FRIDAY- 23^rd WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME –A

Gospel: Luke 6:39-42: Can blind man guide another?

I Reading: 1Timothy 1:1-2.12-14: I used to be a blasphemer, but the mercy of God was shown to me.

Jesus Teaches His Rules for Discipleship: The Need to Watch, 6:39-45

Man is to watch how he lives. Both the quality and fate of his life depend upon it. God cares about the quality and destiny of a man’s life. He wants every man to receive the fullest life and the eternal life.

There are four rules, four warnings that must be watched if we are to live life to the fullest and be assured of eternal life.

1. Watch blindness: One’s leader and how one leads (v.39)

a. If both are in darkness

b. Both stumble and fall

2. Watch the Teacher (Lord) (v.40)

a. Student (disciple) must submit

b. He must be like his teacher

3. Watch hypocrisy and criticism of others (v.41-42)

a. Both have a problem

b. The criticizer has the biggest problem

c. The criticizer is a hypocrite

d. Judging oneself enables one to see clearly and to see how to help others

4. Watch the fruit that a man brings forth (v.43-45)

a. Every tree is known by its fruit

b. Every tree reproduces after its nature or kind

c. Every man reproduces what is in his heart

Thought: A man’s words expose five things about him:

1) his true nature

2) his motives, desires and ambitions or lack of initiative

3) his true character: good or bad, kind or cruel

4) his mind, what he thinks; pure or impure thoughts, dirty or clean thoughts

5) his spirit, what he believes or purses: the legitimate or illegitimate, the intelligent or ignorant, the true or false, the beneficial or wasteful.

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