Day 3

Scripture to Read: Luke 20:9-18

God the Father is THE Authority over everything. God rules and reigns over all creation. It’s hard for us to understand that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit are Three, but they are One. Jesus’s authority was being questioned by the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders in Luke 20:1-8. Jesus has been given all authority by God the Father, and we know this because God declares it in His Word in Matthew 28:18; John 5:19-27; John 10:17-18; and John 17:1-3. The only one not in subjection to God the Son is God the Father. God the Father clarifies that God the Son has authority over all, except God the Father, in 1 Corinthians 15:27-28. So, even though Christ is God and that God the Father, Son, and Spirit are all God, there is still an order of authority even with God. Authorities have been placed in all of our lives. God’s desire and design is that we submit to His authority at all times. If there are authorities in our lives directing us to do things contrary to God’s Word, we must reject those authorities. But, if we reject the authorities in our lives because we disagree with them based on our opinion and NOT God’s Truth, then we are being disobedient to God the Father. The chief priests, scribes, and elders chose to question Jesus’s authority because their opinion did NOT line up with God’s Truth. We must guard against this same temptation.

Challenge & Application

1. What did God teach you today about the authorities in your life? 2. How will you practically submit to the current authorities in your life and so glorify God?

Don’t forget to pray using the A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) method!

Devotionals from this week

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Day 1

Our focus this week is on the Parable of the Vine-growers. As we read through Luke 20, we find that the chief priests, scribes, and elders continued to confront Jesus. What’s so incredible is that these so-called religious leaders’ hearts were so dark from their sin that they totally missed the One, True Messiah. Jesus, knowing their hear...
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Day 2

Read through Luke 20:9-18 again. Today let’s consider all the ways God speaks to us and through us. Just as God used Moses, the prophets, the judges, the apostles, and many others to write and proclaim His Word, today God uses us, His children, to proclaim Him and His Word. God speaks to us daily as we read, study, and memorize His Word. God ...

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Day 3

God the Father is THE Authority over everything. God rules and reigns over all creation. It’s hard for us to understand that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit are Three, but they are One. Jesus’s authority was being questioned by the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders in Luke 20:1-8. Jesus has been given all authority by...

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Day 4

As Jesus shared the Parable of the Vine-growers, we read that each slave, sent by the man who owned the vineyard, was beaten by the vine-growers and sent away empty handed. Of course, we also read that the man finally sends his beloved son, thinking the vine-growers will show his son the respect he deserves. The vine-growers, in their greedin...

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Day 5

As we read Luke 20, we see in verse 16 that the owner of the vineyard puts the vine-growers to death because they killed his beloved son. The owner then gave his vineyard to other vine-growers. We know God is love, but God is also just, and God holds everyone accountable for their actions. We don’t like to think about God being just; we only ...

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Day 6

God the Father has given us His Word to guide us, feed us, encourage us, challenge us, mold us, transform us, and so much more. God’s Truth, as God tells us in Hebrews 4:12, “is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, even penetrating as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the ...

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Day 7

As we close out this week’s devotions, there is no doubt that God has taught us a lot from His Word. The last thing we find today is Jesus’s challenge in Luke 20:17-18, “But Jesus looked at them and said, ‘Then what is this statement that has been written: ‘A stone which the builders rejected, this has become the chief cornerstone’? 18 Everyo...

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