#53 Luke 9:7-9 Who, Then, Is This?

On January 9, 2022 by Amy Burgin

Joy:
Episode #53 Luke 9:7-9

Welcome

Amy:
Welcome to The Christgazing Podcast. We are so glad you’re here. I’m Amy Burgin.

Joy:
I’m Joy Burgin

Amy:
If you are anything like us, you desire God’s presence and holy direction amid everything going on in your life. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 says All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

This podcast makes room for us to grow in this powerful scripture. Each week we read a passage from the Bible several times and create stillness after each reading to allow God’s breath of Scripture to blow on us, teach us, correct us, and train us.

We are in a series that takes us through the book of Luke.

Pour Out Your Heart to God

Amy:
Before Joy reads today’s passage, take a few moments to give God the things that are on your mind. Maybe it’s hope, despair, gratitude, depression, or a mix of all these things and more. Whatever is on your mind, name it and bring it to the Lord in this next minute.

What Does This Passage Say About God?

Joy:
As I read the passage for the first time, consider the question, What does this passage say about God?

Luke 9:7-9 Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was going on. And he was perplexed because some were saying that John had been raised from the dead, others that Elijah had appeared, and still others that one of the prophets of long ago had come back to life. But Herod said, “I beheaded John. Who, then, is this I hear such things about?” And he tried to see him.

Again?

Take the next few moments to answer the question, what does this passage tell you about God?

[Pause and know]

What Does This Passage Say About People?

Joy:
As I reread the passage, consider the question: What does this passage tell you about people?

Take the next few moments to answer the question, what does this passage tell you about people?

[Pause and know]

Lord, What Would You Have Me Know Or Do Today?

Joy:
As I read for the last time, ask God the question, “Lord, what would you have me know or do today in response to this passage?”

Take the next minute to ask God, “Lord, what would you have me know or do in response to this passage?”

[Pause and listen]

Blessing

Joy:
Christgazer, your delight is in the Word of the Lord, which is why you’re listening to this podcast. Therefore, you are blessed as it says in Psalm 1:2-3, you are like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all you do, you prosper.

This is the Word of the Lord.

One Response

Amy:
Some people thought Jesus was Elijah or John the Baptist resurrected from the dead. The Spirit of God rested upon them both.

Both preached a message of repentance. Repent, turn from your stony heart and ask God for a heart like his, a beautiful one full of love, grace, encouragement, justice, and rightness. God is supreme, and God is good!

But, about 900 years before Jesus walked the earth, King Ahab and his wife Jezebel tried to kill Elijah and his message of repentance.

Herod the tetrarch and his wife Herodias did behead John. She preferred her stony heart and hated John’s message.

Herod knows he beheaded John, so he wonders, who, then is this, walking in authority and love?

The Spirit of Christ lived on, and his message can never be put to death.

Here we are now, over 2,000 years later, and the Spirit of God lives on in the men and women who put their trust in Jesus.

We gladly sing the message of God,

“Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now I’m found
Was blind, but now I see.”

No beheading, no power, no circumstance has ever stopped or can ever stop God’s people from singing it.

Closing

Amy:
Joy and I will be back next week to go Christgazing together. Until then, don’t forget, when you put your trust in Christ, you are one in whom he dwells and delights, a dearly loved child of God. You are royalty in his strong and unshakeable kingdom. Though trouble abounds, Christ prevails, and so do you.