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Persevering in Prayer (Luke 18:1-8)
Geoffrey Williams, 6 March 2016
Part of the Prayer series, Sunday Evening service
Are we to be like the widow? Do we need to keep on repeating ourselves? Is that what persevering means? Is God like the judge in the story? Do we have to batter him down before he will listen?
What did Jesus want His followers to learn from this little courtroom drama?
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Luke 18:1–8 (Listen)
18:1 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” 6 And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. 7 And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? 8 I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
(ESV)