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Luke 6:39–45 (CSB)
39 He also told them a parable: “Can the blind guide the blind?
Won’t they both fall into a pit? 40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.
41 “Why do you look at the splinter in your brother’s eye, but don’t notice the beam of wood in your own eye?
42 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam of wood in your eye?
Hypocrite!
First take the beam of wood out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the splinter in your brother’s eye.
43 “A good tree doesn’t produce bad fruit; on the other hand, a bad tree doesn’t produce good fruit.
44 For each tree is known by its own fruit.
Figs aren’t gathered from thornbushes, or grapes picked from a bramble bush.
45 A good person produces good out of the good stored up in his heart.
An evil person produces evil out of the evil stored up in his heart, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.
Following Jesus Step By Step: The Text In Its Context
Classic parables- Jesus loves to use them.
Parables are more than examples that help explain meaning.
They come with a message of their own that often is left unexplained, so that the hearer has the responsibility of working out what Jesus is getting at.
Sometimes the meaning seems obvious, or is determined by the context, but often the imagery used allows a variety of applications, so that different hearers may hear different messages and challenges.
Some may respond in one way, some in another, and others may simply choose to be left undisturbed.
Because parables do not just illustrate, their pithy form and often surprising imagery aim to get around the hearer’s defenses and to subvert unquestioned assumptions.
This is ones of the wonders of Scripture.
Jesus’ parables are so powerful and memorable that people of any time, circumstance, or citizenship hears a word from God that strikes to their very soul.
The Holy Spirit may use these parables in many different ways with you- but each of those ways will clearly point to Jesus.
If the Holy Spirit has helped you understood a parable, you’re life will never be the same again.
This may indeed take some thought as to what exactly Jesus is calling for.
You must rely on the Holy Spirit to properly understand the purpose,
You will remember the lesson, you will pray that God empowers you to live that lesson, and you will make every effort to live it out!
Don’t overthink things, God is sovereign and must empower.
You have free will and must choose to obey.
God acts first, but both are required.
Don’t waste time meant to be used living truth trying to understand something that is clearly contradictory but also clearly God’s intention.
If you love God, hear Him and obey!
True Disciples Avoids Hypocrisy
Hypocrite!
Jesus attacks a critical spirit, by mentioning the quickness with which we are aware of a little fault in someone else but ignore the log in our own eye.
Hypocrisy never seem to go out of style, it is the default condition of our fallen world.
We are harsh in our judgement of the people around us, and often ignore or make excuses for our own issues.
Imagine Dale doing some work around the church, that shouldn’t be too hard to imagine.
Dale is a blessing to us, and a good carpenter.
He sets up his table saw and asks me to help hold it.
Knowing my skill, I cause the blade to twist, and the board splinters and flies up in the air.
I check my fingers, and am happy to still have all 10.
But I notice that Dale got some sawdust in the eye from the fragments.
Worried about Betsy's reaction to my causing Dale pain I immediately tell Dale to try and flush that while calling 911 for him.
In my concern to get Dale fixed up I never notice the blood weeping from eye, covering the phone I am using.
One of the large chunks of wood somehow ended up in my own eye.
Every person has a log of one sort or another in their eye.
The only question is whether we see it on our own, or need help from others to realize that it is there.
There is always the possibility of two people having logs in their eyes, both trying to fix the other.
I believe I myself might have had some discussions with believers where each of us should have listened to the other, because the other had pointed out a true issue.
G. K. Chesterton once wrote wryly about critics, giving words of caution that certainly apply to any person who criticizes others:
“Now the mistake of critics is not that they criticize the world; it is that they never criticize themselves.
They compare the alien with the ideal; but they do not at the same time compare themselves with the ideal; rather they identify themselves with the ideal.”
--G.
K. Chesterton
The answer isn’t to leave the specks alone either.
The speck in the other persons eye might be a real problem, one that desperately needs to be attended to.
Jesus simply calls for us to take care of our sins and shortcomings before going after the people around us to correct them.
Paul gives step by step commands regarding how, when, and why true disciples can offer criticism or judgement biblically.
Galatians 6:1–5 (CSB)
1 Brothers and sisters, if someone is overtaken in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual, restore such a person with a gentle spirit, watching out for yourselves so that you also won’t be tempted.
2 Carry one another’s burdens; in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
3 For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
4 Let each person examine his own work, and then he can take pride in himself alone, and not compare himself with someone else. 5 For each person will have to carry his own load.
Be A True Disciple
Luke 6:39–40 (CSB)
39 He also told them a parable: “Can the blind guide the blind?
Won’t they both fall into a pit? 40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.
A blind teacher leading a blind student ends up with an ER visit.
AMEN?
The parable doesn’t need much explanation does it?
If you try and teach others without first being trained you might as well pick a pit to jump into.
Try to pick one with a nice soft landing spot!
You can only teach what you know, anything else you are faking.
Potentially having the consequence of answering to Jesus for your mistake.
You can only know God’s truth if you are a true disciple, following the leading of the Spirit.
Everyone who is fully trained will will be like his teacher is a daunting statement.Ultimately, every true disciple is following in the footsteps of Jesus.
We cannot equal Jesus, but as our discipleship progresses we will look more and more like Him.
We will never stand above Jesus, but we should all eagerly desire to follow Jesus step by step and grow to have a character an love like Jesus’.
Part of being a true disciple is acknowledging that you are not perfect, and need to be aware of your You cannot correct others when you yourself need correcting.
We all need to be willing to listen to our teachers.
True Disciples Produce Spiritual Fruit
Luke 6:43 (CSB)
43 “A good tree doesn’t produce bad fruit; on the other hand, a bad tree doesn’t produce good fruit.
There may be rotten or malformed apples among a good crop, but Jesus is speaking of the overall goodness of the crop produced on a tree and the pain caused by the thorns on brambles.
The same goes for people, good people sometimes do bad things.
But the focus is on the person’s overall lifestyle.
The way you live and speak reveals the sort of person you are.
A good person produces good out of the good stored up in his heart.
An evil person produces evil out of the evil stored up in his heart, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.
John the Baptist teaches that good fruit begins with repentance
Luke 3:8 (CSB)
8 Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance.
And don’t start saying to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.
Paul says that the fruit of the Spirit is
Galatians 5:22–23 (CSB)
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control.
The law is not against such things.
True Disciples Have Solid Foundations
Luke 6:46 (CSB)
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