The Bryce Crawford Podcast - Luke Series Chapter 6 (EP 60)

Episode Date: December 6, 2024

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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce and in today's episode, we're on Luke 6. It's December 6. Every day we're reading a chapter of Luke. So by the time you get to Christmas Eve, you would have read the whole gospel of Luke. I'm super excited for this series. There's a lot of good stuff in today's chapter.

But before we get into it, guys, I want to tell you guys on January 19th at 6 p.m., I'm doing my first ever live podcast show in Los Angeles. It's going to be powerful. I've been praying and asking God, what do you want me to talk about? about for this live show. I want every live show to be different. I would love you guys to come out for the first one ever. January 19th at 6 p.m. go to Jesus in the street.org slash tickets to get your tickets. Right now the website says 21 and up. I don't know why it says that. All ages are welcome. So go get your tickets at Jesus in the street.org slash tickets. And I'll see you guys on January 19th. But let's get into

this. Let's start off in verse one. We're going to watch the Pharisees head hunt Jesus right now. Once again, it's on the Sabbath. He says, on a Sabbath, while he was going through the grain fields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. But some of the Pharisees said, why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath? So they would consider anything work. Like if you picked your own food just to eat, that was work. And so you couldn't work on the Sabbath.

It was the day of rest according to the mosaic and Old Testament law. So these Pharisees are like, what are you doing? You're sinning. And Jesus answered them. have you not read what David did when he was hungry? He and those who were with him, how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the presence, which is not lawful for anyone but the priests to eat and also gave it to those with him. So right now Jesus is like, you guys don't really know your scripture like you say you do.

These Pharisees were like all about the outward appearance. We're so holy. We know scriptures better. You do look. We fast and you guys don't. And they're like, well, what do you think you're doing? And Jesus goes, well, actually, do you guys not remember when? David did something that he wasn't supposed to do. He ate bread that not normal human beings

were supposed to touch only the priests are. And then Jesus says something else. He says, the son of man is Lord on the Sabbath. We see that title again that is given to the Messiah in Daniel 7. He's like, I'm the Messiah that's spoken of in Daniel 7. He says the son of man is Lord on the Sabbath. Jesus saying this is saying, look, I'm the one that people do Sabbath for. And I'm not offended by my disciples' actions, them feeding themselves right now. I'm I'm not offended by them. So he's saying, look, I'm the Lord of this day that you guys rest for. And what they're doing does not offend me.

And I think that's such a powerful scripture. And now we're about to see Jesus do something again on another Sabbath that goes on another Sabbath. He entered the synagogue and was teaching. And a man there whose right hand was withered. And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath so that they might find a reason to accuse him. But he knew their thoughts. And he said to the man with the withered hand,

come and stand here. And he rose and stood there. And Jesus said to them, I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it? So what Jesus is saying is he's saying there's never a wrong day to do something good. There's never a wrong day to show compassion and love on someone. And what does he do?

After looking around at them, he said to him, stretch out your hand and he did so and his hand was fully restored jesus not only commands the man to do something he can't do but through the spirit of the living god he actually gives him the power and the strength to do what he hasn't been able to do to stretch out his hand and as he walks out in faith he's healed it's so powerful and he did so and his hand was restored but they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to jesus in these days he went out to the mountain to pray and all night he continued in prayer to God. I want to stop right there.

I love the lifestyle of Jesus, how he's constantly meeting with God the Father in prayer. And this has challenged me deeply because it's like, man, why is it that I can't pray for, you know, longer than in a certain amount of time? Like Jesus is praying all night and twilling God the Father, make it clear to me, make it clear to me, make it clear to me. I mean, I'm thinking like, man, why can't I do that?

Why is it? And I believe today's number one distraction from prayer is entertainment. America is being rocked to sleep by a lullaby of entertainment. We're sucked to our phones. We are slaves to our phones. And I believe the character of Jesus Christ is calling us to a lifestyle of prayer. James says that the fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. So maybe we'll see breakthrough in our lives, our family's lives,

in our circumstances, for our own countries, for our own neighborhoods, when we actually stop being a slave to digital media and entertainment, and we become slaves to God and a slave to a lifestyle of prayer. And when the day came, he called his disciples and chose from the 12, whom he named Apostle, Simon, who he named Peter, Andrew, his brother, James and John, and Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James, the son of Alpheus, and Simon, who was called DeZellate and. and Judas the son of James and Judas Ascariot who became a traitor.

And he came down with them and stood on a level place with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyrant Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured, and all the crowds sought to touch him for power came out of him and healed them all. Jesus Christ is meeting the multitude's spiritual needs and physical needs. the power of God is showing up and he's saying, look, I didn't come here just to heal your physical needs. I came here to heal your heart and draw you closer to me, intimacy with me.

Now, we're about to watch Jesus actually give some of the beatitudes here in Luke 6 that he does in Matthew 5. He gives a few. He says, he lifted up his eyes on his disciples and says, blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are those who are spiritually bankrupt, those who recognize that they can't rely on themselves to achieve salvation, to heal the hole in their heart, but they need someone or something outside of themselves to heal their heart, to save them from the hopelessness and the sickness of sin.

He says, blessed are those who can acknowledge that, there's just the kingdom of heaven. That's step one, acknowledging to set aside your pride and saying, man, I need someone or something outside of myself to save me right now. Blessed are you who are hungry now,

for you shall be satisfied. Everyone's hungry for something. And when we wake up, Psalm 63 actually says, it doesn't matter if you were crying the night before in worship, it doesn't matter how close you felt the night before to God in worship or prayer. Then every morning when you wake up, you're in a dry and thirsty land, as Psalm 63 says. And you've got to plow that ground. We're always hungry for something. And what do we often do in the mornings? We fill it with our phone. We wake ourselves up with our phone. And then we're feeding ourselves with the opinion of man. And then our entire day is dictated off of man

and the world. And then we're frustrated easier. And we're quick to speak and slow to listen. and all the opposites of what Jesus tells us, where he says, no, everyone's hungry. And he says, for you shall be satisfied. And he says, look, if you hunger for the things of God, you shall be satisfied. Jeremiah 2913 says, You will seek me and find me if you seek me with your whole heart.

And Revelation tells us that Jesus is knocking on the door of our heart, eager to come in and meet with us and dine with us. But this is also a dangerous warning. Blessed are those who are hunger, for they shall be satisfied. because if you hunger for things that aren't of God, you shall be satisfied, but not of the things of God. You'll be satisfied of the world,

and then you'll find yourself in an even deeper, hopeless pit of hopelessness. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh. He says, blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. The beautiful thing about mourning, and when we weep,

is that we have a high priest, Jesus Christ, who actually knows what we're going through better than we do because he bore it on the cross. He took it on the cross. Every feeling, every sin, every mental health struggle, every physical sickness, every sin issue. He bore it on the cross.

So when we suffer and when we we we weep and when we mourn, we can actually laugh with joy and be comforted because Jesus Christ knows exactly what we're going through. And we have someone who can sympathize with us. It's powerful. Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil

on the account of the son of man, rejoice in that day and leap for joy. For behold, your reward is great in heaven for so their fathers did to the prophecy. He says, blessed are you when you're persecuted for righteousness sake, for there's just the kingdom of heaven, those that utter nasty things about you, that gossip about you, that persecute you in any way, shape, or form because you're a Christian. He says, blessed are you. He says, rejoice and leap for joy. Your reward is great in heaven.

There's a great reward for us enduring till the end, running the race, even despite what other people say about us, what they do to us, what harms come our way because we are followers of Jesus, there's a special blessing for us is powerful. Now Jesus says something that we don't see in Matthew 5. He gives woes to the world. These woes are going to be total opposite to the beatitudes, but in total opposition. See, Jesus and the beatitudes actually exalts, exalts what the world despises and what the world despises. Jesus exalts and what the world exalts Jesus despises. We're about to see it right here.

Verse 24, but what are you who are rich for you have received your constellation? He's like, look, money's not a bad thing. The love of money is. And he's like, those that love money, it can blind yourself. Money is a tool that God uses to calibrate our hearts. And we can watch God do something super extreme in our hearts. I mean, people will do anything for money now. And he's like, look, money can blind you.

He says, what are you who are rich? But he's not just talking about physical money. He's talking about those of you who think you already got it made because we have to recognize, Blessed are the poor and spirit, those who are spiritually bankrupt, but those who are rich would seem to say, oh, I can handle this on my own, I can white knuckle my way through life,

or I'm strong, I'm tough, I can get through this, I don't need anyone's help by myself. I can do this and I'll try to fix it on my own. When it's all about me, me, me, me, me, you can't recognize that you need someone outside of yourself because when is you worked? When is doing it on your own work? It's never worked.

It will never work. We can't save ourselves from hopelessly. We need perfection to, and Jesus is perfection. What are you who are full now? For you shall be hungry. I would argue that Jesus is giving a warning here saying, hey, be careful now. Don't think you know everything.

Don't think that you got it all made. Don't think that you don't need to learn more or set me aside. Like those who think that they already know it all, you've already lost the game. He's like, no, listen, there's new mercies every day through me. I can teach you something new. And I truly believe I'm a firm believer that if I read John 316 every day for the rest of my life, and that was the only scripture I read, that Jesus would have something new for me in it every day.

Because we can always point back to the cross. It's a beautiful thing. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. Woe to you when all people speak well of you. For so their fathers did to the false prophets. Powerful, powerful stuff. Jesus is in, he is exalting the things that the world despises and whatever the world exalts, he's despising.

Here we go. Verse 27, I love this scripture. It's going to be powerful this passage. But I say to you who hear, love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who abuse you. To the one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also.

And from one who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either. I love the scripture. Let's stop right there. Jesus is challenging everyone to do today something that is extremely difficult to practice and walk out. Loving your enemies. We often love to hold a grudge on people. Let me set a picture for you guys. Have you ever had someone talk bad about you and you find out about it at school, but they don't know that you know that they're gossiping about you?

So every day you're walking in the hallway and they're treating you like normal because they don't think you know the nasty stuff they're saying about you, but you do so you're holding a grudge against them. and whatever, and finally they find out, everyone blows up. You're treating them with a grudge because you know something about them that they're doing, and yet they're treating you the same, and they're acting like it's not going on. Well, Jesus Christ knows every nasty thing that you've ever done and you ever will do, yet he proceeds to set aside the grudge and love us graciously no matter what. Look at Judas as scared it. Even Jesus Christ knew that Judas would betray him, yet he served him equally.

he showed no partiality to him because he was going to betray him. He washed his feet, served him and loved him as if he didn't know he was going to betray him. It's a powerful thing, powerful thing. And Jesus teaches something that the world teaches us the opposite of. The world says, hey, when someone hits you, you hit him back harder. An eye for an eye. You got to get back. Give them what they deserve.

Karma, what goes around comes around. Jesus is saying, no, we're not doing that. He says, if someone hits you on the cheek, give them the other one. don't return evil for evil. He says, give people good when they give you evil. If someone takes your cloak, give them your tunic as well. Don't give them a chance. Because here's the reality.

When we react out of the flesh as Christians, when we, with our mouth say we're Christian, but we act out of the flesh. We misrepresentate Jesus to people. We misrepresent people to Jesus. And then because we misrepresent Jesus to people, that people get a bad taste in their mouth about Christianity and God. when in reality Jesus is showing no partiality

he'd turn the other cheek so we have to listen to what Jesus Christ is saying he's saying give to everyone who begs from you and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back and as you wish that others would do to you do so to them and then he gives a challenge here he says if you love those who love you what benefit is that to you for even sinners love those who love them

and if you do good to those who do good to you what benefit is that to you for even sinners do the same and if you lend to those from you and if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners to get back the same amount. So Jesus is saying, man, it's easy for anyone to just be nice to people that are nice to them. It's easy to just do favors for people that do favors for you. Because it's challenging to serve people knowing that you're not going to get anything in return.

It's challenging to love people knowing that they may never love you back. It's challenging to do these things. But when we do these things, how do we do these things? How can we love our enemies? How can we serve those and expect nothing in return? Well, we need the power of the Spirit of God to give us the strength because we're selfish human beings. We can't do it on our own.

And then he closes that passage out with, but love your enemies and do good and lend, expecting nothing in return. And your reward will be great and you will be sons of the most high for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful even as your father is merciful. Now Jesus is about to talk about judging others. He says, judge not, and you will not be judged. Condem not and you will not be condemned.

Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and it will be given to you. Good measure, press down, shaking together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. The grace that you show others, God will be happy to show to you, is what he's saying. He's saying the amount of mercy and grace you show to other people, I'm going to measure you with that same amount of mercy and grace.

that's a big fear of the Lord when I read that because it makes me want to be merciful and gracious to other people not just for my own benefit but to think that the Lord is going to judge me based on how much grace and mercy I show other people actually makes me reflect on my own character and go man how have I been treating people lately and maybe not just random people

let me think about the closest people to me that always push my buttons that know how to get me to get angry or upset or can frustrate me how am I treating those people right now am I holding it against them Am I not showing them a lot of grace and mercy? It was a fear in the Lord of me and going, man,

I need to be careful and watch my heart and ask God to give me the strength and love people, show people grace and mercy, because I want to be careful. We've got to be careful. That's a good warning. Then he tells him a parable. He says, can a blind man lead a blind man?

Will they not both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. Now the next few scriptures I'm going to read, I've got to give a gentle rebuke to you guys because there's a lot of people that misuse the scripture, and there's a couple of people that I see videos of on the internet that misuses scripture as well,

and I just want to clear the air on it. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye? When you yourself do not see the log that is in your own, you hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly so to take.

the speck that is in your brother's eye. What Jesus is saying here is he's saying, generally, people are far more tolerant of their own sin than when it's other people's problem. Like if you and I had the same sin struggle, what Jesus is saying here, he's saying, it would be easier for you to be harsher on me about my sin and then to show yourself more grace than you're showing me. And Jesus is saying, no, look, that's not how it goes here. And he's also saying, look, if you've got a log in your own eye, it would naturally blind you from being able to recognize that you need help yourself. And so we have to set aside our pride and go, okay, here. What are we doing?

Like, I need to recognize in my life what is going on. Now, I got to speak about this because people use this scripture as a manipulative to let sin slide in their life. They say, oh, well, if people are telling me to stop doing something, my response is going to be, well, take the log out of your own eye before you point a speck out of a brother's eye. Look, we have to be careful what the scripture is saying. This scripture is saying, look here. Look, if two people, if you were calling someone out harshly, if you were showing someone minimal grace, if you were shaming them for a sin issue that you're struggling with behind closed doors,

you better reflect on your own life before you dish out that judgment. You better be really careful. And I think righteous judgment and a righteously calling people higher is saying, hey, look, man, I noticed this thing in your life and I really think it's tearing you down. And if it's something you're struggling with, you just say, hey, look, I'm not trying to shame me. Like, I'm struggling with this right now. and this is what's helping me and I think that this could help you too. I think there's gracious ways to approach righteously judging people,

righteously calling people out of their sin. But Jesus is warning people saying, when you struggle with something in secret, yet you call that very thing out that you're struggling with in someone else's life with minimal grace, minimal mercy, and nothing but shame and condemnation, you better be careful because what you're judging that person with, God's going to judge you with.

So you better be careful. And I think that's a powerful thing for us to recognize. So we need to be careful to be, we need to steer away from being far more tolerant of our own sin than others. We need to be able to show grace and mercy just as Jesus would show all people because he does that on the cross when he lays his life down for all of mankind, past, present, and future. Now we're going to look at Jesus. He says, for no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit. It's impossible for a good tree to bear bad fruit. It's impossible for a bad tree to bear good fruit.

He says, you can't be in the middle. you can't sit on the fence you're either all in or you're all out there's no such like I know the Bible talks about lukewarm or neither cold nor hot but Jesus here is saying like there's no middle ground in the kingdom of heaven like you're all in for me or you're all out is what he's

saying for each tree is known by its own fruit for figs are not gathered from thorn bushes nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush the good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks the way we can acknowledge false prophets

acknowledge of teaching is from god acknowledge anything from god is checking the fruit on the tree and oftentimes we like to label people as false prophets and false teachers just because we don't like the package that the message was delivered in but i would argue with you jesus doesn't say it's about whether the tree blows to this way in the wind or this way in the wind whether they're a charismatic or whether they're a baptist is does it bear good fruit or not does the tree of bear good fruit or not? How do we know what fruit is good fruit? Well, Galatians 5 says that the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, and self-control, are the people that are claiming to be from God bearing the fruit that Jesus would bear on the earth?

And then we challenge that. Are they bearing scriptural fruit? And then they say something very important here. It says, out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks. And I think that that personal statement can even be applied in today's society, which I wanted to talk about briefly for a second is like, man, I've caught myself so many times making jokes about things that I've struggled with or jokes about things that I'm having a hard time with or maybe I'm going through a rough patch in my life and I oftentimes like to, you know, mend the bridge with comedy and make jokes about it. I'm oftentimes realizing that the reason it's coming out of my mouth I'm joking about it is because I'm deeply hurting. Out of the mouth comes the abundance.

of the heart. Like I'm making jokes because I'm hurting inside. And I need the spirit of God to mend me. And so I think we need to be careful. And I think that's why Jesus says, be slow to speak. Because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. We've got to be careful. And we've got the last passage here to close it out. And I think it's so powerful as well. Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and not do what I tell you? Whoa, that is huge. That is a huge rebuke here. A lot of people want to say, yeah, I'm Christian. Yeah, I'm a Christian. I do this. I do. that, but they don't listen to the commandments of Jesus. Jesus says, if you love me, you'll obey my commandments. Not in a religious cage of rules way. But the reason that we obey Jesus' commandments

is not because he's holding a knife at our throat, threatening us to obey his commandments. No, we obey the commandments of Jesus because we love him. And out of love, we do things for God. And so we listen to him and obey his commandments and listen to scripture, not because we have to, but because we love him. And he says, everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like. He's like a man building a house who dug deep and laid the foundation on a rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it because it had been well built. But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation when the stream broke against it. Immediately it fell and the ruin of that house

was great. And I think this is powerful because when we build our faith and trust, when we put our satisfaction, significance, and security, and money, in sex, and drugs, and alcohol, it always lets us down. Yeah, that's not a good foundation. It's a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation, man who built it on sand. Think about this. You can put your faith and trust in alcohol. And after about six hours, the numbing goes away and the pain's back.

maybe you can do it with drugs again after a certain amount of time the numbing goes away the pain's there the storm is arisen again the flood has risen and your house has crumbled

or maybe you can do it on sex sex is a big transactional thing nowadays maybe you can you're hopeless and you're in search of love and so you can build your life on an extensive sex life with many partners and then what you find yourself

is each one of these partners treat you the same way you were treating them, not as a human being with the heart, the very thing that you're looking for, but they're treating you like a piece of meat. They're treating you like a transaction, and they never want to talk to you again unless you give them what you want,

what they want. I think it's beautiful about Jesus is that he laid his life down for people, whether they were going to believe in him or not. He died for people that wouldn't receive his free gift. And if we build our life on Jesus, who is perfect, flawless, unwavering, unchanging. His word will remain the same. Heaven and earth will pass away.

Drugs will pass away. Alcohol will pass away. Money doesn't come with us in the grave. Sex is a temporary thing, beautiful in the covenant of marriage, but outside of it, absolutely catastrophe. Because when you build your life on me, Jesus Christ, the rock, it doesn't matter how hard life gets. It doesn't matter the storms that have thrown your way. It doesn't matter. what's going on in your life, I will be here for you, I will comfort you, I will remain faithful to you. That's a beautiful picture. Guys, I pray that Luke six today was so powerful and it transform your lives. God bless you guys. I pray that you guys are being encouraged by the series. If you want to download the plan to track it, go to Jesus in the street.org slash

Luke, get the free PDF to download and mark your progress. And then if you guys want to join us January 19th for the live podcast at 6 p.m. and Los Angeles, go to Jesus in the street.org slash tickets and get your tickets. Love you guys. Follow us on all platforms and I'll see you guys tomorrow for Luke 7.