In our passage today in Luke chapter 9, verses 37-62 Dr. Luke focuses our attention on the failures of the disciples' faith as servants in the Kingdom of God. Jesus teaches to his disciples again what a disciple must learn to be fit for the Kingdom of God by faith. What we should appreciate about the Gospel accounts (as well as the entire Scriptural corpus) is that human sin, unbelief and misunderstanding is revealed to us candidly: Sometimes the disciples are fit by God's grace and sometimes they fail because of lack of faith. In other words, the revelation of God's Word shows God's people, his elect, often “warts and all”! Our passage today is about the disciples' failure to understand fully who Jesus is, and to know their identity as disciples who can trust and follow him. The disciples' failure however exalts Christ and emphasizes HIS grace and mercy toward sinners! God indeed is merciful and long-suffering, patient with his people as they learn as his disciple-children! It is true that NO ONE may boast- -and if they do, they must boast in the LORD! We love because he first loved us! Thanks be to God for Jesus Christ who is patient with all of his disciples, as he instructs and nurtures us, and never leaves nor forsakes us.
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Rev. Charles R. Biggs, Th.M. is the Regional Home Missionary of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in the Presbytery of the Mid Atlantic (Virginia and Maryland). His website: www.joiningtheharvest.org. He was pastor of Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church in Purcellville, VA. for...
