Luke 11:33-36

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+title = "Luke 11:33–36"
+date = "2022-12-12"
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+### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk11.33-36)
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+On one hand, this passage is an easy metaphor with obvious application, but
+it's really hard to connect with the context of the rest of the chapter, and
+that makes me nervous. I don't see how lamps and eyes follow from talking about
+signs or demons. And the next verse indicates a clear break in time and space,
+so that context should be considered less. …
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+Actually, no. Verse 37 is meant to connect them with "While Jesus was
+speaking". So the things Jesus taught in our passage for today are meant to
+inform what Luke tells us about the dinner conversation, which I will try to
+unpack tomorrow, if the Lord wills.
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+So, then, as a lamp is set up so that it can light up a whole room, so too must
+a person's eye be opened that the light of truth and goodness may fill up the
+person's whole body. If the eye is closed, the light is still shining, but it
+is blocked from getting to where it can do any good.
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+Open our eyes that we may be filled with Your light.