S7E31 - Luke 13:1-17 - Restoration Starts with Repentance

Some moments expose how we really think about God: a tragedy, a diagnosis, a sudden loss, a story we can’t explain. We bring that tension to Luke 13:1–17, where Jesus refuses the easy conclusion that suffering proves someone was “worse.” Instead, he turns the mirror toward every listener and presses a clear, urgent word: repent. Not fear driven panic, but a real turning back to God while there is still time.

From there, we follow Jesus into the parable of the fig tree and talk about spiritual fruit, sanctification, and the danger of confusing church activity with spiritual maturity. We ask what kind of life should grow from a heart transformed by the gospel and why God’s patience is mercy, not permission to stay the same. If you’ve ever wondered whether your faith is mostly routine or truly reshaping you, this section will land close to home.

We end with the healing of the bent over woman on the Sabbath, where grace collides with legalism. Jesus restores more than a body; he restores dignity, identity, and freedom from bondage. We close with a personal challenge: which person are you in Luke 13, and what would it look like to repent, respond, and receive restoration today? Subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the show.

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Welcome And Roadmap For Luke 13

SPEAKER_02 0:13

What's up, Lifehouse Family? Welcome back to the Life Talk Podcast. Another week, another episode, and we're again continually. We can't say enough. Thankful for you joining us. And wow, we are into August. Man, how did that happen? Anybody, anybody know how we got to August already? We're like approaching the two-thirds mark of 2026. It came after July. It did come after July. Nothing has changed on that front. Maybe we'll get some permanent daylight savings time that keeps being bandied about, right? So it was to the Senate a while ago, but a couple weeks ago. So who knows? We'll uh we'll see where our clocks go. But the days are starting to get a little bit shorter, but it is still hot outside. But uh, we continue with the podcast, and I am continually joined by faithful men who enjoy talking God's word. I got Rico DeSilva with us this week. What's going on, Rico? I am blessed. Happy to be here. Blessed by the best, is how I've heard of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Ready to bring it. Ready to go. Ready to talk to myself again.

SPEAKER_02 1:17

Talk to yourself. There you go. That's uh what we've been saying the last couple weeks. We we talk to ourselves, you get to listen in, and we hope you learn from our internal dialogues here. So and Jeremy Alrich still keeping the quality up. Man, we haven't had any problems since March. So we gotta keep you around.

SPEAKER_01 1:35

Yeah, you know, I'm glad to be here and keeping you honest and keeping you on straight and narrow.

SPEAKER_02 1:39

It is a tall dude, tall job. Hopefully, all the listeners pray for you regularly when it comes to that. So I need prayers regardless. And Jonathan Bush keeping up with us. How's things going, Jonathan? Everything rolling through the summer, classes, looking ahead to the fall semester.

SPEAKER_03 1:57

Well, the the semester's getting here a lot quicker than I'd like, but doing well, thank you. Well, hopefully it's been a good summer break for you and uh taking some of it to podcast with us. But well, I'm sure there's a lot of uh young guys out there that are very uh sad because they they're counting the days before uh school starts.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

So yeah, they're they're getting anxious.

SPEAKER_02 2:18

We talked about a couple weeks ago. We're not supposed to be anxious, but the time is growing short.

SPEAKER_03 2:23

My son reminds me, hey dad, this is when I need to sleep in because I can't sleep in during school. So that's right.

SPEAKER_02 2:30

Take advantage of it while you can. But well, if you joined us last week, we finished up chapter 12 of Luke. We are at the halfway point and launching into chapter 13 this week, which is gonna take us into, again, as always, some deeper things that are gonna build on our themes there. And I I heard rumor that we're gonna continue the R train this week. Is that right, Rico?

SPEAKER_00 2:55

Absolutely, yes, indeed. Well, I I am glad for the listener today. Uh, this is gonna be a great, great, great observation of scripture. My prayers for you guys to go back and listen to the previous

Repent When Tragedy Shakes You

SPEAKER_00 3:10

podcast that we have done in order for you to be in congruence and what we will be talking today. I just before we start, you heard it right. We have some alliterations happening today. I'm happy to be back in congruence with the teaching for members, right? And have some words for you guys. But uh, before I start, we again we're gonna be looking at Luke 13, chapter 1 to 17. And Jesus here, he moves his listeners from warning to waiting to freedom. And the passage has naturally unfolds into three movements. So here is here are your alliterations. Number one is gonna be repent, that's going from Luke chapter 13, verse 1 to 5, and then respond.

SPEAKER_02 4:00

Hey, hey, you stole that from last week.

SPEAKER_00 4:03

I love it so much, and it was so congruent. So good.

SPEAKER_02 4:05

We had to have to use it. Give you a hard time.

SPEAKER_00 4:09

Number two will be respond, which is the same one that we did last week, verses six to nine, and restore. I believe that all these passages, especially Luke, his observation, he give three specific points in everything that we do, but the last ones are the most valuable, would be restore back to the one who made us, which is gonna be from verses 10 and 17. And so before we start, I have if you are listening and you're taking notes, I want to give you some questions uh for discussion and for self-examination. So uh before we start reading scripture, your questions are why do people compare sins instead of examining themselves? I want to know how you process that question. Why do people compare sins instead of examining themselves? We're gonna dive in into this scripture and see what the answer is there. How can suffering awaken spiritual urgency? As we learned last week, time of salvation is today, time to be awake is today, time to bring spiritual readiness is today. And another question, bonus question what does genuine repentance look like today? So those are the three questions that we want to propose to you before we start reading scripture. And with that in mind, let's read uh starting in Luke 13, verse 1. And it says, There were present at the sea season some who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answered them and said to them, Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans? Because they suffer such things? I tell you, no. But unless you repent, you will art likewise to perish. Verse number four. I tell you, no. But unless you repent, you will be likewise to perish. Here is a call of action. Not once, not twice, but three times. Repent. And I want to give you some context, and then I want to open it up for our listeners and for here to see what you get from the text. People tell Jesus about the Galileans murder by Pilate and the collapse of the tower cylinder. It's easy to point stuff to Jesus on the stuff that people are doing. Remember question number one. While we examinate all these people's sin instead of our own, and we can see that the crowd examinates tragedy that proves that the greater guilt. Sometimes when we see somebody who's sinning, we might think that they might have a greater or lesser guilt. What's the answer for that? And we can see very clearly that Jesus rejects that assumption and redirects the conversation from speculations about others to personal repentance. So I wanted to open up for you guys on these five verses. What do you see in here that Jesus are firmly not mentioned just once, but two times, but three times about repentance?

SPEAKER_02 7:58

Yeah, a lot of good themes you hit on there. And I think, especially in this passage, seeing these people are focused on their circumstances. And I think, like you said, sometimes measuring sin and trying to. But Jesus completely redirects that to the greatest need of our sinfulness, you know, our condition that is what matters most. So whatever's going on around you, you know, unfortunately, we live in a fallen, broken world and things happen, but recognizing the greatest need, and I think that's what Jesus is really saying here. Like, don't get hung up on your circumstances, but you have to see through all that. And then we talked about last week kind of that reframing of our perspective. That's what then brings us right where we need to be in relationship with him in repentance and the greatest need.

SPEAKER_01 8:55

Yeah, I think Jesus, you know, dismantles this idea of like the the mindset of well, they must have deserved it because something bad happened. And he's you know, and he gets it to and he shifts that mindset to the greater reality that everyone is living on borrowed time. And if if you don't repent, you know, that borrowed time is a gift, but it's not a guarantee. Like you know, like repent now. Like we talked about that last week, like too. So I mean that's that jumped out to me from what you were talking about, Rico.

SPEAKER_02 9:29

I think it was in like assisted suicide debate and thing I heard where they were like, well, if people have a terminal illness or so many, you know, whatever, death is imminent. And when I I remember just listening to that, and it hit me kind of like this passage. Well, we're all on a timeline. You know, we're all death is imminent for all of us. Yes, for many, it's much more real, but we're all you know in that boat, you know, as death is coming for everyone, it is the great equalizer. So we like you mentioned on a couple past couple episodes, you know, today is the day, time is short. Like make sure that's the perspective you have.

SPEAKER_03 10:10

And realizing too that God is it it is God that you know like that is enabling this. He it is God's grace that uh restores us with God. And when you see it from that perspective, it becomes silly to think that, oh well, I'm closer to God when as a sinner, I'm infinitely apart from God. There is nothing I can do to restore that. And and and again, it gets like in these last few weeks, what we've been looking at is how to have that right perspective, is what Jesus is doing, is correcting the incorrect perspective that has been for a lot of them is is just the physical and and not understanding the spiritual aspect of what really our sin did, you know, because from the beginning when when Adam sinned and Eve, Adam was held accountable and Christ came to him, and what was the curse? Well, you would die. Well, physically, yeah, they died, but it wasn't immediate. And I think just this is just an outflow of that of just realizing is that and remembering of what God did and having that perspective of that it it it doesn't matter what I do, it's it I I could be okay, quote, better than Jeremy say, right? Probably not, but whatever argument you want to make, but then when you compare it to the standard that God gives us, you're like, yeah, you're both toast. But we have Christ, right?

SPEAKER_02 11:47

And the idea if you could measure that, then we could then earn it. That's the flip side of that. So exactly like you say, we are too far away, because otherwise, well, you know, I can do enough good things, and we know that's biblically not true.

SPEAKER_00 12:02

So that that brings me, I mean, great points that we just did there, and it brings the subject in matter, repent. Right, and and that's dear to this subject, because without repentance, there's no restoration. We get there. But if you guys remember correctly, first preaching not just from in scripture, we can see even Matthew. We get to Matthew 3, the first thing that he mentioned a repent. Repent for the kingdom of heaven is a hand. And then we jump into Matthew 3 17. We see the first preaching of Jesus when he came and was like, Hey, repent for the kingdom of heart is a hand. So this subject of repentance, a lot of people take not I I want to say we take it lightly on the obligation that we must respond to that, and we're gonna move that into the next section. But this is something that we should not take for granted on why we must repent of our own sin, not only examining our hearts, why are we thinking about other people, what they're doing, and not looking at the mirror for ourselves and what are we doing and we're not repenting of which we can see the main observations in this point, and I have four for you, you taking notes. Tragedy is not always a direct punishment for personal sin. It don't matter if you believe it or not. Scripture said the rain falls in the just and in the unjust. So observations like that, oh, if something bad happened, sin must come. Well, everything has repercussions, but just because you're doing good, you must fall into something like this. The other observation that I have here is every tragedy reminds us that life is very fragile. You mentioned that, Jeremy. We live in barrel time, and it's so essential for us to truly examine it ourselves. And again, yes, I'm speaking to me right now because of this subject of repentance, me being in the kingdom, are we doing this enough? If you repent, if you ask for forgiveness, if you abide by my word, knowing that you are ready in the kingdom of heaven. But if you do this, the XYC is going to happen. I know the observation observation is how Jesus is so clever, the best teacher ever in earth, in the world, he shifted the focus on what they did when they die to are you ready to meet God? Because those who perish are far gone, you still here, you still have the opportunity to repent. Are you going to do it? And just a little bit of history about that. Repentance, what truly repentance means in Hebrew, is means metanoia, which is a change of mind that results in a change of life. For lack of better words, is a U-turn. What is a U-turn for you that are listening? You're riding, you're riding or driving the wrong way and you just turn around going to the position that you must go. So the takeaway about deception, dissection is repent before it's too late. That's the takeaway. Repent because it's too before it's get too late. We're gonna jump in into the second point that I have for today, which is gonna be respond. I

Respond With Real Fruit

SPEAKER_00 16:00

stole that from you, by the way, Mrs. Nate. I love it so much that when I was doing my study, I was like, I I have to use that. Oh, okay. Good to know.

SPEAKER_02 16:09

It's not original with this.

SPEAKER_00 16:12

So before I start, again, I I want to give the listener a couple questions in order to examinate and for discussion this subject or but respond. Think about this. What fruit should characterize a believer? What fruit should characterize a believer? Question number two for you. How can we confuse church activity with spiritual maturity? That's a good question. How can we confuse church activity with spiritual maturity? And the third bonus question How has God patience to change your life? This is a good one. This was for me, this is my personal one. How has God patience to change your life? So we're gonna start reading base verse number six, and it reads again, Luke 13, verse number six. He also spoke this parable. A certain man had a fig tree planted on his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. Then he said to the keeper of the vineyard, Look, for three years I have I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down. Why does it use go up from the ground? Verse number eight. But he answered and said to him, Sir, let it alone this year also, until a until I dig around and I fertilize it. And if it be a fruit, well, but if it is not, after that you can cut it down. This right here, a little bit of history regarding about the fig tree, is that when we planted in in those times when you plant a fig tree, there when the year three is when you can bear fruit. If it didn't bear fruit after year three, it was automatically chopping down. We gotta do something about it. But even the man himself is a leave it in there to see if it's gonna grow. If it's gonna grow, then it's great. If it doesn't, then we cut it off. So give you some more context on that. Jesus here's used a parable for the bargain tree, meaning that the owner, as he's seeking the fruit and the gardener, say, Hey, I'm gonna cultivate it. But one thing that we cannot miss is that the story reveals both God's justice and his patience. What can get what can we get from that?

SPEAKER_02 19:03

Yeah, a whole lot there. And I just see first and foremost, God's grace. He is last thing you said there, patient and patiently waiting and and seeing, even here, like we're gonna fertilize it, you know, we're gonna give it every chance. But, you know, that was John the Baptist thing, like you said, bear fruit in keeping with repentance. So there will be a response. You know, some people fast, some people slow, some people, you know, it looks very different using spiritual gifts, growth in the word. And I do really like your question, though, like we have to be careful, you know, not to confuse act church activity for spiritual growth, because too often there can be a works-based mindset, or you know, Jeremy and I were talking about a book that we were working through considering discipleship, but it's about the transformation, you know, the bearing fruit is is a transformed heart, and and that will evidence through fruit. But if we somehow think the activity is before the transformation, we get it wrong. And and it was a church that one of the most active members in the church who, you know, by all measures was, you know, this again, super church member, but really was an atheist, you know, would even introduce himself that way, you know, he hadn't had his heart transformed by Christ, but he was very active because he just thought church was a good thing and a community and something to be part of. And so if we haven't truly, your first point repented and allowed that to change, so that, you know, as we talked about last week, being ready and responding, we're off base. So we do have to be really careful with that. But our life will bear fruit, but it looks very different, and it's more about the heart and the relationship, not just doing a lot of things.

SPEAKER_00 20:44

100%.

SPEAKER_03 20:45

Yeah, and it's it's an ongoing process too, like for for the young Christians out there. Progressive sanctification. Yeah, that are dealing with a lot. It's not just like all of a sudden you're perfect. I think sometimes, especially individuals coming into the church, think that, oh, I gotta be I gotta be sanctified or uh have glorification, you know, and be out of the gate. Out of the gate. But the the process of sanctification is it again, it takes time. You know, some things are immediate, other things maybe not, and it's different for everybody. But the I think what I look for when because part of it is is the question of is well, they say they're a Christian, but I I got a question mark. Like, I don't know. And it's not necessarily my place to say whether you are or not, but what I'm looking for, like you're saying, Nate, is that fruit. And so as a young Christian or even as an old Christian, is is are they when there are things that are out of line? Like, for instance, one of one of the common things could be for guys would be anger. You know, they get angry easily, often, they don't deal with it, they go to bed angry. You know, the Bible tells us don't go to bed angry. Well, if that's the case, you know, and and and what's one of the fruits of the spirit? You know, isn't anger, you know, that that's the that's the counter. Yeah, kindness, gentleness. Self-control, like all of that is not an angry spirit. And so, okay, fair enough. Well, God, I need I need help. I need to work on that. And it's not something that I can do because you know, for some of us, we're just more maybe angry, right? But at the same time, it's his spirit is what enables me and changes me and sanctifies me to then be a less angry and at some point a joyful individual.

SPEAKER_01 22:28

Yeah, I mean when when you were talking, I was getting this image of a tree, like a fig tree in my head, and and like the idea of like we've we've we've talked about like it can't be about works, like you know, and like so the works, like a tree, this tree that Jesus is talking about in this in this parable, I mean it probably had leaves all over it, right? It probably it was very leafy. So it's not it's not like it's not about the religious foliage that we have, it's about the the fruit that that comes from the tree. And like Jonathan, you hit on the fruits of the spirit. Like those are those are some examples of like love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

SPEAKER_00 23:11

Oh, he gets it. Yeah. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing.

SPEAKER_01 23:16

But I mean, it's all it's it's like the display of fruit, not the display of leafy foliage, the of the i.e., you know, the religious, the like the works is is what is what stands out to me here.

SPEAKER_00 23:31

You mentioned you mentioned something that is start to rotter in my head. How many people we're gonna use that scenario in the church? Because you mentioned you have somebody who comes and do our activities in the church, be present in the church, do everything that the church does. But my question is, just like you said, question mark. So my question is, what if what if God measure our lives by our fruit instead of our activity? That fits right into that. So, what is your fruit? Let's look at the main observations of this passage of scripture. Number one, God expects fruit from those who claim to belong to Him. You will know them by their fruits, by their words. We can see that the garner pictures Christ in a section and patient work. The Lord is patient, but we must respond to that patience because the patience is not gonna be forever. You mentioned Jeremy in a couple podcasts before that He is so sovereign that we must respond now, that the day of salvation is now while waiting. He's patiently doing that, but at the same time, this right here on the respond is an intersection that we must do to the gospel. The observation number three conviction, discipline, and trials may be God's way of cultivating fruit. Sometimes, especially for me, conviction brings a lot of man, because I did this away from the Lord. I must, number one, we're looking at this point, repent, be back in restoration with my maker. What's gonna proceed from that? A response that comes to that that is gonna cultivate the fruit of that conviction. That's the response. And the way that we can see it is that God's patience, somebody mentioned it, God's patience is an opportunity, not a permission to remain on change. That's the main point. God's patience is an opportunity, not permission to remain unchanged. So, what is our takeaway here in verses six to nine? Respond while there's still time. We can see that very good in scripture. Any passage of scripture, if we do not have or use any other alliterations, Mr. Nick, that I store from you. If you do the respond and restore, you'll be able to see how scripture tells you, hey, you're gonna respond to what I said, and there is something that is gonna produce from that, which is restoration, bring you back to the Genesis and one. Going to the third and last

Restore Through Grace Over Rules

SPEAKER_00 26:50

subject, which is gonna be restore, and this is what we are waiting for. But before we read that, I'm gonna open it up with three questions. If you're taking notes, I appreciate you for that. It's gonna be a good observation for yourself. Question number one: What keeps a believer spiritually bent over today? What keeps you whole? What keeps you in change, in chain? Why should Christian think about spiritual warfare without blaming everything on demons? I want you to think about that. Oh, a demon made me do that, the devil made me do that. Do we take enough responsibility? And the bonus question: how can churches become places of restoration instead of a mere routine? You mentioned people coming to church because they checking on the box. But are we really in a place of restoration? Restoration brings transformation, rest transformation brings response, and response bring to the last point, which is restoration. So we're gonna read from verse 10 to 17 on the last point, and it reads, Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath, and behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for 18 years and was bent over and could not go way raised from halfway up. But when Jesus saw her, he called her to him and said to her, Woman, you are loose from your infirmity, infirmity, and he laid hands on her, and immediately, not five minutes later, not for everybody to gather together and see what was gonna happen, immediately she was made straight and glorified God. But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation because Jesus has healed on the Sabbath, and he said to the crowd, There are six days of which men ought to work, therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day. This is what the ruler says. Then the Lord answered to him and said, There is my favorite word, hypocrite, exclamation point. Does not each one of you on the Sabbath lose his ox or a donkey from the stall and lead it in a way to water? So ought not this woman being a daughter of Abraham who sat in his bound, think of it, eighteen years he losed from his from this bound on the Sabbath, and then he said these things. All his adversaries were put to shame, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done to him. It's amazing to see how restoration can come when we're in alignment with our King of Kings. So I want to open it up for you guys. What brought to your attention on the subject of restoration?

SPEAKER_02 30:18

I think keeping with your arc, you know, train there, you know, it's not about rules, you know, but truly about people and the greatest need, and that doesn't have any limitations for time. And it's what you see here. The the leader of the synagogues hung up on his rules rather than seeing people and the need for release, you know, from sin, from bondage. So I think it's a real picture here. Sin is what's keeping us bound up, and that's the greatest release going all the way back to the start of this passage. Of that's what's most important is not so much the physical circumstances, but that release from bondage is huge. And I see as that theme that we've been tracing out through these verses.

SPEAKER_01 31:07

Yeah, I mean, your one of your questions about like what are we why are we holding on to stuff? I don't know. Can you repeat that question again? Like it it it it reminded me of I'll I'll wait for you, but like it reminded me of something, so I wanted to kind of get that question back fresh.

SPEAKER_00 31:26

So the three questions were uh what keeps a believer spiritually been over today? Yeah. That one? Yeah, yes.

SPEAKER_01 31:32

So a couple about a month ago, I had the privilege of of speaking in our Sunday community class for it's you know for the middle schoolers, and and we they're studying through the book of Exodus, and I got the and the the the passage that I was speaking on was that was the the significance of the Passover in Exodus 12. And so out of all the things, like in studying that that passage, out of all the things that God could do, like he starts off that that that that that passage basically saying, I'm I'm resetting your calendar. Like you're this month shall be the beginning of months for you. And so, and basically he's saying, you know, your life starts here, and so much of an echo into like what like when when we come to Christ, we're a new creation, right? God, God, you know, back then he's basically saying, like, this like your past all that slavery that they were in and that bondage, it's not going to define you anymore. Like, I'm ripping the calendar, and this is a new start for you. It's the it's the same that we have in like when we when we come to Christ, we are a new creation.

SPEAKER_03 32:43

Yeah, I mean, it's part of the why we we look forward to the hope that we have is because that's what God gives us, his restoration. His kingdom, and we'll get into this kind of alluding to what's coming up, is you know, is is Christ will return and he'll come in all his glory, and his kingdom will be established where there will be you know all the sin and everything that mars and tangles and destroys what we see around us today will be gone. And and so the that's something that we can you know hang our hat on, look forward to, and and despite the challenge I have today, it's not just because I come to church. I don't go to church just to get another peg in my holiness, whatever. But you know, part of that is it God commands me, but I live a life because when Christ returns, I want to be found not wanting. And it's not just because of what I do, like we say, it's not an it's not an action, it's a heart. It's because I have been everything that John, you know, what Jonathan is, like the orbit of who I am is has been filtered through who God has made me, who God has has sanctified me.

SPEAKER_00 33:59

It's amazing because you gotta back to back to this passage. It I can't help to see how Jesus literally displays grace rather than religion. This woman was bind for 18 years, and grace presented, and rather than celebrating the synagogue rules, the criticizers, the people who were there criticize Jesus for healing on the Sabbath. Right? So, what does Jesus do? He exposes, he exposes and he mentions clearly the difference between cold religion and compassionate grace. We can see Jesus notice those others overlook. That's one observation. 18 years. So if you are hearing this, this just came to mind. If you are suffering for something, you need healing, or somebody you know, you praying for somebody, continue your hope. Because you never know the one who came to save, the one who's the healer, is on his timing, not yours. And when it happens, it's gonna be a testimony for the nations, for everybody to see that he's alive. Not only that, but this passage shows a real spiritual component to this woman's suffering, just like what we said. If you are suffering, woman or man, in this position, is the woman because she's in the scripture. Knowing that it don't matter what you're going through, keep up your faith, he will show up as a restoration. Jesus restored her body, dignity, and public identity. Can you imagine me picture? That's not in context, but looking at the miracle that he did at that time, the woman straightforward. I mean, I can imagine she was jumping, running. I mean, you can fill out the blank. The scripture don't tell us. But what happened when you break your hand, rather, your foot, you cannot walk. And then you restore again. The first thing you're like, oh, can I can I run? Can I let me do this stuff that I could do before? Now I cannot do it. And I want you to be very careful with religion versus grace, because religion often values rules over people, but Jesus values restoration. So that's one of the things that we should literally deeply understand about our faith. Can we faithfully attend church and still be spiritually bound? That's a question of observation for people to understand. What is our takeaway? Our takeaway from this is that Jesus will restore what sin and Satan have broken. Going back to Genesis 3. But even in Genesis 3, there's a promise of restoration that you cannot avoid. Read Genesis 3. Yes, we see the fall. Yes, we see the sin. But yes, we

Final Challenge And Listener Next Steps

SPEAKER_00 37:20

see the promise and we see the restoration, and the restoration was here. So for you that are listening, here's my closing challenge. Which person are you in Luke 13? The crowd needing repentance, the bearing fruit from the tree, or bound like a woman needed for freedom? I want you to analyze those questions. And I just want you to know that Jesus invites every listener to repent, restore to his grace, and receive his restoring power. Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_02 38:11

Yeah, so listeners, I think Rico put it well. Consider where you are in these three and uh really seek to repent, respond, and seek that restoration that Christ only in him has found. So thank you for taking the time. Hopefully, as always, you find this encouraging in your week.

unknown 38:29

And uh we will look forward to seeing you next time.

SPEAKER_02 38:34

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