Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Wednesday Service, episode thirteen, brought
Speaker 1: to you by Cult the Conspiracy Podcast. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Josh Monday. If you don't know me, I'm a Christian rapper,
Speaker 1: devoted husband, father, and army veteran. So yes, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining me. My goodness, you know what,
Speaker 1: what a blessing, What a blessing. My voice is actually back,
Speaker 1: thank you Lord. Oh my goodness. I had people praying
Speaker 1: for me. And also I had somebody come on on
Speaker 1: my regular show, Josh Monday, Christian Conspiracy Podcast, and they
Speaker 1: did a we actually did a healing show. It's not
Speaker 1: out yet, it's coming out in the cup in like
Speaker 1: in a week, healing and deliverance. And the gentleman was
Speaker 1: praying for my shoulder which didn't get healed, but you know,
Speaker 1: we prayed about my throat and stuff. So now I
Speaker 1: feel like it is coming back, thank God. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and I got a few people I want to shout
Speaker 1: out because you guys are commenting like crazy, and like
Speaker 1: I said, that helps me a lot. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: It pushes the algorithm up, it gets to new people.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing new comments, so maybe new people are listening now,
Speaker 1: so I want to thank Aaron. Amazing episode. Always look
Speaker 1: forward to Wednesday and Sunday service now. God bless you
Speaker 1: and yours. Yes, God bless you too. Glenn Cole, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for commenting. You're from Northern Ireland. That
Speaker 1: is amazing. Yes, and yeah backslider, how many people are
Speaker 1: not backsliding? Man? A lot of people are going through
Speaker 1: that right now, So don't worry, bro, just keep pushing
Speaker 1: forward and if you need any assistance, you could always
Speaker 1: DM me at Josh Monday Underscore podcast Glenn. Especially if
Speaker 1: you feel like you're backsliding or you're having some type
Speaker 1: of issue, please reach out Josh Monday Underscore Podcast on
Speaker 1: Instagram and I if that's not work for you, just
Speaker 1: email me at Josh Monday at Rockameil dot com so
Speaker 1: I can help you. Okay, I am here for you.
Speaker 1: Josh Monday at rockamel dot com is my email, so
Speaker 1: go ahead and hit me up and I promise I
Speaker 1: will do my best to help you. If you feel
Speaker 1: like you're having some type of issue backsliding, I will
Speaker 1: be here for you, Okay, Glenn, Glenn Cole, hopefully you
Speaker 1: hear this episode TC. Thank you once again, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Another banger. Yeah, I love the bat new technology and
Speaker 1: it can bring. Yes, Yes, we got to use this
Speaker 1: technology TC for good. You know, we got to use
Speaker 1: zoom for good. We got to use the Internet for
Speaker 1: good because it's used for so much bad only fans, pornography, uh,
Speaker 1: people picking up on little kids. I mean just a
Speaker 1: lot of bad stuff, right, People buying drugs to the Internet,
Speaker 1: people doing podcasts about Satanism and all this other stuff.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I just laughed. Sorry, I
Speaker 1: just have to laugh because I know some you know,
Speaker 1: there's probably someone on this podcast, you know, not on mine,
Speaker 1: but you know. But I'm just saying like they're using
Speaker 1: it for for And I'm not saying Cult to Conspiracy
Speaker 1: is a Satanist or anything, but they do have some
Speaker 1: very odd shows. I've seen a list of them. But
Speaker 1: I love those brothers, Jonathan and Jacob. Thank you for
Speaker 1: having me. But all I want to say is we
Speaker 1: got to use this for good. We got to use
Speaker 1: this for studying the Word of God. We got to
Speaker 1: use this to reach as many people as we can.
Speaker 1: We got to use this to help people that are
Speaker 1: addicted to drugs. We got we gotta help this too.
Speaker 1: We got to use this to make it so that
Speaker 1: people get compassion and hope, you know, and love. There's
Speaker 1: so much to this, you know. So anyways, TC, thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Praise God. Yes, I appreciate you. I
Speaker 1: see you commenting a lot on my show as well, TC,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you. I talk to you on Instagram.
Speaker 1: You can always hit me up anytime. Brother, uh creole
Speaker 1: Marie underscore Nola once again. Yes, New Orleans born and raised. Yes.
Speaker 1: As far as the comment by not being the best
Speaker 1: Bible study or study here, al way, it's the time
Speaker 1: taking to explain research and break it down that I appreciate.
Speaker 1: Thank you, I appreciate you. Feels more personal. Love just
Speaker 1: stick better my brain. Well, I appreciate that, you know,
Speaker 1: And I hope that. I hope that that's what I
Speaker 1: hopefully I'm doing that. Hopefully I'm making it easy to digest,
Speaker 1: you know. And I'm I think it's it's fun and
Speaker 1: enjoyable for me to be doing this, and I think
Speaker 1: it's such a blessing and it's I'm blessed to be
Speaker 1: in this position to be able to teach you guys. Mitch,
Speaker 1: thank you glory to God for the most High, for
Speaker 1: just distributing the weekly meet for the starving soul to
Speaker 1: chew on. Yes, Amen, God bless you brother Mitch. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, Jerry. I really actually enjoy the way
Speaker 1: you explain the Bible in a way. Thank you so much, Jerry.
Speaker 1: I don't read the whole comment because I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to boast myself. I'm just trying to kind of let
Speaker 1: people interacting with you guys as much as I can. Jerry,
Speaker 1: Thank you. I can understand and believe that you're definitely
Speaker 1: doing I mean, thank you. I appreciate it. All glory
Speaker 1: to God. Anybody that's starting to give me compliments on
Speaker 1: anything I'm doing, just know it's all glory to God.
Speaker 1: I have been through a lot in my life, okay,
Speaker 1: and I've been through the military. I've had a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff that I've been through, and to be where
Speaker 1: I'm at now is a miracle. And God is great
Speaker 1: and precious and beautiful and amazing and such an awesome
Speaker 1: you know, we have such an awesome God. Alex and
Speaker 1: kay Nz, thank you, Josh, very valuable lesson about the
Speaker 1: contest Old Testament. Thank you. Yes and yeah and we
Speaker 1: made it. I mean, we're almost gonna make it through
Speaker 1: the Book of Numbers on Sunday Service. You know this
Speaker 1: is window service right now. But we're almost gonna make
Speaker 1: it through the Book of Numbers. That is crazy. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go through Deuteronomy and watch, it's gonna fly
Speaker 1: and six months for now. Watch, we're gonna be so
Speaker 1: deep in the Old Testament. It's gonna be amazing. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna continue this and md MP twenty two always
Speaker 1: commenting every show awesome. And then let me see, I'll
Speaker 1: go back to Wednesday Service of last week and see
Speaker 1: if anybody commented or had any questions. Oh you know what,
Speaker 1: I cannot miss this. Listen, I cannot miss this. Who
Speaker 1: is it? Luke five? Whose comment was that? Somebody commented
Speaker 1: on Patreon. It's like, I think it's God five forty
Speaker 1: two h z. I think that's who you are. I
Speaker 1: know I took a picture. Oh mention. Oh okay, okay,
Speaker 1: God is love. That's what it is. God is love
Speaker 1: five hundred and twenty eight megahertz. These days, when it
Speaker 1: comes to prayer manifestations, I know Jesus said anything you
Speaker 1: asked my name my sheell do. However, for me, one
Speaker 1: of the biggest shifts in my life has come since
Speaker 1: I started only praying for others and only asking for
Speaker 1: myself when it's something Okay, so let's stop right there. Yeah, so, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're praying for others. I think that's that's what you
Speaker 1: should do. I think we should pray for obedience. I
Speaker 1: think we should pray for others. I think that's great, bro. Okay,
Speaker 1: and I think, yeah, I do think. You know, when
Speaker 1: Jesus says that it is still it's still like he
Speaker 1: will answer as long as it's God's will. Right, even
Speaker 1: when he was on earth, what did he say? He
Speaker 1: prayed to God, take this cup from me, but if not,
Speaker 1: I'll do your will, you know, so like he wants
Speaker 1: to do God's will. So even if we do pray
Speaker 1: for things, it's definitely whatever God wills. You know. If
Speaker 1: you pray for a ferrari and it's not in God's
Speaker 1: will that you know, obviously ain't gonna get a ferrari.
Speaker 1: So I like what you're saying there, Bro. Biggest shifts
Speaker 1: in my life have come when I started praying for others, yes,
Speaker 1: only asking for myself when it's something that stands in
Speaker 1: the way or will help me better serve God. Yes, awesome.
Speaker 1: I prayed for things like love, material things lately so
Speaker 1: that I could help more people, et cetera. And never work.
Speaker 1: Since I quit asking for those things, and I've only
Speaker 1: prayed for God's will for me. Yes, and serve the
Speaker 1: Lord and help others, and have done those things. I
Speaker 1: have seen a shift in happiness abundance. Abundance as far
Speaker 1: as the things I want or I will be happy
Speaker 1: like a family, a child, etc. Who already knows better
Speaker 1: those things than God. Yes, and even more so then
Speaker 1: I want. God knows far better than me what is
Speaker 1: best for me. He does. I agree with you so much, bro,
Speaker 1: And when it comes to me so it seems to
Speaker 1: make sense. It definitely does. Of course, I'm also an
Speaker 1: addict and alcoholics, and maybe it's different from me. Love
Speaker 1: to hear your thoughts on that. Yeah, I really agree
Speaker 1: with you, bro, And you know what, I was an
Speaker 1: addict too, you know, I used to be addicted to drugs,
Speaker 1: you know. And I was an addict. And now most
Speaker 1: people say you're an addict for life. I'm addicted to
Speaker 1: God and I'm addicted to the Bible. I'm addicted to
Speaker 1: the word now, and I'm addicted to the gym, all right,
Speaker 1: I know that's what I'll say. So, yeah, I'm still
Speaker 1: an addict, but I'm addicted to God. I replaced those
Speaker 1: bad habits that I had of drugs, alcohol, partying, chasing women,
Speaker 1: chasing fame, chasing all that stuff, you know. I replaced
Speaker 1: it with very positive things the Bible, praising God, doing
Speaker 1: a podcast, and now doing a Bible study for you guys,
Speaker 1: and also the gym. Okay, that's like the five things
Speaker 1: I replaced it with. And when I ended up getting saved,
Speaker 1: I don't need anything else. I don't need anything else.
Speaker 1: I don't need to go watch a movie. I don't
Speaker 1: need to do certain things to be happy anymore. I'm
Speaker 1: happy with with praising God, reading the Bible, when I
Speaker 1: work out, I listen to sermons on what my show
Speaker 1: is going to be about. I'm literally constantly researching, and
Speaker 1: that fulfills me. Now, it might be different for other people,
Speaker 1: but what I'm doing right now with the Bible and
Speaker 1: everything on this show and also and also you know,
Speaker 1: when I get to research and study and everything that
Speaker 1: fulfills me, that fulfills my heart and to be able
Speaker 1: to hear from people like you, God is love five
Speaker 1: point twenty eight HC. To know that you're an addict,
Speaker 1: an alcoholic, and to be able to do a Bible
Speaker 1: study for you is such a blessing for me because
Speaker 1: if you saw me before I joined the army, like,
Speaker 1: let me see two thousand and fourteen, right, twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: maybe twenty thirteen, I was a completely different person than
Speaker 1: I am now. Okay, I wasn't a jerk. Even though
Speaker 1: I was doing drugs. I wasn't a jerk or anything
Speaker 1: like that. I was just I was still nice to people,
Speaker 1: but I was a total, complete different person as far
Speaker 1: as my priorities. Everything was not in line. Nothing. Okay.
Speaker 1: So if anybody out there is struggling, what I want
Speaker 1: to tell you is, you see my voice is coming back.
Speaker 1: You see it's starting to get a little weird again.
Speaker 1: What I want to tell you is that first of all,
Speaker 1: God loves you, and you know those that lost sheep,
Speaker 1: the one He's gonna go get you, and then the
Speaker 1: angels of heaven are going to rejoice when he gets you.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I just I'm really really happy that I'm
Speaker 1: able to be here for you. God is Love five
Speaker 1: twenty eight hc to do a Bible study for you
Speaker 1: and with you, right. I think it's amazing, So God
Speaker 1: bless you, Happiness, Helson Miracles for their thank you and
Speaker 1: I do always miss. I don't have access to Patreon
Speaker 1: like where I could see comments. So if I miss
Speaker 1: anybody that's on Patreon about your comments or anything like that,
Speaker 1: I apologize. I'm not trying to do that on purpose.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to only shout out people on Spotify.
Speaker 1: If you listen on Apple speaker Box any other thing,
Speaker 1: I love you guys. I I only really get to
Speaker 1: see the messages on Spotify because this is not my account, right,
Speaker 1: this is Jonathan and Jacob Quote Conspiracy's account, right, So
Speaker 1: I don't really get to see that. So that's all
Speaker 1: the comments I kind of wanted to go over. I'll
Speaker 1: look at I'll look at Wednesday service. There was ten
Speaker 1: comments on Wednesday service, which is amazing. Cal thank you
Speaker 1: so much, Alex again and Arnold zero nine zero seven
Speaker 1: shout out to you again. I Garz at eighty four
Speaker 1: h two shout out to you again. Kelly Cross like always,
Speaker 1: thank you, Harley athen I know you said you skipped
Speaker 1: this blah blah blah. That's what you said. You said,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to do that to him. He did
Speaker 1: to me. He said, honestly, skip this off. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Sip drink, drink for a while. Whatever. It's okay, Harley,
Speaker 1: Thank you. You know what you commented, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: push the algorithm up. More people gonna hear the show.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you, Stavo. Let's go. Thank you. So, you know what, Harley,
Speaker 1: I love you, brother, and I hope that sometime that
Speaker 1: you can DM me on Instagram and maybe we could talk,
Speaker 1: and maybe I could talk to you and see what
Speaker 1: you're missing in your life. You might be missing something
Speaker 1: and if you're trying to fill it with alcohol or whatever,
Speaker 1: it looks like you said, drink drink. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I can assist you as well. But anyways, thank
Speaker 1: you guys so much. This is episode thirteen and we
Speaker 1: are going to get into Luke five. So let me
Speaker 1: get to my notes really quick. Luke chapter five. Let's
Speaker 1: go all right, let's go ahead and pull up the
Speaker 1: Bible app all right for anybody that could see on
Speaker 1: Patreon Luke five all right, let's do that, and I
Speaker 1: have okay, So here we go. We're going to be
Speaker 1: on luke five verse one four fishermen called as disciples.
Speaker 1: So it was as the multitude pressed about him to
Speaker 1: hear the word of God, that he stood by the
Speaker 1: lake of Guinness rhtt and saw two boats standing by
Speaker 1: the lake, but the fishermen had gone from them and
Speaker 1: were washing their nets. Then he got into one of
Speaker 1: the boats, with which was Simon's Simon be and Peter
Speaker 1: and asked him to put out a little from the
Speaker 1: land to put him wait. Asked him to put out
Speaker 1: a little from the land, and he sat down and
Speaker 1: taked the multitudes from the boat. Now, one thing that
Speaker 1: Jesus used to do. You know, if you are out
Speaker 1: fishing with your your grandpa or your dad, or your
Speaker 1: brother or your cousin, and you're on a boat and
Speaker 1: then you're talking, if you notice, your voice will carry
Speaker 1: across the lake. And sometimes you can hear people talking
Speaker 1: from the shore and they're speaking, or people on boats,
Speaker 1: you're able to kind of hear how their voice carries.
Speaker 1: So Jesus when he was you know, instead of him
Speaker 1: being rushed by the multitude of people, sometimes he would
Speaker 1: ask to be on a boat and kind of be
Speaker 1: out in the lake a little bit and then kind
Speaker 1: of speaking to the audience. His voice will carry, and
Speaker 1: it's kind of easier for him to probably maybe I
Speaker 1: would say concentrate, even though he probably concentrates just fine.
Speaker 1: But this is just what I'm seeing, you know. So,
Speaker 1: oh my bad, I'm sorry, I accidentally clicked the verse.
Speaker 1: When he had stopped speaking. He said to Simon, launch
Speaker 1: into the deep and let your nets for a catch.
Speaker 1: Let down your nets for a catch. But Simon answered
Speaker 1: and said to him, Master, we have toiled all night
Speaker 1: and caught nothing. Nevertheless, at your word, I will let
Speaker 1: down the net. So what I'm seeing there is I'm
Speaker 1: seeing a little bit of doubt right in Peter. I'm
Speaker 1: seeing that. I'm seeing that Peter had to mention, you know,
Speaker 1: the toil all night caught nothing. But then he's like,
Speaker 1: but I'll still, you know, I'll still put your put
Speaker 1: the net down. So he is being obedient, but he's
Speaker 1: mentioning the lack of faith first. So that's what I'm
Speaker 1: kind of seeing there. And when they had done this,
Speaker 1: they caught a great number of fish and their net
Speaker 1: was breaking, so they signaled to their partners in the
Speaker 1: other boat to come and help them, and they came
Speaker 1: and filled both the boats so that they began to sink.
Speaker 1: When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus's knees, saying,
Speaker 1: depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
Speaker 1: So something I'm seeing here is he's already seen Jesus
Speaker 1: do some miracles, right, So, but this one is actually
Speaker 1: this one is actually personal for Peter, right, this is
Speaker 1: a miracle that was personally done for Peter. Jesus obviously
Speaker 1: was feeling some type of lack of faith, and Peter like,
Speaker 1: how are you gonna doubt when you see all the
Speaker 1: miracles he's doing? But we're human, you know, And I
Speaker 1: obviously I have lack of faith sometimes too, and probably
Speaker 1: mostly everybody that acts like they have all the faith
Speaker 1: and the world has a lack of faith too when
Speaker 1: it comes to a certain extent. So I'm not judging
Speaker 1: Peter here, but you hear the lack of faith, right. So,
Speaker 1: and then when Peter drops down, it says that he
Speaker 1: fell down to his knees. That actually, in the Greek
Speaker 1: means to be fearful, so he was like fearful. He
Speaker 1: was fearing the Lord right, so he feared the fact
Speaker 1: that he didn't have the faith right there, he probably
Speaker 1: felt that write a little bit of conviction there, saying
Speaker 1: depart from me, for I am a sinful man. Old
Speaker 1: Lord will continue Luke five, verse nine, for he and
Speaker 1: all who were with him were astonished at the catch
Speaker 1: of fish which they had taken. And so also were
Speaker 1: James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners
Speaker 1: with Simon. So those are the two that came over.
Speaker 1: And looks like it was James and John who also
Speaker 1: were his disciples, and Jesus said to Simon, do not
Speaker 1: be afraid. From now on you will catch men, Okay.
Speaker 1: So when they had brought their boats to the land,
Speaker 1: they forsook all and followed him. So it's amazing because
Speaker 1: Jesus does a personal miracle for Peter, and also it's
Speaker 1: pretty personal for James and John too, right because they're
Speaker 1: seeing it as well, and they're coming over to help
Speaker 1: and they're like, wow, our boat's are about to break.
Speaker 1: They got somebody fish, and then Jesus is telling them
Speaker 1: do not be afraid talking to Peter because when it
Speaker 1: says he fell down. That actually means fearful, right, So
Speaker 1: do not be afraid. From now on you will catch men, right,
Speaker 1: You will spread the gospel, be fruitful, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: be catching men right. So next, next up, we have
Speaker 1: Jesus cleansing a leper. Let me see if you know what.
Speaker 1: We'll go to the notes after Jesus touches him and
Speaker 1: cleanses a leper. So let's read this Luke five, verse twelve.
Speaker 1: And it happened when he was in a certain city
Speaker 1: that behold, a man who was full of leprosy saw
Speaker 1: Jesus and fell on his face and implored him, saying, Lord,
Speaker 1: if you are willing, you can make me clean. So
Speaker 1: we'll stop there real quick. We went over Leviticus. We
Speaker 1: saw all the laws and everything. If you guys were
Speaker 1: following along in the book Leviticus, you guys see everything
Speaker 1: that they had to do for if someone was a leper.
Speaker 1: They were doing like almost like COVID was doing, you know,
Speaker 1: like they did during COVID. They were quarantining people. And
Speaker 1: even back then, if people at leprosy, they were quarantining
Speaker 1: them and you're not allowed to touch them or you'll
Speaker 1: be unclean. There was some of the leprosy that was
Speaker 1: going around would be if you touch some you catch it,
Speaker 1: so they would not touch them. And in fact, when
Speaker 1: someone had leprosy, they have to walk on the other
Speaker 1: side of the street and they have to scream leprosy, leprosy,
Speaker 1: you know, like unclean. I'm sorry, not leprosy. They screened,
Speaker 1: they have to screen unclean because it it was a
Speaker 1: serious thing. And then they had to go through, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of different things through with the priest to
Speaker 1: find out if they were cleared of the leprosy. First,
Speaker 1: then they had to you know, for seven days. You know.
Speaker 1: It was like a lot, a lot to this. And
Speaker 1: one thing is, once you have the leprosy that's uncurable,
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna touch you, so you no longer have human
Speaker 1: touch anymore. Think about that. That's it's it's it's a
Speaker 1: sad thing, you know. And Jesus, I'm sure he knows that,
Speaker 1: you know, he knows that, he knows that, you know,
Speaker 1: not sure knows that he knows that part. So listen
Speaker 1: to what Jesus does. Then he put out his hand
Speaker 1: and touched him, saying I am willing be cleansed immediacy
Speaker 1: immediately the leprosy left him, and he charged him to
Speaker 1: tell no one, but go and show yourself to the
Speaker 1: priest and make an offering for your cleansing as a
Speaker 1: testimony to them, just as Moses commanded. Okay, so he
Speaker 1: put out his hand and touched him. Okay, he didn't
Speaker 1: have to touch him. That just it's just showing you.
Speaker 1: First of all, that disease is nothing to Jesus. He
Speaker 1: can overcome any disease, that's obvious. But he has compassion.
Speaker 1: He put his hand and touched him. He put out
Speaker 1: his hand and touched him, saying, I am willing to
Speaker 1: be cleansed, and immediately the leprosy left him. Okay, first
Speaker 1: of all, the love that he had to be able to,
Speaker 1: you know, just just heal him is amazing. But the
Speaker 1: fact that he want the extra mile and he touched him,
Speaker 1: I am willing to be cleansed. Immediately the leprosy left him.
Speaker 1: He charged him to tell no one, right, so he
Speaker 1: told you didn't want him to tell no one, he said,
Speaker 1: but go show yourself to the priests. And you know
Speaker 1: what they did. We read about it in Leviticus. They
Speaker 1: check him, they try to see and there was all
Speaker 1: these different rules and everything with leprosy. You know, there's
Speaker 1: the pus coming out and all the stuff I don't
Speaker 1: want to get into on this show. The point is
Speaker 1: Jesus did that, and that he followed the law. He said,
Speaker 1: go show yourself to the priest, make an offering for
Speaker 1: your cleansing as a testimony to them, just as Moses commanded. Right,
Speaker 1: so awesome. Now we're in Luke five fifteen. However, the
Speaker 1: report went around concerning him all the more, and the
Speaker 1: great multitudes came together to hear and to be healed
Speaker 1: by him of their infirmities. So he himself often withdrew
Speaker 1: into the wilderness and prayed. So he is Jesus is
Speaker 1: a blueprint for how we should be. You know. Even
Speaker 1: though Jesus is God in the flesh, you know, he
Speaker 1: still with you know, because he is a man at
Speaker 1: this point, right, so I think he is. He still
Speaker 1: goes into the wilderness by himself, and and he prays
Speaker 1: to the father, you know, to do the father's will.
Speaker 1: Let's go next. This is Jesus forgives and heals a paralytic.
Speaker 1: This is Luke five, verse seventeen. Let's see, do I
Speaker 1: let me see what do we do? Okay, Okay, I
Speaker 1: got that. Okay, let me check something really quick. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we're Luke five now. Sorry, I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: get my notes in order real quick. Nope, told you
Speaker 1: that Luke five. Okay. So we're in Luke five seventeen. Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: we're here. We're on the right spot. So Jesus forgives
Speaker 1: and heals a paralytic. So this is going to be
Speaker 1: Luke five seventeen. Now, it happened on a certain day
Speaker 1: as he was teaching, that there were pharisees and teachers
Speaker 1: of the law sitting by who had come out of
Speaker 1: every town of Galleed in Jerusalem, and the power of
Speaker 1: the Lord was present to heal them. Then behold, men
Speaker 1: brought on a bed a man who was paralyzed, excuse me,
Speaker 1: whom they sought to bring in and lay before him.
Speaker 1: And when they could not find how they might bring
Speaker 1: him in because of the crowd, they went up on
Speaker 1: the housetop and let him down with his bed through
Speaker 1: the tiling into the midst before Jesus. So, first of all,
Speaker 1: I'll let you guys know that there used to be
Speaker 1: like these houses would have like a way to get
Speaker 1: to the rooftop, like usually like a ladder, some type
Speaker 1: of balcony ways to get to the rooftop. Okay, So
Speaker 1: the rooftop for for them back then would be like
Speaker 1: a place for maybe the father to go and kind
Speaker 1: of stand on the roof and you know, and maybe
Speaker 1: start praying or you know, kind of get away from
Speaker 1: the hustle and bustle, if that makes sense. It would
Speaker 1: be like you having a balcony on your you know,
Speaker 1: your your master bedroom, right and you and your wife
Speaker 1: like to get away and just sit on your balcony
Speaker 1: and when the kids are sleeping or whatever and just
Speaker 1: kind of spend time away. So they usually had a
Speaker 1: weight to get on the roof. So these guys probably
Speaker 1: maybe there was a ladder. However they did it. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's four guys carrying one paralytic. So they
Speaker 1: were persistent and determined to get this guy healed, which
Speaker 1: is amazing. I mean, what great friends, right, what great friends.
Speaker 1: Jesus probably felt the persistence, the faith, the love, the
Speaker 1: hope everything right here Luke five verse twenty. When he
Speaker 1: saw their faith, he said to him, man, your sins
Speaker 1: are forgiving you. Okay, this is something that first of all,
Speaker 1: we need to understand that with the Jews, with the Pharisees,
Speaker 1: with the Scribes, these guys, only God can forgive sins, okay,
Speaker 1: to them, So this is blasphemy them. Hearing Jesus say
Speaker 1: this is straight blasphemy for them because for them, only
Speaker 1: God can forgive sins. And Jesus is saying, man, your
Speaker 1: sins are forgiving you. Now, we can forgive our friends
Speaker 1: or our enemies or people in our life that does
Speaker 1: something wrong to us, that's different. But we're not forgiving
Speaker 1: their sins, you know what I mean. We're not saying
Speaker 1: that your sins are forgiven, like as if we are God.
Speaker 1: Only God can forgive sins. Right. But Jesus never claimed
Speaker 1: to be God. Okay, well look what he's saying right here,
Speaker 1: and they took it that way. Okay, listen to what
Speaker 1: they say. And I'm only saying that Jesus never claimed
Speaker 1: to be God because that's what some people would say.
Speaker 1: They would say, well, he never claimed to be God,
Speaker 1: he never said it outright, But this is him verbally
Speaker 1: saying something that would make him, you know, almost claim
Speaker 1: to be God right here. Okay, So listen, Luke, five,
Speaker 1: verse twenty one. And the scribes and the Pharisees began
Speaker 1: to reason, saying, who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who
Speaker 1: can forgive sins? But God alone? You see the pharisees
Speaker 1: right there are like hey, he is claiming to be
Speaker 1: God right here. But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, Jesus
Speaker 1: can read their mind, perceiving their thoughts right, he said,
Speaker 1: He answered, and said to them, why are you reasoning
Speaker 1: with your hearts? Which is easier to say your sins
Speaker 1: are forgiving you or say rise up and walk, but
Speaker 1: you may, but that you may know that the son
Speaker 1: of Man has power on earth to forgive sins. He
Speaker 1: said to the man who was paralyzed, I say to you, arise,
Speaker 1: take up your bed, and go to your house. Immediately
Speaker 1: he rose up before them, took up what he had
Speaker 1: been lying on, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
Speaker 1: For they were all amazed. And they glorified God and
Speaker 1: were filled with fear, saying, we have seen strange things today. So,
Speaker 1: first of all, if Jesus could have just forgave him
Speaker 1: for his sins, because the spiritual is more important than
Speaker 1: the physical. So even if that guy was still a
Speaker 1: paralytic for the rest of his life. He got his
Speaker 1: sins forgiven right there, That's most important, right, But Jesus
Speaker 1: is saying, isn't it easier to say that than to say?
Speaker 1: Rise up? Right? So I was so confident about my voice,
Speaker 1: wasn't I? All right? So let's see, let me see
Speaker 1: if I have anything in my notes about that Jesus
Speaker 1: forgive sins claiming to be God. I got that, Matthew
Speaker 1: and Simon is okay, Let's continue. Let's see if I
Speaker 1: have anything in my other notes. Com pretty of judicial
Speaker 1: is a paralytic first forgiving his sins, which caused a
Speaker 1: controversy among the Pharisees and the teachers of the law.
Speaker 1: The crowd marvels at the display of God's authority, right, yes, amen.
Speaker 1: Now we're going to go to my other notes right here. Now,
Speaker 1: this is Matthew the tax collector. We already we read
Speaker 1: the Book of Matthew already, so we already went through
Speaker 1: his gospel. Right. So Matthew the tax collector, after these things,
Speaker 1: he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi
Speaker 1: sitting at the off the tax office, and he said
Speaker 1: to him, follow me, so he left, all rose up
Speaker 1: and followed him. Something I would like to add to
Speaker 1: this is the tax collectors they worked for Rome, right,
Speaker 1: they were like enemies of the Jews, right, there were
Speaker 1: enemies of the Pharisees. There are enemies of the scribes,
Speaker 1: So they were enemies. The tax collectors were not looked
Speaker 1: highly upon. The tax collectors usually had pretty good money
Speaker 1: because they would they would get a percentage of what
Speaker 1: they were collecting, right, don't know the exact percentage, but
Speaker 1: a lot of the tax collectors they had money. So
Speaker 1: for him to he left, it all rose up and
Speaker 1: followed him. Now, if you're leaving being a tax collector
Speaker 1: for Rome and you're just going to go follow Jesus,
Speaker 1: there's probably not an easy way back, right. And I
Speaker 1: don't think he was looking to come back. I think
Speaker 1: he said, you know what, I'm gonna drop everything and
Speaker 1: I'm going to follow you. Right. And one thing that
Speaker 1: you know, Peter and John and I can't remember the
Speaker 1: guy's other name on there, Simon, No, not Simon, it
Speaker 1: was John and something else. Sorry, see those guys, you know? Oh,
Speaker 1: actually it was up here. I'm tripping, signaled their partners
Speaker 1: and came Simon. Okay, let me see John. James and
Speaker 1: John who are the partners and Peter. You know they
Speaker 1: can always go back to their job and and go
Speaker 1: have fun and go fishing. You know, they had the boat.
Speaker 1: They could go back. They're like self employed. But Matthew,
Speaker 1: he's dropping everything right. He's a tax collector for Rome.
Speaker 1: If he leaves that job, it's probably not easy to
Speaker 1: come back, you know, to that job. So that's something
Speaker 1: that I'm noticing. And then also we have then LEVI
Speaker 1: gave him a great feast in his own house, and
Speaker 1: there were a great number of tax collectors and others
Speaker 1: who sat down with them, and their scribes and pharisees
Speaker 1: complained again his disciples, saying, why do you eat and
Speaker 1: drink with tax collectors and sinners? Jesus answered and said
Speaker 1: to them, those who are well have no need of
Speaker 1: a physician, but those who are sick. I have not
Speaker 1: come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Now
Speaker 1: are the pharisees and the scribes and saddesties? Are they
Speaker 1: the righteous? What Jesus is talking about here? The reason
Speaker 1: why these other people that were there were not righteous
Speaker 1: is because they were sinning like out in the open
Speaker 1: and sinning, right, and people knew that they were sinners
Speaker 1: and they had no problems with that. These are tax collectors, right,
Speaker 1: so you know that they were let's say, how could
Speaker 1: I put this? They were kind of screwing people over
Speaker 1: in a way, and they had no problem with it. Right.
Speaker 1: So another thing is why do you eat and drink
Speaker 1: with access the sinners? Now? Back then they would actually
Speaker 1: take bread and dip it into food and eat, and
Speaker 1: then somebody else from across the table would dip it
Speaker 1: and eat, and then they would dip it that like
Speaker 1: there was no double dip rule back then like we
Speaker 1: have now. So, uh, they had some type of man
Speaker 1: made tradition where they felt like if someone was like
Speaker 1: a sinner, like you know, you could you know, you
Speaker 1: could dip that and then you're eating out of the
Speaker 1: same bowl as all these sinners. You can actually, you know,
Speaker 1: physically eat that chip and oh, now you got you know,
Speaker 1: you can become a sinner now, right, I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: everybody's a sinner. They just that's just something that they
Speaker 1: put out there, right, So that's why they're they're they're
Speaker 1: being like this to Jesus. But and and the disciples.
Speaker 1: Those who are well have no need of a physician,
Speaker 1: but those who are sick. I have not come to
Speaker 1: call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. So Jesus is like,
Speaker 1: you know, he just always has the perfect answer, right,
Speaker 1: He just has the perfect answer every time that they
Speaker 1: question him, Well, they say something to him, he has
Speaker 1: just he is the word, right, Jesus is the word,
Speaker 1: and he's perfect at putting out, putting together those sentences
Speaker 1: for rebuttals against these Pharisees. Right, let's see if I
Speaker 1: have anything on my other notes calling it Levi. Jesus
Speaker 1: calls Levi, a tax collector, to follow him at a
Speaker 1: feast in Levi's house. Jesus interacts with tax collectors and sinners,
Speaker 1: leading to a dispute what the pharisees about his association
Speaker 1: with such individuals. We kind of already know that. Jesus responds,
Speaker 1: stating that he calls, Yeah, okay, so we got that.
Speaker 1: Let's go. So now we're going to be questions about fasting,
Speaker 1: So Luke five, verse thirty three. Then they say said
Speaker 1: to him, why do the disciples of John fast often?
Speaker 1: John the Baptist is what we're talking about, And make prayers,
Speaker 1: and likewise those of the fair sees, but yours eat
Speaker 1: and drink. Here's another part that I would say that
Speaker 1: Jesus is referring to himself as God, because why do
Speaker 1: you fast? And why do you fast in the first place?
Speaker 1: You fast to get closer to God. Right, you fast
Speaker 1: to deny your flesh, and then you fast to get
Speaker 1: closer to God. So let's see what Jesus says. And
Speaker 1: he said to them, can you make the friends of
Speaker 1: the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? But
Speaker 1: the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken
Speaker 1: away from them, Then they will fast in those days.
Speaker 1: Then he spoke a parable to them. So okay, let's
Speaker 1: let's see. Can you make friends of a bridegroom fast
Speaker 1: while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will
Speaker 1: come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them? Right,
Speaker 1: So he's saying like, they don't need to fast, they
Speaker 1: need to with the time while I'm here, because you
Speaker 1: don't need to fast to get closer to God, because
Speaker 1: God is right here in their present, in their presence,
Speaker 1: God in the flesh is there in their presence, so
Speaker 1: they do not need to fast. And by the way,
Speaker 1: these people that used to fast, like the Pharisees, the Sadducees,
Speaker 1: they would fast and they would try to like make
Speaker 1: didn't get the lunch. Today they're grumbling, you know, complaining,
Speaker 1: is what this pastor I was listening to was saying.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true. I don't know because
Speaker 1: I wasn't alive back then, but he said that, you
Speaker 1: know that that would happen sometimes where they would they
Speaker 1: would fast and then they would want people to know
Speaker 1: they're fasting, you know, so it makes them more holy.
Speaker 1: So that so that they would fast for the wrong reasons.
Speaker 1: They would fast so that people would say, oh, you're
Speaker 1: fasting right now, Oh you're holy. It'd be like me,
Speaker 1: excuse me. It'll be like me fasting, you know, and
Speaker 1: then me coming on this podcast and be like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I've been fasting for like four days and I'm so
Speaker 1: close to God right now, I'm so holy and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. That's not what's going on. That's not what
Speaker 1: God even wants you to fast for. You fast to
Speaker 1: deny the flesh, show the flesh who's boss, right, because
Speaker 1: eating is something we need in the physical. The word
Speaker 1: of God is something we need in this spiritual. So
Speaker 1: when you deny yourself of the physical, then you are
Speaker 1: showing the flesh kind of who's boss. Right. So also
Speaker 1: it helps you to get closer to God. Right. Being
Speaker 1: obedient gets you closer to God. Right, because when you sin,
Speaker 1: it separates you from God. So if you're fasting, praying,
Speaker 1: and being obedient to God, you were getting closer to
Speaker 1: the Lord. Right. So another thing I would say is
Speaker 1: the definition of fasting was just abstaining from food. Let's
Speaker 1: see for a certain amount of time, Right, you're denying
Speaker 1: your flesh. So yeah, I don't need to look up
Speaker 1: the definition of that. We'll continue, We'll continue. So this
Speaker 1: is Luke five, verse thirty six. Then he spoke a
Speaker 1: parable to them. No one puts a piece from a
Speaker 1: new garment in an old one, otherwise the new one
Speaker 1: makes a tear. And also the peace that was taken
Speaker 1: out of the new does not match the old. And
Speaker 1: no one puts new wine into old skins, old wine skins,
Speaker 1: or else the new wine will burst the wine skins
Speaker 1: and be spilled, and the wine skins will be ruined.
Speaker 1: But the new wine must be put into new wine skins,
Speaker 1: and both are preserved, and no one having drunk old
Speaker 1: wine immediately desires new where he says the old is
Speaker 1: better now. Luke five presents a series of remarkable events
Speaker 1: and teachings in jesus ministry. For calling his first disciple
Speaker 1: to performing miraculous healings, Jesus challenges with his norms, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, let me go to the fasting part Jesus's
Speaker 1: question about why the disciples do not fast as John's
Speaker 1: disciples and the Pharisees do. He responds with the parable
Speaker 1: the bridegroom and the patch of unshrunk cloth, emphasizing the
Speaker 1: newness of his message and mission. So what this pastor
Speaker 1: was saying that I was studying is the new Covenant.
Speaker 1: Instead of laws, we have the Holy Spirit, and said, okay,
Speaker 1: So if we go to Jeremiah thirty one thirty one
Speaker 1: through thirty five, it says, behold, the days are coming,
Speaker 1: says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant
Speaker 1: with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah.
Speaker 1: Not according to the covenant that I made with their
Speaker 1: fathers in the day that I took them by the
Speaker 1: hand and led them out of the hand of Egypt
Speaker 1: my covenant, which they broke, though I was a husband
Speaker 1: to them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant
Speaker 1: that I will make with them, with the House of Israel.
Speaker 1: After those days, says the Lord, I will put my
Speaker 1: law in their minds and write it on their hearts,
Speaker 1: and I will be their God, and they shall be
Speaker 1: my people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor,
Speaker 1: and every man his brother, saying know the Lord, for
Speaker 1: all know me. For the least of them, of the
Speaker 1: greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive
Speaker 1: their iniquity and their sin. I will remember no more.
Speaker 1: So it's talking about a new covenant. The way this
Speaker 1: pastor kind of put it is, you can't fit the
Speaker 1: old covenant with the new covenant. So that's the way
Speaker 1: he explained it. Now do I know one hundred percent
Speaker 1: that that's exactly what he's talking about. I don't know
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. You know, Jesus is the one that
Speaker 1: did the parable, and if he doesn't explain it, then
Speaker 1: we were kind of putting our own touch on it.
Speaker 1: That's the way the pastor that I was talking to
Speaker 1: explained it. I could kind of give you, guys. Let's
Speaker 1: see the of the old skins. The parable Jesus uses
Speaker 1: the analogy of new wine and old wine skins to
Speaker 1: explain why he and his disciples don't follow certain Jewish
Speaker 1: practices like fasting. Old wine skins made from animal skins
Speaker 1: are brutal and inflexible. If new from any wine is
Speaker 1: poured into them, the expanding wind will burst the skins,
Speaker 1: ruining both the wine and the skins. Meaning the new
Speaker 1: wine represents Jesus's teachings and the new covenant of the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of God. That's what I was explaining. Old wine
Speaker 1: skins represent the old covenant, the Jewish law or rigid
Speaker 1: religious traditions, the lesson. Just as the new wine cannot
Speaker 1: be contained in old wine skins, and so too, new
Speaker 1: teachings or new way of understanding God cannot be forced
Speaker 1: into old inflexible structures. Okay, So that way you guys
Speaker 1: kind of know. And then let's go ahead and see
Speaker 1: what the we go back to my notes. Sorry, guys,
Speaker 1: trying to flip between all these notes, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to get lost here. Five Where are you? Okay?
Speaker 1: So let's go the teaching points for this chapter the
Speaker 1: Miraculous Catch a fist, Jesus demonstrates his divine authority over nature,
Speaker 1: leading to a miraculous catch that astonishes Peter and his companions. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's awesome, his divine authority over nature. Yes, and as
Speaker 1: you see, he also he also was able to control
Speaker 1: the weather, walk on water. The only person that I
Speaker 1: see controlling the weather in the Bible is God. Right,
Speaker 1: So it is God, the Father in the Old Testament.
Speaker 1: You know, God is doing that right, So I just
Speaker 1: want to put that out there, so you see him
Speaker 1: able to do it, and so is God. So Jesus,
Speaker 1: I mean, what would you say, I'd say he's God.
Speaker 1: Peter's humble response. Peter's reaction to the miracle is one
Speaker 1: of humility and recognition of his own sin, and it's saying,
Speaker 1: go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man. Yes,
Speaker 1: so yeah he did. He was fearful that he didn't
Speaker 1: have that faith. Right the Call to discipleship, Jesus calls Peter, James,
Speaker 1: and John to leave everything and follow him, illustrating the
Speaker 1: cost and commitment of true discipleship. Yes, that is definitely
Speaker 1: true discipleship, and you were going to be leaving, You're
Speaker 1: going to be leaving your old life behind, your old friends,
Speaker 1: behind your old drinking partners, behind your old buddies that
Speaker 1: like to go, you know, listen to rap music and
Speaker 1: smoke weed. Your people that were used to chill with
Speaker 1: you on the block, you know, all those people. To
Speaker 1: be honest, if you were drinking with them every weekend
Speaker 1: and going to parties with them all the time, you
Speaker 1: know what happened if you told them that you don't
Speaker 1: want to drink anymore and you don't want to party,
Speaker 1: A lot of those people would not be your friend anyways. Okay,
Speaker 1: just letting you know a lot of them are there
Speaker 1: for the party. I will give you an example of
Speaker 1: that in my own life. So when I was growing
Speaker 1: up my dad's house, I was only fourteen years old
Speaker 1: and my parents got a divorced. So my dad was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you guys want to We'll make this a bachelor house.
Speaker 1: So you guys could do whatever you want. You could
Speaker 1: smoke weed, drink as long as you're doing it in
Speaker 1: my house, old it's fine. So we had a lot
Speaker 1: of friends coming over all the time, a lot of
Speaker 1: people in and out of the house. My dad was
Speaker 1: kind of selling weed to a bunch of people. Right,
Speaker 1: So it was kind of a crazy scene. But people
Speaker 1: would come over and smoke weed all the time at
Speaker 1: my dad's house, right, And I had probably a set
Speaker 1: of like eight friends that came over. Like a lot
Speaker 1: of people would come and they would be hanging out
Speaker 1: with us all the time. You know, come you know,
Speaker 1: maybe like a year and a half later after, you know,
Speaker 1: just partying like crazy, having massive parties at my house
Speaker 1: where there's fights and all this stuff. Cops would come,
Speaker 1: my dad would say, hey, would you rather be here
Speaker 1: or drunk out on the streets. Just craziness. Right. My
Speaker 1: whole point to this is the friends that once my
Speaker 1: dad got busted for selling weed and went to jail,
Speaker 1: a lot of the friends that were coming over to
Speaker 1: smoke all the time, we kind of didn't hang out
Speaker 1: as much. Now, there were some core friends that stayed,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but some of the uh, some
Speaker 1: of the a lot of them they they we didn't
Speaker 1: we weren't hanging out because they were there for the
Speaker 1: weed and the partying and all the girls and all
Speaker 1: the stuff that was that was available. Obviously right now
Speaker 1: it happens a lot, so just just an example of
Speaker 1: basically true discipleship, right is uh is dropping everything and
Speaker 1: following him. Now do you Is it easy to drop
Speaker 1: it all at once? No, it's very tough. But you're
Speaker 1: gonna start dropping these habits Surely at some point you're
Speaker 1: gonna feel like you are literally walking with God. And
Speaker 1: when that happens, it is an amazing feeling. Right, And
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen to you, to you guys as well,
Speaker 1: if it hasn't happened already, so it will happen. And
Speaker 1: I feel like you know, I mean, it's just it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about myself. I just want
Speaker 1: to tell you that God has done a lot for
Speaker 1: me in my life, and God has led me in
Speaker 1: a direction that is It's just it's just a one
Speaker 1: eighty complete one eighty of how it was. Jesus heals
Speaker 1: a leper. So this is Luke five. It says Jesus'
Speaker 1: willingness to touch and heal a leper shows his compassion
Speaker 1: like I talked about, and his power to cleanse both
Speaker 1: physically and spiritually the paralytics forgive me and healing Jesus.
Speaker 1: Jesus not only heals the paralytic, but also forgives his sins,
Speaker 1: demonstrating his authority to forgive and is concerned for spiritual wellbeing.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, that's the most important thing is
Speaker 1: the spiritual the call of Levi in parentheses as Matthew right,
Speaker 1: Jesus calls Levi a tax player to follow him, showing
Speaker 1: that his call extends to all, regardless of social status
Speaker 1: and past sins. Now, something that's fascinating is that Matthew, uh,
Speaker 1: you know Levi, Matthew is one of the disciples, and
Speaker 1: then Simon the Zealot is one of the disciples. And
Speaker 1: you know, they never have a clash, but they're from
Speaker 1: two opposite sides of the spectrum because Simon the Zealot
Speaker 1: the Zelots were actually the ones that were revolting against Rome,
Speaker 1: revolting against tax collectors, and Matthew was a tax collector
Speaker 1: that worked for Rome, and they both became disciples of Jesus.
Speaker 1: You know, the Zealots, right, they're the ones that that
Speaker 1: didn't feel like they should be paying taxes to Rome
Speaker 1: because Rome was occupying and actually ruling over them. So
Speaker 1: I thought, that's kind of fascinating that God. I mean,
Speaker 1: Jesus just he just he just brings people from all
Speaker 1: walks of life and brought them together. And then I
Speaker 1: never heard anything really in the Bible about Matthew and
Speaker 1: and and Simon the Zealot actually having any type of issues.
Speaker 1: New wine and Okay, so we kind of went over that.
Speaker 1: The new wine and new wine skins. Jesus teaches about
Speaker 1: the newness of his message and the need for a
Speaker 1: fresh approach to understanding God's work. Practical applications. How do
Speaker 1: we apply this to our life? Respond to Jesus's call,
Speaker 1: Consider what it means to leave everything and follow Jesus
Speaker 1: in your own life. I kind of already went over that.
Speaker 1: What might you need to surrender to fully commit to him? Yes,
Speaker 1: that's a really good thing to apply to your life.
Speaker 1: What is it that's holding you back? See, there's some
Speaker 1: people I've run across this a lot because I talk
Speaker 1: to people in the podcast industry and I talk to people,
Speaker 1: and some people just won't won't just won't be able
Speaker 1: to commit, you know, or won't won't be able to
Speaker 1: fully grasp what I'm when I'm telling them when it
Speaker 1: comes to the Bible, there's got to be something that
Speaker 1: they're not ready to drop yet. You know, whether it's
Speaker 1: the smoking weed, maybe it's the drinking, the partying, the adultery,
Speaker 1: the sexual immorality, whatever it is, there's something there that's
Speaker 1: stopping them. And it would be so cool if God
Speaker 1: could just show me that and I can assist people
Speaker 1: with it. But it doesn't always happen. People they just
Speaker 1: become standoffish and they have these little things that they're
Speaker 1: trying to and they won't be fully open about, right, So, which,
Speaker 1: you know what, more power to them whatever they want
Speaker 1: to do is I'm not trying to tell people what
Speaker 1: to do. I'm just trying to plant seeds. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's that's a really good point. Embrace humility, like Peter,
Speaker 1: acknowledge your own sinfulness and need for Jesus's grace and forgiveness.
Speaker 1: That's one hundred percent, definitely definitely true. Right. We need
Speaker 1: to embrace humility, show compassion, follow Jesus example by reaching
Speaker 1: out to those who are marginalized or in need, offering
Speaker 1: both physical and spiritual support. There's definitely a lot of
Speaker 1: people that are marginalized, or a lot of people that
Speaker 1: are down on their luck, a lot of people that
Speaker 1: are down and out. A lot of the people that
Speaker 1: are homeless, they were once working as a plumber or
Speaker 1: uh whatever job a plumber, a landscaper, uh maybe for
Speaker 1: the union, whatever, and then they got maybe got a divorce,
Speaker 1: started getting down on their luck, maybe lost a child, whatever.
Speaker 1: There's people that are marginalized right now that are homeless.
Speaker 1: These homeless people they were once in the military, right, veterans,
Speaker 1: They fought for this country. They There's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that are like you know, that are that are
Speaker 1: down and out, down on their luck, that we might
Speaker 1: pass by daily and not even think about. But these
Speaker 1: are regularly these are real people. Have compassion, you know.
Speaker 1: And I understand that a lot of them maybe are
Speaker 1: have addictions and and uh maybe alcoholics, whatever, but they
Speaker 1: they are a soul and there are God's children just
Speaker 1: like we are, right, So I definitely agree with that.
Speaker 1: Prioritize this, yeah, yeah, yeah, So whatever you could do,
Speaker 1: you know, at offer physical and spiritual support, right to
Speaker 1: just be capassionate, love right, love of everybody, show compassion,
Speaker 1: seek spiritual healing, prioritize spiritual wellbeing, and seek Jesus forgiveness
Speaker 1: and healing in areas of your life that need restoration.
Speaker 1: That's yes, amen to that. Be open to change, embrace
Speaker 1: the newness of life in Christ, and be willing to
Speaker 1: adapt to His transformative work in your life. The people
Speaker 1: that were involved in this chapter, we can already know
Speaker 1: about them. Okay, let's see places we don't need to
Speaker 1: know about that events. Let's see if there's anything I
Speaker 1: can add to that. Nope, we're good. Okay. So that
Speaker 1: is Luke chapter five in a nutshell. Uh, there's like
Speaker 1: a little portion right here, So let's I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: down to this here. Okay, next time I'll read that
Speaker 1: Luke six. Okay, let me just go to my notes.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna switch to Luke six, and we are going
Speaker 1: to go to Luke six. So we're that was a
Speaker 1: nice little chapter right there. I really enjoyed that chapter,
Speaker 1: Luke five. I want to make sure I'm going to
Speaker 1: Luke six on my notes. Jesus is the Lord of
Speaker 1: the Sabbath is the title of this one. So Luke six. Now,
Speaker 1: it happened on the second Sabbath after the first, that
Speaker 1: he went through the grain fields and his disciples pluck
Speaker 1: the heads of grain and ate them, rubbing them in
Speaker 1: their hands and some of the Pharisees said, what are
Speaker 1: you doing? What are you doing? What is not lawful
Speaker 1: to do on the Sabbath? Why are you doing what
Speaker 1: is not lawful to do on the Sabbath. So, first
Speaker 1: of all, you might be thinking, how do they how
Speaker 1: do they just walk through any grain field and just
Speaker 1: able to eat like that? Is that stealing? But in
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy twenty three, twenty fourth through twenty five, so we'll
Speaker 1: go over that first before we get into the Sabbath portion,
Speaker 1: it says in Deuteronomy twenty three, twenty fourth through twenty five,
Speaker 1: when you come into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat
Speaker 1: your feel of grapes at your pleasure, but you shall
Speaker 1: not put any in your container. When you come into
Speaker 1: your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the heads with
Speaker 1: your hand, but you shall not use a sickle on
Speaker 1: your neighbors standing grain. Like you're not allowed allowed to
Speaker 1: bring a bunch of tools landscaping tools go out here
Speaker 1: and start shopping up the whole place and throwing them
Speaker 1: in a container, and then put them on your back
Speaker 1: and walking out. No, it's meant for those that are
Speaker 1: the needy, right, It's called the laws of mercy for
Speaker 1: those that don't have the money to you know, to
Speaker 1: own a whole field, or to own, you know, to
Speaker 1: have cattle, to have sheep. For those that are the
Speaker 1: less fortunate, they're allowed to walk by and they're allowed
Speaker 1: to grab it. And basically, if they're hungry, they could
Speaker 1: grab a few, you know, and kind of just eat it. Right.
Speaker 1: So that's what I see going on here. They're hungry,
Speaker 1: so they did that, So why are you doing what
Speaker 1: is not lawful to do on the Sabbath? And then
Speaker 1: Jesus immediately goes to the story about David Luke six
Speaker 1: verse three. But Jesus answered them saying, have you not
Speaker 1: even read this? What David did when he was hungry?
Speaker 1: He and those who were with him, how he went
Speaker 1: into the house of God, took and ate the showbread,
Speaker 1: and also gave some of those to him, which is
Speaker 1: not lawful for any but the priest to eat. And
Speaker 1: he said to them, the son of Man is also
Speaker 1: the Lord of the Sabbath. That is another thing that
Speaker 1: I thought was fascinating for Jesus to say, the Lord
Speaker 1: of the Sabbath. What. So let's go ahead and read Samuel.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and read Samuel twenty one today. Let's
Speaker 1: see twenty one one three through four. Okay, hold on
Speaker 1: real quick, I apologize Samuel twenty one one through six,
Speaker 1: or read Samuel twenty one one through six. Let's do
Speaker 1: that Samuel twenty one one through six. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be the story that he is referring to first, Samuel
Speaker 1: twenty one. Okay. Here it is David and the Holy Bread. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna make sure we put our marker here
Speaker 1: to know where we're at, and I will read this.
Speaker 1: It says now David came to knob to a Mila
Speaker 1: Hamilik Hamlek Amelek the priest, and Amelek was afraid when
Speaker 1: he met David and said to him, why are you
Speaker 1: alone and no one is with you? So David said
Speaker 1: to Amelek the priest, the King has ordered me on
Speaker 1: some business and said to me, do not let anyone
Speaker 1: know anything about the business on which I send you
Speaker 1: or what I have commanded you. And I have directed
Speaker 1: my young men to and such a place. Now, therefore,
Speaker 1: what have you on hand? Give me five loaves of
Speaker 1: bread in my hand, or whatever can be found. And
Speaker 1: the priest answered David and said, there is no common
Speaker 1: bread on hand, there is only holy bread. If the
Speaker 1: young men have to less kept themselves from women, if
Speaker 1: the young men have at least kept themselves from women.
Speaker 1: Then David answered the priest and said to him, truly,
Speaker 1: women have been kept from us about three days since
Speaker 1: I came out, And the vessels of the young men
Speaker 1: are holy, and the bread is in effect common, even
Speaker 1: though it was consecrated in the vessel this day. So
Speaker 1: the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no
Speaker 1: bread there but the show bread, which had been taken
Speaker 1: from before the Lord in order to put hot bread
Speaker 1: in its place on the day when it was taken away. Now,
Speaker 1: a certain man of the servants of Saul was there
Speaker 1: that day, detained before the Lord, and this name was
Speaker 1: doing of Edomite. Okay, we don't need to get into
Speaker 1: all that. So that is the story right there. Right.
Speaker 1: So they're hungry, they're starving. He has men, he needs
Speaker 1: to feed them. So the moral of the story is
Speaker 1: that human need is more important than religious ritual. Right,
Speaker 1: human need what like? So the whole point of the
Speaker 1: laws is to make you holy or separate from the pagans.
Speaker 1: Right it holy is to be separate. Right, So the
Speaker 1: whole point of the law is to make you holy.
Speaker 1: So so why would God overlook that. It's because human
Speaker 1: need is more important than religious ritual. So we have
Speaker 1: a few other examples of that. Hoseiah six six is
Speaker 1: another example of that. Let's go let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: turn there to that to that point that I was
Speaker 1: making Hoseiah six, verse six, for I desire mercy and
Speaker 1: not sacrifice, and then knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. Okay,
Speaker 1: So that's that's kind of a kind of goes along
Speaker 1: with that. Isaiah fifty eight one through seven is another
Speaker 1: example of what I was talking about. Cry out loud
Speaker 1: or not lift up your voice like a trumpet, tell
Speaker 1: my people their transgression in the house of Jacob, their sins.
Speaker 1: Yet they speak to me. They yet they seek me
Speaker 1: daily and delight to uh to know my ways. As
Speaker 1: a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the
Speaker 1: ordinance of their God. They ask me the ordinance of justice.
Speaker 1: They take delight in approaching God. Have we why have
Speaker 1: we fasted? They say, And you have not seen? Why
Speaker 1: have we afflicted our souls? And you take no notice?
Speaker 1: In fact, in the day of your fast, you find
Speaker 1: pleasure and exploit all your laborers. Indeed, you fast for
Speaker 1: strife and debate, and you strike with the fist of wickedness.
Speaker 1: You will not fast as you do this day to
Speaker 1: make your voice heard on high? Is it a fast
Speaker 1: that I have chosen a day for a man to
Speaker 1: afflict his soul? It is a bow down to his
Speaker 1: head like a bulrush. And to spread out sackcloth and
Speaker 1: act is what you call a fast, an acceptable day
Speaker 1: to the lord? Is it not a fast that I
Speaker 1: have chosen to loose the bonds of wicked? Is to
Speaker 1: undo heavy burdens, to let the oppress go free, and
Speaker 1: that you break every yoke? Is it not to share
Speaker 1: your bread with the hungry you see, and that you
Speaker 1: bring to your house the poor who were cast out?
Speaker 1: When you see the naked, that you cover him and
Speaker 1: not hide yourself from your own flesh. You see that
Speaker 1: what I was talking about there, that that human need
Speaker 1: is more important than religious ritual. It's like you need
Speaker 1: to be set apart and beholy, but you're forgetting everything
Speaker 1: that the whole law was made for. You think the
Speaker 1: law is made for you to be a hall monitor
Speaker 1: Pharisees and scribes and saddusties and just you did this,
Speaker 1: you did that, you did this, you did that, And
Speaker 1: they're mixing the law with Jewish traditions, and it's just
Speaker 1: they just forget the whole reason why the law is
Speaker 1: even there. Like you can have a house burning down
Speaker 1: and they're like, I can't pick the phone up and
Speaker 1: call the police because it's against the Sabbath for me
Speaker 1: to use the phone. I can't save that family because
Speaker 1: it's against the Sabbath. I can't use the phone, so
Speaker 1: we'll just let it burn. This is a true story.
Speaker 2: An apartment kept caught fire and a couple of apartments
Speaker 2: burned down because they had to call the Pharisees or
Speaker 2: whatever are the priests and say, hey, is it against
Speaker 2: the Sabbath to use the phone or talk to a
Speaker 2: priest and say is it again?
Speaker 1: Yeah? It is? In fact, Okay, no problem, let it burn.
Speaker 1: Do you think God wants you to do that? It's not.
Speaker 1: It's just they just took it to the extreme, you see.
Speaker 1: And they're trying to test Jesus right now, and Jesus
Speaker 1: has the perfect he is the word rebuttal okay, So
Speaker 1: what to Joseah, what do Isaiah anything else. Okay, let's continue.
Speaker 1: Now we're going to go to Luke six verse six.
Speaker 1: Now what happened on the other sabbath? Also that he
Speaker 1: entered the synagogue and taught. And a man was there
Speaker 1: whose right hand was withered. So the scribes and pharisees
Speaker 1: watched him closely whether he would heal on the sabbath,
Speaker 1: that they may find an accusation against him. But he
Speaker 1: knew their thoughts and said to the man who had
Speaker 1: whether hand, arise and stand here. And he rose and stood.
Speaker 1: Then Jesus said to them, I will ask you one thing.
Speaker 1: Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or
Speaker 1: to do evil? To save life or to destroy? And
Speaker 1: when he had looked around at them, he said to them,
Speaker 1: the man, stretch out your hand. And he did so,
Speaker 1: and his hand was restored as whole as the other.
Speaker 1: And they were filled with rage and discussed with one
Speaker 1: another what they might do to Jesus. So you see
Speaker 1: what I mean, He is showing them to do good.
Speaker 1: Now in Matthew, he brings up the he brings up
Speaker 1: the sheep right, so like if your sheep was to
Speaker 1: fall in the water on the Sabbath, why didn't you
Speaker 1: get the sheep out? Well, what more important is a
Speaker 1: man than a sheep? It's something like that. I'm definitely
Speaker 1: paraphrasing there, you know, I don't need to go back
Speaker 1: to the verse. It's something like that. So this is Luke,
Speaker 1: you know, doing the same exact situation, scenario in situation.
Speaker 1: And also when I was listening to these pastors to
Speaker 1: talk about this situation, they feel like this man was
Speaker 1: planted in order to try to catch Jesus and for
Speaker 1: them to accuse him. That's why it says that they
Speaker 1: were watching him closely whether they would heal in the Sabbath.
Speaker 1: It's like it's almost like they planted the guy there.
Speaker 1: And is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good
Speaker 1: or to do evil, to save life or destroy it? Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's let's see, we're at Luke six
Speaker 1: versus six. Let's see if there's so six one through five,
Speaker 1: which we already went through. It says, well, walk it
Speaker 1: through grainfield of the Sabbath. Jesus broke and plucked and
Speaker 1: eat some grains. Speaking and controversies to the Pharisees, Yes,
Speaker 1: of course. Selection of the twelve Apostles, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be Oh, so there's nothing about the other part. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me see. Okay, so on the others. On another sabbath,
Speaker 1: Jesus heals a man with the withered hand of the synagogue.
Speaker 1: The Pharisees watched closely, seeking to accuse him. Jesus asks
Speaker 1: it lawful to do good on the sabbath, to save.
Speaker 1: Now this is on my notes. The healing demonstrates Jesus'
Speaker 1: authority and compassion. Yes, it does, so let's see what
Speaker 1: so the Greek term kitos kurios it it emphasizes jesus
Speaker 1: authority over the Sabbath. It says for that for the
Speaker 1: verses one through five. Now we're in verse six. Let's
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and go there. Well, actually we already
Speaker 1: talked about that he did, and they were filled with
Speaker 1: raids and okay, so now we're actually at Luke six,
Speaker 1: verse twelve. So let me go back to my notes
Speaker 1: and go up Luke six, verse twelve. The twelve Us Apostles,
Speaker 1: this is Luke six, verse twelve says, now it came
Speaker 1: to pass in those days that he went out to
Speaker 1: the mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer
Speaker 1: to God, continued all night in prayer to God. So
Speaker 1: you see that he prays all night. Have you guys
Speaker 1: ever prayed all night? I haven't. I pray at night,
Speaker 1: but I don't pray all night. I know. Sometimes they
Speaker 1: have a it's called glow after glow, I think it
Speaker 1: is where they kind of this happens in Calvary chap.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it happens to you guys a church,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of like that. It's all about praying
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. And now we're back to Luke six,
Speaker 1: verse thirteen. And when it was day, he called his
Speaker 1: disciples to himself, and from them he chose twelve, whom
Speaker 1: he also named Apostles, Simon, whom he also named Peter,
Speaker 1: and Andrew, his brother, James, and John, Philip and Bartholomew,
Speaker 1: Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon
Speaker 1: the Zealot, Judas the son of James, and Judas is Scariot,
Speaker 1: who was to become a traitor. Okay, Jesus heals a
Speaker 1: great multitude. This is Luke six verse seventeen. And he
Speaker 1: came down with them and stood on a level place
Speaker 1: with the crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude
Speaker 1: of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the
Speaker 1: sea coast of Tyree and Sidon, who came to hear him,
Speaker 1: and he healed of their diseases, as well as those
Speaker 1: who were tormented with unclean spirits. And they were healed.
Speaker 1: And the whole multitude sought to touch him, for power
Speaker 1: went out from him and healed them all. So he
Speaker 1: is healing, he is casting out demons, he is he
Speaker 1: is just doing great multitudes, are healing, great multitudes here, right,
Speaker 1: So Jesus delivers a sermon commonly known as a sermon
Speaker 1: on the plane. Oh yeah, so yeah, it's known as
Speaker 1: the Sermon on the plane, which is the level place.
Speaker 1: It's very similar to the Sermon on the mount but
Speaker 1: it's not the Sermon on the Mountain. It's different. And
Speaker 1: now we are going to go to Luke six verse twenty.
Speaker 1: Then he lifted up his eyes toward his disciples and said,
Speaker 1: Blessed are you poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God.
Speaker 1: Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled.
Speaker 1: Blessed are you who weep, now, for you shall laugh.
Speaker 1: Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they
Speaker 1: exclude you and revile you and cast your name as
Speaker 1: evil for the son of man's sake, rejoice in that
Speaker 1: day and leap for joy, For indeed your reward is
Speaker 1: great in heaven. For in like manner their fathers did
Speaker 1: not do to the prophets. For like manners their fathers
Speaker 1: did to the prophets. Right, So now leap for joy.
Speaker 1: Like if you notice John the Baptist, when he was
Speaker 1: in the womb and he was filled with the Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit when he heard about Jesus, what did he do?
Speaker 1: Leaped for joy? Right? I just thought that was a
Speaker 1: cool connection there, the betaitudes. Right, where's that at? Okay,
Speaker 1: Jesus delivers a sermon coming as a sermon on the
Speaker 1: plane to his disciples and the multitudes, preventing blesseds and
Speaker 1: betatudes and woes. Now we're at Oh, that's the seventeenth
Speaker 1: through twenty six. Okay, I'm sorry, going to do all that. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll continue and uh, blessed are you poor for yours?
Speaker 1: Let me see where that is in the Bibles in psalms. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's check it out. Blessed, blessed are you poor. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe it isn't. I thought it was
Speaker 1: a all right, I tried. I thought it was maybe
Speaker 1: a in it. I thought he was quoting the Psalms
Speaker 1: right there. All right, let's continue. Jesus pronounces woes. But
Speaker 1: woe to you who are rich, for you have receive
Speaker 1: your consolation. Woe to you who are full, for you
Speaker 1: shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you
Speaker 1: shall mourn and weep. Woe to you when all men
Speaker 1: speak well of you, for so did their fathers to
Speaker 1: the false prophets the woes. Okay, see if there's anything
Speaker 1: that someone on the plane ess losing someone with the
Speaker 1: parable about two builders and the importance. Okay, haven't got
Speaker 1: to that yet. Someone on the plane Love your enemies
Speaker 1: and duoys. That's going to be twenty seven. So what
Speaker 1: the sermon on the plane? Jesus delivers a sermon to
Speaker 1: a large crowd which includes the beatitudes and teachings on
Speaker 1: love your enemies, judging others, and the importance of bearing
Speaker 1: good fruit. Key teachings include blessings you who are poor,
Speaker 1: for yours is the Kingdom of God. Love your enemies,
Speaker 1: and do good to those who hate you, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: going to come up now. So he's just pronouncing the woes.
Speaker 1: So it's looking like, but woe to you are rich,
Speaker 1: for you have received your consolation. So notice it's harder
Speaker 1: for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven,
Speaker 1: that is, for a camel to go through the eye
Speaker 1: of a needle. Notice that the greater, greatest on earth
Speaker 1: will be the least in heaven. Notice what is happening
Speaker 1: also the rich man and Lazareth, right, you read that, Lazaruth, Sorry,
Speaker 1: you read that in Luke sixteen. It's going to be
Speaker 1: coming up in a couple of weeks. Here the man
Speaker 1: was rich eating, throwing his bones, you know, to the dogs,
Speaker 1: and throwing wiping his face with the bread and tossing
Speaker 1: it on the floor, and the poor man was eating.
Speaker 1: That rich man dies. They go into Abraham's bosom and
Speaker 1: Paradise is on one side, and there's a giant chasm
Speaker 1: between them, and then shield is on the other side.
Speaker 1: For the rich man, feet or burning. He just wants
Speaker 1: to drop of water on his tongue. Please. He has
Speaker 1: all five senses. He's able to speak, he's able to hear,
Speaker 1: he's able to smell, he's able to feel, he's able
Speaker 1: to you know, just the five senses, right, So this
Speaker 1: is crazy. Speaking is not one of the senses. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: But he is able to speak, he's able to hear,
Speaker 1: able to talk, and he's asking him Father Abraham, please
Speaker 1: a Lazarus come put a drop of water on my
Speaker 1: tongue because he's thirsty. So the whole point to that
Speaker 1: that I'm saying is not to teach you about that
Speaker 1: portion yet, but it's to tell you that it's very interesting.
Speaker 1: But woe to you who are rich, for you have
Speaker 1: received your consolation, your consolation prize. Right, you already got
Speaker 1: all your gifts up from you got them front loaded
Speaker 1: to you. But your gifts in heaven will not be
Speaker 1: there depending on how you handle your consolation. Right. Woe
Speaker 1: to you who are full, for you shall hunger, so
Speaker 1: you'll be full on earth, but you will hunger and shield.
Speaker 1: That's the way. That's what I'm feeling that i'm seeing here.
Speaker 1: Woe to you who laugh now, Yeah, you want to
Speaker 1: put down the disciples, you want to exclude them, You
Speaker 1: want to put down Christians, you want to put down God.
Speaker 1: You want to not believe. You can laugh now, but
Speaker 1: you will mourn and weep later when you're in shield
Speaker 1: with feet fire burning, unquenforable thirst. God is not around
Speaker 1: the one that you didn't worship on earth. You're gonna
Speaker 1: wish you worship, and you're gonna wish that God was
Speaker 1: there with you. Woe to you when all men speak
Speaker 1: well of you. Yes, if you're going for that first,
Speaker 1: So did their fathers to the false prophets. So Jesus
Speaker 1: is these we gotta pay attention to, right, We gotta
Speaker 1: pay attention to Love your enemies, Love your enemies. Right.
Speaker 1: But I say to you this is see, this is
Speaker 1: this is the really interesting part because we're going over
Speaker 1: the Old Testament and we're seeing the way God treats
Speaker 1: the enemies of the Israelites. Okay, a lot of the
Speaker 1: enemies of the Israelites are Amorites, and you know, you know,
Speaker 1: descendants of a Knock and all these different giant tribes.
Speaker 1: So we understand those. But this is Jesus, Now, this
Speaker 1: is the New Covenant, right, this is God in the flesh.
Speaker 1: What is he say? But I say to you, this
Speaker 1: is a luke six twenty seven. But I say to
Speaker 1: you who here, love your enemies do good to those
Speaker 1: who hate you. We'll stop there. Why would you be
Speaker 1: doing good to those who hate you? Because your whole
Speaker 1: point now that you're a disciple, is to bring people
Speaker 1: to God, to bring to get people saved. That's your
Speaker 1: whole entire mission. Your fissures of men. So if you
Speaker 1: love your enemies, you will attract that enemy to asking you,
Speaker 1: what is it that's making you this way? Yes, you can.
Speaker 1: You can maybe not attract them to maybe they just
Speaker 1: hate you and they just don't want to talk to you.
Speaker 1: But when you show love to your enemies, that is
Speaker 1: like some bait to be able to reel them in,
Speaker 1: not to become your best friend or your friend. You
Speaker 1: could make him your friend, of course, but your whole
Speaker 1: point is to show them that love, that compassion, so
Speaker 1: that you can assist them into coming to the Lord.
Speaker 1: That is the whole purpose. That's what I see. Bless
Speaker 1: those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully
Speaker 1: use you. So just because someone is doing something wrong
Speaker 1: to you, what do you do? You pray for them,
Speaker 1: and you bless them, show love to them. This is
Speaker 1: God's true personality, coming out to him who strikes you
Speaker 1: on the one cheek, offer the other also, And for
Speaker 1: him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic. Either.
Speaker 1: Give to everyone who asks of you, and from him
Speaker 1: who takes away your goods, do not ask them back.
Speaker 1: Just as you want men to do to you, you
Speaker 1: also do to them likewise. Now I don't see a
Speaker 1: bunch of the disciples getting beat up, and I'm not
Speaker 1: seeing them. I have everything stolen from them, and you know,
Speaker 1: and them just you know, walking around naked. Okay, So
Speaker 1: if they're following what Jesus is saying here, obviously you
Speaker 1: know it is working. You know it would work. Now,
Speaker 1: is it hard for us to understand? Of course, of
Speaker 1: course it is. It is so hard for us to
Speaker 1: understand it is. It's so hard. But there's when you,
Speaker 1: when you do practical application, you're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: assist these people into getting saved. That's what discipleship is about.
Speaker 1: And the people that are watching you treat people like
Speaker 1: this with love compassion, they're gonna also be attracted to
Speaker 1: coming and talk to you to find out what is
Speaker 1: it that you have that I don't because I can't
Speaker 1: do that. How can you be nice to that person?
Speaker 1: How can you pray for that person. How could you
Speaker 1: do all these things? An example is when Paul is
Speaker 1: in prison, he converts. He gets a lot of converts
Speaker 1: while he's in prison, you know, like I mean, he's
Speaker 1: in prison. Those people are treating him probably not good, right,
Speaker 1: And he is still writing letters while he's in there.
Speaker 1: First of all. Second of all, he's attracted people to
Speaker 1: the faith and people are probably seeing, how can you
Speaker 1: be so joyful when you're in prison. You see, we
Speaker 1: got to be separate. We gotta be holy. We got
Speaker 1: to be different than people that are not saved. We
Speaker 1: got to be different. And this is what sets us apart,
Speaker 1: separates the men from the boys, the women from the girls. Right,
Speaker 1: this is what separates the men from the boys. This
Speaker 1: is really walking with God. Like I've seen people in
Speaker 1: you know, in courtrooms where the Green River Killer was
Speaker 1: on trial. He killed like twenty six people and most
Speaker 1: of the people that you know, the he killed daughters,
Speaker 1: who killed a lot of women, right, he would kill
Speaker 1: prostitutes and stuff. And the people that were talking to
Speaker 1: him because they got a chance to speak to him
Speaker 1: when he was sitting there, they were all you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of them were I help you rotten hell.
Speaker 1: You're disgusting, you're a piece of this. You're that, You're that.
Speaker 1: But there was this old man that came and I
Speaker 1: guess he had killed his daughter. And he told them,
Speaker 1: I forgive you, and I hope that you come to Jesus,
Speaker 1: you know, And he said, I forgive you, I love you.
Speaker 1: God has love for you. And that made the Green
Speaker 1: River killer who was you know, obviously he had some
Speaker 1: screws loose, right, something was going on, but he actually
Speaker 1: shed a tear, he started crying. You know. That's that's
Speaker 1: the type of love that Jesus is talking about here.
Speaker 1: This is Luke six point thirty two. And I know
Speaker 1: that probably some of it sounds crazy and foreign to
Speaker 1: us because we're not used to being like this, right,
Speaker 1: But this is the one. This is the blueprint. This
Speaker 1: is God speaking to us. God cannot lie. It's impossible
Speaker 1: for God to lie. God is not a man that
Speaker 1: he should lie, right, So listen to this Luke six
Speaker 1: thirty two. But if you love those who love you,
Speaker 1: what credit is that to you? For even sinners love
Speaker 1: those who love them. If you do good to those
Speaker 1: who do good to you, what credit is that to you?
Speaker 1: For even sinners do the same. And if you lend
Speaker 1: to those whom you hope to receive back, what credit
Speaker 1: is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners
Speaker 1: to receive as much back. But love your enemies, do
Speaker 1: good and lend hoping for nothing in return, and your
Speaker 1: reward will be great.
Speaker 3: You mean that I'm gonna get a bunch of money
Speaker 3: back and I'm gonna be rich on earth. No, your
Speaker 3: reward in heaven will be great, and you will be
Speaker 3: sons of the most High right.
Speaker 1: For He is kind to the un thankful and evil.
Speaker 1: Therefore be merciful, just as your father is. Also your
Speaker 1: father also is merciful. I mean, it's just such a blessing, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is just you understand, Okay, Obviously you're
Speaker 1: gonna love those who love you. You think that that, you
Speaker 1: think that God's gonna go, Oh, you're doing awesome. Man.
Speaker 1: You love that person who loves you. That's amazing. He
Speaker 1: wants you to love those that despise you, you know. And
Speaker 1: then it says, you know, also, this is an important
Speaker 1: one for us. If you lend to those whom you
Speaker 1: hope to receive back, what credit is that to you?
Speaker 1: For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back.
Speaker 1: That's the one right there, right, Wow, But love your enemies.
Speaker 1: You know you should lend. You know, you should help people, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the whole thing here that Jesus is
Speaker 1: talking about. And you should do it with the with
Speaker 1: the with the good conscious and a good heart. And
Speaker 1: don't lend though if you're gonna like be, don't lend
Speaker 1: money out though, if you're gonna be gonna make you
Speaker 1: laid on your mortgage and your or your rent, or
Speaker 1: you're not feeding your kids. That that I wouldn't. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't suggest that, but you know it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: it depends case my case scenario. I'm just saying, have
Speaker 1: faith in the Lord. If you start following these what
Speaker 1: Jesus is saying, have faith that God's going to take
Speaker 1: care of you anyways. So all right, So now we're
Speaker 1: in Luke six thirty seven, The Parable of the Wise. No,
Speaker 1: this is the do not judge, judge not, and you
Speaker 1: should not be judged, condemned not, and you shall not
Speaker 1: be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and
Speaker 1: it will be given to you good measure pressed down,
Speaker 1: shaken together and running over will be put into your
Speaker 1: your bosom, for which the same measure that you use
Speaker 1: it will be measured back to you. Do not judge
Speaker 1: whoa judge not, and you shall be not be judged. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean condemnight you shall begin forgive, Yeah, you should
Speaker 1: you shall be forgiven, of course, judge not, you shall
Speaker 1: not be judged. You know, say, very very important right there,
Speaker 1: you know, because it's it's very easy for us to
Speaker 1: fall into, you know, judging people. You know, we're not
Speaker 1: the judge. God is the judge, right, so it's very
Speaker 1: easy for us to fall into that. But Jesus is
Speaker 1: the same. Don't do it. Condemn not and you should
Speaker 1: not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. That's
Speaker 1: another one. Uh, Now is it talking about? Is this
Speaker 1: talking about all of our sins? You know, well, Jesus
Speaker 1: covers us for all of our sins, but we're still
Speaker 1: committing sins in the meantime, right and God, and we
Speaker 1: get punished for those sins, you know. So it says,
Speaker 1: forgive and you will be forgiven. Right, give and it
Speaker 1: will be given to you good measure, pressed down, shaken together, Yes,
Speaker 1: and and you know, give and it will be given
Speaker 1: to you. I don't think that Jesus is referring to
Speaker 1: give and then you're gonna become rich, are we? You're
Speaker 1: gonna get tenfold if you give. It's I think it's
Speaker 1: talking about treasures that you're gonna receive in heaven. Right,
Speaker 1: That's what I think it is. You know, when you
Speaker 1: go to the judgment seat of Christ or the being
Speaker 1: the seat of Christ, he's gonna take all your works
Speaker 1: and he's gonna put him in the fire and whatever
Speaker 1: comes out will be your gifts in heaven. And it's
Speaker 1: all about your heart and what you were doing those
Speaker 1: things for. All right. So we're at Luke six, verse
Speaker 1: thirty nine, and he spoke a parable to them. Can
Speaker 1: the blind lead the blind? What they not both? Will
Speaker 1: they not both fall into a ditch? A disciple is
Speaker 1: not above his teacher, but everyone who is perfectly trained
Speaker 1: will be like his teacher. And why do you look
Speaker 1: at the spec in your brother's eye, but do not
Speaker 1: perceive the plank in your own eye? That's speaking of judging,
Speaker 1: you know, very important. So we could break that down,
Speaker 1: you know, Or can you say to your brother brother,
Speaker 1: let me remove the spec that is in your eye
Speaker 1: when you yourself do not seek the plank that is
Speaker 1: in your own eye. Hypocrite, First the plank from your
Speaker 1: own eye. Then you will see clearly to remove the
Speaker 1: spectatus in your brother's eye. We're quick to point out
Speaker 1: someone else's flaws without realizing the flaw that we have first.
Speaker 1: And it seems like Jesus is saying, your flaw is
Speaker 1: a lot bigger than that little one you're trying to
Speaker 1: point out to that person. And Jesus is speaking to
Speaker 1: them them at that very moment. Of course this can
Speaker 1: be applied to our life, but he is speaking to
Speaker 1: them at that moment. And I'm sure that people were
Speaker 1: doing these things and that's why Jesus needed to specifically
Speaker 1: point this out. Yeah, this happens a lot. I see
Speaker 1: a lot of people that do this stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people do it. Okay. A tree
Speaker 1: is known by its fruit, for a good tree does
Speaker 1: not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear
Speaker 1: good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit.
Speaker 1: For men do not gather figs from thorns, do they?
Speaker 1: Nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. A
Speaker 1: good man out of the good treasure of his heart
Speaker 1: brings forth good, and an evil man out of the
Speaker 1: evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out
Speaker 1: of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks. So
Speaker 1: let's let's see what's going on here, all right, hold on,
Speaker 1: let's good, let's good, let's go here, we go okay. So,
Speaker 1: the tree represents a person or a group, and the
Speaker 1: fruit represents their actions, words, and overall quality of their character. Application.
Speaker 1: A good tree person will produce good fruit actions. Well,
Speaker 1: a bad tree person will produce bad fruit actions. Example,
Speaker 1: instead of judging someone based on their claims or appearances,
Speaker 1: you should judge them by the quality of their actions
Speaker 1: and the results they produce. Some interpretations extend this concept
Speaker 1: to exclude a person's offspring, suggest that a child's character
Speaker 1: often reflects that of their parents. That's something. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: an interesting take. All right, let's go back, and let's
Speaker 1: go here Jesus and let's see okay, So okay, So
Speaker 1: Jesus uses the metaphor of a tree and it's fruit
Speaker 1: to illustrate a person's actions. We already talked about that
Speaker 1: judging others. Let's go back real quick, and let's take
Speaker 1: on what this says. This judging others warns against hypocritical
Speaker 1: judgment and emphasizes forgiveness and self examination. The Greek term
Speaker 1: chrino is used for judge, suggesting discernment rather than condemnation.
Speaker 1: Love your enemies that portion, it says, Jesus teaches radical love,
Speaker 1: instructing his followers to love their enemies and do good
Speaker 1: to those who hate them. The Greek word a quapoole
Speaker 1: is used for love, denoting selflessness and unconditional love. So
Speaker 1: now we're going to go to the build on the
Speaker 1: rock Luke six forty six. But why do you call
Speaker 1: me lord? Lord? And do not do the things which
Speaker 1: I say? Whoever comes to me and here's my sayings
Speaker 1: and does them, I will show them whom he is like.
Speaker 1: And he is like a man building a house who
Speaker 1: dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock, and
Speaker 1: when the flood arose, the stream vehemently against, vehemently against
Speaker 1: the house, and could not shake it, for it was
Speaker 1: founded on the rock. But he who heard and did
Speaker 1: nothing is like a man who built a house on
Speaker 1: the earth without a foundation. Against the stream beat vehemently,
Speaker 1: and immediately it fell, and the ruin of the house
Speaker 1: was great, so it's gonna be. Jesus concludes with a
Speaker 1: parable about building on a solid foundation, emphasizing the importance
Speaker 1: of putting his words into practice. The Greek word themlos
Speaker 1: themalias for foundation signifies the stability and strength in one's
Speaker 1: life through obedience to Christ. Makes perfect sense. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and look at the practical the teaching points for
Speaker 1: the beat to two, which is Luke six twenty through
Speaker 1: twenty three. Jesus begins with blessings for the poor, hungry, weeping,
Speaker 1: and persecuted, emphasizing the value of the Kingdom of God
Speaker 1: a men. Woes to the self satisfied Luke six twenty
Speaker 1: four through twenty six, a warning to those who find
Speaker 1: comfort and wealth fullness, laughter, and human approval, highlighting the
Speaker 1: temporary nature of wordly satisfaction. Yes, that is very true.
Speaker 1: See that's the woes that we were talking about. Comfort
Speaker 1: in wealth, right, so greed, comfort in wealth fullness, laughter,
Speaker 1: and human approval. That is temporary. That's something that you
Speaker 1: know your flesh will desire. But we need to feed
Speaker 1: the spirit, right, we need to feed the spirit. Next,
Speaker 1: we have hope to that love your enemies Jesus calls
Speaker 1: us to love our enemies, do good to those who
Speaker 1: hate us, and be merciful to those just as our
Speaker 1: Father merciful. Yes, judging others Luke, six thirty seven to
Speaker 1: forty two, A caution against hypocrisy and the importance of
Speaker 1: self examination before judging others. Right tree and its fruit,
Speaker 1: the principle that a good tree produces good fruit. Illustrating
Speaker 1: our actions reflect our hearts. The wise and foolish builders
Speaker 1: Luke six forty six forty nine A parable emphasizing the
Speaker 1: importance to not just not just hearing Jesus words, but
Speaker 1: putting them into action. So important. Let's look at some
Speaker 1: practical applications for this chapter. Embrace Kingdom Values. Reflect on
Speaker 1: how you can embody the beatitudes in your daily life,
Speaker 1: prioritizing spiritual writtness over material wealth. That is definitely true.
Speaker 1: Feed the spirit and not the flesh. That's it. Practice
Speaker 1: radical love. Identify ways to show love and kindness to
Speaker 1: those who may not reciprocate following Jesus example of loving enemies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: try that, Try to do that. I get comments on
Speaker 1: my YouTube where some people will attack and do this.
Speaker 1: I try to be loving. No, I mean, everybody can
Speaker 1: have their own opinion. Fine, just try to be nice
Speaker 1: as you can. Okay, So we have cultivate mercy, seek
Speaker 1: opportunities to extend mercy and forgiveness. Remembering God's mercy towards you.
Speaker 1: Very great point, because God's forgiveness or mercy towards us,
Speaker 1: it's just so asked his grace. This is beautiful, right,
Speaker 1: self reflection. Regularly examine your own heart and actions before
Speaker 1: passing judgment on others. Yeah, that that whole thing is
Speaker 1: so important. You know. Sometimes we pass judgment on others.
Speaker 1: We're always watching what other people other people are doing
Speaker 1: instead of reflecting on what we're doing. Right, We need
Speaker 1: to We need to look at ourselves. Right, bear good fruit.
Speaker 1: Focus on nurturing a heart aligned with Christ, knowing that
Speaker 1: your actions will naturally follow. Build on the rock. Commit
Speaker 1: to not only hearing, but also applying Jesus's teachings in
Speaker 1: your life, ensuring a strong foundation. If the Bible is
Speaker 1: your foundation and anything you go into, including conspiracies and
Speaker 1: all the stuff that you know that we go into,
Speaker 1: if you have the foundation of the real truth, which
Speaker 1: is Biblical Jesus is the way, the truth, the life.
Speaker 1: If you have that as your foundation, and you go
Speaker 1: into any of these, uh any situation, and you were
Speaker 1: able to look back on verse and as you're going
Speaker 1: through scenarios, think of verses that assist you to go
Speaker 1: through those scenarios. Your life will be so much better,
Speaker 1: so much better than before, so much better, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's just and when you start applying the teachings
Speaker 1: in your life, if everybody applied everything that Jesus is
Speaker 1: talking about here, there'd be no wars, there'd be no problems,
Speaker 1: no one stealing, no one killing, no one murdering, no
Speaker 1: one's selling drugs. No, it would just be, you know,
Speaker 1: it would be exactly how it's going to be on
Speaker 1: the New Heaven and New Earth, Okay, after revelation. So
Speaker 1: we're waiting for that. We're praying for that. We can't
Speaker 1: wait for that, right okay, And I already want to
Speaker 1: do that. Additional Scriptures Matthew five three through twelve The
Speaker 1: Beatitudes that's coming on the Mount, offering a parallel of
Speaker 1: Luke's account Romans twelve Paul's actuation to bless those who
Speaker 1: persecute you and overcome evil with good. So we'll go
Speaker 1: to Romans twelve fourteen. This is going to be blessed.
Speaker 1: Those who persecute you bless and do not curse. Okay,
Speaker 1: So that's Paul emphasizing that James one twenty two through
Speaker 1: twenty five the importance of being doers of the word,
Speaker 1: not just heres. And while I'm doing that, let me
Speaker 1: see how big Luke seven is. All right, we'll kick
Speaker 1: butt and go through Luke seven. Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 1: Let's go through Luke seven. We got about twenty minutes. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I might not do as much exhorting exhortation on here.
Speaker 1: Jesus heals a centurion servant Luke seven, verse one. Now,
Speaker 1: when he concluded all his sayings in the hearing of
Speaker 1: the people, he entered Capernaum, and a certain centurion servant,
Speaker 1: who is dear to him, was sick and ready to die.
Speaker 1: So when he heard about Jesus, he sent elders to
Speaker 1: the Jews to him, pleading with him to come and
Speaker 1: heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they
Speaker 1: begged him earnestly, saying that the one of whom he
Speaker 1: should do do this was deserving, for he loves our
Speaker 1: nation and was as has built us a synagogue. It
Speaker 1: says sorry, saying to the one for whom he should do,
Speaker 1: this was deserving, for he loves our nation and has
Speaker 1: built us a synagogue. So he seems to be as
Speaker 1: somebody with a lot of money. And Jesus went with him.
Speaker 1: And when he was all this is Luke seven, verse six.
Speaker 1: And when he was already not far from the house,
Speaker 1: the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, Lord,
Speaker 1: do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy that
Speaker 1: you should enter under my roof. Therefore I did not
Speaker 1: even think myself worthy to come to you. But say
Speaker 1: the word, and my servant will be healed. For I
Speaker 1: am also a man placed under authority, having soldiers under me.
Speaker 1: And I say to one go and he goes, and
Speaker 1: to another come and he comes, and to my servant,
Speaker 1: do this, and he does it. So this is the
Speaker 1: type of faith that we should have. He knows that
Speaker 1: Jesus doesn't even need to go there. He could just
Speaker 1: say it and he will be healed. He also seems
Speaker 1: like a commander. Let me see if a Roman satranny
Speaker 1: demonstrate is a centurion. He demonstrates remarkable faith in jesus
Speaker 1: healing power. What is a Roman centurion. Let me see
Speaker 1: real quick, give me one second, and when I look
Speaker 1: stuff like this up, it's just because for you guys
Speaker 1: and for me Roman centurion, I know that I had
Speaker 1: a military officer demonstrates remarkable faith. Okay, yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: military officer, right, so probably I higher up in the military. Right.
Speaker 1: So the centurian's faith, this Tarnian, despite being a Roman
Speaker 1: and not Jewish, expresses great faith in Jesus' power, stating, Lord,
Speaker 1: I am not worthy to have you come under my roof,
Speaker 1: but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. Yes,
Speaker 1: so all right, let's see. So this is Luke seven,
Speaker 1: verse nine. When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at
Speaker 1: him and turned and said to the crowd that followed him,
Speaker 1: I say to you, I have not found such great faith,
Speaker 1: not even in Israel. And those who were sent returning
Speaker 1: to the house found the servant well, who had been sick.
Speaker 1: You see, marveled. There's another time when Jesus is in
Speaker 1: Galilee and he says he's marveled at the unbelief. This
Speaker 1: is a scenario where he's marveled at the belief and
Speaker 1: the faith marveled means amazed. So he's amazed by this
Speaker 1: military centurion. Faith. Right, So let's go to Luke seven
Speaker 1: in my notes here. Okay, So Luke seven eleven through seven,
Speaker 1: looks like is Jesus raising the son of a widow.
Speaker 1: Let me see if there's any kid. So on healing
Speaker 1: of the Centurian servant. After Jesus finished his teachings, he
Speaker 1: entered Capernium. A Copernium's servant, whom he had highly valued,
Speaker 1: was sick and near death. The centurion sent Jewish elders
Speaker 1: to ask Jesus to heal his servant. The elders pleaded earnestly,
Speaker 1: saying the centurion was worthy because he loved their nation
Speaker 1: and built their synagogue. Jesus went to them, but before
Speaker 1: he arrived, the centurion sent friends to say he was
Speaker 1: not worthy to have Jesus come under his roof. He
Speaker 1: expressed faith that Jesus could heal with just a word.
Speaker 1: Jesus marvelous faith and healed. Okay, cool, there we go.
Speaker 1: We have that, and let me get back up to
Speaker 1: we'd explaining it. Okay, cool, perfect, all right, So let's
Speaker 1: go here Luke seven, verse eleven. Jesus raises the son
Speaker 1: of a widow of nine. Now what happened the day
Speaker 1: after that? He went into a city called Nane, and
Speaker 1: many of his disciples went with him, and a large crowd.
Speaker 1: And when he came near the gate of the city,
Speaker 1: behold a dead man was being carried out, and the
Speaker 1: only son of his mother. And she was a widow,
Speaker 1: and a large crowd from the city was with her.
Speaker 1: When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her
Speaker 1: and said to her, do not weep. Then he came
Speaker 1: and touched the open coffin, and those who carried him
Speaker 1: stood still, and he said, young man, I say to
Speaker 1: you arise, So he was dead. So he who was
Speaker 1: dead sat up and began to speak and presented him
Speaker 1: to his mother. So this is when the where else
Speaker 1: do we see this in the Bible? We see Elijah
Speaker 1: do that with the young boy. Elijah brings someone from
Speaker 1: the dead, like he has somebody bring someone back from
Speaker 1: the dead. Obviously not Elijah, but God does it. But
Speaker 1: you know through Elijah. Right, So now we have Jesus
Speaker 1: doing the same thing. Can you imagine someone being dead
Speaker 1: in a coffin and then Jesus just says, young man,
Speaker 1: I say to you a rise, and you see the
Speaker 1: compassion that Jesus has Right here, Jesus the displaced his
Speaker 1: compassion and power over death by resurrecting a widow's only son,
Speaker 1: causing great awe among the people. You bet they're definitely
Speaker 1: great all among the people. Then fear came upon all,
Speaker 1: and they glorified God, saying, a great prophet has risen
Speaker 1: up among us, and God has visited his people. And
Speaker 1: this report about him went throughout all Judea and all
Speaker 1: the surrounding region. So when that report probably got to
Speaker 1: the Pharisees and Saddisties and scribes, they were probably like, oh, oh,
Speaker 1: this is causing quite a stir Okay, So we have
Speaker 1: Luke seven, verse eighteen. John the Baptist sends a message,
Speaker 1: sends messengers to Jesus. Then the disciples of John reported
Speaker 1: him concerning all these things. In John, calling two of
Speaker 1: his disciples to him, sent them to Jesus saying, are
Speaker 1: you the coming one? Or do we look for another?
Speaker 1: When the men had come to him, they said, John
Speaker 1: the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, are you
Speaker 1: the coming one? Or do we look for another? And
Speaker 1: at that very hour he cured many of the infirmities, afflictions,
Speaker 1: and evil spirits, and many blind. He gave sight. And
Speaker 1: Jesus answered them and said to them, go tell John
Speaker 1: the things you have seen and heard. That the blind see,
Speaker 1: the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf here,
Speaker 1: the dead or rays, the poor have the Gospel preached
Speaker 1: to them. And blessed is he. Blessed is he who
Speaker 1: is not offended because of me. I believe that's going
Speaker 1: to be in Isaiah. So he's telling of that to
Speaker 1: remind him of the prophecy. When the messengers of John
Speaker 1: had departed, he began to speak to the multitudes concerning John.
Speaker 1: What did you go into the wilderness to see a
Speaker 1: reed shaken by the wind? But what did you go
Speaker 1: out to see a man clothed in soft garments? Indeed,
Speaker 1: those who are gorgeously appalled and live in luxury are
Speaker 1: in king's courts. But what did you go out to
Speaker 1: see a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more
Speaker 1: than a prophet, this is he whom he has written, Behold,
Speaker 1: I send my messengers before your face, who will prepare
Speaker 1: your way before you. I believe that's in Isaiah. For
Speaker 1: I say to you, among those born of women, there
Speaker 1: is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist, But
Speaker 1: he who is least in the Kingdom of God is
Speaker 1: greater than he. Let's see that is a So basically
Speaker 1: I think he's saying, like, John the Baptist's greatest on earth,
Speaker 1: but he was least in the Kingdom of God. So
Speaker 1: maybe he's talking about in the heavenly is greater than he. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see John the Baptist questions from prison. John the
Speaker 1: Baptist says, disciples to ask Jesus, where's that at where's that?
Speaker 1: I want to see? What the And after John's messengers left,
Speaker 1: Jesus spoke to the crowd about John. He asked what
Speaker 1: they went out to see in the wilderness. He reads, way,
Speaker 1: we already read that fine clothes. No, we see a
Speaker 1: prophet more than a prophet went to Okay, a man
Speaker 1: dressified clothes. No, they went to see a prophet and
Speaker 1: more than a prophet. Jesus declared that John was a
Speaker 1: messenger propheesis in Malachi three, one among these who were
Speaker 1: born of women, none is greater than John. Yet the
Speaker 1: least in the kingdom is greater than the people and
Speaker 1: the tax dollersis and knowledge God's justice having to baptize
Speaker 1: by John, but the pharisees and experts and the law
Speaker 1: rejected God's purpose for themselves. Okay, so let's continue. Maybe
Speaker 1: I can have hold on. Let me check something because
Speaker 1: I want to find out what's up with this and
Speaker 1: I want to explain it to you guys. Luke, and
Speaker 1: I didn't really get this far through the study because
Speaker 1: I had I was a pretty dense study between five
Speaker 1: and six, right, So I just want to look this
Speaker 1: up so contact. The statement is part of Jesus's teaching
Speaker 1: about the nature of his kingdom and the role of
Speaker 1: John the Baptist. Jesus has claimed declares that John the
Speaker 1: Baptist is the greatest prophet of among those born of women.
Speaker 1: The significance of John is seen as a pivotal figure,
Speaker 1: a forerunner to Jesus for praying the way for the
Speaker 1: Messiah the Kingdom of God. Jesus contrasts John's greatness with
Speaker 1: the importance of those who belong to the Kingdom of God,
Speaker 1: even the least among them. The verse suggests that John
Speaker 1: was a great prophet those who enter the Kingdom of
Speaker 1: God through faith in Jesus, are greater in statutes and significance. Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: makes sense, All right, let's see. Let's continue Luke seven,
Speaker 1: verse twenty nine. And when all the people heard him,
Speaker 1: well on, let me get back to my notes. And
Speaker 1: when all the people heard him, even the tax collectors
Speaker 1: justified God, having been baptized from the baptism of John.
Speaker 1: But the pharisees and lawyers rejected the will of God
Speaker 1: for themselves, not having been baptized by him. And the
Speaker 1: the Lord said, to what then shall I like in
Speaker 1: the man of this generation? And what are they like?
Speaker 1: They are like children sitting in the marketplace, calling to
Speaker 1: one another, saying, we played the flute to you, and
Speaker 1: you did not dance. We mourned to you, and you
Speaker 1: did not weep. For John the Baptist came neither eating
Speaker 1: bread nor drinking wine. And you say he has a demon.
Speaker 1: The son of Man has come eating and drinking. And
Speaker 1: you say, look, a glutton and a wine bearer, bearber,
Speaker 1: a friend, a tax collector, and sinners. But wisdom is
Speaker 1: justified by all the children, all her children. He has
Speaker 1: a demon. The son of man has come eating and drinking.
Speaker 1: And you say, look a glutton and a winebibber, a
Speaker 1: friendicline of sinners. Yeah, see, they're judging him, you see
Speaker 1: Luke seven, verse thirty six, a sinful woman forgiven Luke seven,
Speaker 1: verse thirty six. The one of the Pharisees asked him
Speaker 1: to eat with him, And he went into the pharisees
Speaker 1: house and sat down to eat, and behold the woman
Speaker 1: in the city who was a sinner when she knew
Speaker 1: that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisees house,
Speaker 1: brought a alabaster flask of fragrant oil. Okay, so this
Speaker 1: is gonna be merry. We've gone over this a few
Speaker 1: different times. I don't need to re hit on this, okay.
Speaker 1: So and they sit at his feet behind him, weeping,
Speaker 1: and she began to wash his feet with tears and
Speaker 1: wipe them. Now, the alabaster flask is expensive, okay, this
Speaker 1: is expensive fragrant oil, all right, like three hundred dinari,
Speaker 1: which is like a lot of I think it's a
Speaker 1: one denari a day, So that'd be like almost a
Speaker 1: year's work, that's how expensive this stuff is. Right, So
Speaker 1: his feet, his tears wiped them, and the hair of
Speaker 1: her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with
Speaker 1: the fragrant oil. Now, when the Pharisees who had invited
Speaker 1: him saw this, he spoke to him self, saying, this man,
Speaker 1: if if he were a prophet, would know who and
Speaker 1: what manner of woman this is who is touching him,
Speaker 1: for she is a sinner. And Jesus answered and said
Speaker 1: to him, Simon, I have something to say to you.
Speaker 1: So he said, teachers, say it. Therefore, a certain creditor
Speaker 1: who had two debtors, one owned five hundred dinari and
Speaker 1: the other fifty, and when they had nothing to which
Speaker 1: to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell me, therefore,
Speaker 1: which of them will love him more? Simon answered and said,
Speaker 1: I suppose to one whom he forgave more. And he
Speaker 1: said to him, you have rightly judged. And then he
Speaker 1: turned to the woman and said, Simon, do you see
Speaker 1: this woman I entered your house. You gave me no
Speaker 1: water for my feet, but she has washed my feet
Speaker 1: with their tears and wiped them with the hair of
Speaker 1: her head. You gave me no kiss, but this woman
Speaker 1: had not seized to kiss my feet since the time
Speaker 1: I came in. You did not annoy my head with oil.
Speaker 1: But this woman who annoyed in my feet with fragrant oil.
Speaker 1: Therefore I say to you her sins, which were many,
Speaker 1: are forgiven. And she loved much, to whom little is forgiven.
Speaker 1: The same loves little. So it's something that was like
Speaker 1: a let's see what it says a Pharisees house. A
Speaker 1: simple woman annoys Jesus' feet with their tears and perfume.
Speaker 1: Jesus uses this act to teach about forgiveness, affirming that
Speaker 1: her sins have been forgiven due to her great love,
Speaker 1: revealing that those who forgiven much love much. Yes, then
Speaker 1: he said, your sins are forgiven, and this is Luke
Speaker 1: seven nine. And those who sat at the table with
Speaker 1: him began to say to himself, who is this who
Speaker 1: even forgives sins? And he said to the woman, your
Speaker 1: faith has saved you. Go in peace. Wow, that's the
Speaker 1: very you see. He's forgiving sins. That's he's claiming to
Speaker 1: be God. Okay, that's why they say this at the table,
Speaker 1: who is this who even forgive sins? And he said,
Speaker 1: your faith has saved You were saved by grace through faith, right,
Speaker 1: so go in peace. So he just just wanted to
Speaker 1: wrap that up. You know, that was perfect amount of time.
Speaker 1: So let me just stop the screen share teaching points
Speaker 1: for that Centurnion's faith. When Jesus heard this, he marveled
Speaker 1: at him. Turning to the crowd following him, he said,
Speaker 1: I tell you, not even Israel I have I've found
Speaker 1: great faith. The centurion's understanding of authority and his humble
Speaker 1: approach to Jesus exemplify a faith that recognizes christ divine power.
Speaker 1: Compassionate Jesus, We've talked about that forgiveness and love. Therefore,
Speaker 1: I tell you, because her many sins have been forgiven,
Speaker 1: she has loved much, but she has forgiven little. But
Speaker 1: he who has been forgiven little loves little. The story
Speaker 1: of the Sinful Woman highlights the transformative power of forgiveness
Speaker 1: and the profound love of endegers the authority of Jesus's word.
Speaker 1: Throughout the chapter of Jesus's Word brings healing and life,
Speaker 1: underscoring his divine authority and the power of his spoken word.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna end there. What an amazing study. We
Speaker 1: went through just three chapters there. It was pretty dense.
Speaker 1: I had a good amount of time to study Luke five, six,
Speaker 1: and then a little bit of seven. Right, So thank
Speaker 1: you so much for joining me, and I appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys so much. And so next week we'll be picking
Speaker 1: up at Luke chapter eight. So please join me and
Speaker 1: please join me for Sunday service. We're going to be
Speaker 1: in the Book of Numbers. And let me just make
Speaker 1: sure see what chapter we're going to be doing. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna be at Numbers twenty nine. How amazing. So
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Speaker 1: So Father God, in the name of Jesus, and you
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Speaker 1: the Bible to be able to read to decipher what
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Speaker 1: assist me in speaking. Please take away this raspiness in
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Speaker 1: also anyway that's listening that needs healing, please heal them.
Speaker 1: If it's your will, let it be done. Lord. And
Speaker 1: anybody that's going through any type of sin or backsliding
Speaker 1: or whatever is preventing them from being fully close to you, Lord,
Speaker 1: I ask that you break those chains in the name
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Speaker 1: people need to hear this. And there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people out there that need the word right now. And
Speaker 1: I appreciate you putting me in the position to be
Speaker 1: able to teach the Bible. Lord, assist me into being
Speaker 1: able to study for these studies and have all the
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Speaker 1: a preacher, Lord of the Gospel. Thank you God for
Speaker 1: everything you do. Love you in Jesus' name. Amen, Thank
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