October 1, 2011 – Luke 9:49 - 10:20

The analogy to the plow has always made me curios. Thinking about it, what I come to is that when you give your life to Christ, the way you were living isn’t possible anymore. You cannot say you have fully committed to God if you spend time pining for the “good old days” before your conversion. That “mourning” period is part of the conversion, but I don’t think you are fully there until that pining is behind you. I think if you catch yourself in that situation, you need to start looking forward more than backward because living in the past will cause you to lose out on the present.

So, seventy-two, in groups of two, going to the towns ahead of Jesus. That is 36 towns on the Jesus Christ farewell tour on His way to Jerusalem. I guess it is a good thing Christ tells them to just shake the dust off of their sandals when you see what James and John wanted to do to the Samaritan town, fire from Heaven.

We see that Christ is God in that He says He saw Satan thrown down from Heaven. What a battle and event that must have been. What sadness that must have brought to God to do that to a beloved angel and 1/3 that followed him.