Luke 7:11-15 And it came to pass afterwards he went into a city called Nain, and many of his disciples and a great crowd went with him. And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a very considerable crowd of the city was with her. And the Lord, seeing her, was moved with compassion for her, and said to her, Weep not; and coming up he touched the bier, and the bearers stopped. And he said, Youth, I say to thee, Wake up. And the dead sat up and began to speak; and he gave him to his mother.
Does that sound like something someone who formerly taught everyone that they had free will would say to a dead man? “Youth, I say to thee Wake up.” The whole purpose of speech of free willers in human speech is “to deliver information” as fodder for “choice” and worship human speech as the supposed sole authority by which such “will neutral information” can be delivered and understood. What is a dead person going to do with “choice”? The Dutch these days would have said the youth “ran out of free will” like a battery and such a thing is so evil in their eyes that they would think the best thing to happen to him is that he went ahead and died ..or in the Netherlands, asks the state to “assist him with suicide.” Does that sound like something a Roman Catholic priest would say after raping a child? “Oh by the way I’ll raise a dead person after my sexual adventures at the expense of ..whoever. ( and it will turn out the pedophile priests did NOT “draw the ethical line” at only Roman Catholic children..that Roman Catholics are empowering child predators on the larger non-Roman Catholic populace around them…) . Of course not. After trying to teach the world that “human beings have free will!” the dead are just out of luck in free willerville, ..like children in the womb around the free willers.
So something COMPLETELY different from Roman Catholicism, or Dutch legislation or the lie of human free will must be going on both then and now.
Luke 7:16 And fear seized on all, and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet has been raised up amongst us; and God has visited his people.
Why fear? Why not “happiness”? Knowing women, just how long did it take the mother to get over the fact of her sons first resurrection? What kind of tone did she take with him afterwards? Was she really glad to have him back? Because getting him back and having him back meant that every day it was thrown up in her face that her beliefs, her parental prejudices as being automatically and forever wiser than her children, her “older person worldly experience” was ..completely wrong. The son? He very likely viewed her as a child afterwards. He never got tired of hearing her trying to copy what he knew she thought was what the other women felt through jealousy and said “That’s not how it is.”? He found out that most of what the world/human speech calls love is complete nonsense and yet that was the best his mother had to offer and she afterwards never said “I wish he had left you dead?” just so she could go back to her old comfortable, common-among-women thoughts on how reality works?
They said “God has visited his people.” not, “God is going to stay with His people”. Here is another example of the reaction of people God had blessed:
Mat 8:28-34 And there met him, when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, two possessed by demons, coming out of the tombs, exceeding dangerous, so that no one was able to pass by that way. And behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Son of God? hast thou come here before the time to torment us? Now there was, a great way off from them, a herd of many swine feeding; and the demons besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine. And he said to them, Go. And they, going out, departed into the herd of swine; and lo, the whole herd of swine rushed down the steep slope into the sea, and died in the waters. But they that fed them fled, and went away into the city and related everything, and what had happened as to those possessed by demons. And behold, the whole city went out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him to go away out of their coasts.
In the first instance, human speech is wailing and crying in its victims, is shown to be weak and unable to control death, is afraid when God blesses them and in the second is angry at the Incarnate Word of God displaying the weakness of human speech in the presence of demons and asks the Word of God to leave after God has blessed those exact people. They all are “astonished” but immediately seek the old emotional norms, the established pecking order.It turns out that deceived people have very strong preferences about exactly how they want to be undeceived… it doesn’t make sense but that is how they are. They can get offended in a microsecond.
Luke 7:17 And this report went out in all Judaea concerning him, and in all the surrounding country.
Human speech/anti-Christ put out the word it perfectly understood what was going on. “God sent a prophet. He has done and will do prophet/ivory tower stuff. Our speech is safe and secure ..go back to the other stuff I was saying through you. The prophets job is not to point me out as worthless, but to merely to provide fodder for more of me to be spoken. It’s ok to be amazed ..for a while.”
Luke 7:18-23 And the disciples of John brought him word concerning all these things: and John, having called two of his disciples, sent to Jesus, saying, Art *thou* he that is coming, or are we to wait for another? But the men having come to him said, John the baptist has sent us to thee, saying, Art *thou* he that is coming, or are we to wait for another? In that hour he healed many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and to many blind he granted sight. And Jesus answering said to them, Go, bring back word to John of what ye have seen and heard: that blind see, lame walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf hear, dead are raised, poor are evangelized;
and blessed is whosoever shall not be offended in me.
The Word of God knew what was in man. That’s why he said “blessed is whosoever shall not be offended in me.”
John 2:23-25 And when he was in Jerusalem, at the passover, at the feast, many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he wrought. But Jesus himself did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men ,
and that he had not need that any should testify of man, for himself knew what was in man.
Luke 7:24-30 And the messengers of John having departed, he began to speak to the crowds concerning John: What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken by the wind?
But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in delicate garments? Behold, those who are in splendid clothing and live luxuriously are in the courts of kings. But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say to you, and what is more excellent than a prophet. This is he concerning whom it is written, Behold, *I* send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee; for I say unto you, Among them that are born of women a greater prophet is no one than John the baptist ; but he who is a little one in the kingdom of God is greater than he. (And all the people who heard it , and the tax-gatherers, justified God, having been baptised with the baptism of John; but the Pharisees and the lawyers rendered null as to themselves the counsel of God, not having been baptised by him.)
God knows John better than John knows himself. John was asked if he was one of the prophets and said no. But God says he is a prophet and more. John isn’t/wasn’t concerned with “knowing himself” in some pecking order. Only that he stay faithful to God.
And those who worship human speech and who say that they have “the oracles of God” only because –they say— what they have is the oracles of God and that there is no intrinsic, fundamental holiness of the Word of God Himself..—-to them, the Word of God is a what, not a who—those people don’t want any baptism or ceremony they did not themselves make up for others. Their notion of John was “who do you think you are? We make up customs for you. You don’t make up customs for us.” They would have had to spit on their own authority and standing in the eyes of all the other human speech speakers/worshipers of antiChrist to be baptized by John.
Luke 7:31-35 To whom therefore shall I liken the men of this generation, and to whom are they like? They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another and saying, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. For John the baptist has come neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He has a demon. The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and ye say, Behold an eater and wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners; and wisdom has been justified of all her children.
Human speech and its emotional economy among its victims makes a mystery out of what is in front of its face. Human beings in human speech love to supposedly “figure out how to feel” as a complete lifelong occupation.
Luke 7:36-50 But one of the Pharisees begged him that he would eat with him. And entering into the house of the Pharisee he took his place at table; and behold, a woman in the city, who was a sinner, and knew that he was sitting at meat in the house of the Pharisee, having taken an alabaster box of myrrh, and standing at his feet behind him weeping, began to wash his feet with tears; and she wiped them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the myrrh. And the Pharisee who had invited him, seeing it, spoke with himself saying, This person if he were a prophet would have known who and what the woman is who touches him, for she is a sinner. And Jesus answering said to him, Simon, I have somewhat to say to thee. And he says, Teacher, say it . There were two debtors of a certain creditor: one owed five hundred denarii and the other fifty; but as they had nothing to pay, he forgave both of them their debt : say, which of them therefore will love him most? And Simon answering said, I suppose he to whom he forgave the most. And he said to him, Thou hast rightly judged. And turning to the woman he said to Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thy house; thou gavest me not water on my feet, but *she* has washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with her hair. Thou gavest me not a kiss, but *she* from the time I came in has not ceased kissing my feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint, but *she* has anointed my feet with myrrh. For which cause I say to thee, Her many sins are forgiven; for she loved much; but he to whom little is forgiven loves little. And he said to her, Thy sins are forgiven. And they that were with them at table began to say within themselves, Who is this who forgives also sins? And he said to the woman, Thy faith has saved thee; go in peace.
And human speech said to itself through the many: “what’s this “forgive sins” stuff? It makes no sense because I can’t do it.”
But in Christ, you don’t have to be forgiven a lot to love a lot: Jesus loves the Father perfectly and completely and had no sin. You can love a lot no matter anything else if God does it through you because God is love. But those who are forgiven a lot see more of a worldly reason for that love. You cannot manufacture lots of love for God by doing evil a lot to turn it around at some point and ask forgiveness so you get “forgiven for a lot”. Cain perhaps thought that: but he was not granted forgiveness though “he sought it diligently with tears”.
Romans 9:14-20 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Far be the thought. For he says to Moses, I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy, and I will feel compassion for whom I will feel compassion. So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy. For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing I have raised thee up from amongst men , that I might thus shew in thee my power, and so that my name should be declared in all the earth. So then, to whom he will he shews mercy, and whom he will he hardens. Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose? Aye, but thou, O man, who art *thou* that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen