When Should You Say No to Good Things? (Luke 5:12-26) | Daily Devotional & Bible Study
When Should You Say No to Good Things? Hearing God's Voice in Luke 5:12-26 The crowds were growing and people were still sick, and Jesus kept slipping away to pray anyway. Today in our daily Bible study we're in the middle of Luke 5, looking at two men who were locked out and the way Jesus dealt with the barrier before He dealt with the symptom. Then we come to one quiet sentence that I can't get past: as the need increased, Jesus withdrew more, not less. If you are serving yourself into the ground because the need is right in front of you, this one is for you. Links We visit Luke's house in Rome on our Bible Study Live trip. Bible Study Live is a small-group Bible study trip with Rachael Groll. Study Scripture where it happened in Rome, or slow down for a contemplative Bible study retreat in Maui. Dates and details at BibleStudyLive.org Listen ad-free, plus the full library of past series, on Patreon: patreon.com/HearingJesus Questions or prayer requests? Leave me a voicemail: SpeakPipe Questions we answer today What did leprosy actually mean in that culture, and why did a priest decide it? Why did the man ask to be made clean instead of healed? Why did Jesus touch him before He said a word? Why did Jesus keep withdrawing to pray while people still needed Him? What do the friends who tore open a roof teach us about intercession? Timestamps 00:00 Where we are in Luke 5 01:47 Reading Luke 5:12-26 03:38 Prayer 04:03 Two men, two barriers 05:30 What leprosy meant, and what it didn't 06:52 A ritual category, decided by a priest 07:42 Dressed for his own funeral 10:13 Why people believed it was judgment 11:36 Only two cures in the entire Old Testament 12:20 Full of leprosy, written by a physician 12:58 He broke the law to get to Jesus 13:20 Not a question of power, a question of will 13:45 He asked to be made clean, not healed 14:32 Jesus touched him first 15:14 The direction of the contamination reverses 16:52 Received first, changed second 17:29 The crowds grow 17:56 But He kept slipping away to pray 19:16 When the need scaled, so did the withdrawal 19:36 What I had to let go of 21:35 Everything public came out of what happened in private 22:24 When a ministry stops being God's ministry 23:50 The friends who tore open a roof 25:14 Gideon, Peter, and a boat in Kenya 27:55 Who was in the room, and why it matters tomorrow 29:00 Prayer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices