Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Consider carefully how you listen

Luke 8:1-25
Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God.
The meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
Though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.
For their is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing hidden that will not be known or brought out into the open. Therefor consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him.
In fear and amazement they asked one another. "Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him."
Only Luke tells us the part the women played in Jesus' mission. Susanna is not mentioned again. Mary Magdalene stood watching at the crucifixion, and she and Joanna were at the tomb and saw the Lord on the resurrection morning. Their love, and that of many other women who followed him from Galilee, never wavered.
Why?
Jesus proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God, this is the most important missing to Jesus.
The seed fell on good soil means a good listener may take it into practice.
Carefully how you listen. I should be carefully listen.
Who is this? Jesus is the son of God. He can command everything in the world.
Jesus is the light, and it won't be hidden. It will not be disclosed.
How?
Carefully listen to the word in Bible and in church sermon.

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