← Christ With Coffee On Ice
Christ With Coffee On Ice
bible study with me: the book of Luke
00:32:43
Hey y'all ! Welcome to another Friday with CWCOI ! In this week's episode, our host, Ally Yost reads through the Gospel of Luke. Luke is full of interactions Jesus has with individuals who He ministers and shows compassion to no matter their status....
Loading summary
Transcript1 lines
- [00:00]
A
Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Christ with Coffee on Ice. I am your host, Ali Yost. It is a joy and honor to be here with you guys, and I hope that you are having a really incredible week so far. Well, it's near the end of the week, so I hope you had a great week. Today is going to be a really fun day. Just because we're hanging out together, that's, like, the main thing for me at least, is this is going to be a great day because we get to be together and we're alive and we're. And we're breathing. And God is good and he's faithful and he's kind, and he's near to the brokenhearted, and he has compassion. And he weeps when we weep. He laughs when we laugh. Like, he is such a good dad. He's such a good, good dad. Yeah. That's why today is going to be sweet. And I'm saying that also because I don't know where this episode is going to go, but I do feel it on my heart for us to read Scripture today. We haven't done that in a while, and I really don't want to lose that in the pod. I think that that is always going to be something that is fruitful. It's always good to do. And sometimes, I don't know, for you guys, it's like you want to read with friends. Maybe that is what makes the Bible more fun for you, is reading it with friends. And so today is going to be a day of Scripture. So I would really love for you guys to join me in that. Whether you are near your Bible, if you're in a situation where you can read your Bible. If you're operating a vehicle, though, don't do that. You're welcome to just listen to the Word of God, but I would encourage you that if you're in a place to be able to read along, I just think that's, like, the most effective, effective way for us to receive the Word of God and to, like, really meditate on it. It's just the best when we're really reading along physically in a book. I don't know, maybe that's just me, but it's also good to listen to it, too. So I'm not judging you. If you're on your holy girl walk and you're listening to this, praise God. Okay? I don't know what we're gonna read. So Lord, guide us in this time as we are reading youg Word. And I pray that whatever we open to it is what you want your children to hear. I pray for, for encouragement. I pray for revelation. I pray for clarity. I pray for peace, whether that's on situations that they're actively walking through, but also just clarity of your heart. God, I pray that we start to use this tool not necessarily as a manual for life, but a resource of understanding your heart more and knowing you. I pray that that's what today is for. And I know that we could still have all the answers of our life probably answered in this. And I do believe that as we are seeking your heart and we are seeking a deeper understanding of who you are, through that we will receive the answers and the clarity and the revelations that we may need for situations in our life. But first, God, let us just seek your heart. And I ask that we just pursue you in this reading, that we want to know more about you, God, because we only really know a sliver of you. There's so much more to learn about you, God, and so I pray that that's what this episode is for and that's what this time of us reading scripture will used for. In Jesus name, amen. Okay, do I just do a fun eeny, meeny miny mo and open Luke. Have we read Luke on the pod we opened to the ancestors of Jesus? That's what we just opened to. Oh, my gosh. Wait, we have read this on the podcast before. We went through all of that and I said, please forgive me for not being able to say more than half of these names. Do we read Luke again? Do we read Luke again? Well, that's actually kind of crazy because we're saying that we want to learn more about who God is. And Luke is like the whole life of Jesus, isn't it? Girl did it crazy. Whoa. Where do we start? Do we just start literally at the beginning? Well, we did open to the ancestors of Jesus. Okay, you know what? Why not? God wants us to read the book of Luke, even though we've done it before. But that's what the Bible is for. So we're not just supposed to read something once and move on and never touch it again. So we're going to touch it again. We're going to read it again, and we're just going to start where we opened to as much as I really, God, I just love you. I really would love to read the ancestors of Jesus and go down this entire list of his lineage. Jesus was about 30 years old when he began his public ministry. That's crazy. I'm almost 30. That's cool. So after Jesus's lineage, you guys can go back and read that. You really can. And it is important. I'm not saying it's not. Every single piece of information in this book is important. So I'm not. I'm not invalidating that. But we're going to start at Luke 4, the temptation of Jesus. So open your Bibles. I'm also reading the NLT translation, so if mine sounds a little different than yours, that's probably why. Also, we do have our coffee on ice right here. There she is, my plastic tumbler again. Because I just love it. Gorgeous. Okay, we officially have our Christ with coffee on ice. You ready, fam? Let's lock in Luke 4. Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. He was led by the Spirit in the wilderness where he was tempted by the devil for 40 days. Jesus ate nothing all that time and became very hungry. Then the devil said to him, if you are the Son of God, then tell this stone to become a loaf of bread. But Jesus told him, no. The scriptures say people do not live by bread alone. Then the devil took him up and revealed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. I will give you the glory of these kingdoms and authority over them, the devil says, because they are mine to give to anyone I please. I will give it all to you if you will worship me. Jesus replied, the scriptures say you must worship the Lord your God and serve only him. Then the devil took him to Jerusalem, to the highest point of the temple, and said, if you are the Son of God, jump off. For the scriptures say he will order his angels to protect and guard you, and they will hold you up with their right hands so you won't even hurt your foot on a stone. Jesus responded, the scriptures also say, you must not test the Lord your God. When the devil had finished tempting Jesus, he left him until the next opportunity came. I'm sorry, here I am. It's Ally. I'm just going to say something that is like, probably the cringiest part of the whole story of Satan. Like, that has to be one of his most pathetic and lowest points. Was actually trying to tempt and convince God himself. That is literally so cringe. Like, I literally think back to that. I'm like, are you okay, Satan? Like, are you literally that filled with ego and pride that you think, you think you can convince the literal Son of God, Jesus himself, to worship you? Huh? That is literally so pathetic. I don't know. It's just something about that where it's like, okay, yeah, us, right? Like, okay, but the Son of God, like literally, God himself. Bro, you're bold. You're bold for that, but you're also delulu for that. Okay? Anyway, moving on. Jesus rejected at Nazareth. This is Luke 4:14. Then Jesus returned to Galilee filled with the Holy Spirit's power. Reports about him spread quickly through the whole region. He taught regularly in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures. The scroll of Isaiah. The prophet was handed to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where this was written. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim the captives will be released. The blind will see that the oppressed will be set free, and that the time of the Lord's favor has come. He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue looked at him intently. Then he began to speak to them. The scripture you've just heard has been fulfilled this very day. Everyone spoke well of him and was amazed by the gracious words that came from his lips. How can this be? They asked. Isn't this Joseph's son? Then he said, you will undoubtedly quote me this proverb. Physician, heal yourself, meaning do miracles here in your hometown, like those you did in Capernaum. But I tell you the truth, no prophet is accepted in his own hometown. Certainly there were many needy widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the heavens were closed for three and a half years and a severe famine devastated the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was sent instead to the foreigner, a widow of Zarephath in the land of Sidon. And many in Israel had leprosy in the time of the prophet Elisha. But the only one healed was Naaman Assyrian. When they heard this, the people in the synagogue were furious. Jumping up, they mobbed him and forced him to the edge of the hill on which the town was built. They intended to push him over the cliff, but he passed right through the crowd and went on his way. I'm sorry. Jesus ate with that, by the way. He literally ate. Can we read that again? This is how we all need to be acting when the enemy tries to, like, intimidate us or push us off a cliff. We're going to do exactly what Jesus just did. Because that 8 they jumped him and mobbed him and forced him to the edge of a hill on which the town was built. And they even intended to push him over the cliff, but he passed right through the crowd and went on his way. They did that on the Chosen. There was a scene on the Chosen where they did that. And Jesus literally was just like, okay, so you're going to push me off this cliff and just walks right through them. And carried on his merry way, went and had lunch. He said, okay, I'm obsessed with him. Okay, moving on. Jesus casts out a demon. Oh, he just gets better, okay. Then Jesus went to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and taught there in the synagogue every Sabbath day. There too, the people were amazed at his teaching, for he spoke with such authority. I think people were so amazed because they had never, ever, ever seen anyone speak like this before. Everyone was shook. They were like, this man is talking with so much authority. It's like he knows, right? It's like he's the very source. Once, when he was in the synagogue, a man possessed by a demon, an evil spirit, cried out, shouting, go away. Why are you interfering with us, Jesus of Nazareth, have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God. But Jesus reprimanded him. Be quiet. Come out of the man, he ordered. At that, the demon threw the man to the floor as the crowd watched. Then it came out of him without hurting him further. Amazed, the people exclaimed, what authority and power this man's words possess. Even evil spirits obey him and they flee at his command. The news about Jesus spread through every village in the entire region. After leaving the synagogue that day, Jesus went to Simon's home, where he found Simon's mother in law very sick with a high fever. Please heal her. Everyone begged, standing at her bedside. He rebuked the fever and it left her. And she got up at once and prepared a meal for them. I'm obsessed with Jesus, okay? As the sun went down that evening, people throughout the village brought sick family members to Jesus. No matter what their diseases were, the touch of his hand healed everyone. Many were possessed by demons, and the demons came out at his command, shouting, you are the Son of God. But because they knew he was the Messiah, he rebuked them and refused to let them speak. Early the next morning, Jesus went out to an isolated place. The crowds searched everywhere for him. And when they finally found him, they begged him not to leave them. But he replied, I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God in other towns too, because that is Why I was sent. So he continued to travel around, preaching in synagogues throughout Judea. One day, as Jesus was preaching on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, great crowds pressed in on him to listen to the word of God. He noticed two empty boats at the water's edge, for the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets. Stepping into one of the boats, Jesus asked Simon, its owner, to push it out into the water. So he sat in the boat and taught the crowds from there. When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, now go out where it is deeper and let down your nets to catch some fish. Master Simon replied, we worked hard all last night and didn't catch a thing. But if you say so, I'll let the nets down again. And this time their nets were so full of fish, they began to tear. A shout for help brought their partners in the other boat, and soon both boats were filled with fish and on the verge of sinking. When Simon Peter realized what had happened, he fell to his knees before Jesus and said, oh, Lord, please leave me. I'm such a sinful man. For he was awestruck by the number of fish they had caught, as were the others with him. His partners James and John, the sons of Jebedi, were also amazed. Jesus replied to Simon, don't be afraid. From now on, you'll be fishing for people. And as soon as they landed, they left everything and followed Jesus. In one of the villages, Jesus met a man with an advanced case of leprosy. When the man saw Jesus, he bowed with his face to the ground, begging to be healed. Lord, he said, if you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean. Jesus reached out and touched him. I am willing, he said, be healed. And instantly the leprosy disappeared. Then Jesus instructed him to not tell anyone what had happened. He said, go to the priest and let him examine you. Take along the offering required in the law of Moses. For those who have been healed of leprosy, this will be a public testimony that you have been cleansed but despise Jesus instructions. The report of his power spread even faster, and vast crowds came to hear him preach and to be healed of their diseases. But Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer. I love that part where it mentions that there were just vast amount of people who heard about who Jesus was and the miracles that he was performing, and also the wisdom that he carried and, you know, the authority. Authority that he carried when he would speak. And so many people were hearing about this that they wanted it, of course. But what I love that Jesus represented so well is he represented how we really should be? And it's okay to set boundaries when everyone around us is like, demanding our attention or our time or our help or our companionship, like, whatever that is. But there is a time and a place to prioritize withdrawing and being in secret with the Lord and praying with God and letting him fill you to a place where now it is just overflow. And then that is what you are able to pour into other people. And it's crazy because even Jesus literally being God, but it was because he was also man. He needed to withdraw to allow the Father to pour into him so he could be alone and receive wisdom from the Father and just receive, receive strength and just peace. All of the fruits of the Spirit. Being alone with the Father and being like, okay, God, I literally just need to sit with you because I need to be poured into right now. Because if you think about it, I don't know how many people were really pouring into Jesus. I think he was doing a majority of the pouring. And so when you are pouring all the time, there's gotta be a place you're getting that from. And so for Jesus, he represented that perfectly. Where he went away and, and he sat in secret, in private, alone with God in prayer, and said, I need to be poured into God because I'm healing and I'm pouring all this wisdom and I'm, you know, spreading the good news. And he's fulfilling the prophecy of the Messiah. He's fulfilling what he came here to do, but he could only do it through the strength of God. And I think that we really need to remember that too, as Christians, as we are walking our life and we are trying to steward everything in our, our lives well. And we're trying to do it in a, in a way that honors the Lord and that could be personal relationships, our work, and also our relationship with God. Remembering that the place that we need to be filled from is the Lord and the Lord himself, because even Jesus needed to do that. And if we're going to walk like Jesus, we're going to act like him. We're going to do the things that Jesus did. We have to remember that withdrawing and having boundaries and even saying no sometimes is okay. Jesus could not heal every single person he healed and he performed miracles, but he also was only human, like he was only one man. He was limited in this body to only being able to do what was physically possible to do. And it's not that there was favoritism. It's not that he believed that, you know, these people that he healed were more important to the people he didn't heal. But it's just what he was capable of doing. I think, too, it just shows that his priorities were centered in the Father. Like, his priorities were like, Father first, then this, you know, like everything first for Jesus was God and just abiding in the Spirit and prioritizing the Father above all else. So anyway, that's my side little tangent, but I just. I love that. And we see Jesus do that even with his disciples, where, like, the next thing they knew, he was, like, off praying somewhere by himself. But we should be doing that as well. And that is how we're going to be able to continue to pour into people is it actually comes from an overflow of being poured into by God. So now, guys, we are at Luke 5:17. And this is when Jesus heals a paralyzed man. One day, while Jesus was teaching, some Pharisees and teachers of religious law were sitting nearby. It seemed that these men showed up from every village in all of Galilee in Judea, as well as from Jerusalem. And the Lord's healing power was strongly with Jesus. Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a sleeping mat. They tried to take him inside to Jesus, but they couldn't reach him because of the crowd. So they went up to the roof and took off some of the tiles. Then they lowered the sick man on his mat down into the crowd right in front of Jesus. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the man, young man, your sins are forgiven. But the Pharisees and the teachers of religious law said to themselves, who does he think he is? That's blasphemy. Only God can forgive sins. Jesus knew what they were thinking, so he asked them, why do you question this in your hearts? Is it easier to say your sins are forgiven or stand up and walk? So I will prove to you that the Son of Man has the authority on earth to forgive sins. Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, stand up. Pick up your mat and go home. And immediately, as everyone watched, the man jumped up, picked up his mat, and went home praising God. Everyone was gripped with great wonder and awe. And they praised God, exclaiming, we have seen amazing things today. Later, as Jesus left the town, he saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at his tax collector's booth. Follow me and be my disciple, Jesus said to him. So Levi got up, left everything, and followed him. Later, Levi, who is also Matthew, I just want to clarify that. Later, Levi held a banquet in his home with Jesus as the guest of honor. Many of Levi's fellow tax collectors and other guests also ate with them. But the Pharisees and their teachers of religious law complained bitterly to Jesus. Disciples, why do you eat and drink with such scum? Jesus answered them, healthy people don't need a doctor, sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent. One day, some people said to Jesus, John the Baptist's disciples fast and pray regularly, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees. Why are your disciples always eating and drinking? Jesus responded, do wedding guests fast while celebrating with the groom? Of course not. But someday the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. Then Jesus gave them this. No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and uses it to patch up an old garment, for then the new garment would be ruined and the new patch wouldn't even match the old garment. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins, for the new wine would burst the wineskins, spilling the wine and ruining the skins. New wine must be stored in new wineskins. But no one who drinks the old wine seems to want the new wine. The old is just fine, they say. I think that what Jesus is saying here is that he is bringing a new wine. And so with that new wine also comes a new wineskin, meaning when Jesus came, it was giving new that people were no longer going to live by the law, but they were going to live in truth and relation with him and the spirit of God. And so when people were like, well, why aren't you doing things the way that John the Baptist has always done things? Or why are you not doing things the way that the Pharisees have always done things? And so I believe that was Jesus's way of saying, I am bringing a newness. I am bringing a new wine. And so with that means that there has to be a new wineskin to carry that new wine. So there's gonna be things that look different, but that doesn't mean that it's wrong. This is the new way. For the new wine would burst the wineskin if it was put into an old wineskin, spilling the wine and even ruining the skins. But new wine must be stored in new wineskin. There's like a process, I think, that happens with wine. I don't know if it's like something with carbonation or the oxygen, but as wine ages, there is like a gas, I think, that is released and there's a bubbling of some sort. That happens. And so with that, back in the day, they would store new wine in a new wineskin, which was just kind of like a leather pouch that would carry that wine, but they would always have to put it in a fresh wineskin, which was made of probably like cow skin. It was leather. Yeah. So it had to be put into a fresh, new wine skin because of the aging process of the wine. As it's aging and sitting in this wine skin and, you know, the carbonation is happening and the bubbling, it actually made the leather then expand. But because it is fresh and it's firm and it's new, it could expand. And then the wine ages really well. And it tastes so good, and it's great and everything's good, right? The wine is good. The wine skin was good. The wine skin also was used for its purpose. It's all good. But what Jesus is demonstrating in this is that it wouldn't make sense to take an old wine skin that's already been stretched out and expanded through aging wine that's no longer in it, putting new wine in that and expecting it to age the same way. If anything, it would be stretched out more than it could handle, and it would break. That's what Jesus said saying, is that the wine skin would break, and then the wine is everywhere, and no one can drink it and enjoy it. So I think that's also like the Lord showing that there was such a purpose for the law, and it still holds a purpose. There's an order in which God has the law and then the Son of Man, Right? Because we think about, why couldn't Jesus have just come from the very beginning and saved us, and then we would have been free from our sin? Why would God set us up for failure? In a sense, this could be something people could think. It's like, why would God set us up for failure by giving us something like the law, the Ten Commandments that he had given Moses, if that was never actually going to free us from our sins, like, what was the point of that? And I heard something once where somebody had referred to the law as actually God wanted it to act as a mirror so that when we look at the law, because before the law, we didn't know that we were living in sin. We didn't know that the ways that we were acting in our humanity was actually, actually evil and wicked. So the law was set so that we would actually see the things that we were doing was sinful. So the law was actually supposed to set as a guide and also like a mirror to look into, to go, oh, oh, this is actually how we're supposed to be living righteously. Unfortunately, because of our sinful nature and because of free will and the way that we make decisions every day, we actually do not have enough power in ourselves to be able to make ourselves righteous before God. We cannot clean ourselves, not even the sacrifices of calves and animals. You know, you see that in the Old Testament, not even that could cleanse us of our sins and our guilt and our shame. And so the order was like, okay, first I'm going to show people that they are quite literally living in sin. That's what the law shows us. And I'm also going to set some standards of things that they should want to live by. But unfortunately, we were still falling short of that. And so then after that, God said, okay, so I'm going to send my one and only son, Jesus Christ, and what he's going to do is he's actually going to free everyone of their sin, because now they know they're living in sin, and they know that this is the way that they need to live, but somehow they cannot in their human nature. And so I'm going to send my one and only son, who's going to revert it all and make it right. He's going to act as the son sin. He becomes sin itself, carrying all the sin of the world. And we're going to kill sin once and for all. So that will no longer act as a wedge between me and my children. And they will actually be able to come before me without perishing. They will actually be able to come face to face with me and know me. And then also with that, we're going to defeat all of sin through my son being crucified on the cross, hanging there for six hours in excruciating pain. But every sin is just killed on that cross. We're going to do that. But then he's going to leave my spirit, that the Spirit of God is actually going to be left behind so that they can still access that power in resisting sin and not being tempted in sin by being able to access my power. So yes, technically, Jesus will be raised from the dead and he will come back to heaven, but he will leave his spirit. So they are still not left alone. They are not left without a shepherd, and they will have my spirit on earth until the time comes where we are all reunited with our Father in the end times. And all of that happens. Oh, but what Jesus is also saying is that the old wineskin was not bad. It was not bad. But it was used for what it was used for. And so the old wine skin that held that old wine, right? All of the old ways of John the Baptist and the Pharisees and the ways of the law before, for Jesus, it was not bad. It was good, but it was good for. For its time. And so now it's like Jesus is showing that there is a new way where he is fulfilling the prophecy of the Old Testament. There's still value in the Old Testament. It's still the law. It's still the way that we need to be living our lives. But now it's with the Spirit, it's with Jesus. It's like completion. Now everything is like a full circle. And we. We're no longer working with like half a circle anymore. We have all of it. It's just. There had to be a new way. There had to be a new way, a new wine, a new wine skin. And so that's what Jesus was demonstrating in that. Okay, let's read for five more minutes. We're now in Luke 6. One Sabbath day, as Jesus was walking through some grain fields, his disciples broke off heads of grain, rubbed off the husks in their hands, and ate the grain. But some Pharisees said, why are you breaking the law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath? Jesus replied, haven't you read in the Scriptures what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He went into the house of God and broke the law by eating the sacred loaves of bread that only the priests can eat. He also gave some to his companions. And Jesus added, the Son of Man is Lord even over the Sabbath. On another Sabbath day, a man with a deformed right hand was in the synagogue while Jesus was taken teaching. The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely. If he healed the man's hand, they planned to accuse him of working on the Sabbath. But Jesus knew their thoughts. He said to the man with the deformed hand, come and stand in front of everyone. So the man came forward. Then Jesus said to his critics, I have a question for you. Does the law permit good deeds on the Sabbath, or is it a day for doing evil? Is this a day to save life or to destroy it? He looked around to them one by one, and then said to the man, hold out your hand. So the man held out his hand, and it was restored. At this, the enemies of Jesus were wild with rage and began to discuss what to do with him. One day, soon afterward, Jesus went up on a mountain to pray. And he prayed to God all night. At daybreak, he called together all of his disciples and chose 12 of them to be apostles. And here are their Simon, who he named Peter, Andrew, who was Peter's brother, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James, Simon, Judas, son of James, and then Judas Iscariot, who later betrayed him. When they came down from the mountain, the disciples stood with Jesus on a large level area surrounded by many of his followers and by the crowds. There were people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and from as far north as the sea coasts of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And those troubled by evil spirits were healed. Everyone tried to touch him because healing power went out from him and he healed everyone. Okay, I think that's where we're gonna stop for the day. I know. I wish we could keep reading. We just ended at 6:19. If you guys would like to continue to read on your own or. Or pick it up on your own after this. But I am so grateful for y'. All. Thanks for hanging out with me today. Hey, I love you guys and I am so, so proud of you, but the Lord is actually much more pro. Yeah, I just pray that you guys have such a sweet weekend. I pray that you guys have an incredible rest of your week until we touch base again next Friday. But, guys, can we do something cool today? Can we show somebody how cool Jesus is? I would love for us to do that. And actually, I know Jesus would love for us to do that. Let's just love everyone really, really well. Even if it's hard, even if it's like certain family members or whoever, we're just gonna love them well, and we're going to love them as Jesus would. I'm grateful for y'. All. I love you and I will see you next week. Bye. Are some of y' all still listening? Okay, if you're still here, that means you're a real one, which is why I'm about to share this with you. If you've already caught up on all the episodes so far and you don't want to wait until next Friday for a new one, I have really good news for you. Subscribe to our Patreon to get early access to the episodes every week, early access to merch launches or any other exciting news, and receive personalized encouraging messages or Bible verses from us. Subscribe. Subscribe to our patreon@www.patreon.com c backslash cwcoi. I do also want to mention that there is a way to give to the podcast. So if you ever feel led to donate, it blesses me so much and it helps allow the podcast to keep running. You can donate to our PayPal at www.paypal.me. cWCOI we appreciate y' all and we love you so, so much.