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January 21 - Luke 17 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here and it's Wednesday.
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  It's the 21st of January. Which would you believe is
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  Hugging Day? Yes, today is the day that
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  everyone celebrates hugs, going around hugging people.
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  I'm not sure this is something we we do so much after COVID.
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  Is it just randomly hug people? I know at the end of worship on
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  Sunday, people leaving the church, shaking my hand as I
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  left and I thought blind me. That's a lot of hand shaking.
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  I'm so used to fist pumping and you know, working in a hospital,
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  so aware of infection control, particularly post COVID.
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  Man, a lot of physical contact like that makes me a little
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  uncomfortable. So maybe we can call this fist
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  bumping day. No, give your loved ones a hug.
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  Give them a squeeze, tell them you love them.
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  Yeah, we can always do that. But fist bumps and hugging and
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  handshaking aside, we are here to sit down with Jesus and hear
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  some more of his teaching. And today he is going to be
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  teaching about forgiveness and faith and he's going to be
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  healing and talking about the coming of the Kingdom.
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  And boy, so much to cover. So how about let us just sit
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  down and take a deep breath, let go of whatever it is that today
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  has a hold on us for. Put it all down and open our
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  hearts ready to hear what our Lord and our Saviour and our God
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  has to share with us as we read together Luke chapter 17.
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  One day Jesus said to his disciples, there will always be
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  temptations to sin, but what sorrow awaits the person who
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  does the tempting? It would be better to be thrown
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  into the sea with a millstone hung around your neck, and to
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  cause one of these little ones to fall into sin.
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  So watch yourselves. If another believer sins, rebuke
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  that person. Then if there is repentance,
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  forgive even at that person wrongs you 7 times a day, and
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  each time turns again and asks forgiveness.
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  You must forgive. The apostle said to the Lord,
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  Show us how to increase our faith.
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  The Lord answered, If you had faith even as small as a mustard
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  seed, you could say to this Mulberry tree, may you be
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  uprooted and be planted in the sea, and it would obey you.
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  When a servant comes in from ploughing or taking care of
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  sheep, does his master say, come in and eat with me?
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  No, he says, prepare my meal, put on your apron and serve me
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  while I eat. Then you can eat later.
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  And does the master thank the servant for doing what he was
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  told to do? Of course not.
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  In the same way, when you obey me, you should say we are
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  unworthy servants who have simply done our duty.
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  As Jesus continued on toward Jerusalem, he reached the border
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  between Galilee and Samaria. As he entered a village there,
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  10 men with leprosy stood at a distance crying out.
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  Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. He looked at them and said, Go
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  show yourselves to the priests. And as they went, they were
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  cleansed of their leprosy. One of them, when he saw that he
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  was healed, came back to Jesus shouting praise God.
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  He fell to the ground at Jesus feet, thanking him for what he
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  had done. This man was a Samaritan.
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  Jesus asked, didn't I heal 10 men?
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  Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give
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  glory to God except this foreigner?
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  And Jesus said to the man, stand up and go, your faith has healed
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  you. One day the Pharisees asked
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  Jesus, when will the Kingdom of God come?
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  Jesus replied, the Kingdom of God can't be detected by visible
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  signs. You won't be able to say, here
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  it is or it's over there, for the Kingdom of God is already
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  among you. Then he said to his disciples,
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  The time is coming when you will look to see the day when the Son
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  of Man returns, but you won't see it.
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  People will tell you, look, there is the Son of Man, or here
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  he is, but don't go out and follow them.
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  For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end
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  to the other, so it will be on the day when the Son of Man
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  comes. But first the Son of Man must
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  suffer terribly and be rejected by this generation.
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  When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah's
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  day. In those days the people enjoyed
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  banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time
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  Noah entered his boat and the flood came and destroyed them
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  all. And the world will be as it was
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  in the days of Lot. People went about their daily
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  business, eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and
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  building, until the morning Lot left Sodom.
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  Then fire and burning sulphur rained down from heaven and
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  destroyed them all. Yes, it will be business as
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  usual right up to the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
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  On that day, a person out on the deck of a roof must not go down
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  into the house to pack. A person out in the field must
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  not return home. Remember what happened to Lot's
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  wife. If you cling to your life, you
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  will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it.
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  That night, two people will be asleep in one bed, one will be
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  taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding flour
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  together at the mill. One will be taken, the other
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  left. Where will this happen, Lord?
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  The disciples asked. Jesus replied.
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  Just as the gathering of vultures shows, there is a
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  carcass near by, so these signs indicate that the end is near.
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  Ah, we love you Jesus, and we thank you that you do not come
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  and change this world quietly, but you are here to transform it
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  inside out. And when you return, it will be
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  no secret, but like lightning lighting up the sky from one end
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  to the other, everyone will see you and know of your lordship
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  and supremacy over all. And Lord, we don't need to put
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  off waiting for the day when we can participate in your Kingdom,
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  because here is your Kingdom. You have brought your Kingdom to
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  earth. So Lord, I pray that our
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  business as usual can be your kingdom's business and that
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  today as we go about our day, it can be in the context or with
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  that lens in everything we see and understand that this is your
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  time and that the way that we Live Today needs to be as though
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  today could be our last. Honouring you, loving each
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  other, upholding what you have taught us, not waiting for
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  another day to follow you. But this is the day, Lord.
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  This is the day that you call us to be your children, your
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  brothers and sisters, your disciples.
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  So here we are, your people, ready to live for you.
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  And boy are we grateful for all that you give us, for all that
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  you are and all that you have done for us.
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  A wonderful saving, providing God.
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  And so we pray all of this in your wonderful name, Amen.