Last week, we saw how Jesus strongly disciplined or corrected His followers for wanting to harm the Samaritan people. Today, let’s contrast Jesus’ discipline with His acceptance of the Thief on the Cross.
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Consider the first entry. When Jesus cleanses the temple and drives out the money changers, the animanls and the entire system of extortion that was operating in the temple – you find out that the people are being protected from a money making system setup by the Pharisees and true worship of God is restored […]
We are talking today about how the fierceness of Jesus in calming the raging storm on the Sea of Galilee also is the protection of Jesus for his friends in the boat. This is not a one time correlation.
This passage about Jesus holding and enjoying both the babies and the little children has many facets to it (Mark 10:13). Then again, we are talking about the very Character of the Almighty… there will be many dimensions to His infinite personhood!
Matthew 16:21 – Later in Jesus’ 3 ½ year public ministry He begins to tell the disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, suffer many things and be killed at the hands of the Priests, but also come back to life after 3 days. In this fascinating passage Peter actually “took [Jesus] aside and began […]
Jesus is this fascinating, unique human being who can confront the entire class of Pharisees and Priests, who can cleanse the entire Temple Worship area from all its abuses and restore true worship, who has the power to silence raging storms at sea, and who can master nature and change water into wine, … this […]
The Joy of Jesus – He Delights in the Father: Luke 10:21 Luke 10 records that the group of 72 disciples go out for an amazing ministry trip and return to tell Jesus about what they preached, who got headed and who got delivered. Then you see the most wonderful thing: Jesus is “full of […]
The Deep Compassion of Jesus for the 4,000 People (Matt 15:29-39) Jesus is interacting with another very large crowd… probably preaching the Sermon on the Mount in another location.
Mark 1:40 – A man with a horrible skin disease came to Jesus and fell on his knees and begged Jesus to heal his body. The man said he knew Jesus could do this if Jesus was “willing.” Jesus instantly confirms that He is definitely willing!