Day 74
Luke 10-20
God Loves the Outcasts...
Jesus seeks the lost:
Lost sheep
Lost coin
Lost son
Me
I just marvel at that.
Luke 10:2-3
Jesus sends out disciples telling them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves."
Luke 10:18-20
Of Pride...
"I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."
Luke 10:23
Of Prejudice...
"Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it."
Luke 10:25
"Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
"What is written in the Law?" he replied.
"How do you read it?"
He answered: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and love your neighbor as yourself."
We are to be like the Good Samaritan and show mercy.
Love God, Love your Neighbor.
Jesus tell us to:
Luke 10:37
"Go and do likewise."
The "Mary & Martha" of Luke 10:38-42 is the reminder needed to keep focus on what is the focus. It's not the doing of things, it's the listening to HIM.
Luke 10:41-42
"Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed."
Lord - teach us to pray.
Luke 11: 2-4
Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.
And lead us not into temptation.
Luke 11: 9-10
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
Luke 11:17
Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined and a house divided against itself will fall.
Luke 11:23
He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.
Luke 11:28
Blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it.
Luke 11:33-36
No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand so that those who come in may see the light. Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness. See to it then that the light within you is not darkness. Therefore, if your whole body is full of light and no part of it dark, it will be completely lighted, as when the light of a lamp shines on you."
Luke 12:1
Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.
Luke 12:6
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Luke 12:8
I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge him before the angels of God. But he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God. And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.
Luke 12:14
Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.
We are not to store up things for ourselves, but rather be rich toward God.
Do Not Worry
Luke 12:22
Then Jesus said to his disciples:
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?
Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. For the pagan world runs after all such things and your Father knows that you need them. But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.
Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is there your heart will be also.
We are to be ready --
Luke 12:40
You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
Luke 12: 48
From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.
Luke 13:5
But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
Faith like a Mustard Seed
Luke 13:18
Then Jesus asked, "What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches."
Again he asked, "What shall I compare the kingdom of God to? It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough."
The Narrow door of Luke 13:27 is that there will be a time of reckoning.
God asks us to walk through that door of salvation while it is still open. Many will, many will not. Those who merely said they knew of God - the door will be closed because they did not give their lives to God. He will say, "I don't know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!"
Luke 13:30
Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last.
