Luke 6-10 Sunday School
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Overview and Review
Overview and Review
What does luke say the bible is about
Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.
Jesus’ summary of the Hebrew Bible is that Man’s badness and violence leads to destruction, but God has appointed an anointed, divine, human to intercede and offer himself, pass through the waters of death, and proclaim repentance and forgiveness of sins to all the nations.
Overall Structure of Luke
How that informs 6-10
What this section is about - learning what christ’s mission was about
9:51 as the turning point and transition to the next phase. Up to that point Luke is focused on the mission of Christ to call a remnant
Things that we know about the remnant or the chosen people who will be brought through
Sinners who will be made righteous through faith
The sick
The Poor
Those who follow his words
Centurions with faith
Widows
Sinful women
Not concerned with blood relatives
Not limited by nature
Rescuing those caught in demonic worship and oppression
Rulers of the synagogue who humble themselves
Confuses the powerful rulers
Calling them from the house of Israel.
Transitioning into the conflict of the story we see
And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd. And they all ate and were satisfied. And what was left over was picked up, twelve baskets of broken pieces.
What OT themes and stories does this remind you of?
Mana in the wilderness
Noah’s ark
The Garden
Elijah’s provision in the Desert.
Jesus presence and ministry has created a Mini Eden on earth in Israel. Where God is embodied on earth and people are following his way, we see his desire for us start to come to earth. The NHNE (where eden spreads over the whole earth) is breaking in.
Jesus is creating his ark and calling Israel into it before the DOOR is shut.
Now it happened that as he was praying alone, the disciples were with him. And he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?” And they answered, “John the Baptist. But others say, Elijah, and others, that one of the prophets of old has risen.” Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”
The eighth day
The eighth day
Now about eight days after these sayings he took with him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray.
1 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.
2 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them,
Is it 6 or 8 days?
Opt A: Fundamentalist view. Find some way to harmonize the different dates to make it work.
Opt B: Skeptical View. Luke just made a mistake and represented the time frame wrong.
Opt C: Imagistic Historical view. Luke uses a roundabout language and deviates from Mark because of imagery and theology to make a point. Things literally happened, but the author (Luke and God) present those events in a way that uses imagery and wordplay to make a theological point.
What is the significance of the 6th day? Day of Crucifixion, day of creation of man,.
What is the significance of the 8th day? Day (age) of resurrection creation of the new man.
This idea seems like a reach at first, but Luke had access to Mark. He wouldn’t have deviated on something like this for no reason (remember his emphasis on orderliness and accuracy).
What other things happen on the eighth day?
A sacrificial animal is ready to be sacrificed
Leviticus 22:27 “27 “When an ox or sheep or goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as a food offering to the Lord.”
The cutting away of the foreskin.
Leviticus 12:3 “3 And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.”
Aaron and his sons appointed and accepted as priests
Leviticus 9:1 “1 On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel,”
In ezekiel its the end of the period of puricifcation of the new altar in the future perfect temple
25 For seven days you shall provide daily a male goat for a sin offering; also, a bull from the herd and a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be provided. 26 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, and so consecrate it. 27 And when they have completed these days, then from the eighth day onward the priests shall offer on the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, and I will accept you, declares the Lord God.”
The eighth day is never a pleasant thing by itself. It is always at the end of something bloody. But on the eighth day God’s people move through the bloody sacrifice or the separation from the flesh into the acceptance God has for them in a covenantal relationship on the other Side.
The eighth day has the idea of readiness for sacrifice and what lies on the other side of a sacrifice or a cutting off of the fleshly body.
We see a bit of all of those things in the interaction her.
We see Jesus is ready to move toward his sacrifice (transition at 9:51)
We see Jesus moving toward the fulfillment of the cutting of the flesh (death)
We get a hint forwards to his resurrection which happened on what day?
[Christ] suffered voluntarily, and so could choose His own time for suffering and for resurrection, He brought it about that His body rested from all its works on Sabbath in the tomb, and that His resurrection on the third day, which we call the Lord’s day, the day after the Sabbath, and therefore the eighth, proved the circumcision of the eighth day to be also prophetical of Him. For what does circumcision mean, but the eradication of the mortality which comes from our carnal generation? So the apostle says: “Putting off from Himself His flesh, He made a show of principalities and powers, triumphing over them in Himself.”
The flesh here said to be put off is that mortality of flesh on account of which the body is properly called flesh. The flesh is the mortality, for in the immortality of the resurrection there will be no flesh; as it is written, “Flesh and blood shall not inherit the kingdom of God.1
St. Augustine Reply to Faustus the Manichaean 16.29
11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.
1 For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, 3 if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. 4 For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
The imagery of circumcision pointed forward to the circumcision of Christ “putting off of the body of the flesh.”
Our hope is to have that body.
Abraham is given circumcision as a sign after sexual sin and abuse of hagar. The thing that caused his problems is cut off, but his life continues.
We should now apply the ideas and images of circumcision as the cutting off of the flesh, to Christ’s sacrifice. The thing that causes the problem (humanity, human nature, and flesh) is put on one anointed one who is “cut off” for us.
We enter into that cutting off with him through baptism.
What do we expect on the other side of this cutting off? Not that we be naked - but that we be further clothed. We enter into the type of spiritual Body that christ has here.
What do these things bring into the story?
53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
