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January 1 - Luke 6 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. Oh sorry, it's the first day of
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  the new year and you might be very tired after a late night.
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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. But whatever is going on, it is
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  indeed the 1st of January. The whole new year begins today
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  on this Thursday and you have well, very appropriately chosen
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  to have a moment with me, your friend in your device, ready to
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  read God's word together with you.
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  And today is an absolute Corker. Luke wastes no time at all
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  diving into the heart of Jesus teaching as here we find
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  ourselves ready to hear Jesus Sermon on the Mount.
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  Yes, that famous teaching of his turning everything we know to be
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  true upside down and on its head to show people what the Kingdom
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  of God actually looks like. So as this year begins, what a
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  brilliant way to set the scene just in the right time.
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  So friends, buckle yourselves up ready to have your mind blown.
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  Holy Spirit, open our hearts and may we be stunned by your truth
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  and your way as we read this your Word together.
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  All right, friends, there is nothing more to do but to settle
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  ourselves and read together Luke chapter 6.
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  One Sabbath day, as Jesus was walking through some grain
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  fields, his disciples broke off heads of grain, rubbed off the
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  husks in their hands, and ate the grain.
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  But some Pharisees said, Why are you breaking the law by
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  harvesting grain on the Sabbath? Jesus replied, Haven't you read
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  in the Scriptures what David did when he and his companions were
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  hungry? He went into the House of God
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  and broke the law by eating the sacred loaves of bread that only
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  the priests can eat. He also gave some to his
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  companions. And Jesus added, The Son of Man
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  is Lord even over the Sabbath. On another Sabbath day, a man
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  with a deformed right hand was in the synagogue while Jesus was
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  teaching. The teachers of the religious
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  law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely.
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  If he healed the man's hand, they planned to accuse him of
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  working on the Sabbath. But Jesus knew their thoughts.
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  He said to the man with the deformed hand, Come and stand in
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  front of everyone. So the man came forward.
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  Then Jesus said to his critics, I have a question for you.
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  Does the law permit good deeds on the Sabbath, or is it a day
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  for doing evil? Is this a day to save life or
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  destroy it? He looked around at them 1 by 1,
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  and then said to the man, Hold out your hand.
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  So the man held out his hand, and it was restored.
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  At this, the enemies of Jesus were wild with rage and began to
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  discuss what to do with him. One day soon afterward, Jesus
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  went up to the mountain to pray, and he prayed to God all night.
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  At Daybreak he called together all of his disciples and chose
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  12 of them to be apostles. Here are their names.
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  Simon, whom he named Peter Andrew Peter's brother James
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  John Philip Bartholomew Matthew Thomas James son of Alpheus.
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  Simon who was called the Zealot. Judas son of James Judas
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  Iscariot, who later betrayed him.
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  When they came down from the mountain, the disciples stood
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  with Jesus on a large level area, surrounded by many of his
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  followers and by the crowds. There were people from all over
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  Judea and from Jerusalem and from as far north as the
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  seacoasts of Tyre and Saidon. They had come to hear him and to
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  be healed of their diseases, and those troubled by evil spirits
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  were healed. Everyone tried to touch him
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  because healing power went out from him and he healed everyone.
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  Then Jesus turned to his disciples and said, God blesses
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  you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is yours.
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  God blesses you who are hungry now, for you will be satisfied.
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  God blesses you who weep now, for in due time you will laugh.
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  What blessings await you? And people hate you and exclude
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  you and mock you and curse you as evil, because you follow the
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  Son of Man. When that happens, be happy.
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  Yes, leap for joy, for a great reward awaits you in heaven.
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  And remember, their ancestors treated the ancient prophets
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  that same way. What sorrow awaits you who are
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  rich? For you have your only happiness
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  now. What sorrow awaits you who are
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  fat and prosperous now? For a time of awful hunger
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  awaits you. What sorrow awaits you who laugh
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  now, for your laughter will turn to mourning and sorrow.
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  What sorrow awaits you who are praised by the crowds for their
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  ancestors, also praised false prophets?
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  But to you who are willing to listen, I say love your enemies,
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  do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray
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  for those who hurt you. If someone slaps you on one
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  cheek, offer the other cheek also.
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  If someone demands your coat, offer your shirt also.
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  Give to anyone who asks, and when things are taken away from
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  you, don't try to get them back. Do to others as you would like
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  them to do to you. If you love only those who love
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  you, why should you get credit for that?
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  Even sinners love those who love them.
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  If you do good only to those who do good to you, why should you
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  get credit? Even sinners do that much.
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  And if you lend money only to those who can repay you, why
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  should you get credit? Even sinners will lend to other
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  sinners for a full return. Love your enemies, do good to
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  them, lend to them without expecting to be repaid.
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  Then your reward from Heaven will be very great and you will
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  truly be acting as children of the Most High, For He is kind to
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  those who are unthankful and wicked.
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  You must be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate.
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  Do not judge others and you will not be judged.
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  Do not condemn others or it will all come back against you.
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  Forgive others and you will be forgiven.
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  Give and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in
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  full, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more,
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  running over and poured into your lap.
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  The amount you give will determine the amount you get
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  back. Then Jesus gave the following
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  illustration. Can one blind person lead
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  another? Won't they both fall into a
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  ditch? Students are not greater than
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  their teacher, but the student who is fully trained will become
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  like the teacher. And why worry about a speck in
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  your friend's eye when you have a log in your own eye?
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  How can you think of saying, friend, let me help you get rid
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  of that speck in your eye when you can't see past the log in
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  your own eye? Hypocrite.
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  First get rid of the log in your own eye.
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  Then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your
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  friend's eye. A good tree can't produce bad
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  fruit, and a bad tree can't produce good fruit.
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  A tree is identified by its fruit.
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  Figs are never gathered from thorn bushes, and grapes are not
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  picked from Bramble bushes. A good person produces good
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  things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person
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  produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart.
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  What you say flows from what is in your heart.
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  So why do you keep calling me Lord?
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  Lord, when you don't do what I say, I will show you what it's
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  like when someone comes to me, listens to my teaching, and then
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  follows it. It is like a person building a
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  house who digs deep and lays a foundation on solid rock.
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  When the floodwaters rise and break against that house, it
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  stands firm because it is well built.
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  But anyone who hears and doesn't obey is like a person who builds
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  a house right on the ground without a foundation.
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  When the floods sweep down against that house, it will
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  collapse into a heap of ruins. Ah, Lord, we have indeed heard
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  your word. We have heard your instructions
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  and these teachings, they are fully against what the world
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  would tell us is conventional wisdom.
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  So, Lord, here as you instruct us to have deep foundations
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  beneath our house, to live according to what we have heard
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  you say. Lord, I pray that you give us
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  wisdom and that you change our hearts so that we would want to
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  follow you and your ways, your ways of generosity, your ways of
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  love, your countercultural approach to the world.
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  Ah, Lord, I pray that you soften our hearts, that we can look
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  beyond our own needs and our own desires to see your Kingdom.
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  And may your kingdom's priorities become the deepest
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  desire of our hearts. Jesus, thank you that you don't
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  only come and challenge us with your teaching, but you come to
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  save us when we get it wrong. So in your loving arms, we just
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  claim your love, Your provision, and Your grace, even when we
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  don't deserve it. But we are yours, and we love
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  you. And we pray all of this in your
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  amazing name, Jesus, Amen.