Month: April 2013

Why did the gospel of Jesus bring on such a wrath from those in the world? John 7:6-9

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I heard somebody on a teaching CD mention that Jesus would never have been crucified if He preached the message that so many churches are preaching today.   It started my brain thinking on it and today in our reading is this passage….  

“6 Jesus replied, “Now is not the right time for me to go, but you can go anytime. 7 The world can’t hate you, but it does hate me because I accuse it of doing evil. 8 You go on. I’m not going to this festival, because my time has not yet come.” 9 After saying these things, Jesus remained in Galilee.”

Sometimes we forget how violently people responded to Jesus’ words (wanting to push him off a cliff, crucify him, and in this case plotting his death).    The reality is many did not receive the message joyfully or positively at all… even when it was Jesus Himself speaking it… Something to think about

Whose disciple are we anyways????

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Hello!  Please forgive my lapse in blogging…  Turns out life with a young family can snow you under at times (praise God!!!) as those little ones are so very precious to Him.

So my thoughts today are turned back to these verses

John 20:19-23″19 Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.

21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” 22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”
Hebrews 12:1-3 ”

Hebrews 12:1-3 (KJV)

“12 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.”

Back to the question I opened with… We are disciples to Jesus alone.   Our life, behavior, “ways” are to follow His examples.    The apostles lives give us examples of what this looked like for them and encourage us by the mighty things that the Lord was able to accomplish through them.   But Paul is not my Rabbi, Peter is not my Rabbi,  ONLY Jesus is my Rabbi.

“As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”….  What does all of this mean.   A couple of things I do know.   Jesus was never sick, also Jesus never sinned…  If the point of being disciple is to become ever more like the master… What conclusions can we draw from these verses above?     So many of the doubts, contentions, discussions and debates fall away when our eyes are fixed on Jesus alone and not the imperfect (yet wondrously obedient and loyal men that became his disciples).