Luke 17: HG Bishop Youssef

Introduction

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• The events from Luke 14-17 are connected with each other
• In Luke 15,14, we read about the Lord showedhaving clearlydinner at the lovehome of Goda throughwealthy threePharisee parablesand -healed a man on the LostSabbath. Sheep,He told the Lost Coin, the Lost Son
• This awesome love has to be met (from our side) with love and wisdom
  • God created us in His own image
  • He gave us a perfect free will
  • We should, by our own free will, accept this fellowship with God and use our wisdom and intellect to understand that one day we will give an account of our stewardship
• In this chapter, the Lord offers a parable and a real story that urge us to accept His fellowship by our free will
  • The parable is the Unjust Steward
  • The story is LazarusPharisee and the richpeople man
  attending
  about humility and the mercies of God
• TeachingsThen about:He
  left
  • Usethe dinner and abusecontinued ofto money and wealth
  • Accountability and judgment inteach the lastcrowds day
  who
  followed
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• The- Parablehuge andmultitude. storyHe aretold separated by four verses in which the Lord condemns the Pharisees for their love of money and gives a quick teachingthem about the LawPrinciples of Discipleship, How to use Material Wealth without being a lover of money, rejection of the secular world, obedience to the law, and that these are necessary for discipleship. The teaching went from Luke 14-16.
• Now He turns to the disciples and addresses them "Then He said to the disciples"

Outline

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• 1-132: Jesus Warns of Offenses
• 3-4: Forgiveness
• 5-10: Faith and Duty
• 11-19: Ten Lepers Cleansed
• 20-37: The ParableComing of the Unjust Steward
• 14-18 The Teaching of the Lord about the Law, the Prophets and the Kingdom
• 19-31

The

Jesus StoryWarns of the Rich Man and Lazarus

The Parable of the Unjust StewardOffenses

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¹  Then He also said to Histhe disciples:disciples, “ThereIt wasis aimpossible certainthat richno offenses manshould whocome, had a steward, and an accusation was brought but woe to him through thatwhom thisthey mando was wasting his goods.come! ² SoIt would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he calledwere himthrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

• Chapter 16 ended with Lazarus and the Rich Man. The Lord taught the disciples that eternity is real. There is real life after death! No one will come from the Paradise to warn us... so we need to be careful. When the rich man asked Abraham to send Lazarus to warn the people, Abraham refused and said to"they him,have ‘Whatthe Law and the Prophets. This is thisenough Ifor hearthem. aboutIf you?they Givedon't anfollow the Law and Prophets, then even if one rose from the dead, they will not believe." 
• accountHow we live, and how we reflect the image of yourChrist stewardship,to forothers will count and determine our eternal salvation
• Since the fall of Adam and Eve, this world became corrupted. Because of the corruption of the world, it is impossible that no offenses should come. If you canare noexpecting longera beworld steward.’without offenses, that is not realistic.
• This shows the corre

Forgiveness

³ Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. ⁴ And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

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Faith and Duty

⁵ And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

^3 6 “ThenSo the stewardLord saidsaid, “If withinyou himself,have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘WhatBe shallpulled Iup do? For my master is takingby the stewardshiproots awayand frombe me.planted I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg. ⁴ I have resolved what to do, that when I am put out ofin the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.sea,’

⁵ “So he called every one of his master’s debtors to him, and said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ⁶ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ So he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sitit downwould quicklyobey and write fifty.’you. ⁷ ThenAnd which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he saidhas come in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ So he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’eat’? ⁸ SoBut thewill masterhe commendednot therather unjustsay stewardto him, ‘Prepare something for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink’? ⁹ Does he thank that servant because he had dealt shrewdly. Fordid the sonsthings ofthat thiswere world are more shrewd in their generation thancommanded the sons of light.

⁹ “Andhim? I saythink to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they may receive you into an everlasting home.not. ¹⁰ HeSo who is faithfullikewise in whatyou, is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. ¹¹ Therefore ifwhen you have notdone beenall faithfulthose inthings thewhich unrighteousyou mammon,are whocommanded, willsay, commit‘We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to yourdo.’ trust the true riches? ¹² And if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own?”

¹³ “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”

• The unjust steward represents the Scribes and Pharisees
  • Why did the Lord address the disciples instead of the Scribes and Pharisees?
  • Because the disciples are stewards and they should know at the beginning of their ministry that they will give an account of their stewardship
  • We will all give an account of everything in our life to God:
    • Our service
    • Our time
    • Our talents
    • Our body
    • Our children
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TheTen Law,Lepers the Prophets, and the KingdomCleansed

 

^14 11 Now it happened as He went to Jerusalem that He passed through the Pharisees,midst of Samaria and Galilee. ¹² Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were loverslepers, who ofstood money,afar also heard all these things, and they derided Him.off. ^15 13 And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

¹⁴ So when He saw them, He said to them, “YouGo, are those who justifyshow yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination into the sightpriests.” And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed.

¹⁵ And one of God.them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, ¹⁶ and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan.

^16 17 “TheSo lawJesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it.nine? ^17 18 AndWere itthere isnot easierany forfound heavenwho and earthreturned to passgive away than for one tittle of the lawglory to fail.God except this foreigner?” 

^18 19 And He said to him, “WhoeverArise, divorcesgo hisyour wifeway. andYour marriesfaith anotherhas commitsmade adultery;you and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.well.”

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The RichComing Manof andthe LazarusKingdom

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^19 20 “ThereNow when He was aasked certainby richthe manPharisees whowhen wasthe clothedkingdom inof purpleGod would come, He answered them and fine linen andsaid, fared“The sumptuously every day. ²⁰ But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, fullkingdom of sores,God whodoes wasnot laidcome atwith his gate,observation; ²¹ desiringnor towill bethey fedsay, ‘See withhere!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the crumbskingdom whichof fellGod from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.is within you.”

²² SoThen itHe wassaid thatto the beggardisciples, “The died,days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and wasyou carriedwill bynot the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.see it. ²³ And beingthey inwill tormentssay into Hades,you, ‘Look hehere!’ liftedor up‘Look histhere!’ eyesDo andnot sawgo Abrahamafter them or afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.follow them. 

²⁴ “ThenFor heas criedthe and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazaruslightning that heflashes mayout dipof one part under heaven shines to the tipother part under heaven, so also the Son of hisMan fingerwill be in waterHis and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’day. ²⁵ But Abrahamfirst said,He ‘Son,must suffer many things and be rememberrejected thatby inthis your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.generation. ²⁶ And besidesas allit was this,in betweenthe days usof Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: ²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and youthe thereflood iscame aand destroyed greatthem gulfall. ²⁸ Likewise fixed,as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; ²⁹ but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰ Even so thatwill thoseit whobe wantin tothe passday fromwhen herethe toSon youof cannot,Man is nor can those from there pass to us.’revealed.

^27 31 “Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father,In that youday, wouldhe who sendis on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to mytake father’sthem house,away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. ^28 32 forRemember ILot’s have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’wife. ^29 33 AbrahamWhoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. ³⁴ I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. ³⁵ Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. ³⁶ Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.”

³⁷ And they answered and said to him,Him, “Where, Lord?” 

‘TheySo have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ ³⁰ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ ³¹ But heHe said to him,them, ‘If they do not hear Moses and“Wherever the prophets, neitherbody is, there the eagles will they be persuadedgathered though one rise from the dead.’ together.”

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