Luke 17 · Clearspring

Temptations and Trespasses

¹Jesus said to His disciples, “It is inevitable that stumbling blocks will come, but woe to the one through whom they come!+ ²It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.+ ³Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.+ ⁴Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”+

The Power of Faith

Matthew 17:19–20

⁵The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”+ ⁶And the Lord answered, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.+ ⁷Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?+ ⁸Instead, won’t he tell him, ‘Prepare my meal and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you may eat and drink’?+ ⁹Does he thank the servant because he did what he was told? ¹⁰So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”+

The Ten Lepers

2 Kings 5:1–14

¹¹While Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem, He was passing between Samaria and Galilee.+ ¹²As He entered one of the villages, He was met by ten lepers. They stood at a distance+ ¹³and raised their voices, shouting, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”+ ¹⁴When Jesus saw them, He said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were on their way, they were cleansed.+ ¹⁵When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice.+ ¹⁶He fell facedown at Jesus’ feet in thanksgiving to Him — and he was a Samaritan.+ ¹⁷“ Were not all ten cleansed?” Jesus asked. “Where then are the other nine?+ ¹⁸Was no one found except this foreigner to return and give glory to God?”+ ¹⁹Then Jesus said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well!”+

The Coming of the Kingdom

Genesis 19:24–29

²⁰When asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God will not come with observable signs.+ ²¹Nor will people say, ‘Look, here it is,’ or ‘There it is.’ For you see, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”+ ²²Then He said to the disciples, “ The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.+ ²³People will tell you, ‘Look, there He is!’ or ‘Look, here He is!’ Do not go out or chase after them.+ ²⁴For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will be the Son of Man in His day.+ ²⁵But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.+ ²⁶Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:+ ²⁷People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.+ ²⁸It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.+ ²⁹But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.+ ³⁰It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.+ ³¹On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.+ ³²Remember Lot’s wife!+ ³³Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.+ ³⁴I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed: one will be taken and the other left.+ ³⁵Two women will be grinding grain together: one will be taken and the other left.”+ ³⁷“Where, Lord?” they asked. Jesus answered, “Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.”+

Temptations and Trespasses

The Power of Faith

The Ten Lepers

The Coming of the Kingdom

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