Jesus Relates Differently - Luke 9:51-62 - 3rd Sunday after Pentecost - June 29, 2025

Thanks for joining us today! Listen in to hear some valuable insights about this tricky section of the gospel. It is easy to look at Jesus' responses to these people and think he's being awfully rude. Why isn't he letting people say goodbye? Or bury his father? It is important to know where Jesus' mind is right now. His mind is on YOU, on his death, resurrection, and ascension! He doesn't have time. He is so resolute in his goal, that he needs to get to it right away. Also learn how we are not only partners in his ministry, but also the goal of his ministry! 

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Luke 9:51-62

51 As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. 52 And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; 53 but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. 54 When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” 55 But Jesus turned and rebuked them. 56 Then he and his disciples went to another village.

57 As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”

58 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

59 He said to another man, “Follow me.”

But he replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

61 Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family.”

62 Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”