When Should You Say No to Good Things? Hearing God's Voice in Luke 5:12-26
The crowds were growing and people were still sick, and Jesus kept slipping away to pray anyway.
Today in our daily Bible study we're in the middle of Luke 5, looking at two men who were locked out and the way Jesus dealt with the barrier before He dealt with the symptom. Then we come to one quiet sentence that I can't get past: as the need increased, Jesus withdrew more, not less. If you are serving yourself into the ground because the need is right in front of you, this one is for you.
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Questions we answer today
What did leprosy actually mean in that culture, and why did a priest decide it? Why did the man ask to be made clean instead of healed? Why did Jesus touch him before He said a word? Why did Jesus keep withdrawing to pray while people still needed Him? What do the friends who tore open a roof teach us about intercession?
Timestamps
00:00 Where we are in Luke 5
01:47 Reading Luke 5:12-26
03:38 Prayer
04:03 Two men, two barriers
05:30 What leprosy meant, and what it didn't
06:52 A ritual category, decided by a priest
07:42 Dressed for his own funeral
10:13 Why people believed it was judgment
11:36 Only two cures in the entire Old Testament
12:20 Full of leprosy, written by a physician
12:58 He broke the law to get to Jesus
13:20 Not a question of power, a question of will
13:45 He asked to be made clean, not healed
14:32 Jesus touched him first
15:14 The direction of the contamination reverses
16:52 Received first, changed second
17:29 The crowds grow
17:56 But He kept slipping away to pray
19:16 When the need scaled, so did the withdrawal
19:36 What I had to let go of
21:35 Everything public came out of what happened in private
22:24 When a ministry stops being God's ministry
23:50 The friends who tore open a roof
25:14 Gideon, Peter, and a boat in Kenya
27:55 Who was in the room, and why it matters tomorrow
29:00 Prayer
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