A MIRACLE OF SHAME (13 OF 16)
Scripture: Luke 13:10-17
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A Miracle of Shame (13 of 16)
Series: The Miracles of Luke
Richard Bradley
Luke 13:10-17
Shame. There's a word we don't hear often these days. It seems that there is very little shame in our modern day world. This doesn't mean people have stopped getting themselves into shameful situations. It does mean that many people of this generation have become adept at ignoring shame as if it doesn't exist. Too many today are just making up for themselves whatever kind of life suits them or makes them happy and then complaining that everyone that doesn't agree is a bigot, socially backwards, or uninformed.
During Jesus' three years or so of ministry the Pharisees constantly resisted God's encroachment on their religious territory. The only good thing you can say about the Pharisees is that they were not incapable of being shamed whereas it seems many people today are. This doesn't mean that they didn't regroup and come back for more because they did. A word of warning here. Plotting against God and His people will get you in trouble every time and bring you loads of shame.
The good news is that we can learn from shame and be made stronger by it or we can just dig ourselves a deeper hole and ignore it. God will use shame to bring us closer to Him.
10 Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.
11 And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up.
12 But when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, ''Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.''
13 And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
14 But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, ''There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.''
15 The Lord then answered him and said, ''Hypocrite! Does not each ...
Series: The Miracles of Luke
Richard Bradley
Luke 13:10-17
Shame. There's a word we don't hear often these days. It seems that there is very little shame in our modern day world. This doesn't mean people have stopped getting themselves into shameful situations. It does mean that many people of this generation have become adept at ignoring shame as if it doesn't exist. Too many today are just making up for themselves whatever kind of life suits them or makes them happy and then complaining that everyone that doesn't agree is a bigot, socially backwards, or uninformed.
During Jesus' three years or so of ministry the Pharisees constantly resisted God's encroachment on their religious territory. The only good thing you can say about the Pharisees is that they were not incapable of being shamed whereas it seems many people today are. This doesn't mean that they didn't regroup and come back for more because they did. A word of warning here. Plotting against God and His people will get you in trouble every time and bring you loads of shame.
The good news is that we can learn from shame and be made stronger by it or we can just dig ourselves a deeper hole and ignore it. God will use shame to bring us closer to Him.
10 Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.
11 And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up.
12 But when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, ''Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.''
13 And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
14 But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, ''There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.''
15 The Lord then answered him and said, ''Hypocrite! Does not each ...
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