From 9f761025078db8f84c9eda88a701cbd69ee0b7ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lyle Mantooth Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 07:49:14 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Luke 7:24-35 --- content/bible_journal/luke_7:24-35.md | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/bible_journal/luke_7:24-35.md diff --git a/content/bible_journal/luke_7:24-35.md b/content/bible_journal/luke_7:24-35.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4fef091 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/luke_7:24-35.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ ++++ +title = "Luke 7:24–35" +date = "2022-11-18" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk7.24-35) + +When John's disciples leave with their answer, Jesus begins teaching the crowds +about John, and his role in God's plan. He starts with the question, "What did +you go out to see?" and gives some obviously wrong answers as a rhetorical +device. This is to get the listeners to be introspective and think about why +they were interested in hearing what this hermit in the wilderness was saying. +John warned of coming judgement and of the need for repentance to avoid the +wrath of God. But why did the people think he was right about it? Because he +was "a prophet", and then Jesus asserts that he was more than just any prophet, +but the prophesied forerunner to the Messiah. + +In verse 28, Jesus says no one born of woman is greater than John, but everyone +in the kingdom of God is greater than John. Is He saying John isn't in the +kingdom of God, that he isn't saved? No, I think He's showing how great a +difference there is between a physical birth and a spiritual rebirth. You can +do all these good deeds, know a lot of truth, even have your life be predicted +in Scriptures, but it doesn't matter at all if you aren't in God's kingdom. The +people who had been baptized by John understood what Jesus was getting at, and +they agreed, because it lined up with what they had already heard from John. + +The Pharisees and experts of the Law of Moses didn't agree with this, because +they were banking their spiritual future on their good works and their +knowledge of the truth. They rejected both John and Jesus, so Jesus calls out +their contrariness. He compares them to children who don't want to play +anything that someone else suggests. John lived an ascetic life, to an extent +that he was accused of mental illness. Jesus feasted and attended parties with +sinners and religious outcasts, so they called Him a glutton and a drunkard. +These are the same critics, and they weren't satisfied by anyone's message but +their own. + +* * * + +Let us be receptive to Your message, and not cling to our own paths, which will +not bring us to You in the first place.