Morning Pastor John!
Wow, Luke 10 is really something. I have been up searching scriptures on healing and stopped to read Luke 10. To slow down and read what is being said here made me want to read it with you. I didn’t want to read it and feel it all by myself!
Beth
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Thank you, Beth. I was blessed by slowing down and reading this chapter with your comments. I love how you think.
Pastor John
Luke 10
¶1. After these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others and sent them out in pairs before his face into every city and place where he himself was about to go.
I didn’t realize that he sent 70 others to go out.
2. Then he began to tell them, “The harvest is certainly great, but the workers are few. So, pray to the Lord of the harvest, that He might send workers out into His harvest.
This part touched me. We are His workers.
3. Be on your way. Behold, I am sending you away as lambs in the midst of wolves.
Jesus saying they were going out as lambs among wolves. To really think on that is something. What would happen to a lamb sent in among the wolves.
4. Don’t take along a money pouch, or a bag, or sandals, and greet no one along the way.
They went out humbly with nothing to take but what Jesus sent them with.
5. Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’
6. And if a man of peace be there, your peace will rest upon it, but if not, then it will come back on you.
And they were full of peace even when they were rejected.
7. Remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they have, for the worker is worthy of his pay. Don’t move about from house to house.
8. And into whichever city you enter, and they receive you, eat what is set before you,
That part struck me. Made me think of Paul and not being a stumbling block but being free enough to get past whatever their custom was and just serve the Truth. Jesus wanted these 70 to go out as free as Paul was going to be.
9. and heal those in that city who are sick, and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God is come upon you!’
They were sent out with healing power. To heal is to take away a disease or sickness. That is exactly what the holy Ghost does.
10. But into whatever city you enter and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,
11. ‘Even the dust of your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you! But know this, that the kingdom of God is come upon you!’
12. I tell you, for Sodom in that day, it will be more tolerable than for that city.
13. Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have long ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
14. Nevertheless, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the Judgment than for you!
15. And you, O Capernaum, the city exalted up to heaven! You shall be brought down to Hades!
16. He who hears you, hears me, and he who rejects you, rejects me. But he who rejects me, rejects Him who sent me.”
This made me tremble. What will happen to those who have seen the kingdom of God right in front of them and rejected it. My family saw a great miracle . They saw the real Jesus bring me back to life and restore me to more than I ever was and not one has even asked about what happened. Or Who happened.
¶17. And the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Master, even the demons are subject to us through your name.”
18. But he said to them, “I watched Satan falling like lightning out of heaven.
Just Amen!
Wow, he told them he watched Satan falling like lightning out of heaven.
19. Behold, I am giving you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will by any means harm you.
Amen!
20. Still, do not rejoice in this, that spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
Amen!
¶21. In that same hour, Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the learned and intelligent, and revealed them to babes. Yes, Father! For such was pleasing in your sight.”
22. And then he turned to the disciples and said, “All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son, and he to whom the Son may choose to reveal Him.”
That is us!
23. And then, turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see the things you’re seeing.
24. For I tell you, many prophets and kings wanted to see the things you’re seeing, but didn’t see them, and to hear the things you’re hearing, but didn’t hear them.”
¶25. Then a certain expert in the law rose up, putting him to the test, and saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
26. And he said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”
27. And he answered and said, “Love the Lordyour God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
28. And he said to him, “You have answered rightly. Do this, and you will live.”
29. But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
30. Then Jesus took up on this and said, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, but he fell among thieves who, after they had both stripped and beaten him, went away, leaving him as he was, half dead.
31. Now, by chance, a certain priest was coming down that road and, when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side.
32. Likewise, a Levite also came to that place, and when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side.
33. But a certain Samaritan on a journey came upon him, and he was moved with compassion when he saw him.
34. And going to him, he bound up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. And putting him on his own beast, he took him to an inn and cared for him.
35. And as he was leaving the next morning, pulling out two denarii, he gave them to the innkeeper and said to him, ‘Take care of him, and whatever else you might spend, I will repay you on my return.’
36. Now then, which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell among the thieves?”
37. And he said, “The one who showed him mercy.” Then Jesus said to him, “You go, and do the same.”
¶38. And it came to pass, as they went on their way, that he entered into a certain village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house.
39. She had a sister named Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, listening to his message,
40. but Martha was distracted with much serving. Then she stopped and said, “Master, don’t you care that my sister has left me alone to serve? Tell her that she should help me!”
41. But Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you worry and get upset about many things,
42. but one thing is necessary, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken from her.”
Amen! Oh, let that go down deep Jesus!
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