Luke 17: HG Bishop Youssef

His Grace Bishop Youssef ~ عظات نيافة الانبا يوسف · LUKE 17: 1 - 19 ~ Bible Study (English & Arabic - عربي) 
 

 

 Introduction 

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 The events from Luke 14-17 are connected with each other 

 In Luke 14, we read about the Lord having dinner at the home of a wealthy Pharisee and healed a man on the Sabbath. He told the Pharisee and the people attending about humility and the mercies of God 

 Then He left the dinner and continued to teach the crowds who followed him - huge multitude. He told them about the Principles 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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 1-2: Jesus Warns of Offenses 

 3-4: Forgiveness 

 5-10: Faith and Duty 

 11-19: Ten Lepers Cleansed 

 20-37: The Coming of the Kingdom 

 
 Jesus Warns of Offenses 

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 1   Then He said to the disciples,  “It is impossible that no   offenses should come, but   woe  to him  through whom they do come!   2  It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown 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 "they have the Law and the Prophets. This is enough for them. If they don't follow the Law and Prophets, then even if one rose from the dead, they will not believe." 

 How we live, and how we reflect the image of Christ to others 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 are expecting a world 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.” 

 
   

 
 Faith and Duty 

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

 6  So the Lord said,  “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.   7  And which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?   8  But will he not rather say to 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 did the things that were commanded   him? I think not.   10  So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, ‘We are   unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.’ ” 

 
   

 
 Ten Lepers Cleansed 

 11  Now it happened as He went to Jerusalem that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.  12  Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off.  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,  “Go, show yourselves to the priests.”  And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed. 

 15  And one of 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. 

 17  So Jesus answered and said,  “Were there not ten cleansed? But where  are  the nine?   18  Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?”   19  And He said to him,  “Arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well.” 

 
   

 
   

   

 

 
 His Grace Bishop Youssef ~ عظات نيافة الانبا يوسف · LUKE 17: 20 - 37 ~ Bible Study 
 

 The Coming of the Kingdom 

 20  Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said,  “The kingdom of God does not come with observation;   21  nor will they say,   ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed,   the kingdom of God is   within you.” 

 22  Then He said to the disciples,  “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see  it.   23  And they will say to you,   ‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!’ Do not go after  them  or follow  them.   24  For as the lightning that flashes out of one  part  under heaven shines to the other  part  under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day.   25  But first He must suffer many things and be   rejected by this generation.   26  And as it   was in the   days of   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 the flood came and   destroyed them all.   28  Likewise 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 will it be in the day when the Son of Man   is revealed. 

 31  “In that day, he   who is on the housetop, and his   goods  are  in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back.   32  Remember Lot’s wife.   33  Whoever 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, “Where, Lord?” 

 So He said to them,  “Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.”