Luke 17:7-10

Rachel Workman: ⁷ “When a servant comes in from plowing or taking care of sheep, does his master say, ‘Come in and eat with me’? ⁸ No, he says, ‘Prepare my meal, put on your apron, and serve me while I eat. Then you can eat later.’ ⁹ And does the master thank the servant for doing what he was told to do? Of course not. ¹⁰ In the same way, when you obey me you should say, ‘We are unworthy servants who have simply done our duty. Unworthy doesn't begin to cover it. 

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John Burnett:   “Which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come immediately and ^[g]sit down to eat’? ⁸ But will he not say to him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat, and properly ^[h]clothe yourself and serve me while I eat and drink; and ^[i]afterward you ^[j]may eat and drink’? ⁹ He does not thank the slave because he did the things which were commanded, does he? ¹⁰ So you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.’”  In this passage, Jesus is comparing the apostles to the slave in the story.  The master does not serve the slave but the slave the master.  The master eats first and the slave afterward.  The master does not thank the slave for that which he was commanded to do and we should not expect it as verse 10 says, we are unworthy slaves.  We do only what we ought to have done (If we do that even.) which is usually the minimum.  We are here to serve and just as supper is at the end of the day, so is our reward at the end of the age.  Come quickly Lord Jesus.

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Tomorrow’s reading for Luke 17:11-14

¹¹ As Jesus continued on toward Jerusalem, he reached the border between Galilee and Samaria. ¹² As he entered a village there, ten men with leprosy stood at a distance, ¹³ crying out, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

¹⁴ He looked at them and said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.”^[b] And as they went, they were cleansed of their leprosy.

Luke 17:5-6

Rachel Workman: ⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, “Show us how to increase our faith.”

⁶ The Lord answered, “If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘May you be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you!

In other words practice it.

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John Burnett:  ⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” ⁶ And the Lord said, “If you ^[e]had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea’; and it would ^[f]obey you.  The apostles didn’t think that would be able to forgive as Jesus had said so they asked Him to “Increase our faith!”

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Tomorrow’s reading for Luke 17:7-10

⁷ “When a servant comes in from plowing or taking care of sheep, does his master say, ‘Come in and eat with me’? ⁸ No, he says, ‘Prepare my meal, put on your apron, and serve me while I eat. Then you can eat later.’ ⁹ And does the master thank the servant for doing what he was told to do? Of course not. ¹⁰ In the same way, when you obey me you should say, ‘We are unworthy servants who have simply done our duty.

Luke 17:1-4

Rachel Workman: 1 One day Jesus said to his disciples, “There will always be temptations to sin, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting! ² It would be better to be thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around your neck than to cause one of these little ones to fall into sin. ³ So watch yourselves! Hard words aren't they? We need to be sure that we are not the cause of another person's sin. Even if it's just the way we live our lives.

“If another believer^[a] sins, rebuke that person; then if there is repentance, forgive. ⁴ Even if that person wrongs you seven times a day and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, you must forgive.” This is one of the hardest verses in the bible for me. I can forgive someone who sins. That's easy. Forgiving someone who wrongs me is much harder. I do forgive the person, however I'm usually done with them at that point. I'm pretty sure that's not how God wants me to be.

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John Burnett:  17 He said to His disciples, “It is inevitable that ^[a]stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come! ² It ^[b]would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble. ^3 [c]Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. ⁴ And if he sins against you seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ ^[d]forgive him.”    Those who are teaching a gospel contrary to the one taught in the Bible are in store for some “woe”.  This a passage that anyone who steps up to teach children’s Sunday school should heed as important.  Eternal consequences are in place for those who teach children the wrong gospel and becomes a stumbling block for them to understand the true gospel.  Repentance is mentioned here again and Jesus’s instructions for forgiveness are pretty clear when you consider how many times He has forgiven us of our sins.

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Today’s reading for Luke 17:5-6

⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, “Show us how to increase our faith.”

⁶ The Lord answered, “If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘May you be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you!