May 18, 2025

Last week we ended with Jesus sending out the 70 disciples two by two. We pick up this week in Luke 10:9 What Jesus wanted the seventy to do: to heal and to preach.the Gospel.

Luke Lesson 19 Study Questions

1.    Do not forbid him, for he who is not against us is on our side: Jesus taught them to have a more generous spirit. There are many that are wrong in some aspect of their presentation or teaching, yet they still set forth _____ in some manner. Let God deal with them. Those who are not against a _________ Jesus are still on our side, at least in some way.

2.    When the time had come for Him to be received up: This is the beginning of a new ________ of the Gospel of Luke. Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem to be ________ up.

3.    He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem: Jesus undertook this final journey _________ Jerusalem with steadfastness fitting the difficulty of the ____ ahead of Him.

4.    There are two kinds of courage – the courage of moment, which requires no previous thought, and a planned courage, which sees the difficulty ahead and steadfastly marches towards it. Jesus had this kind of courage; He saw the _____ on the horizon, but still ___________ set His face to go to Jerusalem.

5.    Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did? It’s interesting and perhaps amusing that James and John were so __________ that they could do this, especially after their recent _______ with the demon-possessed boy. Their angry reaction shows why Jesus sometimes called them Boanerges, meaning Sons of Thunder (Mark 3:17).

6.    You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them: They didn’t know Jesus and His mission. He came to ______ the lost, not to _____ them up with fire from heaven.

7.    Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head: Jesus didn’t tell the man “No, you can’t follow Me.” But He told him the ______, without painting a glamorized version of what it was like to ________ Him. This is the opposite of techniques used by many evangelists today, but Jesus wanted the man to know what it would really be like.

8.    Lord, let me first go and bury my father: Actually, this man did not ask for ___________ to dig a grave for his deceased father. He wanted to _______ in his father’s house and care for him until the father died. This was obviously an indefinite period, which could drag on and on.

9.    Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God: Jesus pressed the man to follow Him now, and clearly stated the principle that family obligations – or any other obligation – must not be put ______ of following Jesus. Jesus must come ______.

10.    No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God: Jesus stressed to this man the ___________ necessary to follow Him. One must have a similar determination as a farmer plowing a field, who must do it with all his strength and always looking _________.

11.    I send you out as lambs among wolves: Jesus commanded them to go with a certain kind of ______, ________ God and not seeking to abuse and manipulate others. 

12.    For the laborer is worthy of his wages: Jesus told His disciples to not regard the support given to them as ________, but as proper ________ for their work on behalf of God’s kingdom.