Feb. 26, 2023 - Just Informed Talk - Craig James
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| Thanks for joining us on our new segment, our God's Grace is Greater segment. | |
| We're picking up where we left off. | |
| We're in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 10, verse 21. | |
| We're reading up to 24. | |
| We're talking about the Son revealing and rejoicing in the Father. | |
| This is really a powerful verse. | |
| This is picking up right after Jesus has left or has been rejoined by his 70 or 72 disciples that he sent out to perform miracles ahead of him in the towns that he was heading toward on his way back to Jerusalem to face his impending death, burial and crucifixion on the cross and resurrection. | |
| And this is the subs. | |
| This is a subsequent series of events that happens directly after he has this exchange with the 72 disciples who have returned, which we covered in our last segment. | |
| And today we're picking up right where we left off there, verse 21 to 24. | |
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| But with that being said, let's read the scripture here. | |
| It says, In that same hour, he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned and have revealed them to infants. | |
| Yes, Father, because this was your good pleasure, all things have been entrusted to me by my Father. | |
| No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal Him. | |
| Then turning to his disciples, he said privately, The eyes that see the things that you see are blessed. | |
| For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see the things you see, yet didn't see them, to hear the things you hear, yet didn't hear them. | |
| I love this verse. | |
| It's pretty simple, straightforward, and I think it tells us a really powerful lesson if we pay attention to the words here. | |
| Jesus, again, has just been rejoined by the 72 disciples he sent out ahead of him to perform miracles and do great things, as he did with the 12 disciples before that. | |
| And he's taking this moment to talk to God and give thanks. | |
| And what does he do? | |
| He praises God the Father, the Lord of Heaven, because he says, Well, what do you think he's referring to there? | |
| Well, I'll tell you, because the next section we're going to read after this is the Parable of the Good Samaritan, where he talks about a very specific encounter that we'll get into more detail in the next one. | |
| But essentially, in the Parable of the Good Samaritan, a man is in distress on a road where he's been robbed, and he's got nothing, and he's been left for dead. | |
| And there's a set of people who walk by him. | |
| One of them happens to be a high priest. | |
| The other is a Levite and the other is a Samaritan. | |
| And the Samaritan actually stops to help him. | |
| And that's how we get the story of the good Samaritan. | |
| But the priest who chooses to walk by this man and leave him in the ground was, in my opinion, what Jesus is referring to here where he says, you've hidden the things from the wise and the learned and revealed them to infants. | |
| Because you've got to remember, just before this, Jesus sent out 72 disciples, or 70, depending on how you read that, to go out and perform miracles with the authority and power of God vested in them, just like he did with his 12 disciples before this. | |
| And what Jesus is saying is he's saying thank you to God for taking... | |
| What these wise men believe they have in the knowledge of the power of God and giving it to the infants. | |
| And you know this is kind of referring to what we hear later in Paul's writings where he talks about how we're spiritually immature and how we're basically, if we're trying to raise up strong Christians, that even those who are full-grown adults have to be fed as if they were infants when it comes to the gospel, when they find the gospel at first. | |
| Because you can't just... | |
| Expect them to understand the full gravity of the power of God without giving them the full context behind it. | |
| And in the same way, Jesus, I believe here, is giving thanks to God that this wisdom, that the people of the time, the sages, the scribes, and the Pharisees believed they had That it was all being upended by people who were spiritually infants. | |
| The children, the least among us, were doing great things and showing the power of God through that. | |
| That you don't have to be some high and mighty, pious person to be able to give the kingdom of God to others. | |
| That you can find it in the lowest among us. | |
| The least among us will be the most in the end. | |
| He goes on and he talks about how all things... | |
| He says, Yes, Father, because this was your good pleasure, all things have been entrusted to me by my Father. | |
| No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal Him. | |
| Well, I think this is just going into the same realm, where he's giving thanks to God, and he's reaffirming that It is God's pleasure. | |
| It's His grace. | |
| Grace is our undeserved forgiveness, our undeserved love, and the undeserved kindness of God. | |
| That is what's being extended here. | |
| And Jesus is saying that when we extend that to others, and we'll learn about this more in the parable of the Good Samaritan, that that is the power of being a Christian. | |
| It's not in some piety of our high and mightiness and our wisdom that we have in ourselves. | |
| It's the wisdom and the power and the discernment that we get from God that he gives us to give to others. | |
| And then he turns to his disciples and he says, The eyes that see the things you see are blessed, for I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see the things you see and didn't see them, to hear the things you hear yet didn't hear them. | |
| And that means, in fact, we are blessed as well. | |
| Because even though we weren't physically there to see these things take place as the disciples were who were being talked to by Jesus, what Jesus is referencing, though, is a longer-standing desire. | |
| He's saying that there were kings and there were prophets and there were people of many ages before you that waited and expected me to come and do these things. | |
| And now here I am doing them, so you are lucky. | |
| And he's already done them, and he is risen. | |
| So we are still lucky, and we are still blessed, and we are still, as he says here, Given this great blessed gift. | |
| So remember that. | |
| Cherish it. | |
| Hold on to it. | |
| Learn about the scripture and the gospel and share it with your family and friends and as far out and as wide as you can. | |
| So I want to thank you all for watching. | |
| We're going to say a prayer and we'll wrap it up. | |
| Lord and Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this scripture and everyone out there watching with us. | |
| Lord, bless us all that we may understand the power of the gift you've given us. | |
| And Lord, we thank you just as Jesus thanked you that our Father in Heaven allows us through His Son, our Lord, and the Holy Spirit to be the least of those among us. | |
| Yet with your power, your grace, your glory, we can do the most among all of us and help others in the most positive and powerful way you could ever imagine. | |
| Only through you. | |
| We thank you for that opportunity. | |
| We pray for all those out there watching, including myself, that will find that in our own lives. | |
| And Lord, we pray and thanks most of all for our eternal salvation. | |
| In Jesus' name, amen. | |
| All right, well, I hope you enjoyed that God's Grace is Greater segment. | |
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