Judging Others and True Obedience

Judging Others and True Obedience
Luke 6.39-49

One picture is worth a thousand words. Here, in quick succession, are four of Jesus’ most vivid word-sketches. They are meant to be funny. Try reading them like that, and you’ll see a dry, perhaps typically Jewish, humour coming through; the Bible is full of humour if we know how to recognize it. But what these little scenes have to say is deadly serious. Jesus intended people to remember these lessons. They were going to need to. Each is a warning about rival teachings, rival visions of the kingdom, about ‘solutions’ which leave the depths of the problem untouched. They applied to rival teachings in Jesus’ day, but they apply just as well to some of today’s theories about what human life should be like...

Taken from Luke for Everyone – by Tom Wright