Luke 10

v1-16: God is the Lord of the harvest.  He is the one who sends out labourers into his harvest fields.  If God sends them out, we can be confident that He will accompany them and give them success.

v17-24: "Rejoice because your names are written in heaven, because you are chosen by God to receive eternal life and have become the children of God through faith.”  And if your name if written in heaven you will never perish because you are Christ's sheep, whom He gives eternal life to.

v25-37: We have a picture here of the wonderful kindness and love of God our Saviour towards sinners. "We were like this poor, distressed traveller. Satan, our enemy, had robbed us, stripped us, and wounded us; such is the trouble that sin had caused us. We were by nature more than half dead, twice dead, in our trespasses and sins; we were completely unable to help ourselves, because we were without strength. The Law of Moses, like the priest and Levite—the ministers of the law—looks upon us but has no compassion on us; it gives us no relief and passes by on the other side, having neither pity nor power to help us. But then the blessed Jesus comes along, that good Samaritan—and they said about him, by way of insult, he is a Samaritan—and he has compassion on us. He binds up our bleeding wounds, pours in not oil and wine, but what is infinitely more precious, his own blood. He takes care of us and tells us to put all the expenses of our healing on his account."

v38-42: "Excessive concern or trouble about many things in this world" stop us sitting at Christ's feet and receiving His word.

Luke 11

v1-13: In Matthew's Gospel, the prayer Jesus teaches His disciples to pray provides a model to guide our own prayers.  Here in Luke's Gospel we see that it was also intended to be a recited prayer.  When you pray, say.  We can be grateful that Jesus not only teaches us how to pray, but also give to us a prayer to pray, "because it is hard to pray well."

v14-28: "The heart of every unconverted sinner is the Devil's home, where he lives and rules."  Like a strong man armed, he "guards this house" doing all he can to keep it to himself.  But Christ is the stronger man, and every time a sinner is converted, He shows that He has been victorious over the Devil.

v27-36: We can be certain that Christ was sent by God because He was raised from the dead.

v37-54: Jesus dined with a Pharisee.  The Pharisees were hypocrites, concealing hearts full of evil with a show of godliness.  This teaches us that through "we need to be cautious about the company we keep, we need not be rigid about it, nor must we cut ourselves off from the world."