Luke 7:3 ” So when he heard about Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to Him, pleading with Him to come and heal his servant.”    Not only did this man believe that Christ could heal his servant, but he understood the scope of the mission of Christ. Like Naaman going to see Elisha, his…

Luke 7:2 “And a certain centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and ready to die.”    Jesus ministers to every type of need that can be imagined. In this case, the centurion’s servant had likely been with him since he was young. They may have even been childhood friends, as strange as…

Luke 7:1 “Now when He concluded all His sayings in the hearing of the people, He entered Capernaum.”    Everything Jesus did had a purpose. He had a mission and He chose His actions to fit with it. And the primary thing He did was teach. We tend to lose sight of that. We talk…

Luke 6:49 “But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great.”    To hear and do nothing is a great danger. We see here that…

Luke 6:48 “He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock.”   One of the often overlooked blessings of following Christ is…

Luke 6:47 “Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like:”    Christianity is about a Person. It is not just some list of rules or rituals. It is not a culture or simply a way of thinking and doing things. It is a relationship…

Luke 6:46 “But why do you call Me`Lord, Lord,’ and do not do the things which I say?”    Why does Jesus repeat the ‘Lord’ here? He is reminding His hearers of the tendency to say a lot of God-honoring things without following it up with God-honoring deeds. Words and deeds are meant to go…

Luke 6:45 “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.”    Again we see Jesus talking about good people and bad people. But…

Luke 6:44 “For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.”    The emphasis here is on the fact that this rule applies to every tree. Every tree is known by its own fruit. It is impossible for…

Luke 6:43 “For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.”    Jesus uses the illustration of trees to bring up the subject of nature. The nature of something is an intrinsic set of characteristics that are true about that thing in its very existence. The difference…