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September 08, 2024Episodes 246-252 summary
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September 08, 2024Ep. 252. Luke 1 | Zechariah and an Angel
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I find it amazing that John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother's womb. Almost as incredible is that both of his parents were filled with the Holy Spirit. In the Old Testament, or before the ascension of Christ for that matter, the Holy Spirit was often said to be "on" people. Very seldom, before the book of Acts, was the Spirit said to be "in" someone. Consider how in 1 Samuel 16, we see that God removed his Spirit from King Saul and put it "on" David. Consider again that when David committed adultery with Bathsheba and had her husband killed, he later wrote in the fifty-first Psalm, "Take not your Holy Spirit from me." We know that the prophets of the Old Testament wrote by the power of the Holy Spirit and even inquired of "the Spirit within them" as to when the times of the Messiah would come. (1 Peter 1:10-11) The Holy Spirit even came upon Samson in strength to bring about deliverance from the Philistines. The Spirit led and instructed Simeon when he beheld the infant Jesus. But it would only be in the book of Acts that the Spirit was given as a seal to every believer. We do not need to fear the departure of the Spirit from our lives as David did.

It is just incredibly beautiful that not only John the Baptist, but also his parents, were filled with the Holy Spirit before the coming of the Savior.

Paul, though set apart for the work of the Gospel from his mother's womb, would not receive the Spirit of God until that fateful day in Damascus, three days after being confronted by Jesus on the road. Peter, when void of the Spirit, denied knowing Christ, but when filled with the Spirit, he was also filled with boldness.
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September 07, 2024Ep. 251. Mark 1 | Immediately
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I am not sure what Mark's love for the word "Immediately" is all about, but I'll tell you one thing for sure: It captures my attention every time. It gives Jesus's work a sense of urgency. Immediately, the heavens were opened up. Immediately, the Spirit drove Jesus to the wilderness. Immediately, Peter and Andrew followed Jesus when beckoned. Immediately, Jesus called James and John to join the band of merry men. Immediately, Jesus entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. Immediately, there was a man with a demon. Immediately, Jesus went to Simon Peter's house. Immediately, the people told Peter's mother-in-law about Jesus. Immediately, the leprosy left the unclean man.
Doesn't this convey the beauty and power of God? Doesn't this make you feel like everything Jesus did was with intention? I read "immediately," and I am left in awe of the deliberate nature of Christ's ministry, his every step, and every word shaped by the purpose for which God sent him.
I sometimes wonder, when we read verses like 2 Corinthians 5:17, "If anyone is in Christ he is a new creation, the old has passed away, and all things have become new," why we skip over that and shrug our shoulders, saying, "I just hope I can be a little more like Jesus tomorrow." Why don't we reckon that God has done his work in us? We, upon our faith, were IMMEDIATELY brought from death to life; IMMEDIATELY given the Spirit of God; IMMEDIATELY ushered into the Kingdom of Heaven; IMMEDIATELY made new; IMMEDIATELY made righteous; IMMEDIATELY forgiven; and IMMEDIATELY given everything we need for life and godliness.
Do we really think Christ's urgency and power are somehow diminished in the twenty-first century? Maybe the problem is that we have preached a weak or flawed gospel too many times from the pulpit, and our people have gone away unchanged because they haven't actually met the risen Savior.
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September 06, 2024Ep. 250. John 20-21 | Jesus Appears
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The book of John ends with a somewhat peaceful scene. Seven of the disciples are out fishing, having already twice seen the resurrected Christ. It does make me wonder why they weren't looking for Jesus, but at this point in the story they do not yet have the Holy Spirit so it is likely they just didn't "get it" yet.

Jesus appears to them from the beach and directs them to a great catch of fish. They have a little breakfast together, and then Jesus and Peter take a walk. (John following close behind)

Can you imagine breakfast with the resurrected Lord and then a walk with him in the early morning? That would have been wonderful, but I imagine it was also a bit painful for Peter.

"Peter do you love me with everything you have?"

"You know that I love you like a close friend."

"Peter, do you love me with your entire being?"

"You know, Lord, that you have been a great friend."

"Peter, do you love me like a good friend?" Peter was saddened this time when Jesus said, "Good friend," and answered him.

"You know all things, Lord, you know I love you like a brother."
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September 05, 2024Ep. 249. Luke 24 | The Road to Emmaus
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It is no secret that I have many "favorite" chapters in the Bible. The list grows a little longer each year. This is absolutely one of them. There are two important things for us to glean from this chapter that shape for us how we read the Gospels.
First, it becomes very clear from this chapter that the disciples did not yet realize who Jesus was. Not fully anyway. The two men on the roadway here say, "We had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel." Did you catch that "We had HOPED?" When Jesus died, they thought their hope of redemption was gone. They still didn't understand his words that he had to die and then be raised from the dead. That truth still escaped them. They still needed to come to an understanding of the Scriptures that foreshadowed Christ. Peter himself was still missing the whole truth.
Second, we can't miss the importance of Jesus opening up the mind of the disciples to understand the Scriptures. With the two men on the road, "Beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself." Then later with the rest of the disciples, "Everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled." Jesus came to fulfill the Scripture. We saw that in his birth and early years, and we saw that a couple of days ago in his death. We even saw that in Matthew 8 through his healings in the crowd. Still, somehow, we get to Matthew 5 and think that when Jesus said he didn't come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it, he must have meant the rules.
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September 04, 2024Ep. 248. Matthew 28 | The Resurrection
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I figure the hardest part of this particular lesson was the discussion on the phrase "The Great Commission." My entire life has had those last three verses of Matthew shaped by those three words. Unfortunately, those three words don't exist in the actual text. I've made the mistake in the past of saying, "The Great Commission doesn't occur in the Bible." More than once, someone came up to me after the sermon with their Bibles opened and a finger pressed next to the words "The Great Commission," usually followed up with, "I have those words in my Bible." Obviously, I needed to be clearer. The words themselves are in print in our Bibles, but only for the last hundred years, give or take a decade or two. However, the phrase "the great commission" wasn't even used as descriptive language for this passage until about 160 years ago.

I have never heard someone preach or teach that text without saying something like, "Today, we are going to study the greatest commission Jesus left for us to fulfill." In other words, they use the editorial heading as the framework for those three verses. Immediately, we are constrained to think of Matthew 28:18-20 as "the greatest commission" Jesus ever left for the believer, and therefore, we don't consider the context at all. The heading that someone added along the way tells us how to consider the text, and we don't ask for a moment if perhaps the first 1860 years of Christianity may have viewed that text differently.
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September 03, 2024Ep. 247. Matthew 27 | The Crucifixion
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Growing up, I was led to believe that the crucifixion of Jesus was the most significant event in human history. That isn't the case. As we will see when we get to 1 Corinthians 15, the crucifixion without the resurrection has no value. Without the resurrection, the cross can not remove sins. Without the resurrection, all our preaching and believing is worthless. So, as we read through these chapters today and as their weight strikes us, let us remember that the crucifixion is beautiful and powerful because the tomb is empty.

I have been excited about walking you through these two chapters for quite some time. By now, you know how much I enjoy the Old Testament, so it should be no surprise that I deeply love Matthew chapter 27. Consider how many Old Testament references and prophecies are fulfilled in this chapter.

Judas was the one appointed at the right hand of Christ to be his betrayer, just as the Scripture declared.

They took the thirty pieces of silver and bought the potter's field, as the Scripture said would happen.
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September 02, 2024Ep. 246. John 18 | Betrayal and Arrest
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One of my favorite tidbits of this chapter is found in verses 8 and 9. "Jesus answered, ' I told you that I am he. So, if you seek me, let these go.' This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken: 'Of those whom you gave me I have lost not one.'" I love this so much because Jesus had just prayed that in the previous chapter during his time of prayer. It is a prophecy wrapped in a prayer, and it comes to completion hours later. None of the remaining eleven, Judas already excluded, were caught up with Jesus in betrayal and arrest.
I also want us to consider verse eleven, "Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?" I was taught that Jesus was referring to the "cup of God's wrath" in this text. The problem with that is threefold:
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Jesus was under God's wrath, only that he removed God's "coming" wrath from those who were saved through him.

In Matthew 20, Jesus told James and John that they were absolutely going to drink the same cup he was about to drink. Obviously, James and John were not under God's wrath.

Philippians 2 (along with John 12 and John 17) tells us that Christ going to the cross was for the glory of the Father and for the glory of Jesus.
Philippians goes further to tell us that it was because of the cross that Jesus was exalted to the highest place and given a name above every name. Most people point to the phrase, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me," but we've already dealt with that at some length in our lesson on Psalm 22.
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September 01, 2024Episodes 239-245 summary
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September 01, 2024Ep. 245. John 17 | Prayer in the Garden
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I won't spend a lot of time here on this chapter, but I will say that we ought to think hard on the prayer of Jesus that the believers would be one even as he and the Father are one. This goes back to what we talked about a couple of days ago that the true sign of the believer is how they love their fellow believers. Spiritually speaking, the church (the bride of Christ) is not splintered. Spiritually speaking, the bride of Christ is perfectly unified in Christ. If Jesus were to return today, then all of the believers, dead and living, would be caught up together to Jesus, and all would bow before him, and all would proclaim praise to him, saying, "Worthy is the lamb who was slain." Practically speaking, the church looks very splintered. The goal isn't for us to be less splintered. At least that shouldn't be our goal. The goal should be to recognize our ACTUAL unity with each other, for we are "one body, called to one hope, with one Spirit, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God." These seven things ACTUALLY unite us, and we should want to walk in that unity to the glory of the Father in answer to Jesus' prayer.
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