Tell City Nazarene Church's Biblical Journey
With Pastor Charles Areson
Today's reading is Luke 9-12
In the middle of Jesus travel to Jerusalem in Luke 9, the disciples show of their lack of compassion and show a vengeful streak when they want to call down fire on a Samaritan village. Jesus, of course, rebukes them and they go on. Vengeance is not Jesus method of operation and neither should it be ours. In our lives, we need to do as Jesus, just go someplace which will receive us.
There is an amazing thing here which could be easy to miss. The disciples weren't asking Jesus to call down fire on the village. The disciples were asking for permission to do it themselves. They actually believed they could do it if Jesus gave them permission.
Christians have often focused on the fear of the disciples after Jesus arrest and are amazed at the fearlessness after the resurrection, but we see that same unabashed confidence here. From this I can only guess is that when their confidence in Jesus was strong they thought they could do anything.
Is this true for us?
I think it should be.
Photo by Christopher Burns on Unsplash
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| The confidence to calling down fire. |
In the middle of Jesus travel to Jerusalem in Luke 9, the disciples show of their lack of compassion and show a vengeful streak when they want to call down fire on a Samaritan village. Jesus, of course, rebukes them and they go on. Vengeance is not Jesus method of operation and neither should it be ours. In our lives, we need to do as Jesus, just go someplace which will receive us.
There is an amazing thing here which could be easy to miss. The disciples weren't asking Jesus to call down fire on the village. The disciples were asking for permission to do it themselves. They actually believed they could do it if Jesus gave them permission.
Christians have often focused on the fear of the disciples after Jesus arrest and are amazed at the fearlessness after the resurrection, but we see that same unabashed confidence here. From this I can only guess is that when their confidence in Jesus was strong they thought they could do anything.
Is this true for us?
I think it should be.
Photo by Christopher Burns on Unsplash
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