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March 13 - Luke 7 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends. It's Sean here and it is great
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  to be able to join you on a new week as we are going to continue
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  reading through the Gospel of Luke this week.
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  No matter what is on the horizon, no matter how good or
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  Challenging. Your weekend has been no matter
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  whether you are, well, chilling out on a public holiday.
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  Like I am. It is time to put that all down,
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  and come before. God.
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  In fact, we read the story and the gospel about God revealing
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  himself to us through his son. So join me everyone.
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  As we are going to read together, Luke Chapter 7,
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  When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people, he
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  returned to Capernaum at that time.
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  The highly valued slave of a Roman officer was sick and near
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  death. When the officer heard about
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  Jesus, he sent some respected Jewish Elders to ask him to come
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  and heal his slave. So they earnestly begged, Jesus,
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  to help the man. If anyone deserves your help, he
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  does, they said for, he loves the Jewish people and even built
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  a synagogue for us. Us.
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  So, Jesus went with them, but just before they arrived at the
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  house, the officer sent some friends to say.
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  Lord, don't trouble yourself by coming to my home.
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  For I am not worthy of such an honor.
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  I am not even worthy to come and meet you just say the word from
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  where you are, and my servant will be healed.
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  I know this because I am under the authority of my Superior
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  officers and I have authority over my soldiers.
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  I only need to say go And they go or come and they come and if
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  I say to my slaves do this, they do it.
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  When Jesus heard this, he was amazed turning to the crowd.
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  That was following him. He said, I tell you, I haven't
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  seen Faith like this, in all Israel.
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  And when the officers friends returned to his house, they
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  found the slave completely healed.
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  Soon. Afterward, Jesus went with his
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  disciples to the Village of nain and a large crowd, followed him.
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  The funeral procession was coming out as he approached the
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  Village Gate, the young man who had died was a Widow's only son
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  and a large crowd from the village was with her.
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  When the Lord saw her, his heart overflowed with compassion,
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  don't cry. He said, then he walked over to
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  the coffin and touched it and the bearers stopped young man.
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  He said, I tell you get up then the dead boy sat up and began to
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  talk and Jesus gave him back to his mother, great fear swept the
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  crowd. And they praised God saying a
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  mighty Prophet has Has risen Among Us and God has visited his
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  people today and the news about Jesus spread throughout Judea
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  and the surrounding Countryside. The Disciples of John, the
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  Baptist told John about everything Jesus was doing.
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  So John called for two of his disciples and he sent them to
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  the Lord to ask him. Are you the Messiah we've been
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  expecting or should we keep looking for someone else?
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  John's true. Disciples Found Jesus and said
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  to him John the Baptist sent us to ask if are you the Messiah
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  we've been expecting or should we be looking for someone else?
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  At that very time. Jesus cured, many people of
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  their diseases illnesses and evil spirits, and He restored
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  sight to many who are blind. Then he told John's disciples go
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  back to John and tell him what you have seen and heard the
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  blind. See the lame walk.
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  Those with Leprosy are cured, the deaf hear the dead are
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  raised to life and the good news is being preached to the poor.
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  and he added God, blesses, those who do not fall away because of
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  me, After John's disciples left, Jesus began talking about him to
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  the crowds. What kind of man?
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  Did you go into the Wilderness to see?
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  Was he a week? Read swayed by every breath of
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  wind? Or were you expecting to see a
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  man dressed in expensive clothes?
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  Know people who are beautiful clothes and live in luxury.
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  I found in palaces were you looking for a profit?
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  Yes. And he is more than a prophet.
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  John is the Man to whom the scriptures refer when they say
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  look, I am sending a messenger ahead of you and he will prepare
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  your way before you I tell you of all who have ever lived, none
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  is greater than John yet. Even the least person in the
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  kingdom of God is greater than he is.
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  When they heard this, all the people, even the tax collectors,
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  agreed, that God's way was, right?
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  For, they had been baptized by John, but the Pharisees and
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  experts in religious law rejected.
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  God's plan for them, for they had refused, John's baptism.
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  To what can I compare the people of this generation?
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  Jesus asked, how can I describe them?
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  They are like children playing a game in the Public Square.
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  They complain to their friends. We played wedding songs and you
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  didn't dance. So we played funeral songs and
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  you didn't weep for John, the Baptist didn't spend his time
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  eating bread nor drinking wine and you say he's possessed by a
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  demon, the son of man on the other hand feasts and drinks.
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  It's and you say, he's a glutton and a drunkard, and a friend of
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  tax collectors and other Sinners.
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  But wisdom is shown to be right by the lives of those who follow
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  it. One of the Pharisees asked Jesus
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  to have dinner with him. So Jesus went to his home and
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  sat down to eat. But a certain immoral woman from
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  the city heard. He was eating there.
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  She brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with
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  expensive perfume. Then she knelt behind him at his
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  feet weeping. Her tears fell on his feet and
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  she wiped them off with her hair.
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  Then she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them.
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  When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to
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  himself. If this man were a prophet, he
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  would know what kind of woman is touching him.
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  She's a sinner, then Jesus answered his thoughts, Simon.
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  He said to the Pharisee, I have something to say to you.
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  Go ahead, teacher, Simon replied.
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  Then Jesus told him this story. A man loaned money to two people
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  500 pieces of silver to 1 and 50 pieces to the other but neither
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  of them could repay him. So he kindly forgave them.
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  Both canceling their deaths. Who do you suppose loved him
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  more after that? Simon answered.
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  I suppose the one for whom he canceled the large debt.
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  That's right. Jesus said then he turned to the
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  woman and said to Simon look at this woman kneeling here.
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  When I entered your home, you didn't offer me water to wash
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  the dust from my feet, but she has washed them with her tears
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  and wiped them with her hair. You didn't greet me with a kiss,
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  but from the time, I first came in, she has not stopped kissing
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  my feet. You neglected, the courtesy of
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  olive oil to anoint my head but she has anointed my feet with
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  rare perfume. I tell you her sins and they are
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  many have been forgiven. So she She has shown me much
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  love, but a person who is Forgiven, little shows only a
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  little love. Then Jesus said to the woman,
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  your sins are forgiven. The men at the table said among
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  themselves who is this? Man that he goes around
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  forgiving sins and Jesus said to the woman your faith has saved
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  you go in peace. Jesus, as we read this gospel
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  message, we are struck by how sinful we are.
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  Sinful often in ways like Simon, when we think that we are on the
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  straight and narrow and we are doing a great job at following
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  you, But we fail and our motivations are crooked and our
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  hearts or wayward. Lord, thank you that you forgive
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  us anyway, even when we are hopeless.
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  Especially when we are hopeless. Thank you, Jesus, for your love
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  and your forgiveness, help us always be acutely aware of what
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  you offer us even in our depraved state.
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  We love you and we worship you, and we are so grateful for all
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  the Forgiveness that you've offered us.
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  It's in your name. We pray Jesus.
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  Amen. It's in your name.
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  We pray Jesus. Amen.