Episode 7
The Real Jesus - Gives us a Voice (Bilingual Service)
Martin Chairez delivers a powerful message about how the real Jesus gives His followers a voice.
Transcript
Please turn your Bibles to Luke chapter 11, Lucas Lucas Capo.
Speaker:So encouraging to be able to have a worship service.
Speaker:Lord, what to do?
Speaker:I?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Kyle?
Speaker:Uh, Uhoh.
Speaker:I feel like I'm being prank cuz I didn't buy a donut.
Speaker:I will repent.
Speaker:The United States is the second largest Spanish speaking country in the world.
Speaker:There are more Spanish speakers that live in the United States than
Speaker:in Argentina, than in Colombia.
Speaker:Then in Spain, this is a country where the Spanish language
Speaker:is here and is here to stay.
Speaker:Whereas in other cultures who bring their own native language, usually by
Speaker:generation two, that language is gone In the proximity to Latin America, new
Speaker:generations not being ashamed to be speak Spanish, but embracing their parents'
Speaker:language and the culture being a communal.
Speaker:Family oriented culture.
Speaker:The, the language remains.
Speaker:Every institution in every industry in the United States has figured that out.
Speaker:So when you call somewhere, they say
Speaker:used to be those
Speaker:moved us up.
Speaker:Every institution and every industry has embraced a branch for Spanish
Speaker:in our fellowship of churches.
Speaker:My wife and I are only one of nine ministers devoted to Spanish
Speaker:ministry in our, the entire country, in our fellowship of churches.
Speaker:My position doesn't exist as a Spanish minister for Spanish
Speaker:ministry in the majority.
Speaker:Of our churches, and yet we are the second largest Spanish
Speaker:speaking country in the world.
Speaker:I say that to say, to bring some context as to how special our
Speaker:bilingual service is and how we are participating with the new things that
Speaker:God is doing in the second largest Spanish speaking country in the world.
Speaker:And so for this English dominant speakers, we thank you for making space where we
Speaker:can worship publicly in both languages and not be in a corner with headsets
Speaker:feeling like second class citizens.
Speaker:But now we are participating in the kingdom with all are welcome and all
Speaker:can hear in their native language.
Speaker:Amen.
Speaker:Luke Chapter 11, the English Ministry.
Speaker:You guys have been going through the Gospel of Luke, and so I'm grateful.
Speaker:We're grateful to be able to join in into this passage for us.
Speaker:We've been going through the gospel of Johnson.
Speaker:We'll pause that.
Speaker:We'll enter the world of Luke.
Speaker:Have in 11 how much bread did the Defriend ask for?
Speaker:Find your answer, don't tell anyone.
Speaker:We'll get to it later in Luke chapter nine.
Speaker:Luke chapter nine in verse 51.
Speaker:Jesus makes this proclamation as a time.
Speaker:The scripture says, as a time approach for him to be taken up to heaven.
Speaker:Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.
Speaker:And so from chapter nine, verse 51, all the way in 1928, it's Jesus
Speaker:and his ministry journeying to Jerusalem in the Christian calendar.
Speaker:We're on our way to the cross and resurrection, and that's
Speaker:what's taking place there.
Speaker:And so then chapter 11 is in the middle of this journey, and
Speaker:chapter 11 talks about prayer.
Speaker:And other things that we're gonna unpack for a second, but I, I want
Speaker:to just kind of set it up here for you before you understand how unique
Speaker:Chapter 11 is in the context of this journey to death and resurrection.
Speaker:So look, chapter 11,
Speaker:here's a breakdown of Luke Chapter 11.
Speaker:This breakdown is an invitation for you to take some time this week and
Speaker:to dive into one of those things.
Speaker:So we see prayer, power, signs and critics pod.
Speaker:It's a very dense chapter, in fact, chapter 11 and chapter 14.
Speaker:There's a lot of content and teaching back to back, to back, to back, to back.
Speaker:That for the reader can be a little overwhelming and easy to miss some things.
Speaker:But again, it's right in the middle of that journey.
Speaker:But we're gonna not talk about all of these, but we'll talk about powers and
Speaker:then we'll go back to the beginning.
Speaker:Prayer.
Speaker:So I'm just gonna kind of summarize it here in Luke 11, verse 14 to 28.
Speaker:It says there that Jesus healed a man that was muted.
Speaker:Verse 14, sorry, as Jesus was driving out a demonn that was muted when the Demonn
Speaker:left, the man who had been muted spoke and the crowd was amazed and author.
Speaker:And then later, Jesus here, right away, he's accused that he's
Speaker:driving out demons by a demonn.
Speaker:And then Jesus responds just with logic like, Hey, if saint's divided
Speaker:against Satan, it's gonna collapse.
Speaker:Like he just kind of is gently just kind of breaking it down
Speaker:logically to his critics.
Speaker:And then there's a lady at the end, you know, bless is the mother who bore you.
Speaker:And Jesus is like, that's cool, but it's better to trust and believe in God.
Speaker:And so we see two extremes in the middle of this teaching and this miracle, one
Speaker:extreme is hyper critical of Jesus.
Speaker:And the other extreme just kind of that people, people that tell you what
Speaker:they want you, they want you to hear.
Speaker:But I love how Jesus kind of handles both and brings them back to trusting in God.
Speaker:Oh,
Speaker:that says a lot about Jesus who can take critics and people pre pleasing praise and
Speaker:not be shaken, but be able to attend to both and bring them to God centeredness.
Speaker:Because we can relate to the critics.
Speaker:We may not accuse Jesus of doing things in the power of Satan, but
Speaker:we may feel like Jesus is absent or not working in your favor.
Speaker:You said you'd love me.
Speaker:You said you'd be there.
Speaker:Where are you?
Speaker:Maybe we have resentment at times, especially when difficult
Speaker:things are taking place.
Speaker:Or maybe we're in the other extreme.
Speaker:This is the best life ever.
Speaker:Oh my goodness.
Speaker:Yay.
Speaker:I mean, it is, but life is real.
Speaker:The struggles, there's ups, there's downs.
Speaker:God is not expecting us to be in this hyper bubble either.
Speaker:So it says a lot about God who can take the spaces where we can
Speaker:be and bring us back to God vent.
Speaker:Jesus.
Speaker:Jesus.
Speaker:Now Luke is doing something a little cool here.
Speaker:Love gospel.
Speaker:Luke, at the beginning of Luke Zacharia doesn't trust God.
Speaker:God's messenger and he's muted.
Speaker:Elizabeth Trust that might be a sign.
Speaker:Brothers , I'm leave it right there.
Speaker:Elizabeth.
Speaker:And now there's a demonn that can mute people.
Speaker:So we see a God who mutes arias can Muk And we see a demonn that can mute.
Speaker:Luke is letting us know we're bringing both powers into the ring.
Speaker:Both have powers.
Speaker:And so it makes more sense when you read that passage when Jesus is talking about
Speaker:the strong man, what he's talking about.
Speaker:I'll leave that for your own personal Bible study,
Speaker:sir,
Speaker:and in verse 20 it says, but if I drive Jesus, this is what Jesus says.
Speaker:But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come
Speaker:upon you again, using logic to help them understand, I'm God helping you out here.
Speaker:Now this is a reference, as you can see, finger of God.
Speaker:It's a reference to Exodus chapter eight,
Speaker:what's happening, Exodus.
Speaker:God is displaying God's power to emancipate the enslaved people
Speaker:in Israel and freedom from the bondage of Pharaoh's system.
Speaker:But Pharaoh is pushing back and God sends a plague and the magicians
Speaker:respond with something similar.
Speaker:And so we see a coalition of powers.
Speaker:Am I, are you gonna be enslaved and new to muted?
Speaker:Why are you gonna be freed and be able to pray as we are gonna get to you?
Speaker:See all of that, the contrast of the God who wants us to pray.
Speaker:Who wants us to be free?
Speaker:Luke chapter four, here to set the captives free
Speaker:and the demons who want to keep you silenced, Barrow, who wants to keep
Speaker:you enslaved and under his bondage.
Speaker:So there's a lot happening in Luke that we should play close attention to.
Speaker:But the magicians tried to produce Nats by their secret arts.
Speaker:They could not, since the Nats were on people and animals
Speaker:everywhere, the magicians set to Pharaoh, they just gave up.
Speaker:This is the finger of God, the same thing Jesus is saying.
Speaker:That's a direct reference.
Speaker:Jesus is kind of letting him know.
Speaker:Listen, you guys are like the magicians of Pharaoh.
Speaker:Let me free my people.
Speaker:Luke chapter four.
Speaker:Stop trying to keep people in religious bondage.
Speaker:Stop accusing me.
Speaker:I'm here to.
Speaker:Can translate that one.
Speaker:It's cultural
Speaker:Are you in bondage?
Speaker:Have you been muted to find yourself able to?
Speaker:Find yourself, be able to share what's really going on.
Speaker:Find yourself not having the people in the space here, how you're feeling.
Speaker:Do you feel censored?
Speaker:Do you feel trapped?
Speaker:There is a God who can walk you through and give you a voice and give you and
Speaker:a space to be God centered and freed.
Speaker:And if you look into that passage, you see the call.
Speaker:As you remove things, you need to replace them.
Speaker:I'm all about deconstruction, but how are you gonna re, what are you gonna replace?
Speaker:That way it's good to.
Speaker:critic about certain things.
Speaker:I think that's healthy and I think that's good.
Speaker:But if we don't replace it with God's centerness, we may end up
Speaker:in a better, a worse situation.
Speaker:So God is letting us know.
Speaker:Say what you need to say.
Speaker:I'll listen to you.
Speaker:He didn't ignore the critic.
Speaker:He'd ignore the people pleasing person.
Speaker:He attended to them to bring him, because God's power is listening to us and giving
Speaker:us a voice so that we can speak to him.
Speaker:The power of a relationship with the living God.
Speaker:Good on that.
Speaker:We gotta translate.
Speaker:Let's go.
Speaker:Let's talk about prayer now.
Speaker:We're going backwards here and we'll end right here with communi.
Speaker:, can we go to the next slide?
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:So let's talk about prayer.
Speaker:Next slide.
Speaker:For some reason, there we go.
Speaker:Let's read this,
Speaker:this very short prayer compared to Matthew, but there's a lot there.
Speaker:Are you guys doing right?
Speaker:You good?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:We're we're, we're together here.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You're committing to buy more donuts.
Speaker:. They stopped my controller, so I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm committing
Speaker:here so I can, all right.
Speaker:One day Jesus was praying as in a certain place that tells you
Speaker:so much about God right there.
Speaker:That tells you so much about Jesus.
Speaker:Luke is constantly highlighting the prayer life of Jesus.
Speaker:When he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray.
Speaker:Just as John taught his disciples, that tells you so much about what
Speaker:it means to be a follower of Jesus because these guys are learners.
Speaker:They're humble, they're paying attention.
Speaker:They have a desire to learn more from the living God.
Speaker:He's said to them, when you pray, say, father, all be your name, your
Speaker:kingdom come give us that have been highlighted each day our daily bread.
Speaker:Forgive us, our sin for we also forgive everyone who sins against
Speaker:us and lead us not into temptation.
Speaker:The brilliance of Luke that he's able to pack all of these themes in
Speaker:Luke into, or verses into an outline.
Speaker:of prayer because this is a communal prayer.
Speaker:We talked about personal muteness, but now we look at communal expressions of faith.
Speaker:Let me read in Spanish.
Speaker:Jesus.
Speaker:Anyway, all right.
Speaker:Lemme go.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:So last we, we, last time we spoke in English few seconds ago, we talked
Speaker:about how Luke packs everything.
Speaker:Most of the themes of Luke in these four verses, let's see them.
Speaker:We see Jesus prayer life.
Speaker:In these four verses, we see the followers as learners.
Speaker:We see the importance of prayer life of the church cuz it's Luke in Acts.
Speaker:And so the church is constantly in prayer.
Speaker:We see the God centeredness about this.
Speaker:The, the students are asking, we wanna learn to pray for what
Speaker:reason, to connect with God.
Speaker:Sometimes we wanna learn to do something.
Speaker:This is a posture of learning to be someone, because when you're stuck
Speaker:in a cycle, will you read your Bible just to give a lesson that's not God's
Speaker:centerness, that's performance oriented.
Speaker:Protect your relationship with God, God's future breaking into the present
Speaker:because he says, you know, your kingdom come the Old Testament connections
Speaker:to God providing to his people.
Speaker:In four verses, Luke is wrapping up the major narratives of scripture
Speaker:and then the emphasis on forgiveness.
Speaker:That's a big one.
Speaker:That's a complicated one.
Speaker:Can we say that?
Speaker:That's a complicated one, but God don't mute.
Speaker:, but don't let me be muted.
Speaker:Help me to pray or forgiveness and to forgive.
Speaker:That's a personal prayer and a church prayer.
Speaker:Release our debts cuz he came to set the captive free the year of the
Speaker:Jubilee where equality mutuality can take place in the kingdom of God.
Speaker:And obviously the trials and temptations that come not from God, but because
Speaker:of the consequences of following God.
Speaker:God's not out there trying to figure out how you can fail.
Speaker:Let me test you to see that you are not complete.
Speaker:Therefore you can turn and need me more.
Speaker:That's not.
Speaker:God listens to critics and walks them through into God's centerness.
Speaker:God listens to out of touch people and moves them into God, centerness,
Speaker:and then says, call me Father.
Speaker:Pray for this.
Speaker:Pray with others.
Speaker:Be part of a community.
Speaker:So the trials are not the God who's trying to get you.
Speaker:The trials are the consequences of life when you're trying to follow God.
Speaker:So as we wrap up, once he teaches this prayer,
Speaker:he gives them two parables to encourage 'em even more to pray.
Speaker:The Demonn wanted to mute.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:God muted Aria, but only so that Aria can listen to God.
Speaker:And when he heard Little John be, be born
Speaker:cool.
Speaker:John the Baptist spoke Spanish . That's how he said it.
Speaker:. That's how he said.
Speaker:So we'll close with this and we're gonna take communion.
Speaker:This is the parable.
Speaker:He gives the parable of the friend, right?
Speaker:How many loafs of bread that the friend asked for Spanish
Speaker:three.
Speaker:Is that by chance?
Speaker:Is that a random, first of all, it's random that at midnight
Speaker:you're gonna go ask for bread.
Speaker:But then in that randomness you're asking for three specific.
Speaker:In the, after the parable of the friend, he gives a parable of.
Speaker:Again, I don't want you to just pray.
Speaker:Let me convince you to pray.
Speaker:Let me give an example that's friendly, a friend.
Speaker:Let me give you even a more intimate example.
Speaker:Father, let's make parenthesis that word also can be complicated for some of us.
Speaker:Wanna acknowledge that.
Speaker:So it says, so.
Speaker:I say to you, ask and it will be given to you.
Speaker:Speak and you will find knock and the door will be open to you.
Speaker:For everyone who ask receives the one who seeks, finds, and the one who knock.
Speaker:The door will be open.
Speaker:All of these are connected to what just happens later.
Speaker:How can you ask if you're muted?
Speaker:You're not muted anymore, right?
Speaker:The whole house strongman analogy, knocking on the door and all that.
Speaker:All right, that's for your homework.
Speaker:Which of your fathers, if your son asks for a PlayStation, will you give him
Speaker:an Xbox instead , or if he asks for an egg, will you give him a scorpion?
Speaker:If you then though you are able, what?
Speaker:We won't get into that one right there.
Speaker:I don't know if it means what it sounds like.
Speaker:It means know how to give good gifts to your children.
Speaker:How much more will your father in heaven give the Holy Spirit the those?
Speaker:Did you catch that?
Speaker:This is a Trinitarian passage.
Speaker:How many loaves of bread?
Speaker:I say to you, son, father in heaven, holy Spirit,
Speaker:as we take communion, we can remember that the Trinitarian God in our times of
Speaker:need, he will give us our daily bread.
Speaker:And Luke might be making a connection here saying, I know what you need.
Speaker:I am available.
Speaker:To you more than a friend, more than a dad.
Speaker:I'm available to you, but are you available to me?
Speaker:Are you seeking?
Speaker:Are you asking?
Speaker:Are you knocking?
Speaker:God is saying, can you join me from this space and that space?
Speaker:Can you join me?
Speaker:Ask me.
Speaker:Can you join me and seek me?
Speaker:Can you join me and knock on my door?
Speaker:I'm going to give you what you need.
Speaker:Will we have a relationship?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Connected.
Speaker:Don't be in bondage.
Speaker:Don't be muted.
Speaker:We take communion knowing that God is at work in the broken world,
Speaker:calling us to participate and need what he will meet our needs.
Speaker:We are called to seek, knock and to ask.
Speaker:Let's pray now.
Speaker:We're so grateful to be able to dive into Luke 11.
Speaker:We pray we can listen to the things that you wanted us to hear today.
Speaker:We pray to be in tune, that you are the God who wants us to have a voice,
Speaker:who wants to free us, but is also is asking us, desiring us to be students
Speaker:who wanna know you more, to seek to ask.
Speaker:We take communion in celebration of your love.
