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Luke's Gospel: Investigating the Man Who Is God

Luke's Gospel Part 21: Ballard Campus

From Luke's Gospel Part 21: Jesus And Fasting

Pastor Justin Holcomb 44mn:17sec Viewed 8920 times in about 2 years

Jesus eats and drinks with sinners. The Pharisees judge him for not being more religious, like them. Jesus explains that he is God and that his presence is a time to celebrate and not mourn. He also predicts his death on the cross. Jesus bringing grace and forgiveness to sinners is different from, incompatible, with, and opposed to self-righteous religion.

Luke 5:33-39

33 And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.” 34 And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.” 36 He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’”

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