December 10, 2024
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Reading along with us in our Lenten readings from “The Life of Jesus”? Here’s today’s reading:
Advent 2024 – Day 10 in the Book: “The Life of Jesus“
The Year of Popularity
Read Sections 3.13 through 3.18 (pages 40-44)
This book is an account of Jesus’ life and teachings told through in chronological order from the four Gospels to create one continuous story.
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Sermon on the mountain. Beatitudes etc. whole new way of thinking. Not power. Prestige. Money. Humbleness. Submission. God first. Others second. Always hard to read salt of the earth. Sometimes. I’m not that favorable depending on my circumstances. Been around people this week who show zero opening on the gospel.
Advent Day 9
I am a salt and light of the world. God impressed in my heart that sometimes this salt will be in the form of trials – his way of making me stay salty. Then through the trials, I have an opportunity to be a light of the world for both believers and unbelievers to see, so hopefully God gets the glory.
What a blessing that Sabbath was a gift from God to man and it’s intent was not to put a burden on us by making it about following rules. It was a gift of God to rest in what God can do rather than what we can do. So of course it was not wrong to do good on the Sabbath, especially when Jesus tells you it is ok. And boy were people drawn to this message of grace and to the miracles that Jesus did, that also showed God’s mercy and compassion. What a reflection that was of all the grace, mercy and justice that the prophets said Messiah would bring to the world. And it would be fitting that the Messiah would choose students and call committed followers and that He would set down the standards showing what His ways were or what the behavior expected in His kingdom would be like. And the beatitudes are a good start. It is the opposite of what the world thinks is valuable but is exactly what Jesus thinks is valuable. And when we walk in those ways we will be a purifying influence and shine the light of God’s truth into a world that is deceived by sin and satan. So Jesus has not come to destroy the law, but to uphold it and fulfill it. Because the law pointed to our inability to keep it, requiring a sacrifice that Jesus would make, but He would be the perfect Lamb that takes on Himself the sin of the world.