Am I Doing Enough for God? Hearing God’s Voice in Luke 5:33-39 | Daily Devotional and Bible Study

Am I Doing Enough for God? Hearing God’s Voice in Luke 5:33-39

Most of us are carrying a mental list of what a serious Christian does. Read at 5am. Journal every insight. Pray an hour without your mind wandering. And when we don’t measure up to it, we assume we’re not as close to God as other people are.

I had planned to move into Luke 6 today, but the Lord kept bringing me back to the end of chapter 5. In our daily Bible study we’re still at Levi’s banquet, where someone brings Jesus that exact complaint about his followers. His answer surprised me. He doesn’t defend their devotion and he doesn’t apologize for them. He talks about a wedding, a torn garment, and wine bursting out of an old skin.

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Questions we answer today

How often did the law actually require fasting, and how often were the Pharisees doing it? Was Jesus against fasting? What did a Jewish wedding have to do with any of this? Why can’t you patch a new garment onto an old one? What does it mean that we want Jesus sewn onto the life we already have?

Timestamps

• 00:00 Why I went back instead of moving into Luke 6
• 00:33 The mental list of what a serious Christian does
• 02:56 The complaint brought to Jesus
• 03:26 Reading Luke 5:33-39
• 04:41 Prayer
• 06:09 This isn’t a question about Scripture, it’s about behavior
• 06:32 One fast a year in the law
• 07:03 Twice a week by the time of Jesus
• 08:33 Jesus was not against fasting
• 09:47 The sons of the bridal chamber
• 10:46 What a Jewish wedding actually looked like
• 13:06 Not what do serious people do, but what is God doing
• 13:36 The bridegroom imagery across Scripture
• 15:07 A wedding in a garden, a wedding at the end of history
• 15:55 The first time Jesus signals His death
• 16:23 Taken away, and the language of Isaiah 53
• 18:47 Celebrating and aching at the same time
• 19:11 The garment, and what cloth was worth
• 21:07 What the old garment represented
• 22:27 We want a Jesus patch
• 22:55 The Girl Scout sash
• 23:46 Bless my business, bless my relationship
• 24:53 The wineskins, and why new wine bursts them
• 27:02 Surrender instead of blessing what you built
• 28:00 Prayer
• 28:57 Why house churches matter, and Rome

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