Luke 9: 28-36
If we are not very careful we can become awestruck with people or even the creation of GOD, INSTEAD of GOD the Creator, Himself.
Not a good move.
A very bad move indeed!
Love, Kathie 
Crazy Talk
Luke 9
Okay. So here’s the deal.
At the beginning of this chapter, YESHUA called His disciples together, having been well-trained I believe, He commissioned them and gave them authority, and sent them out.
He gave them authority to cast out demons and to heal sick people.
(JESUS here gave authority to His disciples to cast out demons.
JESUS did this!
For JESUS to do this He must know there are demons to be cast out. So I wonder why so many Christian Folk today act like demons have gone on a permanent vacation from inhabiting people. But that wasn’t my point so I’ll get back to it now :) )
And when all this GOOD NEWS began circulating, so did some TALK.
7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening; and he was greatly perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead, 8 and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the prophets of old had risen. source
So get this!
Herod and some others found it more palatable to believe that John the Baptizer or Elijah had been raised from the dead than to believe that YESHUA was The Messiah who had come to deliver them.
So, if in Chapter 9 they believed people could be raised from the dead, why then when YESHUA was raised from the dead on the Third Day after His execution, did they refuse to believe?
Do you know people like that today?
They would rather believe any sort of craziness rather than believe THE ONE TRUE GOD came here to this messed up world so He could deliver us and save us from sin, death, hell, and the grave.
Go figure.
Crazy Talk!
Let’s make this Friday a productive one.
Love, Kathie
Voices
Luke 8
Verse 56. Sometimes Silence is obedience.
I hope you will read the account in Luke 8 to see if you agree.
The parable of the Sower is recorded and explained in Luke 8.
Please check it and see where you are with it: birds, rocks, weeds, fertile ground?
And at the beginning of the chapter, I noticed not just poor people followed YESHUA.
Some wealthy women believed and contributed to the needs of spreading the Gospel.
And then there was the account in verses 22-25.
YESHUA and His disciples, at His prompting, board a boat to cross the lake to the other side.
YESHUA goes to sleep. He takes a nap. I am thinking His physical body with its limitations was tired or perhaps there was another reason for His nap. Maybe He will tell me one day.
So He is asleep and a storm comes down upon the lake. The Boys are terrified.
They say:
24 They went and woke him, saying, “Rabbi! Rabbi! We’re about to die!” He woke up, rebuked the wind and the rough water; and they calmed down, so that it was still. source
I think we can coin the phrase The Boys were scared to death. What did JESUS say?
25 Then he said to the talmidim, “Where is your trust?” Awestruck, they marveled, asking one another, “Who can this be, that he commands even the wind and the water, and they obey him?” source
How about a little KWT paraphrasing?
He said:
“Where is your trust?”
Could we understand Him to say: ‘Do you only trust Me when you see Me actively doing or do you simply Trust Me?’
Do we only trust The LORD when we SEE Him working? When we SEE Him doing what we want Him to do?
But when He seems to be asleep, inactive, not responsive, and not awake to our needs and wants, are we really trusting Him?
Where is your trust?
It’s a valid question — we all must answer.
One more and I’ll leave the rest for you to explore.
Verses 26-31.
YESHUA had/has the AUTHORITY to send demons to the bottomless pit.
Bottomless – I think it has to be for the number of occupants that will be there one day.
And please notice in those verses the demons KNOW they deserve torture.
They deserve the bottomless pit, the Abyss, the Lake of Fire (whatever term is used in the Text) and they know they belong there. People need to know and accept the same – apart from repentance torment is earned.
The demons cannot repent.
PEOPLE CAN.
That’s really GOOD NEWS.
We need to spread it around.
Well, I shall now get on with this Thursday. 
