Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Year 7, Day 214: Luke 5

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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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