SHARING BREAD
30 ”It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On that day no one who is on the roof of his house, with his goods inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.
Luke 17:30-31 (NIV)
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SHARING BREAD
26 ”Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 ”It was the same in the days [...]
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24 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. 25 But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
Luke 17:24-25 (NIV)
I am reminded of the following verses in Isaiah 40:
3 A voice of one [...]
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SHARING BREAD
17 Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? 18 Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?” 19 Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”
Luke 17:17-19 (NIV)
Is it not interesting that all ten lepers were healed yet only [...]
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SHARING BREAD
15 One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. 16 He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him–and he was a Samaritan.
Luke 17:15-16 (NIV)
All ten lepers were healed yet only the foreigner returns to Jesus with thanksgiving on his lips. Perhaps nothing floats God’s boat [...]
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14 When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed.
Luke 17:14 (NIV)
Ceremonial Law still in effect, Jesus bade the lepers to go and present themselves to the priest. Interestingly, He did not cleanse them and say “go” rather He sent them uncleansed and as [...]
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SHARING BREAD
11 Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. 12 As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance 13 and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”
Luke 17:11-13 (NIV)
Ceremonially unclean, cut off from [...]
October_15
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SHARING BREAD
9 Would he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? 10 So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’
Luke 17:9-10 (NIV)
In our verses for today Jesus teaches His disciples their responsibility towards profitable [...]
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6 He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.
Luke 17:6 (NIV)
Here Jesus teaches that even the smallest amount of faith can accomplish miraculous things. I do not know about any of [...]
October_08
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SHARING BREAD
3 So watch yourselves.
“If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. 4 If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, ‘I repent,’ forgive him.”
Luke 17:3-4 (NIV)
I am reminded of Jesus’ words in the Sermon on the Mount found in Matthew:
14 For [...]
