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A series of nightly recordings enveloping the pleasure of my life - Learning about our father with my sons.
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Tough reading on this episode, but we get through it and find encouragement and hope in what the Lord Jesus had to tell his disciples as he finished sending them off.
Tonight we read the details Jesus gave the disciples concerning the mistreatment they would face as they went through Israel and gave the commission for which He sent them. We concluded that standing firm to the end was a message for the disciples at that time, and an encouraging promise for them and not a threat to our right standing with God through the work of Jesus Christ.
Maybe nature to our flesh, or perhaps nurtured legalism but it can be very easy to read the things Jesus had to say to the people He was talking to in the time period He was talking to them and assume that He was meaning to continuously reprimand us for some recent behavior. In this reading we see Jesus give the invitation to those who are willing to join Him in the harvesting of followers and we discuss how we believe Jesus is often comforting those he was speaking to and inviting them - not threatening and discouraging them.
We continue our reading through Matthew chapter 9 and see Jesus, between miracles, having time for the people who came to Him. It reminds us that He always has time for us while challenging us to find time for those around us. We call these "divine interruptions" and they are gifts even though we often think of them as nuisances.
The theme for the next few episodes - Jesus is kind to those who can recognize faith in Him as their source, and he is more challenging to those who want to rely on their own righteous efforts. Tonight we explore this as Jesus is criticized by the religious leaders for eating with sinners.
I had a great conversation with a friend tonight, he was very skeptical of healing. I understand why someone would be - we don't always get the healing we want and it's far easier to conclude that God no longer heals then it is to conclude that we lack the faith to receive. We are not claiming one or the other in all circumstances just that when you, and those around you have great faith and act on it the bible records Jesus as responding to this type of faith. Tonight's well known story about the paralytic is no different.
In this chapter we find ourselves reveling when we consider the miraculous powers of Jesus and consider that our best option is to respond in faith.
One word can have a lasting effect. It's one reason we should choose our words wisely and with thought. If our words offer encouragement then they can change the course of a life. In this episode we discuss the power of Jesus' one word to heal followed up with a discussion as to why it was not wise or well thought out to tell Christ, "I will follow you wherever you go." When I was a child (maybe 7 years old) I once told my Dad I could run faster than his truck - he raced me down the street and I lost bad. I learned I wasn't as impressive as I thought. Jesus uses this tact as well.
We continue in Matthews Chapter 8 with the story of a gentile - a Roman leader - demonstrating faith that Christ has dominion over everything: effectively calling Him God. It was easier for a gentile, someone who never felt an obligation to the law, to see this then it was many of Christs' Hebrew followers.
This is a fun episode that we only wish we would have published earlier. If you can't recall the conversations we have been having concerning the meaning of the sermon on the mount, go back and listen to those episodes. If you found Jesus' first proclamation in the beatitudes "blessed are the low in spirit" to be confusing, then this chapter will clear up exactly what the means. Possibly the only person who really left the sermon feeling blessed was a leper who certainly had every reason to be low in spirit.
Sorry for the long break. Tonight, we continue Jesus' discussion with the people as recorded in Matthew and what He had to say concerning seeking truth, seeking God.
What does it mean to seek HIS righteousness? Often times we see Christians pursuing their righteousness and not HIS. Christ instructed us in the sermon on the mount to pursue the perfect and holy righteousness of God if we wanted to live without worry. How we could ever actually accomplish this - He doesn't tell us but we discuss how, and it is more restful than one would think. Come join.
What do fasting and money have in common? Both can be outright corrupt when the Heart of our father is not the centerpiece of our efforts and desires. Jesus speaks to this during the sermon on the mount and we unpack it as a family with a few fun tangents on things like moths and mothballs.
Jesus left modern-day Christians a difficult verse in Chapter 6:15 and 16 when he said, "Forgive others and be forgiven, but if you will not forgive others then God will not forgive you". In this episode we take and defend the position that Christ was not giving statutes on how to be forgiven and remain saved as a believer but that he was again setting a bar, or standard using the Law and God's perfection to show the people that they could not live up to His holy standard and that this would ultimately turn the zealous and earnest heart towards their need for God's mercy.
Tonight we followed up our history lesson with a quick review of how understanding the history helps us understand the purpose of the sermon Jesus gave and how it can be applied towards the peace that comes with understanding eternal security through all that He was able to accomplish. We look forward to getting back on track and finish up chapter 6 in the next episode.
In this episode we take a pause in going forward with the Sermon on the Mount in order to review the history of the Jewish people and gain an appreciation for who Jesus would have been teaching and how they would have heard what Jesus was saying. So often we get conceited enough to think that everything Jesus said was directed to us, when, although I am confident the Spirit can work through scripture to reveal things to us in our present lives, He was actually speaking to other people. Context is important, and even during the last few episodes we have lost the sense of context in an effort to apply what Jesus said to our exact scenario here and now. Let's discuss what He meant there and then.
Tonight we discuss the idea of leading a spiritual life to impress other people versus doing it as a natural response to the Spirit in us and to have a deeper relationship with our Father. We conclude the scripture portion with the Lord's prayer and get into a discussion on eternal security. It is a little choppy and out of place, but we had to leave it in as a good segway into the next recording.
In this episode we what Jesus had to say about gouging out eyes, divorce, and speaking with integrity. We still reached the conclusion that only Jesus can perfectly do the things of which He spoke, but that we can still apply them to our life as a weapon against the ultimate plans of sin in our lives.
This is an introduction episode to Jesus giving the sermon on the mount. We discuss the purpose of the sermon and interpretations of forgiveness and God's will and finish off by a life application of straining to be reconciled to your brothers and sisters.
On this night we read and discussed what it meant to follow respond to the call of Jesus to follow Him and concern our interests with the interests of the Father.
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