Returning home and finding uncommon faith in a Gentile person

Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

Luke 7:1

Today we review glimpses from Days 7, 8, and 9

For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

Luke 7:8-9

A widow gets her son back from the dead and Yeshua is called a great prophet

Luke 7:14
And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.

Luke 7:16
And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.

Yeshua commends John and exposes the religious zealots

And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.

Luke 7:26

The sinners give God his due by being baptized unto John

And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.

Luke 7:29-30

A parable about different kinds of people receiving God’s word

A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, (a) some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. (b) And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. (c) And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. (d) And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Luke 8:5-8

Calm in distress and near people of little-faith

But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.

And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.

And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.

Luke 8:23-25

Yeshua and the Bacon Industry

I wow to this idea that there were people, Jewish ones or Gentile ones (whether or nor the mission to Gentiles and Samaritans was yet authorized) who risked being unclean every day.  These swine were domesticated!  They do not lay eggs, or produce milk, and we have no idea how swine may have been rented out as scavenger-cleaners of people’s lands.

And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them. Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked. When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.

Luke 8:32-34

“Who am I?”, what to go about it and why

Our Lord raises the question about who he is and then after that is revealed he makes it clear that he does not want this information to get out.

And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am? They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again. He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God. And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing; Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.

Luke 9:18-22

The revelation of the Saviour of the world was not a popularity contest, is not now, and never will be.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Matthew 23:23-24

Impeaching the criminal

Little dt of Mar a Lago runs into the US constitution and the rebel nationalist GOP chokes on a camel after trying to show America how well they can strain out a fly

Caiaphas ran into Yeshua and the temple’s days were numbered

The spies going and coming is a curious turn of phrase. It comes in a narrative that has no place in the gospel. Specifically, there is no-one going to the inheritance of the saints and coming back with a report.

They went and came…
and brought back a report

And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

Numbers 13:26

If you want to make a case for necromancy, go right ahead.

Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Psalms 100:3

This short song has a lot of commands. But the 4th in the lineup stands out because it includes not one (1) but three (3) rebukes

• Make noise
• Come
• Serve
• Know
• Enter
• Be thankful
• Bless

Another day of worship comes around and the people of God gather and they use this psalm to introduce the activities.  Among other things they make an idol of the place where they gather but they attach themselves to the worst kind of attitude towards the fellowship. 

All the earth in this verse kol ha’aretz (כל הארץ) is obviously not a reference to the middle East, to Asia, or any geographical region. It does not mean the tribes of Israel. All the earth is neither Israel nor Jerusalem nor any of the cities of the holy land.

This global scope – all the earth – and the rebuke differs from the usual spin.

• Yahweh is our God
• Yahweh is our maker
• He has made us
• We did not make ourselves
• We are his people
• We are the sheep of his pasture.

Only God can make people.  People  do not make themselves but do not ask how many of us think we can save ourselves.

We the people of all the earth are invited to

• Make a joyful noise
• Come
• Serve
• Know accurately
• Be thankful
• Bless

We cannot be sidelined! Who would you like to see excluded from this invitation?

John meets Yeshua

The second (on record) meeting of the cousins comes when our Lord is 30 years old.

Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,

Luke 3:21