Aug. 24, 2025

Last Week we went through the story of the rich man and Lazarus in chapter 16, and started into chapter 17 where Jesus talked about faith the size of a mustard seed. This week we will see that God will never be indebted to us, anything we do for the kingdom is a small repayment for the work He has done in our life.

Luke Lesson 32 Study Questions

1.    Having a servant plowing or tending sheep: Jesus had just spoken to His disciples about great works possible by great _____. Here Jesus added some words meant to work against the ______ that often rises when someone is used by God.

2.    We have done what was our duty to do: This attitude understands that our Master has done more and greater things for ___ than we could ever do for ____. What He did for us was out of pure love; what we do for Him is out of proper gratitude and duty.

3.    When our hearts are right, we live and act as if we are happy to have the ________ of being allowed to _____ God.

4.    Go, show yourselves to the priests: It was remarkable that Jesus asked them to go to the priests while they were still _______. This was truly stepping out in _____, as in putting on the new man even when we still look and feel like the old man.

5.    And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed: Just as God blessed the ______ of the lepers to step out as the new man even when they feel like the old, so will He ______ our faith.

6.    Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? Jesus missed the nine who did not return to give ________. He marveled that they did not return to give Him thanks. Jesus also notices our lack of __________.

7.    Your faith has made you well: There was an extra ________ for this tenth leper. When Jesus said this, He likely meant God’s work within the man’s _______. The other lepers had whole bodies, but sick hearts.

8.    . For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you: Jesus told them that the kingdom was right in their midst. Within you could be better translated in your ______ or among you. The kingdom of God was among them because the ______ was among them.

9.    The days will come when you will _______ to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it: Now speaking to the disciples, Jesus told them that when He left this earth, the days would come when Jesus’ disciples – both near and far off – would long for the Messiah’s _______.

10.    But first He must suffer: There is a tendency in many followers of Jesus to skip the ______ and go straight to the Kingdom of God; but the Kingdom of God could not come until the ______ went to the cross.

11.    Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed: Even as the world seemed to continue in the normal routines of life before the flood and the __________ of Sodom and Gomorrah, Jesus said there will be some sense of normalcy in the world when He is _________.

12.    Just as in the days of Noah and Lot, when Jesus comes, some will be _______ out of the way (escaping judgment) and others will remain and be ________.