45 Days to Read the Gospel Challenge. The Gospel According To Luke Chapter 18: Always Pray and Not lose Heart

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Isaiah 9:6 KJV“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son, is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

 

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Overview of The Gospel of Luke

Apostle Luke, a Gentile and a physician, wrote this Gospel and the Book of Acts.  Luke’s work is assumed to be written in AD 60-62 during the time Paul was in jail.  His works were dedicated to Theophilus, a Roman dignitary.  Luke gives an ordered account of the events of Jesus’s life but not necessarily in order.  His primary research is based on eyewitnesses, disciples, and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

Luke knew the disciples personally.  He traveled with Paul most of the time. However, he also used other disciples’ work in his research, such as Mark’s work. A lot of Luke’s work included the Gospel of Mark. However, this Gospel gives many accounts of Jesus’s healing ministry because Luke was a physician himself.

Luke alone reported unusual circumstances surrounding the birth of John the Baptist and the annunciation to Mary.  He emphasized the central role of women, children, Gentiles, Samaritans, rich people, sinners, and outcasts in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.

Luke proposed to narrate the ministry of Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ’s mission dedicated to the saving of sinners and his progression to the cross to become Savior of the World.

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45 Days to Read the Gospel Challenge. The Gospel According To Luke Chapter 18: Always Pray and Not lose Heart

 

 

 

 

Summary of The Gospel According to Luke Chapter Eighteen

 

 

45 Days to Read the Gospel Challenge. The Gospel According To Luke Chapter 18: Always Pray and Not lose Heart

Time: 35 minutes to complete lesson: 20 minutes to read the entire post and take the interactive quiz, additional 15 minutes to view video resource and comment on social media

 

 

Objectives Chapter Eighteen (You will learn…)

A. Understand why Jesus teaches persistence in prayer and how it brings God’s justice and answers.

B. Learn why Jesus calls us to receive God’s Kingdom with childlike humility and trust.

C. Explore Jesus’ lesson to the rich man on giving up possessions to gain eternal life.

D. Discover how Jesus foretold His death and resurrection as part of God’s plan for salvation.

 

 

Outline for Chapter Eighteen

A. The parables of the importunate widow and of the Pharisee and publican.  

B. Jesus receives little children.

C. The rich ruler answered.

D. It is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

E. The reward of those who forsake all and follow Jesus.

F. Jesus foretells his own death and resurrection.

G. He heals a blind man at Jericho.

 

 

Reflection

Can you think of a time when you asked God for something in prayer but stop asking because you thought the resolution was not coming? 

Resources for this lesson

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Chapter Highlights

 

Chapter Highlights of Gospel According to Luke – Chapter Eighteen KJV)  Answers to Objectives and Activity-Questions

 

 

A. Why we should be persistent in our prayer life. Luke 18: 1-8 KJV

¹And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 

²Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: 

³And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. 

⁴And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;

 ⁵Yet because this widow troubled me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. 

⁶And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. 

⁷And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 

 ⁸I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? 

 ⁹And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:

 ¹⁰Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. 

¹¹The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 

¹²I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. 

¹³And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. 

¹⁴I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

 

 

B. Why we should receive the kingdom of God as a child-humble and submissive.  Luke 18:15-17 KJV

¹⁵And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them. 

¹⁶But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. 

¹⁷Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.

 

 

C. What Jesus said a rich man must do to inherit eternal life.  Luke 18: 18-30 KJV

¹⁸And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 

¹⁹And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God. 

²⁰Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother. 

²¹And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up. 

²²Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

 ²³And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich. 

²⁴And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! 

²⁵For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. 

²⁶And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved?

²⁷And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. 

²⁸Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee. 

²⁹And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake, 

³⁰Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.

 

 

D. Learn that God is predestined as Christ foretells his own death. Luke 18:31-34 KJV 

³¹Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. 

³²For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on: 

³³And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again. 

³⁴And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.

 

 

E. Jesus heals a blind man.  Luke 18: 35-42 KJV

³⁵And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the wayside begging:

³⁶And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant. 

³⁷And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by. 

³⁸And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.

 ³⁹And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.

⁴⁰And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he has come near, he asked him,

⁴¹Saying, What will is thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.

⁴²And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee. 

⁴³And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.

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Call to salvation

John 3:16  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

 

Romans 10:9-10  9That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation

 

John 3:5-6  5Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is the Spirit.