It's 3 days past
Sunday,
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Today
is a mile-Stone for
Israel's BIRTH day
Happy Independence Day,
Israel!!
In Jeremiah 50:6,
God calls Israel His people
and
''lost sheep"
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The Messiah,
spoken of throughout the Old Testament, was
seen
as the one who would gather these
“lost sheep”
(Ezekiel 34:23-24; Micah 5:4-5).
When Jesus presented Himself as a
shepherd to Israel,
He was claiming to be the
fulfillment
of
Messianic prophecy
(Mark 6:34, 14:27; John 10:11-16; see also Hebrews 13:20; 1 Peter 5:4; and Revelation 7:17).
The Tradition of the Elders
(Mark 7:1–13)
Then some Pharisees and scribes
came to Jesus from Jerusalem and
asked,
“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders?
They do not wash their hands before they eat.”
Jesus replied,
"And why do you break the command of God for the
sake of your tradition?
For God said,
"Honor your father and mother’
and
Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
But you say that if anyone says to his
father or mother,
Whatever you would have received from me
is a
gift devoted to God,’
he need not honor his father or mother with it
Thus you nullify the
word of God
for the
sake of your tradition.
You hypocrites!
Isaiah
prophesied correctly about
you:
These people honor Me with their lips,
but their
hearts are far from Me.
They worship Me in
vain;
they teach as doctrine
the
precepts of men.’
What Defiles a Man
(Mark 7:14–23)
Jesus called the crowd to Him and said,
“Listen and understand.
A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth,
but by
what comes out of it.”
then the disciples came to Him and said,
"Are You aware that the
Pharisees were offended
when they heard this?”
but Jesus replied,
“Every plant that My heavenly Father
has
not planted
will be
pulled up by its roots.
Disregard them! They are
blind guides
a blind man leads a blind man,
both will fall into a pit.”
Peter
said to Him, Explain this parable to us.”
“Do you still not understand?”
Jesus asked.
“Do you not yet realize that whatever enters the mouth
goes into the stomach and then is eliminated?
But the things that come out of the
mouth
come from the heart,
and these things defile a man.
For out of the heart come
evil thoughts,
murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft,
false testimony, and slander
These are what defile
a man,
but eating with unwashed hands does
not defile him.”
The Faith of the Canaanite Woman
(Mark 7:24–30)
leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
and a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out,
"Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me!
But Jesus did not answer a word.
So His disciples came and urged Him,
he answered,
"I was sent only to the lost sheep of
the house of Israel.”
the woman came and knelt before Him.
“Lord, help me!” she said.
but Jesus replied,
“It is not right to take the children’s bread and
toss it to the dogs.”
“Yes, Lord,” she said,
“even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall
from their master’s table.”
“O woman,” Jesus answered,
“your faith is great!
Let it be done for you as you desire.”
And her daughter
was healed from that very hour.
The Feeding of the Four Thousand
(2 Kings 4:42–44; Mark 8:1–10)
moving on from there, Jesus went
along the Sea of Galilee.
Then He went up on a mountain and sat down.
large crowds came to Him, bringing the lame,
the blind, the crippled,
the mute, and many others, and laid them at His
feet,
and He healed them.
the crowd was amazed when they
saw the mute speaking, the crippled restored, the
lame walking, and the
blind seeing
And they
glorified the God of Israel.
then Jesus called His disciples to Him and said,
"I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may faint along the way.”
The disciples replied,
“Where in this desolate place could we
find enough bread to feed such a large crowd?”
“How many loaves do you have?”
Jesus asked.
“Seven,”
they replied, “and a few small
fish.”
and He instructed the crowd to sit down on the ground.
Taking the seven loaves and the fish,
He gave thanks and
broke them.
Then He gave them to the disciples,
and
the disciples gave them to the people.
they all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples
picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
A total of four thousand men were fed, in addition to women and children.
after Jesus had dismissed the crowds,
He got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.
John 21
Berean Standard Bible Par ▾ Jesus Appears by the Sea of Tiberias
Later, by the Sea of Tiberias,
Jesus again revealed
Himself to the disciples.
He made Himself known in this way:
Simon Peter,
Thomas called Didymus,
Nathanael
from
Cana in Galilee,
the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together.
Simon Peter told them,
"I am going fishing.”
“We will go with you,”
they said.
So they went out and got into the boat,
but caught nothing that night.
Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore,
but the
disciples did not recognize that
it was Jesus.
so He called out to them,
"Children, do you have any fish?”
“No,”
they answered. he told them,
“Cast the net on the
right
side of the boat,
and
you will find some.”
So they cast it there,
and they were unable to haul it in because of
the
great number of fish.
then the disciple
whom Jesus loved
said to Peter,
“It is the Lord!”
As soon as Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord,
he
put on his outer garment
(for he had removed it)
and jumped into the sea.
the other disciples came ashore in the boat.
They Drug in the net
full of fish,
for they were not far from land, only about a hundred yards.
when they landed, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish on it,
and some bread.
jesus told them, “Bring some of the fish you have just caught."
so Simon Peter
went aboard and dragged the net ashore.
It was full of large fish, 153,
but even with so many, the net was not torn.
“Come, have breakfast,”
Jesus said to them.
None of the disciples
dared to ask Him,
“Who are You?”
They knew
it was the Lord.
Jesus came and took the bread and
gave it to them, and
He did the same with the
fish.
this was now the
third time
that Jesus appeared to the disciples
after He
was raised from the dead.
Jesus and Peter
when they had finished eating, Jesus asked Simon Peter,
“Simon son of John,
do you love Me more than these?”
“Yes, Lord,” he answered,
“You know I love You.”
Jesus replied,
"Feed My lambs.”
Jesus asked a second time, “Simon son of John, do you love Me?”
“Yes, Lord,” he answered, “You know I love You.”
Jesus told him, “Shepherd My sheep.”
Jesus asked a third time,
“Simon son of John, do you love Me?”
(Mary is John and mother of Jesus)
Peter was deeply hurt that Jesus had asked him a third time,
“Do you love Me?”
“Lord, You know all things,” he replied.
“You know I love You.”
Jesus said to him,
"Feed My sheep.
Truly, truly, I tell you,
when you were young, you dressed
yourself and walked where
you wanted;
but when you are old,
you will stretch out your hands,
and someone else
will dress you and lead you
where you do
not want to go.”
Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which
Peter would glorify God.
And after He had said this, He told him,
“Follow Me.”
Jesus and the Beloved Disciple
Peter turned and saw the
disciple
whom Jesus loved following them;)
He was the one who had leaned back against
Jesus at the supper to ask,
“Lord, who is going to betray You?”
When Peter saw him, he asked,
"Lord, what about him?”
Jesus answered,
“If I want him to remain until I return, what is that to you?
You follow Me!”
Because of this, the rumor spread among the brothers
that this disciple would
not die.
However, Jesus did not say that he would not die, but only,
“If I want him to remain until I return, what is that to you?”
This is the disciple who testifies
to these things and who has
written them down.
And we know that his
testimony is true.
There are many more things that
Jesus did.
If all of them were written down, I suppose that
not even the world itself would
have space for
The books
that would be written;)
Jesus was in the area of Tyre and Sidon, a coastal region in extreme northeastern Galilee (Matthew 15:21) when a Canaanite woman
came to Him with a request to heal her demon-possessed daughter.
For a while, Jesus did not respond to the woman’s entreaties,
and she followed Him and continued to beg for mercy.
Finally, the disciples, feeling that the woman was a nuisance,
asked Jesus to send her away.
Then Jesus said,
“I was not sent except
to the lost sheep of the house of Israel”
(Matthew 15:24).
We should understand Jesus’ words here not as an
outright rejection of the Gentiles—moments later,
He heals the woman’s daughter (Matthew 15:28)--
but as a
fulfillment of prophecy,
a setting of priorities, and a
test of the woman’s faith
In Jeremiah 50:6,
God calls Israel His people and
“lost sheep.”
The Messiah, spoken of throughout the Old Testament,
was seen as the one who would gather these “lost sheep” (Ezekiel 34:23-24; Micah 5:4-5).
When Jesus presented Himself as a shepherd to Israel, He was claiming to be the fulfillment of Messianic prophecy (Mark 6:34, 14:27; John 10:11-16; see also Hebrews 13:20; 1 Peter 5:4; and Revelation 7:17).
Jesus’ words to the Canaanite woman also
show an awareness
of Israel’s place in
God’s plan of salvation.
God revealed through
Moses
that the children of Israel were
“a holy people
to the LORD . . . chosen . . .
a special treasure
above all the peoples on the
face of the earth”
(Deuteronomy 7:6).
It was through the Jews that
God issued His Law,
preserved His Word, and
sent His Son.
This is why, elsewhere, Jesus tells a Samaritan that
“salvation is of the Jews”
(John 4:22).
In Matthew 15, when the Jewish Messiah says that
He was sent
to
"the house of Israel,”
He is simply
connecting His presence
with
God’s purpose
in Old Testament history.
Christ
was “born under the law,
to redeem
those who were under the law”
(Galatians 4:4-5).
Every ministry must have
priorities, and
Christ’s ministry was no exception.
When Jesus sent His disciples to preach the good news of the kingdom,
He expressly told them,
“Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the
Samaritans. But go rather to the
lost sheep of the house of Israel”
(Matthew 10:5-6).
Jesus did not forbid their preaching to all Gentiles;
He did, however,
narrow their
focus
to the areas which should
be most receptive--
those who knew the Law and were
expecting the
Messiah
Paul, in his missionary journeys,
followed the
same priority of preaching to the
Jews first
(Romans 1:16).
Finally, Jesus’ words to the Canaanite woman
served as a test of her faith.
She came to Jesus believing that He was
the “
Lord,” the “Son of David,” and the
giver of mercy
(Matthew 15:22).
His delayed answer and seemingly exclusionary
statement brought from her a
further, passionate,
public expression
of
her faith
in
His unlimited power
(Matthew 15:27).
This act of compassion and healing of a Gentile is a
beautiful picture of
Christ’s ministry
to the
whole world--
the
Jewish Messiah
is also the
Savior of all
who
will believe
(Matthew 28:19; John 10:16; Acts 10:34-36; Revelation 5:9).
The biblical passage that makes reference to the
“keys of the kingdom”
is Matthew 16:19.
Jesus had asked His disciples who people thought He was. After hearing several of the more popular opinions,
Jesus aimed His question directly at His disciples.
Peter, responding for the twelve,
acknowledged
Jesus as the Christ,
the Son of the
Living God
After this great confession, Jesus replied,
“Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah!
For flesh and blood has
not revealed this to you,
but my Father
who is in heaven.
And I tell you,
you are Peter, and on
this rock
I will
build my church,
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
I will give you the
keys
of
the kingdom of heaven,
and whatever
you bind on earth shall
be bound in heaven,
and whatever
you loose on earth shall be
loosed in heaven”
(Matthew 16:17–19).
Keys
are
used to lock or unlock doors.
The specific doors Jesus has in mind in this passage are
the doors to the
Kingdom of Heaven.
Jesus is laying
the
foundation
of
His church
(Ephesians 2:20).
The disciples will be the
leaders of this new institution,
and Jesus is giving them the
authority to,
as it were,
open the doors to heaven and
invite
the
world to enter
At this point it is important to understand how, biblically speaking,
one enters
The Kingdom of Heaven.
Jesus said that, unless one is
born again,
he will not see the Kingdom of Heaven
(John 3:3).
One is born again
as the Holy Spirit works
through the
Word of God
to bring about
anew
life in a dead sinner.
The content of the message is the substitutionary
death of Christ
and
His subsequent resurrection
(Romans 10:9–10).
So the
faithful
preaching of the
gospel is the key
to the kingdom.
In Matthew 16:19,
Jesus is specifically addressing
Peter,
so it is significant that, in the book of Acts,
Peter
figures prominently in the
“opening of doors”
to three different groups
of people so they
can
enter the Kingdom.
In Acts 2,
it is
Peter who preaches in Jerusalem on the
Day of Pentecost;
about three thousand Jewish people are saved that day.
Peter’s preaching had
“unlocked the door” of heaven for the Jews.
Later, in Acts 8,
the Samaritans
believe the gospel and
receive the Holy Spirit; again,
Peter (and John)
was present for this event.
Peter had
"unlocked the door” for the Samaritans.
Then, in Acts 10, Peter brings the gospel to a
Roman centurion’s household,
and they, too, receive the
Holy Spirit.
Peter had “unlocked the door” for the
Gentiles.
The “keys”
that Jesus had given him worked in each case.
Of course,
keys can be used to lock doors as well as
open them.
Part of the gospel message is that
faith is necessary.
Without faith
in
Christ, the
door to heaven is
shut and barred
(see John 3:18).
As the apostles preached the
gospel,
those who responded in
faith and repentance
were granted access to the
Kingdom of Heaven;
yet those who continued to
harden their hearts
and reject the
gospel of God’s saving grace
were shut out
of
The Kingdom
(Acts 8:23).
The context of Matthew 16 also refers to a
"binding and loosing.”
To better understand this concept, we turn to Matthew 18:15–20,
where Jesus gives the
guidelines for church discipline,
using the same
“binding and loosing” language we find
in Matthew 16.
The apostles were not to usurp
Christ’s authority
over
individual believers
and
their
eternal destiny,
but they were
to exercise authority to discipline
erring believers and, if necessary,
excommunicate
disobedient church members.
Based on
God’s Word,
believers today can
declare an unrepentant sinner
to be unsaved
(“bound”) and a
repentant believer in Jesus Christ
to be saved (“loosed”).
The binding or loosing, based on
one’s rejection
or acceptance of the gospel,
reflects
heaven’s perspective
on the manner
In heaven, Christ ratifies
what is
done in His name
and in obedience
to
His Word
on earth.through
the
righteousness
of
Christ
Consider Jesus’
warning to the Pharisees:
But woe to
YOU,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For
YOU SHUT
The Kingdom of Heaven
in
People's Faces For
YOU
Neither Enter yourselves
Nor ALLOW
those who would enter to go in!
(Matthew 23:13).
If the gospel message
is
distorted or ignored,
or if unrepentant sin is not
adequately disciplined,
The doors
to
The Kingdom of Heaven
are
being shut in
people’s faces.
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