Lucas 12
A.T. Robertson · Citado em PreceptAustin
Lucas 12
Robertson on sparrows - Diminutive of strouthos and means any small bird, sparrows in particular. They are sold today in the markets of Jerusalem and Jaffa. "For a farthing" (assariou) is genitive of price. Yet (the critical term of comparison as it powerfully brings home Jesus' point) not one of them is forgotten (epilanthanomai) before God - If God remembers the small animals He has created, ones the world holds of little value, He will certainly remember those created in His image (reasoning from the lesser truth to the greater truth). Nothing escapes His omniscient eye or His compassionate heart! Isa 49:15 (YAHWEH SAYS TO HIS UNFAITHFUL WIFE ISRAEL) “Can a woman forget her nursing child And have no compassion on the son of her womb (NO AND AGAIN NO!)? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you. Robertson - There is comfort in this thought for us all. Our father who knows about the sparrows knows and cares about us. THOUGHT - Jesus is saying "Not even the most insignificant of God's creatures lies outside the sphere of his loving care." (Hendriksen) If that is true than what about YOU, dear child of God?!!! Life Application Study Bible - Our true value is God's estimate of our worth, not our peers' estimate. Other people evaluate and categorize us according to how we perform, what we achieve, and how we look. But God cares for us, as he does for all of his creatures, because we belong to him. Thus, we can face life without fear; we are very valuable to God. Cents (787)(assarion) see Wikipedia article. This word is the diminutive of the Roman copper coin as. The only other NT use is Mt 10:29 and there are no uses in the Septuagint. NET Note on cents - a small Roman copper coin worth about one-sixteenth of a denarius or less than a half hour's average wage (one tenth of a drachma) (Luke 12) Forgotten (neglected) (1950)(epilanthanomai from epí = in or upon - intensifies meaning of following verb + lantháno = lie hidden or concealed) conveys 2 basic nuances in the NT, to forget (not recall information concerning something) or to neglect (give little attention to, to omit by carelessness or design). Paul uses this to describe what he did (and all believers should do) regarding his past persecution of the Church and other sinful acts. (Phil 3:13-note). The man who looks at the word of God and is not a doer is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and then goes away immediately forgetting what kind of person he was (James 1:24-note). The writer of Hebrews encourages the wavering readers with these words For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints. (Hebrews 6:10-note) Before (enopion) God - The word before is enopion discussed below.T Before (1799)(enopion from en = in + ops = the eye/see [cp optanomai = see, perceive with eyes, look at, implying not only the mere act of seeing but actual perception of what one sees]) means literally in sight, in front of, in the presence of. Being in sight. Before the face and thus the idea of face to face! Of doing something in someone’s presence. Enopion in Luke and Acts - Lk. 1:15; Lk. 1:17; Lk. 1:19; Lk. 1:75; Lk. 1:76; Lk. 4:7; Lk. 5:18; Lk. 5:25; Lk. 8:47; Lk. 12:6; Lk. 13:26; Lk. 14:10; Lk. 15:10; Lk. 15:18; Lk. 15:21; Lk. 16:15; Lk. 23:14; Lk. 24:43; Jn. 20:30; Acts 2:25; Acts 4:10; Acts 4:19; Acts 6:6; Acts 7:46; Acts 9:15; Acts 10:30; Acts 10:31; Acts 10:33; Acts 19:9; Acts 19:19; Acts 27:35 Before God - This exact Greek phrase (enopion tou theou) is found 25x in 25v in the NT - Lk. 1:19; Lk. 12:6; Lk. 16:15; Acts 4:19; Acts 7:46; Acts 10:31; Acts 10:33; Rom. 14:22; 1 Co. 1:29; 2 Co. 4:2; 2 Co. 7:12; Gal. 1:20; 1 Tim. 5:4; 1 Tim. 5:21; 1 Tim. 6:13; 2 Tim. 2:14; 2 Tim. 4:1; 1 Pet. 3:4; Rev. 3:2; Rev. 8:2; Rev. 8:4; Rev. 9:13; Rev. 11:16; Rev. 12:10; Rev 16:19 Rev. 16:19+ "Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath." Comment: God remembers the sin of all who do not fear Him as typified by His remembering Babylon with her utter destruction! What a striking contrast with God's "memory" of the sins of those who are safe in Christ by grace through faith - see Isa 43:25, Ps 103:12 Isa 38:17 Isa 44:22 Jer 31:34+ Jer 50:20 Da 9:24 Micah 7:18, 19 Heb 8:12 Heb 10:17 Rod Mattoon - Fear can hover and encompass us like a thick fog, making our path obscure and unclear. The words of the Lord provide encouragement for all of us as He reminds the disciples and us of our preciousness to God. He uses sparrows as an object lesson of the great truth that we are not forgotten by God. Wow! Sparrows and other small birds were caught, killed, skinned, roasted and consumed. They were considered delicacies, as is still the case in certain countries. You would think that the commonness and insignificance of a sparrow would not command the attention of the Lord, but it does. They were worth only two small coins. Each coin was worth 1/16th of a denarius which was the ordinary wage for a full days work in that time by a day laborer. As tiny as the sparrow is, God knows the needs of each one. If He knows their needs, how much more does He know your needs? He knows you so well, that He knows how many hairs are on your head. He is so intimate with us that each hair is numbered. It has been computed that a blonde person has about 145,000 hairs, a dark-haired person has 120,000 hairs, and a person with red hair has around 90,000 strands of hair! Your hair inventory is constantly changing and the Lord keeps up with it constantly. He knows the hairs that fall out and the ones that don't grow back! Ha! You are more valuable to the Lord than an entire flock of sparrows. That is how important you are to Him. With the Lord, you do not fall unnoticed between the cracks. You are not lost in the crowd. Beloved, fear and reverence the One who values you, not the one who opposes you. Because of His care, you and I do not need to live in fear. Have you ever noticed how people run for cover when it rains? When people don't have an umbrella, they run hard to get under cover somewhere. They tend to hurry and scurry. On the other hand, if people have an umbrella, they seem to walk just as they would normally. Dr. Hammonds of Sardis Baptist Church stated, "The other day it was raining very hard, and I saw a certain couple's behavior. The man did not have an umbrella so he ran for the building. The lady, on the other hand, had an umbrella so she took her time getting out of the car and strolling to the building. The man seemed aggravated because he got wet and had to wait on the lady. She took her time and enjoyed the rain." Beloved, we tend to do the same thing as this man and woman. When we trust the Lord, we can stroll through trouble. When we don't trust the Lord, we run to get out of the trouble. Then we get frustrated because we see other people that seem to handle trouble easily. When you have troubles remember, you can be under His umbrella and care. He wants you to be under His cover. So let me ask, "Are you under His cover today? If not, run under his protection and let Him shelter you and stay out of the puddles." (Rod Mattoon - Treasures from Luke) Luke 12:7 "Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows. KJV Luke 12:7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered Luke 21:18; 1 Sa 14:45; 2 Sa 14:11; Mt 10:30; Acts 27:34 you are more valuable than many sparrows Job 35:11; Ps 8:6; Isa 43:3,4; Mt 6:26; 10:31 Luke 12 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Luke 12:1-12 Confessing or Denying Christ? - Steven Cole Luke 12:1-7 A Certain Cure for Hypocrisy, Part 1 - John MacArthur Related Passages: Luke 21:18 Yet not a hair of your head will perish. 1 Samuel 14:45 But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die, who has brought about this great deliverance in Israel? Far from it! As the LORD lives, not one hair of his head shall fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day.” So the people rescued Jonathan and he did not die. 2 Samuel 14:11 Then she said, “Please let the king remember the LORD your God, so that the avenger of blood will not continue to destroy, otherwise they will destroy my son.” And he said, “As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.” FEAR NOT, GOD CARES Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered - Jesus reasons with a little "divine arithmetic!" The verb numbered (arithmeo) is (perfect tense) implying they are permanently numbered (even if they do not stay permanently present on our head!) and the passive voice implies God numbered them (divine passive) Notice how Jesus places emphasis on the smallest, seemingly insignificant things (sparrows, hairs), to highlight the point that if God is concerned about these things, how much more will He take care of those who are created in His own image and who have been born into His family and are forever His children. If He knows about and is concerned about the number of hairs, how much more is His care for our entire person, body, soul and spirit? (That's rhetorical). As John writes "See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him." (1 John 3:1+) THOUGHT - Dearly beloved (and ponder that phrase for that is what you are in God's eyes!!!), the next time you doubt your Father's love and concern for you, take a moment and meditate on the truth in these passages. Remember the sparrows and your hairs. If He is concerned about you VERY HAIRS, would He not be concerned about your very being? Of course not! John writes Moody Bible Commentary - God's knowledge of us—some of which is quite trivial, like the number of hairs on our heads—should assure us that He knows and cares about all our non-trivial concerns
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Robertson- This unpardonable sin is given by Mark 3:28-29; Matthew 12:31-32 immediately after the charge that Jesus was in league with Beelzebub. Luke here separates it from the same charge made in Judea (Luke 11:15-20). As frequently said, there is no sound reason for saying that Jesus only spoke his memorable sayings once. Luke apparently finds a different environment here. Note the use of eis here in the sense of "against. If a person is not careful, he can become so hardhearted that he can quench the Spirit of God in his life. He can get to a point where he will not be under conviction for his sins any more or the Lord stops speaking to him. You don't want to be in that boat for sure! (Luke 12) Life Application Study Bible (page 68) - Jesus said that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is unforgivable. This has worried many sincere Christians, but it does not need to. The unforgivable sin is attributing to Satan the work that the Holy Spirit accomplishes (see the notes on Matthew 12:31, 32; Mark 3:28, 29). Thus, it is the deliberate and ongoing rejection of the Holy Spirit’s work and even of God himself. A person who has committed this sin is far from God and totally unaware of any sin at all. If you fear you have committed this sin, be assured that your very concern shows that you have not sinned in this way. Bruce Barton - Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit—who continually rejects the Holy Spirit’s message about Jesus and his convicting influence to believe in him—is beyond redemptive help. The rejection of the messenger (even of the Son himself) can be forgiven, but not the rejection of God himself through the Holy Spirit. The mighty works done by the Spirit were unmistakable announcements that the kingdom had arrived. Jesus said that those who blasphemed the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven—not because that sin is worse than any other, but because they will never ask for forgiveness. Whoever rejects the prompting of the Holy Spirit removes himself or herself from the only force that can lead anyone to repentance and restoration with God. Those who have seen the light and yet prefer the darkness blaspheme the Holy Spirit. That act has eternal consequences. This sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit has worried many sincere Christians, so the meaning becomes very important to understand. The unforgivable sin means attributing to Satan the work that the Holy Spirit accomplishes. Thus the “unforgivable sin” is deliberate and ongoing rejection of the Holy Spirit’s work and even of God himself. A person who has committed this sin has shut himself or herself off from God so thoroughly that he or she is unaware of any sin at all. John refers to this as the sin unto death (1 John 5:16). (See also Life Application Commentary discussion of Hebrews 6:4–6.) A person who fears having committed this sin shows by his or her very concern that he or she has not sinned in this way. (See Luke) R C H
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Robertson says that originally diaphero meant “test the things that differ.” The verb was used for assaying metals. Either sense suits this context, but the first step is to distinguish between good and evil and that is not always easy in our complex civilization. In the intransitive sense, diaphero means to differ, to be different. To differ in an advantageous way speaks of those things that are superior, to be worth more (in the present context Paul speaks of those things that are worth more from an eternal/spiritual perspective!) Diaphero - 13v - carry(1), differ(1), differs(1), driven about(1), essential(1), excellent(1), makes...difference(1), more valuable(3), spread(1), valuable(1), worth...more(1). Matt. 6:26; Matt. 10:31; Matt. 12:12; Mk. 11:16; Lk. 12:7; Lk. 12:24; Acts 13:49; Acts 27:27; Rom. 2:18; 1 Co. 15:41; Gal. 2:6; Gal. 4:1; Phil. 1:10 ILLUSTRATION OF RAVEN - A man in England raised a raven, then gave it its liberty. It made its home in some rocks. It would still come to the house where it had been raised to be fed. The man who raised this bird would walk on the nearby hills and the raven would soon appear. The man observed that the raven had caches of food stored up all over the place, hidden in the heather. When the man would feed it, the raven would take a big beak full and stack it away under a stone, covering it so neatly that it was hard for the man to find, even after watching the bird dig it in. The God who taught the raven to cache its food without barns and who Himself feeds the ravens is well able to care for His people. (John