In The Crowds Are Blessings And Woes

Luke 6:17-26 In The Crowds are Blessings and Woes.

No doubt today during super bowl there will be blessings and there will be woes. Possibly Fumbles one team blessed the other woe-ed , interceptions one team blessed one team woe-ed, made field goals missed field goals one team blessed one teamed woe-ed

1. There was a Large crowd gathered in today’s reading all sorts of different people like those watching Super Bowl.

• First, there was a large crowd of His Disciples gathered that committed themselves

• A great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, These folks hoping for miracles, they are praying for blessings from their Lord

• I am sure in this crowd was people hostile towards Jesus .

2. It’s this, crowd that has needs. 18 they need healed of their diseases. They need evilA spirits removed

• Jesus stands in the midst of the crowd. The crowd maybe broken, suffering, struggling, poor, rich, lost, and in need of salvation or deliverance.

• In the crowd are the Ones who came for physical and spiritual healing -- to be cured of diseases and to have unclean spirits cast out.

• This Crowd wanted to touch Him 19and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.

• The crowd also came "to hear him" -- they were as hungry for the word as they were for the works of Jesus.

3. It’s This Crowd that receives the blessings 20Looking at his disciples, he said: "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 21Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. 22Blessed are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.

• Jesus "looked up at his disciples" Blessed are the Poor the humble, the completely destitute.." Jesus does not find any blessing in being poor; but God's promise makes the poor blessed.

• In the midst of the crowd Jesus says, blessed are those who hunger where there is poverty there is surely hunger. Hunger was a constant. the hungry will "be filled." Their hunger is for "now," but God will give complete and fulfillment.

• Jesus says Those who weep, will laugh, those who "weep now" This is the weeping that accompanies everyday life and its losses. Luke shares those with tears will be comforted

4. In the midst of this Crowd are woes It appears Jesus is speaking to disciples, there are woes in life .

• Those now laughing now, there will be days of mourning and weeping ahead.

• Disciples would endure hardships, . 3Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

• In this midst of the crowds are those who like the disciples proclaim and live the Christian life can expect being hated, excluded, reviled and attacked? Being "defamed" ("casting out your name as evil")

• Crowds of people will gather to watch the super bowl my prayer is that crowds will come to Jesus in pardon and forgiveness of sin.

5. Crowds of people are everywhere and blessings and woes are to. How will we deal with the blessings and woes of life?

• Helen Keller — the blind and deaf mute who triumphed over her disabilities, who wisely pointed out,

• Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

• God’s way of blessing us, sometimes, is not to remove the cause of our complaint, but to give us power to prevail over it.

• The Bible, in Romans 8:28, promises that “all things work together for good for those who love God.”

• God’s blessing, Journey with us through wealth and poverty, health and sickness, laughter and tears.