{"id":242,"date":"2023-04-26T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reflectivebiblestudy.com\/gospeladventure\/?p=242&2023"},"modified":"2023-04-24T18:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T00:00:12","slug":"the-present-life-and-the-promised-life-luke-17-20-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectivebiblestudy.com\/gospeladventure\/the-present-life-and-the-promised-life-luke-17-20-37\/","title":{"rendered":"The Present Life and the Promised Life: Luke 17:20-37"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"spoiler spoiler-style-2\"><div class=\"spoiler-title\">Focus Passage: Luke 17:20-37 (NIrV)<\/div><div class=\"spoiler-content\"><p>\u00a0<sup class=\"versenum\">20<\/sup> Once the Pharisees asked Jesus when God\u2019s kingdom would come. He replied, \u201cThe coming of God\u2019s kingdom is not something you can see just by watching for it carefully. <sup class=\"versenum\">21<\/sup> People will not say, \u2018Here it is.\u2019 Or, \u2018There it is.\u2019 God\u2019s kingdom is among you.\u201d <\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<sup class=\"versenum\">22<\/sup> Then Jesus spoke to his disciples. \u201cThe time is coming,\u201d he said, \u201cwhen you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man. But you won\u2019t see it. <sup class=\"versenum\">23<\/sup> People will tell you, \u2018There he is!\u2019 Or, \u2018Here he is!\u2019 Don\u2019t go running off after them. <\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<sup class=\"versenum\">24<\/sup> \u201cWhen the Son of Man comes, he will be like the lightning. It flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other. <sup class=\"versenum\">25<\/sup> But first the Son of Man must suffer many things. He will not be accepted by the people of today. <\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<sup class=\"versenum\">26<\/sup> \u201cRemember how it was in the days of Noah. It will be the same when the Son of Man comes. <sup class=\"versenum\">27<\/sup> People were eating and drinking. They were getting married. They were giving their daughters to be married. They did all those things right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. <\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<sup class=\"versenum\">28<\/sup> \u201cIt was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking. They were buying and selling. They were planting and building. <sup class=\"versenum\">29<\/sup> But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven. And all the people were destroyed. <\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<sup class=\"versenum\">30<\/sup> \u201cIt will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is shown to the world. <sup class=\"versenum\">31<\/sup> Suppose someone is on the roof of his house on that day. And suppose his goods are inside the house. He should not go down to get them. No one in the field should go back for anything either. <sup class=\"versenum\">32<\/sup> Remember Lot\u2019s wife! <sup class=\"versenum\">33<\/sup> Anyone who tries to keep his life will lose it. Anyone who loses his life will keep it. <\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<sup class=\"versenum\">34<\/sup> \u201cI tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed. One person will be taken and the other left. <sup class=\"versenum\">35-36<\/sup> Two women will be grinding grain together. One will be taken and the other left.\u201d <\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<sup class=\"versenum\">37<\/sup> \u201cWhere, Lord?\u201d his disciples asked. <\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He replied, \u201cThe vultures will gather where there is a dead body.\u201d <\/p>\r\n<p class=\"passage-read-more\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke 17:20-37&amp;version=nirv\" title=\"Read the passage on BibleGateway.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"hyperlink-underlined\">Luke 17:20-37<\/a> in context and\/or in other translations on BibleGateway.com!<\/p><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>In today\u2019s journal entry, we\u2019ll touch on one of the illogical things that Jesus tells us in this verse, and uncover something interesting about how Jesus saw life. Here\u2019s what Jesus said that doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense:<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>\u201cAnyone who tries to keep his life will lose it. Anyone who loses his life will keep it.\u201d<\/strong> (v. 33)<\/p>\r\n<p>All too often, we will read this verse, and do one of two things with it:<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n <li><p>We ignore or discount it. It doesn\u2019t make logical sense, so let\u2019s not pay much attention to it.<\/p><\/li>\r\n <li><p>We apply it to the subset of people who give up everything and enter the \u201cmission field\u201d, traveling to dangerous places in the world to spread the good news about Jesus. For those who don\u2019t travel, they must be \u201ctrying to keep his life.\u201d<\/p><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>Both of these ideas fall short. Both takes on this passage miss one important thing: the context of the verse.<\/p>\r\n<p>The immediate context is the day Jesus is <strong>\u201cshown to the world\u201d<\/strong> (v.30), which in the broader context would mean His second coming. The next immediate context is what reaction we will have when we see it (v. 31). Jesus says to not go back, and to not pick up anything when going.<\/p>\r\n<p>Then Jesus shares one of the shortest verses in the Bible as an example that needs very little explanation: <strong>\u201cRemember Lot\u2019s wife!\u201d<\/strong> (v. 32)<\/p>\r\n<p>The story of Lot and the escape from Sodom can be found in Genesis 19, and verse 26 tells the fate of Lot\u2019s wife: <strong>\u201cBut Lot\u2019s wife looked back. When she did, she became a pillar made out of salt.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>There is a lot of foreshadowing included in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, but in this journal entry, I want to bring just one big, overarching idea to our attention: <strong>What matters most is where our heart is.<\/strong> <\/p>\r\n<p>Lot\u2019s wife looked back, not because she was looking to see if there were fireballs coming down from heaven, but because her heart was back with the life she had back there.<\/p>\r\n<p>Those of us who are willing to lose our lives (the stuff and status we have built) when God calls us at the end of time, those will be the ones who will gain eternal life. Those whose hearts are focused on what is being lost and left behind, or those who are trying to bring baggage along will lose their lives.<\/p>\r\n<p>Jesus\u2019 instruction in verse 31 is clear: <strong>\u201cSuppose someone is on the roof of his house on that day. And suppose his goods are inside the house. He should not go down to get them. No one in the field should go back for anything either.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Our stuff only matters in the present life. Don\u2019t trade the present for the promised life to come!<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<div id=\"aj-wrap-up--242\" class=\"aj-wrap-up\"><p><em>This thought was inspired by studying the <strong>Walking With Jesus<\/strong> \u201cReflective Bible Study\u201d package. 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