Today's Reading: Luke 10: 1-16
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Bible Study
Today's passage gives us a different picture as of yesterday's. We have two men having their own excuses not following Jesus. Today we have 70 men willing to follow Jesus and his way into his harvest field and later they enjoyed the fruitful harvest!
N.T.Wright says:
Only Luke tells us of a mission of 70, and there are two puzzles about this. First, some manuscripts read 'seventy-two', instead of 'seventy', and there has been much discussion about which is correct. Second, whichever it is, why was this number chosen (either by Jesus or Luke)? Was there a symbolic meaning for it?
The answer to both questions may be that once again Luke is seeing Jesus in the light of Moses, who on one occasion chose 70 elders of Israel, who were given a share in God's Spirit, and were thereby equipped to help him lead the people of Israel (Numbers 11: 16,25). On that occasion, not unlike what we saw in Luke 9: 49-50, two others who were not part of the original 70 also received the Spirit, to the alarm of some. The point will then be that Jesus is sending out assistants to help in leading the new Exodus.
But in the original Exodus the Israelites rebelled, grumbled and didn't want to go the way God was leading. That, indeed, was the main reason why Moses needed extra help. In Jesus' work, too, many if not most of his contemporaries simply didn't want to know. Despite all his healings, and the power and shrewdness of his teaching, the way he wanted them to follow - the way which he knew would lead them to God's true Exodus - was simply not the way they wanted.
Are you one of the workers willing to follow Jesus and his way to enjoy the fruit of the harvest? How can you pray for more workers for the harvest?
N.T.Wright says:
Only Luke tells us of a mission of 70, and there are two puzzles about this. First, some manuscripts read 'seventy-two', instead of 'seventy', and there has been much discussion about which is correct. Second, whichever it is, why was this number chosen (either by Jesus or Luke)? Was there a symbolic meaning for it?
The answer to both questions may be that once again Luke is seeing Jesus in the light of Moses, who on one occasion chose 70 elders of Israel, who were given a share in God's Spirit, and were thereby equipped to help him lead the people of Israel (Numbers 11: 16,25). On that occasion, not unlike what we saw in Luke 9: 49-50, two others who were not part of the original 70 also received the Spirit, to the alarm of some. The point will then be that Jesus is sending out assistants to help in leading the new Exodus.
But in the original Exodus the Israelites rebelled, grumbled and didn't want to go the way God was leading. That, indeed, was the main reason why Moses needed extra help. In Jesus' work, too, many if not most of his contemporaries simply didn't want to know. Despite all his healings, and the power and shrewdness of his teaching, the way he wanted them to follow - the way which he knew would lead them to God's true Exodus - was simply not the way they wanted.
Are you one of the workers willing to follow Jesus and his way to enjoy the fruit of the harvest? How can you pray for more workers for the harvest?
Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"
Spiritual Journal
What I heard from Jesus today is: How to pray for more workers into his harvest field?
What I received today is a call for us to start praying each day as request by Jesus for more workers into his harvest field. Since four years ago when I read Neil Cole's Organic Church I put an alarm in my cel. to call me daily at 10:02a.m. to pray for more workers into his harvest field. 10:02a.m. is taken from Luke 10: 2 "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."
For several reasons, mostly my own laziness I rarely pray like that lately because I changed a new cel. two years ago and forgot to put the alarm back.
I feel the Lord is calling me now to pray daily for more workers into his harvest field at 10:02a.m. and then 10:02p.m. And I will certainly follow his call to do that. Why not follow me to do that for three months and see what would happen? You would be very, very surprised!!!
For several reasons, mostly my own laziness I rarely pray like that lately because I changed a new cel. two years ago and forgot to put the alarm back.
I feel the Lord is calling me now to pray daily for more workers into his harvest field at 10:02a.m. and then 10:02p.m. And I will certainly follow his call to do that. Why not follow me to do that for three months and see what would happen? You would be very, very surprised!!!
Dear Lord Jesus,
Lead us to be willing to pray daily for more workers into your harvest field. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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