Podcasts about gentiles jesus

Matthew 2:1-12 We see the manifestation of Christ (Epiphany to the Gentiles) Jesus is our King Our response is to put our trust in Him

What is Paul's vision for the in-Christ community of diverse Roman believers? Jewish and Gentiles Jesus followers now participate in the cosmic story of God's renewal of all things. Their status signals new ownership, new family and a new mission. If this is our new location, what does it mean to live out this in-Christ status and story?

Podcast Introduction Our reading today is Matthew 14-16, and I'm calling the episode “The Long Detour."  Thoughts on Matthew 15 When the chapter begins, Jesus is in Gennesaret, by the Sea of Galilee.  But in verse 21 Jesus travels to the area around Tyre and Sidon, about 50 miles away. And the area is in the opposite direction of Jerusalem. For reference, Galilee is roughly due north of Jerusalem, about 75 miles away. As the crow flies, Tyre is about 105 miles from Jerusalem.  Remember, Jesus walked everywhere. He didn't own any animals. So it probably took him two to three days, depending on his speed, to walk from Gennesaret to the area around Tyre and Sidon.  Why am I telling you this? Because when Jesus went there, this was not on the way to any of the places he usually frequented. He was there on a mission. He had an appointment to keep with a Canaanite woman. A Gentile. There was a lot of hatred between the Jews and the Canaanites. Yet this woman cries out to Jesus, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!” She must have heard the accounts of the miracles of healing that Jesus had done, even for Gentiles, and she believed that Jesus was the Son of David, and that He could heal her daughter. The people in his home town had no faith in Jesus, but this Canaanite woman did.  Let's step aside for a moment to note that the Gentiles Jesus healed previously had travelled to his location. In this case, Jesus made the trip to her.  Now back to the scene. The woman cries out, "Have mercy on me...!" and Jesus doesn't even answer her. Maybe he didn't even acknowledge her presence. This doesn't sound like Jesus. He ignored her. Evidently her reaction to being ignored was to keep pleading with Jesus, because the disciples said, “Send her away, because she is crying out after us!” At this point, we don't know what Jesus was doing, but the disciples were annoyed. They wanted her to just go away. In saying "send her away", the original language implies that they were asking Jesus to do what she asked so that she would stop her pleading and go away. Instead Jesus said in essence, "I was not sent for the Gentiles, but for Israel." This made her even more persistent. "Lord, help me!" Listen to what Charles Spurgeon wrote about this plea: “I commend this prayer to you because it is such a handy prayer. You can use it when you are in a hurry, you can use it when you are in a fright, you can use it when you have not time to bow your knee. You can use it in the pulpit if you are going to preach, you can use it when you are opening your shop, you can use it when you are rising in the morning. It is such a handy prayer that I hardly know any position in which you could not pray it: ‘Lord, help me.'” Lord, help me. Some people don't feel like they've prayed effectively unless they use a lot of words. Jesus told us in Matthew 6:8 that "...your Father knows what you need before you ask him." Lord, help me. But to our ears, Jesus seemingly doubled down in his coldness to her. He says, “It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs!” Sounds pretty racist, doesn't it? Knowing how Canaanites and Jews hated each other, it sounds like Jesus is calling her a dog, doesn't it? But not so. The language tells us that what Jesus said was "little dogs", as in the pet dogs that even Jewish people had, not the wild dogs that roamed the streets.  We aren't told the tone of Jesus' voice when he made this statement, but I imagine He was beginning to let her in on the fact that He was using this as a teaching moment. I can even believe that He had a hint of a smile on his face. So she said, “Yes, Lord, for even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table.” She understood what he was saying. She didn't take offense at being called a little dog. And she continued her plea. "Just throw me a scrap, Lord.

The Names and Titles of Jesus – I Am the Way the Truth and the Life-  Episode 104 This series of the names and titles of Jesus will give us a more in-depth understanding of Jesus Christ our Lord. This is twelfth in the series. John 14(NIV) “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God[a]; believe also in me. 2My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4You know the way to the place where I am going.” 5Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” 6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you really know me, you will know[b] my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” 8Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” 9Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. John 20 30Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. 31But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. Believe John 20:31 Greek (present continual tense) Credence - believing that the facts accepting the truth. Confidence – believing in (trust and obey) Continuance – go on believing (faith& faithfulness) John 20:31 Greek (present continual tense) “Do not let your hearts be troubled” Verse 1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me…-- Verse 11: “Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.” Yes. I’m leaving. No. You can’t come with me now. Yes, you will be scattered this night when they strike the shepherd, and I will do this work alone. But don’t let your sorrow . . . Don’t let your fear . . . Don’t let your shame . . . produce an unholy turmoil in your soul. Let not your hearts be troubled. Trust me. Trust God. Why? There will be a place for you in my Father’s house, as my Father’s children forever Matthew 16:13 WHO IS JESUS 13When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” Today’s logic says that everybody’s right ----Everyone cannot be right Who is this man who calls himself Jesus one of three possibility He is a liar/conman He is a lunatic The Son of the living God Matthew 16:13 WHO IS JESUS 13When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” 14They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” The scandal of Christianity is not Jesus is a truth or a Savior but the truth and the Savior and anyone who contradicts him is lost and that’s why the world hates him and hates us. He’s not just a profit is not like others it’s his uniqueness that brings about his exclusiveness and that’s a scandal to the world. Promises concerning the Messiah Genesis 49:10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,[c] until he to whom it belongs[d] shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his Daniel 9;24 - 27 the city of Jerusalem was to be rebuilt Malachi 3 and Haggai 2 teach that the Messiah was to come while the second Temple was standing Isaiah 11 says a shoot will spring up of Jesse David’s father but even the root has been destroyed with the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D. Daniel 9;27 says the Messiah would confirm the new covenant and put an end to sacrificial system the sacrificial Finally Isaiah said the coming of the Messiah would be marked by a ingathering of the nations or Gentiles Jesus is the Messiah and he was not just a man even the Jewish scribes said that the Messiah would not be just a man they said the son of David would be greater than they and that he would be Lord of David Mark 12:35 -37 and Psalms 110 he would be God that became man that’s exactly what happened Mark 12:35 -37 35While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he asked, “Why do the teachers of the law say that the Messiah is the son of David? 36David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared: “‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies until I put your enemies under your feet.”’[h] 37David himself calls him ‘Lord.’ How then can he be his son?” Matthew16:21 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. – Matthew 5:48 Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Luke 10:25–37 25And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 26He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” 27And he answered, s“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and tyour neighbor as yourself.” 28And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; udo this, and you will live.” Justification / Sanctification 2 Corinthians 5 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 18Now all these things are from God NATURE – WILL – ACTIVITIES John 14:6 Jesus answered “I AM THE WAY and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.” Subscribe to the podcast: {Apple Podcasts}{Stitcher}{Google Play}{IHeartRadio}{YouTube}{Spotify}{CastBox}

Gentile salvations are part of God's plan to provoke Israel to jealousy.

A deranged man, who had lived in small caves used as tombs, was the first to greet Jesus on the shores of the Gentile side of the lake. Jesus freed him from the demons that were the source of his madness, and he found peace. The local community was terrified of Jesus and begged him to leave, so Jesus left. This is incredibly anti-climactic. Jesus had crossed the lake in the midst of a violent storm, risking the lives of his followers. Upon arriving among the Gentiles Jesus performed one of his most dramatic miracles. Jesus appears to be poised to make a profound impression on the region… But then he gets back in the boat and returns to the side of the lake he had just come from. If Jesus were anything like us, we’d expect him to push on in the face of those who asked him to leave. Wasn’t his mission more important than their objections? How do we respond when we aren’t met with a warm welcome? How do we respond when those we intended to share the Kingdom of God with reject us and the Kingdom?

What was the message that Peter brought to the Gentiles? Jesus!

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2012-12-23-1030 Pastor Loran Livingston is the speaker this morning December 23rd 2012 in the 10:30 service.Scripture: Luke 2:25-34; Acts 16:11-15; I Corinthians 2:14; 3:22-23; Romans 6:23; 8:32; 11:2; James 1:17Topic: SalvationNotes:- Christmas is about salvation, the greatest gift ever given; many don’t get or want it- Simeon in the temple blessed God, Joseph and Mary- Salvation came first to the Jews, then to the Gentiles- Jesus was destined for the rise and fall of many...- Jesus is offensive, stirs up; there is no way to not respond to Jesus; either you’ll bless or curse Him; people are agitated, irritated- Jesus will raise you up or cause you to stumble; no one is neutral- All glory belongs to Him; He has done it all; we have done nothing- God chose a path for you, a well-designed path, orchestrated... divine appointments...- Natural man cannot understand the things of God; the Holy Spirit must quicken- He gives you eternal life... does not loan it... it is a gift

2012-12-23-0830 Pastor Loran Livingston is the speaker this morning December 23rd 2012 in the 8:30 service.Scripture: Luke 2:25-34; Acts 16:11-15; I Corinthians 2:14; 3:22-23; Romans 6:23; 8:32; 11:2; James 1:17Topic: SalvationNotes:- Christmas is about salvation, the greatest gift ever given; many don’t get or want it- Simeon in the temple blessed God, Joseph and Mary- Salvation came first to the Jews, then to the Gentiles- Jesus was destined for the rise and fall of many...- Jesus is offensive, stirs up; there is no way to not respond to Jesus; either you’ll bless or curse Him; people are agitated, irritated- Jesus will raise you up or cause you to stumble; no one is neutral- All glory belongs to Him; He has done it all; we have done nothing- God chose a path for you, a well-designed path, orchestrated... divine appointments...- Natural man cannot understand the things of God; the Holy Spirit must quicken- He gives you eternal life... does not loan it... it is a gift

2009-07-26-1800 Pastor Loran Livingston is the speaker this evening July 26th, 2009 in the 6:00 PM service. Ref: John 21:20-22; Hebrews 11:30-40 Topic: Faithfulness Notes:- Singled out Kristine, a new Christian, as target- Paul was moved by Spirit to write to Ephesus- Paul chosen to deliver gospel to Gentiles- Jesus to reclaim Israel and reveal Himself as deliverer- We were chosen before creation- Jesus took our shame/blame- We are holy in Jesus- Adoption into the Kingdom- We'll mess up as long as we live- We can approach God by the grace of Jesus- He chastens those He loves; the saved will sin- Generational curses were Old Testament