It is the slight of present treasure on earth, because we look on to the unseen, eternal, and heavenly things. In Matthew's case there is the waiting, as it were, till the last. And others, tempting him, sought from him a sign from heaven. But he was constantly with Lucky Luciano, the protg of Lucky Luciano. But every malfunctioning motor function of the body does not indicate demon possession. Is there any wonder that the man who was in bed did not want to rise? (1.) Now you could not tie a square knot, or a sailor's knot, but the woman could knot their girdles. In Matthew, it is a sentence on that generation of the Jews; here on wider grounds for man, whoever and wherever he may be; for all here is moral, and not merely the question of the Jew. If I am casting out devils, I am doing it by the power of God, then you better realize that the kingdom of God has come among you.". I. And He said. The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was working after a fresh sort. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. He becomes what you need. It is a heavenly blessedness, as it becomes more and more manifest that is to be the place of the disciples, and that in Luke's Gospel more than in any other of the synoptists. Thirdly, it may be added, that the Lord touches on the gift of the Spirit, and in connection with this only in our Gospel "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give [not merely good things, but] the Holy Spirit [the best gift] to them that ask him?" None of this is so very out of date. THE PERIL OF THE EMPTY SOUL ( Luke 11:24-28 ). 29 As the crowds increased, Jesus said, "This is a wicked generation. We have here a remarkable fulness of glory spoken of in connection with that great day when eternal things begin to be displayed. Again, He lays bare what manner of spirit was in John, though not giving it in the point of view of service, as we saw in Mark. Indeed, Matthew gives us quite a different aspect from that which we have here. That was the characteristic Christian address to God. It seems to me a small difficulty this, between "after six days" (in Matthew and Mark), and "about an eight days after" (in Luke). "Hallowed be thy name." First, he struck them a shrewd blow. No effulgence which shone out from the glorified men must be allowed for a moment to cause forgetfulness of the infinite difference between Him and them. The very character of the miracle speaks it. So long as the externals of religion were carried out that was all that mattered. They were asking for fish, and He gave them a serpent. Fools! But, (2.) Now, one of the purposes of whitewashing the graves in those days was to keep people from walking over them. After this the Lord turns to the multitude. For who will affirm that, when a believer slips away from the Lord, he is lost? Three charges are levelled against the scribes. They had been little enough against Satan's power: would they be great in spite of their Master's humiliation? Yea, to keep back the awful and ruinous consequences of indifference to the gospel, I do not mean absolutely rejecting it, but even making light of the gospel, is fatal. this you ought to have done ( Luke 11:42 ). Nor is there any better device of the enemy for weakening the grace of God in Christ's death than to hide the power of His resurrection. Whereas faith receives God in Jesus; faith sees the supreme glory of a rejected Jesus: no matter what the outward circumstances may be, still it owns Him; the multitude did not. Once more He shows that, spite of those who preferred the sign of the Old covenant to Messiah in the grace of the New, the sabbath day furnished Him an opportunity for illustrating the goodness of God. That is, the Jews were responsible to receive Him and the kingdom that He came with title to set up. I take a dollar for it. Verse 29. (b) There was the Terumah ( H8641) . Therefore, a person might be brought in, so to speak, all at once; he might be converted and rest upon the redemption of Jesus, and receive the Holy Ghost, practically, all at once. Oh, thank you, Father." To carry a burden was forbidden, but the codified written law laid it down, "he who carries anything, whether it be in his right hand, or in his left hand, or in his bosom, or on his shoulder is guilty; but he who carries anything on the back of his hand, with his foot, or with his mouth, or with his elbow, or with his ear, or with his hair, or with his money bag turned upside down, or between his money bag and his shirt, or in the fold of his shirt or in his shoe, or in his sandal is guiltless, because he does not carry it in the usual way of carrying it out.". And so when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: and they seek a sign ( Luke 11:29 ); You remember back in verse Luke 11:16 , others tempting Him sought from Him a sign from heaven. 52. Something you wouldn't do just because he was a friend, but something you do because the guy just won't go away. And just to go around delivering people can be the most harmful thing you can do for a person. I want to be totally open; I want everything that God has for me. He is unfit for the kingdom of God. There were many exorcists in Jesus' time in Palestine. It includes far more than the mere seduction to sin; it covers every situation which is a challenge to and a test of a person's manhood and integrity and fidelity. Yahweh Raffa, the Lord our healer. It is not so much here the Christ rejected and suffering Son of man: but the Son, the revealer of the Father, whom the Father alone knows. So that the man knocking at the door is a type of a man praying. "Get out of here, take it. Not because I have any great spiritual power. The earth is under the power of Satan. And so it was: judgment came after grace, not law. The man who stands aloof from the good cause automatically helps the evil one. But, besides that, the excuses are gone into individually. There is the recognition of Christ and of His power, no doubt. It is not at all the same as the promised blessing and power when the kingdom dawns upon this long benighted earth. In divine love He heard their confession of His person. I am perfectly capable of doing that for myself. Thus the fear of Peter and James and John at this particular point, when they saw men entering into and environed by Jehovah's presence-cloud, is, to my own mind, most significant. There was a time when it was death to teach the English Bible. The beggar dies, and angels carry him into Abraham's bosom. "Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all? "Daddy, I'd like a tuna sandwich." And he said, "I was so shook, I didn't call anybody. In chapter 13. it was the spirit of infirmity the power of Satan; Here it was a simple case of human malady. But He said. It was one-tenth of "everything that can be used as food and is cultivated and grows out of the earth." It is that which many a Christian has not learned of his Master. Had He been merely the Messiah, into that cloud man never could have entered. I realize the mess that I could have gotten into had God answered that prayer. It is not One that acts as a person outside; and this therefore was most fitly set forth by the woman inside the house. Then we have this son going farther and farther away from God, till he comes to the worst. The truth was, the kingdom of God was come upon them; and they knew it not, but rejected it with blasphemy. If a son asks any father among you for bread, will he give him a stone? They are making a ridiculous accusation: He is casting out devils by the power of the devil. And nine for me, one for God; nine for me, and one for God. How blessed to know that we have that same death, that same most precious truth, nearest of all for our hearts, because it is the perfect expression of His love, and of His suffering love; that we have it now; that it is the very centre of our worship; that it is what habitually calls us together; that no joy in hope, no present favour, no heavenly privilege can ever obscure, but only give a fuller expression to our sense of the grace of His death, as, in truth, they are its fruits. They answering, said, John the Baptist; but some say Elias; and others say that one of the old prophets is risen again." (ii) We have freedom to worship as we think right; and that, too, is a privilege which cost the lives of men. For I say to you, 'Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. The prodigal was not, in the first instance, an unfaithful saint; he was not a backslider merely, but "lost" and "dead." See one sumptuously faring every day, attired in fine linen and purple, a man living for self; near whose door lies another, suffering, loathsome, so abjectly in want and so friendless that the dogs do the service which man had no heart for. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on eaRuth ( Luke 11:2 ). Blessed as the kingdom is, and glorious, they did not fear when they saw the glorified men, nor Jesus Himself, the centre of that glory; they did not fear when they beheld this witness and sample of the kingdom; for every Jew looked for the kingdom, and expected the Messiah to set it up gloriously; and they knew well enough that, somehow or another, the saints of the past will be there along with the Messiah when He reigns over His willing people. Jesus replied that if the prince of demons used his own power to cast out demons, he would be creating civil war in his own kingdom. In the villages bread was baked at home. We never become good by not doing things, but by filling life with lovely things. I have some company coming, I don't have anything to give to them." And then there are those who go all out, and write the Most Reverend Charles Smith. It did not cost nothing. The righteousness and the wisdom of this dealing, is so much the more remarkable, as it is the exact opposite of the early doctrine of Christendom. 34 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. That means far more than knowing that God's name is Jehovah. Still remark that it is secondary to watching: Christ Himself always, even before His work. After prophecies, miracles, preaching, the people had been altogether at fault. So he makes a wise use of his master's goods. It is the first sentence which is in error. This is equally needful in its season, and is found here in its true place. It is incredible that men should ever have thought that God could have laid down laws like that, and that the working out of such details was a religious service and the keeping of them a matter of life and death. I am not the least bit afraid of anything that God may have for me, or want for me. Yet the Lord then mourned over such a Jerusalem, and does not leave the Jews absolutely desolate, except for a time, but holds out the hope that the day should come when their heart should turn to Him (2 Corinthians 3:1-18), saying) "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." Be as generous as you please: He will not take it amiss. It is here not a revelation of the efficacious sacrifice on God's part. Thus we find that, while it is perfectly in harmony with the character of Luke, it nevertheless comes within the range of all the Gospels, some for one reason and some for another. Practically this is true of every sinner. And by dabbling in the occult, by playing around with Ouija boards, or any of these things that have an occultish aspect to them, you are opening the doors for these demons, as you are seeking them to somehow mystically guide your destiny with the movement of the marker or with some other type of manifestation. The cure is to think of something else, to banish the evil thought by thinking a good thought. This is exaltation over His inheritance. The men of Nineveh shall rise up in judgement with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater then Jonah is here ( Luke 11:31-32 ). A parable literally means something laid alongside. You couldn't hold it with your hand. And the men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here. Those who gather, those who scatter. The Lord comes down from the mountain, and we have a picture, morally, of the world. It was not only (as in John 14:1-31) that He would ask the Father, and the Father would send; but they too were to ask the Father, who would assuredly, as He did, give the Holy Spirit to them that asked Him. Click to Sign Up Now! The rich man died, and was buried (we hear not that Lazarus was); his funeral was as grand as his life; but in hell he lifted up his eyes, being tormented. If; after this the fig tree should be unfruitful, it must be cut down. The only difference is, that in Luke's Gospel it appears to come a great deal earlier than in the others. And when he was nineteen years old, he determined that he was going to possess power at any cost. If our understanding admits the gospel in its full light, it fills the soul, and it has enough to fill it. Luke 12:1-3; Luke 12:1-3). And let me say that as far as I am concerned, the only name that is reverend is the name of the Lord, Yahweh. The light of the body depends on the eye; if the eye is healthy the body receives all the light it needs; if the eye is diseased the light turns to darkness. Let him draw up an agreement. Herod had good reason to know how it was an evil conscience that troubled him, particularly as he heard what was going on now, when men pretended, among various rumours, that John was risen from the dead. Therefore, their prayers will be reflective of the life of self-denial, and the purposes of God being wrought. For even as Jonah became a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation. But I do not believe that they can come into a person against that person's will.As God honors the free will of man, I think He forces Satan to honor the free will of man. If a man, a friend, will do something because of persistency, how much more will your Father? Matthew 16:1-4). First, "A certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest." The man that has found all in Him, and wants not earthly glory from Him. You don't let a vacuum exist. All these lessons are plainly impressions, so to speak, of the cross its shame, rejection, anguish, whatever men chose to put on the name of Jesus, or on those that belong to Jesus Jesus who was on His way to the cross; for so it is expressly written here. There was a man from whom an unclean spirit was expelled. And we were able to spoil these principalities and powers, and we were able to set this young man free. And again, that which you are planting into your mind through the eyes. They will not enter in themselves, but they would also go one step further, and hinder those who would enter in. The apostles tell the Lord on their return what they had done, and He takes them into a desert place, where, on their failure to enter into the character of Christ, He displays Himself as not only a man who was the Son of God, but as God, Jehovah Himself. See on Matthew 12:38-42. It is not a sketch of what we shall taste when we go to heaven, but rather the spirit of heaven made good now on earth in the worship of those who are brought to God. For God, having lighted the candle of the gospel, did not put it in a secret place, or under a bushel; Christ did not preach in corners. That is specially true of the cross of Jesus Christ. If a sinner was to be saved for eternity if the grace of God was to make a righteous basis for justifying the ungodly, Jesus, the Son of man, must be delivered into the hands of man; and then an infinitely fiercer fire must burn the divine judgment when God made Him sin for us; for all that men, Satan, even God Himself could do, comes upon Him to the uttermost. And giving them the opportunity, without that cohesive force and power of Satan, perverting their reasoning processes, let them make a reasoning decision concerning their relationship to Jesus Christ. After all, we can guarantee the reality and sincerity of our desire only by the passion with which we pray. Although there was the work of affection, and so far of confidence, to abandon all for Jesus, still Peter was occupied with the troubles, as they undoubtedly will be in that day. You had Yahweh Tesitkonu, the Lord has become our righteousness. He said, Yes, rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it ( Luke 11:28 ). And so the purpose of our prayer should be to see the will of God being done here upon the earth. God could forgive the doubts and misunderstandings people had about Jesus, but he would not forgive their defiant rejection of the clear evidence that all Jesus works were good and that they originated in God. How could He give anything to him? But here we find the weighty intimation, that it is not enough that there should be the reception of the word of Jesus, and even at the feet of Jesus. Then follows a profound and lovely unfolding of grace in Luke 15:1-32. Here you will observe it is not, as in Matthew, in connection with the break up of Judaism. He is just asking them to use their reasoning powers. Forgive us, Lord. 11:29-36 Christ promised that there should be one sign more given, even the sign of Jonah the prophet; which in Matthew is explained, as meaning the resurrection of Christ; and he warned them to improve this sign. The first time we do a wrong thing we do it with a tremor and sometimes with a sore heart. It sets forth the joy of God reproducing itself in all that are there. There is that which, either for good or evil, is immortal in the spirit of man, as being breathed directly and immediately from God in the nostrils of man. 31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. Such was the truth manifest in Israel. He was a pretty good philosopher." And forgive us our sins as we too forgive everyone who is in debt to us. And they all with one consent began to make excuse." Jesus said that the Pharisees were exactly like that. A sample of the kingdom as it will be was seen on the mount of transfiguration; for the system of glory is only postponed, and in no wise given up. It is a great privilege that the light of the gospel is put on a candlestick, so that all that come in may see it, and may see by it where they are and whither they are going, and what is the true, and sure, and only way to happiness. But in addition to these, there is a third parable necessary: not only a strayed sheep and a lost inanimate piece of money, but, besides, the moral history of man away from the presence of God, but coming to Him again. And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live. (ver. Didn't Jesus say, 'And whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them'? And again, beginning the eleventh chapter, Luke tells us: And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples ( Luke 11:1 ). because you are like tombs which are not seen, and the men who walk over them do not know that they are doing it.". The Father's ear is always open to the children's cry. Satan works by deceit as well as by violence. Now again on the subject of prayer, Jesus is saying: ask, seek, knock.James tells us that we have not, because we ask not. Throughout who can fail to see the judgment of the heart, man's nature proved, however fair the form? what remedy for them? The man that needs human sympathy, that needs divine goodness and its clear testimony, though it be through a man upon the earth, he is my neighbour. But here, the men of Nineveh will be arising with this generation in the day of judgement, precludes the idea of reincarnation.Well, might the men of Nineveh speak out in the day of judgement against that generation, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah, who was angry, who hated them, and who had one monotonous message? If Israel was then in danger of a judgment which would surely come, what would be the case with the kingdom of God outwardly in the world? Woe to you scribes! There were certain dues which the meticulously orthodox would never omit to pay. Hence, he pleads the strongest natural claim upon his heart, a son's duty to a dead father. Accordingly we have given here another set of lessons closing the chapter, but still connected with what went before the judgment of what should not work, and the indication of that which ought to work, in the hearts of those that profess to follow the Lord. So if you wanted to put a bucket of water down into the well, you couldn't tie a square knot, or a regular type of a sailor's knot on it, but the woman could tie their girdle to it and let the bucket down, and pull the water up.Now God, when He said, "Thou shalt not bear any burden on the Sabbath day," didn't have any of this junky stuff in His mind. In Luke there is the omission of Matthew's first message. how readest thou? you shouldn't leave the other undone. But people are often getting involved in the occult, into those areas of spiritism, where they are opening themselves to the entrance of demon entities. He said, "They wont let me go." because you love the chief seats in the synagogues and greetings in the market places. And there was the grand point of the Father's estimate of the work of Jesus, to which the Spirit's descent was an answer. Others, tempting Him, sought for a sign from heaven. He who is not with me is against me; and he who does not gather with me scatters.". "Henry's Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible". But there is a bitterness, an unforgiving spirit that has tormented them, and has driven them to that point of being beside themselves. You better be rejoicing in what I am doing. Woe unto you! Commentary on Luke 11:5-13. You can only walk two-thirds of a mile, 1000 yards. If we do not receive what we pray for, it is not because God grudgingly refuses to give it but because he has some better thing for us. and this has its own sweet and needed place. The appearance set forth that which will be wrought in saints when they are changed at the coming of Christ. Shall rise up () This verb is also . But the problem is, they would hinder people who would enter the kingdom of God, and they try to stand in the way of people who would enter into the kingdom.There are many churches that have taken an active opposition against any evangelistic efforts. And the dad hands him a stone, and says, "Chew on that, son." Jesus urges us to see that the inner lamp is always burning. Here unbelief is ever at fault never knows how to put these two things together; it does seem such a moral and mental contradiction, that the mightiest of deliverers should be apparently the weakest of all beings, delivered into the hands of men, His own creatures! And this is most precious. This gives it, therefore, a serious and peculiar force, yet withal suitable to our Gospel. He was a radical, you can't be neutral concerning a radical. Luke 12:4). Certainly, at that time, we see the two things distinctly. Why is the order of Jesus' calling His disciples different in some of the gospels? This, of course, closes all pretension of man to meet his obligation on the ground of the Messiah, as before on that of law. Often we may be troubled with wrong thoughts. How was it they had not discerned this time? There is a terrible hardening power in sin. Because I know that my Father loves me so much, and His desire for me is for the very best for me, because that's the way He loves me. For Him, and for men too, did not unbelief shroud their eyes, it was a question of heaven or hell, of what is eternal and of another world. Hence it is that there is no room for the transfiguration in the Gospel of John. You're bearing a burden. Where in all this was love maintained, that necessary answer in man to the character of God in an evil world? Here it was Mary who was found sitting, at the feet of Jesus, to hear His word. "Thou shalt not bear any burden on the Sabbath day." Not Martha, but Mary, had chosen that good part which should not he taken away from her. It was by the pinch of want he was brought to himself by intense personal misery; for God deigns to use any and every method in His grace. Such, then, was the condition of the disciples, yea, of those who seemed to be pillars; the glory was too bright for them-they had scanty relish for it. Jesus gave them a double and a crushing answer. There are demons, I recognize that. Rather than encourage the crowds or marvel at the crowds that are following him, Jesus says, "This generation is an evil generation." What is the sign we may expect from God for the confirmation of our faith. It determined to return to the man. In every respect, save that there is a place left for atonement in the mercy of God, the system is false. And he gave me a Time Magazine that I had read, a Time Magazine that dealt with organized crime and dealt with Lucky Luciano. To the Christ as such had they borne witness, even as the disciples hitherto; but He was rejected; and this rejection, in God's grace and wisdom, opened the way and laid the ground for the higher dignity of His person to shine as the Father knew Him, the Son, for the Church to be built thereon, and for communion with the heavenly glory. Gladstone was interested in the reformation of the fallen women of the streets of London. (i) Here is the fundamental truth that you cannot leave a man's soul empty. Further, in the villages it was the custom to bring the livestock, the hens and the cocks and the goats, into the house at night. It is the heart filled with Christ; and the consequence is, Christ's heart goes out towards them. What is it to them that the Son of man was glorified, or God glorified in Him? First, the shepherd goes after the wandering sheep. But if they rejected the light, the darkness within them would become even darker (Luke 11:33-36). He, being, a prudent man, thinks of what is to become of him when he loses his stewardship; he looks before him; he thinks of the future; he is not engrossed in the present; he weighs and considers how he is to get on when he is no longer steward. But we do not find in Luke the especial details of Jewish appeal up to the end of the age, nor the vacuum as to intermediate dealings with Gentiles. We're in a battle. 11:33-36 No one lights a lamp and puts it in a cellar or under a bushel, but upon a lamp-stand, so that those who come in may see the light. They are not to be messed around with. On some one crying, out, What a blessed thing it must be to eat bread in the kingdom of God! Hear now his anxiety for his brothers. Later on, Foxe was to tell us that in those days men sat up all night to read and hear the word of God in English. Late as it was, he went out to borrow from a friend. If we use it at the end of our devotions it sums up all we ought to pray for in the presence of God. This, then, is the preservative power. Indeed there is more than this. But now we find a change. For even the godly remnant in Israel will not then have precisely the same measure of faith. This is evidently what our Lord insists on; and here is the application to the disciples: "Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye fail [or, it fails], they may receive you into everlasting habitations." And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him." And so God gets men upon the earth who align with Him, and He establishes through them a beachhead here on the planet earth. Not so, that is a blasphemous concept of God. "No, I am neutral." Men might say, as they did, that no prophet arose out of Galilee; and it was false; but certainly this was true, that if a prophet fell, he fell in Jerusalem. And so the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the platter clean; but the inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. It connects itself with the large moral place he gives man, and as the object of divine grace. But God the Father speaks out of the cloud that well-known sign of Jehovah's presence, of which every Jew, at least understood the meaning. I didn't let anybody know where I was." "A certain man had two sons;" so that man is looked at from his very origin. For he is not a self-righteous Christian, any more than the prodigal represents a believer overtaken in a fault. If we go no further than to say to ourselves, "I will not think about that," all we do is fix our thoughts upon it more and more. "Two types of people: the builders, and the destroyers. (i) It begins by calling God Father. John does not introduce the details of the offer to the Jews at all. Of this we hear nothing in Mark and Matthew. To the Pharisee, to omit the slightest detail of this was to sin. If you ask you will receive; if you seek you will find; if you knock it shall be opened ( Luke 11:10 ). They are powerful, I recognize that. Now, it might be that a man might touch a grave without knowing that he was doing it. The apostles were ordered to preach the gospel to every creature; and both Christ and his ministers, Wisdom and her maidens, cry in the chief places of concourse,Luke 11:33; Luke 11:33. But thank God we can come against the domain of Satan in the name of One who is stronger than Satan. The sight of other objects met there does not in the least degree detract from the all-importance of atonement. Men might not suspect the corruption but it was there; all the time they were being infected with wrong ideas of God and of his demands. But another condition was requisite to see the state of the eye. "This is my beloved Son." It may not have been forgotten, that there we had it very particularly as the vehicle for instructing us in the weighty duty that we are to acknowledge the power of God in the service of others, though they may not be "with us." There is no application specially to the Jew, as in Matthew; it is left general to man. As star differs from star, and there is a celestial glory as well as a terrestrial, so there is that which is far above the kingdom that which is founded upon the revealed person of the Son, and in communion with the Father and the Son, now enjoyed in the power of the Spirit sent down from heaven. So the spirit went and collected seven spirits worse than itself and came back and entered in; and the man's last state was worse than his first. From the first it was apparent that Christ was thoroughly rejected. Satan is sitting upon the throne, ruling over the earth, the world's system.Now it is God's desire to bring the earth back under His government, under His kingdom, and His reign. And he said, "I became extremely frightened." Such was the admonition to Israel, who are now, as all know, under the consequence of neglecting the word of the Lord. (compare Galatians 4:6; Romans 8:15; 1 Peter 1:17). To be baptized, and to call on the Lord's name in outward profession, instead of lightening the burden in the day of judgment for the hypocrites, will, on the contrary, bring on them so much more severity. And so it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, that the dumb spake; and the people wondered. There was no real love for souls, but a certain anxious desire for his brothers. But the Lord also shows the form that the kingdom of God would take. There the king is seen sending forth his armies, and burning up the city. He shows next the all-importance of the confession of His name, with the consequence of denying Him; then, the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, which would not be forgiven, whatever grace is shown to those who blasphemed the Son of man; and in contrast with this the promised succour of the Spirit in presence of a hostile world-church (ver. Here, at the very least, the principle of this would apply; and for this it might be of moment, therefore, that we should have it plainly in the Gospel of Luke; because this was not the dispensational instruction as to the great change that was coming in, but rather filled with profound moral principles of larger import, though to be influenced, no doubt, by the development of the great facts of divine grace. It is made a question here of man, and of the last state of him whom the unclean spirit has somehow left for a season, but without salvation, or the positive new work of divine grace. And the purpose of the battle is the control of the earth. The Bible says that God delights to give good gifts to His children.I've heard people say, "Oh, you better be careful how you open yourself to God. (i) They concentrated on externals. So Jesus said to them, When you pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name ( Luke 11:2 ). When He comes, He seats them, so to speak, at table, does everything for them even in glory. In this second parable, accordingly, it is not active going away from God which is seen; a condition worse than this appears a dead thing. But in Luke, the effect being that He displays the moral roots of things, we have it put much earlier as to its place. And no wonder; because this was something entirely distinct from and above the glory of the kingdom for which they waited. If they be provoked to a holy jealousy by this, well and good; but, if this do not work upon them, let them look for nothing but utter ruin: The Son of Man shall be a sign to this generation (Luke 11:30; Luke 11:30), a sign speaking to them, though a sign spoken against by them. The advantage of these seats was that they could be seen by all! Thus the sending down of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost brought in an immense modification of this truth. The lawyers and Pharisees were then watching Him, but Jesus openly raises the question; and as they held their peace, He takes and heals the man with the dropsy, and lets him go, answering their thought by an irresistible appeal to their own ways and conscience. The steward was judged. And such, in point of fact, has been the character of the kingdom of God presented here below. Still as for Mary's conduct, it seemed to Martha no better than indifference to her many anxious preparations. Thus we have the goodness of God to sinners brought out in three forms. In that hour Jesus accordingly rejoiced in spirit, and said, "I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.". Here is a man who is being moved because of importunity, the persistency of the one knocking, but with God you don't have to be persistent. If your eye is single towards God, then your body is full of light, but your eye is evil, looking at evil things, and your body is full of darkness. For if thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle does give light. And he began to sit at their feet and learn the white magic. At least, so he pretended. Verses 29-30. Then a person appeals to the Lord to settle a question of this world. If people allowed Gods light to shine into their hearts, it would drive out the darkness and enable them to take this light to others. It is not food and raiment. And there is much to be learned on the subject of prayer.Now Jesus taught by an example, giving to them a model prayer. Her one thought was what she could do for Jesus, as One known after the flesh, not without a certain thought, as ever, of what was due to herself. He worked in a paper factory; he had taken for his own purposes a very little piece of paper and a very little bit of string, and he had convinced himself that he had committed a deadly sin and would not stop talking about it. So the light of the soul is the understanding and judgment, and its power of discerning between good and evil, truth and falsehood. Evangelical tradition is as false to the Spirit, as popish is to Christ work and its glorious results for the believer even now on earth. ", Now if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children; how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? It's prayer according to my will. Matthew was given, I suppose, to illustrate the great dispensational change then imminent; because Christ is there shown us as dismissing the multitude, and going to pray on high, while the disciples toil on the troubled sea. 1 Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." 2 And he said to them, "When you pray, say: "Father, hallowed be your name. And the fellow said, "The part of the message that you can't remember is this:" And he said, "Wait a minute, who are you?" A like doom awaits Babylon as then was about to fall on Jerusalem. So you are witnesses that you agree with the deeds of your fathers, because they killed them and you build them tombs. The light of the body is the eye, so take heed that the light that is in thee. Do you have a wooden leg? There are those people whose very influence is an defiling influence, but the bad part is that men don't even know in their contact with them that they are being defiled by it. In this passage, Jesus is comparing and contrasting Himself with two people who were well-known in 1st century Israel: the prophet Jonah and King Solomon. The rest of the chapter belongs to the eleventh, properly and naturally following up this truth. "Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ." a 1 * He was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples." * 2 * He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Be sincere in your enquiries after truth, and ready to receive it in the light, and love, and power of it; and not as the men of this generation to whom Christ preached, who never sincerely desired to know God's will, nor designed to do it, and therefore no wonder that they walked on in darkness, wandered endlessly, and perished eternally. The Jews wanted Jesus to do something sensational to prove that he really was the anointed one of God. It is here no question of seed, good or bad, but of the spread of doctrine nominally, at least, Christian. The Father could not suffer such a speech to come from Peter without a rebuke. The end of this was what is seen uniformly in such moral tests man, when tried, always found wanting. In the beginning our hearts may be sore at the sight of the world's suffering and pain; but in the end most people become so used to it that they accept it and feel nothing at all. Next, whatever may be the fulness of Christ's love, the effect would now be to kindle a fire. Of someone who was seeking that God might fill them with the Holy Spirit, and then became possessed by some demon. And I am far from denying that there might be cases at this present time, of what some might call an abnormal kind, where persons were really convinced of sin, but without the settled peace which the gift of the Holy Ghost imparts. This has, indeed, a solemn and final character, with an urgency beyond that of the twelve, in chapter 9. He is inviting men to eat bread, as it were, in His kingdom. Men are baptized in His name. Nothing is more simple. King Solomon. At least one learns how real a thing his anguish was. Well, they all had their spice gardens, and they would shake out the little seeds, poppy seeds. "And as he prayed, (that is, when there was the expression of His human perfectness in dependence upon God, of which Luke often speaks,) the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering." There is no such thing as unanswered prayer. You are not going to be on the earth long Other habitations are for ever. It grieves the Lord deeply, that though there was faith in the disciples, that faith was so dormant before difficulties, that it so feebly knew how to avail itself of the power of Christ on the one hand, for the deep distress of man on the other. ESV When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, "This generation is an evil generation. One must carefully remember that the death of Christ, infinite in value, accomplishes many and most worthy ends. He said, "I became too involved." They could not see that the greatest sign that God could ever send was Jesus himself. The Lord is seen, in Luke 14:1-35 resuming the ways of grace. Why are you so busy providing? No wonder the scribes, with their external details, hated the prophets, and Jesus walked in the prophetic line. but, alas! And they are blasphemous, because they condemn the very nature of our righteous, holy Father.Let me say this: I am not afraid one iota of anything that God has for me, or God wants for me. And we, through the power and the authority of the name of Jesus Christ, can spoil the stronghold that Satan has in people's lives.I am amazed at the control that Satan is able to exercise over people. c And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. (i) Available to everyone is the Bible, the word of God. His will is being done upon the earth. He had known John the Baptist as a great personage, who struck the attention of all Israel in his day. Coming just for healing, rather than the Healer. Your kingdom come. But in the model there is the basic structure for all prayer. Earthly glory, as a present thing too, they desired, being simply men of the world; and whatever struck a blow at this, whatever brought in God and His ways, His goodness, His grace, His necessary judgment of sin, His introduction of that for faith now, which would, and alone could, stand throughout eternity, was abhorrent to them. And so Luke mentions many cases where Jesus was praying. These are brought together after a notable manner. The answer given may not be the answer we desired or expected; but even when it is a refusal it is the answer of the love and the wisdom of God. Think of two of our greatest privileges and how we use them. And though I moaned and complained because of the no answer, there always came that day when I said, "Oh, thank you, God, you're so smart, and I am so glad that You didn't answer that prayer that I asked You for awhile back. "This is my beloved Son: hear him. The strong man in this case is Satan. That is, we have the various decent plausible reasons that man gives for not submitting to the righteousness of God, for delaying his acceptance of the grace of God. For the men of Nineveh will rise in the day of judgement with this generation. You can't be neutral concerning Jesus Christ. And, of course, he shared that he has not been troubled since that day.Spirit forces are real. If you are praying for healing, then He becomes the Yahweh Raffa, the Lord our healer. Luke 11:32. This verse totally discounts the idea of reincarnation. For everyone that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened ( Luke 11:9-10 ). It is not as the Good Shepherd who lays down His life, nor as the Great Shepherd brought again from the dead through the blood of the everlasting covenant, laying the sheep once lost, now found, on His shoulders rejoicing, as it is presented in Luke only. They talked with Him, and the subject was His departure, which He should accomplish at Jerusalem. He said. Now this is what connects itself with the glimpse of the kingdom we catch in Luke, more than any other. First of all, our Lord explains here that the tenure of earthly things is now gone. (1.) The only sign would be his resurrection from the dead, which would be the Fathers unmistakable confirmation that Jesus was his Son. He admits, no doubt, that there was a term of respite. 31 The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of . Jesus said unto Him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God." Give us day by day our daily bread ( Luke 11:3 ). Jesus pulled her back to reality. And hence this is a miracle found in all the Gospels. This, then, He first announced. Hence, "So shall it be with this wicked generation , disappears. You fools, did not he, who made that which is without, also make that which is within? You've got to take it out on the Sabbath day. The disciples, who have denied themselves, and have taken up their cross to follow Him. (Ephesians 2:1-22) We could not have a proper conception of the sinner's condition unless we had these two things. How old was Mary when Jesus was born? In the midst of prosperity, suddenly, that very night, God requires of the rich fool his soul. Luke 11:27-28 show Jesus speaking sternly but truly. And that is what our Lord presses: "If any man will come after me, let him deny Himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. And that's something that we all need to learn. The best use to make of it is, treating it as His, to be as generous as may be, looking out against the future. We have along with this the solemnity of refusing, the testimony of Christ. The chief and evident aim was no display of deeds, though He did arm the messengers of the kingdom with such energy as that the powers of Satan should be defied, as it were, though this is more detailed in Matthew. Stronger than our judicial system, because it had bought off the judicial system. The great difficulty was himself; and so he sought to justify himself an utter impossibility! In Luke it is not so; for there is found the great moral root of the matter; and after such a full I would not say adequate, but abundant testimony had been rendered to Christ, not merely by His intrinsic energy, but even by communicated power to His servants, it was altogether in vain to proclaim Him any longer as the Messiah of Israel. And he said this spirit began to enter into his body, and he said, "Somehow I realized that if this thing enters into me, I no longer have power, I'll become its slave, I'll be under its power, and control." 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