In this episode, Bryce breaks down Luke Chapter 17.
Chapter 1: What is the focus of Luke Chapter 17?
What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Carver podcast. I'm Bryce and today we are on Luke chapter 17 of the 24 day Luke series. Guys, we're getting so close to the end. I pray that this series has blessed you guys. It's been a blessing to me. I'm super excited about this chapter 17. It is so powerful. I'm really excited to dive into this with you guys.
Before we get into it, guys, January 19th, 6 p.m. in Los Angeles. We've got our first ever live podcast show. It's going to be insane. It's going to be powerful. I would love for you guys to come out, be a part of what we got going on. It's going to be exciting. Moses is going to be there. Moses, come here. Come here. My dog won't jump up.
The one time I called Moses to get up here, he doesn't come up here. But come on. Look at him. Come on. But then every time we're naturally filming, he'll jump in my lap without me wanting him here. Hey, there we go. There we go. Yeah, he'll be there. He'll be chilling because I feel like every podcast, he's always with me. So for the live podcast show, he's going to be in my lap.
It's going to be awesome. But anyways, let's dive into chapter 17. This is so powerful and I'm super excited to read this. Let's start in verse one. It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin. Jesus is saying something very important here.
Chapter 2: What does Jesus say about leading others into sin?
He's like, temptations to sin will always be there. Notice how he doesn't say you're always going to sin 24-7, meaning that when temptation is thrown in front of your face, there's nothing you can do about it. He doesn't say that. But he says temptations will always come your way. But then he rebukes the one who sets the hook.
He's like, look, if you throw the hook in front of someone's face, fat rebuke, don't do that. Like, scold you. And then he says, it would be better for the person who leads someone into sin to literally tie a millstone, a heavy weight around their neck and then jump into deep waters and drown. It would be better for that person. Meaning like, meaning like judgment will come your way.
Like it would be better for you to suffer an awful death, a very gruesome, awful death, than to lead one of the children of God into sin. That is a big weight in gravity Jesus gives here about sin. There's a heavy weight to sin. Then he says, pay attention to yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him. Meaning if you know someone that sins, correct him, correct him.
And if he repents, forgive him. But if he turns from it, forgive him. That's so beautiful, meaning we don't hold grudges against people. There's grace. And repentance is actively changing a lifestyle. Like when we hear repentance, we often just hear, I'm sorry, Lord. But it's more than just an apology. Like there's action, turning from one lifestyle and going towards another.
Chapter 3: How should we handle forgiveness according to Jesus?
And Jesus is saying, look, if someone sins, correct them. But if they repent for it, forgive them. Don't hold it against them. And if he sins against you seven times in the day and turns to you seven times saying, I repent, you must forgive him. Meaning don't withhold forgiveness from people. And I mean, it's just a practical thing. It's like a health fact.
Like even if you withhold forgiveness for people and you hold bitterness in your heart, like it will kill you. Like it could stop your heart and you could have a stroke. So like the physical aspect of it is like, don't hold bitterness in your heart.
Chapter 4: What does Jesus teach about the power of faith?
But the spiritual aspect is like, man, offer forgiveness because the measure of mercy that we show to people, God will show that same measure of mercy to us. Let's go to verse five. The apostles then said to the Lord, increase our faith. The apostles recognized that they needed an increase in their faith. But he says something very important here.
If you had faith like the grain of a mustard seed, the tiniest ounce of faith, you could say to this mulberry tree, be uprooted and planted in the sea and it would obey you. Mulberry trees were recognized to be one of the strongest trees that they had some of the strongest, deepest roots that they could have been planted for 600 years. They could last. That was the rumor.
And Jesus is saying here that if you have the tiniest ounce of faith, that the deepest sin struggle that seems to have the fattest root in your life could be immediately uprooted if you had just the tiniest ounce of faith. That if you had the tiniest ounce of faith, that the deepest trial and tribulation that you're going through that seems unmovable could be uprooted.
And just like a mulberry tree that could be planted and lasted for 600 years, a generational curse that seems to have never left your generation. If you had a faith of a mustard seed, you could break that generational curse in your family.
It's so powerful for what faith can do, and faith is persistently pursuing God despite our circumstances, saying, God, you know, my circumstances in this finite world says it's not possible, but you're a spiritual being that has no limit and ultimate authority. God, you can do it. You can do it. That's faith. That is faith. Verse seven, Jesus is about to talk about serving him here.
And it's powerful because oftentimes people like to do things with a motive of getting things in return. But we're about to listen to this statement here from Jesus saying like, man, we're in an unmeasurable amount of debt to God in the sense that he's done something so grand for us that we will never ever be able to repay him with our actions.
So our actions of servanthood isn't trying to get even with God because he died on a cross and resurrected. But our actions of servanthood towards him are, we do it because we want to, because we love him. We're not trying to get even with God. We just do things because we love him. Here we go.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of servanthood in our relationship with God?
Will any one of you as a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, these hard tasks, manual labor, come at once and recline at the table? Will you not rather say to him, prepare supper for me and dress properly and serve me while I eat and drink and afterwards you will eat and drink? Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded? So you also.
When you have done all that you were commanded, say, we are unworthy servants. We have only done what was our duty. Man, we will never be able to get even with what God has done for us. But the humility, there's humility in understanding, okay, Jesus Christ has done something that I couldn't even do for myself. So in return, I give him my life. In return, I serve him because I love him.
His unmeasurable amount of love for me has caused me to love him back with my life. caused me to love him back with my life. Verse 11. On the way to Jerusalem, he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered a village, he was met by 10 lepers who stood at a distance.
Notice that lepers were outcasts of the city, so they were out of the city, but they would often congregate together because no one else would hang out with them, but they could hang out with each other because they were deemed unclean. And lifted up their voices saying, Jesus, master, have mercy on us. When he saw them, he said to them, go and show yourselves to the priests.
Now, with faith comes obedience. Jesus is testing their obedience here. And he says, go see the priest. And as they went, they were cleansed. So Jesus healed them. But he said, look, go show yourself to the priest. If you go show yourself to the priest, you'll be healed. And they did. And as they went, they were cleansed. Then one of them,
When he saw that he was healed, he turned back, praising God with a loud voice, and he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus answered, Were not ten of you cleansed? Where are the nine? Was no one found in return to give praise to God except for this foreigner, this only one returned to give me praise? And he said to him, Rise and go your way.
Your faith is what made you well. Jesus is recognizing a lack of gratitude that people often have towards him. How often do we say, God, just do this thing for me. And then once you do it, then I'll love you. Then I'll serve you. And then he does it. And then we still don't love him or serve him. We have a lack of gratitude in our lives.
Yet if we understood that gratitude is the number one weapon against temptation, because if we were constantly grateful, we wouldn't be turning to other things than Jesus. And Jesus is saying, stop, like understand that every good gift that comes from heaven comes from me, like be grateful. Understand that I am the reason for good gifts. Be grateful.
Verse 20, now we're about to read about the coming of the kingdom of God, and we're going to close here in chapter 17, starting in verse 20. Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, the kingdom of God is not coming in the ways that can be observed, nor will they say, look, here it is, or there, for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.
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