luke learning guide

My first insight begins in Jesus's early life in the book of Luke chapter 2:49 we are in the midst of Jesus’s reply yo his parents upon him being found teaching. I want to point to Jesus’s desire to be about the fathers business from day one. He stated in verse 49 “why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my fathers house?” This to me is the beginning of a pattern in which Jesus sat for us. he intended to be about the father business and to spend time with the father. Here we can learn that even as a child Jesus has given us direction for our life. We have the ability to look at the scriptures in their entirety, therefor we know that the New testament church was commissioned to go and tell by the great commission. This suddenly becomes real to me because in our times today we often see churches with a “it isn’t my job” mentality. in other words, “someone else will tell them the gospel why should I?”. Jesus has answered this question by answering his parent’s. “didn’t you know I must be in my fathers house”, in other words my heavenly father is most important of all. even though jesus went submissively he certainly left a lasting thought with his parents along with us today, shouldn’t we all be about the father business?

My second insight is found in chapter 4:16-30. Jesus had came teaching the truth of the gospel in him home town of Nazareth only to be rejected. For some reason this had always been a scripture I never paid a lot of attention to until this assignment. We learn here a mentality in Jesus’s ministry that I think many of us could learn a lot from. As Jesus spoke all marvelled at him, but when he said what they didn’t like they were ready to kill him. In Great comission work or in church planting to be more specific there is going to be a lot of failures. There will be times when people like what we say and they love us for it and there will be times that people despise us. One thing that Jesus teaches us through this exchange is that he continues on even when he is rejected. we can continue to learn from my first insight by saying that Jesus was so much about the fathers business that the words of those around him didn’t take root. I have witnessed pastors and church leaders who at the sound of disagreement back out of their word or worse the word of God to appease a person or group of people. Jesus did not apologize for what he said, he just continued on about the fathers business.