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[Citizen of the Kingdom]

Study 14 Luke 5:27-6:11
Calling of Levi
Parable of the new wineskin
Disciples accused of breaking the sabbath

1) These verses record 4 encounters with the scribes and Pharisees. What were the grounds of their growing opposition to Jesus? And what were the truths and the principles which ( as His answers reveal) determined the actions of Jesus?

2) 5:36-39. What happens when formal religion encounters the new life which Jesus brings? How do the incidents in today's passage illustrate the truth of these words? Cf. 1 Sa. 15:22; Heb. 10:8-9

Note. 6:1. This was allowed on other days (duet 23:25), but was regarded by the scribes as work, and therefore prohibited on the sabbath.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

31-32Jesus heard about it and spoke up, "Who needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick? I'm here inviting outsiders, not insiders—an invitation to a changed life, changed inside and out."

i think that sums it up - insiders didn't think they needed Jesus, they were already comfortable [in their sin and life apart from G_d].

outsiders new they needed 'a way' or 'a doctor' to be healed; and Jesus is that Way and told them how. they listened because He told them the truth, AND He live it daily. they didn't argue about washing or eating or sabbath because they knew they were pitiful and lost without Jesus, but the insiders didn't like to be challenged or told that they needed to be healed, no matter how sick or dead they were apart from G_d.

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

31-32Jesus heard about it and spoke up, "Who needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick? I'm here inviting outsiders, not insiders—an invitation to a changed life, changed inside and out."

i think that sums it up - insiders didn't think they needed Jesus, they were already comfortable [in their sin and life apart from G_d].

outsiders new they needed 'a way' or 'a doctor' to be healed; and Jesus is that Way and told them how. they listened because He told them the truth, AND He live it daily. they didn't argue about washing or eating or sabbath because they knew they were pitiful and lost without Jesus, but the insiders didn't like to be challenged or told that they needed to be healed, no matter how sick or dead they were apart from G_d.

Hi jeshuaslavejeff. I like how you said that. The new way. Exactly. Complacency defined is satisfaction with self. Jesus prefered us to be hot or cold rather than lukewarm, a zealeot was preferable to a tradition drenched Pharisee.
I see it as a baby who is satisfied to sit in dirty diapers just b/c it's warm rather than have his mind changed thru transformation.
Just like the new wineskin is transformation into a new and living way, while the old wineskin is more being conformed to law and legalism.
Many people are still steeped in the old.
The mount of tranfigeration was, I think, a passing of the torch from law and prophets to grace and that's how I see the new wineskin!?!
Above all else God wants our obedience to Him. Thanks jeshuaslavejeff, keep 'em comin'!

From Q2:

1 Samuel 15:22
But Samuel replied:
"Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD ?
To obey is better than sacrifice,
and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

Hebrews 10:8-9
8First he said, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them" (although the law required them to be made). 9Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He sets aside the first to establish the second.

How does todays passage illustrate these words? Exactly!

 

[abigale]

The old and the new

They said to him, "John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking."
5:34
Jesus answered, "Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them?
5:35
But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast."
Isaiah 58:3-6
3 'Why have we fasted,' they say,
'and you have not seen it?
Why have we humbled ourselves,
and you have not noticed?'
"Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please
and exploit all your workers.
4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,
and in striking each other with wicked fists.
You cannot fast as you do today
and expect your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,
only a day for a man to humble himself?
Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed
and for lying on sackcloth and ashes?
Is that what you call a fast,
a day acceptable to the LORD ?
6 "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?

 

[angelwind]

31-32Jesus heard about it and spoke up, "Who needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick? I'm here inviting outsiders, not insiders—an invitation to a changed life, changed inside and out."

i think that sums it up - insiders didn't think they needed Jesus, they were already comfortable [in their sin and life apart from G_d].

outsiders new they needed 'a way' or 'a doctor' to be healed; and Jesus is that Way and told them how. they listened because He told them the truth, AND He live it daily. they didn't argue about washing or eating or sabbath because they knew they were pitiful and lost without Jesus, but the insiders didn't like to be challenged or told that they needed to be healed, no matter how sick or dead they were apart from G_d.

Wo! Wonderful insight...thanks.

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

The old and the new

They said to him, "John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking."
5:34
Jesus answered, "Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them?
5:35
But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast."
Isaiah 58:3-6
3 'Why have we fasted,' they say,
'and you have not seen it?
Why have we humbled ourselves,
and you have not noticed?'
"Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please
and exploit all your workers.
4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,
and in striking each other with wicked fists.
You cannot fast as you do today
and expect your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,
only a day for a man to humble himself?
Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed
and for lying on sackcloth and ashes?
Is that what you call a fast,
a day acceptable to the LORD ?
6 "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?

abigale, thank you, Jesus said "But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast"
And God wants our fasts "to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke

That makes a lot of sence, excellent. So if we're to be about our Father's business that's what we should be doin'. , loose the chains, untie the cords, set the oppressed free and break every yoke. That's the jubilee! And that's what Jesus read in Is. in the Nazareth synogue, ,very interesting. hmn.

 

[angelwind]

I just had a simple comment today...butthis is what I keep thinking about...did not realize how much time Jesus spent "teaching" in the synagoues early in His ministry. I am highly interested in good teaching...just sitting at His feet, hearing the word spoken and rightly divided. I used to be focused on the miracles, which are right ther, always part of His ministry..part of His life...but He also wants to reaveal Himself to us thru His word.

Incredible...God in the flesh...teaching His own word to us.

Open our hearts to hear and receive more and more of You Lord...thru Your written word and raise up Godly, anointed teachers...thank You Lord.

 

[JPPT1974]

When the Scripture we are reading
Jumps out at us
It is like they are pulling us through
To help us walk in their shoes!

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

Study 15 Luke 6:12-36
The Twelve Apostles
Blessings and Woes
Love for Enemies

1) Verses 20-26. Contrast Jesus' picture of a blessed life with the world's idea of happiness. Why is a Christian happy in such circumstances? What makes the difference?

2) Verses 27-36. A picture of unselfish love. What should be the source and pattern of our love (verses 35-36)? Think of practical cases in your own situation to which the principles laid down in these verses apply.

3) Verses 12-19. Note the increasing pressure on Jesus (verses 17-19, cf. verse 11). What 2 special actions did He take?

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

Luke 6:27 (The Message)
"To you who are ready for the truth, I say this...."

i.e. not to everybody,
and not yet to some(who aren't ready, but may be later[for now a seed, or to start thinking that will be receptive to truth later] ) .
the 'insiders' twist this chapter because they don't obey it and cannot understand it,
but exactly the same as Paul says in Galatians 2, those who can say "I have been crucified" along with all other martyrs(set-apart believers) who no longer live selfishly, having been crucified with Messiah Yahshua,
those(set-apart ones) are living and doing what Yahshua says here in Luke. (and the world and 'insiders' cannot understand them)

 

[angelwind]

When the Scripture we are reading
Jumps out at us
It is like they are pulling us through
To help us walk in their shoes!

I like this thought...so agree with you.

 

[abigale]

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

I think that just like Genesis contains all the seeds of the bible, the gospels have the shoots growing and the letters have the more mature growth. But all of it can be traced thruout.

And I think that Matt 5-7 hold all of it (The sermon on the Mount). Luke gets into part of it. The commentary in the "Holy Bible, Recovery Version" has a good commentary on this section:

"Whatever is cited here in vv. 20-49, as principles of the character of God's children, governs and measures the behavior of the believers, who have been born of God and possess His life and nature. At the time it was spoken, this entire portion (except vv. 24-26,39) applied to the believing remnant of the Jews.

In terms of the standard of character, the principles contained in this portion far surpassed the law that the Jews recieved from Moses.

At the time they were spoken, vv. 24-26 could have applied to the unbeleiving Jews, who hardened their hearts and rejected the Savior."

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

Luke 6:27 (The Message)
"To you who are ready for the truth, I say this...."

i.e. not to everybody,
and not yet to some(who aren't ready, but may be later[for now a seed, or to start thinking that will be receptive to truth later] ) .
the 'insiders' twist this chapter because they don't obey it and cannot understand it,
but exactly the same as Paul says in Galatians 2, those who can say "I have been crucified" along with all other martyrs(set-apart believers) who no longer live selfishly, having been crucified with Messiah Yahshua,
those(set-apart ones) are living and doing what Yahshua says here in Luke. (and the world and 'insiders' cannot understand them)

I think it's really cool how the bible truths are x long but there so deep that a new believer can understand completely what Jesus is saying and a lifetime later still see more and more.

But the (insider)(professed christian) (or as Tim Buckley said "walking round in christian licorise clothes)(actual unbelievers) ones that are in it for themselves don't want to see b/c it'll force them to painfully look at themselves.

That's why Jesus and the martyrs went the way they did, and still do. Pharisees, self-righteous, whitewashed people still kill (silence) the (outsider)(real christians)(or as Keith Green would say"those who are bananas for Jesus") the ones that are in it for a personal relationship with the Creator.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

simple

 

[angelwind]

2) Verses 27-36. A picture of unselfish love. What should be the source and pattern of our love (verses 35-36)? Think of practical cases in your own situation to which the principles laid down in these verses apply.

Being able to "hear" seems to be a key to "doing" what Jesus said...the heart must be ready to listen...Amplified
Version of Lk 6:27 But I say to you who are listening now to Me: [in order to heed, make it a practice to] love your enemies, treat well (do good to act nobly toward) those who detest you and pursue you with hatred.

I have been meditating on these verses lately...know how wayward my heart is and can be...also I do not always hear or even want to hear the Lord...yet...want to hear enough to be praying for help.

"Cause" me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust; cause me to know the way where in should walk for I lift up my soul unto thee.

Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

Ps 143:8;10

 

[abigale]

The poor in spirit, humble and the other beatitudes, outline Jesus' personality and the kingdom's attributes too. So the ones who can live this way are the ones who are living in the kingdom of God, IMO

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

Excellent comments. The thing that Jesus seems to draw from is prayer. It seems to be the source of His power to carry out His way of living.

verse 12 One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. 13When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them

verse 27 "But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you

verse 35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

The Father has the power to love enemies but I don't think we do. We need His power (the divine life within us)to be able to love in the Father's love and it seems to me that Jesus demonstrates that it comes thru prayer !?!

Word of life gives life so we need the word too so we can pray in His will.

Romans 10:17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

Study 16 Luke 6:37-49
Judging Others
A Tree and Its Fruit
The Wise and Foolish Builders

1) Verses 37-49. What sort of attitude towards the faults of others does Jesus prescribe, and why? What positive actions are here enjoined?

2) Verses 43-49. On what does effectiveness and stability in the Christian life depend? What is the remedy for a weak or inconsistant Christian life?

 

[Savedsis]

Don't resist God's correction and instruction in His Word..Instead, give in to Him..Draw near to Him..Delight yourself in His wisdom, and meditate on it..God bless