Luke ten,
Speaker 1: Verse thirteen. Woe to you Cherazine, woe to you Bethsida.
Speaker 1: For if the mighty works which were done in you
Speaker 1: had been done in Tyree and Sa'adan, they would have
Speaker 1: repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it
Speaker 1: will be more tolerable for Tyree and Saddan at the
Speaker 1: judgment than for you and you Copernium, Are you exalted
Speaker 1: to heaven? Who are exalted? To Heaven will be brought
Speaker 1: down to Hades. He who hears hears me, He who
Speaker 1: rejects rejects me. He who rejects me rejects him who
Speaker 1: sent me. So Hades is not the same as Shield.
Speaker 1: Hades is like like the lake of Fire. It's like
Speaker 1: the let me see what the strong concordance describes Hades as.
Speaker 1: When I was doing my studies on this, the pastor
Speaker 1: that I was listening to was talking about how Hades
Speaker 1: is more like the last judgment Hell. If that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Let me just make sure I'm not. Let's see, this's
Speaker 1: gonna be Luke ten. We always like to check these out,
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, Luke ten, Verse fifteen, Luke, and we're
Speaker 1: at fifteen. Oh. So here it's actually says down to Hell.
Speaker 1: It says it in The King James, it says Hades
Speaker 1: in the New King James. Well, that's interesting. Hell name
Speaker 1: Hades or Pluto the god of the lower regions? Wow uh,
Speaker 1: Orcus the nether world, the realm of the dead. Later
Speaker 1: you said the word the grave, death or Hell Biblical
Speaker 1: Greek is associated with orchist at version of the dark.
Speaker 1: Let's see, where's down to Hell? So Hell is what's
Speaker 1: used here. Hell is what's used here in the King James. Okay,
Speaker 1: So just just want to let you guys know that
Speaker 1: we know what hell means. Okay, So I just want
Speaker 1: to make sure we know that the pastor that I
Speaker 1: was studying was saying that hades is like a like a.
Speaker 1: It's more of a strong word than saying shield or
Speaker 1: or what's the other word. There's another word. I can't
Speaker 1: remember it. All right, let's continue. He who hears you,
Speaker 1: hears me, he rejects you, rejects me, right. And then
Speaker 1: it says he who rejects me rejects him who sent me,
Speaker 1: so that if you reject Jesus, you're rejecting God. Right.
Speaker 1: So in this verse it says Jesus pronounces woes on
Speaker 1: cities that witnesses miracles, yet do not repent, underscoring the
Speaker 1: seriousness of rejecting the Gospel. The accountability of those who
Speaker 1: hear the message of Christ is emphasized, as rejecting messengers
Speaker 1: is aching to rejecting Christ himself. It's the same thing
Speaker 1: as Yeah, so if you're rejecting the disciples and you
Speaker 1: know they're coming in, you know Jesus is doing miracles,
Speaker 1: he's got signs, he's done wonders. At this point, people
Speaker 1: already know who he is, what he's about. Now he's
Speaker 1: sending his disciples to go and speak and read the
Speaker 1: Gospel messages, the good News. So he's just letting him know.
Speaker 1: You know that rejecting his messengers is the same thing
Speaker 1: is rejecting him himself. And if you reject him, you're
Speaker 1: rejecting God, the Father in heaven. Okay, let's continue. Okay,
Speaker 1: hold on, I just want to make sure. I just
Speaker 1: want to go back to my notes. I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: don't want to lose my spot here. Okay, the return
Speaker 1: the seventy return with joy. Then the seventy return with joy, saying, Lord,
Speaker 1: even the demons are subject to us in your name.
Speaker 1: And he said to them, I saw Satan fall like
Speaker 1: lightning from heaven. Behold, I give you the authority to
Speaker 1: trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power
Speaker 1: of the enemy. And nothing shall be any means hurt you,
Speaker 1: by any means hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in
Speaker 1: this that the spirits are subject to you, but rather
Speaker 1: rejoice because your names are written in heaven. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: more important that your names are written in heaven. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's more important to go to heaven, you know, And
Speaker 1: it was so it says the return. The disciples return
Speaker 1: with joy before that even demons submit to them in
Speaker 1: Jesus's name, illustrating the authority given to believers. Okay, So
Speaker 1: Jesus rejoices in the spirit, thankful the Father, thanking the
Speaker 1: Father for revealing truth to the humble and childlike Highland
Speaker 1: and the value of humility and dependence. That's ten through seventeen, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's seventeen through twenty fours, which we haven't done the Sorry,
Speaker 1: we haven't read twenty four yet, so let's continue. So
Speaker 1: he's just saying basically in this verse right here, that
Speaker 1: it's more important to Yeah, you're yeah, okay, the demons
Speaker 1: are subject to you. Yeah, that's important. And that's a
Speaker 1: big thing. You know. You have power, Okay, you have
Speaker 1: power through God. Right, God is doing it all. But
Speaker 1: rejoice more that your names are written in heaven. Let's
Speaker 1: continue here, So, Luke ten verse twenty one, Jesus rejoices
Speaker 1: in the spirit. In that hour, Jesus rejoiced in the
Speaker 1: spirit and said, I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven
Speaker 1: and earth, that you have hidden these things from the
Speaker 1: wise and prudent, and revealed them to babes, to babies,
Speaker 1: sorry not babes. Even so, Father, for it seemed good
Speaker 1: in your sight. All things have delivered to me by
Speaker 1: my Father. And no one knows who the Son is
Speaker 1: except the Father, and who the Father is except the son,
Speaker 1: and the one whom the Son wills to reveal him,
Speaker 1: which will be the Holy Spirit. Right, so we kind
Speaker 1: of have a We have the Father, the Son, and
Speaker 1: then the Holy Spirit here. Right. Then he turned it
Speaker 1: to his disciples and said, privately, blessed are the eyes
Speaker 1: would see the things you see. For I tell you
Speaker 1: that many prophets and kings have desired to see what
Speaker 1: you see and have not seen it, and to hear
Speaker 1: what you hear and have not heard it. So think
Speaker 1: about this, how many of the prophets that lived in
Speaker 1: the Old Testament would want to see Jesus in person.
Speaker 1: How many of the prophets would want to be able
Speaker 1: to read the New Testament and know what happens. They
Speaker 1: prophesized about the Messiah. They prophesized about Jesus coming, They
Speaker 1: prophesized about Jesus dying on the cross. They prophesized about
Speaker 1: all these things, but we even you know, the disciples
Speaker 1: actually got to witness it firsthand, right, which is beautiful
Speaker 1: and it's miraculous, and he wants them to appreciate that.
Speaker 1: But also we should appreciate the fact that we get
Speaker 1: to read all the New Testament and we get to
Speaker 1: find out exactly what was going on, because when Jesus
Speaker 1: was on the earth, the Kingdom of Heaven was upon us. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it is a massive, massive, huge thing. This in
Speaker 1: the physical world, of course, but also in the spiritual
Speaker 1: it was a massive transfer of power. Okay, think about it. Okay,
Speaker 1: the devil was able to manipulate people with the law
Speaker 1: and kind of do things, you know, like kind of
Speaker 1: push legalistic religious things on people a lot, you know, like,
Speaker 1: and he had a lot of control. And especially back then,
Speaker 1: when you sinned, you can't, you know, you didn't have
Speaker 1: Jesus dying on the cross for you and have your
Speaker 1: all your sins forgiven and buried in the deepest part
Speaker 1: of the ocean. You had to go and do atonement
Speaker 1: and do a lot of different things which we went
Speaker 1: over and levid It is Okay, if you guys want
Speaker 1: to go back to that. So now we have a
Speaker 1: bridge between God and man. It makes Jesus dying on
Speaker 1: the Christ, makes us holy, makes it so that we're
Speaker 1: able to speak to God. It was a it was
Speaker 1: a huge thing. So that's why Jesus istone them. And
Speaker 1: hopefully they understand that. Hopefully they're understanding what they're actually witnessing.
Speaker 1: I do think when you know, when I hear certain
Speaker 1: things about the disciples that they are, but we're human,
Speaker 1: you know, so sometimes we just don't get it and
Speaker 1: like it's but it's so true what Jesus is saying,
Speaker 1: blessed are the eyes would see the things you see?
Speaker 1: For I tell you that many prophets and kings, King
Speaker 1: David do you don't think you don't think King David
Speaker 1: would give all that stuff up to be able to
Speaker 1: be that disciple that's poor, but to be able to
Speaker 1: witness Jesus in the flesh, God in the flesh. Of
Speaker 1: course he would. And yeah, and we also get to
Speaker 1: hear it says, and to hear what you hear and
Speaker 1: have not heard it, right, So that's the same with us,
Speaker 1: it's the same. We'll continue. Let's see as i'm as
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Leviticus, my wife is sending me Leviticus Versus.
Speaker 1: She's going through Leviticus right now. That's awesome, it's really cool.
Speaker 1: She doesn't listen to the show because she says, I
Speaker 1: don't have time. She listens to it once in a while.
Speaker 1: But she is reading the Bible right now by herself,
Speaker 1: which I love. I don't care as long as she's
Speaker 1: reading the Bible. I don't care how she's getting fed,
Speaker 1: you know. I try to feed her as much as
Speaker 1: I can. We talk about it like she reads, and
Speaker 1: then we discuss it, you know, and I tell her
Speaker 1: what I've kind of learned about these certain portions, especially Leviticus.
Speaker 1: I told her you better not stop. You better keep going, babe,
Speaker 1: don't stop in Leviticus like everybody else. You better keep reading.
Speaker 1: And yeah, she's she's doing it. So anyways, Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we'll continue going. Go back to my notes there we go.
Speaker 1: So think about that, guys. How blessed are we to
Speaker 1: be able to have the whole entire Bible laid out
Speaker 1: in front of us. How blessed are we to be
Speaker 1: able to go back to the strong skincordance the lexicons,
Speaker 1: the Greek, the Hebrew, you know what I mean? Like wow,
Speaker 1: Like we are blessed and we can actually go and
Speaker 1: take a class at college and learn Biblical Hebrew, and
Speaker 1: we can learn Greek if we wanted to, you know,
Speaker 1: we wanted to get that deep in studies. So we
Speaker 1: are so blessed, We are so blessed. And this is
Speaker 1: such a good verse right here. I really really really
Speaker 1: love that right there, Luke ten twenty three and twenty four.
Speaker 1: So on point, let's continue Luke ten, verse twenty five,
Speaker 1: the parable of the Good Samaritan. And hold on, let meye, okay,
Speaker 1: there we go and behold a certain lawyer stood up
Speaker 1: and tested him, saying, teacher, what shall I do to
Speaker 1: inherit eternal life? He said to him, what is written
Speaker 1: in the law? What is what is your reading? Off
Speaker 1: it is? What is your reading of it? Off it?
Speaker 1: What is your reading of it? Sorry? And just let
Speaker 1: you know. Lawyers, that's what they did. They studied the law,
Speaker 1: the Biblical law, the lawyers back then, and they they
Speaker 1: would actually teach it, okay, and they studied it to
Speaker 1: a tee and they would teach the law. That's what
Speaker 1: the lawyers were back then, so so we answered and said,
Speaker 1: you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
Speaker 1: with all your soul, with all your strength, with all
Speaker 1: your mind, and your neighbor as yourself. And he said
Speaker 1: to him, you have answered rightly, Do this, and you
Speaker 1: will live. But he wanted to justify himself, said to Jesus.
Speaker 1: But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, and
Speaker 1: who is my neighbor? So he says. Then Jesus answered
Speaker 1: and said, a certain man went down to Jerusalem to
Speaker 1: Jericho and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his
Speaker 1: clothes clothing, wounding him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Speaker 1: By now, now, by chance, a certain priest came down
Speaker 1: the road, and when he saw him, he passed by
Speaker 1: on the other side. Likewise, a Levite, when he arrived
Speaker 1: at the place, came and looked, and passed by on
Speaker 1: the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed,
Speaker 1: came where he was, and when he saw him, he
Speaker 1: had compassion. So he went to him and bandaged his wounds,
Speaker 1: pouring on oil and wine. He sent him on his
Speaker 1: own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care
Speaker 1: of him. On the next day when he departed, he
Speaker 1: took out to Dinari, gave them to the innkeeper and
Speaker 1: said to him, take care of him, and whatever more
Speaker 1: you spend, when I come again, I will repay you.
Speaker 1: So which of these three do you think was neighbor
Speaker 1: to him who fell among the thieves? And he said,
Speaker 1: and he said, he who showed mercy on him? Then
Speaker 1: Jesus said to him, go and do likewise. Okay, So
Speaker 1: you see, it's what's on the inside. You know, that
Speaker 1: priest that walked by, he looks holy on the outside, right,
Speaker 1: he wants to look holy on the outside. He wants
Speaker 1: people to think that he's holy. But God he not
Speaker 1: only made the outside, but he also made the inside.
Speaker 1: So it's really what matters is what's on the inside.
Speaker 1: And when nobody's around, this priest, nobody's around sees that
Speaker 1: person struggling on the side of the road, and he
Speaker 1: just continues to walk. And then it says, likewise, a levite,
Speaker 1: when he arrived at the place, came and looked and
Speaker 1: passed on the other side. So he went walked on
Speaker 1: the other side of the street. So we didn't even
Speaker 1: have to deal with that person. But the au but
Speaker 1: a Samaritan as as he journeyed came where he was,
Speaker 1: and you see what he did. He gave him his
Speaker 1: own animal, brought him to an end, took care of him,
Speaker 1: and on the next day he departed. He also he
Speaker 1: gave the two dinari to the innkeeper so that that
Speaker 1: person could, you know, could can rest up, you know,
Speaker 1: so that he's good, you know. So it's just it's
Speaker 1: a beautiful picture of how we should be to people.
Speaker 1: And Jesus is not just talking to this this gentleman.
Speaker 1: He is speaking to this gentleman, gentleman, but also through
Speaker 1: his words right here, he's speaking to us. Are we neighbors?
Speaker 1: Are you guys neighbors to people? You know, the people
Speaker 1: that are listening right now. When someone's in need, you know,
Speaker 1: do you walk on the other side of the road
Speaker 1: and try to go right by, or do you stop
Speaker 1: and help people? You know? And one thing we got
Speaker 1: to try to not do. We got to try not
Speaker 1: to judge the people. You know, Like I was listening
Speaker 1: to this person the other day and he's like, I
Speaker 1: think he's like a he's like a higher up. I
Speaker 1: don't know, some kind of bishop. I don't know what
Speaker 1: he is. But of an Orthodox church or something you
Speaker 1: look like. But he was saying that a homeless guy
Speaker 1: came and asked him for money, and he said no
Speaker 1: because he judged him. He thought, oh, if I give
Speaker 1: you money, you're gonna do drugs. And then he went
Speaker 1: to the table and asked for money from another homeless
Speaker 1: man and the guy gave him no money. And he
Speaker 1: said he felt so convicted in his heart because he
Speaker 1: judged him. But that homeless man that doesn't have that
Speaker 1: much money didn't even judge. He just gave it to
Speaker 1: him right away, and he said he felt so bad.
Speaker 1: So are we being neighbors to people? Do we care
Speaker 1: about other people? Or do we just focus on our
Speaker 1: own life? And you see that that our lives are
Speaker 1: going so fast and we have so much on our
Speaker 1: plates that it is hard to focus on other people.
Speaker 1: But you got to have an agreement with you and
Speaker 1: your wife, or your wife and your husband, whatever, whoever's listening.
Speaker 1: You got to have an agreement that when you're doing
Speaker 1: work for the Lord, that nobody can you know, They
Speaker 1: can't really get, they can't say anything, they can't be
Speaker 1: mad at you, they can't be mean to you, they
Speaker 1: can't complain they can't argue with you. If you're trying
Speaker 1: to help somebody out or do something for the Lord,
Speaker 1: you got to just let him know. Hey, this is
Speaker 1: you know, you never know when you're entertaining an angel
Speaker 1: Hebrews thirteen two. Entertain strangers because you might be entertaining
Speaker 1: an angel unaware. You never know if that person that's
Speaker 1: beat up on the road is actually an angel. Before
Speaker 1: it goes out, you never know if it's an angel.
Speaker 1: So I always tell people to make sure, make sure.
Speaker 1: So Jesus is saying, here, go and do likewise. Right,
Speaker 1: let's see what it says here A lawyer questions about
Speaker 1: inheriting internal life leads to the parable, which redefines the
Speaker 1: concept of neighbor beyond cultural and ethic boundaries. The samaritans
Speaker 1: compassion and action serve as a model for true neighborly love,
Speaker 1: challenging us to show mercy to all, regardless of differences. Yes,
Speaker 1: and let me see it. There's I think I had
Speaker 1: something else. Shit. So so a Samaritan is traditionally viewed
Speaker 1: as an outsider and an enemy by the Jews. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's what we need to understand. Okay, this is
Speaker 1: not just like a Samaritan, we say, we call it
Speaker 1: a good Samaritan, but a Samaritan was actually an enemy
Speaker 1: of the Jews. So not only is it a you know,
Speaker 1: a person that's just coming from you know, outside of Israel, right,
Speaker 1: it's not just like a stranger, but it's an actual enemy.
Speaker 1: And that person that got robbed is obviously, you know, Jewish.
Speaker 1: So a traveler is robbed and left four dead, and
Speaker 1: on the road from Jewsalem to Jericho. A priest to
Speaker 1: Levi Bo Jewish religious already read that. So the Parable
Speaker 1: teaches that a neighbor is anyone who shows compassions and kindness,
Speaker 1: regardless of their background or status. The significant to the
Speaker 1: story is love your neighbor. The parablem reinforces the commandment
Speaker 1: to love thy neighbors yourself compassionate, highlights the importance of
Speaker 1: showing compassion and mercy even towards those who are not
Speaker 1: in immediate can or allies. Right, So if your family
Speaker 1: was on that road, you definitely help him out, you know.
Speaker 1: And and if you know, if your enemy was on
Speaker 1: that road, are you gonna help him out? Jesus is
Speaker 1: saying that you should, Okay, you shouldn't have an enemy anyways,
Speaker 1: you know, but maybe it's an enemy to your country
Speaker 1: or something. I don't know. That's kind of what it
Speaker 1: looks like here. The story challenges prejudices right, religious and
Speaker 1: cultural prejudices, showing that the true definition of a neighbor
Speaker 1: is not based on ethnicity or religious affiliation. Yes, very true.
Speaker 1: Let's see. Let's go back up. Now we're gonna go
Speaker 1: with Mary and Martha worship and serve. Now it happened. Now,
Speaker 1: what happened is they went that he entered a certain village,
Speaker 1: and a certain woman named Martha welcomed him into her house.
Speaker 1: And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat
Speaker 1: at Jesus's feet and hurt his word. But Martha was
Speaker 1: distracted by much serving as she approached him and said, Lord,
Speaker 1: do you not care that my sister has left me
Speaker 1: to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me. And
Speaker 1: Jesus answered and said to her, Martha, Martha, you were
Speaker 1: worried and troubled about many things, but one thing is needed,
Speaker 1: and Mary has chosen that good part which will not
Speaker 1: be taken away from her. So the story of Martha
Speaker 1: and Mary illustrates the importance of priortizing time with Jesus
Speaker 1: over busyness, emphasizing the need for spiritual focus and devotion. Amen.
Speaker 1: So let's let's check out some practical applications for this
Speaker 1: verse or for this chapter. Engage in ministry, partner with others,
Speaker 1: and sharing the gospel. Reckon I the importance of community
Speaker 1: and collaboration and ministry efforts. I can't emphasize that enough,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's why I know. Some people they
Speaker 1: they don't they don't go to church, you know, they
Speaker 1: have a they have a bias against going to church.
Speaker 1: They would rather maybe listen to this show. And but
Speaker 1: definitely it's good to have fellowship with with other believers,
Speaker 1: you know. And whether you're having fellowship here or fellowship
Speaker 1: at church, it's definitely in good. It's good to engage
Speaker 1: with others and partners with others and share the gospel
Speaker 1: and recognize the importance of community. Yeah, definitely, definitely true.
Speaker 1: For some For some people, they don't, They don't like that.
Speaker 1: They have different gifts. People have different gifts, you know.
Speaker 1: You know that that's that's definitely true. You know. Some
Speaker 1: people have the gift of talk, gift of gab, gift
Speaker 1: of speaking, gift of gab, is not one of the
Speaker 1: not the ones of the Bible. But you know, the
Speaker 1: gift of teaching, the gift of preaching, there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of different gifts. You know. Some people have gifts that
Speaker 1: different kind of gifts. So not everybody's an evangelist, right,
Speaker 1: so you have different gifts you could do, you know,
Speaker 1: so practice humility, approach God with a childlike faith, value, humanity,
Speaker 1: and openness to his teaching. So what is a child
Speaker 1: like faith like? You know, Well, a childlike faith is
Speaker 1: your kids like my kids right now. You know, I
Speaker 1: have a three year old, a four year old, and
Speaker 1: a six year old. Right. They they are highly dependent
Speaker 1: on me and highly dependent on my wife, and they
Speaker 1: have faith that they're going to get fed every day.
Speaker 1: They have faith that we're going to take care of them.
Speaker 1: That's that child like faith. They know that we're going
Speaker 1: to take care of them. Right, they have faith. That
Speaker 1: is what we are supposed to have with God, child
Speaker 1: like faith. Right, show compassion, actively seek opportunities to demonstrate
Speaker 1: love and mercy to those in need, following the example
Speaker 1: of the Good Samaritan. Yes, demonstrating love and mercy, okay,
Speaker 1: to those that are in need and sometimes God may
Speaker 1: be setting up those situations to test your faith. Sometimes
Speaker 1: he may see like me, like I'm over here preaching,
Speaker 1: you know, teaching and preaching like hey, be the good Samaritan,
Speaker 1: you know, but I could end up, you know, with
Speaker 1: the situation to see. You know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: be a hypocrite. So if I see somebody that's in need,
Speaker 1: you know, I need to do the same thing. So
Speaker 1: I just think it's important that we we show compassion
Speaker 1: prioritize spiritual growth. So balance service with time spending God's presence,
Speaker 1: ensuring the spiritual nourishment is not neglected in the busyness
Speaker 1: of life. That is so true, you know, like I
Speaker 1: was talking about, you know, uh, there's so many curveballs
Speaker 1: that get thrown to us. So much stuff when it
Speaker 1: comes to work, so much stuff when it comes to
Speaker 1: you know, trying to make money, social media, family family events,
Speaker 1: trying to please your wife, trying to please your kids,
Speaker 1: trying to please your aunt, your uncle, your cousins. I
Speaker 1: don't know who's in your life, your mom, your dad.
Speaker 1: You know, you're trying to please so many people, and
Speaker 1: sometimes you don't have time to please the Lord, the
Speaker 1: one that should be number one in your life, right,
Speaker 1: so you need to definitely, you know, what will you
Speaker 1: do for money? A lot of people will work sixty
Speaker 1: seventy hours a week just to make their money that
Speaker 1: they make, you know, to pay for their house, to
Speaker 1: pay for the cars, to pay for their boats, to
Speaker 1: pay for whatever they have. And you know, it's way
Speaker 1: more it's way way more profitable, way more profitable to
Speaker 1: to get spiritual nourishment, right, it's way more profitable. But God, first,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're the one that could kill the
Speaker 1: body and the soul, not the one that could kill
Speaker 1: the body, right, which is gonna come up pretty soon here,
Speaker 1: So ah right, sorry, Okay, let's see if there's any
Speaker 1: So Samaria, although not explicity named in lieu tense, Samaria
Speaker 1: is implied to the parable of the Good Samaritans. Samaritans
Speaker 1: were considered outsiders by the Jews, and the parable highlights
Speaker 1: themes of compassion and neighborly love across boundaries. Okay, so,
Speaker 1: and then connections, you know, additional scriptures you can look up.
Speaker 1: You can look up James two verses fourteen through seventeen,
Speaker 1: which discusses faith in action complementing the message of the
Speaker 1: Good Samaritan, we could go the real quick James two
Speaker 1: fourteen through seventeen. Let's see exactly what that is. Since
Speaker 1: it's important, James two fourteen through seventeen, what does it profit,
Speaker 1: my brethren? If someone says he has faith but does
Speaker 1: not have works, can faith save him? If a brother
Speaker 1: or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and
Speaker 1: one of you says to them, depart in peace, but
Speaker 1: be warm and filled, but you do not give them
Speaker 1: the things which are needed for the body, what does
Speaker 1: it profit. Thus? Also, faith by itself, if it does
Speaker 1: not have works, is dead. Okay. So if we're going
Speaker 1: to represent God, now, this is not telling you that
Speaker 1: you have to have faith in works to be saved.
Speaker 1: This is telling you that we need to have We
Speaker 1: need to show our faith by our works. Right. What
Speaker 1: is faith? I just believing? I don't know, man, it's
Speaker 1: it's all I know is that we need to be
Speaker 1: disciples of God, right and and sin separates us from God.
Speaker 1: So obedience is vastly important for us. Okay. All I'm
Speaker 1: saying is that this is more of how Christians should
Speaker 1: be once you're saved. That's the first step, right now,
Speaker 1: James is getting into the meat and potatoes of which
Speaker 1: how we should be disciples. Right, So that's what he's
Speaker 1: talking about here. He's trying to say, you need to
Speaker 1: show your faith by your works. Right. Philippians two three
Speaker 1: and four is also three through four is also a
Speaker 1: good one. It's encourage us humility and consider others needs,
Speaker 1: aligning with jesus teachings on servanthood. Okay, sorry, someone just
Speaker 1: I think my instcart just dropped off the food that
Speaker 1: I ordered. That's why you heard that, ding. Let me
Speaker 1: tell her thank you. All right, let's go back to
Speaker 1: the notes. Perfect. Now we're gonna go to Luke eleven
Speaker 1: and let's see if I have I have some notes
Speaker 1: for Luke twelve here shameless persistence. Yes, okay, I'll leave
Speaker 1: that there. Oh, you need to go to eleven on
Speaker 1: here too. All right. I had to switch my make
Speaker 1: sure my notes were pulled up. Okay. Now it came
Speaker 1: to pass as he was praying in a certain place
Speaker 1: that he seized that one of his disciples said to him, Lord,
Speaker 1: teach us to pray as John also taught his disciples.
Speaker 1: So we said to them, when you pray, say our
Speaker 1: Father in Heaven hallowed be your name, your kingdom. Come,
Speaker 1: you will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Speaker 1: Give us day by day our daily bread, and forgive
Speaker 1: us of our sins. For we also forgive everyone who
Speaker 1: is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation,
Speaker 1: but deliver us from the evil one. So our father
Speaker 1: in heaven hollowed be your name. That's going to be holy,
Speaker 1: be your name, or separate be your name. And in Matthew,
Speaker 1: the Lord's prayer is actually going to be I think
Speaker 1: it's a little bit longer. I think this is the
Speaker 1: condensed version. You will be done on earth as it
Speaker 1: is in heaven. Right, So God's will is vastly important. Right,
Speaker 1: so give us day by day our daily bread. Right, So,
Speaker 1: and forgive us for our sins. Now does this mean
Speaker 1: like that you know Jesus dying on the cross forgives
Speaker 1: all of our sins, right, Yeah, But sin separates us
Speaker 1: from God. So you still need to repent. Okay, even
Speaker 1: if Jesus died for all your sins, and you still
Speaker 1: need to repent for those sins. Right. So, and also
Speaker 1: forgive everyone who is indebted to us, For we also
Speaker 1: forget everyone who is indebted to us. And do not
Speaker 1: lead us into temptation. Temptation there it means like it does.
Speaker 1: It means testing right. But deliver us from the evil one.
Speaker 1: Obviously that is our adversary, that's going to be the devil. Here,
Speaker 1: it says Jesus provides a model for prayer. I'm emphasizing
Speaker 1: the importance of honoring God's name, seeking his kingdom, and
Speaker 1: relying on him for daily need and forgiveness. And the
Speaker 1: next is going to be a persistence, shameless persistence. A
Speaker 1: friend comes at midnight, and he said to them, this
Speaker 1: is Luke eleven verse five. And he said to them,
Speaker 1: which of you shall have a friend, And go to
Speaker 1: him at midnight and say to him, friend, lend me
Speaker 1: three loaves. For a friend of mine has come to
Speaker 1: me on this journey, and I have nothing to set
Speaker 1: before him. And he will answer from within and say,
Speaker 1: do not trouble me. The door is now shut, and
Speaker 1: my children are with me in bed. I cannot rise
Speaker 1: and give it to you. I say to you, though
Speaker 1: he will not rise and give it to him, because
Speaker 1: he is his friend. Yet because of his persistence, he
Speaker 1: will rise and give him as many as he needs.
Speaker 1: So I say to you, ask and it will be
Speaker 1: given to you. Seek and you shall, and you will find,
Speaker 1: knock and will be open to you. For everyone who
Speaker 1: asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him
Speaker 1: who knocks it will be opened. So let's stop there
Speaker 1: real quick. And Jesus doesn't tell tell you to ask
Speaker 1: once and you're going to receive it. Okay, That doesn't
Speaker 1: say there doesn't tell you how many times you need
Speaker 1: to ask. Seeking right, shameless persistence is what you need
Speaker 1: to have. If a son asks for bread from any
Speaker 1: father among you, will he will he give him a stone?
Speaker 1: Or if he asks for a fish, will he give
Speaker 1: him a serpent a set of a fish. Or if
Speaker 1: he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
Speaker 1: If you, then, being evil, know how to give good
Speaker 1: gifts for your children, how much we're more? Will your
Speaker 1: heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit for those who ask him?
Speaker 1: So we are we inherently are evil? You know we're
Speaker 1: we're we're sinners, and we take care of our kids.
Speaker 1: So God doesn't have that evil in him. So how
Speaker 1: much more is God going to take care of us?
Speaker 1: All right? How much more will they heaven the Father
Speaker 1: give the Holy Spirit? To those who ask him, which
Speaker 1: is the best gift. That's what we should be asking for.
Speaker 1: A holy spirit. Yes, if you're not saved, especially, but
Speaker 1: you see, you see what the point there is, you know,
Speaker 1: And obviously I mean what I think is if it's
Speaker 1: God's will, then you know it'll be done, you know.
Speaker 1: But he says, I say, ask, ask, and it will
Speaker 1: be given to you. Seek and you will find not going.
Speaker 1: It will be open to you. So but God is
Speaker 1: gonna give you. He's not going to give you too
Speaker 1: much that you can handle. Right, it says, he will
Speaker 1: not give you too much. Right, he will not give
Speaker 1: you too much to handle. Okay, A house divided cannot stand.
Speaker 1: And he was casting out a demon, and it was mute.
Speaker 1: So it was when that this is a Luke eleven fourteen,
Speaker 1: And he was casting out a demon and it was mute.
Speaker 1: So it was when the demon had gone out that
Speaker 1: the mute spoke and the multitudes marveled. But some of
Speaker 1: them said, he cast out demons by bills above the
Speaker 1: ruler of the demons. Now here's the thing right here. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the Jews believed the Pharisees, the Sadducees. They believed
Speaker 1: that you have to ask the demon its name, and
Speaker 1: once it gives you its name, then you could cast
Speaker 1: it out. But this happens to be a mute spirit.
Speaker 1: So this is like above and beyond what the Pharisees
Speaker 1: and Saddesties can do, because they weren't able to cast
Speaker 1: this demon out obviously, and Jesus is so they're marveled,
Speaker 1: they're amazed. But some of them said, he cast out
Speaker 1: demons by bill bells above, the ruler of the demons
Speaker 1: and bells above. If you look at that, let's check
Speaker 1: it out real quick. That's another word for for the devil.
Speaker 1: Is what is what I've been taught? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Let me just make sure that I'm not okay looking
Speaker 1: up the Blue Letter Bible real quick, just to I
Speaker 1: want to see what it says. So Luke eleven, verse fifteen,
Speaker 1: Luke eleven, Luke eleven, verse fifteen. Let's check that out
Speaker 1: real quick. Belzebub is lord of the house and name
Speaker 1: of Satan, the prince of the evil spirits. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's another name for Satan for the adversary. So
Speaker 1: let's see what Jesus says back to them. Others testing
Speaker 1: him sought for him a sign from heaven. But he,
Speaker 1: knowing their thoughts, said to them. Every kingdom divided against
Speaker 1: itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against
Speaker 1: a house falls. If Satan also is divided against himself,
Speaker 1: how will his kingdom stand? Because you say, I cast
Speaker 1: out demons by Belzebub, And if I cast out demons
Speaker 1: by Belzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out?
Speaker 1: Therefore they will be judges. But if I cast out
Speaker 1: demons with the finger of God, truly the kingdom of
Speaker 1: God has come upon you. When a strong man, fully armed,
Speaker 1: guards his own palace, his goods are in peace. But
Speaker 1: when he's stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him,
Speaker 1: he takes him, takes from him his armor in which
Speaker 1: he trusts it, and divides his spoils. He who is
Speaker 1: not with me is against me, and he who does
Speaker 1: not gather with me scatters. Let's see what the my
Speaker 1: notes say about that one. Well, let me let me
Speaker 1: just go over this top portion. Persistence in prayer. Through
Speaker 1: the parable of the persistent friend, Jesus teaches that he
Speaker 1: we should be bold and persistent in our prayers, trusting
Speaker 1: that God as a loving father will provide what is
Speaker 1: best for us. The kingdom of God. Jesus demonstrates his
Speaker 1: authority over demons, highlighting the power and presence of God's kingdom.
Speaker 1: He warns against division, the necessity of being in a
Speaker 1: line with him. So one thing we should take from
Speaker 1: this portion that we just read is even in your house,
Speaker 1: if it's divided, if you're fighting, then it's gonna fall,
Speaker 1: you know. So you gotta try to get along with
Speaker 1: your wife. You gotta try to get along with your husband. Right.
Speaker 1: Let's see, if I had anything shameless persistence, Yeah, if
Speaker 1: we truly knew God's character, that's something ahead in my notes,
Speaker 1: then we wouldn't be able to, like, we couldn't wait
Speaker 1: to pray to him if we truly knew God's character
Speaker 1: all the way, because we don't mind asking, you know,
Speaker 1: asking our own dad for something, right, So you can
Speaker 1: imagine just asking, you know, a father in heaven. And
Speaker 1: then I kind of already talked about the mute spirit.
Speaker 1: The Jews had a belief that once you got the
Speaker 1: demon's name, you were able to cast it out. But
Speaker 1: with the mute spirit, they just thought it was hopeless
Speaker 1: and that. But but Jesus. Obviously he knows. Otherwise, let's continue.
Speaker 1: Unclean spirit returns. When an unclean spirit goes out of
Speaker 1: a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest and
Speaker 1: finding none. He says, I will return to my house
Speaker 1: from which I came, And when he comes, he finds
Speaker 1: it swept and put in order. Then he goes and
Speaker 1: takes with them seven other spirits more wicked than himself,
Speaker 1: and they enter and dwell there, and the last state
Speaker 1: of the man is worse than the first. That's that's
Speaker 1: very scary, you know. That's why it's important to get saved.
Speaker 1: Because think about that, when an unclean spirit goes out
Speaker 1: of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest
Speaker 1: and finding none. Hmm okay, let's see. Let's see what
Speaker 1: this says. So yeah, it's also in Matthew twelve forty
Speaker 1: three through forty five, in describes the scenario where a spirit,
Speaker 1: after being cast out, returns with seven more wicked spirits,
Speaker 1: making the person condition worse than before. This is used
Speaker 1: as a warning that a person should not be content
Speaker 1: with just removing negative influences, but most must actively fill
Speaker 1: their life with positive, god pleasing elements. Key points the
Speaker 1: imaginary the imagery represents a person who may have a
Speaker 1: good effort to get to rid themselves of sin or
Speaker 1: negative influence, but without actively seeking God's presence, they were
Speaker 1: left vulnerable. The Seven Spirits simplized the multi You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is. I'm not gonna have this,
Speaker 1: and tell me what this is. I'll continue sounded so
Speaker 1: new agy, let's continue, okay, Luke eleven, verse twenty seven.
Speaker 1: And it happened as he spoke these things that a
Speaker 1: certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said
Speaker 1: to him, blessed is the womb that bore you and
Speaker 1: the breast which nurse to you. But he said more
Speaker 1: than that, blessed are those who hear the word of
Speaker 1: God and keep it. So even back then they were
Speaker 1: they were giving praises to marry right, kind of the
Speaker 1: same thing. But as you see, Jesus deflected what they
Speaker 1: said and said, more than that, blessed are those who
Speaker 1: hear the word of God and keep it. So it's
Speaker 1: more important right now. He kind of rebuked that woman
Speaker 1: that said that, because you know, and like I said,
Speaker 1: it's it's still happening today, right this, this happens today
Speaker 1: with the Catholic Church. There's still there's still they're still
Speaker 1: like that woman in the crowd is saying that I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to I'm not trying to pounce on any
Speaker 1: anybody's faith. But you see how here we rebukes that
Speaker 1: right there. So let's see right here the sign of
Speaker 1: Jonah's next twenty nine through thirty two perfect okay, seeking
Speaker 1: a sign, And while the crowds were thickly gathered together,
Speaker 1: he began to say, this is an evil generation. It
Speaker 1: seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to
Speaker 1: it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. For as
Speaker 1: Jonah became a sign to the Nivites Ninavites, so also
Speaker 1: the son of Man will be to this generation. So
Speaker 1: what is the sign of Jonah? It's explained more in Matthew,
Speaker 1: it says. The sign of Jonah is explained in Matthew twelve,
Speaker 1: verses forty through forty one. For as Jonah was three
Speaker 1: days and three nights in the belly of the great fish,
Speaker 1: so will the son of Man be three days and
Speaker 1: three nights in the heart of the earth. The men
Speaker 1: of Nineveh will rise up in judgment with this generation
Speaker 1: and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah,
Speaker 1: and indeed a greater than Jonah is near now. When
Speaker 1: Jonah was in Ninevah, he was just talking about great
Speaker 1: judgments coming and to come down on you guys if
Speaker 1: you don't repent. It was like a straightforward way to
Speaker 1: just spread that message. Because he didn't want to be there.
Speaker 1: That's the whole reason why he got swallowed in the
Speaker 1: whale or the fish, not the will I would say
Speaker 1: the great fish. Sorry, the reason why he got swallowed
Speaker 1: in that gray fish in the first place because he
Speaker 1: did not want to go to Ninevah. And God was
Speaker 1: causing these great seas and storms and everything in the
Speaker 1: sea because God was trying to get to go to
Speaker 1: Nineva and not try to disappear like dir. So there
Speaker 1: is a there's a big birthday balloon behind me. You'll
Speaker 1: probably see that kind of pop up here and there.
Speaker 1: Usually I move that, but I didn't move it before
Speaker 1: we started my bed if you're watching this on video.
Speaker 1: But yeah, So the sign of Jonah is that Jonah
Speaker 1: will be three days and three nights in the belly
Speaker 1: of the great fish. So will the Son of Man
Speaker 1: be three days and three nights in the heart of
Speaker 1: the Earth. What is that? Well, if you guys heard
Speaker 1: on Cult Conspiracy actually did an episode of whereas Hell's Location?
Speaker 1: And when I get to Luke sixteen, I'll kind of
Speaker 1: re revisit that for you guys, so you guys can
Speaker 1: see what I mean. So obviously scientists would say that
Speaker 1: the heart of the earth would be magma and you
Speaker 1: know all that stuff. So biblically, it seems that biblically,
Speaker 1: you know, shield would be in the earth. You know,
Speaker 1: Hell would be in the earth. You know, there's so
Speaker 1: many verses which I'll show you guys where it talks
Speaker 1: about the underworld being down right. So anyways, we'll go
Speaker 1: over that when we get to Luke sixteen. So that's
Speaker 1: the sign of Jonah. Okay, that's what he's talking about.
Speaker 1: Right there. He says, the Queen of the South will
Speaker 1: rise up in the judgment with the men of this
Speaker 1: generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends
Speaker 1: of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, And indeed,
Speaker 1: a greater than Solomon is here. The men of Nineveh
Speaker 1: will rise up in the judgment with this generation and
Speaker 1: condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah,
Speaker 1: and indeed, a greater than Jonah is here. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: Jesus is there right right there in the flesh, and
Speaker 1: these people are still not believing. So that's why he's saying,
Speaker 1: this is an evil generation. It seeks a sign. But honestly,
Speaker 1: he's been doing signs, miracles, healing the sick, healing the blind,
Speaker 1: bringing people back from the dead. He's already been doing
Speaker 1: all that. Anyways, Jesus points to Jonah as a sign
Speaker 1: emphasizing the need for repentance and recognized the greater revelation
Speaker 1: found in him. There's greater revelation found in him. But
Speaker 1: he's saying, look, Jonah went to Nineveh, and Nineveh were
Speaker 1: evil and they repented. Also Solomon that that woman that
Speaker 1: he's talking about here, the queen of the South, will
Speaker 1: rise up. She was a queen and she went she
Speaker 1: wanted to hear the wisdom of Solomon. Right, So that's
Speaker 1: what he's talking about there. So it's saying that, you know,
Speaker 1: Jesus is saying I'm greater than Solomon, saying that I'm
Speaker 1: greater than Jonah. Okay, and he's he's there. Let's see
Speaker 1: next we're gonna be going to Luke eleven, verse thirty three. Man,
Speaker 1: I think I might be getting bit by mosquitos on
Speaker 1: my feet. Oh yeah, I see one actually right there. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I got mosquitoes in there because my foot
Speaker 1: is itchy. Luke, eleven thirty three. No one when he
Speaker 1: was no one. When he has lit a lamp, puts
Speaker 1: it in a secret place or under a basket. But
Speaker 1: under a lampstand that those who come in may see
Speaker 1: the light. The lamp of your body is the eye. Therefore,
Speaker 1: when your eye is good, your whole body is full
Speaker 1: of light. But when your eye is bad, your body
Speaker 1: also is full of darkness. Therefore, heed that the light
Speaker 1: which is in you is not darkness. If if then
Speaker 1: your whole body is full of light, having no part dark,
Speaker 1: the whole body will be full of light, as when
Speaker 1: the bright shining of a lamp gives you light. So
Speaker 1: Jesus teaches about spiritual perception, urging us to ensure that
Speaker 1: our eyes are healthy, so that our whole body is
Speaker 1: full of light. So how often do your eyes sin?
Speaker 1: You know, like your eyes called you to cause you
Speaker 1: to stumble? Happens a lot with men, you know for sure.
Speaker 1: And let's see if there's yeah. So he's comparing the
Speaker 1: eye to a lamp that lights up the body, highlighting
Speaker 1: the importance of clear spiritual vision. That's a good way
Speaker 1: to put it. Okay, let's continue woe to the Pharisees
Speaker 1: and lawyers m And as he spoke, a certain pharisee
Speaker 1: asked him to dine with him. So he went in
Speaker 1: and sat down to eat. When the Pharisees saw it,
Speaker 1: he marveled that he had not first washed before dinner.
Speaker 1: So Basie was amazed that he didn't he didn't wash
Speaker 1: before dinner. Then the Lord said to him, Now, you, Pharisees,
Speaker 1: make the outside of the cup and dish clean, but
Speaker 1: your inward part is full of greed and wickedness, foolish ones.
Speaker 1: Do not did not He who made the outside of
Speaker 1: the make the inside also, but rather give alms of
Speaker 1: such things as you have, that indeed things are clean
Speaker 1: to you. So he's saying that God made the outside right,
Speaker 1: but he also made the inside, so he, Jesus can
Speaker 1: see how these people are on the inside, full of greed, wickedness,
Speaker 1: foolish ones. And he's just he's probably marveling at how
Speaker 1: these people are. He rebukes the religious leader for their
Speaker 1: hip hypocrisy, stressing the importance of inner purity over outward appearances. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I was talking about earlier. They cared so
Speaker 1: much about the outward appearance, or or they cared so
Speaker 1: much that people were we're seeing that they're holy on
Speaker 1: the outside, but they're wicked, greed and wickedness on their inside.
Speaker 1: But woe to you, Pharisees for the for the tithe
Speaker 1: mint and rule in all manner of herbs and past,
Speaker 1: by justice and the love of God. These you ought
Speaker 1: to have done without leaving the others undone. Woe do you, Pharisees,
Speaker 1: for you love the best seats in the synagogues and
Speaker 1: greetings in the marketplaces. Woe do you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,
Speaker 1: For you are like graves which are not seen, and
Speaker 1: the men who walk over them are not aware of them.
Speaker 1: So yeah, when back in the day that they would
Speaker 1: be unclean if they walked on a grave as well,
Speaker 1: So they used to put markings on the graves so
Speaker 1: that you didn't walk over the grave. It's unclean. And
Speaker 1: why is the dead body unclean? Because we were originally
Speaker 1: not supposed to die. We were supposed to be. We're
Speaker 1: supposed to live eternally with God, and that we waited
Speaker 1: up dying because of sin. The wages of sin is death.
Speaker 1: That's why it's unclean Luke eleven forty five. Then one
Speaker 1: of the lawyers answered and said him, teacher, by saying
Speaker 1: these things, you reproach us also. And he said, woe
Speaker 1: to you also, lawyers, for you load men with burdens
Speaker 1: hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the
Speaker 1: burdens with your own fingers, with one of your fingers.
Speaker 1: Woe do you, for you build the tombs of prophets,
Speaker 1: and your father's killed them. In fact, you bear witness
Speaker 1: that you approve the deeds of your fathers, for they
Speaker 1: indeed killed them and build their tombs. So right there,
Speaker 1: he's basically telling them that you burden them with the law,
Speaker 1: and you try to like you teach them about the law,
Speaker 1: and you create burdens for them, but you can't even
Speaker 1: do the law yourself. You can't even keep the law yourself.
Speaker 1: You teach them the law, you act like you keep
Speaker 1: the law, but you can't even keep the law yourself. Therefore,
Speaker 1: the wisdom of God also said, I will send them
Speaker 1: prophets and apostles, and some of them will kill and persecute.
Speaker 1: And the blood of all the prophets, which was shed
Speaker 1: from the foundation of the world, may be required of
Speaker 1: this generation, from the blood of Able to the blood
Speaker 1: of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the temple. Yes,
Speaker 1: I say to you, it shall be required of this generation. Wow,
Speaker 1: let me go to make sure. So. Jesus pronounces woes
Speaker 1: to the pharisees and experts in the law for their
Speaker 1: hypocrisy and legalism. He criticizes their focus on outward appearance
Speaker 1: while neglecting justice and the love of God. The Greek
Speaker 1: word for woe conveys a sense of laminate, impeding judgment,
Speaker 1: impending judgment. It says, woe to you, lawyers. You have
Speaker 1: taken away the key of knowledge. You do not enter
Speaker 1: yourselves for those who are entering, who were entering, and
Speaker 1: you hindered. And as he said these things to them,
Speaker 1: the scribes and pharisees began to assail him vehemently and
Speaker 1: to cross examine him about many things, lying in wait
Speaker 1: for him and seeking to catch him something he might
Speaker 1: say that they might accuse him. Wow. So let's see
Speaker 1: some connecting verses. So the Lord's prayer is available in
Speaker 1: Matthew six nine through thirteen. Another account of the Lord's
Speaker 1: prayer emphasizing similar things of God's kingdom or provision. James
Speaker 1: five sixteen encouraged his believers to pray fervently. How I
Speaker 1: in the power of righteous prayer. Matthew twelve, verses thirty
Speaker 1: eight through forty two is parallel passage discussing the sign
Speaker 1: of Jonah, which we already went over. Phasians five eight
Speaker 1: through ten encourages believers to live as children of light,
Speaker 1: discerning what pleases the Lord. So some practical applications for
Speaker 1: this chapter is model your prayers right. Use the Lord's
Speaker 1: prayer as a guide to structure your own prayers focusing
Speaker 1: on God's holiness, his kingdom, and your daily needs. Of course, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't believe in Ah. Just saying like hollow be
Speaker 1: thy name and saying that and just repeating that exact prayer. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's more of a template for us
Speaker 1: to use. Jesus is just showing us. That's what they
Speaker 1: asked him, show us how we pray, and Jesus showed
Speaker 1: them how to pray. But I don't think we should
Speaker 1: just say the same prayer over and over and over
Speaker 1: and over and over and over again. That's just me.
Speaker 1: I think you should definitely formulate your own prayer, using
Speaker 1: that as a guide to structure your prayers. Definitely be persistent,
Speaker 1: don't give up in a prayer. Approach God with confidence,
Speaker 1: knowing that he hears and answers according to his will.
Speaker 1: Seek God's kingdom. Prioritize, prioritize God's kingdom in your life,
Speaker 1: aligning your actions and decisions with His purpose. For sure,
Speaker 1: prioritize God's kingdom in your life. Aligning Yep, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I agree with that. Cultivate spiritual discernment. Regularly examine your
Speaker 1: spiritual life to ensure that you are perceiving God's truth
Speaker 1: and light, and then purs pursue inner purity. Focus on
Speaker 1: cultivating a heart that is pure and aligned with God's will,
Speaker 1: rather than merely maintaining outward religious appearances. Yeah, it's about relationship, right,
Speaker 1: Relationship with God is not about religion. So just make
Speaker 1: sure that you're aligning with God's will will all right,
Speaker 1: So we kind of a ware he went over versus
Speaker 1: that connect we don't. Yeah, additional scriptures. We already went
Speaker 1: over those. Let me get go to Luke twelve. Here,
Speaker 1: let's go to Luke twelve. Beware of hipocrisy. This is
Speaker 1: Luke twelve to one. In the meantime, when in innumerable
Speaker 1: multitude of people had gathered together so they trampled one another,
Speaker 1: he began to say to his disciples, first of all,
Speaker 1: beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hip hypocrisy. Sorry,
Speaker 1: for there's nothing covered that will be revealed, nor hidden
Speaker 1: that will not be known. Therefore, whatever you have spoken
Speaker 1: in the dark will be heard in the light, and
Speaker 1: which you have spoken in the ear in the inner
Speaker 1: rooms will be proclaimed on the on the housetops. Beware
Speaker 1: of the leaven. Leaven was was, you know, That's why
Speaker 1: it says the unleavened bred leaven represented sin. So beware
Speaker 1: of the sin of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. But
Speaker 1: there's nothing covered that will not be revealed. So if
Speaker 1: you notice, like you might have a sin that you
Speaker 1: do you know by yourself, or you kind of hide
Speaker 1: from people, and you know most of the time that
Speaker 1: sin's going to come to the light, and that people
Speaker 1: are gonna find out, and someone's gonna find out about
Speaker 1: that sin. You know that God knows no matter what
Speaker 1: you know. Just I would tell people, you know to
Speaker 1: treat Okay, understand something. If you treat situations, if your
Speaker 1: spouse is standing right next to you, If you wouldn't
Speaker 1: do it right in front of your spouse, then don't
Speaker 1: do it by yourself. Okay, That's that's my advice, because
Speaker 1: understand something. God is able to see everything that you're doing.
Speaker 1: He knows what you're doing. So if you wouldn't do
Speaker 1: it in front of your spouse, then why you're going
Speaker 1: to do it in front of God, which is way
Speaker 1: more important than your spouse even finding out if you're
Speaker 1: doing something bad like that, you know, treat it as
Speaker 1: if your spouse is right there, standing next to you,
Speaker 1: and it'll help you. It'll assist you, all right, Luke twelve,
Speaker 1: Verse four. Jesus teaches the fear of God. And I
Speaker 1: say to you, my friends, do not be afraid of
Speaker 1: those who kill the body and after that have no
Speaker 1: more than they can do. That they can do. But
Speaker 1: I show you whom you should fear. Fear him who,
Speaker 1: after he has killed the power, has cast into hell. Yes,
Speaker 1: say to you, fear him. So don't fear the one
Speaker 1: that could kill the body, for the one that could
Speaker 1: kill the body and the soul and cast you into hell. Right,
Speaker 1: So in the first in the first three verses, okay,
Speaker 1: we went over those, uh So for this, Jesus begins
Speaker 1: by warning against the hypocrisy of the pharisees that emphasizing
Speaker 1: the importance of the fearing God over a man. But
Speaker 1: I will show show you whom you should fear. Fear
Speaker 1: the one after you've been killed, has a power to
Speaker 1: throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. Yes,
Speaker 1: of course, have fear. Fear God. So I'm saying like
Speaker 1: a lot of people will fear diseases and fear cancer,
Speaker 1: and fear people, and fear COVID and fear all this stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, but they're not even fearing God. It's crazy. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's continue Luke twelve, verse six. And not five sparrows
Speaker 1: sold for two copper coins, and not one of them
Speaker 1: is forgotten before God. But the very hairs on your
Speaker 1: head are all numbered. Do not fear. Therefore you are
Speaker 1: more of value than many sparrows. So sparrows back then
Speaker 1: were like they came like a dime a dozen, like
Speaker 1: poor people would would would buy sparrows. Right, So God
Speaker 1: is telling you how important you are. You know, by
Speaker 1: the very hairs of your head are numbered, like, God
Speaker 1: knows exactly how many hairs on your head you have,
Speaker 1: and he's saying, do not fear. Therefore, you are more
Speaker 1: value than the sparrows. So God is not forgetting them.
Speaker 1: So why is he going to forget You're You're more important?
Speaker 1: So Jesus reassures his disciples of God's care using the
Speaker 1: sparrows and the hairs on your heads as examples of
Speaker 1: God's intimate knowledge and provision. Indeed, the very hairs of
Speaker 1: your head are all numbered. Do not be afraid. You
Speaker 1: are worth more than many sparrows. Okay, confess Christ before men,
Speaker 1: Luke twelve, verse eight. And also I say to you,
Speaker 1: whoever confesses Me before men, him, the son of Man,
Speaker 1: will confess before the angels of God. But he who
Speaker 1: denies Me before men will be denied before the angels
Speaker 1: of God. So it's so important to acknowledge Christ before others. Okay,
Speaker 1: So obviously this is something that's big, you know. I
Speaker 1: hear a lot of podcasters out there that that deny Christ,
Speaker 1: you know, in front of their audience, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's crazy, like they should know this verse. They don't
Speaker 1: really do it in front of me. When I'm on
Speaker 1: different shows, they don't really deny Christ in front of me.
Speaker 1: I have been on some shows that are just it's
Speaker 1: just super super awkward when I'm on shows where, you know,
Speaker 1: like sometimes when I'm with people that are non believers
Speaker 1: that invited me on the show kind of they invited
Speaker 1: me on the show just to kind of argue with
Speaker 1: me about the Bible. I don't like to do that,
Speaker 1: you know, but it happens sometimes. But it's crazy, man,
Speaker 1: that people they deny Christ right there on their podcast
Speaker 1: in front of I mean, they might have a thousand,
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred two thousand people listening and they're denying Christ.
Speaker 1: They need to understand this. But Hugh denies me before men,
Speaker 1: will be denied before the angels of God. You know,
Speaker 1: if you deny Jesus in front of men, He's going
Speaker 1: to deny you in front of God. That's just a
Speaker 1: sin chills up and down your spine. So Luke twelve,
Speaker 1: verse ten, and anyone who speaks a word against the
Speaker 1: Son of men, it will be forgiven him. But to
Speaker 1: whom who blasphemy is the Holy Spirit, it will not
Speaker 1: be forgiven. Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. A lot of
Speaker 1: people feel like they've committed that before. They'll ask pastors,
Speaker 1: you know, constantly, did I I feel like I committed
Speaker 1: that sin?
Speaker 3: You know, I.
Speaker 1: Did? I did I. And you know, if you're denying Jesus,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're denying Jesus, the work of Jesus,
Speaker 1: if you denying the Holy Spirit, the one who sent
Speaker 1: that Jesus sent, and you're lying, you know, it's really
Speaker 1: if you look into Matthew or like when he's explaining
Speaker 1: the blaspheming the Holy Spirit, what they were doing was
Speaker 1: they were that's what they were doing. They were saying
Speaker 1: that Jesus was casting out demons in the name of
Speaker 1: the devil, right, so basically saying that he's part of
Speaker 1: the kingdom of Hell. And then Jesus warns them and saying,
Speaker 1: you're getting close to doing blaspheming the Holy Spirit. So
Speaker 1: that's one of the interpretations of what that is. In
Speaker 1: John fifteen twenty six to twenty seven, the coming rejection
Speaker 1: is what the title is. It says, but when the
Speaker 1: helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father,
Speaker 1: the Spirit of Truth, who proceeds from me. He will
Speaker 1: testify of me, and you also will bear witness because
Speaker 1: you have been with me from the beginning. So if
Speaker 1: you deny the message the Holy Spirit is bringing, or
Speaker 1: you're denying the Gospel, then then that's blast me the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. That's unforgivable sin. Because if you deny Jesus
Speaker 1: and the message the Gospel, then then you were committing
Speaker 1: blasts me the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit is
Speaker 1: the one that's bringing that message to you. That's another
Speaker 1: way of interpreting that. Okay, So there might be other
Speaker 1: ways to interpret it, you know, but that's like the
Speaker 1: kind of the two ways that I've learned. Blast me
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit is denying the Gospel. Right now, when
Speaker 1: they bring you to the synagogues and magistrates and authorities,
Speaker 1: do not worry about how or what you should answer
Speaker 1: what you should say, for the Holy Spirit will teach
Speaker 1: you in that very hour what you ought to say.
Speaker 1: You're speaking to the uh Is disciples right there right
Speaker 1: twelve seven twelve a twelve okay, the parable the rich
Speaker 1: Fool's next. Okay, all right, let's continue the parable of
Speaker 1: the rich fual. This is Luke twelve, verse thirteen. Then
Speaker 1: one from the crowd said to him, Teacher, tell my
Speaker 1: brother to divide the inheritance with me. But he said
Speaker 1: to him, man who made me a judge or an arbitrar? Over?
Speaker 1: Who made me a judge or arbitrator over you? And
Speaker 1: he said to them, take heed and beware of covetousness,
Speaker 1: for one's life does not consist in the abundance of
Speaker 1: things that he possesses. Then he spoke it parable to them, saying,
Speaker 1: the ground of a certain rich man yielded plentiful. And
Speaker 1: he thought within himself, saying, what shall I do, Since
Speaker 1: I have no room to store my crops? So he said,
Speaker 1: I will. I will do this. I will put down
Speaker 1: my barns and build greater and there I will store
Speaker 1: all my crops of my goods. And I will say
Speaker 1: to my soul, soul, you have many goods laid up
Speaker 1: for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Speaker 1: But God's said to him, fool, this night your soul
Speaker 1: will be required of you. Then those will and then
Speaker 1: who's will those things be which which you have provided?
Speaker 1: So he's concentrating and focusing on his materialistic things or
Speaker 1: the things that he's received, not knowing he's gonna die
Speaker 1: that night. So you see how sometimes our minds get
Speaker 1: caught up in the materialistic or the physical world and
Speaker 1: not you know. And also the covetousness is what he's
Speaker 1: talking about here, takeweed and bureau of comestutness. Life is
Speaker 1: not const of abundance and the things he possesses. Yes,
Speaker 1: so in this parable, he's uh, I'll see if there's
Speaker 1: anything that could give from this. Jesus warns against greed
Speaker 1: and the folly of storing up earthly wealth without being
Speaker 1: rich toward God. But God said to it will be
Speaker 1: fool this very night you will be required of you
Speaker 1: this then who will own what you have accumulated? You know?
Speaker 1: So everything that you have on this earth right now,
Speaker 1: this house you have, this apartment, you have, whatever if
Speaker 1: you die, you know, when you die, someone's going to
Speaker 1: be living in it. This house that you own, supposedly
Speaker 1: you own, someone's going to be living in this house
Speaker 1: and sleeping in your master bedroom and eating in your
Speaker 1: kitchen when you die. So this thing that you fought
Speaker 1: so much to get to gain to buy, to purchase
Speaker 1: to pay off you're thirty years of life that you
Speaker 1: you know, thirty year mortgage. Someone is going to take
Speaker 1: over this place because you cannot bring this house with you,
Speaker 1: or these cars with you, or these women, or these
Speaker 1: drugs or these parties or whatever you got going on.
Speaker 1: You can't bring them with you to heaven. You can't
Speaker 1: get a big U haul and uh, you know, hammer
Speaker 1: and nails and start pulling all the nails out of
Speaker 1: this house and try to bring it with you to
Speaker 1: heaven and build it. You know, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: You're just gonna die. So it's way more important to
Speaker 1: focus on the kingdom of heaven and building up treasures
Speaker 1: in heavens than it is to build up treasures on earth.
Speaker 1: And we focus so much on the physical, we don't
Speaker 1: think of the spiritual. That's the thing that happens, you know.
Speaker 1: So obviously with this rich guy, he was thinking about
Speaker 1: the material and not the spiritual, right, not thinking of God.
Speaker 1: He was thinking of all the stuff that he could
Speaker 1: build up, not knowing he was gonna die and go
Speaker 1: see his maker. Fool this night, Your soul will be
Speaker 1: required of you for those things which you have provided it,
Speaker 1: says uh. So is he who lays up treasure for
Speaker 1: himself and is not rich toward God? God? You see,
Speaker 1: let's continue. Do not worry, then, he said to his disciples. Therefore,
Speaker 1: I say to you, do not worry about your life.
Speaker 1: What will you eat, nor about your body what you
Speaker 1: will put on. Life is more than food, and the
Speaker 1: body is more than clothing. Consider the ravens, for they
Speaker 1: neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouses nor barn,
Speaker 1: and God feeds them. So how much more valuable are
Speaker 1: you than birds? Or how much more value are you
Speaker 1: than birds? And which of you, by worrying, can add
Speaker 1: one cubit of his stature? If you are not able
Speaker 1: to do the least, why are you anxious for the rest?
Speaker 1: Consider the lilies, how they grow? They neither toil nor spin.
Speaker 1: And yet I say to you even a salmon or Solomon,
Speaker 1: and his glory was not a raid like one of these.
Speaker 1: If then God so close the grass, which today is
Speaker 1: the field tomorrow was thrown the oven, how much more
Speaker 1: will He clothe you, oh, you of little bathe? So
Speaker 1: in the in James James says that life is but
Speaker 1: a mist Okay, so don't worry about You shouldn't worry
Speaker 1: or stress about things. And a lot of people do.
Speaker 1: You know, anxiety is running rampant in our society right now.
Speaker 1: It's not about what you're gonna eat, or your body
Speaker 1: or what you're gonna wear. We we focus so much
Speaker 1: on before we go out. You know, women they put
Speaker 1: the makeup on, they get they put their outfit on,
Speaker 1: and they focus so much on what. You know, and
Speaker 1: men do too. We're all guilty of this, focus so
Speaker 1: much on we're gonna wear they you know, our kids,
Speaker 1: you know, we want to have them all matching clothes.
Speaker 1: You know, like my wife wants them all matching, all
Speaker 1: three of my kids matching with the same shirt. You know, whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, so we focus so much on that. You know,
Speaker 1: life is more than food and the body is more
Speaker 1: than clothing. Okay, anxiety, like I said, is running rampant.
Speaker 1: But when you have God and you have faith, then
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have anxiety because because we're worth more
Speaker 1: than the raven. Okay, we're worth more than the birds.
Speaker 1: And they don't have barns, but they're storing up a
Speaker 1: bunch of food. Luke twelve Verse twenty nine. And do
Speaker 1: not seek what you should eat, whether you should drink,
Speaker 1: nor have an anxious mind for all these things the
Speaker 1: nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows
Speaker 1: that you need these things. But seek the Kingdom of God,
Speaker 1: and all these things shall be added to you. Focus
Speaker 1: put God first, and all these things that you are
Speaker 1: worrying about will be added to you. That's so true.
Speaker 1: When I got saved and I started putting God first
Speaker 1: and focusing on the Word of God, and focusing on
Speaker 1: God and focusing on what he wants and his will,
Speaker 1: then I'm not anxious about stuff. I'm not worried about
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I'm not even thinking about what I'm
Speaker 1: going to eat. I'm thinking about feeding myself. The word
Speaker 1: the Bible Jesus teaches about the futility of worry and
Speaker 1: the importance of seeking God's kingdom first.
Speaker 4: But his kingdom.
Speaker 1: Seek his Kingdom, and these things will be added to
Speaker 1: unto you. I mean, that's just that's plain and simple.
Speaker 1: It's so true. If you are obedient to God, then
Speaker 1: believe me, you're not gonna be You're not going to
Speaker 1: be like You're not going to be on the streets,
Speaker 1: no job, you know, homeless. If you're obedient to God
Speaker 1: and you have integrity, and you have you know, everything
Speaker 1: that God wants you to do, and you're doing God's will,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have food, you're gonna have drink, and you're
Speaker 1: not gonna have an anxious mind. Okay. If you are
Speaker 1: following God's will and you're obedient and you're doing everything
Speaker 1: you need to do, Okay, God takes care of the birds,
Speaker 1: He's definitely gonna take care of you. He says that
Speaker 1: all these things shall be added to you. Now. Granted,
Speaker 1: do some people lose their job? Do some people lose
Speaker 1: their marriage? Do some people lose even though they might
Speaker 1: be obedient to God, that's because of what someone else
Speaker 1: did to them. You know it caused that, you know so.
Speaker 1: But if somebody divorces you, but you stay the course
Speaker 1: and you're going through a divorce, but you're being obedient
Speaker 1: to God and you stay in the word, I guarantee
Speaker 1: you you're going to come out of that way better
Speaker 1: than someone that doesn't. Let's continue. This is going to
Speaker 1: be Luke twelve, verse thirty two. Do not fear, little Flockford.
Speaker 1: Is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Speaker 1: Sell what you have and give alms. Provide yourself money
Speaker 1: bags which do not grow old. They treasure in the
Speaker 1: heavens that does not fail. There is no thief approaches,
Speaker 1: nor moth destroys. For where your treasure is there, your
Speaker 1: heart will be also. So seek the treasures of heaven
Speaker 1: out the treasures on earth. And it says that your
Speaker 1: father has good pleasure to give you the kingdom. He
Speaker 1: wants you to be obedient. He wants you to be persistent, shameless,
Speaker 1: persistent prayers. He wants you to And he said that
Speaker 1: his father takes pleasure in giving you the kingdom. Luke twelve,
Speaker 1: verse thirty five. A faithful servant an evil servant. Let
Speaker 1: your waiste be girded, and your lamp's burning, and yourselves
Speaker 1: be like men who wait for their master. Then he
Speaker 1: will return from the wedding, that when he comes a knox,
Speaker 1: they may open it to him immediately. Blessed are those
Speaker 1: servants whom the Master, when he comes and will find watching.
Speaker 1: Surely I say to you that he will gird himself
Speaker 1: and have them sit down to eat, and will come
Speaker 1: and serve them. And if he should come in the
Speaker 1: second watch or come in the third watch and find them.
Speaker 1: So blessed are those servants. But know this that if
Speaker 1: the master of the house had known what hour the
Speaker 1: thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed
Speaker 1: his house to be broken into. Therefore, you will also
Speaker 1: be ready for the sun Amen is coming in an
Speaker 1: hour you do not expect. The chapter concludes what they
Speaker 1: call to be watchful and ready for the master's return,
Speaker 1: emphasizing the faithful stewardship. You will also be ready because
Speaker 1: the son of man will come at an hour you
Speaker 1: do not expect. Very interesting. I don't know why, but
Speaker 1: my voice is going out a little bit. Let me
Speaker 1: just drink some water.
Speaker 4: Let's continue. So let's see if I have notes on this.
Speaker 1: On me. One second, we look this up.
Speaker 3: Guys, okaylu twelve forty two through forty eight.
Speaker 1: And Peter says him, of Lord, you speak this parable
Speaker 1: only to us or to all people, Luke twelve forty
Speaker 1: two says, And the Lord said, who then is that
Speaker 1: faithful and wise stewart whom his master will make ruler
Speaker 1: over his household to give them a portion of food
Speaker 1: and due season. Blessed is that servant whom his master
Speaker 1: will find so doing. When he comes, truly, I say
Speaker 1: to you that he will make him a ruler over
Speaker 1: all that he has. But if the servant says in
Speaker 1: his heart, my master's delaying is coming, and begins to
Speaker 1: beat the male and female servants, and do not eat
Speaker 1: or drink to be drunk, the master of the servant
Speaker 1: will come on a day when he is not looking
Speaker 1: for him, and in an hour when he is not aware,
Speaker 1: and he will cut him in two and appoint him
Speaker 1: his portion from the unbelievers. And the servant who shall
Speaker 1: who knew his master's will and did not prepare himself
Speaker 1: or do according to his will, shall be beaten with
Speaker 1: many stripes. But he who did not know yet committed
Speaker 1: things deserving of stripes shall be beaten with few. For
Speaker 1: everyone of whom much is given for him, much will
Speaker 1: be required. And to whom much has been committed of him,
Speaker 1: they will ask more. So. Yeah, so the set up.
Speaker 1: A master entrusts his servants with the responsibility of managing
Speaker 1: his household and distributing food while he is away. The
Speaker 1: faithful servant ay faithful. This is explaining this parable. The
Speaker 1: faithful servant is a wise servant who is one who
Speaker 1: was entrusted with the responsibility and diligently manages the household
Speaker 1: ensure everyone is fed at the proper time. The unfaithful servant. Conversely,
Speaker 1: an unfaithful servant is one who, believing the master will
Speaker 1: be delayed, becomes lazy, abuses his authority, and neglects his
Speaker 1: responsibilities the master's return. When the Master returns, he rewards
Speaker 1: the faithful servant with the increased responsibility and praises his
Speaker 1: faithfulness the punishment of the unfaithful. The unfaithful servant is
Speaker 1: punished severely and he was found to be unprepared and irresponsible.
Speaker 1: And similar theme is found in Matthew twenty five, verses
Speaker 1: fourteen through thirty, where a master in trusts for amounts
Speaker 1: of talents to his servants and are judge based on
Speaker 1: how they use the talents. The message the parable emphasize
Speaker 1: the importance of being prepared for the lord's return, using
Speaker 1: one's gifts and talents wisely, and being accountable for one's actions.
Speaker 1: So we need to understand, yeah, that we need to
Speaker 1: be ready for the lord's return. And if if you
Speaker 1: have stuff in your house or things that you're doing
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't do if Jesus returned. Like, let's say
Speaker 1: Jesus return tomorrow and he said, he's coming to your house.
Speaker 1: What would you get rid of before he walks in
Speaker 1: your house? Would you get rid of that bong? Would
Speaker 1: you get rid of that weed? Would you get rid
Speaker 1: of those mushrooms? Would you get rid of the alcohol?
Speaker 1: What would you get rid of? The pornography? The playboy?
Speaker 1: Whatever you have the Maxim magazine. I don't even know
Speaker 1: if they still have those. You know, what would you
Speaker 1: get rid of if Jesus was coming, Well, whatever you
Speaker 1: would get rid of, get rid of it. Now be
Speaker 1: prepared for his return, is what he's saying. It says
Speaker 1: Christ brings division, and that's the title, and it's let's see,
Speaker 1: let me get back to my notes. Actually that is
Speaker 1: a Deuteronomy four. I don't want that. I want Luke ten. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see. Okay, it declares he has bringing divisions. Okay,
Speaker 1: So this is Luke twelve, verse forty nine. I came
Speaker 1: to send fire on the earth, and how I wish
Speaker 1: it were already kindled? But I but I have a
Speaker 1: baptism to be baptized with. And how distressed am I
Speaker 1: till it is accomplished. Do you suppose that I came
Speaker 1: to give peace on earth? I tell you not not
Speaker 1: at all, but rather division. For from now on five
Speaker 1: in one house will be divided three against two and
Speaker 1: two against three. Father will be divided against son, and
Speaker 1: son against father, mother against daughter, and daughter against mother,
Speaker 1: mother in law against daughter in law, and daughter in
Speaker 1: law against her mother in law. So Jesus declares he
Speaker 1: has come to bring division, not peace, as his message
Speaker 1: will cause division even among families. This she reflects the
Speaker 1: word diamorsimos, meaning division or disunity. So yeah, if if
Speaker 1: somebody believes in Jesus and then the other person doesn't,
Speaker 1: then they're going to be opposed to that. So the
Speaker 1: idea is so that would cause fathers to be divided
Speaker 1: against son, son against father, mother against daughter. Let's say
Speaker 1: the mother was was is saved and then the daughter
Speaker 1: is not and she is going out partying. It's causing
Speaker 1: division between the mother and daughter. If the daughter is
Speaker 1: saved and the mother is not and the mother is
Speaker 1: going out partying and hooking up with other men and
Speaker 1: the daughter is saved, that's gonna cause division, right, it says,
Speaker 1: daughter in law against her mother in law, right. So
Speaker 1: that's another thing. You know. Let's say that the the
Speaker 1: let's say the husband of this woman is saved, but
Speaker 1: the but the wife is not, and the mother in
Speaker 1: law of this wife is saved. It's going to cause division, right,
Speaker 1: It says, I came to send fire on earth, And
Speaker 1: how I wish it were already kindled. But I have
Speaker 1: a baptized to be baptized with, and I have distressed,
Speaker 1: and I'm accomplished. Do not do you suppose that I
Speaker 1: came to give peace on earth? I tell you see,
Speaker 1: see the truth hurts, right, it says, I tell you
Speaker 1: not at all, but rather division from from now on,
Speaker 1: five in one house would be divided three against two,
Speaker 1: two against three. All right, So yeah, that's kind of
Speaker 1: self explanatory there, Hu twelve, verse fifty four. Discern the time,
Speaker 1: then he said to the multitudes, wherever you see a
Speaker 1: cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say a
Speaker 1: shower is coming, and so it is. And when you
Speaker 1: see the south wind blow, you say there will be
Speaker 1: hot weather, and there is hypocrites. You can't discern the
Speaker 1: face of the sky and on the earth, and how
Speaker 1: it is you do not discern this time? So Jesus
Speaker 1: criticizes the crowds for the ability to interpret weather signs
Speaker 1: but failing to discern the present time, urging them to
Speaker 1: recognize the significance of his ministry. Make peace with your adversary, yes,
Speaker 1: and why even of yourselves do you not judge what
Speaker 1: is right? When you go with your adversary to the magistrate,
Speaker 1: make every effort along the way to settle with him,
Speaker 1: unless you drag you to the judge. The judge, deliver
Speaker 1: you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
Speaker 1: I tell her you shall not depart from there too.
Speaker 1: You have paid the very last mic. So Jesus advised
Speaker 1: that suddenly disputes quickly before reaching the judge to avoid
Speaker 1: severe consequences. This serves as a metaphor for reconciling with
Speaker 1: God before judgment. And let's see. So, so we're done
Speaker 1: with this chapter, Let's look at some practical applications. Cultivate
Speaker 1: a healthy fear of God. Reflect on areas where you
Speaker 1: may fear human opinion more than God's truth, and ask
Speaker 1: God to help you prioritize his perspective. So, how often
Speaker 1: are we fearing human's opinions or what they think about
Speaker 1: us or you know, like when I started a podcast,
Speaker 1: you know, a Christian and conspiracy podcast, how many people,
Speaker 1: Like did I make enemies as soon as I started
Speaker 1: that A lot, when I started talking about biblical cosmology,
Speaker 1: I made a lot of enemies. But I don't care,
Speaker 1: you know, because I personally would I would rather impress
Speaker 1: God than people. I don't really care. I'm here to
Speaker 1: impress God. I'm not here to impress people. That's just
Speaker 1: me and I think that's the way we should live.
Speaker 1: And I'll always spread God's truth even I'll even go
Speaker 1: on podcasts where like I was I was talking about earlier,
Speaker 1: I'll go on podcasts where maybe they're not they're non believers,
Speaker 1: and I'll go through you know, I know them that
Speaker 1: I'm in a den of atheists, but I'll still always
Speaker 1: refer to the Bible the whole show, and I'll speak.
Speaker 1: I'll speak, and then I'll refer to the Word of God,
Speaker 1: because I know that the Word of God is like
Speaker 1: a sharp, double edged sword ready to slice through these
Speaker 1: atheists words. Next one is going to be trust in
Speaker 1: God's provision. Identify specific worries you have about your needs
Speaker 1: and commit them to God in prayer. Trusting in his provision.
Speaker 1: Boldly confess your faith. Look for opportunity to share your
Speaker 1: faith with others, trusting that Jesus will honor your confession.
Speaker 1: That's for sure. We're we should be disciples. We should
Speaker 1: be spreading the good news. That's our whole point and
Speaker 1: being on this earth is that. Let me see how
Speaker 1: long the next chapter is out. It's very short, So
Speaker 1: that's going to be perfect because I have twenty minutes. Okay,
Speaker 1: So evaluate your priorities. Assess your financial and life goals
Speaker 1: to ensure that they align with being rich toward God
Speaker 1: rather than merely accumulating wealth. That's we kind of went
Speaker 1: over that before. Live with the eternal perspective. Regularly remind
Speaker 1: yourself of the temporary nature of this world and importance
Speaker 1: of being ready for Christ's return. Okay, that's we. We
Speaker 1: definitely need to know that, and everybody needs to know that.
Speaker 1: Everybody that's living on this earth needs to know that,
Speaker 1: because not all of us do that. We're not. We're not.
Speaker 1: We wouldn't be prepared if Jesus came tomorrow, would we.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, guys, but am I sorry?
Speaker 1: I'm getting I'm just drinking honey, real quick. See, pastors
Speaker 1: are blessed. You know. Pastors are blessed because they do
Speaker 1: like forty five minute Bible studies. We do two hours.
Speaker 1: We hit it. We hit it hard. You know. It
Speaker 1: takes a lot of research to uh to do this.
Speaker 1: So all right, here we go, Luke thirteen, verse one.
Speaker 1: There were present, they there, there, There were present at
Speaker 1: this season, some who told him about the Galileans, whose
Speaker 1: blood pilot had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answered
Speaker 1: and said to them, do you suppose that the Galileans
Speaker 1: were worse sinners than all the other Galleans because they
Speaker 1: suffered such things? I tell you no, but unless you repent,
Speaker 1: you will be Likewise you will like life all likewise perish.
Speaker 1: Or Or those eighteen on whom the Tower of Saloam
Speaker 1: fell and killed them, do you think they were worse
Speaker 1: sinners than all the other men who dwelt in Jerusalem?
Speaker 1: I tell you no, but unless you repent, you will
Speaker 1: likewise perish. Jesus uses the tragedies of the Galleons and
Speaker 1: the Tower of Salom to emphasize that suffering is not
Speaker 1: always a direct result of personal sin. Instead, he calls
Speaker 1: everyone to repentance. But unless you repent, you will all perish. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we need to understand that. Right. Repent. Okay, if they
Speaker 1: repented before this happened, it doesn't matter because they're going
Speaker 1: to go to heaven anyways, if they repented and they
Speaker 1: believed in Jesus. Right. The parable of the baron fig
Speaker 1: He also spoke this parable. A certain men had a
Speaker 1: fake tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking
Speaker 1: fruit on it and found none. Then he found He
Speaker 1: said to the keeper of his vineyard, look, for three
Speaker 1: years I have come seeking fruit on this fake tree
Speaker 1: and find none. Cut it down. Why does it use
Speaker 1: up the ground. But he answered and said to him, sir,
Speaker 1: let this let it alone this year until I dig
Speaker 1: it around it and fertilize it and it bears fruit. Well,
Speaker 1: but if not, after that, you can cut it down.
Speaker 1: So he's just saying, you know, give it time. Let
Speaker 1: me fertilized it so that it bears fruit. So the
Speaker 1: parable illustrates God's patience and the opportunity for repentance, Yet
Speaker 1: it also warns of the It also warns of the
Speaker 1: consequences of continued unfruitfulness. We need to you know, we're
Speaker 1: known by our fruits, right, whatever fruits that we produce,
Speaker 1: and you know, we need to make sure that we're fruitful,
Speaker 1: right for sure. A spirit of infirmity. This is Luke
Speaker 1: thirteen ten. Now he was teaching in one of the
Speaker 1: synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold there was a woman
Speaker 1: who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years and was
Speaker 1: bent over and couldn't and could could in no ways
Speaker 1: raise herself up. But when Jesus saw her, he called
Speaker 1: her to him and said, to her, woman, you are
Speaker 1: loosened from your infirmity. And he laid his hands on her,
Speaker 1: and immediately she was made straight and glorified God. So
Speaker 1: but the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because
Speaker 1: Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, and he said to
Speaker 1: the crowd, there are six days in which men ought
Speaker 1: to work. Therefore come and be healed on them, and
Speaker 1: not the Sabbath day. The Lord answered him and said, hypocrite,
Speaker 1: does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose
Speaker 1: his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it
Speaker 1: away to water it. So this woman, being a daughter
Speaker 1: of Abraham, who Satan has bound think of it. For
Speaker 1: eighteen years, he loosened from the bound to the Sabbath,
Speaker 1: from the bound on the Sabbath. And when he said
Speaker 1: these things, all the adversaries were put to shame, and
Speaker 1: the multitude rejoice for all the glorious things that were
Speaker 1: done by him. So Jesus heals a crippled woman on
Speaker 1: the Sabbath, challenging the legalistic interpretations of the law and
Speaker 1: demonstrating the priority of compassion over ritual. So also, if
Speaker 1: you look, it talks about like, you know, if a
Speaker 1: sheep were to fall in or dang. I can't remember
Speaker 1: which verse that is, but he's talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: if your animal falls into the water once you save it.
Speaker 1: On the Sabbath, it's kind of the same thing. That's
Speaker 1: what he's doing, you know. So I don't think they
Speaker 1: understand the Sabbath. You know, it's they don't understand the
Speaker 1: point of the Sabbath is to be holy. And by
Speaker 1: him healing this woman, he is being holy. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a it's a day set apart, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's a holy it's it's God has set it apart
Speaker 1: to be holy. So if your house is on fire
Speaker 1: on the Sabbath. Do you not get water to put
Speaker 1: it out? Or do you say, eh, it's all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let my house burn down because it's the
Speaker 1: Sabbath today and I can't work. So if your child
Speaker 1: is choking, you know, on a on on chicken, and
Speaker 1: you're like, I'm sorry, you're gonna have to die because
Speaker 1: I can't work on the Sabbath, you see, it's like
Speaker 1: they don't get it. They're all about that ritual, religious
Speaker 1: ritual and law abiding and pushing, and he's telling their hypocrites, okay,
Speaker 1: the parable of the mustard seed. Then he said, what
Speaker 1: is the Kingdom of God like? And how shall it
Speaker 1: compare it? How shall I compare it? It is like
Speaker 1: a mustard seed which a man took and put in
Speaker 1: his garden and grew, became a large tree, and the
Speaker 1: birds of the air nested on its branches. People, no
Speaker 1: places events. So the parable of the mustard seed compares
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God to a mustard seed in yeast.
Speaker 1: The mustard seed, though small, grows into a large tree,
Speaker 1: and the yeast leavens the whole batch of dough. These
Speaker 1: parables highlight the expansive and transformative nature of God's kingdom.
Speaker 1: And then Jesus heals a woman who have been crippled
Speaker 1: for eighteen years. He declares the woman, you are set
Speaker 1: free from the infirmity. The Greek word for set free
Speaker 1: is apolio, indicating a release of liberation. The miracle sparks
Speaker 1: a debate about the appropriateness of healing on the Sabbath,
Speaker 1: And then we talked about the parable of the mustard seed.
Speaker 1: Already now we're at Luke thirteen, verse twenty two. And
Speaker 1: he went through the cities and villages teaching and journey
Speaker 1: toward Jerusalem. Then one said to him, Lord, are there
Speaker 1: few who are saved? And he said to them, strive
Speaker 1: to enter through the narrow gate. For many, I say
Speaker 1: to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
Speaker 1: When once the master of the house has risen up
Speaker 1: and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside
Speaker 1: and knock on the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open for us,
Speaker 1: and he will answer and say to you, I do
Speaker 1: not know you. Where are you from? And then you
Speaker 1: begin to say, we ate and drinking your presence, and
Speaker 1: you taught in our streets. But he will say, I
Speaker 1: tell you I do not know you. Where are you
Speaker 1: from depart from me, all you workers of iniquity. There
Speaker 1: will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. And you will
Speaker 1: see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and all the prophets
Speaker 1: of the Kingdom of God, and yourself thrust out. They
Speaker 1: will come from the east and the west, and from
Speaker 1: the north in the south, and sit down at the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of God. And indeed there are last who will
Speaker 1: be first, and first who will be last. So Jesus
Speaker 1: teaches about entering through the narrow door, warning that many
Speaker 1: will seek to enter but will not be able. He
Speaker 1: emphasizes the urgency of responding to God's invitation, as the
Speaker 1: door will not remain open indefinitely. So we got to understand, too,
Speaker 1: man strive to enter through the narrow gate. For many
Speaker 1: I say to you will seek to enter, but will
Speaker 1: not be able. So that should send chills up and
Speaker 1: down your spine too. When he says, we ate and
Speaker 1: drank in your presence. You taught in our streets. But
Speaker 1: he will say, I will tell you I do not
Speaker 1: know you where you are from. Depart from me, all
Speaker 1: your workers of iniquity, He's staying. There will be weeping
Speaker 1: and gnashing of teeth because people will be complaining and say,
Speaker 1: Lord Lord, you know I prophesize in your name. I
Speaker 1: all these things you know that Jesus talks about in
Speaker 1: another passes when he's talking about this, I cast out
Speaker 1: demons are prophesizing your name. Depart from me because I
Speaker 1: never knew you, you workers of iniquity. Let me see
Speaker 1: real quick. That's Luke thirteen. Let me just look at
Speaker 1: the strongest concordance for you, guys, Luke thirteen. I want
Speaker 1: to see what that word iniquity means. In the Greek
Speaker 1: the East of the West. Your workers of iniquity is
Speaker 1: twenty seven Luke thirteen. Twenty seven, Yeah, iniquities in the
Speaker 1: King James as well, Let's see your workers of unrighteousness
Speaker 1: of the heart, a deed violating law and justice, active
Speaker 1: unrighteousness injustice, or a judge unrighteousness of heart and life.
Speaker 1: So it's in Luke, workers of iniquity. That's also another
Speaker 1: word he could use, unjust. Another word he can use
Speaker 1: is unrighteousness. Okay, that's that's what it is. It's unrighteousness,
Speaker 1: your workers of unrighteousness or workers of iniquity. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: continue on that very day. Some Pharisees came to him, saying,
Speaker 1: get out and depart from here, for Herod wants to
Speaker 1: kill you. And he said to them, go tell Sorry,
Speaker 1: he says, go tell that fox. Behold, I cast out demons,
Speaker 1: have performed curious today and tomorrow, and another third day
Speaker 1: I shall be perfected. Nevertheless, I much journey today, tomorrow
Speaker 1: and the day following. Where it cannot be that a
Speaker 1: prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem. Let's go back to Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go thirty one through thirty five. Pharisees warned
Speaker 1: Jesus that Herod wants to kill him. Jesus responds by
Speaker 1: expressing sorrow over Jerusalem's rejection of God's messengers. So let's continue, says,
Speaker 1: Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and
Speaker 1: stone those who are sent to her. How often I
Speaker 1: wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers
Speaker 1: her broad under her wings, but you were not willing
Speaker 1: see your house is left you desolate, and assuredly, I
Speaker 1: say to you, you shall not see me until the
Speaker 1: time comes when you say, blessed is he who comes
Speaker 1: in the name of the Lord. So how often have
Speaker 1: I longed to gather you together children, as a hen
Speaker 1: gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling.
Speaker 1: The imagery of the hen gathering chicks reflects God's protective
Speaker 1: and nurturing desire for his people. And then Jesus warns
Speaker 1: that the entry into the Kingdom of God christs earnest effort,
Speaker 1: and many who assume they yeah, many assume that they're
Speaker 1: in clude, we'll find themselves outside. And then Jesus laments
Speaker 1: over Jerusalem. Jesus expresses sorrow over Jerusalem's rejection of him,
Speaker 1: highlighting his desire to gather and protect his people. So
Speaker 1: he's like seeing that you guys don't even know, like
Speaker 1: I wanted to gather you and want you guys to believe,
Speaker 1: but you reject me. Sweet, So this is this is
Speaker 1: we're gonna be starting next week. And Luke fourteen, let
Speaker 1: me go over some practical applications for you guys before
Speaker 1: we end this. Examine your heart regularly, assess your life
Speaker 1: for areas needing repentance, and seek God's forgiveness and transformation.
Speaker 1: It's not only about asking God forgiveness, but it's about
Speaker 1: you doing a one to eighty from those sins. That
Speaker 1: you're asking God to forgive you for bear fruits. Strive
Speaker 1: to live a life that reflects the values of God's Kingdom,
Speaker 1: producing spiritual fruit in your actions and relationships. Prioritize compassion.
Speaker 1: Follow Jesus' example by placing love and compassion above legalistic
Speaker 1: practices and traditions, men's traditions. Okay, we gotta we got
Speaker 1: to choose the word over men's traditions. We got to
Speaker 1: choose the word over culture. Okay, cultural biases, anything like that.
Speaker 1: You've got to choose the word over the world all
Speaker 1: day long. Okay. Embrace small beginnings. Trust that God can
Speaker 1: use small acts of faith and obedience to accomplish great
Speaker 1: things in his kingdom. Strive for the kingdom. Make a
Speaker 1: conscious effort to live according to God's will, understanding that
Speaker 1: entry into His kingdom requires commitment and perseverance. Let's stop
Speaker 1: screaming or sharing this so once again, what an awesome study.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. I will be more studied up. I
Speaker 1: feel like I studied Luke ten eleven pretty good, ten
Speaker 1: and eleven and twelve pretty good. Thirteen I didn't get
Speaker 1: too so I kind of just had to kind of
Speaker 1: go off some notes that I had for that chapter.
Speaker 1: But I really appreciate you guys joining me for this
Speaker 1: Wednesday service show. And I just want to say, continue
Speaker 1: to comment on Spotify and also leave reviews on Apple.
Speaker 1: It's really important for cult conspiracy, for Jonathan and Jacob
Speaker 1: and if we want to keep this show on the air,
Speaker 1: and I want to keep this Bible study going. I
Speaker 1: want to finish the whole Bible with you guys, and
Speaker 1: hopefully we can read the Bible again. I want to
Speaker 1: keep it on as long as possible, So continue to
Speaker 1: please comment. And if you listened all the way through,
Speaker 1: comment below that you finished the whole book of the
Speaker 1: whole all the chapters that we went over. Just say
Speaker 1: I finished Luke thirteen. I went I got to Luke thirteen,
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Speaker 1: much appreciated if you guys leave comments on Spotify, okay,
Speaker 1: and thank you, And like we always do, we're gonna
Speaker 1: end this in prayer. So Father God, in the name
Speaker 1: of Jesus, and you show the Mischiak's name. I ask you, Lord,
Speaker 1: to help me focus when I'm studying. Sometimes I'm studying
Speaker 1: at work and I got all these things happening, and
Speaker 1: it's it's hard for me to focus, and sometimes I
Speaker 1: dip into another video, some other video, like you know,
Speaker 1: some conspiracy videos or whatever. The Lord, just help me
Speaker 1: focus on the Bible study and focus on your word.
Speaker 1: We'll be talking about Deuteronomy, you know, the Book of Deuteronomy,
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy five on Sunday service, Lord assists me and learning
Speaker 1: everything I need to know and make sure that I'm
Speaker 1: spiritually equipped and ready to teach. Lord, please and keep
Speaker 1: my mind clear of any distractions. And Lord keep my
Speaker 1: mind able to teach and to preach and whatever the
Speaker 1: people need. Lord, please provide me with the words to
Speaker 1: speak to assist people in their lives. And I just
Speaker 1: ask that you please assist anybody that is listening that
Speaker 1: needs you. Lord, it that's on the fence, that's going
Speaker 1: through alcohol, marijuana, ecstasy, mushrooms, methan feta means cocaine, whatever
Speaker 1: that people have issues with. Lord, I asked that you
Speaker 1: break those chains and make it so they're not a
Speaker 1: slave to that, you know, to any of those drugs.
Speaker 1: And I want to pray for my friend. He was
Speaker 1: asking me about if marijuana is bad, you know, if
Speaker 1: it's against God and against you, Lord, and I just
Speaker 1: asked that you show him spiritually, show him through Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit whether it is or not. I know you want
Speaker 1: us to be sober, sober minded, be vigilant. And he
Speaker 1: was telling me he uses it as a as a medicine,
Speaker 1: you know, for for something that he has. So just
Speaker 1: to show him if you can, Lord, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to say any names. You know who it is, and
Speaker 1: that gentleman knows who it is as well. So I
Speaker 1: want to pray for him. And I also I want
Speaker 1: to pray for any anybody going through lustful desires, Lord,
Speaker 1: any kind of lustful desires. Lord, I pray for them
Speaker 1: that you break those chains and and and don't let
Speaker 1: them be a slave to that anymore. H correct them,
Speaker 1: correct their path, help them to do your will, and
Speaker 1: show them the verses that they need to say to
Speaker 1: resist the devil. We know that if we resist the devil,
Speaker 1: he shall flee. Lord, give us the Bible verses on
Speaker 1: the spot. Let your Holy Spirit speak through us so
Speaker 1: that we can dodge the wives of the devil or
Speaker 1: the adversary. Satan has Satan. We want to dodge the
Speaker 1: wiles of the devil, so help us to do that. Lord,
Speaker 1: thank you for this platform, thank you for the people
Speaker 1: that are listening, and thank you so much for everything
Speaker 1: you do for us. We love you in Jesus name. Amen.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you guys for listening. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Like I said comment below, Sunday service is gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see you guys there and Wednesday service.
Speaker 1: Next week. I will be more prepared. I feel like
Speaker 1: I was this week. It's just very hard. I had
Speaker 1: a lot of samples I was doing at work, and
Speaker 1: I have to focus, you know, when I'm doing that,
Speaker 1: and it's harder to listen to my to pastors preach.
Speaker 1: But hopefully you enjoyed this week and next week it'll
Speaker 1: be better. I will do my best. Thank you guys
Speaker 1: so much. I love you guys, and God bless you.