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January 8 - Luke 10 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean. Here it is, Thursday.
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  It's the 8th of January. How are you going?
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  Great to have your company today because if you love music, today
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  is an amazing day. Today is Elvis Presley's
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  birthday and is it? As if that's not enough, it's
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  also David Bowie's birthday that is 2 Cracker Jacks 2 icons once
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  a day, January 8th. And if, well, that's a little
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  too much for you, it's also Bubble bath day.
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  So if you need to, you can pull yourself a sudsy bath and soak
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  and listen to some music, some jailhouse rock or a little Space
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  Oddity. But wherever you are and no
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  matter what you're doing, bathtub or music or none, you
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  have taken a moment from your day to spend it with me and with
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  God's Word. So let us go back in time to
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  this incredible journey of Jesus with his disciples and his
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  teaching. And we're going to hear some
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  remarkable stories today that have kind of changed the way
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  that we see the world with the Good Samaritan, the one most
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  important commandments. And we'll even meet Mary and
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  Martha. So Holy Spirit, just still our
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  hearts to hear your words and your way and made that rub off
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  on us as we read these words together in Luke chapter 10.
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  The Lord now chose 72 other disciples and sent them ahead in
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  pairs to all the towns and places He planned to visit.
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  These were His instructions to them.
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  The harvest is great, but the work is a few.
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  So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest.
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  Ask him to send more workers into the field.
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  Now go and remember that I am sending you out as lambs among
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  wolves. Don't take any money with you,
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  nor a traveller's bag, nor an extra pair of sandals.
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  And don't stop to greet anyone on the road.
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  Whenever you enter someone's home, first say, may God's peace
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  be on this house. If those who live there are
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  peaceful, the blessing will stand.
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  If they are not, the blessing will return to you.
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  Don't move around from home to home.
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  Stay in one place, eating and drinking what they provide.
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  Don't hesitate to accept hospitality because those who
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  work deserve their pay. If you enter a town and it
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  welcomes you, eat whatever is set before you heal the sick and
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  tell them the Kingdom of God is near you now.
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  But if a town refuses to welcome you, go out into the streets and
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  say we wipe even the dust of your town from our feet to show
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  that we have abandoned you to your fate.
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  And know this, the Kingdom of God is near.
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  I assure you, even wicked Sodom will be better off than such a
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  town on Judgement Day. What sorrow awaits you, Corazon
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  and Bethsaida? For if the miracles I did in you
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  had been done in wicked Tyre and Sidon, their people would have
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  repented of their sins long ago, clothing themselves in burlap
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  and throwing ashes on their heads to show their remorse.
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  Yes, Tyre and Sidon will be better off on Judgement Day than
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  you. And you people of Capernaum,
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  will you be honoured in heaven? No, you will go down to the
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  place of the dead. Then he said to the disciples,
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  Anyone who accepts your message is also accepting me, and anyone
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  who rejects you is rejecting me, and anyone who rejects me is
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  rejecting God who sent me. When the 72 disciples return,
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  they joyfully reported to him. Lord, even the demons obey us
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  when we use your name. Jesus told them, I saw Satan
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  fall from heaven like lightning. Look, I've given you authority
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  over all the power of the enemy, and you can walk among snakes
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  and scorpions and crush them. Nothing will injure you.
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  But don't rejoice because evil spirits obey you.
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  Rejoice because your names are registered in heaven.
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  At that same time, Jesus was filled with the joy of the Holy
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  Spirit, and he said, Oh Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank
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  you for hiding these things from those who think themselves wise
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  and clever, and for revealing them to the childlike.
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  Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way.
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  My Father has entrusted everything to me.
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  No one truly knows the Son except the Father, and no one
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  truly knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the
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  Son chooses to reveal Him. Then when they were alone, he
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  turned to the disciples and said, Blessed are the eyes that
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  see what you have seen. I tell you, many prophets and
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  kings long to see what you see, but they didn't see it, and they
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  longed to hear what you hear, but they didn't hear it.
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  One day an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus by
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  asking him this question. Teacher, what should I do to
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  inherit eternal life? Jesus replied.
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  What does the law of Moses say? How do you read it?
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  The man answered, You must love the Lord your God with all your
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  heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind, and
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  love your neighbour as yourself, right?
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  Jesus told him, do this and you will live.
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  The man wanted to justify his actions, so he asked Jesus, And
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  who is my neighbour? Jesus replied with a story.
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  A Jewish man was travelling from Jerusalem down to Jericho, and
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  he was attacked by bandits. They stripped him of his
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  clothes, beat him up and left him half dead beside the road.
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  By chance a priest came along, but when he saw the man lying
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  there, he crossed to the other side of the road and passed him
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  by. A temple assistant walked over
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  and looked at him lying there, but he also passed by on the
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  other side. Then a despised Samaritan came
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  along and when he saw the man, he felt compassion for him.
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  Going over to him, the Samaritan soothed his wounds with olive
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  oil and wine and bandaged them. Then he put the man on his own
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  donkey and took him to an inn where he took care of him.
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  The next day he handed the innkeeper 2 silver coins telling
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  him take care of this man. If his bill runs higher than
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  this, I'll pay you the next time I'm here.
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  Now, which of these three would you say was a neighbour to the
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  man who was attacked by the bandits?
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  Jesus asked. The man replied the one who
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  showed him mercy. Then Jesus said yes, now go and
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  do the same. As Jesus and the disciples
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  continued on their way to Jerusalem, they came to a
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  certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him into
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  her home. Her sister Mary sat at the
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  Lord's feet listening to what he taught.
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  But Martha was distracted by the big dinner she was preparing.
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  She came to Jesus and said, Lord, doesn't it seem unfair to
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  you that my sister just sits here while I do all the work?
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  Tell her to come and help me. The Lord said to her, My dear
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  Martha, you were worried and upset over all these details.
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  There is only one thing worth being concerned about.
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  Mary has discovered it and it will not be taken from her.
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  Jesus, you come to us brimming with truth.
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  In fact, you are the truth. And so it's with such joy that
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  we are able to read these stories and hear you sharing
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  your ideas and giving instructions to your disciples
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  to go and to minister in this world.
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  Lord, as we read this chapter today, we're struck by your
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  statement that it's the childlike who you welcome into
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  your Kingdom. Lord, that it's not when we feel
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  sophisticated or intelligent or successful that you are most
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  delighted by us, but it's when we come to you with a simple
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  faith, with curiosity and wide open hearts ready to accept you
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  and your ways. Our Lord, I pray that you
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  continually breakdown the complexities that we build
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  around us and replace them with a childlike faith in you.
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  And with that childlike faith, our ability to love as we
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  receive your love, that we can love those around us like this
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  Good Samaritan does. Our Lord, you are the greatest
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  example of that love to us, and so we just thank you for all
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  that you have done for us and your great, great, unfathomable
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  love for us. We pray all of this in your
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  loving name, Jesus, Amen.