Da Bauz's Take: Incarnation to Resurrection, Day Twenty

Incarnation to Resurrection

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Incarnation to Resurrection roughly three and one-half years, in 12 weeks, Sunday through Friday (six days) per week

Day Twenty of Eighty-four:

Today as we read, we’ll wrap up the Third Week of our Twelve Week journey through THE Christmas story to THE Resurrection story, we’ll find we are about one quarter of the way through the four Gospels. First, we will explore - “A Tree and Judging the Fruit”. And here, once again, I’ll shamelessly plug my Blog from May of 2012, “KNOW THEM BY...”. Then next we’ll reflect on false prophets and the eight (8) words no one should ever want to hear - “Depart from me, for… I never knew you” from here we’ll read about the “Firm Foundation” that life in Christ is, and then finally, we’ll L@@K closely at the “The Authority of Jesus”. As Matthew 7 closes, Matthew’s final words - “…the crowd burst into applause. They had never heard teaching like this. It was apparent that he was living everything he was saying—quite a contrast to their religion teachers!” - Matthew 7:29 – 29, MSG, give us reason to reflect very fondly on who, and what, Jesus is… G-d!

Next, we’ll take a quick review of the substance of this past week’s texts, beginning with the Beatitudes found in Matthew 5:1 - 12, from the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus taught us to ‘hunger and thirst for G-d’s righteousness’, and of Jesus’ teaching about “salt & light”. Imagine that, we (followers of Christ) are G-d’s LIGHT on Earth! From here we’ll review again what it means that Christ came to Fulfill the Law, and what He had to say about anger; lust; murder; adultery; divorce and empty promises (“oaths”). How by His actions (His obedience) we may know today (I John 5:13 / John 20:31) that we are set free. Not might be, hopefully one day, ‘set free’, IF we be ‘good enough’, but how we are, today, present tense, set free… IF only we’d place our faith in Christ.

Jesus’ early teaching on murder, anger, lust, adultery and divorce, as well as making oaths or empty promises. Did you know that Jesus taught that a man was ‘guilty’, even if all he has done is think evil thoughts – Matthew 5:22. And that “But I tell you that everyone who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” – Matthew 5:28 And we saw “The Lord’s Prayer”: (see also Luke 11:2- 4, for a condensed version of The Lord’s Prayer)

“Our Father which art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done in earth,

as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts,

as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil:

For thine is the kingdom,

and the power, and the glory,

for ever. Amen.” – Matthew 6:9 – 13, KJV

The over-arching theme of this whole week's reading might best be summarized as Do Not Be Anxious and Overcoming Worry with Trust, literally Do Not Worry For Anything! Also this week we looked at one of the more commonly twisted passages in all of Scripture – “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” – Matthew 7:1, KJV How does one ascertain whether one should stop, while driving, when one sees a stop sign… without any judgement at all? In addition to Jesus teachings on what we commonly refer to as The Beatitudes we also explored that Jesus the Christ / Yeshua ha Mashiach (Rabbi Yeshua bar Yosef) Himself Used Name Calling.

Then as we wrapped up Day Five we covered Jesus’ promises that “if we Ask, it Will Be Given” Matthew - 7:7 – 14 and also another one of the more profound passages in Scripture. Something commonly dubbed the “The Golden Rule” Matthew - 7:12 – 14.

And that, right there ^ ^ ^ that, my friends, is GOOD NEWS!

We’ll leave reading the rest of the text for you individually.

I’ve taken the liberty of assembling a weekly chart of daily readings to cover the chronology

Week 3

Matthew 5 - 7

Day 1	Matthew	5:1-16
Day 2	Matthew	5:17-37
Day 3	Matthew	5:38-6:13
Day 4	Matthew	6:14-34
Day 5	Matthew	7:1-14
Day 6	Matthew	7:15-29

Week Three, Day six reading can be found here: http://bit.ly/2Fjq6bd Happy studies

Shalom!

“No Jesus, NO peace” and yet, “Know Jesus, KNOW peace”

How does one get to “know” Jesus? Simple, invite Him into your heart, as Jesus says: “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.” [Revelation 3:20 NIV] How can be assured that this Jesus stuff means anything? Well because the Bible tells us so, as the Apostle Paul wrote:

“If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.” [Romans 10:9-10 NIV]

And for those of you who say to me, I can’t be bothered reading the Bible, “it’s confusing” or “it’s a waste of my time”, may I draw your attention to what the Bible says about wisdom: “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” [Proverbs 9:10 NIV]

If nothing else, PLEASE read two chapters from the Bible – (don’t own one, sorry NO excuse, if you’re reading this, you can access this: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%203:16&version=NIV) John 3 and John 14!

John 3:16 says: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

And John 14:6 says: “Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

Well that’s it, that’s Da Bauz’s Take on, “Incarnation to Resurrection, Day Twenty of Eighty-four” – this 26^th day of January 2018 © 2018, All Rights Reserved. wr (Da Bauz, Christian Zionist “creationist” too!)

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