Luke: Part 59- Jesus Brings Division

What Jesus says to crowds is always profound and wonderful, but sometimes what He says is shocking. What we are studying today is quite shocking, especially as you realize that this is the Prince of Peace speaking. Our scripture reading for this morning is from Luke 12:49-53. “I have come to set the world on fire, and I wish it were already burning! I have a terrible baptism of suffering ahead of me, and I am under a heavy burden until it is accomplished. Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to divide people against each other! From now on families will be split apart, three in favor of me, and two against—or two in favor and three against. ‘Father will be divided against son and son against father; mother against daughter and daughter against mother; and mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.’”