In this episode, Bryce breaks down Luke Chapter 13.
Chapter 1: What is the focus of Luke Chapter 13?
What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce and today we are on Luke chapter 13 of the 24 day Luke Christmas series challenge. Every day we're reading a chapter of Luke. So by the time you get to Christmas Eve, you would have read the whole gospel of Luke. Sorry for the late upload on YouTube for Luke chapter 12.
I was at a wedding yesterday and I forgot to upload it, but it was on Spotify. So all you guys checking on me, thank you. I was at a wedding all day and I'm a little sick now. But we're on Luke chapter 13. It's going to be powerful. Before we get into it, guys, January 19th, 6 p.m. in Los Angeles, first ever live podcast show. Go get your tickets. Jesusinthestreet.org slash tickets.
Get your tickets. Come join us. It's going to be powerful. Let's dive into Luke chapter 13 really quick and see what Jesus is talking about here. There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, Jesus is about to emphasize the importance of repentance here, and he's going to repeat it twice.
Chapter 2: What does Jesus say about repentance?
Or those 18 of whom the tower of Siloam fell and killed them. Do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. In the Greek grammar, the first repent we see in verse 3 is a continual repentance. Sometimes people think, oh, well, I repented when I gave my life to Jesus and that's it.
No, as we're growing and becoming sanctified, we're actively finding things out about ourselves and finding out that, man, we're still wicked and need help of Jesus. And as we're growing and learning, we find ourselves continuously in this hard posture of repentance. But then this repentance in verse five is like a finite repentance. So the one in verse three was like a continual repentance.
But the one in verse five is like a finite, like, let me repent for all of my sins kind of repentance. So it's so powerful because Jesus is emphasizing the importance of repentance here. Verse six says, And he told this parable. A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.
Chapter 3: What is the significance of the fig tree parable?
And he said to the vine dresser, Look, for three years now I've come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground? And he answered, Sir, let it alone this year also until I dig it around and put it on manure. Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good. But if not, you can cut it down.
This is talking about people that have not surrendered their life to God. Those that don't follow God are those that live a fruitless life. And the prolonging of the tree being cut down in this parable is showing the judgment of God that's being withheld from people that don't know him, which is his grace.
But it also shows that at one point they will be cut down and it shows that God is a just God. So the prolonging of the judgment of God is actually his grace. And this is a call to us as believers, or not even just to us as believers, sorry, a call to people saying, hey, if you're not right with God, get right with God. Because there's going to come a day when it's too late. And there is no more.
Chapter 4: How does Jesus heal on the Sabbath?
There is no more second chances on the table. Now we go into verse 10. Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for 18 years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, You are freed from your disability.
And he laid his hands on her and immediately she was made straight and she glorified God. So Jesus sees this crippled woman. He goes and heals her. She's been crippled for 18 years. Boom, she's healed. But the ruler of the synagogue indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath and said to these people, there are six days in which work ought to be done.
Come on those days and be healed and do not on the Sabbath day. Then the Lord answered him, you hypocrites. Does not each one of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? Now, Jesus is reminding these religious people that there wasn't a commandment in the law that said that they could not heal on the Sabbath.
But when he uses this parable of saying on the Sabbath, you go and help your ox get water. So what's the difference in helping one of these children who are made in the image of God? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan bound for 18 years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?
He said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him. Beautiful. Verse 18, he said, therefore, what is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it to?
It is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden and it grew and it became a tree and the birds of the air made nests in its branch. This mustard seed is oftentimes referred to the church. It was planted in the church, flourished and grew, and now there's church and the local church is important. This is where we get fed.
This is where we get spiritually fed and we walk in fellowship and begin to cultivate these godly relationships. And you're saying, look, it's like a mustard seed that was planted and sowed in his garden and it grew and became a massive tree and birds of the air made their nests. And they're saying like people were able to secure a home in this foundation. Jesus Christ is the ultimate foundation.
Jesus Christ has left us the system of the church to actually be fed by spiritually. And again, he said, to what shall I compare the kingdom of God? It is like leaven. Now remember, all the times in the Bible, leaven is revert to in a negative connotation as sin. But in this time, it's not. It is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour until it was all leavened.
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Chapter 5: What is the meaning of the mustard seed parable?
Saying like, look, it was in there and then boom, it flourished. It, it, it. impacted the entire thing the kingdom of god is like this one the scoop of leaven and it gets in there and it impacts the whole thing and i think it shows the powerful impact of the kingdom of god has on people now we're going down to verse 22
He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying towards Jerusalem. And some said to him, Lord, who would those who are saved be few? And he said to them, strive to enter through the narrow door. It takes effort to follow Jesus. Like when we confess with our mouth and believe in our heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, we also have to deny ourselves every day.
We must deny ourselves. Following Christ looks like denying our flesh and denying ourself and picking up our cross and following Jesus. There's this pursuit of Christ that we have in our daily lives where we are constantly seeking Him, becoming more like Him. And there's effort here. There's effort. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able to.
When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying, Lord, open to us, then he will answer you. I do not know where you came from. He's saying that there are going to be people who don't get right with God now. And then when they stand before him, they're going to say, oh God, let me in, let me in.
But there's going to come a time where there's no longer a chance to know Jesus. Like in this lifetime, we get to choose him or not. We don't know if he's going to return tomorrow. So we got to get right with him today. Then you will begin to say, we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets. But he will say, I tell you, I do not know where you come from.
Depart from me, all you workers of evil. He's saying, then people are going to actually begin to say that they, oh, well, we heard some of your teachings or we saw you or I went to church occasionally or I did this. And he's like, no, that's not the point. Depart from me. I never knew you. They're going to try to say, well, I partially knew you, you know, it's like this.
If I say, I know Michael Jordan and Michael Jordan knows Bryce. If I were to say Michael Jordan knew me and I told you his birthday, all the basketball teams he played for, special details about his life, you would say, man, you really know Michael Jordan. And then if you went up to Michael Jordan and said, hey, Michael Jordan, do you know Bryce? He would say, who's Bryce?
That's because Michael Jordan doesn't know who I am. I just know of Michael Jordan. There are many people that know of Jesus and Jesus doesn't know of them. That's what he's talking about here. And that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves know.
cast out, weeping and gnashing of teeth, because before people are separated from God, they're going to look on His glory and witness a glimpse of His glory, and then they're going to be separated from it for eternity. And people will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south and recline at the table in the kingdom of God.
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