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In Ezekiel 15, the nation of Judah/Israel is referred to as a worthless vine. Many prophets have dealt with the nation of Israel as God's wild or unruly vine. There is a promise that God will one day restore Israel to its place of prominence, but when Jesus says he is the "true vine," he is offering that as a contrast to Israel.

Where Israel had faithlessly represented God, Jesus had succeeded. Where Israel was no longer an entity for the glory of God, Jesus was nothing but the fullness of God's glory. Where Israel had failed to bear fruit for God, those people connected to Christ could do nothing but bear fruit. Where Israel had been a false hope for the salvation of the people, Jesus had been a true and living hope.

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Jesus washing the disciples' feet and instructing them to "do the same" is not Jesus telling us we should be about the business of feet washing, though I can't say that will never be the case. Jesus asks his followers to consider his position as Master and then consider how he humbled himself as a servant. Jesus is teaching the disciples that if the Master can be a servant, then the servants, themselves, MUST be servants. It is why Paul reminds his readers in Philippians 2 to "have the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus," who was a servant to God "to the point of death." We ought to be busy serving one another and not think more highly of ourselves than is appropriate.

"By this, all men will know that you're my disciples if you have love for one another." People quote this often, but I think they misapply it. People argue that we are to love the world so they will know that we are disciples of Jesus, but that isn't the instruction here. The indication that we are followers of Jesus is how we treat other disciples of Jesus. This is, in part, one of the points of Ephesians where Paul reminds the Jewish and Gentile believers of their unity in Christ. John's key argument in the short book of First John reminds the reader that if you say you love God but don't love the "brethren," then you don't actually love God. Paul even reminds the Galatians that we are to do good to all men, but "especially the believers." So love the world; that's great, but show yourself to be a disciple of Jesus by loving your fellow disciples.

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The only way to ensure that your "firstborn" would be spared was to take a lamb into your house, keep it there for four days, and then sacrifice the lamb, painting your doorframe with its blood. Jesus, by declaring the bread and wine as his body and blood, declared himself to be the true Passover lamb. (1 Corinthians 5:7) But Jesus didn't just rescue people from earthly slavery; he rescued people from spiritual slavery to sin and death. In Christ is true deliverance. In Christ people can truly be set free.

In addition to declaring himself the Passover lamb, Jesus's death coincided with the Passover. He is the spotless lamb that takes away the sins of the world. You might remember from our conversation back in Deuteronomy that the festivals (including Passover) all coordinate the work of Jesus, including his death, his ascension, his return, and his Kingdom.

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The following parable repeats the same point in yet another way. The servants who were expecting the master's return lived differently than those who did not anticipate the coming of the master of the house. I feel it necessary to repeat that the "talents" here are not your singing ability or my artistic ability. Why do we do that? Why do we reduce texts to an elementary cultural view rather than try to understand the intent of these words of Christ and how his hearers might have understood them? I promise that Andrew wasn't nudging Peter in the side and saying, "I think Jesus is telling you to keep working on your puppeteer skills."

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I am neither wise enough nor foolish enough to proclaim that I know when our Savior's coming is on the horizon, but I am confident that he is coming, and so my eyes are ever turned in that direction. The expectation of the coming of my Lord is never far from this thought or the next one, and the momentary distractions of the day are interrupted by the beautiful thought that the clouds in the distance could be the very ones he comes riding on today.

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The Pharisees who live this way are "hypocrites" who "shut the kingdom in people's faces" and raise up converts who are "twice as much a child of hell as yourselves." These generational leaders were blind guides who misled their disciples in worthless ways. These false teachers were concerned with the tithing of their groceries but neglected justice, mercy, and faithfulness. They made sure they looked the part on the outside, but as we had already seen, their hearts were far from God.

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Welcome to Simpler Bible, your daily path to biblical understanding.

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Welcome to Simpler Bible, your daily path to biblical understanding.

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Consider, if you will, the last verse of Isaiah 52 and the first verse of Isaiah 53, "Kings shall shut their mouths because of him for that which had not been told them they see and that which they have not heard they understand. But who has believed our report?" Both the books of John and Romans indicate that the phrase, "But who has believed our report," relates to the disbelief of the Jews in the Savior, that is, Jesus Christ. But the "kings" of other nations, the Gentiles, believed in the Savior's coming. This might cause us to call to mind the wise men who brought gifts to Jesus in his childhood.

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Jesus came to the Jews to fulfill the Scripture in the same way that he was born in Bethlehem, fled to Egypt, was raised in Nazareth, healed the sick, died on the cross, and was raised from the dead. Everything he did was to reveal himself as the promised Messiah. Should we be surprised that when Jesus sent out the 12 in Matthew 10, he instructed them to go ONLY to the lost sheep of Israel? Are we shocked that he told the Greek woman, "I came only for the lost sheep of Israel?" Is it a wonder to us that his ministry was the fulfillment of the Scripture or that he had to be forsaken by the Jews and crucified to accomplish the full work of God?

We understand then that Jesus had to come to the Jews, had to proclaim the truth to them, had to be rejected by them, and had to be put to death to fulfill everything the prophets of old had written. The Jews had to be hardened, had to disbelieve, and had to rebel against the God of heaven so that salvation could come to the world. They never would have crucified him if they had believed in the Lord of Glory.

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Now, I hold the context in mind. In all of the Gospels it is the Pharisees that are grumbling against Jesus's association with the "tax collectors, sinners, gentiles, and wayward women." The Pharisees who knew the Law of Moses, who should have been the ones to recognize the Messiah in the flesh, were missing him, and the sinners were coming to him. Remember that "The Kingdom of Heaven" isn't, at least in this context, a place but is instead a reference to the person and work of Jesus. The Pharisees, the Scribes, and even the Sadducees sought a Messiah to come. They were longing for the consolation of Israel. But when Jesus showed up, he countered their expectations, and they rejected him. But in the last hours of the day, the sinners came to him and received their due.

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