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Luke 9:
Jesus send the disciples out
to preach God's word, drive out demons, heal the sick, & to take nothing with
them on the trip except their clothes and sandals. They are to stay in the town
and eat whatever is provided. Herod became worried about who Jesus was because
Jesus got really popular. Jesus feed 5,000 men with 5 loaves of bread and two
fishes and had 12 baskets of leftovers. Peter says Jesus is the Christ and Jesus
tells the disciples that the Jewish elders, chief priests, and teachers of the law
will put him to death, but he will rise in 3 days. Jesus says his followers must
be prepared to lose their life for him and those who rejects him, Jesus will
also reject before God and the holy angels. Jesus transfigured before Peter,
James, and John with Elijah and Moses present. Jesus heals a boy with evil
spirit because his disciples could not. Jesus says that the least or those who
serve innocently and humbly are the greatest. He also says that those that are
not against you are for you because the disciples tried to stop a man from
driving out demons in Jesus' name. The Samaritans (people of Samaria, Capital of
Israel) rejected Jesus because he was heading to Jerusalem (Capital of the Jews
in Judah). Jesus prevented the disciples from calling fire from heaven to
destroy them. Jesus says his disciples have no resting place, preaches God
without distractions, and always looks forward regardless.
Luke 10:
Jesus sent 72 other disciples
ahead of him to harvest for God, but they were not allowed to extra food or
clothing. They were also instructed not to greet people on the way and they are
to stay in one house at a location as well as eat whatever is given to them.
They are to enter a town to heal the sick and tell them the kingdom of God is
near, but shake off the dust against any town that rejects them. Jesus claimed
that he saw Jesus fall from heaven and has given the disciples power over Satan,
snakes, and scorpions. The disciples are to rejoice that their names are written
in heaven and not over their conquest of demonic spirits. Jesus full of joy in
the Holy Spirit praised God his Father for keeping the revealed truth for His children
from the learned and wise, as well as committing all things to Jesus the Son
because only the father and son knows each other. An expert of the law wanted to
know who his neighbor was since the law said that we should love God and our
neighbor to have eternal life. Jesus said that a man traveled down from
Jerusalem (north of Judah) to Jericho (south of Israel) and was attacked by
robbers, who stole everything and left him half dead. Both the priest and Levite
ignored him, but the Samaritan saved his life and took care of him. So the
expert of the law agreed that the good Samaritan was the neighbor. Jesus told
Martha that her sister, Mary, chose to listen to God's words rather than
preparing food and Mary's choice was better than hers.
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Luke 11:
Jesus
taught the disciples the Lord's Prayer where it calls on God and God's kingdom,
seeks daily bread instead of wealth, request for forgiveness from God as we
forgive others, and pray against temptation. Jesus also expects us to ask God
anything with faith, belief, and BOLDNESS. Jesus assures that all who ask shall
receive from God, even gift of the Holy Spirit, like earthly fathers giving good gifts
to their children. People accused Jesus of driving demons out with the prince of
demons, but Jesus told them that a house divided against itself cannot stand,
and informs them that he does it with God. Jesus teaches that evil spirits do
return with more demons to reoccupy a person it left before, so it is always
wise to fill an empty house with the Holy Spirit from God. Jesus says that Queen
Sheba of Ethiopia and people of Nineveh will condemn this generation because
they repented when they heard King Solomon and Jonah respectively, but this
generation has Jesus. It seems
while the Jews were God's chosen people on earth, the Gentiles will inherit
heaven. Make sure your eyes are the good light of God that gives good light to
your entire body and not darkness. Jesus shames the Pharisees for outward
praise, but are greedy and wicked inside; and they give tithe but ignore justice
and love. To the experts of the law, Jesus said that they give people too much
rules to follow without any assistance; they kill God's prophets and build their
tombs with joy; and they do not know God, but prevent others from knowing God.
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