{"id":196,"date":"2022-11-09T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reflectivebiblestudy.com\/gospeladventure\/?p=196&2022"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:00:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:00:24","slug":"confirming-our-faith-luke-18-31-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectivebiblestudy.com\/gospeladventure\/confirming-our-faith-luke-18-31-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirming Our Faith: Luke 18:31-34"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"spoiler spoiler-style-2\"><div class=\"spoiler-title\">Focus Passage: Luke 18:31-34 (NIV)<\/div><div class=\"spoiler-content\"><p>\u00a0<sup class=\"versenum\">31<\/sup> Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, \u201cWe are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled. <sup class=\"versenum\">32<\/sup> He will be handed over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him, spit on him, flog him and kill him. <sup class=\"versenum\">33<\/sup> On the third day he will rise again.\u201d <\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<sup class=\"versenum\">34<\/sup> The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"passage-read-more\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke 18:31-34&amp;version=niv\" title=\"Read the passage on BibleGateway.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"hyperlink-underlined\">Luke 18:31-34<\/a> in context and\/or in other translations on BibleGateway.com!<\/p><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>In today\u2019s journal entry, we\u2019ll be looking at just one of the many verses where Jesus directly tells His disciples that He will be arrested, sentenced, abused, killed, and then be raised from the dead. It seems shocking that the disciples don\u2019t understand any of this, especially when it seems so clear to us looking back on this event.<\/p>\r\n<p>Which leads me to the one idea I want to focus on in this passage: <strong>Jesus does not want us to be surprised by the future. He wants to share with us what will happen, both as a way of confirming our faith in Him, and so that we won\u2019t be scared when what He has predicted will come to pass.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>The Bible, including the gospels, are filled with prophecy and foreshadowing about what the future will hold. Too many people seem to forget this, or they rationalize away these prophecies saying that they have already been fulfilled.<\/p>\r\n<p>I will agree that many Biblical prophecies have been fulfilled already in the timeline of history, but this doesn\u2019t diminish the remaining prophecies. Instead, it enhances them, and our faith in the entire message of the Bible. Prophecy is given primarily to strengthen the faith of those within the church, and only secondarily to impress those outside of the church.<\/p>\r\n<p>Prophecy is much less impressing to a secular person than our actions and attitudes towards them and each other. It is completely possible for us to have an accurate understanding of prophecy, and repel everyone we meet when we share it. Our best witness is the personal witness of our lives and how we treat each other, and only after this are we able to share faith building truth \u2013 such as what we find in this passage.<\/p>\r\n<p>Jesus didn\u2019t share this message with the broader crowd, but with His close followers. It is unclear all the different reasons, but one reason He did this was to strengthen their faith in Him after it was shattered during the fact.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Jesus does not want the future to scare us, because He has seen it, knows what will happen, and will be with us all the way through it.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<div id=\"aj-wrap-up--196\" class=\"aj-wrap-up\"><p><em>This thought was inspired by studying the <strong>Walking With Jesus<\/strong> \u201cReflective Bible Study\u201d package. To discover insights like this in your own study time, <a class=\"underline\" href=\"https:\/\/reflectivebiblestudy.com\/\" title=\"Check out Reflective Bible Study!\">click here<\/a> and give Reflective Bible Study a try today!<\/em><\/p><p><em><a class=\"underline\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\" onClick=\"rbs_aj_inline_subscribe(this, '196');\">Subscribe<\/a> to this blog and never miss an insight.<\/em><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In today\u2019s journal entry, we\u2019ll be looking at just one of the many verses where Jesus directly tells His disciples that He will be arrested, sentenced, abused, killed, and then be raised from the dead. 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