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0:00Luke 11:1
0:02It happened that while Jesus was praying
0:05in a certain place, after he had
0:07finished, one of his disciples said to
0:09him, "Lord, [music] teach us to pray
0:12just as John taught his disciples."
0:16Something about [music] Jesus's prayer
0:18made them want to learn how to pray.
0:20And he said to them, "When you pray,
0:24say, "Father, hallowed be your name.
0:29Your kingdom come. Give us each day our
0:32daily bread. And forgive us our [music]
0:34sins.
0:36For we ourselves also forgive everyone
0:38who is indebted to us. And lead us not
0:41[music] into temptation.
0:45Now you'll notice that [music] that is
0:46not the exact rendering of the prayer
0:49that Matthew gives, but it's
0:51recognizable [music] as the same points.
0:55And what does that teach us?
0:57If Jesus was giving it to us just as
1:00something to recite,
1:03then we would see, well, which is true,
1:05Luke or Matthew?
1:07But that's not the totality of what he's
1:10teaching us with this prayer.
1:14He's telling us that these are the
1:16things that [music] we should pray
1:17about, that these are the things our
1:20prayer should focus on.
1:23And it's important [music] to say the
1:24Lord's Prayer. I say it all the time.
1:27But it's more important [music] to
1:30understand that we pray with a mindset
1:33and an attitude and [music] words that
1:35reflect one that he is our father, that
1:40he is in heaven, that he is above us.
1:43Two, that we stay focused not on our
1:46needs but on his kingdom coming. That we
1:49want that more than we want anything
1:51else in the world. [music] That's our
1:53mission. That's our purpose. That's our
1:55focus. Three, that we ask him to give us
2:01our energy, our grace,
2:04our bread, not for yesterday, but our
2:07daily bread. Give us this day our daily
2:10bread. [music] That we remember that we
2:12are dependent on him. That we do not
2:14live by bread alone, but every word that
2:16proceeds from his mouth. So that's
2:18basically saying, please speak [music]
2:20to me. Please give me the words today
2:24that I need to live because that's my
2:26daily bread.
2:29Next, that we seek forgiveness
2:32as we forgive. That there's no sense
2:35that we're going and asking God, please
2:37forgive me for what I did if we're not
2:39cancelling the debts of those who have
2:43transgressed against us.
2:46And last, that we beg the Lord to
2:49deliver us from temptation
2:53through his power. His is the power and
2:55the glory and the honor forever. For his
2:58name's sake, for the purpose that he's
3:00given us, don't let us come into the
3:02power of the the enemy. Don't let him
3:04entice and hook and lure the weakness of
3:08our flesh into his purpose. Help us to
3:11say stay focused in God's purpose. So
3:15they ask him to teach us to pray and he
3:18gives them this outline of the things
3:20that we should pray for. Then he said to
3:23them, so he's still talking about their
3:26request regarding prayer.
3:28Suppose one of you has a friend
3:32and goes to him at midnight and says to
3:35him, "Friend, lend me three loaves,
3:40for a friend of mine has come to me from
3:44a journey and I have nothing to set
3:46before him."
3:49And from inside he answers and says, "Do
3:52not bother me. The door has already been
3:55shut and my children and I are in bed. I
4:00cannot get up and give you anything.
4:03I tell you, even though he will not get
4:05up and give him anything because he is
4:08his friend, yet because of his
4:10persistence, he will get up and give him
4:13as much as he needs.
4:16So I say to you, ask and it will be
4:20given to you. Seek and you will find.
4:23Knock and it will be open to you. For
4:25everyone who asks receives and he who
4:27seeks finds and to him who knocks it
4:30will be opened.
4:32Okay, we're still talking about prayer.
4:36And he says, I want you to stop thinking
4:40that God's going to automatically
4:42answer you because you're friends.
4:46He's basically telling them, you need to
4:48pray with more persistence and stop
4:51presuming on the relationship.
4:54Now, God is not asleep. This isn't a
4:56perfect metaphor. And he's not saying
4:58that God is with his kids and he's
5:00already shut the door. He's telling us
5:02that sometimes when we have a desperate
5:05need, it feels like the door to heaven
5:07is closed. Don't just stand there and
5:10make your sweet little request and
5:13assume that your friendship is going to
5:15get the answer. You keep knocking. You
5:20keep seeking. You keep asking until you
5:24break through because the distance
5:27between you and the answer is covered
5:30through perseverance.
5:33Now, it's interesting, too, that the
5:35person who gets up in the middle of the
5:37night to go get bread does not get up to
5:40go get bread for themsel.
5:43Give us this day our daily bread, but
5:46the daily bread is to serve somebody
5:48else in need. Prayers that are
5:51self-focused, it's hard to persevere
5:53with those. But prayers that are
5:56lovefocused,
5:57we can keep knocking. And he gives us
6:00this principle. Ask, seek, knock
6:06and keep doing it until you get an
6:08answer. Don't presume on the
6:10relationship. Somebody who says, "I have
6:13a friend who has a need. Heavenly
6:15Father, you know that we're friends and
6:17my my friend has a need. Please help
6:19them." That's not the kind of prayer
6:21Jesus is talking about.
6:23He must have been praying with some
6:25persistence. And they asked him, "Would
6:27you teach us to do what you're doing?"
6:30And he's showing them, "This is how I
6:32pray. I pray through the distance. I
6:36pray through the barrier. I pray down
6:38the closed door. [snorts] I pray until
6:41the bread is in my hand. I pray until I
6:43can get back to my friend with something
6:46to actually give them."
6:49Amen.
6:51Ask, seek, knock.
6:54We ask when we don't know what we need,
6:57but we know we need something.
7:00We start seeking when God gives us a
7:03clue. This is what you're looking for.
7:05You're looking for bread that looks like
7:07this. Where is it, Lord? Is it in this
7:10relationship? Is it in this Bible
7:13passage?
7:14Is it in this prayer time? Is it in this
7:16song? Is it in this word of grace? Is it
7:19in this Sunday service? We seek. Where's
7:22the answer that I asked for?
7:25And we knock when we think we know
7:28exactly where it is.
7:31And we need to get our hands on it. And
7:33we keep seeking. We keep asking and we
7:36keep knocking until we get an answer. So
7:40you could render the grammar of this
7:42passage like this. For everyone who asks
7:45and keeps asking receives. Everyone who
7:48seeks and keeps seeking finds. Everyone
7:51who knocks and keeps knocking, it will
7:54be open to him.
7:56Now suppose one of you fathers is asked
7:59by his son for a fish.
8:02He's thinking now Jesus is thinking, I
8:05just gave a metaphor of how perseverant
8:07you need to be. But now you're thinking
8:08that God doesn't care. Now you're
8:11worried that God is asleep with his
8:13kids. But that wasn't about God. That
8:15was about you persevering. So he says,
8:18"Now suppose one of you fathers is asked
8:21by his son for a fish.
8:24He will not give him a snake instead of
8:26a fish, will he?"
8:28Or if he is asked for an egg, he will
8:31not give him a scorpion, will he?
8:34If you then being evil know how to give
8:40good gifts to your children,
8:43how much more will your heavenly father
8:47give the Holy Spirit to those who ask
8:50him? So in this he tells us God is not
8:55the problem.
8:58The distance is not on his side. We are
9:01the problem. And prayer is a persevering
9:06grace where we dig through the barriers
9:09we have built. We close the door. We
9:12created the distance and we can cross
9:15back through it. And he tells us second
9:18that what we're really seeking is the
9:20Holy Spirit. And he's saying, "Think
9:23about yourselves. You're rotten people
9:25and you know how to give good gifts. How
9:28much more will your father give the Holy
9:32Spirit to those who ask him? So that's
9:34not a might, that's not a maybe, that's
9:38not a what if, that's a will.
9:41If you pray in the right way, you will
9:44encounter the Holy Spirit. If you pray
9:47with perseverance, you will connect with
9:50God. Because on the other side of your
9:52prayer is not a sleeping dad with his
9:55sleepy kids. It's a father who wants to
9:58give you the Holy Spirit. And he was
10:00casting out a demon and it was mute.
10:03When the demon had gone out, the mute
10:05man spoke and the crowds were amazed.
10:08But some of them said, "He casts out
10:11demons by Beel Zebub, the ruler of
10:14demons."
10:18Others to test him were demanding of him
10:21a sign from heaven.
10:25How blind.
10:27But he knew their thoughts and said to
10:29them,
10:31"Any kingdom divided against itself is
10:34laid waste?
10:36And a house divided against itself
10:39falls.
10:41If Satan also is divided against
10:43himself, how will his kingdom stand? For
10:47you say that I cast out demons by
10:49Beelzebub.
10:51And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons,
10:54by whom do your sons cast them out,
10:57so they will be your judges.
11:00But if I cast out demons by the finger
11:02of God, then the kingdom of God has come
11:05upon you.
11:07When a strong man fully armed guards his
11:09own house, his possessions are
11:12undisturbed.
11:14But when someone stronger than he
11:15attacks him and overpowers him, he takes
11:18away from him all his armor on which he
11:21had relied and distributes his plunder.
11:26He who is not with me is against me and
11:28he who does not gather with me scatters.
11:33So in this
11:35they do not like that he has power that
11:38they do not have
11:41and they know that people are seeing the
11:44power of Satan fall like lightning from
11:47heaven and they can't deny it. They
11:50can't argue with the evidence and so
11:53they must slander it. And this is what
11:56all children of the devil do.
11:59They must say that the work of God is
12:02actually the work of the devil.
12:05And so Jesus asks them a question. He
12:07basically says,"Wh in the world would
12:11Satan cast himself out of a person?"
12:15Because that would be dividing his house
12:17and ensuring that his kingdom would
12:19fall.
12:20It's also telling us that the kingdom of
12:24the devil
12:26operates through his spirit controlling
12:30people.
12:31Which tells us that the kingdom of God
12:33is going to operate through his spirit
12:36coming inside of people.
12:39He also tells us that if he casts out
12:42the power of the devil and evil spirits
12:45with the finger of God, then that is the
12:47kingdom of God.
12:49It's not some millennial reign in the
12:51future. It's not some political
12:53takeover. It's not violence. It's not
12:56political power.
12:59It's the power of God getting rid of the
13:01power of the devil.
13:04But he also establishes a truth for us
13:07that if our homes are divided, they're
13:09going to be laid waste. If our churches
13:12are divided, they're going to come to
13:14nothing.
13:15Where there is division,
13:17there is going to be collapse.
13:20And he's basically saying it would never
13:22be in the devil's interest to cast
13:25himself out of anybody because that
13:27would divide his kingdom and bring it to
13:30an end. And he doesn't want that. He's
13:32not as foolish as you are. He's telling
13:35the Pharisees.
13:37But he says that when a strong man fully
13:41armed guards his house, his possessions
13:44are undisturbed. Now the strong man is
13:46the devil and the house is a human life.
13:50And the devil had these people whom he
13:53had possessed fully guarded.
13:56And then a stronger man came along and
13:59that was Jesus. And that stronger man
14:02Jesus by the power of God bound the
14:04devil. He kept him from speaking. He
14:07[clears throat] kept him from acting.
14:09And he plundered his house. He took away
14:12the person. Made him no longer the
14:15possession of the devil. And then he
14:17says, "He who is not with me is against
14:19me, and he who does not gather with me
14:21scatters." So he says to them, "You are
14:25divided against me."
14:28Do you get the implication? He's saying
14:31I, like the devil, I am looking for
14:34unity. I am not wanting division. I am
14:37going to be bringing uh singularity of
14:41purpose in my house. And if you're not
14:44gathering with me, then you are the
14:46division and you're on the side of the
14:48devil.
14:52When the unclean spirit goes out of a
14:55man, it passes through waterless places
14:58seeking rest and not finding any, it
15:01says, "I will return to my house from
15:04which I came." And when it comes, it
15:07finds it swept and put in order. Then it
15:10goes and takes along seven other spirits
15:12more evil than itself, and they go in
15:15and live there. And the last state of
15:16that man becomes worse than the first.
15:19So the man, the human being is the
15:22house. Jesus comes and casts out
15:27the power of the devil from that house
15:29and those evil spirits depart.
15:32But Jesus did not cast out the evil
15:35spirits as the end goal. He cast them
15:38out so that the spirit of God could fill
15:40that house.
15:43But if the people who have been
15:45delivered don't start gathering with
15:48Jesus [snorts]
15:49and being filled with his spirit, then
15:52the evil spirits are going to come and
15:54they're going to find it swept and put
15:56in order. Now, that sounds good and it
15:58is good. It's just not good enough.
16:02We need to be possessed by God. We need
16:04to be filled with God. We need to be
16:07focused on his purpose, galvanized by
16:10his mission, empowered by his grace,
16:15or the the things that we have been
16:17delivered of are going to take us
16:18captive once again, and the kingdom of
16:22God is going to be defeated in our
16:24hearts and lives, and the kingdom of the
16:26devil is going to come back up.
16:29While Jesus was saying these things, one
16:31of the women in the crowd raised her
16:34voice and said to him, "Blessed is the
16:36womb that bore you and the breast at
16:39which you nursed."
16:42But he said, "On the contrary,
16:45blessed are those who hear the word of
16:47God and observe it."
16:52So he is speaking to them about being
16:54delivered from the power of evil and
16:56being filled with the power of God.
16:59And some poor soul thinks this is the
17:02moment to give a flowery testimony.
17:05Blessed
17:08is the womb that bore you. Blessed is
17:10Mary who bore you and the breasts at
17:13which you nursed. Oh, your mom was so
17:17sweet.
17:18And he says, on the contrary,
17:23that's not what this is about at all.
17:26On the contrary, blessed are those who
17:29hear the word of God and do it. Stop
17:32being flowery. Stop talking about
17:34sentimentality. You just need to hear
17:37the word of God and do it.
17:39As the crowds were increasing, he began
17:41to say, "This generation is a wicked
17:45generation.
17:47It seeks for a sign,
17:50and yet no sign will be given to it but
17:53the sign of Jonah.
17:55For just as Jonah became assigned to the
17:58Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to
18:01this generation,
18:03how was Jonah assigned to the Ninevites?
18:09Jonah did not have the grace to speak to
18:13the lost souls of Nineveh until he had
18:16been in the belly of hell for three days
18:19and three nights.
18:23And the son of man was going to be in
18:25the grave for three days and three
18:28nights.
18:29And that was going to be his sign of the
18:32power of God because they were blind to
18:35all the works that he was performing
18:37right under their noses. Says he cast
18:40out a demon and they said, "Give us a
18:42sign from heaven."
18:44That's how blind pride can make you.
18:49The queen of the south will rise up with
18:51the men of this generation at the
18:53judgment and condemn them because she
18:56came from the ends of the earth to hear
18:58the wisdom of Solomon. And behold,
19:01something greater than Solomon is here.
19:05So the woman who talked about how
19:08blessed his mom was, she doesn't see
19:11what God is doing. And this generation
19:14can't see it. They're asking for a sign
19:17while they are inundated with signs. And
19:20he's saying the Queen of Sheba is going
19:22to rise up in the judgment because she
19:25was able to recognize something coming
19:27all the way from Ethiopia that you can't
19:31see in your own town.
19:35The men of Nineveh will stand up with
19:37this generation at the judgment and
19:39condemn it because they repented at the
19:42preaching of Jonah. And behold,
19:44something greater than Jonah is here.
19:48He's telling us that in the judgment,
19:51what is going to condemn us are people
19:53who had less grace and light than we
19:57were given, but who did more with it,
19:59who were able to obey the word of God
20:01with less.
20:03They're going to rob us of our excuses.
20:07No one after lighting a lamp puts it
20:10away in a cellar, nor under a basket,
20:14but on the lampstand
20:16so that those who enter may see the
20:19light.
20:22Then he's going to tell them why they
20:24can't be like the Queen of Sheba, why
20:27they aren't able to see what the
20:28Ninevites saw. The eye is the lamp of
20:33your body.
20:36When your eye is good or clear or
20:40healthy, your whole body is full of
20:43light.
20:45But when it is bad
20:49or evil or envious or full of jealousy,
20:56your whole body is full of darkness.
21:00We think of our eye as a window.
21:04But Jesus says it's your lamp. Your
21:08perspective [snorts] is the light
21:13that fills your whole body with darkness
21:17or light.
21:19And when he says your eye is good, it
21:22means generous,
21:24kind, healthy. And when he says evil, it
21:28means suspicious,
21:31jealous, envious.
21:34So what he's telling them is if you if
21:38your eye was clear, you would see what
21:41God is doing. But you have this
21:45perspective that is so full of suspicion
21:49and envy that your whole body is staying
21:52in the darkness even though something
21:55greater than Solomon and Jonah is
21:57walking your streets today.
22:02Then watch out that the light in you is
22:06not darkness.
22:09If therefore your whole body is full of
22:11light with no dark part in it, it will
22:15be wholly illuminated as when the lamp
22:18illumines you with its rays. So he's
22:21saying if your eye is good, your life
22:26will be a lamp to others.
22:29But if the way you see God and his
22:32people is suspicious and envious and
22:35dark and bitter, then you are not going
22:40to be a lamp to others. You can't
22:42radiate his light through you to others.
22:45You're going to be darkness. You're
22:46going to be under a basket, a basket of
22:50your unbelief, a basket of your
22:53suspicion, a basket of your self-pity
22:56and negative narratives.
23:02Now when he had spoken, a Pharisee asked
23:04him to have lunch with him, and he went
23:07and reclined at the table.
23:10When the Pharisees saw it, he was
23:12surprised that he had not first
23:14ceremonially washed before the meal.
23:19But the Lord said to him, "Now
23:22[clears throat]
23:23you Pharisees clean the outside of the
23:26cup and of the platter, but inside of
23:29you, you are full of robbery and
23:32wickedness,
23:34you foolish ones.
23:38Did not he who made the outside make the
23:41inside, too?" Why you f Why are you so
23:43focused on the outside?
23:45If it needs to be clean, why not the
23:47inside, too?
23:49But give that which is within as
23:53charity, and then all things are clean
23:55for you.
23:57But woe to you Pharisees, for you pay
24:00tithe of mint and rue and every kind of
24:04garden herb, and yet disregard justice
24:08and the love of God. But these are the
24:11things you should have done without
24:13neglecting the others.
24:16Woe to you Pharisees.
24:18You love the chief seats in the
24:20synagogues and the respectful greetings
24:22in the marketplaces.
24:24Woe to you. You are like concealed tombs
24:30and the people who walk over them are
24:32unaware of it.
24:34This is less than complimentary dinner
24:37talk at the Pharisees table. He's
24:40basically saying, "You have mastered how
24:43others perceive you, but you have
24:46neglected the condition of your heart."
24:49He never once is saying, "God doesn't
24:51care about the outside." He's saying,
24:54"Take care of the inside
24:57and the outside will be clean because
24:59God cares about both." But if you take
25:01care of the outside and neglect the
25:03inside, you're just a hypocrite.
25:07He never says God wants you clean on the
25:09inside so that you can be free and
25:11filthy on the outside. He says clean the
25:13inside and the outside will be clean
25:15also. He wants total cleanliness.
25:20One of the lawyers said to him in reply,
25:22so there must have been a lawyer at the
25:23table as well. Teacher, when you say
25:26this, you insult us too.
25:30So he turns and he answers. He feels
25:32insulted. Jesus has an answer. He said,
25:35"Woe to you lawyers as well,
25:39for you weigh men down with burdens hard
25:42to bear, while you yourselves will not
25:45even touch the burdens with one of your
25:47fingers.
25:49Woe to you." It's like saying, "Cursed
25:51are you. Woe to you, for you build the
25:55tombs of the prophets, and it was your
25:57fathers who killed them.
26:00So you are witnesses and approve the
26:02deeds of your fathers because it was
26:04they who killed them and you build their
26:07tombs. For this reason also the wisdom
26:10of God says, "I will send to them
26:12prophets and apostles and some of them
26:15you will kill and some of them you will
26:17persecute so that the blood of all the
26:20prophets shed since the foundation of
26:23the world may be charged against this
26:26generation. from the blood of Abel to
26:29the blood of Zechariah who was killed
26:31between the altar and the house of God.
26:34Yes, I tell you, it shall be charged
26:36against this generation.
26:39He's saying when you join the lineage of
26:44rebellion against God, when you join the
26:48lineage of hatred towards spiritual
26:51authority, when you join the lineage of
26:54blasphemers and slanderers and attackers
26:58of the prophets and wise men, you
27:01inherit
27:03all of their sin. you become part
27:06[music] of that family.
27:08And he tells us that this started with
27:10Cain and Abel. And he says that when
27:13Abel was killed by Cain, that was the
27:16foundation of the world. The whole world
27:19was founded on the rivalry of envy, on
27:23murder and envy
27:26when it Cain rose up and killed his
27:28brother. And that same envy and murder
27:32and rivalry is what is blinding the
27:35Pharisees and causing their hatred. And
27:37Jesus is pulling no punches. He's
27:40saying, "You're going to get all the
27:42guilt of everybody who has treated their
27:45brother the way you treat me."
27:48Going all the way back to Cain and Abel.
27:51Woe to you lawyers. I think the lawyer
27:53wished he'd kept quiet. Woe to you
27:56lawyers for you have taken away the key
27:58of knowledge. You yourselves do not
28:01enter and you hindered those who were
28:04entering.
28:06So he's saying you are full of the
28:09devil. You refuse to enter into what God
28:12[music] is doing. Jesus is speaking
28:15truth and you're going and grabbing the
28:17key and telling [music] others don't go
28:19there. That's dangerous. He's of the
28:22devil. You're scaring people from
28:24[music] entering and you won't enter
28:26yourself. You're throwing away the key
28:27of knowledge.
28:29Don't read about it. [music] Don't talk
28:31about it. Just ignore it. Just be afraid
28:34of it.
28:35You're of your father, the devil.
28:39When he left there, the scribes and
28:41Pharisees began to be very hostile and
28:44to question him closely [music]
28:46on many subjects,
28:49plotting against him to catch him in
28:51something, he [music] might say.
29:05[music]

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