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13. What order of priorities does this prayer reveal? (11:2-4) The first concern we have must always be God - His honour and glory. A person's name summed up the person's whole character. We are to have a right attitude to all God has revealed of himself. To 'hallow' His name is to regard it as holy, to fear the reality behind the name. This effort always begins with us. Jesus may have taught this prayer more than once, to different sets of people (cf. Matt 6:9-13, the Sermon on the Mount). Jesus' reply to the disciple's request. "When you pray, say", shows that he intended the prayer to be used just as it stands. In Matthew it is introduced with, ‘Pray then like this’, which makes it a model on which we can base other prayers.(Morris). It is a corporate prayer ('us') and is to be prayed with an awareness of our place in the family of God.  "Thy kingdom come" is a request that God's will be done fully in all places at all times, s...

7. According to Jesus, what should be a person's two priorities in life (10:27-28)? Loving God (Dt 6:5) Loving our neighbour (Lev 19:18)   What does it mean to 'love' God and 'love' your neighbour? To love God is to desire Him above all else and to seek to please Him  To love a neighbour is to place his needs equal to our own The common element in love is the forgetting of ourselves.  8. Jesus said, "Do this and you will live" (10:28). What is the problem with trying to inherit eternal life in this way? The attitude of the lawyer is wrong: he is not truly interested in knowing the answer to his question, but he wants to establish his superiority over Jesus. Jesus turns the tables by referring him to the most basic of the teachings of the faith. And so the lawyer then seeks to rescue ('justify') himself by asking a more 'sophisticated' question. Jesus takes the OT as the standard of faith and practice (cf. 19:18). we do this to 'earn...

 We celebrated Qin’s birthday! 

1. What mission did Jesus give the seventy-two? (10:1-2, 9) To herald his ministry (v.1) To gather in the harvest (v.2) To bless people with peace(v.5) To heal the sick (v.9) To proclaim the coming kingdom (v.11)   The number appears to be symbolic of the nations of the world, a view the Jews based on Genesis 10, where there are seventy names in the Hebrew text and seventy-two in lxx The gospel is for the whole world. Some, however, associate the number with that of the elders appointed by Moses (Num. 11:16f., 24f.; seventy-two with the two who remained in the camp). They see Jesus as the second Moses. Others think of the seventy members of the Sanhedrin (Morris) 70 may also refer to the household of Jacob (Gen 46:27). i.e. the 12 in Chapter 9 refer to the patriarchs of Israel = the apostles, and the 70, to the whole household of Israel =  the whole church of God. (Wilcox)   2. What might the disciples have leared about the priorities in their mission from the follo...

Luke now brings together four short incidents which show the disciples’ lack of faith, their slowness to learn, their pride and their intolerance.(Morris) Why were Jesus' disciples unable to cast out the evil spirit (9:41, cf. Mark 9:28-29)? What do you make of that? Does it have any relevance to us today?   The private enquiry of the disciples tells us that they were surprised that they could not cast out the demon. Jesus identified the reason:'except by prayer (and fasting)', and implied that there are different types of demonisation. ("this kind"). There is no harsh condemnation of the disciples, so "faithless and perverse generation" (cf. Dt 32:5) probably does not refer only to the disciples, or the boy's father, who had imperfect but existent faith. We should take the address then as ‘to all people who are present and had failed to show faith enough for the healing of the boy’ (Morris). This passage reminds us that extraordinary works requi...

14. How does the disciples' understanding of Jesus exceed that of the crowds (see 9:18-20)?   Peter speaks on their behalf in identifying Christ as the Messiah. Luke has previously noted that that was proclaimed by the angels (2:11) and Simeon (2:26). The demons (4:41) also knew this, calling him the Son of God Jesus immediately tells them not to reveal this (v.21) so that there are no wrong expectations   15. What new aspect of Christhood does Jesus want His disciples to understand? (see 9:22) Jesus immediately teaches that being Messiah means death for him.   16. Recall 6:40. What does Jesus' mission (see 9:22) imply for His disciples (see 9:23-24)? Jesus immediately followed his announcement of his death with teaching on the cross his followers ('vif anyone') must bear. The man or woman who plans and intends to save their life will lose it; the one who actually lose their life for His sake will save it. One form of 'saving' is to preserve for oneself.  It p...

Notes: 'Tetrarch' is a technical term only Luke uses among the Synoptic writers. Herod was one of 4 rulers over the previous territory of Herod the Great.   Herod's conscience was perhaps troubling him when he thought of John the Baptist. So he wanted to see Jesus for himself, perhaps to check up on whether he was John 9. How was the mission of the Twelve related to Jesus' own mission? (compare 7:22, 8:1, 9:2) Jesus healed (the blind, lame, lepers, deaf) , raised the dead and preached the good news to the poor (7:22). He proclaimed and brought the good news of the kingdom of God through cities and villages (8:1).  Now He sends the twelve to proclaim the kingdom of God (i.e. the gospel) and to heal (9:2, 6). The disciples perform the same mission. This is training for when He has gone. He empowers them, gives them authority (likely, temporariiy, cf. 9:40) and sends them out.  'Power' is to have the ability/capicty to accomplish a task, 'authority' is to h...