Last Lord's day but better late than never. Morning Luke 9:18-36 The theme the pastor said, of Luke chapters 7,8, and 9, being 'Whom say the people that I am.' He pointed out that though Peter, and we assume the other disciples, could say He was the Christ of God, the disciples were troubled by His saying that He must suffer many things and be slain, and they didn't understand it. The transfiguration was the confirmation to them of His being God's Son, even to the extent of hearing the Father's own voice proclaim it, Luke 9:35. Our pastor goes on to referring to this witness in 2 Peter 1:16,17,18.
The evening, continuing in Luke 9:37-45, with the man whose son has a demon. Appealing to our Lord, the man says the disciples were unable to cast out the demon that tormented his son, though they had been successful with others. The Lord responds with Luke 9:41, lamenting the 'faithless and perverse generation', Continuing the exposition, our pastor refers to the more detailed account in Matthew 17, the theme is the disciples lack of faith, and the efficacy of prayer.