Luke 11:27 As he said these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!” 28 But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
This chapter is all about "calling out." It begins with Jesus' disciples asking Him how to pray, and His responding with what we commonly call "The Lord's Prayer," instructions on calling out to God, and His exhortation for us to ask, seek, and knock. Often when Jesus came across demon-driven people they would call out in agony and Jesus would call on the demons to come out. He gets in quite a debate here with his opponents, who accused Him of calling them out by calling on demonic powers, but He clearly and cleverly refutes them. He then refers to the self-righteousness of Jonah and calls on the hypocritical religious leaders to call out in repentance. One of the leaders then called Jesus out for not properly washing his hands before dinner, to which Jesus replied that inner cleansing was much more important than outward, ceremonial washing. Jesus then called them out for all of their self-righteous actions and rebuked them for being a roadblock to those who were truly calling out to God for salvation. May we be found doing the right kind of "calling out."
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