Am I Doing Enough for God? Hearing God’s Voice in Luke 5:33-39
Most of us are carrying a mental list of what a serious Christian does. Read at 5am. Journal every insight. Pray an hour without your mind wandering. And when we don’t measure up to it, we assume we’re not as close to God as other people are.
I had planned to move into Luke 6 today, but the Lord kept bringing me back to the end of chapter 5. In our daily Bible study we’re still at Levi’s banquet, where someone brings Jesus that exact complaint about his followers. His answer surprised me. He doesn’t defend their devotion and he doesn’t apologize for them. He talks about a wedding, a torn garment, and wine bursting out of an old skin.
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Questions we answer today
How often did the law actually require fasting, and how often were the Pharisees doing it? Was Jesus against fasting? What did a Jewish wedding have to do with any of this? Why can’t you patch a new garment onto an old one? What does it mean that we want Jesus sewn onto the life we already have?
Timestamps
00:00 Why I went back instead of moving into Luke 6
00:33 The mental list of what a serious Christian does
02:56 The complaint brought to Jesus
03:26 Reading Luke 5:33-39
04:41 Prayer
06:09 This isn’t a question about Scripture, it’s about behavior
06:32 One fast a year in the law
07:03 Twice a week by the time of Jesus
08:33 Jesus was not against fasting
09:47 The sons of the bridal chamber
10:46 What a Jewish wedding actually looked like
13:06 Not what do serious people do, but what is God doing
13:36 The bridegroom imagery across Scripture
15:07 A wedding in a garden, a wedding at the end of history
15:55 The first time Jesus signals His death
16:23 Taken away, and the language of Isaiah 53
18:47 Celebrating and aching at the same time
19:11 The garment, and what cloth was worth
21:07 What the old garment represented
22:27 We want a Jesus patch
22:55 The Girl Scout sash
23:46 Bless my business, bless my relationship
24:53 The wineskins, and why new wine bursts them
27:02 Surrender instead of blessing what you built
28:00 Prayer
28:57 Why house churches matter, and Rome
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