Luke 18 v 39 Those who led the way rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” Previously the question was, “who gets into the kingdom of God?” The disciples were astonished that the rich ruler turned away from...

Luke 18 verses 29 & 30. “I tell you the truth,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life.”...

Luke 18 verses 29 & 30. “I tell you the truth,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life.”...

Luke 18 v 22. “When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” The rich man asked Jesus how he could inherit eternal life. In reply Jesus told...

Luke 18 v 18. “A certain ruler asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Now, in this passage, Jesus moves our attention from important and unimportant people, to that which is of supreme importance, the King and his Kingdom itself. This is a...

Luke 18 v 17. “I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” The Pharisees of Jesus’ time were looking for the Kingdom of God to arrive with great pomp and splendour. They were awaiting a Kingdom of...

Luke 18 v 14. “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” So we saw that the Pharisee took his stand before God, on his own merits. He...

Luke 18 verses 11 & 12. “The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men – robbers, evildoers, adulterers – or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get”. At this point in our...

Luke 18 v 8 “I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” The idea of Christians praying to God for vengeance upon their enemies does not sit well with some people. However there is...

Luke 18 verses 6 and 7. And the Lord said “Listen to what the judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?” Jesus told us that when the Son of man returns, it will be a time of...

  Luke 17 v 33. “Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.” We all know how easily we can be taken up with material things, to the exclusion of the spiritual and the eternal. Here we have the amazing scenario of Christ...

Luke 17 verses 28 & 29. “It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulphur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.” Jesus uses a second analogy to...

Luke 17 v 25. “But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.” Jesus said that times would come when his disciples “will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man”. In other words, there would be times, when spiritually, there would be...

Luke 17 verses 24/25. “For the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other. But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. On the one hand the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven...

Luke 17 verses 20/21 “Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is within...

Luke 17 v 20 – 21 “Once having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ ‘ There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is within you.”...

Luke 17 v 15 “One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice.” It is interesting to note that this parable highlights the role gratitude should play in regard to our relationship with God. This blind man was healed because of the grace...

Luke 17 v 18 – 19 Was no-one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner? Then he said to him, “Rise and go your faith has made you well.”   One of the ten men did indeed return to Jesus. He came back praising God and as he did so I want you to...

Luke 17 v 11 - 12 “Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus travelled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance..” Luke tells us that this event took place “along the border...

Luke 17 v 6. “He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard see, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.”   When the disciples heard how demanding the duties of a true disciple really were, they were...

Luke 17 verses 3 & 4. “So watch yourselves. ‘If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.” Because of the realities of the final crossing over, and the danger of some people either doing something or saying something that may cause others who...

Luke 17 v 2. “It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.” Coming from the story of the rich man and Lazarus, we now find, once again, that the Lord confronts us with...

Luke 16 v 22. “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.” We should spend a few minutes thinking about Lazarus before we leave this story. He is pictured as being in Abraham’s bosom. This is...

Luke 16 v 31. “He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’” Many bible scholars will attest that this story does not fall into the category of parable at all. Parables are based on...

Luke 16 v 24. “So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’” The very idea that God would send him to hell, or for that matter, any of his own set...

Luke 16 verses 22-23. “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.” Jesus often referred to...

Luke 16 v 10. “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.” We do not know exactly what Heaven will be like, but it may not necessarily be all that different from...

  Luke 16 v 2. “What is this I hear about you?” This must have been a hugely embarrassing moment for the manager (or steward of the estate). Once again it is one of our Lord’s parables, but as always, so true to life. Here is a little glimpse into the important...

Luke 15 verses 31-32. “’My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found,’” We are now introduced to the older...

Luke 15 v 24. “For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.”   The words the father uses to describe his son bear another look. Here the father gives us the reason for his son’s attitude, his rebellion, his wasteful ways and his...