Jul. 13, 2025

Last week we ended with the lesson of being good stewards in the master’s absence. We pick up in chapter 12 verse 49 about Jesus bringing purifying fire and division.

Luke Lesson 26 Study Questions

1.    Study Questions

Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother: This may be the price one must pay for being a _________ steward. When you follow Jesus faithfully, there may very well be _________ for His sake.

2.    In our present _______ there are many reasons to believe that Jesus is coming soon, adding to our sense of ________ as we hope to discern this time.

3.    None of these guarantees that the return of Jesus is ______. It is possible that in the wisdom of God, the time is not soon – yet, if that were the case, God would have to allow the same kind of ______________ that mark our present age to assemble again at a later time.

4.    Make every effort along the way to settle with him: In the illustration Jesus used, it made sense to _______ before appearing before the ______. 

5.    We normally think of some people as good and some people as bad and find it easy to believe that God should allow good things to happen to ______ people and ______ things to bad people. Jesus corrected this thinking.

6.    Unless you repent you will all likewise perish: In analyzing the issue, Jesus turned His focus from the question “_____ did this happen?” and turned it to the question, “______ does this mean to me?”

7.    Jesus’ warning that they must repent or perish had an immediate, chilling fulfillment. Within a generation, those citizens of Jerusalem who had not ________ and turned to Jesus _________ in the destruction of Jerusalem.

8.    He came seeking fruit: After the warning unless you repent you will all likewise perish, Jesus used this parable to illustrate __________ of God’s judgment. The first point was simple: God looks for ______.

9.    If not, after that you can cut it down: The certain man, illustrating God, was also ______ in His judgment. There finally would come the day of reckoning. It was not just an endless string of ________.

10.    He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God: Jesus showed His complete mastery of illness and disease and deformity, no matter if the cause were _________ or _________. The woman was happy she decided to go to the synagogue on that Sabbath day.

11.    Hypocrite! Jesus did not respond with gentleness. With authority he confronted the ruler of the synagogue who valued extreme extensions of Biblical _________ more than the compassionate and life-changing power of Jesus to ____ a long-afflicted woman.

12.    All His adversaries were put to shame; and all the multitude rejoiced: The woman was so obviously ______, and the ruler of the synagogue was so obviously ______ that all rejoiced in Jesus’ victory.