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Get your tickets and we'll see you guys in 2026 for the live podcast tour. What's going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce and today we are in Luke chapter eight. But as always, before we get into it, we are going to be in opening a gift. Sorry, I got caught off guard. I looked over to see if my elf was here, but my elf is actually on a sabbatical right now. So actually, no, he's not. He's here. He's back in his elf deal and come back here. Come back here. Let's go. What gift we open in today? Let's do this one. Okay, great. You know, that was why is it oddly heavy? I don't like the way this one feels, bro. You're gonna like it. Do you remember what this one is? I know what this one is. What the heck? It's a rubber chicken. Oh my goodness. It feels good, right? Dude, this one feels great. Look at it. So cool. Thank you, man. Thank you so much for this. I appreciate you. Of course. Thank you. That was very thoughtful of you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, as always, we're going to get into the word of God today. We're going to be in Luke chapter eight. It's going to be a powerful time of word. Luke chapter eight. We have let's see how many verses we got. We got 56 verses in Luke chapter eight. Let's get it soon afterwards. He went on through the cities and villages proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God and the 12 were with him and also some women and women who had been healed of evil spirits. Mary Magdalene and Joanna. Here it's household manager and Susanna. There were some women following him. And so and a great crowd was gathering him and he said a sewer went out to sow his seed and sowed some fell along the path and it was trampled under foot and the birds of the air devoured it and some fell on the rock and it grew up and it withered away. Some fell among the thorns and it choked it out and some fell on good soil and it grew and yielded a hundred fold. As he said these things, he said, he who has ears, let him hear. You know how much that speech frustrated people. There's a great crowd gathered there who wanted miracles from Jesus. Imagine Jesus making his inaugural speech and the first thing he ever says is, Yeah, some farmer went out to sow some seed, threw some seed here, here, here. Those ones didn't work, but this one landed on some seed and it grew up. Yeah, if you have ears, hear what I got to say. Thank you so much for coming out tonight. God bless and it leaves. And everyone's like, what the heck just happened? And so they left angrily. But this is when the disciples asked him, they said, Hey, what did you mean when you said that? Jesus is about to explain here what the parables were. He says, to you, it has been given and know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others, they are in parables. So that seeing they may not see and hearing. They may not understand now the parable is this. What he says is the parables are a sifting mechanism to see who just want the benefits of the kingdom rather than the king. Who wants the king and who just wants the benefits and all those people that left. They just want the benefits of the kingdom without Jesus. But he sees the disciples are hungry to know Jesus himself. He says that seed is the word of God. The ones along the path of those who have heard it, then the devil comes and takes away the word in their heart saying, there are people that get this word of God sewn into their heart and there's a war for their soul and the devil snatches it up. And then there's ones on the rock. When they hear it, they receive it with joy. They have no root. They believe it for a while in the time of testing falls away. Meaning they have no depth to the word of God that they hear. They just hear it and they ride that high. They ride that church camp high. They don't care to grow deeper. They just like the joy of what they heard. And then when trials come, they easily fall away. And the one that fell among the thorns are those who hear it. But they're choked by the cares and the riches and the pleasures of their life and their fruit does not mature. Meaning that their sin and their sinful deceitful desires get the best of them. As for the good soil, those who hear it hold fast to it in an honest and good heart and bear fruit with patience. Saying, hey, listen, I don't just believe in this word. I want to live this thing out. I want to walk out these statues. Then Jesus begins to continue talking. No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand so that those who enter may see the light for nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light. Everything comes to the light. Everything comes to the light. Even after you die, it comes to the light. Like, there was a old minister back in the day who everyone thought was so legendary and then he died and then all of his secret sin came to the light. And it was after he died, it still came to the light. It came to the light. Everything will come to the light. You know, what's crazy is we like to take Jesus and we like to gatekeep him for some reason out of fear. No, no, no. If you've got the hope, let that light shine before men so that your good works can give glory to your Father who's in heaven. Come on. 18, take care then how you hear. For the one who has more will be given from the one who has not even what he thinks will be taken away. Listen, the much is given much is required. And the second you confess it makes Satan loses power over you. Then his mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not reach him because of the crowd. And he was told your mother and your brothers are standing outside his iron to see you. Can you imagine Jesus' mother and brothers? Oh, yeah, no, we're his family. Oh, yeah, no, you know Jesus. Yeah, he came. He was from me. Yeah. I mean, I didn't make him, but I was the one who carried him for nine months. You know, oh, oh, oh, Jesus. Yeah, that's my brother. You know, it's what's up. Do I really hate him deep down? Yeah, but that's my brother. You know, street cred. They wanted Jesus for clout for this moment. Just in this moment, he answered them. My brother and my mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do he says those who are a part of my family. This is just deeper than blood. Those who are part of my family. But those who do the will of my father. Then Jesus comes to storm. I love the city. The story. He says, when did they get into the boat? And they say, hey, let us go across to the other side. So they set out and as they sailed, he fell asleep and a windstorm came down on the lake and they were filling with water and we're in danger. And they went and woke him saying, master, master, we are perishing and he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves and they ceased. There was a comedy said to them, where is your faith? See, this is interesting. See, Jesus looks at the disciples as, hey, we're going to go to the other side. They get in this boat and Jesus falls asleep and the craziest storm and trial arises and they freak out. They think they're going to die. And they look at Jesus, who's in the middle of the storm, calm as a daisy asleep and they wake him up and I imagine Jesus just going, oh, yawning and stretching out and going and saying something to the wind and bam, the storms calm. He looks at them and says, why do you have little faith? Let's change the context of the story really quick. Let's say, you know, hey, son, hey, Dar, hey, you imagine I'm Jesus speaking to you. Hey, I want you to follow me. All the days of your life and even if you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, don't fear anything for I will be with you. Great Jesus, I'm going to follow you. And then the storms arise and the trials arise and we start doubting God. We stopped trusting God. We stopped reading his word and Jesus doesn't say, why do you have little faith to shame you in those moments? He says, why do you doubt? Because before we even started this journey across the water, I told you we would get to the other side. Jesus' promise to you is that you will be with him no matter how many temptations, trials come your way. The promise is he will be with you. So in the trials and storms of your life, you have to trust that God is going to be with you, clinging to this word, this unwavering foundation of the word of God. And then in verse 26, we see Jesus heal a demon, says that he sailed to the country, he gets to the other side. When Jesus stepped out on the land, there met him a man from the city who had demons. A legion. We read in verse 30, it's like 5,000 demons. This guy comes to Jesus with 5,000 demons, bro. What's your name? He says, he said legion for many demons of internet. The demons begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss. You know, that's the promise of Revelation 9. That will happen where they go into the abyss. Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside and they begged him to let them enter these. So he gave them permission. Then the demons came out of the man and entered the pigs and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned. You see, a lot of people are like, man, why did the pigs run into run off a cliff and die? When these demons enter into the pigs, we watch the behavior of the pigs freak out, run and jump off a cliff. This shows the destructive nature of the demonic, the destructive nature of the devil in your life. Before you follow Jesus, you worship the devil. When you live for yourself, you're worshiping the devil. And what we are blind to see is the destructive nature of the devil in our life. An unrepentant sin and bitterness and unforgiveness will give the foothold to the devil in your life. But the grace of God can set you free from that and we see the destructive nature of the demonic in these pigs. When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled and told it to the city and in the country. Then the people went out to see what had happened and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone. So they see the man who got delivered from demons and those who had seen it told them how the demon possessed man had been healed. Then the people surrounding country of Geresene asked him to depart from them for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned. The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might be with him. He wanted to follow Jesus. He said, return to your home and declare how much God has done for you. Now, I know we're reading through and processing the scripture together, but let me just tell you a question that comes to mind. I don't have an answer, but I've always wondered why God tells some people to not tell anyone and why God tells some people to go tell people. I don't understand it. I will never fully understand that. And he went away proclaiming. Then we see in Luke 840 that begin the story of the woman with the bleeding disease. When Jesus returned from the crowd, there was a man named Jairus who was the ruler of a synagogue. He was a leader who was popular in the synagogue. The synagogue wasn't just a place of worship. This was a place of marketplace. Everything happened in the synagogue and Jairus wasn't just your Joe Schmo. He was like a well-known face in the synagogue and it would have been shameful for Jairus to approach Jesus and be seen and associated with him. But he was so desperate, so desperate for freedom. He falls at the feet of Jesus for his daughter who was only 12 years old and she was dying. And the same amount of time Jairus' daughter has been alive was the same amount of time the woman with the bleeding disease has had this bleeding disease. As soon as Jesus is pushing through the crowd of people, she touches the fringe of his garment in a moment. What seemed impossible to science was impossible. What seemed impossible for science was possible for the God who is above science, who is Lord. Over science heals the woman with the bleeding disease. He says, someone touched me. I've perceived power to leave from me. And she came trembling, falling down before him. Knowing that the people in the synagogue would realize that she was the unclean woman with the bleeding disease, it says, Look, I was the one that touched you. And Jesus doesn't look at her and say, you pig, you unclean pig. He doesn't say that. He says, daughter, your faith has made you well. He calls her by her name. See, Satan knows your name and calls you by your sin, but Jesus knows your sin and he calls you by your name. Come to him. And while he was still speaking to the girl, someone from the Jairus' house came and said, your daughter died. And Jesus looked at him and said, don't fear, just believe she'll be well. Like, I ain't forgot about her. But he had already called the mourners to come out and mourn and weep and sing songs outside. And he shows up and said, don't weep for she's not dead, but sleeping. Those mourners laughed at him knowing she was dead. But taking her by the hand, he said, child arise. And her spirit returned and she got up at once. And he directed that something should be given to her to eat. Her parents were amazed, but he charged them to tell no one what had happened. God's always on time. God doesn't forget about you. God sees you. He loves you. He's for you. And when we pray for things, we have to trust that his timing is perfect. A yes is an answer. Pray from God. A no is an answer. Pray from God. We gotta trust him. Guys, thank you so much for reading Luke chapter 8 with me. And I will see you guys tomorrow for Luke chapter 9. Hey, thank you guys so much for watching the Luke series. I pray that this thing is a blessing to you and the ultimate heart is so that you go and read this word daily. You don't rely on the podcast. You rely on the word of God and the Holy Spirit. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you like the episodes, subscribe, follow us on social media, and we'll see you guys in the next episode.
