Fri.’s Devo - The Lawyers

Read Luke 11:45-54 Jesus has just rebuked the Pharasees for being hypocrites and a lawyer challenges him. If I was that lawyer, I would have kept quiet. If he was looking for a fight he got silenced. To the lawyers Jesus had nothing good to say either. They were a different kind of hypocrite. They made laws that were so strict they couldn’t keep. He rebuked them for building the sepulchers for the prophets that their fathers killed. He was explaining that their fathers killed the prophets that God sent to show the people their sins and the lawyers put the words of the prophets in a nicely decorated box and honored them on the outside but rebelled against what they came to say. God was holding the lawyers responsible for their blood. He was holding them responsible for every godly person who had been murdered because they should have defended them, but instead sentenced them to die by not defending them. They were the ones who were blessed with knowledge of the law and instead they used it wrongly to punish the godly and let the ungodly go free. Jesus’ statements made the scribes, Pharasees and lawyers hate him even more and they devoted themselves to finding any way they could catch him in a lie or twist what he had to say. They wanted to find a case against him according to the law. They just didn’t know they were talking to the Word in the flesh. There was no way they would be able to win against the Word. Jesus was powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, able to divide their thoughts and the intents of their heart. We have this same word in us which is why Jesus told us not to worry when we are brought before the lawyers and Pharasees of the land because the Holy Spirit in us will tell us what to say. Lord, help us to stand on your Word and not worry about the power of the world because greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world.