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Luke 5 picks
up where Jesus left off. As He goes out
for ministry, He starts to call disciples.
These disciples start following him.
Now we see Jesus’ ministry starting to multiply.
There is a
really neat tie in to the pattern we saw yesterday. We went from temptation to rejection to
ministry. Today we see the fruit of that
labor. People look into Jesus’ life and
want what He has to offer. We see that
temptation and rejection may lead to ministry, but ministry leads to
discipleship. This is a neat dynamic to
observe.
I also want
to return to a theme that carried us through Moses and Joshua in the Old
Testament. We say it occur in John and
now we see it in Jesus. I’m talking
about speaking truth. I’m talking about starting with what needs to be said in
spite of what the people want to hear.
Do you hear what Jesus says to the Pharisees when they question Him
about eating with tax collectors? Jesus
tells them that He did not come to save the healthy. He tells them that the healthy do not need a
doctor.
Jesus’ point
is the same as Joshua’s point back in Joshua 24:19. We can’t save ourselves. The first step in salvation is accepting and
acknowledging our brokenness and our inability to come to God. God must come to us. He must save us. He must do all of the heavy lifting.
Again,
though, as I have said all along, notice that this doesn’t stop Jesus. The sick are in need of the doctor. Once Jesus identifies the sick, He introduces
them to the doctor! Jesus doesn’t say, “The
sick need the doctor, but the doctor won’t see the sick.” God isn’t interested in putting off the
sinful, He is interested in working with the sinful to restore them to health.
Once more we
see the importance of genuine truth. To
receive the greatest thing that Ogd has to offer us – restoration – we must
acknowledge our brokenness.
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