WE ARE STUDYING THE FOUR GOSPELS MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE AND JOHN TO KNOW THE LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. TO KNOW HIM IS TO LOVE HIM.
Our Savior was rejected in Nazareth see;
Then He;
We see that He;
He then tells us how to get saved;
Jesus ends His Ministry in Judea and;
John the Baptist Exalts Christ.
Jesus finished His Ministry in Judea and went up to Galilee but did not take the long road the Jews normally take to avoid going through Samaria but went straight to a place called Sychar near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there.
Jesus and the Woman of Samaria.
Jesus returned via Samaria to Galilee and we see The Rewards Of Service John 4:28-38, The Growth Of Faith John 4:39-45 and lastly The Reward Of Trusting Jesus’ Word John4:46-54.
Back in Galilee after a year in Judea;
Jesus Ministers to Great Crowds.
Nazareth’s loss was Capernaum’s gain. The people in the latter city recognized that His teaching was authoritative. His words were convicting and impelling.
The Sermon on the Mount.
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
The Beatitudes. Salt and Light.
Christ Came to Fulfill the Law
Retaliation and Love Your Enemies
Secret giving and secret praying
What to Seek and Whom to Serve
Ask, and It will Be Given & The Golden Rule.
The Messiah’s Miracles Of Power And Grace, And Varying Reactions To Them
Rewards Of Faith, The Great Physician
The Helper Of The Needy And The Friend Of Sinners
THE SON OF MAN EXPLAINS HIS MINISTRY
And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Luke 5:31-32
Frederick Brotherton Meyer, a contemporary and friend of D. L. Moody and A. C. Dixon, was a Baptist pastor and evangelist in England involved in ministry and inner city mission work on both sides of the Atlantic presents it to us this way;
CLEANSING, POWER AND PARDON
Luke 5:12-26
Jesus did not hesitate to touch the leper, because He could no more be polluted by uncleanness than could a ray of light by passing through a fetid atmosphere. The question is never in can or will, as applied to Christ, but whether WE will trust Him and can believe.
The Mosaic offering was a pair of birds, one of which was killed over running water; while the other, having been dipped into this mingled blood and water, was freed to fly away in its native air. Is not this the meet emblem of the forgiven and cleansed soul? See Lev_14:2-32.
At first the bed bore the paralytic, but after the power of Jesus had entered into him, he bore the bed. So Jesus pours His energy into our anemic natures, and we master what had mastered us. The miracle in the physical sphere, which men could test, approved His power in the realm of the spiritual, where only the forgiven one could actually know.
Do not forget to withdraw from the crowd, however eager it is, that you may pray, Luk_5:16.
FEASTING AND FASTING
Luke 5:27-39
Matthew in his Gospel says nothing of this great feast; the Spirit of God saw that it should not be forgotten. “When saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee?” Mat_25:37. Advertise yourself and God will leave you unnoticed. You will have had your reward. Be content to do things, as Jesus appointed, and Mat_6:4 will follow.
Let us not cling to the broken bottle-skins of the past, whether they be out-worn ceremonies, creeds or formulations of truth. Let the ferment of each great religious movement and new era express itself in its own way. We must not encourage the ill-judged speed of those who want to force the pace, and fling away the bottle-skins before they are done with. But if the bottle-skins have evidently served their purpose and lie discarded on the ground, that will not affect the vintage, which is reddening on the hills. Go and pick the fruit God is giving you, place it carefully in baskets and let it have new skins.
We thank William MacDonald (1917-2007) who, for more than forty years, written directly about the key issues of Christianity. Leaving a promising business career as an employed investment analyst with First National Bank of Boston “at the foot of the Cross”, he had travelled worldwide, proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ for the Believer’s Bible Commentary.
Power Over Leprosy
Luke 5:12-16
5:12 Doctor Luke makes special mention of the fact that this man was full of leprosy. It was an advanced case and quite hopeless, humanly speaking. The faith of the leper was remarkable. He said, “You can make me clean.” He could not have said that to any other man in the world. Yet he had absolute confidence in the power of the Lord. When he said, “If You are willing” he was not expressing doubt as to Christ’s willingness. Rather he was coming as a suppliant, with no inherent right to be healed, but casting himself on the mercy and grace of the Lord.
5:13 To touch a leper was dangerous medically, defiling religiously, and degrading socially. But the Savior contracted no defilement. Instead there surged into the body of the leper a cascade of healing and health. It was not a gradual cure: Immediately the leprosy left him. Think what it must have meant to that hopeless, helpless leper to be made completely whole in a moment of time!
5:14 Jesus charged him to tell no one about the cure. The Savior did not want to attract a crowd of curiosity-seekers, or to stir up a popular movement to make Him King. Instead the Lord commanded the leper to go … to the priest and present the offering prescribed by Moses (Lev_14:4). Every detail of the offering spoke of Christ. It was the function of the priest to examine the leper and to determine if he had actually been healed. The priest could not heal; all he could do was pronounce a man healed. This priest had never seen a cleansed leper before. The sight was unique; it should have made him realize that the Messiah had at last appeared. It should have been a testimony to all the priests. But their hearts were blinded by unbelief.
5:15, 16 In spite of the Lord’s instructions not to publicize the miracle, the news traveled quickly, and great multitudes came to Him for healing. Jesus often withdrew into the wilderness for a time of prayer. Our Savior was a Man of prayer. It is fitting that this Gospel, which presents Him as Son of Man, should have more to say about His prayer life than any other.
Power Over Paralysis
Luke 5:17-26
5:17 As the news of Jesus’ ministry spread, the Pharisees and teachers of the law became increasingly hostile. Here we see them assembling in Galilee with the obvious purpose of finding some accusation against Him. The power of the Lord was present to heal the sick. Actually Jesus always had the power to heal, but the circumstances were not always favorable. In Nazareth, for instance, He could not do many mighty works because of the unbelief of the people (Mat_13:58).
5:18, 19 Four men brought a paralytic on a bed to the house where Jesus was teaching. They could not get to Him because of the crowd, so they climbed the outside stairs to the roof. Then they lowered the man through an opening that they made by removing some tiles in the roof.
5:20, 21 Jesus took notice of the faith that would go to such lengths to bring a needy case to His attention. When He saw their faith, that is, the faith of the four plus the invalid, He said to the paralyzed man, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.” This unprecedented statement aroused the scribes and the Pharisees. They knew that no one but God could forgive sins. Unwilling to admit that Jesus was God, they raised the cry of blasphemy.
5:22, 23 The Lord then proceeded to prove to them that He had actually forgiven the man’s sins. First He asked them if it was easier to say, “Your sins are forgiven you,” or to say, “Rise up and walk”? In one sense it is just as easy to say one as the other, but it is another thing to do either, since both are humanly impossible. The point here seems to be that it is easier to say “Your sins are forgiven you,” because there is no way of telling if it has happened. If you say, “Rise up and walk,” then it is easy to see if the patient has been healed.
The Pharisees could not see that the man’s sins had been forgiven, so they would not believe. Therefore, Jesus performed a miracle which they could see to prove to them that He had truly forgiven the man’s sins. He gave the paralytic the power to walk.
5:24 “But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—The title, the Son of Man, emphasizes the Lord’s perfect humanity. In one sense, we are all sons of man, but this title “the Son of Man” sets Jesus off from every other man who ever lived. It describes Him as a Man according to God, One who is morally perfect, One who would suffer, bleed, and die, and One to whom universal headship has been given.
5:25 In obedience to His word, the paralyzed man got up, carried his small sleeping pad, and went home, glorifying God.
5:26 The crowd was literally amazed, and they too glorified God, acknowledging that they had seen incredible things that day, namely the pronouncing of forgiveness and the miracle that proved it.
The Call of Levi (Matthew)
Luke 5:27, 28
Levi was a Jewish tax collector for the Roman government. Such men were hated by their fellow-Jews, not only because of this collaboration with Rome, but because of their dishonest practices. One day while Levi was at work, Jesus passed by and invited him to become His follower. With amazing promptness, Levi left all, rose up, and followed Him. Think of the tremendous consequences that flowed from that simple decision. Levi, or Matthew, became the writer of the First Gospel. It pays to hear His call and follow Him.
Why the Son of Man Calls Sinners
Luke 5:29-32
5:29, 30 It has been suggested that Levi had three purposes in arranging this great feast. He wanted to honor the Lord, to witness publicly to his new allegiance, and he wanted to introduce his friends to Jesus. Most Jews would not have eaten with a group of tax collectors. Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners. He did not, of course, fraternize with them in their sins, or do anything that would compromise His testimony, but He used these occasions to teach, to rebuke, and to bless.
Their scribes and the Pharisees criticized Jesus for associating with these despised people, the dregs of society.
5:31 Jesus answered that His action was in perfect accord with His purpose in coming into the world. Healthy people do not need a doctor; only those who are sick do.
5:32 The Pharisees considered themselves to be righteous. They had no deep sense of sin or of need. Therefore, they could not benefit from the ministry of the Great Physician. But these tax collectors and sinners realized that they were sinners and that they needed to be saved from their sins. It was for people like them that the Savior came. Actually, the Pharisees were not righteous. They needed to be saved as much as the tax collectors. But they were unwilling to confess their sins and acknowledge their guilt. And so they criticized the Doctor for going to people who were seriously ill.
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