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Welcome to the Westside church’s special Monday Morning Coffee podcast with Mark Roberts. Mark is a disciple, a husband, father and grand dad, as well as a certified coffee geek, fan of CS Lewis’ writings and he loves his big red Jeep. He’s also the preacher for Westside church.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:05):
Hello, and welcome to the West Side Church's
special Monday Morning CoffeePodcast.
On this podcast, our preacher,Mark Roberts, will help you get
your week started right with alook back at yesterday's sermon
so that we can think througheach other and better work the
applications into our dailylife.
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Mark will then look forward intothis week's reading so that we
can know what to expect andwatch for.
And he may have some extra bonusthoughts from time to time.
So grab a cup of coffee as westart the week together on
Monday morning coffee with Mark.
SPEAKER_01 (00:52):
Good morning, good morning.
Welcome to the Monday MorningCoffee Podcast for Monday,
January the 12th.
I'm Mark, and I am ready to talkto you about the sermon
yesterday, and I'm ready to talkto you about daily Bible
reading, and I'm ready to not bea hypocrite about this cup of
coffee that I'm holding in myhands.
Usually I start off by sayingsomething about, oh, this is an
amazing cup of coffee.
This is the greatest cup ofcoffee in the world.
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And the reality is today, fulldisclosure, yeah, this is not,
this is not the greatest cup ofcoffee in the world.
I do have really good coffee ona regular basis, and there's a
lot of steps and a lot ofprocedures, and a lot of things,
equipment and so forth, that Ido so that that's going to
happen.
And this is probably a muchbetter than average cup of
coffee for people who are notinto specialty coffee and all
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the craziness.
I haven't gone down that rabbithole, but I must tell you, uh,
and yeah, I'd even have to admitI had to microwave this to get
it warm again.
And so it's just, it's just notthat great.
It's not that great.
I'm making up for it by eating aBiscoff cookie.
Biscoff cookies are amazing, andthey make anything, even an
average to below average cup ofcoffee, better.
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So, all things considered, it'sworking out pretty good.
And that means you should grabyour Bible, grab your coffee or
Dr.
Pepper or Coke Zero or even DietMountain Dew.
I'm talking to you, sweetheart.
Grab whatever you need to grabbecause it's time.
Let's grow together.
Yesterday's sermon was about asin that Jesus just can't stand.
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And I hope if you got nothingelse out of that, you did see
that Jesus really, reallydoesn't like hypocrisy and
hypocrites.
I hope just the reading of thetext made that clear.
But maybe as I was working withthat, you were thinking, hey,
how does all that Matthew 6denouncing of hypocrisy and
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worship, how does that play whenyou have Matthew 5?
Jesus says, let your lightshine.
Matthew chapter 5, verse 16, letyour light shine so that people
will see your good works andglorify your Father in heaven.
And then in Matthew chapter 6,Jesus is all, hey, don't be
praying where people can seeyou.
Don't be giving, making a bigfuss about it.
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Don't let everybody know you'refasting.
How do we, how do we reconcilethat?
What's Jesus doing there?
And I think the answer to thatis to go right back to the text.
Matthew 6, verse 1 says, bewareof practicing your righteousness
before other people in order tobe seen by them.
In order to be seen by them.
It is about motive.
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Why are we doing this?
What is in our heart?
It's not wrong to be seenpraying or giving or fasting,
but it is wrong to pray or giveor fast in order to be seen by
them.
One very wise old 19th centuryScottish preacher said, show
when tempted to hide, hide whentempted to show.
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I believe that'll work.
I believe that'll work.
And now we turn our Bibles tothe book of Luke and we start
thinking about our daily Biblereading.
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Let's get our feet set wherethey need to be because it's
been a weekend now.
Please remember here, we're insome conflict coming out of
chapter 5, 517, as he wasteaching the Pharisees and the
teachers of the law were sittingthere who'd come from every
village of Galilee and Judea andJerusalem.
Jesus is attracting a lot ofattention.
Some of that is not welcomeattention.
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These guys are checking Jesusout, and I think Luke is
injecting some tension into thestory here.
What's going to happen if Jesuscontinues to cross swords with
the Pharisees?
Who will carry on if thePharisees do away with him?
What will happen as thisconflict continues?
And we get a lot of that withthe difficulties with the
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Sabbath and the synagogue, andthat's where chapter 6 begins.
So first there's the eating onthe Sabbath story, verses 1 to
5, and that doesn't go well atall for the Pharisees.
They try to make an attack onJesus.
Of course, verse 2, they areabsolutely mistaken here.
It was not a sin to do what thedisciples were doing, it was a
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violation of their humantraditions and rules, but it was
certainly not a sin.
Jesus would have told thedisciples, stop it, don't do
that if it was sinful.
And Jesus does cite David andthe things that David did.
And that maybe is a little bitcomplicated there.
There's some discussion aboutprobably the priest inquired of
the Lord, and the Lord signedoff on it and said, give him the
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provisions, give him some food,it's going to be okay.
The Lord made an exception forDavid.
Whatever we're going to make ofthat, and please don't use this
to try to somehow teach somekind of situation ethics that
when you're hungry, you cansteal.
Don't do that.
You can't do that.
The point is that Jesus is theLord of the Sabbath, verse 5.
And that introduces the idea ofauthority.
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Jesus is the Son of Man.
That comes out of Daniel chapter7.
He is more than just a man.
He is the Messiah.
He is the leader.
He's the savior.
He is the king.
And the son of man emphasis isthat he is powerful and he has
the right to do as he pleases.
That's what they're missing, andthat's what they need to get
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here.
So then we get a second Sabbathproblem when Jesus heals a man
on the Sabbath, verses 6 to 11.
Please pay attention to verse 9.
Jesus says, Is it lawful on theSabbath to do good or to do
harm, to save life or to destroyit?
I'm challenged by that to bereminded that in the law, all it
said is don't work on theSabbath.
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And God expected people to beable to work that out.
Figure that out.
Now, by the time of Jesus,there's all kinds of rules and
regulations because thePharisees were determined to
figure it out for everybody.
But that is not what God wanted.
God did not tell Moses to definework endlessly down to the nth
degree, nor did he instruct thePharisees to write the 39
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volumes they had, create the 39categories of work that they had
made and write volumes andvolumes about all of that.
God expected people to figurethat out.
I need to be mindful of that.
Sometimes I'm ready to figureeverything out for everybody.
And as we walk by faith,sometimes we have to figure that
out.
And I need to be careful abouttelling everybody what my
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conclusions are that work means.
Jesus says, you guys don't havea clue here what's really going
on.
And of course, it's ridiculousto try to in some way apply the
rules of work to Jesus doing amiraculous healing.
Is a miracle work?
Does Jesus expend energy?
Come on, that's a completelydifferent animal.
There's no point in even tryingto apply that to Jesus,
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especially since Jesus wouldnever violate the law.
But you see the authority thathe has.
And then Jesus in verse 12begins to select the apostles.
A couple of things.
Notice he prays all night.
In Luke's gospel, Jesus ispraying all the time.
And what's an apostle?
One sent with authority torepresent another.
Then Luke gives us the sermon onthe plane.
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Now I can't in a podcast here goon forever about the sermon on
the plane.
Let me just give you someintroductory ideas.
There is first and foremost noneed to try to reconcile this to
Matthew.
Newsflash.
Preachers preach the same sermonmore than once.
It'll happen.
Yes, it will.
I can personally attest to that.
When I get the opportunity to goin gospel meeting work, I don't
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write brand new sermons and takethem on the road.
I'll be preaching something thatyou've heard at West Side.
That's how that is.
And I think this is Jesus'fundamental sermon on the nature
of the kingdom and the nature ofkingdom citizens.
I expect he preached thishundreds of times all over
Galilee and Judea.
There are 41 verses from Matthewthat are not in Luke, and there
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are 29 verses here, and thereare 111 in Matthew.
So you can see that there's alot of things that are very
different.
For example, there are woes 24,25, and 26, and those are only
in Luke.
Those are not in Matthew.
Little surprising to see woes inLuke's account because Luke is
so optimistic and happy.
I would thought maybe he wouldomit that.
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No, Luke includes that.
And I think so much of this isvery straightforward.
So much of this is the kind ofmaterial that we have some head
understanding of.
We just need to make sure thatwe move it to our hearts.
We need to make sure that welive this.
And that's helped when we lookat like 42, 642, which I started
the sermon on Sunday talkingabout hypocrisy, focus on
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yourself.
And then the trees and the badfruit talked about that Sunday
as well.
It's about our heart and ourheart calling us, moving us to
do what Jesus says.
And that's where Jesus ends thesermon.
46.
Why do you call me Lord, Lord,and don't do what I tell you?
That's authority.
And then we get the wise manbuilding his house upon the
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rock.
Everyone who comes to me andhears my words and does them,
not just listens to the podcast,does them.
There's a heavy emphasis here ondoing differently, being
different.
All of that is so important.
You read down through this, whowould act this way?
Who would do this kind of stuff?
Jesus says, My disciples will.
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Reading for Monday is Lukechapter six.
I'll see you tomorrow.
The reading for Tuesday is Luke7.
But the reading for Monday isLuke chapter 6.
Welcome to Tuesday.
Welcome to Tuesday.
Today we read Luke chapter 7.
The reading for Tuesday is Luke7.
And yes, we do have a Zoom calltonight.
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Westsiders, hope to see youtonight in the Zoom prayer and
Bible study session.
This is more, Luke 7 is more ofthat authority theme.
Luke 6, 46.
Why do you call me Lord, Lord,and don't do what I tell you?
We just get tons of authorityideas here in Luke chapter 7.
And that stands out, forexample, in the healing of the
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Roman centurion slave, verses 1to 10.
Someone's going to ask me ifthis is Cornelius, and it might
be.
We don't know that for sure, buthe sure does look a lot like
Cornelius, doesn't he?
And please notice that theemphasis in this miracle is not
the miracle.
It's really only mentionedrather briefly, verse 10.
The stress here is on theattitude of the one that's
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seeking the healing and how heunderstands authority and he
submits to the authority ofJesus.
That's what we need to bethinking about.
And there's only two times thatJesus marvels at faith.
One's in Mark 6, 6, where hemarvels at a lack of faith, and
then here where he marvels attremendous faith.
Luke really likes to accentoutsiders, Gentiles, not Jews,
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who are coming to the kingdom ofGod, who are close to the
kingdom of God, and you just getall of that right here.
So we have a story of someonewho almost dies, is dying, and
then we have the story in verses11 to 17 of someone who is dead.
This is the first raising of thedead in Luke, and it is a story
that is unique to Luke.
There is a very clear efforthere to identify Jesus with
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Elijah, thinking about the widowof Zarepath and Elisha, the
Shunammite woman's son.
These parallels are very, verystrong.
The story is being told with adecidedly Old Testament flavor
to get to verse 16.
A great prophet has arisen amongus.
Luke is certainly keeping thequestion: who is Jesus out in
front of his readers?
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Great prophet.
This is the first time he'scalled that.
We need to think about what thatmeans to be a great prophet.
And God has visited us.
This is a messianic kind ofsaying with messianic
implications.
Lots to unpack and think aboutright there.
Then we get these questions fromJohn the Baptist in verses 17 to
23.
Some people have really freakedout about that.
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They don't want John to bedoubting.
I think this ought to make usfeel better when we have a
season of doubt when we'reuncertain.
John is concerned about Jesus.
I expect that Jesus is not doingwhat John thought the Messiah
would do.
And so John had been preachingall this judgment.
The axe is laid to the root ofthe tree.
It's coming.
This is it.
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Well, and and where is it,Jesus?
When are you going to dosomething about all of that?
And what Jesus does is hecommends John.
Instead of saying, how dare himdoubt?
I can't believe he has doubts.
Don't do that.
Don't do that.
Parents, don't attack yourchildren if they have honest,
good questions about the Bible,the resurrection, the existence
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of God, all of those things.
Doubt is part of our life as wegrow in faith.
Then there is the famous storybeginning in verse 36 of the
sinful woman.
This story is only in Luke, andthere are all kinds of
discussions about this as peoplehave mischaracterized the story.
This is not the story in Matthewchapter 16 or Mark 14 or John
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12, where Mary comes and anointsJesus.
And this is not Mary Magdalene.
Mary Magdalene has been wronglylabeled as a sinner, which
oftentimes means a woman was aprostitute.
And so lots of people think ofMary Magdalene as being a
prostitute.
She is introduced as a brand newcharacter in chapter 8 and verse
2.
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So this is probably not MaryMagdalene here in 36 to 50.
I think the key here is to seeJesus' authority.
He is the heart knower.
Verse 40, he is proving that heis a prophet.
What kind of prophet are we?
The Pharisee says, hey, youknow, if you are a prophet,
you'd know better.
Jesus says, I do know better.
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And I think there's something towhat one of my favorite Luke
scholars says, Daryl Bach.
He writes, the point is obvious.
Great forgiveness provides theopportunity for great love.
When God forgives a notorioussinner for much sin, the
realization of such bountifulforgiveness means the potential
for great love.
Jesus pursues sinners andwelcomes association with them
because of the possibility thatthey may realize God's gracious
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forgiveness.
To keep separate from them wouldbe to ignore a potentially rich
harvest field.
That's exactly right.
And you and I need to thinkabout that and our associations
with people.
We certainly want to be carefuland wise about that.
We certainly don't want to havesinners rub off on us and become
like them.
We don't want to do things thatcause sinners to feel like we're
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endorsing them, we're condoningtheir behavior.
They're fine just the way theyare.
But if we never get aroundpeople who are lost, how are we
going to help anybody be saved?
Luke chapter 7 helps us seeJesus doing that in action.
Our reading for Tuesday, Luke 7,Westsiders.
See you tonight on the Zoomcall.
Everybody else, see you tomorrowon the podcast.
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It is Wednesday.
It's Wednesday, and our readingtoday is Luke chapter 8.
I'll try to keep this short.
These chapters in Luke, this is56 chapter, 56 verses.
Wow.
You just comment and work onthis forever.
I'll try to leave something forBible talk tonight.
Notice the women here in thefirst three verses, that's just
so important to Luke.
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The preaching to her heredoesn't seem to be in the
synagogue, and that that maymean that there's increasing
hostility to Jesus.
He can't get in the synagogue,but mentioning women here
prepares us for their part inthe resurrection narratives.
Women are super important toLuke.
They have a place in thekingdom, they matter to God.
And yes, it would be a littlescandalous for women to travel
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with Jesus, but maybe not forthe reason that we suspect.
The problem here is that womenare not to receive education.
They are not to listen torabbis.
Adult co-education, one scholarsaid, was unheard of.
These women are learning Jesus'teaching as closely as his male
disciples.
That would surely bother many.
So that's what's going on here,but they're hearing everything,
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including the parable of thesower, which then Jesus explains
beginning in verse 10.
In some ways, this is the mostcandid Jesus ever gets about his
mission and who he is.
And by this time, maybeTheophilus is wondering, maybe
you're wondering, why doesn'tJesus just tell everybody?
Why doesn't Jesus just print upsome business cards?
Jesus Christ, Messiah, I'm him.
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Just tell everybody I am theMessiah.
But Jesus says here that thereare people who aren't ready to
hear it, and especially thereare people who don't want to
hear it.
So the parables reveal andconceal at one and the same
time.
And Jesus furthers that theme inthe parable of the lamp, verses
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16 to 18.
You get a swig here of coffee.
Where Jesus says you need to becareful how you listen.
Because if you listen well, youget to hear more.
But if you refuse to listen,then you won't even get, you
won't even get to start.
You won't even get to first basewith some of these ideas.
Then I need to move forward alittle bit here.
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Let's talk about the man withthe demon.
I've never taught the man withthe demon, 26 to 39, that
somebody didn't want to talkabout the pigs.
Even after I endlessly say we'renot going to talk about the
pigs, somebody raises theirhands and says something about
the pigs.
It's just tough.
And I get it.
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I'm curious about the pigs too.
It's weird, it's strange, it'sdifferent.
We wonder if that's telling ussomething about the demonic
world.
On and on and on, thespeculation goes about the pigs.
I think if Luke saw any of that,if you sit in Bible class and
the Bible class degenerated intodiscussion about these pigs, he
would just tear his hair out.
How can we be talking about pigsand not notice the authority of
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Jesus?
This is a terrible, uncleanspirit.
This is a wretched, wretchedsituation.
People don't know what to dowith this guy.
He's completely out of control.
And Jesus utterly handles it.
Jesus completely handles this.
That's where our focus needs tobe.
I don't know about the pigs.
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You don't know about the pigs.
Nobody knows about the pigs.
Stop talking about the pigs.
And as I say that, I'll come inthe church building tonight and
someone will say, Hey, whatabout those pigs?
We're not talking about thepigs.
We're talking about Jesus, whohas authority over everything,
even demonic forces, even overdemons.
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And then the chapter ends withJesus healing Jarius's daughter.
An incredible story.
Verse 42, he had an onlydaughter.
That's only in Luke.
And this is so powerful.
People laughing at Jesus.
This can't happen.
It happens.
Jesus can do it.
He heals, he raises from thedead, he casts out demons.
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Jesus has authority.
Luke chapter 8.
Our reading for Wednesday.
Welcome to Thursday.
Welcome to Thursday.
And today we're Reading amonster chapter.
We are in Luke chapter 9, 62verses.
Let's dive right in.
I love how Luke sets up more ofJesus' authority.
Look at verse 7 (20:11):
Herod the Tetrarch.
That's Herod Antipas.
That's who that is.
I like to have those marked inmy Bible.
There's so many Herodssometimes, it's hard to keep up
with who is who and who iswhere.
But this is the son of Herod theGreat, the baby killer.
And look at verse 9.
Who is this about whom I hearsuch things?
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Luke will answer that questionnow.
Remember, he's pushing all thismaterial out to Theophilus to
help him understand and know whoJesus really is.
You get this miracle then, thefeeding of the 5,000.
It's the only miracle in allfour Gospels.
And it is obviously the mostimportant miracle.
The symbolism here is just richand full and deep.
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John develops it using thefamous Bread of Life sermon in
John chapter 6.
For Luke here, this fits the ishe a prophet theme because Moses
provided manna, Elijah, both ofthese are prophetic vessels who
were used to make miraculousprovision.
And this is all about Jesusdoing prophetic kinds of things,
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being that great prophet.
That does lead to a confessionby Peter.
And then you get Jesus, verse22, saying, You're right, I'm
the Messiah, and I'm going to bekilled.
That is a sharp left turn.
From here, Luke just keepspounding away at that theme.
Take up the cross, verse 23.
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That is not a good thing forthese apostles to hear.
They had seen people carrying across, and what that meant when
you saw somebody carrying across is they were headed to a
really, really bad end.
This is a hard thing for them tohear because they think of Jesus
as a political leader.
That's what they areconsidering.
Jesus will lead a revolution.
Jesus will lead them intoglorious battles, and they're
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going to kick the Romans out ofPalestine.
Jesus says, none of that's goingto happen.
I will be put to death, and onthe third day I will be raised.
That is rough.
And sometimes we don't give theapostles a break.
We're like, what's wrong withyou guys?
Because we've been growing upwith this all of our lives in
little Bible class, Sundayschool, all the way through.
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We've heard about Jesus, death,burial, and resurrection.
We know all about all of that.
We know the end of the storyfrom the beginning.
So we look at these guys andsay, you fellas should have
figured it out.
I'm not so sure about that.
But the transfiguration wouldhelp them figure that out.
And again, this is a super oldtestament event.
It's just living and breathingthe Old Testament.
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Moses and Elijah are the oneswho spoke with God on Mount
Sinai.
They are the two great prophets.
The cloud represents thepresence of God.
The voice of God thunders forth.
Moses and Elijah clearlyrepresent the law and the
prophets, the two great periodsof Israel's history, the Exodus,
and then the prophets preachingand teaching about the time of
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the Messiah coming.
So the transfiguration juststands out as a super important
event.
But unfortunately, what it setsup next is four failures by the
disciples.
They fail to heal the boy withthe unclean spirit.
They don't understand the secondtime, 44-45, when Jesus talks
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about his death.
They argue about who will be thegreatest, 46.
And then they get exclusive 49and 50.
Probably the most importantverse in our reading today,
though, is verse 51.
When the days drew near for himto be taken up, he set his face
to go to Jerusalem.
You need to know that the restof Luke's gospel is concerned
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about Jesus going to Jerusalem.
It's the journey of destiny.
He must go there.
He must accomplish those things.
He must be in Jerusalem.
So all of this journey ofdestiny is what Luke is running,
even as things happen along theway.
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Like 57, people come up to himand say, hey, I want to be a
disciple.
And so Jesus is doing andtalking, but he's on his way to
the cross.
The reading for Thursday, Lukechapter 9.
It's Friday.
It is Friday.
End of the week and all the goodthings that go with that.
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And today we're reading in Lukechapter 10.
This is another monster chaptercould spend a lot of time with
Luke chapter 10.
Let's think about the mission ofthe 70 and the sending of the 70
or 72.
Lots of textual discussion aboutwhat it is.
It's 72.
You probably got the marginalnote there.
That's way, way beyond my paygrade.
The point of this, and this is aunique part of the gospel
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account.
This is unique to Luke.
The point of this is that thekingdom has to go forth, that
evangelism is part of being adisciple.
And please notice again thatprayer is the start of
everything.
Pray earnestly, verse 2, to sendout laborers.
I fear sometimes in ourevangelism efforts, we do
everything but pray.
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Pay attention to prayer.
And those that don't hear verse16, they are accountable for
that.
You need to hear the messengersof Jesus.
They are accredited, they haveauthority.
And then the 72 return, 17, 18,19, 20, which gives us verse 18.
I saw Satan fall like lightningfrom heaven.
And that means, that means what?
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That's a really difficult verse.
It may mean that in thepreaching of the 70, Jesus saw
the defeat of Satan.
Unexpected and sudden, thegospel pushes back the kingdom
of darkness.
Something Jesus is talking aboutSatan being thrown out of heaven
as his beginning and may try tosomehow correlate that with
Revelation 12, linking that toIsaiah 14, for example.
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It seems to me that what we haveseen is that Luke is developing
the theme of defeating Satan inthe here and now.
Not talking about Satan'sorigins.
In Luke chapter 4, Jesus defeatsSatan in the 40 days of tempting
in the wilderness.
I think the preaching of thegospel is what's under
consideration in verse 18, andthat Satan is being defeated by
the gospel being preached.
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And Jesus rejoices then, verse21.
This is such a happy gospel.
Jesus is excited.
We get then the parable of theGood Samaritan.
I've talked about that a lot inthe pulpit.
I've preached about that, usedthat a lot.
I'll let that just rest here.
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I think probably most folks arefamiliar with the parable of the
Good Samaritan, but I do thinkLuke is setting up a theme here:
disciples and neighbors.
And then the Martha Maryepisode, which may, by the way,
be chronologically out of order,to fit in with this idea of
listening and hearing that Jesusis developing in verse 24.
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I tell you, many did not hearwhat you hear.
Now we get a story abouthearing.
And I think this says somethingabout disciples and time with
God.
Do you spend time with the Lord?
Are you looking to spend timewith the Lord?
And it is a story about choices,making choices.
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Making choices is hard.
What's going on here with Marthais a good thing.
Who wouldn't say feeding Jesusis bad?
Oh, Martha, don't be doing that.
Just let him starve.
No, that seems like a very goodthing.
But it's not the best thing.
It's not the best thing.
And I do think there is someshock value to Jesus' words.
I mean, come on, aren't wesupposed to eat?
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Well, of course we must eat.
But we can't let anythinginterfere with our primary
function of kingdom citizenship,being what Jesus calls us to be.
And I think we have to becareful.
We don't want to get never eat,never serve, never make a meal.
Just read your Bible out ofthis.
There is a time for both.
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There is a time for both.
If we are to ask Jesus, onescholar said, which example
applies to us?
The Samaritan who is activelydoing, he's not reading his
Bible, he's helping the guy inthe ditch, or Mary, who's not
doing anything but sitting atJesus' feet listening, I think
Jesus' answer would be yes.
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Jesus wants disciples to makegood choices and to be kingdom
citizens who are following him.
Disciples who are taking uptheir cross and following him.
Our reading for Friday, Lukechapter 10.
That is the podcast for theweek.
Thank you so much for listening.
I hope the podcast is a blessingto you.
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through the Word of God, to talkabout my favorite gospel, Luke,
to drink coffee with you, and tothink about the sermon from last
Sunday.
I do hope the podcasts arehelping you and you're telling
other people about it.
I'm Mark Roberts.
I want to go to heaven, and Iwant you to come too.
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Hello, and welcome to the West Side Church's
special Monday Morning CoffeePodcast.
On this podcast, our preacher,Mark Roberts, will help you get
your week started right with alook back at yesterday's sermon
so that we can think througheach other and better work the
applications into our dailylife.
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Mark will then look forward intothis week's reading so that we
can know what to expect andwatch for.
And he may have some extra bonusthoughts from time to time.
So grab a cup of coffee as westart the week together on
Monday morning coffee with Mark.
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Good morning, good morning.
Welcome to the Monday MorningCoffee Podcast for Monday,
January the 12th.
I'm Mark, and I am ready to talkto you about the sermon
yesterday, and I'm ready to talkto you about daily Bible
reading, and I'm ready to not bea hypocrite about this cup of
coffee that I'm holding in myhands.
Usually I start off by sayingsomething about, oh, this is an
amazing cup of coffee.
This is the greatest cup ofcoffee in the world.
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And the reality is today, fulldisclosure, yeah, this is not,
this is not the greatest cup ofcoffee in the world.
I do have really good coffee ona regular basis, and there's a
lot of steps and a lot ofprocedures, and a lot of things,
equipment and so forth, that Ido so that that's going to
happen.
And this is probably a muchbetter than average cup of
coffee for people who are notinto specialty coffee and all
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the craziness.
I haven't gone down that rabbithole, but I must tell you, uh,
and yeah, I'd even have to admitI had to microwave this to get
it warm again.
And so it's just, it's just notthat great.
It's not that great.
I'm making up for it by eating aBiscoff cookie.
Biscoff cookies are amazing, andthey make anything, even an
average to below average cup ofcoffee, better.
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So, all things considered, it'sworking out pretty good.
And that means you should grabyour Bible, grab your coffee or
Dr.
Pepper or Coke Zero or even DietMountain Dew.
I'm talking to you, sweetheart.
Grab whatever you need to grabbecause it's time.
Let's grow together.
Yesterday's sermon was about asin that Jesus just can't stand.
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And I hope if you got nothingelse out of that, you did see
that Jesus really, reallydoesn't like hypocrisy and
hypocrites.
I hope just the reading of thetext made that clear.
But maybe as I was working withthat, you were thinking, hey,
how does all that Matthew 6denouncing of hypocrisy and
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worship, how does that play whenyou have Matthew 5?
Jesus says, let your lightshine.
Matthew chapter 5, verse 16, letyour light shine so that people
will see your good works andglorify your Father in heaven.
And then in Matthew chapter 6,Jesus is all, hey, don't be
praying where people can seeyou.
Don't be giving, making a bigfuss about it.
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Don't let everybody know you'refasting.
How do we, how do we reconcilethat?
What's Jesus doing there?
And I think the answer to thatis to go right back to the text.
Matthew 6, verse 1 says, bewareof practicing your righteousness
before other people in order tobe seen by them.
In order to be seen by them.
It is about motive.
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Why are we doing this?
What is in our heart?
It's not wrong to be seenpraying or giving or fasting,
but it is wrong to pray or giveor fast in order to be seen by
them.
One very wise old 19th centuryScottish preacher said, show
when tempted to hide, hide whentempted to show.
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I believe that'll work.
I believe that'll work.
And now we turn our Bibles tothe book of Luke and we start
thinking about our daily Biblereading.
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Let's get our feet set wherethey need to be because it's
been a weekend now.
Please remember here, we're insome conflict coming out of
chapter 5, 517, as he wasteaching the Pharisees and the
teachers of the law were sittingthere who'd come from every
village of Galilee and Judea andJerusalem.
Jesus is attracting a lot ofattention.
Some of that is not welcomeattention.
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These guys are checking Jesusout, and I think Luke is
injecting some tension into thestory here.
What's going to happen if Jesuscontinues to cross swords with
the Pharisees?
Who will carry on if thePharisees do away with him?
What will happen as thisconflict continues?
And we get a lot of that withthe difficulties with the
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Sabbath and the synagogue, andthat's where chapter 6 begins.
So first there's the eating onthe Sabbath story, verses 1 to
5, and that doesn't go well atall for the Pharisees.
They try to make an attack onJesus.
Of course, verse 2, they areabsolutely mistaken here.
It was not a sin to do what thedisciples were doing, it was a
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violation of their humantraditions and rules, but it was
certainly not a sin.
Jesus would have told thedisciples, stop it, don't do
that if it was sinful.
And Jesus does cite David andthe things that David did.
And that maybe is a little bitcomplicated there.
There's some discussion aboutprobably the priest inquired of
the Lord, and the Lord signedoff on it and said, give him the
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provisions, give him some food,it's going to be okay.
The Lord made an exception forDavid.
Whatever we're going to make ofthat, and please don't use this
to try to somehow teach somekind of situation ethics that
when you're hungry, you cansteal.
Don't do that.
You can't do that.
The point is that Jesus is theLord of the Sabbath, verse 5.
And that introduces the idea ofauthority.
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Jesus is the Son of Man.
That comes out of Daniel chapter7.
He is more than just a man.
He is the Messiah.
He is the leader.
He's the savior.
He is the king.
And the son of man emphasis isthat he is powerful and he has
the right to do as he pleases.
That's what they're missing, andthat's what they need to get
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here.
So then we get a second Sabbathproblem when Jesus heals a man
on the Sabbath, verses 6 to 11.
Please pay attention to verse 9.
Jesus says, Is it lawful on theSabbath to do good or to do
harm, to save life or to destroyit?
I'm challenged by that to bereminded that in the law, all it
said is don't work on theSabbath.
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And God expected people to beable to work that out.
Figure that out.
Now, by the time of Jesus,there's all kinds of rules and
regulations because thePharisees were determined to
figure it out for everybody.
But that is not what God wanted.
God did not tell Moses to definework endlessly down to the nth
degree, nor did he instruct thePharisees to write the 39
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volumes they had, create the 39categories of work that they had
made and write volumes andvolumes about all of that.
God expected people to figurethat out.
I need to be mindful of that.
Sometimes I'm ready to figureeverything out for everybody.
And as we walk by faith,sometimes we have to figure that
out.
And I need to be careful abouttelling everybody what my
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conclusions are that work means.
Jesus says, you guys don't havea clue here what's really going
on.
And of course, it's ridiculousto try to in some way apply the
rules of work to Jesus doing amiraculous healing.
Is a miracle work?
Does Jesus expend energy?
Come on, that's a completelydifferent animal.
There's no point in even tryingto apply that to Jesus,
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especially since Jesus wouldnever violate the law.
But you see the authority thathe has.
And then Jesus in verse 12begins to select the apostles.
A couple of things.
Notice he prays all night.
In Luke's gospel, Jesus ispraying all the time.
And what's an apostle?
One sent with authority torepresent another.
Then Luke gives us the sermon onthe plane.
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Now I can't in a podcast here goon forever about the sermon on
the plane.
Let me just give you someintroductory ideas.
There is first and foremost noneed to try to reconcile this to
Matthew.
Newsflash.
Preachers preach the same sermonmore than once.
It'll happen.
Yes, it will.
I can personally attest to that.
When I get the opportunity to goin gospel meeting work, I don't
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write brand new sermons and takethem on the road.
I'll be preaching something thatyou've heard at West Side.
That's how that is.
And I think this is Jesus'fundamental sermon on the nature
of the kingdom and the nature ofkingdom citizens.
I expect he preached thishundreds of times all over
Galilee and Judea.
There are 41 verses from Matthewthat are not in Luke, and there
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are 29 verses here, and thereare 111 in Matthew.
So you can see that there's alot of things that are very
different.
For example, there are woes 24,25, and 26, and those are only
in Luke.
Those are not in Matthew.
Little surprising to see woes inLuke's account because Luke is
so optimistic and happy.
I would thought maybe he wouldomit that.
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No, Luke includes that.
And I think so much of this isvery straightforward.
So much of this is the kind ofmaterial that we have some head
understanding of.
We just need to make sure thatwe move it to our hearts.
We need to make sure that welive this.
And that's helped when we lookat like 42, 642, which I started
the sermon on Sunday talkingabout hypocrisy, focus on
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yourself.
And then the trees and the badfruit talked about that Sunday
as well.
It's about our heart and ourheart calling us, moving us to
do what Jesus says.
And that's where Jesus ends thesermon.
46.
Why do you call me Lord, Lord,and don't do what I tell you?
That's authority.
And then we get the wise manbuilding his house upon the
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rock.
Everyone who comes to me andhears my words and does them,
not just listens to the podcast,does them.
There's a heavy emphasis here ondoing differently, being
different.
All of that is so important.
You read down through this, whowould act this way?
Who would do this kind of stuff?
Jesus says, My disciples will.
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Reading for Monday is Lukechapter six.
I'll see you tomorrow.
The reading for Tuesday is Luke7.
But the reading for Monday isLuke chapter 6.
Welcome to Tuesday.
Welcome to Tuesday.
Today we read Luke chapter 7.
The reading for Tuesday is Luke7.
And yes, we do have a Zoom calltonight.
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Westsiders, hope to see youtonight in the Zoom prayer and
Bible study session.
This is more, Luke 7 is more ofthat authority theme.
Luke 6, 46.
Why do you call me Lord, Lord,and don't do what I tell you?
We just get tons of authorityideas here in Luke chapter 7.
And that stands out, forexample, in the healing of the
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Roman centurion slave, verses 1to 10.
Someone's going to ask me ifthis is Cornelius, and it might
be.
We don't know that for sure, buthe sure does look a lot like
Cornelius, doesn't he?
And please notice that theemphasis in this miracle is not
the miracle.
It's really only mentionedrather briefly, verse 10.
The stress here is on theattitude of the one that's
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seeking the healing and how heunderstands authority and he
submits to the authority ofJesus.
That's what we need to bethinking about.
And there's only two times thatJesus marvels at faith.
One's in Mark 6, 6, where hemarvels at a lack of faith, and
then here where he marvels attremendous faith.
Luke really likes to accentoutsiders, Gentiles, not Jews,
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who are coming to the kingdom ofGod, who are close to the
kingdom of God, and you just getall of that right here.
So we have a story of someonewho almost dies, is dying, and
then we have the story in verses11 to 17 of someone who is dead.
This is the first raising of thedead in Luke, and it is a story
that is unique to Luke.
There is a very clear efforthere to identify Jesus with
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Elijah, thinking about the widowof Zarepath and Elisha, the
Shunammite woman's son.
These parallels are very, verystrong.
The story is being told with adecidedly Old Testament flavor
to get to verse 16.
A great prophet has arisen amongus.
Luke is certainly keeping thequestion: who is Jesus out in
front of his readers?
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Great prophet.
This is the first time he'scalled that.
We need to think about what thatmeans to be a great prophet.
And God has visited us.
This is a messianic kind ofsaying with messianic
implications.
Lots to unpack and think aboutright there.
Then we get these questions fromJohn the Baptist in verses 17 to
23.
Some people have really freakedout about that.
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They don't want John to bedoubting.
I think this ought to make usfeel better when we have a
season of doubt when we'reuncertain.
John is concerned about Jesus.
I expect that Jesus is not doingwhat John thought the Messiah
would do.
And so John had been preachingall this judgment.
The axe is laid to the root ofthe tree.
It's coming.
This is it.
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Well, and and where is it,Jesus?
When are you going to dosomething about all of that?
And what Jesus does is hecommends John.
Instead of saying, how dare himdoubt?
I can't believe he has doubts.
Don't do that.
Don't do that.
Parents, don't attack yourchildren if they have honest,
good questions about the Bible,the resurrection, the existence
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of God, all of those things.
Doubt is part of our life as wegrow in faith.
Then there is the famous storybeginning in verse 36 of the
sinful woman.
This story is only in Luke, andthere are all kinds of
discussions about this as peoplehave mischaracterized the story.
This is not the story in Matthewchapter 16 or Mark 14 or John
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12, where Mary comes and anointsJesus.
And this is not Mary Magdalene.
Mary Magdalene has been wronglylabeled as a sinner, which
oftentimes means a woman was aprostitute.
And so lots of people think ofMary Magdalene as being a
prostitute.
She is introduced as a brand newcharacter in chapter 8 and verse
2.
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So this is probably not MaryMagdalene here in 36 to 50.
I think the key here is to seeJesus' authority.
He is the heart knower.
Verse 40, he is proving that heis a prophet.
What kind of prophet are we?
The Pharisee says, hey, youknow, if you are a prophet,
you'd know better.
Jesus says, I do know better.
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And I think there's something towhat one of my favorite Luke
scholars says, Daryl Bach.
He writes, the point is obvious.
Great forgiveness provides theopportunity for great love.
When God forgives a notorioussinner for much sin, the
realization of such bountifulforgiveness means the potential
for great love.
Jesus pursues sinners andwelcomes association with them
because of the possibility thatthey may realize God's gracious
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forgiveness.
To keep separate from them wouldbe to ignore a potentially rich
harvest field.
That's exactly right.
And you and I need to thinkabout that and our associations
with people.
We certainly want to be carefuland wise about that.
We certainly don't want to havesinners rub off on us and become
like them.
We don't want to do things thatcause sinners to feel like we're
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endorsing them, we're condoningtheir behavior.
They're fine just the way theyare.
But if we never get aroundpeople who are lost, how are we
going to help anybody be saved?
Luke chapter 7 helps us seeJesus doing that in action.
Our reading for Tuesday, Luke 7,Westsiders.
See you tonight on the Zoomcall.
Everybody else, see you tomorrowon the podcast.
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It is Wednesday.
It's Wednesday, and our readingtoday is Luke chapter 8.
I'll try to keep this short.
These chapters in Luke, this is56 chapter, 56 verses.
Wow.
You just comment and work onthis forever.
I'll try to leave something forBible talk tonight.
Notice the women here in thefirst three verses, that's just
so important to Luke.
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The preaching to her heredoesn't seem to be in the
synagogue, and that that maymean that there's increasing
hostility to Jesus.
He can't get in the synagogue,but mentioning women here
prepares us for their part inthe resurrection narratives.
Women are super important toLuke.
They have a place in thekingdom, they matter to God.
And yes, it would be a littlescandalous for women to travel
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with Jesus, but maybe not forthe reason that we suspect.
The problem here is that womenare not to receive education.
They are not to listen torabbis.
Adult co-education, one scholarsaid, was unheard of.
These women are learning Jesus'teaching as closely as his male
disciples.
That would surely bother many.
So that's what's going on here,but they're hearing everything,
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including the parable of thesower, which then Jesus explains
beginning in verse 10.
In some ways, this is the mostcandid Jesus ever gets about his
mission and who he is.
And by this time, maybeTheophilus is wondering, maybe
you're wondering, why doesn'tJesus just tell everybody?
Why doesn't Jesus just print upsome business cards?
Jesus Christ, Messiah, I'm him.
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Just tell everybody I am theMessiah.
But Jesus says here that thereare people who aren't ready to
hear it, and especially thereare people who don't want to
hear it.
So the parables reveal andconceal at one and the same
time.
And Jesus furthers that theme inthe parable of the lamp, verses
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16 to 18.
You get a swig here of coffee.
Where Jesus says you need to becareful how you listen.
Because if you listen well, youget to hear more.
But if you refuse to listen,then you won't even get, you
won't even get to start.
You won't even get to first basewith some of these ideas.
Then I need to move forward alittle bit here.
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Let's talk about the man withthe demon.
I've never taught the man withthe demon, 26 to 39, that
somebody didn't want to talkabout the pigs.
Even after I endlessly say we'renot going to talk about the
pigs, somebody raises theirhands and says something about
the pigs.
It's just tough.
And I get it.
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I'm curious about the pigs too.
It's weird, it's strange, it'sdifferent.
We wonder if that's telling ussomething about the demonic
world.
On and on and on, thespeculation goes about the pigs.
I think if Luke saw any of that,if you sit in Bible class and
the Bible class degenerated intodiscussion about these pigs, he
would just tear his hair out.
How can we be talking about pigsand not notice the authority of
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Jesus?
This is a terrible, uncleanspirit.
This is a wretched, wretchedsituation.
People don't know what to dowith this guy.
He's completely out of control.
And Jesus utterly handles it.
Jesus completely handles this.
That's where our focus needs tobe.
I don't know about the pigs.
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You don't know about the pigs.
Nobody knows about the pigs.
Stop talking about the pigs.
And as I say that, I'll come inthe church building tonight and
someone will say, Hey, whatabout those pigs?
We're not talking about thepigs.
We're talking about Jesus, whohas authority over everything,
even demonic forces, even overdemons.
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And then the chapter ends withJesus healing Jarius's daughter.
An incredible story.
Verse 42, he had an onlydaughter.
That's only in Luke.
And this is so powerful.
People laughing at Jesus.
This can't happen.
It happens.
Jesus can do it.
He heals, he raises from thedead, he casts out demons.
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Jesus has authority.
Luke chapter 8.
Our reading for Wednesday.
Welcome to Thursday.
Welcome to Thursday.
And today we're Reading amonster chapter.
We are in Luke chapter 9, 62verses.
Let's dive right in.
I love how Luke sets up more ofJesus' authority.
Look at verse 7 (20:11):
Herod the Tetrarch.
That's Herod Antipas.
That's who that is.
I like to have those marked inmy Bible.
There's so many Herodssometimes, it's hard to keep up
with who is who and who iswhere.
But this is the son of Herod theGreat, the baby killer.
And look at verse 9.
Who is this about whom I hearsuch things?
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Luke will answer that questionnow.
Remember, he's pushing all thismaterial out to Theophilus to
help him understand and know whoJesus really is.
You get this miracle then, thefeeding of the 5,000.
It's the only miracle in allfour Gospels.
And it is obviously the mostimportant miracle.
The symbolism here is just richand full and deep.
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John develops it using thefamous Bread of Life sermon in
John chapter 6.
For Luke here, this fits the ishe a prophet theme because Moses
provided manna, Elijah, both ofthese are prophetic vessels who
were used to make miraculousprovision.
And this is all about Jesusdoing prophetic kinds of things,
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being that great prophet.
That does lead to a confessionby Peter.
And then you get Jesus, verse22, saying, You're right, I'm
the Messiah, and I'm going to bekilled.
That is a sharp left turn.
From here, Luke just keepspounding away at that theme.
Take up the cross, verse 23.
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That is not a good thing forthese apostles to hear.
They had seen people carrying across, and what that meant when
you saw somebody carrying across is they were headed to a
really, really bad end.
This is a hard thing for them tohear because they think of Jesus
as a political leader.
That's what they areconsidering.
Jesus will lead a revolution.
Jesus will lead them intoglorious battles, and they're
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going to kick the Romans out ofPalestine.
Jesus says, none of that's goingto happen.
I will be put to death, and onthe third day I will be raised.
That is rough.
And sometimes we don't give theapostles a break.
We're like, what's wrong withyou guys?
Because we've been growing upwith this all of our lives in
little Bible class, Sundayschool, all the way through.
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We've heard about Jesus, death,burial, and resurrection.
We know all about all of that.
We know the end of the storyfrom the beginning.
So we look at these guys andsay, you fellas should have
figured it out.
I'm not so sure about that.
But the transfiguration wouldhelp them figure that out.
And again, this is a super oldtestament event.
It's just living and breathingthe Old Testament.
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Moses and Elijah are the oneswho spoke with God on Mount
Sinai.
They are the two great prophets.
The cloud represents thepresence of God.
The voice of God thunders forth.
Moses and Elijah clearlyrepresent the law and the
prophets, the two great periodsof Israel's history, the Exodus,
and then the prophets preachingand teaching about the time of
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the Messiah coming.
So the transfiguration juststands out as a super important
event.
But unfortunately, what it setsup next is four failures by the
disciples.
They fail to heal the boy withthe unclean spirit.
They don't understand the secondtime, 44-45, when Jesus talks
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about his death.
They argue about who will be thegreatest, 46.
And then they get exclusive 49and 50.
Probably the most importantverse in our reading today,
though, is verse 51.
When the days drew near for himto be taken up, he set his face
to go to Jerusalem.
You need to know that the restof Luke's gospel is concerned
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about Jesus going to Jerusalem.
It's the journey of destiny.
He must go there.
He must accomplish those things.
He must be in Jerusalem.
So all of this journey ofdestiny is what Luke is running,
even as things happen along theway.
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Like 57, people come up to himand say, hey, I want to be a
disciple.
And so Jesus is doing andtalking, but he's on his way to
the cross.
The reading for Thursday, Lukechapter 9.
It's Friday.
It is Friday.
End of the week and all the goodthings that go with that.
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And today we're reading in Lukechapter 10.
This is another monster chaptercould spend a lot of time with
Luke chapter 10.
Let's think about the mission ofthe 70 and the sending of the 70
or 72.
Lots of textual discussion aboutwhat it is.
It's 72.
You probably got the marginalnote there.
That's way, way beyond my paygrade.
The point of this, and this is aunique part of the gospel
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account.
This is unique to Luke.
The point of this is that thekingdom has to go forth, that
evangelism is part of being adisciple.
And please notice again thatprayer is the start of
everything.
Pray earnestly, verse 2, to sendout laborers.
I fear sometimes in ourevangelism efforts, we do
everything but pray.
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Pay attention to prayer.
And those that don't hear verse16, they are accountable for
that.
You need to hear the messengersof Jesus.
They are accredited, they haveauthority.
And then the 72 return, 17, 18,19, 20, which gives us verse 18.
I saw Satan fall like lightningfrom heaven.
And that means, that means what?
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That's a really difficult verse.
It may mean that in thepreaching of the 70, Jesus saw
the defeat of Satan.
Unexpected and sudden, thegospel pushes back the kingdom
of darkness.
Something Jesus is talking aboutSatan being thrown out of heaven
as his beginning and may try tosomehow correlate that with
Revelation 12, linking that toIsaiah 14, for example.
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It seems to me that what we haveseen is that Luke is developing
the theme of defeating Satan inthe here and now.
Not talking about Satan'sorigins.
In Luke chapter 4, Jesus defeatsSatan in the 40 days of tempting
in the wilderness.
I think the preaching of thegospel is what's under
consideration in verse 18, andthat Satan is being defeated by
the gospel being preached.
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And Jesus rejoices then, verse21.
This is such a happy gospel.
Jesus is excited.
We get then the parable of theGood Samaritan.
I've talked about that a lot inthe pulpit.
I've preached about that, usedthat a lot.
I'll let that just rest here.
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I think probably most folks arefamiliar with the parable of the
Good Samaritan, but I do thinkLuke is setting up a theme here:
disciples and neighbors.
And then the Martha Maryepisode, which may, by the way,
be chronologically out of order,to fit in with this idea of
listening and hearing that Jesusis developing in verse 24.
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I tell you, many did not hearwhat you hear.
Now we get a story abouthearing.
And I think this says somethingabout disciples and time with
God.
Do you spend time with the Lord?
Are you looking to spend timewith the Lord?
And it is a story about choices,making choices.
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Making choices is hard.
What's going on here with Marthais a good thing.
Who wouldn't say feeding Jesusis bad?
Oh, Martha, don't be doing that.
Just let him starve.
No, that seems like a very goodthing.
But it's not the best thing.
It's not the best thing.
And I do think there is someshock value to Jesus' words.
I mean, come on, aren't wesupposed to eat?
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Well, of course we must eat.
But we can't let anythinginterfere with our primary
function of kingdom citizenship,being what Jesus calls us to be.
And I think we have to becareful.
We don't want to get never eat,never serve, never make a meal.
Just read your Bible out ofthis.
There is a time for both.
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There is a time for both.
If we are to ask Jesus, onescholar said, which example
applies to us?
The Samaritan who is activelydoing, he's not reading his
Bible, he's helping the guy inthe ditch, or Mary, who's not
doing anything but sitting atJesus' feet listening, I think
Jesus' answer would be yes.
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Jesus wants disciples to makegood choices and to be kingdom
citizens who are following him.
Disciples who are taking uptheir cross and following him.
Our reading for Friday, Lukechapter 10.
That is the podcast for theweek.
Thank you so much for listening.
I hope the podcast is a blessingto you.
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I know it's a blessing to me toget this opportunity to think
through the Word of God, to talkabout my favorite gospel, Luke,
to drink coffee with you, and tothink about the sermon from last
Sunday.
I do hope the podcasts arehelping you and you're telling
other people about it.
I'm Mark Roberts.
I want to go to heaven, and Iwant you to come too.
I'll see you on Monday with acup of coffee.
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