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Right-Side Up Kingdom
Last week we left Jesus addressing a crowd based on a request from a brother to make his other brother share the inheritance.
Jesus makes it quite clear that following him is going to cause conflict and division.
In other words, when you follow Jesus, and do what he asks, people will abandon you, even parents and children will be divided.
This outcome will be unavoidable.
We left at his challenge: “DECIDE FOR YOURSELVES.”
Jesus is going to close out his teaching in the next 9 verses and move forward to HELP US UNDERSTAND what is going on in the world around him.
Luke 13:1-5
Luke 13:1–5 (NLT)
About this time Jesus was informed that Pilate had murdered some people from Galilee as they were offering sacrifices at the Temple.
“Do you think those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other people from Galilee?” Jesus asked.
“Is that why they suffered?
Not at all!
And you will perish, too, unless you repent of your sins and turn to God.
And what about the eighteen people who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them?
Were they the worst sinners in Jerusalem?
No, and I tell you again that unless you repent, you will perish, too.”
This section seems like it comes out of nowhere given he is discussing how people will be divided because of him.
Here is another instance, but he works in repentance.
I will be brief here as the message of repentance matters, but is straightforward.
The issue is this:
PEOPLE WHO DIED WERE JUDGED AS GREATER SINNERS
Let me give you a recent example that happened in our lifetime.
When AIDS started to spread among the homosexual community there were some Christian leaders that taught God was punishing them with death for their sin.
Do you remember those times?
My question is this: What is the greater sin of the faithful mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters who die from COVID?
He is addressing the belief that sin results in God killing someone.
Yes, there are some examples of that in the Hebrew Bible, but it is not the norm and God never does it without a connection to real, true evil and allegiance to demons.
So, Jesus JOINS THEM ALL by saying we all will die in one form or another.
The only way to survive death is repentance.
But for how long?
Luke 13:6-9
Luke 13:6–9 (NLT)
Then Jesus told this story: “A man planted a fig tree in his garden and came again and again to see if there was any fruit on it, but he was always disappointed.
Finally, he said to his gardener, ‘I’ve waited three years, and there hasn’t been a single fig! Cut it down.
It’s just taking up space in the garden.’
“The gardener answered, ‘Sir, give it one more chance.
Leave it another year, and I’ll give it special attention and plenty of fertilizer.
If we get figs next year, fine.
If not, then you can cut it down.’
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This is a great story that we will not understand until we read all the gospels.
If you have not heard my message on Jesus as Gardner, then you should listen to it.
Mary, who finds Jesus at the tomb mistakes him for a gardener.
That is who he is speaking of in this passage.
Primary point is not to educate us on how to grow a fig tree.
It is the patience of God.
He will wait for us to repent.
BUT…IT IS TIME BOXED...
It is not something that will wait forever.
The message is REPENT, turn around, go in another direction.
We are going to come back to this later...
This closes out one section of Luke and another starts that begins to show again the upside down nature of the kingdom of God.
Luke 13:10-14
Luke 13:10–14 (NLT)
One Sabbath day as Jesus was teaching in a synagogue, he saw a woman who had been crippled by an evil spirit.
She had been bent double for eighteen years and was unable to stand up straight.
When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Dear woman, you are healed of your sickness!”
Then he touched her, and instantly she could stand straight.
How she praised God!
But the leader in charge of the synagogue was indignant that Jesus had healed her on the Sabbath day.
“There are six days of the week for working,” he said to the crowd.
“Come on those days to be healed, not on the Sabbath.”
Jesus continues on his travels to Jerusalem and while he travels he continues to attend synagogue and cause trouble.
Makes me wonder what he would say if he showed up today.
Some items of note:
Satan is the source of her sickness (not always the case)
18 years, but she continues to show up to synagogue
Leader is indignant…again…because it is done on the sabbath.
It is an argument from ignorance.
This whole issue of working on a Sabbath seems to really make people angry, including Jesus.
But for a different reason...
Luke 13:15
Luke 13:15 (NLT)
But the Lord replied, “You hypocrites!
Each of you works on the Sabbath day! Don’t you untie your ox or your donkey from its stall on the Sabbath and lead it out for water?
We won’t go over hypocrites too much as I don’t want to repeat myself.
Hypocrisy is something Jesus has no tolerance for.
But the context of the hypocrisy is VERY IMPORTANT!
They are being hypocritical in regards to the text.
In other words, what they are doing is not true to scripture.
Why it is important to know your scriptures!
Let me tell you how this goes down:
Ox and donkey owners are guilty here
If you don’t own an ox or donkey you think you are free, but you are not.
(glad I don’t own an ox!)
I can see this pitting ox and donkey owners against those who don’t own one or many!
The statement is this, “Each of you works on the Sabbath day!”
It is a condemnation of everyone who is hearing his words.
For example, don’t you walk your animal to the water?
How is that not working?
He goes on...
Luke 13:16
Luke 13:16 (NLT)
This dear woman, a daughter of Abraham, has been held in bondage by Satan for eighteen years.
Isn’t it right that she be released, even on the Sabbath?”
This comparison is so powerful, and if we don’t know our scriptures, we will miss the nuance the author is trying to convey.
Jesus has offended their culture:
He has healed on the Sabbath
He has touched a woman
He is now defending his actions and this woman
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