All About Jesus

Put Away and Long For as Christians As fellow Christians, we should first of all put away the following with the help of the Holy Spirit: wickedness, falseness, hypocrisy, jealousy, and slander. Intead, like newborn infants, we should long for uncontaminated spiritual milk where by it we may become greater and grow up in our salvation.  This is if we have come to know the Lord through the process of acquiring an understanding that He is good and kind and experiencing His kindness.  We are to realize that Jesus is chosen by God as elite and the best. Approach Jesus' Presence We approach Jesus' presence of one whom is the elite living stone that has been rejected by men.  However, in the sight of God, He is of great value and the best stone.  What are We Being Built as? We Christians are built up as a spiritual house.  In other words, in pertaining of the divine spirit, the Christian community is being built as the spirtual temple of God.  We are being built ...

Binding and Loosing In the Gospel of Matthew, Peter declares that Jesus is the Son of the living God.  Jesus said that Peter is blessed for God revealed this to Peter.  Jesus then tells Peter that He will build the church (global Christian community) with Him as the head of it and that the gates of hell will not prevail against the church. Jesus then tells Peter that He will give him the keys.  This is a portrayal of Peter as the keeper of heaven's gate.  The next thing Jesus says to Peter is that whatever he binds on earth will be bound in heaven.  This word bind in the Greek is another word for forbidden in this instance.  Then Jesus tells Peter that whatever he loose (permits) on earth will be permitted in heaven.  This permitting and forbidding is based off of the teachings of the Christian faith revealed in Scripture by the Holy Spirit. In another instance, Jesus is speaking to His 12 apostles.  He says that if one's brother sins against him ...

God and Creation It is important to remember who God really is-an eternal being that knows everything, is present everywhere, is beyond time and space, and is complete perfection.  God is distinct from creation and in fact created the universe out of nothing.  Moses writes in Genesis the following: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1 ESV).  Everything in this universe is owned by God and He reigns over every aspect of it.   In fact, at the beginning of creation everything was considered good.  Moses writes, "And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day" (Genesis 1:31). There was no sin in the world at that time which involved the world being perfect, that is, until Adam and Eve came into the picture. The Fall God told Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  Eve was tempted by the devil where ...

"And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that He answered them well, asked Him, 'Which commandment is the most important of all?' Jesus answered, 'The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these'" (Mark 12:28-31 ESV). Quoting from the Old Testament The religious leaders were debating what the most important commandment was, and one of the scribes asked Jesus about it.  Jesus actually responded with quoting the Old Testament.  In Deuteronomy, it states, "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might" (Deuteronomy 6:4-5). For the second p...

  "A nd in the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea. But when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, 'It is a ghost!' and they cried out in fear. But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, 'Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.' And Peter answered Him, 'Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.' He said, 'Come.' So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, 'Lord, save me.' Jesus immediately reached out His hand and took hold of him, saying to him, 'O you of little faith, why did you doubt?'  And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased" (Matthew 14:25-32 ESV). In this story, Jesus' disciples were on a boat in the Sea of Galilee.   This is a boat that the fishermen in Jesus' time used, so their boat would be similar to this one.   It was...

This is very popular in the Bible, so it would be ideal to break it down and dig deep into the meaninig of it.   In Context In the passages before this, Jesus is talking to Nicodemus about being born again.  He says that unless one is born again and of water and Spirit they cannot see the kingdom of God.  He mentions that one born of the flesh is flesh and that one born of the Spirit is spirit.  This is a contrast of the physical body and its functions concerning sin and of the earth versus one being influenced by God.  All those who belong to God possess the divine power of God within them and have a share in God's life.  Nicodemus doesn't understand this and Jesus calls him out on it since he is a well-known religious teacher and explains that He must be lifted up similar to Moses lifting up the serpent in the wilderness.  He goes on to say the famous passage: Clarified Words loved (ἀγαπάω) - have high esteem for or satisfaction for something,...

  Breakdown Jesus was going to Jericho.  As He was going, there was a blind sitting by the roadside begging. The blind man heard a crowd and inquired about it.  inquire (πυνθάνομαι) - to seek and ask The crowd told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. The blind man cried out to Jesus for mercy. mercy (ἐλεέω) - to be greatly concerned about someone in need; have compassion Those in front rebuked him and told him to be silent. rebuke (ἐπιτιμάω) - to express strong disapproval of someone, censure  The blind man cried out all the more for mercy. all the more (μᾶλλον) - even more loudly Jesus stopped and commanded him to be brought to Him. The blind man came over to Jesus, and Jesus asked what he wanted Him to do for the blind man. The blind man wanted his sight to be recovered. recover (ἀναβλέπω) - regain; blind man was formerly able to see Jesus recovered the blind man's sight.  The blind man's faith made him well. faith (πίστις) - in this instance, ...