Luke 9:37-45

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+title = "Luke 9:37–45"
+date = "2022-12-02"
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+### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk9.37-45)
+
+While Jesus and His inner circle were up on the mountain, the rest of the
+disciples were staying in the town at it's base. When they return, they find a
+crowd waiting for them. From the crowd, a distraught father begs Jesus to help
+his son because the disciples weren't able to cast out the spirit that afflicts
+him.
+
+In response, Jesus expresses some frustration, which is a really weird thing to
+think about. It's not an emotion that feels…_comfortable_…to
+assign to the Sovereign Lord of all. But it is there in the text, and we have
+to deal with it as it is, and not as we'd like it or expect it to be. The
+question appears to be directed more at the crowd, or perhaps at the disciples,
+than at the father. All of these people have heard Jesus's teachings, but do
+not believe God's power is sufficient or necessary for their lives. Or
+something.
+
+Jesus tells them to bring the man's son to Him so that he can be healed. The
+boy has one last fit along the way, but Jesus casts out the spirit and all the
+people are "astonished". (_v. 43_) Were they astonished because they didn't
+really believe that the boy could be healed? That he was healed because all
+Jesus did was rebuke the demon causing the problems? What were they expecting?
+If this was their attitude, then Jesus's frustration is a bit more
+understandable.
+
+Immediately after this, Jesus plainly tells His disciples that He is going to
+be arrested, at the very least. But they don't understand what He means because
+God hides it from them until the proper time. Jesus needed no interference from
+well-meaning friends so that the plan of redemption would be completed as it
+should.
+
+* * *
+
+Let us always take Your word for what it is and not try to twist it into
+something it does not say.

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+title = "Luke 9:37–45"
+date = "2022-12-02"
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+
+### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk9.37-45)
+
+While Jesus and His inner circle were up on the mountain, the rest of the
+disciples were staying in the town at it's base. When they return, they find a
+crowd waiting for them. From the crowd, a distraught father begs Jesus to help
+his son because the disciples weren't able to cast out the spirit that afflicts
+him.
+
+In response, Jesus expresses some frustration, which is a really weird thing to
+think about. It's not an emotion that feels…_comfortable_…to
+assign to the Sovereign Lord of all. But it is there in the text, and we have
+to deal with it as it is, and not as we'd like it or expect it to be. The
+question appears to be directed more at the crowd, or perhaps at the disciples,
+than at the father. All of these people have heard Jesus's teachings, but do
+not believe God's power is sufficient or necessary for their lives. Or
+something.
+
+Jesus tells them to bring the man's son to Him so that he can be healed. The
+boy has one last fit along the way, but Jesus casts out the spirit and all the
+people are "astonished". (_v. 43_) Were they astonished because they didn't
+really believe that the boy could be healed? That he was healed because all
+Jesus did was rebuke the demon causing the problems? What were they expecting?
+If this was their attitude, then Jesus's frustration is a bit more
+understandable.
+
+Immediately after this, Jesus plainly tells His disciples that He is going to
+be arrested, at the very least. But they don't understand what He means because
+God hides it from them until the proper time. Jesus needed no interference from
+well-meaning friends so that the plan of redemption would be completed as it
+should.
+
+* * *
+
+Let us always take Your word for what it is and not try to twist it into
+something it does not say.