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2024, 24 Days In December, Gospel of Luke, Isaiah

Day 4 – Combat

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Day 4

Luke 4

Temple-Mount1Verses 1 -13.  If you will, the link just above will open for easy reading. In these verses, you will learn of JESUS and the Evil One.

The chapter opens with JESUS having left Jordan where He had submitted to baptism and was then led by HOLY SPIRIT to the wilderness, some translations say a deserted place. Why? For “hand-to-hand” combat with the Evil One. Three of their conversations are recorded for us — I think they represent the whole of the weaknesses and temptations of fallen mankind.

It’s almost humorous to me that Satan would say, “IF You are the Son of GOD; considering the fool was at one time an anointed Cherub!
IF You are! Having spent time with JESUS in Heaven since his creation, he would dare use the word: IF!

JESUS responded with Scripture. It’s the only way to beat the old pro!

Verse 6 is Satan flaunting his victory in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve . . . so evil!
He also shows his colors in verse 7 — he wants worship!

Please remember in verse 4 JESUS quotes Scripture — by the way, HE knew The Scriptures to quote them because HE had been reading and studying Them since HE learned to read, as a Toddler, I suspect.
Think about it! GOD Incarnate studying The Scriptures HE breathed for man to pen.
As the GODMAN, HE had to study. It wasn’t just given to Him in the womb.  Father commissioned Him to live the life we don’t, which included KNOWing the Scriptures.

Verses 9-11. Guess who else has studied Scripture?
If we miss the importance of this, we will be putty in the hands of the evil one.  (I am reminded just now that Scripture says we are to be clay in The Potter’s Hand.) Isaiah 64:8
Satan is forever the Counterfeit!

I hope you will read Luke 4 and listen for HOLY SPIRIT to teach you.

Day 4.  Dig in there is WAY MORE in Luke 4 than we have written here today.

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Until next time, holy hugs, Kathie

2024, 24 Days In December, Gospel of Luke, Questions

Day 3 – Baptism

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Luke 3(BSB)

Verse 3. He went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

What does it mean to be baptized? Free Dictionary dot com says this: bap·tism   (băp′tĭz′əm) n. 1. A religious rite considered a sacrament by most Christian groups, marked by the symbolic application of water to the head or immersion of the body into water and resulting in admission of the recipient into the community of Christians. 2. A ceremony in certain religious or nonreligious traditions in which one is initiated, purified, or given a name. 3. An initiatory experience, act, or effort:

I think the words Father gave Luke to write mean more than Free Dictionary gives us.

preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,

We understand baptism to be immersion, right?
And we know repentance means to change our minds.
Could we say John was preaching that our being forgiven is predicated on us being immersed; all in, sold out to the act of changing our minds about our sins? Going further, could not we say changing our minds about our sins, also means agreeing with what GOD has said about sin?
I think so. Do you?

Day 3

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Until next time, holy hugs, Kathie

2024, 24 Days In December, Gospel of Luke

Day 2 — Hers, His

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Luke 2

What a special man was Joseph! 

Verse 6 While they were there, the time came for her Child to be born.  (emphasis mine)
Joseph always knew YESHUA was not HIS son, not by his seed.  But he loved JESUS. Perhaps when we get to Heaven, we can hear more from Joseph about his love for Mary’s Son.  

Verse 7. Mary had other children.  And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.  Please note the TEXT reads she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son.
Does not firstborn mean there were other children born to Mary by Joseph? One could argue, I suppose. But there is more evidence. I offer you this LINK giving other Scriptures addressing the half-siblings.
Mary was exceedingly favored, Mary was a special woman, but she was a woman – the same natural makeup as other women, like you and me.

Verse 8. And there were shepherds residing in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks by night.  
Allow me please to bring to your attention a most interesting reason why YESHUA was not born on December 25.
I have come to believe it was September or October.  Now His conception in Mary’s womb may have been the previous December — perhaps around Hanukkah time.  Wouldn’t that have been lovely for the LIGHT OF THE WORLD to come to earth during the Festival of Lights? Just a thought. I shall not run any further with it here.

Oh back to the interesting reason. Here’s a LINK.
And here’s an excerpt: Our expectation is that the people in Bethlehem would have had a similar concern, particularly since Bethlehem was famous for its grain fields.
One would not expect to see livestock in these grain fields before the harvest. However, after the harvest was complete, the shepherds were welcome to bring their hungry animals into the fields so that they could nose through the stubble for leftover kernels the harvesters had missed. In return, the sheep left behind valuable manure that improved the quality of the soil, increasing the yield of those fields in the following season. That is why the shepherds would have been “living out in the fields” near Bethlehem.

Day 2

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Until next time, holy hugs, Kathie