Verse19 -Oh Lord help me to control my tongue/use my tongue wisely in Jesus name. Lessons on Prayer; Luke 11:14-54. This, again, accounts for the details of the different classes that come before John the Baptist, and the practical dealing with the duties of each an important thing, I believe, for us to bear in mind; for God thinks of souls; and whenever we have real moral discipline according to His mind, there is a dealing with men as they are, taking them up in the circumstances of their every-day life. We see the Lord on the two Sabbath days: the defence of the disciples for plucking the ears of corn, and the well-nigh defiant cure of the withered hand in the synagogue. Every bewitchment over my finance be destroyed in Jesus name! They prefer to group the facts into classes, so as to bring out the latent springs, and the consequences even though unsuspected, and, in short, all they desire of moment in the most distinct and powerful manner. It was to the house of the Pharisee who had invited Jesus that this woman repaired attracted by the Saviour's grace, and truly penitent, full of love to His person, but not yet with the knowledge of her sins forgiven; for this was what she needed, and what He meant her to have and know. I believe that man has sunk about as low as God will allow him to sink. Choose Chapter Praying through Luke 1:4 Heavenly Father, thank You for the good news of the gospel of Christ and for salvation which is mine by grace through faith in Jesus Christ my Lord. I receive the favor to receive good news. Unforgiveness is a major barrier to receiving physical and spiritual healing and deliverance. Just, "Repent, you generation of vipers, bring forth something that shows you've repented. But this is not all the truth; for the power of Satan is active on the earth. This was the temptation to give the people sensations. Observe. This text gives a full account of Christ's undertaking, and the work he came into the world to do. He does not tell us how it was he acquired his perfect understanding of all he communicates. He is declaring this to the people here at the beginning of His ministry. He knew that for him the hour had struck; he had settled once and for all the method he was going to take. As they journeyed from Jerusalem, missing Him, they return, and find Him in the midst of the doctors. To them the Messiah was to be a conquering king who would set his foot upon the eagle's neck and sweep the Romans from Palestine. 1. But then Jesus will come with the title deed to the earth, and will declare, "The kingdoms of this world have now become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Messiah, and He shall reign for ever and ever, as king of kings, and Lord of Lords, forever and ever, and ever Hallaluja, Hallaluja, Amen" ( Revelation 11:15 ). But she wasn't a Jewess. Use your divine gifts to satisfy the needs of your own flesh. The people believed they were possessed of devils and Jesus, like a wise doctor, knew he could not heal them unless he assumed that their view of their trouble was real. Can any thing great, or worthy our regard, come from one so mean? I really believe that the time has come in the history of mankind that God must once again intervene. The next scene (verses 11-17) is peculiar to Luke. HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM RELEASE TO THE CAPTIVES, AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were in the kingdom and they had lived centuries ago ( Luke 13:28). 2. Saw the power that he wielded from the throne. At the same time He delivers what is commonly called the sermon on the mount. 19. In truth, it is impossible to mingle the new wine of grace with the old bottles of human ordinances. 15. The prophets could but proclaim liberty, but Christ, as one having authority, as one that had power on earth to forgive sins, came to set at liberty; and therefore this clause is added here. 4. Don't set your standards so high. He would be with them in that recognition, not of course for Himself, as if He personally needed, but their companion in His grace. He lets us know that there were many of these memoirs formed on the tradition of those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. Pray we must; but prayer must never be an escape from reality. How blessed it is in Luke to find that the great witness of grace acts Himself in the spirit of that grace, and makes this to be the one distinguishing feature. That is the land in which Jesus began. 11 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. Not only does Matthew report this a weighty admonition even for the believers of Israel but also Luke, for the encouragement of the Gentiles. There were spirits of deafness, of dumbness, of fever; spirits which took a man's sanity and wits away; spirits of lying and of deceit and of uncleanness. This is the declaration of the New Testament, that the spiritual life is more important than, and superior to the material life. That means, that He was One who, though man, proved that He was God's Son. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all ( Luke 4:14-15 ). It was the most natural thing possible for a soul arrested, not merely by the mighty deed which the Lord had wrought, but by such a proof that His word could be trusted implicitly that divine power answered to the word of the man Christ Jesus. Heavenly Father, thank You that You sent the Lord Jesus to preach the good news to the poor, to proclaim freedom to captives and recovery of sight the blind. 6. 4. Hence, too, Satan could hardly be spoken of here as going away like one driven off by indignation, as in Matthew. But their methods were weird and wonderful. Luke 4:18-19 The people were surprised that the one they previously knew only as the carpenters son could preach so well. I ask for the Holy Spirit to help me recognize these gifts, to empower me so that I can use these gifts effectively, and to help me use these gifts in ways that honor you and reflect the character and compassion of Jesus, in whose name I pray. It is a very wild, desolate area. It is wrong to think of Jesus as being brought up in a backwater; he was brought up in a town in sight of history and with the traffic of the world almost at its doors. "You don't have to take God's plan. Therefore He takes the place of deepening, enlarging, and ever bringing in principles so infinitely better as to eclipse what was said to them of old. It was delivered unto to him in the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve sinned against the commandment of the Lord. He did not claim that he was tired and must rest; he answered it without complaint. A priest is seen righteous according to the law, bus his wife without that offspring which the Jews looked for as the mark of God's favour towards them. Father, I thank You that You sought me and found me. It could not be otherwise than that many would essay to publish a relation of facts so weighty and engrossing, which, if they had not themselves seen, They had gathered from eye-witnesses conversant with the Lord. These memoirs were floating about. 2:13; 1 Pet. First, How he was qualified for the work: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Praying through 2 Corinthians 4:4. And man in turn became a slave. Christ came to tell us that he has eye-salve for us, which we may have for the asking; that, if our prayer be, Lord, that our eyes may be opened, his answer shall be, Receive your sight. In vain was the snare spread in His sight; God alone could give, whoever might actually hold, the kingdoms of the world. 18. This, however, was but the harbinger of better things; and the angel of the Lord was despatched on a second errand, and re-announces that most ancient revelation of a fallen paradise, that mightiest promise of God, which stands out from all others to the fathers and in the prophets, and which, indeed, was to compass within itself the accomplishment of all the promises of God. If any man in the past has perfectly done God's will, he is in the kingdom; if any man does it now, he is in the kingdom; but the day when all men will do that will is still far distant, therefore the consummation is still to come; and so the kingdom is past and present and future all at the same time. Your body wouldn't be able to handle it. Without asking for Simon's leave, without a Peter or a John to introduce her, she goes where Jesus was, taking with her an alabaster box of ointment, "and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.". God may give you fresh revelation as you walk the land. 9 The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. They rose up in a tumultuous manner against him, interrupted him in his discourse, and themselves in their devotions, for they could not stay until their synagogue-worship was over. But we can understand them in the light of the world under the control of Satan, being governed and directed by Satan.Now Jesus did not dispute Satan's claim when Satan said, "Look, it's mine, it's been given to me, it's been delivered to me, and I can give it to whomever I will." As it stands in the received Greek text and the English version, Satan is told to go, and seems to stand his ground and again tempt the Lord, stultifying His command. This illustrates the method of classifying facts morally, instead of merely recording them as they came to pass, which is characteristic of Luke. "I have come to mend up, to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, recovering of the sight to the blind, to set at liberty those that are bruised, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." The word expresses God's good will and complacency in men; it does not say exact]y in man, as if it were only in Christ, though surely this was true in the very highest sense. So he goes by the Spirit into the temple at this very time. Luke 4:18-19 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. What was manifest in Jesus, in every work and in every word of His, displayed what was divine; but He was none the less man; and He is here viewed as such in everything. Deeds of power are but the skirts of His glory. 2. (And this taxing [or enrolment] was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) Now his text was taken out of Isaiah 61:1; Isaiah 61:2, which is here quoted at large, Luke 4:18; Luke 4:19. To such a height of wickedness was violence sprung up. Observe, (1.) And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink." Every mark follows of the reality of a human birth, and of a human being; but it was Christ the Lord, the witness of the saving, healing, forgiving, blessing grace of God. 3. 9. He omits that. Now Simon was married, his wife's mother. We have already seen how there were certain great milestones in the life of Jesus and here is one of the greatest. That has not yet happened. A Gentile had confessed the supremacy of Jesus over all things: disease must obey Him absent or present! 178.] 2:12 - Holy Spirit reveal to me what has been given to me from God. They drove him from them, and he went his way. 17. Cast thy soul upon him, and thou shalt not perish, but have everlasting life. It was precisely so with Paul in his service. 27. Hence it is clear that the order of Luke is not here, at any rate, that of historic fact. So when he had gone through the whole gamut of temptation, the devil left him for a time. I refer to it now, not because of any truth in that notion, for the remark is totally false; but at the same time, it shows that there was a kind of feeling of the truth underneath the error. Christ's anticipating an objection which he knew to be in the minds of many of his hearers. God give us the grace to seek wisdom in Jesus name (Proverbs 4:5-7). Luke does not confine himself to the bright side, but adds also the solemn. Christ came to sound the jubilee-trumpet; and blessed were they that heard the joyful sound,Psalms 89:15. Hath anointed me - Anciently kings and prophets and the high priest were set apart to their work by anointing with oil, 1 Kings 19:15-16; Exodus 29:7; 1 Samuel 9:16, etc. Verse 18. Our Lord then shows the moral root of the difficulty in their minds. 28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. [1.] 1:13; 4:30 - Holy Spirit seal me to the day of redemption in Jesus name. Join us live on The Bridge Austin, KTXW, FM 101.1 every Sunday at 2 pm or catch the replay on our podcast. Yet he escaped, because his hour was not yet come: He passed through the midst of them unhurt. The synagogue and its platform were open to him at this stage. Wisdom to utter words that are beyond reproach enter into our lives now in the name of Jesus. He isn't minister in the sense that we think of a minister today. It is appropriate that Jesus should have read it at the beginning of His ministry and that Luke should have recorded it here. These are the two qualities, therefore, of the gospel: what God is towards man; and what man is, now revealed and proclaimed and brought home by the word of God. For this very good reason--the Jews had their own popular ideas of the Messiah. I enter into your gates with thanksgiving and enter into your courts with praise. All too commonly we are gracious, courteous, obliging to strangers and the very opposite when there is no one but our own folk to see. After Christ had vanquished the evil spirit, he made it appear how much he was under the influence of the good Spirit; and, having defended himself against the devil's assaults, he now begins to act offensively, and to make those attacks upon him, by his preaching and miracles, which he could not resist or repel. When Satan tempted Jesus, he had spent forty days in God's spirit. Not only did He, in His own quickening power, cause the dead to live, but He sees in him, whom they were even then carrying out to burial, the only son of his widowed mother; and so He stays the bier, bids the deceased to arise, and delivers him to his mother. How admirable the choice of the Holy Ghost, thus shown in displaying Jesus according, to all we have seen from the beginning of this gospel! This is precisely what grace does produce in its earlier workings. It is evident that, as far as this goes, He is introduced strictly as the One who was to bring in His own person the accomplishment of the promises to Israel. Suffice it to say, we have thus all the proofs of God's favour to Israel, and faithfulness to His promises, both in the forerunner of the Messiah, and in the birth of the Messiah Himself. This passage prophesied the mission of Messiah. The first was a temptation to His personal wants Hath God said you shall not eat of any thing? And to none of them was Elijah sent but he was sent to Zarephath, to a widow of Sidon. And here was this young Jesus, whom they all knew, preaching as if the gentiles were specially favoured by God. "But wisdom is justified of all her children," no matter who or what they may have been, as surely as it will be justified in the condemnation of all who have rejected the counsel of God against themselves. 16. 8. (2.) Their admiration (Luke 4:22; Luke 4:22): They all bore him witness that he spoke admirably well, and to the purpose. (ii) Jesus did not believe in them. She had been in charge of the Salvation Army's social work in Liverpool and had retired to London. (i) Jesus actually did believe in them. Not that they all do so, any more than all the evangelists; but still it is the way of many historians, who are reckoned amongst the most exact, not to arrange facts like the mere chroniclers of an annual register, which confessedly is rather a dull, rude way of giving us information. For Him, viewed as man, there was not only the growth of the body, but also development in every other way that became man, always expanding, yet always perfect, as truly man as God. This was successful. However, the differences between Lukes account and that of Matthew and Mark seem to indicate two separate incidents. It was while He was praying that Peter gave his well-known confession that Jesus is the Christ (9:18). a. The Lord does not pluck the ears of corn Himself; but He defends the guiltless, and this on moral ground. Indeed, this parable is one not found in Matthew at all. Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have." The change of order necessitates the omission. And Satan took control of the earth, as man yielded to his power, to his control, to his suggestion. The man who does not understand the design of the gospel, and has only heard that Luke wrote especially for the Gentiles, is at once arrested by this. Thank you Father for everything, especially for ur love nd grace upon me ND . Now we've heard that you have done some exciting things down in Capernaum, do something here. The secret of his action was, that he was a man not only of faith, but of faith-wrought humility; and this is a most precious fruit, wherever it grows and blooms. Those that wondered the moment before at His gracious words are now filled with fury, ready to rend Him. That is, He nominates the twelve apostles. Here there is no dispensational order of the temptation suitable to the gospel of Matthew. Amen. 3:18 - Holy Spirit transform me to the image of Christ. And so He stood to read the scriptures. The powers assigned to bury or sink the star of Daniel was destroyed, let there be a repeat in performance in the church and in my life in Jesus name. In Luke 6:1-49 this is followed up. And He said, "Today the scripture has been fulfilled. These works have departed; they were human. We, the people of God, anointed by the Holy Spirit to preach the gospel to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and to set free those who are bound and oppressed, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, stand fast and, I renounce the lie that I am rejected, unloved, dirty or shameful because in Christ I am completely accepted. Luke was a doctor, and thus, he diagnoses her condition with medical terms in the Greek language here.And they came to Jesus that He might help her. 2. It is the word that has especial prominence in Luke; and justly so, because the word is the expression of what God is to man, even as it is the word which tries him. We must not think that the three temptations came and went like scenes in a play. It was in that awesome devastation that Jesus was tempted. 1. command this stone that it be made bread ( Luke 4:3 ). John the Baptist's voice crying in the wilderness would prepare His way, and He would be the Prophet like Moses and be declared 'the Son of God'. "The Son of Adam, who was the Son of God." 8:11 - Holy Spirit quicken my mortal body in Jesus name. But then Jesus begins to apply Isaiah's prophecy beyond the oppressed of Israel. Father in the name of Jesusmake me a pillar in your house and not a caterpillar in the name of Jesus (Proverbs 6:12 - 14). Jesus, therefore does not for the present take people out of Israel, so to speak, any more than from among men severally into association with Himself; He associates Himself with those who were thus owning the reality of their moral condition in the sight of God. Cross reference Jame 1: 19 But in reality, this is Satan's world. Verse Luke 4:18. The account of Jairus's appeal for his daughter follows. 4:38-39 Jesus left the synagogue and came into Simon's house; and Simon's mother-in-law was in the grip of a major fever. 1. We do not here meet with the particulars set forth dispensationally as in Matthew's gospel: though the reference is to the same facts, they are not so reasoned upon. If followed into a desert place, away from the crowd that admired Him, He lets them know that He must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also; for therefore was He sent.
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