Looking for Jesus according to Luke

[JLG]

9) Jesus vs the religious leaders

Luke 6: At this some of the Pharisees say: “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?”

- Insensible

- Superficial

- Only looking for the appearances

- Unable to put oneself in question

- Senile in their brain

- Unable to evolve

- Limited

- No perspective

- mentally dead

 

[JLG]

So tell me JLG,What are people doing in WCF?

What are you doing on WCF?

I can't answer for what anyone else is doing here but I can only answer for myself" I'm going about my Heavenly Father's Business-" He Still Sits on the Throne, everything is His,He is in Control - this is His WCF! Glory to God- Forever& Ever!

- My answer :

- A christian is supposed to learn and tell about God’s Word!

- Thus that’s what I am doing on WCF and what people should be doing on it!

- To make it alive it and make our faith alive we need to share it!

- Our knowledge must grow!

- When we speak, it doesn’t matter if it is right or wrong, we all make mistakes!

- It helps people think and check by themselves!

- It is not possible to only hear!

- We need to listen carefully!

- It means we have to check and read the Bible!

- Then we can understand or improve our understanding!

- And we must spend time doing it and we must do it regularly!

- If we don’t eat spiritual food regularly, our faith won’t survive!

- It will disappear gradually!

- Or when we get into any kind of trouble, it goes away all at once!

 

[JLG]

NO! It is not in the "blood" of every Jew.

It's in the heart of every man and woman on the planet.

Rebellion, disobedience.

Why are you singling out Jews?

- My answer:

- Of course, it is an image!

- Otherwise how would it be possible to have special ones or precious one in the Bible?

- Of course, humanity is not better!

- Think about the flood!

- No, it’s not in the heart of every man or woman in the planet!

- Otherwise how would it be possible to have special ones or precious ones in the Bible?

- I’m not singling out Jews!

- There is no difference with humanity!

- It is just for those who still think that the Israelites or the Jews are a chosen people!

- They haven’t read the Bible or they have a strange way to read it!

- I am only speaking of the Bible, nothing else!

 

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So then by your comment" think about what people are doing on WCF," you are saying we are doing what we are supposed to be doing.... Correct?

- My answer:

- By learning and telling about God’s Word!

- Of course, we need to live according to what we learn and tell!

- Otherwise it doesn’t work!

- If we don’t obey God’s commandments, it doesn’t work!

- But that’s what Jesus says about the Pharisees!

- They tell people what to do but they don’t do it!

- So if what you say doesn’t reflect what you do, it doesn’t work!

- It’s like shouting into the wind or talking to the void or talking to the air!

- I don’t know what the best expression is depending on the country!

 

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10) Jesus vs the religious leaders

Luke 6: The scribes and the Pharisees are now watching Jesus closely to see whether he will cure on the sabbath, in order to find some way to accuse him.

- Jesus has no time to lose but apparently the religious leaders have nothing to do and plenty of time to lose: once again the choice is clear, according to whom you choose, you show what you are looking for! So the religious leaders are not the only one to be guilty but also those who decide to follow them! It’s up to us to make the right decision!

 

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11) Jesus vs the religious leaders

Luke 6: A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is perfectly instructed will be like his teacher.

- Jesus taught his disciples and the apostles and when he died they replaced him which shows they were perfectly instructed.

- We can’t say the same with the religious leaders, on the contrary!

 

[Pearl]

The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. John 10:33

John 10:33 “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.” NIV

 

[JLG]

- There is always a mountain with what Jesus says and what the Jews say!

- The Jews are used to taking their dreams for reality!

- How is it possible to imagine what they say is right when Jesus says the contrary?

- Or it means Jesus is a liar!

- If he says he is God's son he means he is God's son!

- If he says he is God's son, he doesn't say he is God!

- The liars are the Jews not Jesus!

 

[JLG]

12) Jesus vs the religious leaders

Luke 6:

- Jesus compares the one who hears and does nothing to a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The river dashed against it, and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.

- Too many examples in the Bible show us that the religious leaders build their house without foundation and their teachings lead nowhere, only on the wrong way!

- When we really listen to Jesus, we want to build our house with foundation and follow his way not their way!

- Once again, it’s up to us, we must make the right choice and know why we do it !

- When our house is in ruin, it’s too late!

- It is important to make the right choice on time!

 

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“I thought it important to note that luke never ment Jesus. He was sorta a a investigated reporter.
He finds out the story of Christ remains the same some years later.
Giving relevance that by the testimony of others he becomes a believer and joins Paul (saul) in his endeavors.
To me this is so remarkable. So powerful. It shows that our testimony is critical to the gospel of Christ.”

- My answer:

- Yes, the expression of "investigated reporter" is quite meaningful!

- Yes, "remarkable and powerful", you are definitely right!

Luke 1:1-4:

- Taking into account the fact that many had undertaken an account of the facts about Jesus, Luke traced all things from the start with accuracy and wrote his gospel in logical order so that people may know fully the certainty of the things that they have been taught orally.

- Luke tells us about his work “I have traced”, “with accuracy”, “in logical order”!

-We don’t know the time he used to do it but we can imagine it takes a lot of timeto do it and thus he is a good example of what we have to do to study the Bible!​

 

[JLG]

13) Jesus vs the religious leaders

Luke 7:

- John the baptist sends two of his disciples to ask Jesus if he is the Messiah!

- They can see Jesus curing people and doing many miracles and teaching about God’s Kingdom!

- And Jesus tells them to tell what they have just seen!

- Action is better than words!

- When what we say corresponds with what we do, it is more powerful than anything!

- Jesus doesn’t answer directly to John but he tells him about his miracles and his teaching! Isn’t it the best answer?

- John the Baptist understands perfectly well and he rejoices!

- But not the religious leaders: where is the mistake?

- They understand but they don’t care because it is against their own interests!

- Jesus looks for his Father’s interests, they don’t!

- So we must be careful not to serve the religious leaders’ interests instead of God’s interests!

 

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14) Jesus vs the religious leaders

Luke 7:

- People declare God to be righteous, for they have been baptized with the baptism of John. But the Pharisees and those versed in the Law disregard the counsel of God to them, since they have not been baptized by him!

- There is a big difference between ordinary people and the religious leaders!

- Humility vs Pride!

- In fact, the religious leaders don’t care about God!

- They prefer looking for their own interests!

- How can they really help ordinary people?

 

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15) Jesus vs the religious leaders

Luke 7: Now one of the Pharisees keeps asking him to dine with him. So he enters the house of the Pharisee and reclines at the table.

- When people keep asking Jesus, he listens and answers them, whoever they are!

- And look! A woman who is known in the city to be a sinner learns he is dining in the house of the Pharisee, and she brings an alabaster jar of perfumed oil.

- Jesus does everything in the light and people can find him!

- Taking a position behind him at his feet, she weeps and begins to wet his feet with her tears, and she wipes them off with the hair of her head.

- She is known as a sinner but look at what she does!

- The religious leaders are far away from her because she is humble and they are arrogant!

- Also she tenderly kisses his feet and pours the perfumed oil on them.

- Ordinary people vs the religious leaders who have dried hearts!

- How is it possible to be so far away from God’s truth!

- You can’t look for power and God’s truth at the same time!

- It is incompatible!

- Then they think that Jesus can’t be a prophet otherwise he would know the woman is a sinner!

- That’s really a good summary of the religious leaders: mentally short-sighted, mentally limited, spiritually limited, spiritually dead and leading people to nowhere!

- They are completely blind!

- How is it possible to be so limited!

- But in reply Jesus says to him: “Simon, I have something to say to you.”

- Then he tells him about an analogy to make him understand and give him a lesson!

- There is only one teacher!

- Then he tells Simon about the woman and everything she does for him and because of that her sins are forgiven!

- What a lesson!

- But they don’t understand anything!

- So they prove themselves good for nothing, useless!

- And they start thinking how it is possible for a man to forgive sins!

- Authority vs meaninglessness!

- Wow: what a powerful action! It seems like a vision!

- How is it possible not to see the difference: it is so evident!

- The problem is when we get accustomed to something, we don’t see it anymore!

- What a pity!

 

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16) Jesus vs the religious leaders

Luke 9:

- The apostles have a discussion about who is the greatest!

- Jesus tells them about a child!

- He tries to show them how to behave!

- They must show humility!

- It is usual among those who think they are important in this world to be the greatest or want to be the greatest but the one who belongs to God must be humble and gets away from this attitude which has nothing to do with God!

- Jesus showed how humble he was which is not the case of the religious leaders!

- Moreover, once again we see that Jesus knows what people think!

 

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17) Jesus vs the religious leaders

Luke 10: Jesus explains that the harvest is great but there are few workers!

- He adds to beg the Master of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest!

- And he is sending his disciples out as lambs in among wolves!

- Yes, workers are needed and the religious leaders are certainly not workers!

- The harvest needs workers who are ready to work hard!

- Workers who are 100% active, not passive!

- Think about all the faithful servants of God: they were active men not passive ones!

- If we don’t participate, nobody will do it!

- The religious leaders are certainly not the lambs but the wolves!

- The harvest needs hardworking lambs!

 

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18) Jesus vs the religious leaders

Luke 10: Jesus praises his father because he has hidden these things from wise and intellectual ones and has revealed them to young children.

- Wise and intellectual ones vs young children!

- When we look at the world situation it is going worse and worse every day with more and more unsolvable problems!

- And there are many researchers!

- We may ask what they are doing!

- We can say the same of political leaders!

- Yes, God’s word is not for such men!

- They are too busy looking for nothing and doing nothing!

- We need to be humble if we want to understand God’s word and will!

 

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19) Jesus vs the religious leaders

Luke 10: The man wants to prove himself righteous so he asks Jesus who his neighbor is!

- Being righteous is a condition of heart!

- If you want to prove yourself righteous, you look for appearances!

- But appearances are not real!

- It is only superficiality!

- So are the religious and the political leaders and the commercial leaders because of power and so is human society!

- The world is burning but they do as if everything was normal!

- And people listen to them!

 

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20) Jesus vs the religious leaders

Luke 11: Jesus tells to keep asking to receive and to keep on seeking to find and to keep on knocking to be opened!

- Keep on asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking!

- Jesus’ message is alive, it’s not a tomb!

- And to keep it alive, we need to ask and seek and knock!

- We need to do our job!

- We must speak about God and Jesus and what they will bring in the near future!

- But to do that we need to keep studying the Bible and searching and explaining and teaching!

- We can’t let others do the job!

- We must take a share!

- Otherwise why God should remember us!

- Remember the workers are few and are required!

- And active ones not lazy ones!

- There is no excuse!

 

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21) Jesus vs the religious leaders

Luke 11: One of those versed in the Law tells Jesus that he is insulting them!

- And Jesus answers him telling woe to them because they put hard loads on men but they don’t touch them with their fingers!

- Man, do you see the balance: on the one side A MOUNTAIN and on the other side A PEA!

- How is it possible not to see the difference?

- Is that HABITS?

- Like doing something without thinking?

- Is that what we must do when dealing with God’s and Jesus’ affairs?

- Are we ZOMBIES?

- Do God and Jesus need ZOMBIES?

- Is God’s word a LIVING SPRING or a DEAD ONE?

 

[JLG]

22) Jesus vs the religious leaders

Luke 11: Jesus tells them woe to them because they took away the key of knowledge!

- They didn’t go in and they hinder those who go in!

- It is as if the religious leaders let the door of knowledge closed or they shut it!

- In both cases it is a personal choice!

- They do it on purpose!

- They mislead people!

- By doing this, they oppose God!

- That’s why we can’t let people think for ourselves!

- It is too easy to let the others do everything!

- We need to do our parts!

- We need to study the Bible daily and check everything!