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title = "Luke 11:33–36"
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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
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it's really hard to connect with the context of the rest of the chapter, and
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that makes me nervous. I don't see how lamps and eyes follow from talking about
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signs or demons. And the next verse indicates a clear break in time and space,
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so that context should be considered less. …
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Actually, no. Verse 37 is meant to connect them with "While Jesus was
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speaking". So the things Jesus taught in our passage for today are meant to
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inform what Luke tells us about the dinner conversation, which I will try to
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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
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a person's eye be opened that the light of truth and goodness may fill up the
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person's whole body. If the eye is closed, the light is still shining, but it
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is blocked from getting to where it can do any good.
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* * *
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Open our eyes that we may be filled with Your light.
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