Revealing God’s dream
All Saints + Souls | Luke 6:20-31
There is a lot here today, Friends! Blessings! Woes! Commands that seem near impossible sometimes. Lots of opposites, juxtapositions, flipped expectations, word play — Jesus is setting a big challenge for us this morning, and given the time, we best get into it. But first, of course, context.
We’ve jumped back to chapter six in the gospel of Luke, so it is still early on in Jesus’s ministry. He has just pushed the establishment about Sabbath law, breaking tradition by healing a man with a withered hand on the Sabbath, in front of a lot of people. It was a statement healing. And people flocked to him.
Then he calls his disciples together and names twelve of them to be apostles. This is the inner circle who are to not just follow as students, but apprentice to do his work and eventually take his place.
And now, tons of people are following Jesus and waiting for the next wisdom to drop and bringing their sick family members to be healed. People are reaching in, pushing, trying to get a piece of the Jesus experience. This is when he launches into his Sermon on the Plain Keep Reading
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