Podcasts about jesuses

It's Pentecost Sunday - the day we celebrate the arrival of the Spirit. Like we talked about last week, Christian means "follower of Christ." We can also understand it as meaning "little Christ." We're all little Jesuses. This happens with the indwelling of the Spirit. The Spirit is nothing more than Jesus moving from the outside to the inside. It's Jesus moving in. So here we'll walk a bit through the story in Acts 2. How do we know that Jesus has moved in? 1) There will be a renewed sense of community. They were all together in one place. The Spirit arrived to the gathered community. They had everything in common. We'll talk for a bit about the importance of the gathered community. With all of our online options today, the gathered community has never been more important. 2) There will be a renewed sense and passion for loving the world - our neighbors. There was such a diversity of people present at the first Pentecost. They were there meeting the practical needs of people. Speaker: Aaron Vis Scripture: Acts 2:1-13; 42-47 http://bible.com/events/49447317

Today's title may seem a little bit odd - how many Jesuses are in the NT? I'm sure there are going to be several comments on YouTube from people who didn't stay to watch the episode because the answer is clearly “one”. For those who want to see where we go with this, Dr. Bart Ehrman is going to be answering my questions on the different ways early Christians and writers of the NT viewed and understood Jesus, and whether all of those views and perspectives can be embodied in a single figure.

How many Jesuses are too many?

DATE: 10/27/2024SERIES: Kingdom TrialsTITLE: Choosing Between Two JesusesTEXT: Matthew 27:11-26BIG IDEA: Jesus is not intimidated by the world's power.SERMON NOTES: http://tiny.cc/notes20241027GROUPS QUESTIONS: http://tiny.cc/gqs20241027RESPOND: http://thecreeksidechurch.org/discovercard

DATE: 10/27/2024SERIES: Kingdom TrialsTITLE: Choosing Between Two JesusesTEXT: Matthew 27:11-26BIG IDEA: Jesus is not intimidated by the world's power.SERMON NOTES: http://tiny.cc/notes20241027GROUPS QUESTIONS: http://tiny.cc/gqs20241027RESPOND: http://thecreeksidechurch.org/discovercard

Who is Jesus? In our day we could say that we have many Jesuses! There's a religious version and a permissive version; a humanist Jesus, an activist Jesus, and many more. And we would do well to ask: Are we worshiping, following, and preaching the Genuine Article? Who is Jesus? In this sermon we kick off a short series asking that question. We'll go to the disciple who arguably knew Him best, the Apostle John. Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand. You can purchase a copy of this message, unsegmented for broadcasting and in its entirety, for $7 on a single CD by calling +1 (800) 984-2313, and of course you can always listen online or download the message for free. RS08272024_0.mp3Scripture References: John 1

This episode is a college baseball-palooza, what with my attempts to make peace with the Bulldogs' outcome at the regionals and Melanie's recap of her trip to watch the Aggies play the Longhorns (which ended up being an unexpected encounter with an array of tiny Jesuses). Plus, I have some feedback about the announcing side of college baseball and lots of thoughts about a quality at-bat. We also discuss a show we have both loved - as well as my impromptu trip to a fast food restaurant after a doctor's appointment - and it's Melanie's turn for Five Favorites. Hope you enjoy! - Join Us on Patreon - Our Amazon Shop Show Notes: - A&M going to super regionals - NCAA baseball super regional line-up - Hacks - Taco Bell's Cheez-it menu - tennis dress - Agolde Parker denim shorts - tunic ruffle hem shirt dress - oversized boyfriend button down shirt - Tan Luxe The Body Butter (this was a sidebar) - Musely The Spot pill Sponsors: - OSEA Malibu - use code BIGBOO for 10% off - Dwell - use this link for a 25% discount - Green Chef - use code BIGBOO50 to get 50% off plus 20% off your next two months - AG1 - use this link for a free year's supply of vitamin D3 & K2 plus five free travel packs

This week, Ryan and Brian speak over music, customize their burgers, share more McCartneys than Jesuses, and offer one of the most nail-biting thrillers Kealoa has ever known -- but we won't harp on it, give a listen yourself. If you get bored (how could you?!), write something for the Fill Me In wiki. And if you're feeling philanthropic, donate to our Patreon. Do you enjoy our show? Actually, it doesn't matter! Please consider leaving us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts. This will help new listeners find our show, and you'll be inducted into the Quintuple Decker Turkey Club. Drop us a note or a Tweet or a postcard or a phone call — we'd love to hear from you. Helpful links: Apple Podcasts link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fill-me-in/id1364379980 Google Play link: https://player.fm/series/fill-me-in-2151002 Amazon/Audible link: https://www.amazon.com/item_name/dp/B08JJRM927 RSS feed: http://bemoresmarter.libsyn.com/rss Contact us: Email (fmi@bemoresmarter.com) / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram We're putting these words here to help with search engine optimization. We don't think it will work, but you probably haven't read this far, so it doesn't matter: baseball, crossword, crosswords, etymology, game, hunt, kealoa, movies, musicals, mystery, oscar, pizza, puzzle, puzzles, sandwiches, soup, trivia, words

"We've all got the same 24 hours; Goku is just spending them with God."Who knew Heaven was a place on Earth? This week on Destructo Discourse Origins, Goku rides the power pole up to Kami's Lookout, as we recap episodes 124-126 of the original hit anime, Dragon Ball, and wrap up the King Piccolo Saga! Join us as we spaghettify a Kamehameha, create at least 500 Jesuses by happenstance, and begrudgingly discuss the concept of "Oozaru backshots."Beating the brain-having allegations since 2018, baby!Your hosts this week are:Jayson, Matt, Melissa, TylerYou can also check out Tyler's other podcasts,What The FolklorePiece Meal

In this episode we keep it light and fluffy like a perfect pastry with a side of your favorite red wine. While licking our lips, we review communion and transubstantiation and consider how many Jesuses does a church eat? Shoutout to Misfit Mementos for making my research easy. Click here for my ⁠Reliable Sources guide⁠. Submit your questions for a future guest show: https://forms.gle/77dTNBgPaYywd4HKA Subscribe the Brimstone Newsletter: https://brimstonegoodfight.substack.com/ Fables aims to be collaborative deconstruction of faith and cultural systems. Your host, Dylan, is a new atheist, working toward redefining morals and growing as a person. Join Dylan in sharing your stories! If you'd like to be on a future episode, leave me a message at ‪(515) 318-7569, or find Fables of Our Deconstruction on Spotify and send me a voice message. If you want your name shared, include it in your message, otherwise I'll keep you anonymous. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fablesofdeconstruction/message

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl tells Jack about the Mexican holiday 3 Kings Day.Transcript:00:00:01JackWelcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and today I'm here with my co-host social. And this is a new kind of episode that I like to call, topic talks and so social. What is today's topic or the topic talk?00:00:20XochitlUh, today's topic tag is a cultural holiday tradition called 3 Kings Day, and it's a holiday celebrated on January 6th and we celebrate in Mexico and I'm not sure if we celebrate it in other places of Latin America, but it celebrates when the three kings visited the baby Jesus.00:00:41XochitlYou brought gifts. So in Mexico you don't actually get your gifts on Christmas and stuff you. I mean, you can, but you usually get your gifts on three Kings Day.00:00:52JackOhh really you get?00:00:53JackYour your gifts on three Kings Day for not not.00:00:58XochitlYeah, I mean, I got.00:01:00XochitlGifts both days growing up, I split, split them up like between Christmas and three Wednesday.00:01:09XochitlBut traditionally in Mexico, you do get your gifts on three Kings Day so.00:01:16JackAnd and this also we should let our listeners know, this is like a this is from the the Christian Bible. The idea that on the on I guess it was when when Christ was Jesus was born.00:01:31JackBarn 3 Kings presented him with gifts, right? Gold, frankincense and myrrh.00:01:42JackIs that what it?00:01:42발표자Yeah, yeah.00:01:42JackIs OK alright. I don't know what Murray is. Actually, I don't know what frankincense is either, but.00:01:47XochitlFrankincense is a type of like it's a it's like a potpourri, or like an incense type of thing. It's a smell. I've smelled it before. It's kind of it smells kind of like minty.00:01:55JackOK. OK. OK.00:02:02XochitlBut look really sweet. I don't know.00:02:03JackThat's nice. Oh, OK. OK. Frank, it's. I mean, it kind of sounds like frankincense kind of sounds like some kind of incense. You know, like it comes to the word incense, but, but murder?00:02:03XochitlHow to?00:02:05XochitlIt is nice.00:02:13XochitlRight, yeah.00:02:16XochitlYeah, I don't know what that one is.00:02:19XochitlI'll be honest.00:02:19JackWhat is that? OK. All right. Have no idea if you know what Mer is. Please let us know. Send us.00:02:20XochitlI have no.00:02:21XochitlI don't have that one.00:02:24XochitlAn e-mail leave us a comment.00:02:29XochitlOr time in the we chat or.00:02:30XochitlWhatsApp groups, but uh.00:02:32XochitlYeah. So what we do typically is that we exchange gifts on this day kind of like you would for Christmas and then we.00:02:42XochitlCut up the roska, which is a three kings cake or King's cake. Kind of like Mardi Gras where you have.00:02:48XochitlKing's cake it's.00:02:49XochitlA similar kind of consistency. It's flavored with orange and anise seed.00:02:55XochitlAnd it has, like marzipan and cherries and candied orange peels. UM on the top.00:03:04XochitlAnd the very interesting.00:03:05JackOhh nice.00:03:06XochitlYeah, it is really tasty. I had two pieces, but the really interesting part about this pastry, it's shaped like a ring and everyone cuts their own peace. And if you get there's three plastic baby jesuses inside the.00:03:24XochitlThe cake and if you get a baby Jesus on February 2nd, you have to make tomorrow's for every.00:03:32JackOh, really? OK.00:03:36JackDid you get a baby Jesus?00:03:38XochitlNo, I I have a few tricks up.00:03:40XochitlMy sleeve Jack. So.00:03:42JackNobody wants.00:03:42JackA baby Jesus. You don't want a baby Jesus.00:03:45XochitlYou don't want a baby Jesus because then you have to make tomorrow and no one wants to make tamales. So I have a few tricks up my sleeve that I use to avoid the baby. Jesuses #1 is.00:03:57XochitlThe riskiest part is when you've cut your first piece of cake, you're pretty much.00:04:02XochitlIt's just your luck on luck.00:04:04JackYou got you go.00:04:04JackLeft or you go right. I mean that's it, right? I mean, right.00:04:07XochitlYeah, you have no pretty much no.00:04:12XochitlSay you kind of want to be in the middle.00:04:14XochitlOf the pack because.00:04:18XochitlIf you are the first person to cut, you have no idea. And if you're the last person to cut, then unless everyone else magically got a baby Jesus, which is very unlikely, then you're running out of space. You know what I mean? Like.00:04:31XochitlYou're running out.00:04:32XochitlOf real estate there. So it's likely that you're getting a baby Jesus, but if you're.00:04:36XochitlSomewhere in the middle of the pack.00:04:37XochitlIf someone just got a baby, the best time to go is.00:04:39XochitlIf someone just got a baby.00:04:41JackYeah, go right next to their their baby Jesus because.00:04:45XochitlThanks. Yeah.00:04:46JackThere's not going to be two.00:04:47JackBaby Jesus, next to each other, right?00:04:49XochitlYeah, they're not right next to each other. So I mean, when I used to make it, sometimes I put them.00:04:53XochitlNext to each other.00:04:56JackYou trick people, OK?00:04:57XochitlYeah, but you don't know where.00:05:01XochitlYou don't know where you they are. Even if you baked it, because once you bake it, you bake it with the baby.00:05:05XochitlJuice inside by.00:05:06XochitlThe way I know that can't be good for you.00:05:09XochitlBut or maybe?00:05:09JackThat can't be good, that those those are forever plastic chemicals, you know, so.00:05:14XochitlI know, but yeah. But you.00:05:16XochitlForget by the time it's ready where you put the baby Jesus. So it's like you.00:05:22XochitlThat's the best time is what right after someone got a baby Jesus.00:05:26XochitlThe other thing the other way that.00:05:28XochitlI avoid it is.00:05:30XochitlIf you already got a baby dude so you can eat as many slices as you want because getting the 2nd baby juices doesn't make you have to make more tamales.00:05:37JackNo, it's you're already. You're already done anyway. You're you're you've lost already, so.00:05:38XochitlWell, it's.00:05:43XochitlI just avoid a second slice until everyone has already.00:05:47XochitlGotten a baby Jesus? Like if they've already found three baby jesuses, then I can have as many slices as I want, but I tend.00:05:53XochitlTo hold out until that point.00:05:55JackOK.00:05:56JackOK.00:05:57JackWhat about? I'm just, I'm just brainstorming here, but what if?00:06:00JackYou cut really slowly.00:06:03JackAnd then you feel the plastic, you know, baby Jesus kind of touch the knife.00:06:10JackBut you can feel which side the the baby Jesus is on.00:06:14JackAnd then you cut the other go. The other way is that does that count? Or if you touch the baby Jesus with the knife, does that mean you you're now making tamales for everybody?00:06:25XochitlYes, because if you even if it peeks out, like even if you slice didn't have any, if you can see it when you cut it, like if it's in the then it's yours.00:06:34JackOh, OK, OK. So you.00:06:36XochitlPut it with the knife and you like moved your knife because you felt it. Everyone would. Everyone's watching you cut. So everyone be like you felt it. So you're making it tomorrow. Like they don't care. But I'll be really dirty. Trick that I used to have up my sleeve when I was a kid. Is that when everyone was distracted? I would. It's like a.00:06:54JackYou would poke a toothpick in there.00:06:57XochitlNo, I would pick it up and look at the bottom because you can see the.00:07:00XochitlHoles where they put the baby juices in.00:07:04JackSo you would know exactly where not to OK.00:07:08XochitlYeah, we're not to cut. And just, like, make a mental note of it. That was when I was younger I.00:07:12XochitlTried not to be that unfair.00:07:14JackYeah, that's some serious cheating right there. But yeah, you must be making tamales. Must be really awful. Must must be.00:07:21XochitlIt's not awful, but it's a lot of work, like no one to do it because you have to sit around. It's like an all day of Fair like you have to make the dough. You gotta boil the pork. You have to make the sauce. So that goes in there like you have. There's so many components to the ceiling and then you have to wrap each individual tomorrow. And you have to steam them in a pot, then you're done.00:07:24JackOK, OK.00:07:41XochitlSo it's like all the affair.00:07:43XochitlSo just no one.00:07:43JackI love tamales though. Ohh my gosh.00:07:46JackThey're so good.00:07:47XochitlI'm actually not a fan.00:07:48XochitlOf tamales either actually. So that's like.00:07:50JackReally. Ohh like that? I don't I.00:07:52JackThink I like them.00:07:54XochitlMore little ones with banana like that are wrapped in banana leaves. I do love those, but other other ones. I'm not a huge fan of. Yeah. So that's kind of the the big thing is like the excitement about whether you're gonna find a baby Jesus or not.00:08:08XochitlAnd do you have like hot cocoa or, you know, you drink it with like hot cocoa usually?00:08:13XochitlBecause it's not a super sweet. It's like it's kind.00:08:15XochitlOf a sweet.00:08:16XochitlBread, pastry kind of thing, but it's not very sweet. It's not like American pastries.00:08:21XochitlWhere it's like.00:08:21XochitlA mouthful of sugar. It's like a.00:08:22JackRight, right, right. Yeah.00:08:23XochitlVery light beef bread.00:08:25XochitlSo you dip it in your hot chocolate to complement it.00:08:29XochitlUM.00:08:31XochitlAnd that's kind of how you do it you.00:08:33XochitlKnow so.00:08:34JackSun right, actually.00:08:36XochitlYeah, it is really nice. I actually do, really.00:08:38XochitlEnjoy it and.00:08:40발표자Like did you?00:08:40JackGuys stretch out the holiday season even a little bit farther.00:08:43XochitlOh, ohhh yeah, we're bad in Mexico. If you if you whenever. If you ever moved to Mexico or go travel to Mexico or something. Everything. I mean, except businesses, some businesses and stuff, but any kind of like paperwork, anything like that is shut down completely from like December through the end of January.00:09:05XochitlDecember starts Posadas all the way until December 24th. Posadas are like.00:09:10XochitlWhen you know.00:09:11XochitlHow Mary and Joseph asked for a place to stay like they asked for refuge, I guess.00:09:17JackYeah, yeah, yeah.00:09:18XochitlSo you go around knocking. I told you about this before.00:09:21XochitlBut you go.00:09:22XochitlAround knocking door.00:09:22XochitlTo door and you like get hot chocolate and there's like party. It's like a part.00:09:26XochitlEvery night up until Christmas Eve. Then you party on Christmas. Then it's like you have New Year's. Then you have they smuggle. But January 6. And then there's still more stuff that you're doing up until February 2nd, where you have the people come back and have the tamales.00:09:47JackI love it. I love it. Months of celebrations? Yeah, that's.00:09:48XochitlSo it's just a party all through December and January.00:09:54XochitlIt's like doing some partying. Yeah, yeah.00:09:57JackI like it. I like it.00:09:59XochitlVery festive culture, which is something I appreciate and something a lot of.00:10:03XochitlPeople like but.00:10:04XochitlA lot of people aren't prepared for it when they move their full time because they get angry because they're like, why are there fireworks waking me up at 2:00 AM every night? It's like, well, they're.00:10:13XochitlPart people are partying cause it's like a patron, St's birthday or some kind of holiday. It's like pretty much every week there's a holiday of some sort.00:10:22JackRight. It's the day before the day before the three Kings Day. And it's the day after, you know? Yeah.00:10:23XochitlAnd they're not all set.00:10:28XochitlRight.00:10:29XochitlYeah, they after this. So it's kind of like it's a big celebratory culture and a lot of people enjoy that. But again, they're not really like ready for it because it's a lot of.00:10:41XochitlCommunity and like in America, we're so individualistic and we're so reserved and we don't like loud noises and we're very bothered by.00:10:51XochitlThose couple things and like it's something that I feel like a lot of Americans are really not prepared for when they move to Mexico. I see so many complaints on expat groups like why are people putting on fireworks? My poor dog is scared. I'm scared. I don't like the noise. I can't.00:11:07XochitlSleep and like it's.00:11:08XochitlJust that's how it is here.00:11:11XochitlI guess that it is better. Yeah, or. Yeah. But it's like not going to change anytime soon because it's just part of the culture, a huge part.00:11:11JackYeah, accept it or leave God love it.00:11:15JackLeave it.00:11:21XochitlOf the culture so.00:11:23XochitlYeah. All right. 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Pope Francis has said that homosexuals and even atheists go to Heaven. Even for Roman Catholicism, he is a heretic. But he recently made a startling statement about Jesus and how many “Jesuses” there are. ✅

Pope Francis has said that homosexuals and even atheists go to Heaven. Even for Roman Catholicism, he is a heretic. But he recently made a startling statement about Jesus and how many “Jesuses” there are. ✅

In this episode we tackle what we see as a problem with Jesus, metaphysical beliefs and abilities, Indigo Children, emanations of enlightenment and a practical Tantra. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gintantra/message

If the Jesus I worship looks just like me, is he the real Jesus or a Lord of my own making? This week, once more, we'll consider some of the fake “Jesuses” that appeal to Christians on the conservative side of the theological spectrum. False Christs are dangerous because they can lead us to trust in an imagined “god” who is not real. Don't fall for that trap!

Although God calls us to be shaped into his likeness, we're more interested in fashioning God in our own image. But the real Jesus cannot be made into the image of man so easily. This week we'll look at five modern distortions of Jesus that appeal to Christians on the conservative side of the spectrum: Braveheart Jesus, American Jesus, Dr. Phil Jesus, Prosperity Jesus, and Legalist Jesus. These fake Jesuses are dangerous because those who follow them put their trust in someone other than the biblical Christ. If the Christ we worship looks just like the man in the mirror, is he the real Jesus…or a Jesus of our own making?

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It’s the return of a news episode! And other announcements!

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono It’s the return of a news episode! And other announcements!

In Matthew 24, Jesus says that many will come in His name; but how do we know when we see another "Jesus"? Join David Lister on his discussion and find out how to know a false Christ when you see one.We're taking a break in Sandy's Apologetics for this month as we take a look at evangelism in a day when its desperately needed. Sandy will be back with more apologetics and bible teaching  in June.

Lords: * Avery * Tyriq Topics: * Adam, Father of all humankind, was maybe a giant * Heathcliff is still going and it's weird * I've heard a million novelty metal covers but still nobody's done Truly Scrumptious / Doll on a Music Box from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang * "The Phone Call" by James Tate Microtopics: * Withholding all your best URLs until the end of the episode. * Using lowercase Ls in place of Is and seeing if anybody notices. * Leaving capitalizations to the whims of chaos. (Your fingers.) * Teachers explaining that if you can't write in cursive by junior high your teachers will throw things at you and call you stupid. * Adam and Eve growing to 18 feet tall. * Pre-flood humans and their towering heights/lifespans/IQs. * How to make your wisdom teeth fit again. * Conspiracy theories that have no bearing on anything. * Fighting wars over the estimated radius of the earth. * The Nephilim. * YHWH fanfiction. * How many Jesuses are alive today. * The friend you have with superhuman charisma and whether they ended up starting a cult. * Getcherself a nice cult, settle down, have a thousand babies. * The guy who was both a dwarf and a giant during his lifetime. * Every tall person having been short at one point. * Chain-smoking tweens drinking martinis and yelling at their secretaries. * A Topic Lords ouroboros. * Hypothesizing why the elderly people Heathcliff lives with have a child. * Having a child for some reason. * A humanoid robot with the word "meat" printed on its chest. * The kind of people who read comics every day. * Zippy the Pinhead. * A weird underground subculture comic that somehow made it into newspaper syndication. * Mustache Mondays vs. Mustache Lasagna. * A milk mustache but for lasagna. * A cartoon anvil that has its weight imprinted on it. * Two side characters explaining the situation to each other. * One of the birds says to the other, "Christ, what an asshole." * Historians a thousand years from now deciding whether Heathcliff should be included in the Bible. * After recorded media stops being a thing, episodes of The Simpsons being passed down as oral history. * Rhapsodes. * Contests for the best rhapsode. * Hector of the Shining Helmet vs. Hector the Booty Inspector. * Fillet episodes in the Odyssey and the Iliad. * The Flaming Lips album that comes on four CDs that your supposed to play simultaneously, but nobody's ever bothered. * How they handle hidden tracks on Spotify. * How to deal with skits when you're ripping rap albums to mp3. * The Meat Puppets playing a set in the middle of Nirvana'a MTV Unplugged set. * Writing a song about a shooting star who's been turned into a rat and has just fallen in love with someone named Tristran, and trying to figure out what rhymes with Tristran. * Working at the Brill Building. * Tin Pan Alley. * Nearly jumping out of your pants. * Taking a high-paying job as a murder victim. * The one where people wear horse skulls. * The Scrambler, from issue #12 where the panels were all out of order. * Working at the oil refinery until a giant spider comes and steals the Light of the Silmarils. * Whether there's a werewolf in the Silmarillion. * Biblical Exigesis. * Getting email saying that your art is improving someone's life. * A phone that can receive text messages but you have to pay extra to know who they're from.

This week Jake shares on discerning God's voice and not believing everything you hear on the internet or from a "Christian" teacher. He also shares about what it means for God to be love and about how knowing God's love sets us free from fear, worry, and anxiety! You might need to share this one with a friend!

Crystal has a wonderful and enlightening conversation with spiritual mentor, author, and podcast host of The Cosmic Love Antenna, Harrison Meagher. Topics discussed: the multi-dimensional body, the cosmic heart and the heart portal, the three Jesuses, timelines, humanity's shadow, and much more. Pre-Order Harrison's book: https://www.cosmicloveantenna.com/Listen to Harrison's podcast, The Cosmic Love Antenna: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cosmic-love-antenna/id1610645851Follow Harrison on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harrisonmeagher/ *Join Crystal's Text Community: https://textcac.comJoin the Life Magnetics Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifemagneticsWrite to Crystal: questions@life-magnetics.netFollow Crystal on IG: https://instagram.com/crystalannecomptonSubscribe to Crystal's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CrystalAnneCompton/Visit Crystal's website: https://crystalannecompton.comJoin Crystal's spiritual community: https://lightshinelab.comFollow the Miraculous Thinking Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/miraculous-thinkingJoin the Holy Agreements Prayer Circle: https://crystalannecompton.com/agreementsDonate to keep the teaching coming: https://paypal.me/CrystalAnneCompton

My special guest tonight is author Mathew Barnes, who is here to discuss his book   The Emerald Tablet 101: A Modern, Practical Guide, Plain and Simple (The Ancient Egyptian Enlightenment Series).        The Emerald Tablet is an Ancient Egyptian work written by Hermes Trismegistus that is believed to represent a step-by-step instruction manual for the Alchemical process of turning ordinary metals like lead into something much more valuable, like gold.  The manual consists of fourteen cryptic, symbolic statements that many have tried to decipher throughout thousands of years.   The fourteen statements of the Emerald Tablet are a symbolic guide to a far greater treasure than the conversion of lead into gold. Instead, it is a symbolic guide to awakening the human soul. I believe it to be a guide to converting a base and petty human being into an awakened soul, the likes of which we have seen in the Jesuses and the Buddhas of our world.   In the Christian Bible, it is said that Adam fell into a deep sleep. Nowhere in that Bible does it say that he woke back up. I believe the Emerald Tablet's purpose is that very awakening.   It's super easy to access our archives!   Here's how:   iPhone Users: Access Mysterious Radio from Apple Podcasts and become a subscriber there, or if you want access to even more exclusive content, join us on Patreon.

My special guest tonight is author Mathew Barnes here to discuss his book called The Emerald Tablet 101: a modern, practical guide, plain and simple (The Ancient Egyptian Enlightenment Series). The Emerald Tablet is an Ancient Egyptian work written by Hermes Trismegistus that is believed to represent a step-by-step instruction manual for the Alchemical process of turning ordinary metals like lead into something much more valuable, like gold. The manual consists of fourteen cryptic, symbolic statements that many have tried to decipher over the course of thousands of years.  I believe the fourteen statements of the Emerald Tablet to be a symbolic guide to a far greater treasure than the conversion of lead into gold. I believe it to be, instead, a symbolic guide to the awakening of the human soul. I believe it to be a guide to the conversion of a base and petty human being into an awakened soul, the likes of which we have seen in the Jesuses and the Buddhas of our world.  In the Christian Bible, it is said that Adam fell into a deep sleep. Nowhere in that Bible does it say that he woke back up. The purpose of the Emerald Tablet, I believe, is that very awakening. BECOME A PLUS PASS MEMBER TO ACCESS ARCHIVED EPISODES AND MORE! APPLE IPHONE USERS: LISTEN AD-FREE BY BECOMING A PLUS PASS MEMBER ON APPLE PODCASTS ANDROID USERS: LISTEN AD-FREE BY BECOMING A PASS MEMBER AND LISTEN FROM MOST PODCAST APPS PLUS PASS MEMBER BENEFITS: AD-FREE ACCESS TO MYSTERIOUS RADIO PLUS: AD-FREE ACCESS TO PARANORMAL FEARS! AD-FREE ACCESS TO SEVEN! AD-FREE ACCESS TO OVER 150 HOURS OF ARCHIVED EPISODES! AD-FREE ACCESS TO CONTROVERSIAL EPISODES! AD-FREE ACCESS TO BONUS EPISODES FOR MEMBERS ONLY! Want All Paranormal Episodes? Subscribe To Our Podcast Paranormal Fears! Follow Paranormal Fears on Apple Podcasts Follow Paranormal Fears on Spotify Follow Paranormal Fears on Google Follow Paranormal Fears on Amazon Follow Paranormal Fears on Podcast Addict Follow Paranormal Fears on TuneIn Radio or in your favorite podcast app! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jesus! WOW Factor Matthew 16:24-26 Right mouse click here to download as a MP3 audio file Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matthew 16:24-26) The Jesus I hear about today from some people outside the church, as well as inside the Church, bears no resemblance to the Jesus who said those words.  They are comfortable with a Jesus who is at their mercy and who doesn't ask too much of them!  They like putting Jesus in a box and only opening the box to let Him out when required!  That Jesus is an insipid, nodding head, Jesus - worthy only of being on the back shelf of a car and that's about all. But that is exactly the opposite of the Jesus who said those words from Matthew - the Jesus who commands obedience and sacrifice!  As I look through the Old Testament, I read about how the world fell out of a living, dynamic relationship with God! But I also read how a Messiah, a saviour or rescuer if you like, was to be sent by God, in order to restore the world back into an intimate, living relationship with God Himself! I read the Gospels in the New Testament and I see this Messiah as the God-man, Jesus Christ. As I read the rest of the Bible's New Testament and the history of the followers of Jesus Christ and the spread of his followers, the church, through its birth and early life, I get a WOW factor about Him.  But for a lot of people today, including those who would call themselves a Christian, their view or vision of Jesus is still too small. So I wonder as I begin, is your Jesus too small? 1. Who is my Jesus? As I regularly read the Bible, I see at least a six-sided portrait of Him!  There are many more, but we don't have time for that today, you might be thankful to hear! a. Unique The first word I would use for Jesus is Jesus is unique - totally unique! Never before and never to be repeated ever - Jesus Christ is the standout person from all of history! Indeed, history is divided into BC and AD - ‘Before Christ' and ‘After Christ'.  In all of history, Jesus Christ is incomparable and totally unique! Yet in human form, we read that during his earthly ministry he had no physical beauty that would draw people to him. We read that Jesus' body on the cross was disfigured and tortured beyond that of human likeness.  His perfect life, His salvation work on the cross and His subsequent rising from the dead, is what makes Jesus Christ unique - a once and for all lifetime Messiah or Saviour for the entire world! WOW!! b. Majestic Then the Jesus I see is full of majesty and awe! He is not simply a king with a crown on his head.  He is the King of all Kings!   This Jesus Christ did not decay in the grave - He overcame death in the grave and was raised again majestically!  Paul writes in Colossians 2v3, that in Jesus Christ, all the majestic treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.  Jesus Christ the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, who with unparalleled majesty is the head of the church. c. Tender Next I go to look into his eyes - his tender eyes!  Jesus looks upon people with love, adoration, justice, tenderness and compassion.  Eyes filled with the tears of mercy, grace, love and compassion.  Eyes that are also filled with rage at injustices! His penetrating eyes that can separate flesh and spirit!! This Jesus is kind and sympathetic - his look of love on a world that is separated from God, and a world He is calling back into an active relationship with God.  The love Jesus had when he wept in the garden as he sweated drops of blood, before he was betrayed and crucified. d. Wise Then there is Jesus the wise man! When Jesus spoke words, people were amazed!  They were astounded that He spoke with elegance and yet with authority. They had never heard anyone speak like He did - with both grace and authority.  The same is true today, if we are listening. That is why we read the Bible to find out what He would say to us.  That is why we seek to hear Him speak to us and why we speak to Him. That is why preaching is to be seen as an act of worship - by both the preacher and the listener! e. Strong Strong! Jesus is strong enough and capable enough, to carry any burden that we can lay upon Him.  Jesus Christ gives a solid and sure foundation for all aspects of life.  If something has a solid foundation, it will not fall and cannot be destroyed.  Indeed Jesus Christ will never fall or decay such is His imperishability as the everlasting God.  He is solid, dependable and strong; nobody and nothing can stand against Him.  If we are truly His, then we ought not to fear or worry about anything, for we will be under his protection,. f. Lovely Finally, my Jesus oozes loveliness! He gives out a sense of exaltation and joy.  Joy is not always externalized loudly as some people think but also internalized quietly!  So if somebody is filled with joy, don't always expect it be seen! Jesus is altogether lovely and lovely altogether!  Jesus is beyond compare for the things He has done and the things He will do.  He is altogether lovely in regard to his person, humanity, birth, life, ministry, death, resurrection, ascension, exultation, glorification, grace, protection, tenderness, power, wisdom, vengeance, judgment, majesty, redemption and pardon.  I could go on and on! That is my Jesus -unique, majestic, tender, wise, strong and lovely. Is this your Jesus? 2. Jesus - So what? That is my Jesus, whom I seek to serve and obey every second of every day.  This Jesus I seek to obey in every facet of life. And it is this Jesus whom I depend upon and personally know to be totally reliable in every way.  But so what, you may say - those outside the church certainly ask it!   All through this trip of the US, He has been dependable, going ahead of me! Amazing!  This is the Jesus who commands self-sacrifice and obedience. This Jesus who commands His followers to rely solely on His sacrifice and have dependence on Him for all things.  Jesus Christ who commands all His followers to a life of total obedience to Him and Him alone.  This Jesus who died on a Roman cross two thousand years ago was the same Jesus who was raised from the dead, without decay, into newness of life and ascended to the right hand of the Father. There is only one Saviour for the world and there will never be another.  Despite the bleating of other religions and faiths! Jesus never said, "I am a true vine; a way, a truth and a life". Just as He did not say "I am a shepherd, a door, a light or a bread of life. No - Jesus is the only way, the only truth and the only life. Jesus is the only great shepherd and the only door to life with God. Jesus is the only light of the world and the only bread of life. Jesus calls everyone to partake of the nourishment and shelter only He can provide.  Sadly only a few respond: "Yes!" Are you one of those? 3. Jesus! WOW! Jesus WOW!  What does WOW stand for, I hear you asking yourself?  It means "Worthy Of Worship!" Jesus Christ most certainly is that!   The Jesus WOW factor involves Jesus being radical and relevant! Even a brief look of the Gospels will reveal that about Jesus!  Some people even back then didn't get Jesus, and people still don't get Him two thousand years later!  And whose fault is that? Its not Jesus' fault that people today still don't respond to Him!  It's a result of the church and christians down through the ages, including today, not following Jesus and obeying His commands as closely as they could or should! People out there are looking at the Church and Christians - looking at how we behave, how we speak, how we drive our cars and looking to see if we are any different to them and looking to see what difference Jesus Christ has made in our lives! That's why my parents thought churches were dangerous places and Christians brainwashed and deluded people.  They did not hesitate to tell me that that is what they thought about Christianity!  But I responded to the call of Jesus, rebelled against my parents and became a follower of him 30 years ago next year.  You could say I am the white sheep of my family - so far anyway! 4. We are to be little Jesus' The word Christian, means little Jesus.  When living in London, after church each Sunday, we would go to this one particular Chinese restaurant for lunch each time. Often as a group of us entered and walked up the stairs to take our seats, they would say: "There go the little Jesuses!"  They would mean it mockingly but we took it as a compliment! That's what being a Christian is to be - a little Jesus! In our local community, wherever we happen to live, work or be!  We are to live lives worthy of Jesus Christ, being transformed by the Holy Spirit who lives inside each one of us if we are His, and being totally and willingly obedient to Him!  Loving God and loving others - by, showing compassion, helping others and being the voice of Jesus Christ to a community out there, which is rapidly decaying. The world out there and this community will know you and I are Jesus' followers, if we are obedient to Him, practically showing love to all! Oh that we as the church would love each other instead of fighting with each other! Imagine this community transformed for Jesus Christ, having got the WOW factor!  Imagine this community filled with people seeking to know about our Jesus, because the Christians were sacrificing their time and possessions, wanting in every aspect of life to give Jesus the glory and honour that is worthy of His name alone - just as they did in Acts 2! Loving God and loving each other as He commanded would spread the WOW factor through our local communities, both large and small!  Transformed communities of people devoted to Jesus and experiencing the power of the Holy Spirit in bringing people back to God the Father!  The WOW factor is not always an exuberant experience but also covers the silent, contemplative and gob-smacking experiences! Jesus Christ doesn't just live in the loud, as some would proclaim, but also in the quiet where the small, still voice of God is whispered. Don't be like the only man who left Jesus' presence in sorrow. Let me read about him to you. Matthew 19v16-30 from The Message "Another day, a man stopped Jesus and asked, "Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?" Jesus said, "Why do you question me about what's good? God is the One who is good. If you want to enter the life of God, just do what he tells you." The man asked, "What in particular?" Jesus said, "Don't murder, don't commit adultery, don't steal, don't lie, honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as you do yourself." The young man said, "I've done all that. What's left?" "If you want to give it all you've got," Jesus replied, "go sell your possessions; give everything to the poor. All your wealth will then be in heaven. Then come follow me." That was the last thing the young man expected to hear. And so, crest-fallen, he walked away. He was holding on tight to a lot of things, and he couldn't bear to let go. As he watched him go, Jesus told his disciples, "Do you have any idea how difficult it is for the rich to enter God's kingdom? Let me tell you, it's easier to gallop a camel through a needle's eye than for the rich to enter God's kingdom." The disciples were staggered. "Then who has any chance at all?" Jesus looked hard at them and said, "No chance at all if you think you can pull it off yourself. Every chance in the world if you trust God to do it." Then Peter chimed in, "We left everything and followed you. What do we get out of it?" Jesus replied, "Yes, you have followed me. In the re-creation of the world, when the Son of Man will rule gloriously, you who have followed me will also rule, starting with the twelve tribes of Israel. And not only you, but anyone who sacrifices home, family, fields-whatever-because of me will get it all back a hundred times over, not to mention the considerable bonus of eternal life. This is the Great Reversal: many of the first ending up last, and the last first." " Now riches aren't necessarily a problem but they were for that man because nothing could take precedence over them - they were his ‘god' as it were, and he was placing all his trust in them, even if he didn't realise it at the time!  What are you placing your trust in, over and above, Jesus Christ? Conclusion! If you are already in a relationship with Him, He wants to give you freedom, true independence on this Independence Day, to live a life worthy of Him.  Is Jesus your whole life and your whole life Jesus?  That means does He have total authority over every aspect of your life.  All aspects of life such as relationships, family, work, bank accounts, possessions, worries and troubles?  By authority, I mean power! Following Him and carrying your own cross means that - a life sacrificed for Him and obedience to Him alone! Jesus wants to influence every area of your life - not just certain parts you are willing to give up but all aspects of life!  Jesus came to earth to give comfort to the uncomfortable and we are to do the same - give comfort to those in need. Maybe you are feeling the desolation and loneliness because of decisions made in the past.  Give it up willingly to Jesus and don't keep trying to take it back like a security blanket!  If you have something even partially blocking your relationship with Jesus, get rid of it - ask Him to take it away! Finally, you may not yet be a follower of Jesus Christ.  I don't know. If that is you, then accept His call upon you.  For He is calling you, urging you to return to a relationship with God through Him and Him alone.  You may not get another chance.  Usually, with a small still beckoning voice, Jesus whispers: "Come! Come and follow me alone!"   This Jesus wants to connect with you in an intimate, dynamic, active and spiritual relationship - remember His eyes wander the earth looking for those wanting to submit themselves willingly to Him.  If that is you, then please do speak to somebody today about finding out how you can start this relationship with the Living God, Jesus Christ. He calls you by name. Jesus says to all here "Come!  Let me get in the driving seat and you hold on to Me! Follow me and follow me wholeheartedly and with all aspects of your life, obey Me alone!  I will take all your burdens, give you true freedom and independence and help you in all aspects of life! Come! Follow me!" Right mouse click here to download as a MP3 audio file

Cheri Young talks about Jesuses love for us, looking at Mary, Martha and Lazarus. From Luke 10:38 - 42

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas' website.In the late first century, there were false concepts of Jesus circulating in the Christian world. Just as today there are numerous false Jesuses (perhaps best known is the one begging you to "accept" him, in exchange for nothing -- no commitment), so at the turn of the second century there was a false and idolatrous Jesus. This was being proclaimed in the churches where the apostle John, now an old man, had influence.1 Jn 1 We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— 2 this life was revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it, and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us— 3 we declare to you what we have seen and heard so that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.1 John is a letter from the apostle to Christians in Asia Minor (modern Turkey).These inspired words are addressed to the second (third?) generation of Christians. A whole generation or two of believers has been converted and died; it's up to their children to carry the torch.The letters of 1 and 2 John address a heresy called Gnosticism, and specifically a version of Gnosticism called Docetism. If you are unfamiliar with these doctrines, be sure to click on the links -- otherwise it will be difficult for you to fully understand these letters. There are other articles on Gnosticism at this website, too.2 Jn 7 Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh; any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist! 8 Be on your guard, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but may receive a full reward. 9 Everyone who does not abide in the teaching of Christ, but goes beyond it, does not have God; whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10 Do not receive into the house or welcome anyone who comes to you and does not bring this teaching; 11 for to welcome is to participate in the evil deeds of such a person.Christians shouldn't say, “Philosophy and theology don't matter; just read the Bible.” Training in how to read the Bible benefits us all. The fact is, words and ideas are powerful. We have a moral obligation not only to teach the truth clearly, but also to protect the church from the ravages of false teachers.There are a number of NT references that begin making sense when you realize the nature of the false doctrine being discussed.Colossians 2:18-23 deals with ascetic regulations, and the specific heresy seems to be a fusion of Jewish and Gnostic philosophy.1 Timothy 6:20 addresses the Gnostic superiority complex (“what is falsely called knowledge”).1 and 2 John deal with Docetism. The docetic "Jesus" is nothing but an idol (1 John 5:21).John is emphatic that Jesus Christ came in a physical body (vv.1-3).His life and person were open to verification through the physical senses: sight, hearing and touch.Keep in mind that the Docetists are claiming that he came not in a physical body but as some sort of disembodied spirit.John insists he is a reliable eyewitness of Jesus Christ.It really does matter whether Jesus existed, whether he physically came to earth as a man, preached, loved, and resisted temptation in the flesh, whether he physically died on a cross and bodily rose from the dead (1 Cor 15)!John stresses here not the divinity of Jesus, but his humanity, which was being questioned.So, was Jesus 50% human and 50% divine? No! He was 100% human and 100% divine.As an illustration, Gatorade is totally wet and completely lime-green—100% of each—both at the same time. There are two natures, yet neither excludes the other.In the same way, Jesus is human and divine.Why the mention of fellowship in 1:3?The false teachers, influenced by the Gnostics, had left the fellowship.Either you are in the fellowship or out of it (in both senses of the phrase!).The Gnosticized Christians had “gone out” (1 John 2:19); their new “church” was not in fellowship with the real disciples—they had nothing in common.A modern day phenomenon that is sweeping away many people tired of traditional religion is New Age religion.This is a fusion of eastern mysticism and western concepts, with elements of astrology, pantheism, meditation, the occult and a good deal of snob appeal.Enlightenment is sought within, rather than without—at the foot of the cross of Christ. This is the central flaw of this and many other quasi-religious movements.Sin is downplayed, and the language of love, unity, freedom and tolerance masks the true heart of the movement, which throbs with rebellion and individualism. The movement takes strong exception to the doctrines of sin, judgment, righteousness, hell, and other doctrines clearly set out in the Bible.The message is promoted in such bestsellers asThe Celestine ProphecyThe Care of the SoulA New EarthThe Power of NowA Course in MiraclesFour AgreementsFor an exploration of Gnosticism, with a survey of five Gnostic gospels, see my audio set The Lost Books of the Bible (IPI: Spring, Texas, 2007).The material in this and the next 5 or 10 lessons has been adapted from chapter 17 of my book James, Peter, John, Jude.  Re-read prologue

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Daily Lectionary: Judges 3:7-31; Acts 13:42-52 After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel. (Judges 3:31)In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. The judges who we find in the book of Judges are saviors.  That is literally their job description, as laid out in Judges 2:16. Judges are mini-Jesuses, saving God's people from their enemies and pointing forward to the bigger Jesus to come. It's kind of amazing when you take the time to think about it this way, but then again, Jesus is all over the Old Testament. He is foreshadowed and promised and sometimes He even shows up in His pre-incarnate ways.  That's why it's no coincidence that the book of Judges, chock full of mini-Jesuses, begins with the death of Joshua, the man who led God's people into the Promised Land, whose name literally means " YHWH (God) saves,"  and is the Hebrew equivalent of the name "Jesus."  In today's text we get to hear about the first three mini-Jesuses who began the 400-year trek to Samuel, the final judge, and to the coronation of the kings. (Again, a foreshadowing of Jesus, but we will leave that for another day.) Throughout these four centuries there is a never-ending cycle that happens: The people fall away from YHWH and run after false gods. YHWH hands them over to their enemies. YHWH has compassion on His people and sends them a judge to save them. The people live under YHWH all the days of the judge's life. And then it begins all over again. The odd thing is, almost all of the judges come with sword and shield (or in Shamgar's case, an oxgoad) in order to save God's people. They go out to fight, violently, in order to save, bringing death to their enemies. All of this points forward to Jesus, except in an opposite way, like in a mirror. For even though Jesus is the fulfillment of all the judges and saves God's people from their enemies, and even though that salvation will come in violent ways, the violence is done to Him. He defeats the enemies of God's people, sin, death, and the devil, by death. But because He is risen from the dead, there is no need for another judge to follow.  Even as we fall daily into sin, He is and always will be the saving Judge who saves us. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. Preach you the Word and plant it home To men who like or like it not, The Word that shall endure and stand When flow'rs and men shall be forgot. ("Preach You the Word" LSB 586, st.1)-Rev. Eli Lietzau is pastor of Wheat Ridge Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wheat Ridge, CO.Audio Reflections speaker: Rev. Duane BamschCome on an adventure with author Eric Eichinger as he unpacks the saga of Jesus' Hero Journey. You'll see how aspects of this journey are seen in popular stories, and how God used Jesus to create the most action-packed one with a real Savior for all. Now available from Concordia Publishing House.

In this episode of the Called-Out Café we start to wrap up this series titled, “Choose Your Jesus Wisely” with some thoughts on what the authentic follower of Jesus might do in response to so many counterfeit Jesuses being followed today.

In this episode we look at if false Christian gods, or counterfeit Jesuses do exist in the Church today as I have been saying in this series, who's problem is that to fix? Do we have any responsibility, or is it up to Jesus to fix His Church? 

Sacaneamos tudo no episódio desta semana! A vida de Brian é o segundo filme do grupo Monty Python e que nos últimos minutos precisou de uma ajudinha de personalidades ilustres da Inglaterra. E mais: será que a Marina gostou do filme? O megazord de Jesus. A saga do PCB que deu origem ao PCdoB. E como a data do seu nascimento não tem absolutamente nada a ver com a autorização para você ser um ******. Filme de hoje: A vida de Brian (1979) Este episódio contou com a participação do Aleatórier #12 do Tomzeraverser #1, o ascendente Sal (@tsalvalajo). Edição, decoupage e consultoria técnica: Randi Maldonado (@grimoriopodcast) Sonoplastia: André Ávila Quer sugerir um filme e se tornar um Aleatórier? Clique aqui e mande a sua Sessão Aleatória! Clique aqui e saiba mais sobre o Sessão Aleatória. Quer falar conosco? Mande um email para sessaoaleatoriapodcast@gmail.com Twitter e Instagram: @sessaoaleatoria

In this episode, we reimagine the Sunday School version of Jesuses and what the term “love” actually means from a biblical perspective. Executive Producer: Lee & Vivian Eagan, Erna Draper, Bob & Larue Miller, Kristina Johnson, Nelda Bell, John Coulthard. This show is produced by TorahResource – https://torahresource.com/​​​​​ Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MessiahMatters Rob Vanhoff… The post Show #387 – Love Always Wins appeared first on Messiah Matters.

A Sermon for the Feast of St. Philip and St. James St. John 14:1-9 by William Klock Today the Church remembers the Apostles Philip and James.  As she was planning our song and hymn selection for today, Kathy asked what I'd be preaching on, would I continue with Revelation or would it be the lessons for Saints Philip and James?  I said it would be Saints Philip and James, because in all my years preaching, I haven't had the chance.  May 1st has fallen on Sunday several times, but the feast day has always been bumped to a weekday by the First Sunday after Easter or by Rogation Sunday, which both take precedence.  And the more I've pondered the day's lessons, the more it occurs to me that it really is providential that this is the year these two saints finally get their due on a Sunday.  Let me explain. First, Philip and James.  Who were these men who get such short shrift in the calendar?  Well, both were amongst the Twelve, both were apostles.  That's really all we know for certain.  We know pretty much nothing about them.  It doesn't help that they've often been confused with other Philips and Jameses.  Unlike today, when everyone wants to give their children unique names, Jews, like everyone else in the First Century and down through history until today, were deliberately unimaginative.  They valued naming their sons and daughters after parents and grandparents and heroes and heroines of the Scriptures.  But that also means there weren't a lot of names in use.  There were lots of Philips and Jameses, Johns and Josephs, a lot of Marys, and even Jesuses.  There are several Philips and several Jameses in the New Testament and it's not always easy sorting out which is which and even if some of them are the same or different people. There was a Philip in the book of Acts who became the Church's first deacon, probably the same man who met and baptised the Ethiopian eunuch on the road to Gaza.  But that's a different man.  Philip the Apostle, our Philip here, is mentioned by Mathew, Mark, and Luke only as a member of the Twelve.  John mentions him a few times.  He tells us that Philip brought Nathanael to Jesus, another of the Twelve.  In John 6 (our Gospel for the Fourth Sunday in Lent, you might remember), where a great (and hungry!) crowd had gathered to listen to Jesus, Jesus turned to Philip and asked where he thought they might buy bread to feed the crowd.  Philip had no idea.  “Jesus, two hundred times a day's wage wouldn't buy bread for all these people,” he protested.  At another point John tells us that Philip brought a group of Greek-speakers to Jesus.  He was probably their translator.  Then there's John 14, which we'll get to shortly.  This selection for the Gospel goes back to the ancient church—one of this handful of passages where Philip has any role at all and one that fits with the themes of Eastertide, since that's usually when this feast day falls.  Tradition—which may or may not be reliable and may have the two Philips confused—says that he travelled to Phrygia as a missionary where he was either crucified upside-down or beheaded. And James.  There are several Jameses in the New Testament, too.  There's James the son of Zebedee, the brother of John.  He's often called “James the Greater”.  We know a fair bit about him, because he was part of Jesus' inner circle: Peter, James, and John.  And then, in Acts, we meet James the brother of Jesus.  He was one of those to whom the risen Jesus appeared.  That made a believer of him.  He ended up becoming the leader, or bishop if you will, of the Jerusalem Church.  He's likely the author of the Epistle of James.  We know quite a bit about him.  But neither of those men is the James we remember today.  Today we remember James the son of Alphaeus.  Sometimes he's called “James the Lesser”—although even there, that may be yet another, fourth James.  Of James, we know nothing but his name and the name of his father, Alphaeus, at least so far as the Bible goes.  Tradition says that he was stoned while preaching outside the temple in Jerusalem, but again, tradition often had our James confused with James the brother of Jesus, who is said to have died the same way. Even the origin of their feast day is kind of an accident.  James and Philip are never paired together in the Gospels.  It's always Philip and Bartholomew who are paired together.  But in the 6th Century the Basilica of the Holy Apostles was dedicated in Rome and the relics of James and Philip placed there—on May 1st—and ever since then they've been linked together in the Calendar of the Western Church.  Both men laboured for the Gospel in obscurity.  They were Apostles, and yet all we really know of them is their names.  And because their names were so common, they've often been confused with other men down through the ages.  Even their commemoration on the calendar is an accident of history.  And yet we have no reason to doubt their faithfulness to Jesus, to the Church, and to the gospel.  When I think of them I can't help thinking of that famous line of Nicolaus von Zinendorf, one of the Seventeenth Century bishops of the Moravian Church.  He wrote, “Peach the gospel, die, and be forgotten.”  How's that for some perspective?  Again, “Preach the gospel, die, and be forgotten.” And I think it's some perspective we need today.  Last week I sat with a brother pastor from another faithful, local church that has been decimated by current trends and events.  First it was sheep-stealing by other churches, drawing people away, not by the gospel, but by gimmicks and excitement.  Then the pandemic hit and some people just sort of evaporated.  They just never came back and disappeared from the radar.  And just when everyone thought we were through that, churches were hit with pandemic politics raised by some to the level of gospel.  And it blew things apart.  More people gone.  And it's not just my friend.  It's happening everywhere.  We've been fortunate that none of these things has hit us as badly as they've hit a lot of other churches, but it's a real source of discouragement for pastors and others who have been seriously drained these last couple of years. Rob and I met this week and had a similar conversation.  So-and-so gone.  And So-and-so gone.  If only that family would come back.  If only such-and-such sort of people would come.  And I had to check myself.  Church growth is good, but not if it comes with a loss to another gospel-preaching church.  Yes, there are times when receiving believers from another church that's gone off the rails is a legitimate rescue operation, but generally speaking, that's not growing the church; it's just playing musical chairs.  Church growth is what happens when you preach the gospel and people it hear it, believe, are baptised, and become disciples.  But it's easy to forget this, because today everything everywhere is about numbers.  We've turned the gospel into a business and the church into a product to be marketed.  Brothers and Sisters, it's not about numbers and the gospel is not a commodity.  We are not salesman.  We are preachers.  But Christians today have become obsessed with numbers.  We've been influenced by the consumerist culture that surrounds us.  And so no one wants to preach the gospel, die, and be forgotten.  Everyone wants to make a name for themselves—a name they make by using the gospel as a ladder—as if we can make ourselves known to the world and to posterity as we stand on the shoulders of Jesus.  No one wants to be a Philip or a James, lifting high the cross and proclaiming the gospel no matter the cost, no matter how small their following—even as it leads to martyrdom.  Because they knew that it wasn't about them; it was all about Jesus.  Because their hope was not in this age, but in the age to come—the age they saw inaugurated in the risen, resurrected Jesus.  They had had a glimpse of God's new creation.  They put their faith in him, their lives and their futures in his hands, and they became faithful stewards of his gospel and his sheep. Our Gospel today begins with Jesus saying, “Let not your hearts be troubled.”  This is in the middle of what's often called his Upper Room Discourse.  Jesus has washed his friends' feet and they've shared that last Passover supper together, then Jesus tells them what's to come: betrayal by Judas and denial by Peter.  He tells them, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”  And he promises them the gift of the Holy Spirit who will make that possible.  He'll speak of the opposition and hatred they will face on his account, but he'll also give them those assuring words, “Take heart, I have overcome the world.” And this is where he announces that very soon he will be leaving them.  None of this was easy for them to hear.  But first, here, he says these words to them.  Look at John 14:1-6. “Let not your hearts be troubled.  Believe in God; believe also in me.  In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.  And you know the way to where I am going.”  Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”  Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.  If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”   “Fear not!” he says to them.  “Trust in God—and trust in me, too.”  Their trust in God was a given, but in light of the events that would happen soon, it's natural for Jesus to urge them to trust him too.  He's the Messiah—the one sent by God.  He knows that they've struggled to understand just what that means.  Most people had a messed up idea of who the Messiah would be and what he would do—and even the disciples hadn't sorted it out yet.  Things were about to happen that would cause them to question whether Jesus was the Messiah.  He was crucified as a false Messiah, after all.  But Jesus urges them to trust him, just as he knows they've always trusted God.  Dying and being absent from them for a time is part of his messianic ministry. And in verse 2 he says those words that are always so popular at funerals.  “In my Father's house are many rooms.”  These words are a source of comfort, but because we've lost the context in which Jesus spoke them, we tend misunderstand just what he's getting at.  We tend to think of him going to prepare a place in heaven where the faithful dead escape the world and go to live in God's presence.  The living in God's presence part of that is right on the money.  But what does Jesus mean when he talks about his Father's house?  We just kind of think about a house in heaven or, thanks to the King James, we think of a heaven full of golden mansions.  But when Jesus talks about this Father's house he's talking about the temple.  The temple in Jerusalem was the one place where heaven and earth—sundered by our sin—it wa the one place where they still overlapped, where human beings could go to be in the presence of God. What Jesus is getting at here, what he's hinting at is new creation.  He's just told them to trust in God—the one who has a plan to set this fallen world to rights—and this is exactly why he's got to go away.  It's part of the plan.  His death will forgive sins and heal the breach between God and man.  His resurrection will set the renewal of all things in motion and eventually bring heaven and earth back together.  So these words aren't really about making a place for us to live in heaven when we die.  It's about Jesus doing the work to bring heaven and earth, God and humanity back together.  But we can still see why they're such popular words at funerals.  At a time when everything seems dark.  When we're feeling hopeless.  When loss overwhelms us.  When we feel the weight of sin and death at their worst.  Jesus assures us that he's already there.  We may not understand.  We may feel lost.  But he's there already.  While we do the work of the Church here on earth, he's at his Father's side doing the heavenly part of this business of renewal.  And one day he'll bring it all back together: heaven and earth, God and man, new creation, the world set to rights, every tear dried, and human beings living once again in the presence of God.  Not “up there”, but in this new temple that will encompass all of creation.  That's where Jesus was going when Judas betrayed him, when the authorities crucified him, when they laid him in the tomb.  And it's also where he was going after his resurrection from the dead when he ascended to his throne to send us the Holy Spirit. And then Thomas.  He blurts out, “But how?  We don't know the way!  We don't even know where you're going!  We don't know the way there!”  Brothers and Sisters, the words that really strike me there is that bit, “How can we know the way?”  Thomas really had no idea what Jesus was talking about.  We live on this side of the cross and empty tomb, this side of the ascension and we've got a better idea.  We understand—or I hope we do!—that Jesus was going to his death and we understand why.  Maybe we still struggle with the ascension.  But we've got a much better grasp on these things than Thomas did in the Upper Room.  But so often we still don't know the way.  Or we once knew it, but we took that path and it didn't seem to be getting us anywhere, so we're trying another one.  Once we knew it, but we've been distracted along the way.  Once we knew it, but that path led to hardship or opposition so we've decided to try a different route. Brothers and Sisters, think again of the two men we commemorate today.  Philip and James were surely just as lost as Thomas as they sat around that Passover table listening to Jesus.  But when they met the risen Jesus, just like the other disciples, they understood.  And they set out on the path laid before them and they walked it faithfully, even though it led to their own deaths.  They trusted in God and they trusted in Jesus, too. I've been thinking of the conversations I've had this last week or so.  How does the church navigate these difficult times?  My pastor friend talked about the people who had left his church to go to another.  Why did they go?  Almost always it's because they're looking for a program or for something new and exciting.  That church has a program that our church doesn't have.  Or that church has better musicians, better singers, better mood lighting, better coffee.  Again, it's the consumerist minds of our culture creeping in to how we think about church.  No one seems to ask the really important question: Is that other church really centred on Jesus and the good news?  And am I leaving a Jesus- and gospel-centred church for one that isn't?  Am I being driven by a consumerist mindset instead of a gospel one?  We talked about other folks we know leaving churches because they were afraid of getting sick during the pandemic or others who left over political issues surrounding masks and vaccines—some for and some opposed.  And all we can see is people losing sight of Jesus—putting other things and other issues ahead of him and ahead of the gospel.  Neither fear nor politics will lead us where Jesus has gone, to that place he's preparing for us. And, as churches, it's often tempting to forsake the path that Jesus has called us to walk.  Maybe it's that we Christians were, for almost two thousand years, the driving force in our culture, and now that's all gone.  Increasingly it's not even a neutral thing to be a Christian anymore.  Now we're haters and bigots on the wrong side of history.  No one wants to be in that position.  And so whole swaths of the Church have begun to cave to cultural pressure—especially on issues of identity, whether that's sex or race, on issues of sex and sexuality, or the uniqueness of Jesus and the gospel to save.  Don't get me wrong.  As Jesus' people, we need to be squeaky clean.  If we're guilty of sin.  If we've harboured sinful ideas.  If we haven't acted out of love.  We need to repent of those sins.  But the standard for right and wrong has to be the Scriptures, not the winds of culture—and especially not a culture that has forsaken the gospel and God's word.  In our post-Christian culture, trying to gain the world's approval will never lead us to Jesus—it will inevitably lead us down a different path.  And if we go down that path, we'll never bring the culture to Jesus either.  The same goes for politics.  I don't care which political side or party it is, if we make politics our agenda, it may attract people, but will not lead us—or them—to Jesus. And it's tempting to lose our focus on faithfulness and to get carried away with numbers.  People will come if we add this program or that activity.  What can we do to make things more exciting and to attract more people—nevermind the people we're attracting are coming from other churches.  Brothers and Sisters, that's not church growth; that's just sheep stealing. What do we do?  We don't know the way?  Look again at what Jesus says in verses 6 and 7: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.  If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”   Brothers and Sisters, Jesus is the way, and the truth, and the life.  Our lives as his people and our life as his Church need to be centred on him.  That's how we get where he's gone.  That's how we will one day find ourselves in the age to come—and how we will, with the help of the Word and the Spirit, get the world to that day.  This is the truth that must have hold on us.  This is the truth that has to shape everything we do.  Everything is about Jesus and everything we do centred in him.  And knowing that, we must be utterly devoted to that, remembering that he is the one who gave his life for our sake.  He is our life.  He is the driving force and motivation for everything.  We love him because he first loved us.  And now we preach him, proclaim him, live him because we can do nothing else.  That's the path. It's at this point that Philips blurts out that question in verse 8:   Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”  Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.   I'll close with this.  Philip had Jesus.  He had the way the truth and the life, but he didn't fully understand.  He still wanted the Father.  Wanting the Father was good.  But he still wasn't grasping that Jesus was the way to the Father—that he and the Father were one.  And I think as the Christians and as the Church we can find ourselves in a similar place.  We want the Father.  But we forget that the way lies with Jesus.  We forget that Jesus is the one who reconciles us to God by the cross.  We forget that it is he, the word of God who reveals the Father to us.  We forget that it is his gift of the Spirit that empowers us to live for him and to go out in the world in his name.  We forget and we start turning to all sorts of other things.  Again, we think a program will bring people to Jesus.  We think more exciting worship will bring people to Jesus.  We think that bowing to the pressure of culture and being nicer than Jesus will bring people.  Brothers and Sisters, it won't.  Jesus leads people to Jesus.  Our faithfulness to him and to his word and to his calling, coupled with the work of the Spirit in their hearts is what will bring people to Jesus and grow his church. We're like Philip asking for Jesus to show us the Father.  “Jesus,” show us the way!”  And Jesus has been saying all along, “I am the way.  Just commit yourselves to me.  Plodding along in faithfulness beats cool and exciting.  Earning the hatred of the world beats earning its praise.  Jesus calls us to forsake the wide and easy way.  That way leads to destruction.  Instead, he calls us to walk the narrow way, the hard way, that even though it may lead to death, will ultimately lead us—and the world—to him and to life on the other side.  Like Philip and James: Preach the gospel, die, and be forgotten.  And if we are remembered, may it be only for faithfulness to Jesus and his gospel. Let's pray: Almighty God, to truly know you is eternal life: Grant us perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life;  that, following in the steps of your holy apostles Saint Philip and Saint James, we may steadfastly walk in the way that leads to eternal life, through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.  Amen.

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Every word in this article describes my religious views: "https://brucegerencser.net/why-i-hate-jesus/ "I don't hate the flesh and blood Jesus who walked the dusty roads of Palestine, nor do I hate the Jesus found in the pages of the Bible. These Jesuses are relics of the past. I'll leave it to historians to argue and debate whether these Jesuses were real or fiction. Over the centuries, Christians have created many Jesuses in their own image. This is the essence of Christianity, an ever-evolving religion bearing little resemblance to what it was even a century ago. The Jesus I hate is the modern, Western Jesus, the American Jesus, the Jesus who has been a part of my life for almost fifty-eight years. The Jesuses of bygone eras have no power to harm me, but the modern Jesus – the Jesus of the three hundred thousand Christian churches that populate every community in America – he has the power to affect my life, hurt my family, and destroy my country. And I, with a vengeance, hate him. This Jesus drives fancy cars, has palaces and cathedrals, and followers who spare no expense to make his house the best mansion in town. This Jesus loves Rolexes, Lear jets, and expensive suits. This Jesus sees the multitude and turns his back on them, only concerned with those who say and believe “the right things.” It is this Jesus I hate. This Jesus owns condominiums constructed just for those who believe in him. When they die, he gives them the keys. But, for the rest of humanity, billions of people, this Jesus says no keys for you. I have a special Hitler-like plan for you. To the ovens you go, only unlike the Jews, I plan to give you a special body that allows me to torture you with fire and brimstone forever. It is this Jesus I hate. It is this Jesus who looks at Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Atheists, Agnostics, Deists, Universalists, Secularists, Humanists, and Skeptics, and says to them before you were born I made sure you could never be in the group that gets the condominiums when they die. This Jesus says, and it is your fault, sinner man. It is this Jesus who made sure billions of people were born into cultures that worshiped other Gods. It is this Jesus who then says it is their fault they were born at the wrong place, at the wrong time. Too bad, this Jesus says, burn forever in the Lake of Fire. It is this Jesus I hate. This Jesus divides families, friends, communities, and nations. This Jesus is the means to an end. This Jesus is all about money, power and control. This Jesus subjugates women, tells widows it's their fault, and ignores the cry of orphans. Everywhere one looks, this Jesus hurts, afflicts, and kills those we love. It is this Jesus I hate. What I can't understand is why anyone loves this Jesus? Like a clown on a parade route, he throws a few candies towards those who worship him, promising them that a huge pile of candy awaits them when they die. He lets his followers hunger, thirst, and die, yet he tells them it is for their good, that he loves them and has a wonderful plan for their life. This Jesus is all talk, promising the moon and delivering a piece of gravel. Why can't his followers see this? Fear me, he tells his followers. I have the keys to life and death. I have the power to make you happy and I have the power to destroy your life. I have the power to take your children, health, and livelihood. I can do these things because I am the biggest, baddest Jesus ever. Fear me and oppress women, immigrants, orphans, homosexuals, and atheists. Refuse my demand and I will rain my judgment down upon your head. But, know that I love you and only want is best for you and yours. It is this Jesus I hate. This Jesus is pro-life. Yet, this same Jesus supports the incarceration of poor young men of color, often for no other crime than trying to survive." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/support

Pastor Andy Davis preaches on Mark 2:19-22 about the NEW and POWERFUL gospel that saved many from an eternity in hell and placed them in eternal heavenly glory. - TRANSCRIPT - Take your Bibles and turn to Mark 2. Today's text, I think, is all about power, the surging energy to make change, to make things new. That's what power is. Power in this world is manifested in two ways, constructive and destructive power. The greatest constructive power ever in this physical universe has been at creation, when God said, "Let there be," and there was. The world that God made was beautiful and orderly and very good, but then came the destructive power of evil. Sin entered the world through one man and death through sin. And in this way, death came to all, because all sinned, and this beautiful world was cursed by the power of death. With this cursed world, lesser power has charted the subsequent course of history, both constructive and destructive power. Humanity builds, but then death destroys. Nature destroys. Things rise up, they reach their peak, and then they fall back down to the earth. Empires rise, and then they fall back into the dust from which they came. Trees grow up from acorns, and they get massive and majestic, but eventually, they are toppled and they fall to the ground, and they rot and they're gone. Everything humanity puts its hand to eventually becomes dust. Constructive power in this world is overtaken by destructive power. This is our life in this cursed world. But God, in His goodness, interjected a power for eternal good, the power to make change, to make things new, to build a kingdom that will last forever and ever. This power to make all things new is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is infinitely powerful. It rises and surges and moves and acts and builds, and what it builds will last for all eternity, the power to make a new world. This new power of the Gospel cannot fit in to the old husks of manmade religion. That's what this passage really addresses, old and new. Look at verse 21, you've got new cloth and an old garment, and then verse 22, you've got new wine and old wineskins. You've got the dynamic of new and olds, and how they don't fit together. The new is dynamic, it’s powerful. It's ready to change every person from the inside out, and make everything new, to transform by the renewing of the mind, and ultimately, to change the entire universe, to bring in a new heaven and a new earth, where everything is new. The old religion, old patterns, indeed, even the Old Covenant itself could not bring this about. Fasting at a Wedding? When this all starts, this whole thing starts with a question about fasting. What is fasting? For the individual that came to Jesus, it's an effort to address the destructive power of sin by religion, to harness the body of all of its wicked rambunctious ways, to tame it like a wild stallion that needed constantly to be broke to the saddle. Fasting, in this case, was invented by man to make a way to God. Look at verse 18, John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and some people came and asked Jesus, "How is it that John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?" Legalistic religion is here to hunt Jesus down and trap him based on His own behavior. Here we see fundamental, false religion coming, the effort to mortify the deeds of the flesh, yourself, on your own. John Owen, talking about mortification in this sense, said "Mortification, putting sin to death, from self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world." To put it in simple terms, holding back or harnessing sin from your own strength, in a pattern that you invented yourself, so that you can be self-righteous and feel like you defeated sin by yourself, that's the essence of all false religion in the world. That's what came to Jesus that day. Now Jesus has already exposed this again and again. He's going keep battling this. In the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew 6, He exposes three patterns of piety. Conspicuous piety was being done by the religionists of Jesus' day. Conspicuous giving to the poor and needy, that's announced with trumpets, so everyone sees it done. And conspicuous praying, that's done on the street corner, so everybody can see how pious you are. And conspicuous fasting, which is done in this way, Matthew 6:16, "When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others that they're fasting." I don't know if I want to make a horrible face right now in front of you, but it's something like, "Oh." "How are you doing today?" "It's a hard day." "Really? What's going on?" "Well, I'm not eating today. I'm fasting today, et cetera." "Don't do that," Jesus said. "When you fast, put oil on your head. Wash your face, so it will not be obvious to others you are fasting, but only to your Father who sees what has done unseen, and your Father sees what has done unseen will reward you." Now, fasting was actually established in the law of Moses once a year, connected with the day of atonement, a day to afflict yourself, the text says in Leviticus 16:29. So it was in there, once a year. And, from time to time, the nation would be called on by spiritual leaders to fast, as a time of national mourning over sin, as in Nehemiah 9:1, when the Jews were intermarrying with pagan women again, and there was a time to fast and grieve before God over this wickedness. Or sometimes, an individual would fast over his own sins, like David did, after he sinned with Bathsheba. Sometimes, an individual like Ezra would fast before a dangerous journey, and ask God's help and protection. So that fasting would be individual to something you would do from time to time. But the Pharisees, the pictures of legalistic religion of self-effort, went far beyond this. They established a pattern of fasting twice a week. Jesus talks about it in the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. The Pharisee goes up and Jesus says the Pharisee’s praise was about himself," "I thank you, God, that I'm not like others. I'm not like robbers and evil doers and adulterers, or even like this tax collector over here. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all that I own." There's that pattern, that twice a week fast. They establish this rhythm of legalistic fasting in their religion, and then they spread it to burden the conscience of people around them saying, "Effectively, you're substandard Jews, if you didn't join us in these fasts." Substandard Jewish people, and people bought into it. They were afraid of them. They didn't want to be seen that way, substandard, so they gave in to these twice a week fast. It was a time of mourning, a time of disfiguring your faces to show others that you're fasting, you're on board. You're doing the fast that everyone else is doing. The poison in all of us is thinking that, by these means, you can pay for your sins. God's going to be pleased with this, and basically, blackmailed into welcoming you and accepting you, because of your harsh treatment of the body. These fasts, therefore, are symbolic of self-styled religion, self-efforts at paying for sins and blackmailing God. John the Baptist's disciples, some of them were wrapped up in it. John's movement was massive. Tens and tens of thousands of people went out to him and heard him preach, and were baptized by him in the Jordan River. It's a big movement. They confessed their sins, and they received John's water baptism, but then what? What do we do now? John had called them to produce fruit in keeping with repentance. What did that look like? They were a bit adrift. John was just going to keep doing his baptismal ministry there, so a lot of these folks attached themselves to the Pharisees and fit into this pattern of legalistic piety. They're doing this. Infinitely worse though, these John's disciples didn't hear his central message about Jesus, the one who was coming after him whose sandals he was not worthy to stoop down on and tie, who would be the Lamb of God who would take away the sins of the worlds, who even greater than that was the Son of God. They hadn't heard that, so they came with disrespect and judgmentalism to Jesus, questioning Him. So what's the context? The feast at Levi's house that we studied last week. Levi is Matthew, and Levi was a tax collector. Jesus called on him to follow. Levi left behind that old life and became a disciple, a follower of Jesus, and they had a big feast at Levi's house, and many of his friends came. They were tax collectors and so-called sinners were all there. It was a big feast, and an amazing work of God had happened. Many of those people repented of their sins and turned away from their wickedness and became followers of Christ. It was an incredible day, a day of feasting and a day of celebration. It was not one of that one day in the year required by the law of Moses in which he would fast. Yes, he would've done that. It wasn't that. So, the Pharisees and John's disciples come up, and they're criticizing Jesus. Jesus does not seem at all concerned with their accusations. Do you get that sense? Not worried about it at all. "Oh, they don't think well of me," not worried about it. He's celebrating the work of grace done in the lives of sinners at Matthew's house, happy with what God had done. Jesus exposes their ignorance of Him and of the times. Look at verse 19, "Jesus answered, 'How can the guest to the bride groom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have Him with them. They don't know who He is, and they don't know when it is, what's going on now.'" They're not aware of what's happening. What are the signs of the times? What's going on? We have this image of a bridegroom, a marital image, which was common in the Old Testament prophets, a relationship between Yahweh, the God of the Jewish nation, and the people. It was like a marital relationship sometimes, in the prophets. It was foreshadowed also by the apostle Paul, picking up in Ephesians 5, the connection between Jesus and the church being like a marriage, the church seems to be the bride of Christ. Then we get that beautiful picture in Revelation, how the new Jerusalem, the people of God, come down out of heaven prepared as a bride for her husband. This beautiful image of a bridegroom getting together with the bride, a picture of eternal love relationship between God and His people. John the Baptist had used the image actually. John had brought it up. In the Gospel of John, John's disciples were coming and John was losing market share to Jesus. Remember that? Like, "Lots of people are going after Jesus now, John. We got to do something. We got to prop up the numbers. I mean, we're losing popularity here." And said John, "You don't understand what's going on." In the Gospel of John 3:29-30, John said, "The bride belongs to the bride groom. The friend who attends the bride groom waits and listens for him and is full of joy when he hears the bride groom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. He must increase, and I must decrease." Let's be honest, who fasts at a wedding? When a man throws a wedding banquet, his happiest day of his life, he kills the fatted calf and puts out the best foods and the best drink, and he lavishly appoints this feast and invites his friends to come. The he finds one at the banquet who's not eating anything and looks pretty miserable. His face is disfigured. "What's up?" "Oh, I'm fasting today." "Don't do that. Eat my food. Drink my drink. It's a time of celebration.” This is a time of joy. Jesus says, “My people get to hear my voice. They get to see my face. They get to see my miracles. They get to see my love and my kindness and my personality. They get to understand and drink in my wisdom. They get to sit with me and be with me. And do you understand how many people in the past would've longed to be here during this time?” But they didn't get to do it. He openly said that in Matthew 13, to His own disciples, "Blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For I tell you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see and did not see it, and longed to hear what you hear and did not hear." He's talking about the times of the Messiah, to be there when Jesus walked the earth. It was a time of joy, a time of celebration, and the Pharisees and John's disciples come there with their grumbling stomachs. How are you when you fast? Are you happy? Are you good company? I've gone to bed early on fast days, just to get away from people. So imagine some irritable men, who haven't eaten in a while, they are grumpy, hey bring their joyless legalism. They're condemning the guests at the wedding banquet, condemning them because they're celebrating when they should be drinking in and feasting like Jesus' disciples were. They're so messed up. Legalism messes them up. Jesus came to bring joy, not sorrow, the joy of sitting at the table with God. Legalism kills joy. One expression is “buzz kill.” Others, you've heard “kill joy,” or “wet blanket.” The legalists are buzz kills. In the book of Galatians, when Paul's addressing a legalistic Gospel that's come in under the so-called Judaizers who bring in circumcision as a doorway to an entire legalistic way of life that was not the Gospel, he asked them a simple question. He had led these people to Christ, to the preaching of the Gospel. In Galatians 4:15, he said, "What has happened to all your joy?" Watch out for legalism, First Baptist Church, watch out, it kills joy. Not only that, one chapter later, in Galatians 5:15, he says, "If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out, or you'll be destroyed by each other." Legalism pits faction against faction of self-righteous people, who are vaunting their own righteousness against others, and it divides people and destroys. However, the joy that Jesus came to bring at that point was not complete. It's still not complete. The journey isn't over yet. We're not in heaven, sitting at table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. We're not there yet. Look at verse 20, "'The time will come,' He says, 'when the bride groom will be taken from them. And on that day, they will fast.'" That's talking about our earthly lives here before we get to heaven. He's talking, first and foremost, about Jesus' crucifixion. He would be taken away by arrest, and they could not follow Him. He had to be alone. Jesus said on John 16:20, "I tell you the truth. You will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices. You will grieve. But, your grief will turn to joy." So they were going to have a time of grief and sorrow, but then after the resurrection, Jesus will be taken up to heaven and there would be work to be done. That work we've characterized in this church is progress along two journeys, an internal journey of holiness, and sanctification, an external journey of Gospel advance through evangelism and missions. Fasting will be connected with those two journeys. There'll be times to fast for those. Christian people do fast from time to time, to grieve over sin, to show seriousness in repentance, as David did. We'll do that. Or sometimes, to be focused in prayer for strategy and wisdom, as in Acts 13, when the church of fasting and praying, and then the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart from me, Barnabas and Saul, for the work to which I've called them." a time of fasting and focus and all that, there's going to be time for that. But let me tell you something. We're not going to be fasting in heaven. That's a time of heavenly celebration, and the bridegroom will not be taken from us then. It's temporary. Twin Parables: Unshrunk Cloth & New Wine To illustrate this, Jesus gives us two parables, a twin parables, one parable doubled. Same parable, different aspects, but it's doubled for emphasis. It's very important that we understand it. Parable number one, the unshrunk cloth and the old garment. Verse 21, "No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse." You have the image of an old garment, an old shirt, an old tunic, an old robe, an old cloak, something like that. It's been washed many times. Perhaps it's even a little faded, just old. It's an old garment, and it's got a hole in it. It needs to be repaired. Jesus said, "It would be foolish. No one does this, to take a piece of “unshrunk," it's literally unfolded or unwashed, it's what the Greek is, that hasn't been through the washing process yet. It's never been through that. “Whenever a cloth like that is washed for first time, it shrinks. It pulls in, changes its dimensions, and if you sew that on an old garment, it's going to tear away from the old garment," Jesus says, "making the tear worse. It'd be foolish to combine them." So that's parable number one. Parable number two, the new wine and the old wineskin. Verse 22, "And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, he pours new wine into new wineskins." What's a wineskin? In those days, the actual skin of an animal would be used as a container for wine. They would, I think, generally treat it with certain processes, turn it inside out, sew up certain portions of it, leave another portion open and pour the wine in and then put a stopper in it. That's a wineskin. The new wine in the new wineskin would begin to ferment and put off gases, and the gases would cause the wineskin to expand like a balloon. It's a new wineskin. It's supple. It's flexible. It can blow up like a balloon. But an old wineskin, it's been exposed to the sun. It's been dried out over a long period of time. It's lost its elasticity, it’s inflexible. If you pour new wine into the old wineskin, eventually the pressure built up from the gases will cause a rupture. The old wineskin will be destroyed, and the new wine is lost, poured out on the ground. Both are ruined, Jesus says. So people knew to pour new wine into new wineskins and both were preserved. That's the second parable. Both of them have to do with a new dynamic that's powerful and moving, and doesn't line up with an old matrix that cannot move. It's inflexible and it's stuck in its ways. That's the same parable twice. Additional detail from Luke, in Luke 5:39 says, "And no one, after drinking the old wine, wants the new, for he says the old is better." He doesn't want the new thing. He's set in his ways, so it's basically a person. The new wine tastes weird to them. They don't want it. The Gospel is New What do we draw from this twin parable? Lesson number one, the Gospel is new. A new piece of cloth and the new wine, these represent the newness of the Gospel, the newness of Christ and the work He came to do. Our top priority in life is to understand this new Gospel of Jesus Christ, to wear the new garment made out of these new truths, the whole garment made out of new cloth, and to drink the new wine of this new work Jesus came to do; for us to delight in the newness of Christ and His new work in our lives and in the world. The Gospel is new. I've been doing a lot of study recently in the book of Ecclesiastes. Those close to me are kind of weary of hearing that everything is vanity. Vanity of vanities. Vanity of vanities. "Andy, when are you going to memorize the next book? It's time to move on to a new book." It says in Ecclesiastes 1, "Is there anything new in the sun? There's nothing new under the sun." Yes, there is. The Gospel is new. The New Covenant is new. This is what new means when it says New Covenant. This is a new thing that Jesus came to do in the world. What is the old garment, the old wineskin? These certainly in immediate context represent the legalistic religion of the Pharisees and of John's disciples here. Following that approach to religion, legalism is inflexible, it is not changing. They have traditions they have handed down from one to the other, from generation to generation, that are not changing. This traditionalism is not moving. It is inflexible. Set, like the old garment that's set in its size. It cannot move. Like that old, weathered, hard, bridled, unyielding wineskin, that's what legalism does. That's what traditionalism does. It cannot respond to the newness that Jesus came to bring into this world, and I would just say in general, Jesus will not use them as vehicles to spread the new work He's doing. He will not use that. Christianity therefore is new. It is unique. It's unlike anything else on earth. It is fresh, it is alive, living and active, beautiful. It's aromatic and fruitful. That's Christ. Ultimately, newness is all about Christ, isn't it? It's all about Jesus. There's never been anyone like Him in history. There is no one like Jesus. They could not understand Him. He is the bridegroom, come to seek and to save and to draw in His bride. He is the God man, fully God, fully man. Anyone who has seen Him has seen the glory of God himself in human form. He stands alone, and with His advent into the world, history itself was changed. Everything would be impacted. He was new. His life, new. His miracles, new. His teachings, unlike any words that anyone had ever heard. The enemy sent soldiers to arrest Him, and they came back empty-handed and dumbfounded. “No one has ever spoken like this man,” [John 7:46]. They'd never seen anything like His miracles ever. They said this again and again, "We've never seen anything like this." Never. Remember when the man born blind was healed by Jesus. You remember how Jesus spit and made mud and put them on the man's eyes? He said, "Wash," and he could see. This man knew enough to say this, in John 9:32, "Never since the world began has anyone ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind?" This has never happened before. This is new, something entirely new. And it's never been duplicated since. There's not been lots of Jesuses since. There's been no one like Him since. He is unique. He is new. He is the new cloth. He is the new wine. And He is the consummation of human history. Jesus. Who else could say, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. I'm everything. I am the story."? Who else could say, "Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father."? Who else could say, "Before Abraham was born, I am”? This new man, this Jesus, brings a new religion, a whole new way of expressing life and love for God. Christianity could never have fit into the old pattern. The old religion that was established by God in the Old Covenant was now, at the coming of Jesus, obsolete. It was holy and righteous and good for its time. It had a role, a purpose, to play. But once Jesus came, and especially once He died on the cross, and the curtain in the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, that symbolized the end of the Old Covenant. Done. Obsolete. Finished. In some sense then, the Old Covenant was the old garment and the old wineskin. I've often wondered, what wicked priests sewed up that curtain, so that they could keep doing animal sacrifice for another 30, 40 years? You know in the whole marriage and divorcing, it says what God has joined together, let man not separate? Well, how about the opposite? What God has torn apart, let man not sew back up. He made a new and living way for sinners like you and me to come right into the presence of the Holy God. That's the power of the blood of Jesus, and He means for us to draw near. The Old Covenant could never do that. The Old Covenant could not bring in the new heaven and new earth, could not make a new man or new woman out of us. The Old Covenant was weak and powerless and unable. These are adjectives used by the New Testament writers for them, “And what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear,” [Hebrews 8:13]. The religion that Jesus came to work would be entirely new. Animal sacrificial system would be gone. The temple would be gone. The Levitical priesthood would be gone. Ceremonial laws of circumcision, food restrictions will be gone. The Old Covenant's wineskins could not hold this new wine. That was the end. Now, if the holy and God-ordained Old Covenant was obsolete, how much more this legalistic manmade thing, that they had concocted out of their own minds? How much more was that manmade, legalistic religion obsolete and gone? God never ordained this twice a week fast. It was something they made up. So see how new this wine is. Jesus came to make you into a new person, to transform you. The first verse I ever memorized, in The Navigator's Topical Memory System, 2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he's a new creature, new creation. The old has gone. Behold, new things have come." Everything is new when you become a Christian. Jesus said to Nicodemus, "You must be born again. No one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. I can't pour the new wine of my work, cannot pour the new wine of the indwelling Holy Spirit into an old soul, an old person. I've got to make you new. You got to be born again. You got to be made into a new person by the spirit of God, something only God can do." He said, "You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.' The wind blows wherever it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you cannot tell where it comes from and where it is going." That's what it's like, so it is with everyone born of the spirit. You have to be born of the spirit and the new wine of Christ, and His spirit and His work can be poured into you.’” When the new wine of the Gospel pours into you, you become changed in every respect. You have a new mind, it’s called the mind of Christ. You now think differently about everything, about God, about humanity, about sin, about your life, your time, your money, your marriage, your parenting, your job. Everything becomes new, and it takes a long time for that newness to set in. But that's what it means to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. That's the privilege I get week after week to preach, the whole counsel of God, to make you entirely new and get you ready for the new world that's coming. Me too. And it's coming, because it says in Revelation 21:5, "He who is seated on the throne said, 'Behold, I am making everything new.'" So, I have a new thought project here, from Ecclesiastes. Maybe there really is nothing new under the sun, if new means eternal. Everything you see with your eyes is temporary, friends, everything, but there are eternal things you cannot see. There are souls that are redeemed by the blood of Christ and by the spirit of God, those are new, and they will last for all eternity. Everything else, there's nothing new. But the Lord is going to make a new heavens and a new earth. Everything is going to be made new, transformed by the One seated on the throne. So, lesson number one, the Gospel is new. The Gospel is Powerful Lesson number two, the Gospel is powerful. The image of both the new cloth and the new wine is power. We're not staying put. The new cloth shrinks powerfully, the new wine expands powerfully. If you can't follow me in my shrinking and my expanding, then you don't understand the power of the Gospel. What do you think should shrink? How about me? “He must increase. I must decrease.” How about that? My sin tumor should shrink. Patterns in my life that are wicked need to be put to death. And what needs to expand? The work of Christ in my soul needs to expand. My obedience to His beautiful moral law, to love Him and to love my neighbors, myself, that needs to expand. My holiness needs to expand, the Gospel needs to expand. There's some people in darkness surrounding us that the Gospel needs to move out in to win some of those people. It needs to move out. It needs to expand. Acts 1:8, "You'll receive power, when the Holy Spirit comes on. You'll be my witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea, Samaria, to the ends of the earth.” That's the power that comes on you, and they could not leave the world the same. They weren't going to leave the world the same. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead was at work in them spiritually. It was a powerful thing. I love what happens in Acts 17:6, Paul and Silas come to Thessalonica, and it says, "These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also." Isn't that awesome? Of course, they had it backwards. You mean they set it back upright again. The world is upside down and they made it right. Wouldn't that be great to be said of us? "These men who have turned the world upside down have come here." Jesus displayed power everywhere He went. It's a powerful thing. He never left anything the same. He had absolute power over demons, they fled from Him in terror. He had absolute power over disease, there was nothing He could not cure. He had absolute power over death, He raised Lazarus with a word, "Lazarus, come forth." He had absolute power over sin, He could look at you and say, "Take heart, son, daughter, your sins are forgiven." This is the surging power of Christ and of the Gospel. He's given that power to us now. And we have some warfare to do. We have some strongholds to demolish, not people, wicked concepts and demonic strongholds. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 says, "Though we live in the world, we do not wage wars. The world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of this world. On the contrary, they are divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments in every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we're ready to take captive every thought and make it obedient to Christ." That's power. Let's blow up some satanic arguments and concepts and ideas and false religions, and save the people that are enslaved by them. That's the power of the Gospel. Have you felt that power? Has that power come into your life? Have you felt the transforming power of the Spirit? Have you been made a new person? Have you been born again by the Spirit? Have you been transformed? Have you seen yourself, finally, properly, as a sinner who needed a savior like Jesus? Have you been convicted by the law of God and had your sins exposed, your lusts and your covetousness and your thieving and your lying? Have you had these things exposed and you know that is true of you, and Jesus' blood is the answer to all of it? Have you felt that power? Have you felt the complete forgiveness of that blood, that it's enough for you, you don't need anything more? The thief on the cross, "Today, you'll be with me in paradise." You don't have to do any good works to receive forgiveness of sins. Since that time that you felt that forgiveness, have you seen the power, the transforming power of God's word at work in your life, making you progressively holy and doing good works? If so, I have good news for you. You're going to spend eternity feasting with Jesus. Close with me and prayer. Father, thank you for the time that we've had to study this twin parable today. Thank you for the newness and the power of the Gospel. Thank you for giving it to us, that we might be made new, and that we might be given the power of the spirit in our lives, both for our own personal holiness, putting sin to death and driving out the darkness in our souls, but also winning lost people around us. Lord, give us opportunities, even this week, to speak this good news to them. In Jesus' name. Amen.

"In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name never occurs in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence. Zero! Zip references." New Testament scholar Bart Erhman "I don't hate the flesh and blood Jesus who walked the dusty roads of Palestine, nor do I hate the Jesus found in the pages of the Bible. These Jesuses are relics of the past. I'll leave it to historians to argue and debate whether these Jesuses were real or fiction. Over the centuries, Christians have created many Jesuses in their own image. This is the essence of Christianity, an ever-evolving religion bearing little resemblance to what it was even a century ago. The Jesus I hate is the modern, Western Jesus, the American Jesus, the Jesus who has been a part of my life for almost fifty-eight years. The Jesuses of bygone eras have no power to harm me, but the modern Jesus – the Jesus of the three hundred thousand Christian churches that populate every community in America – he has the power to affect my life, hurt my family, and destroy my country. And I, with a vengeance, hate him. This Jesus drives fancy cars, has palaces and cathedrals, and followers who spare no expense to make his house the best mansion in town. This Jesus loves Rolexes, Lear jets, and expensive suits. This Jesus sees the multitude and turns his back on them, only concerned with those who say and believe “the right things.” It is this Jesus I hate. This Jesus owns condominiums constructed just for those who believe in him. When they die, he gives them the keys. But, for the rest of humanity, billions of people, this Jesus says no keys for you. I have a special Hitler-like plan for you. To the ovens you go, only unlike the Jews, I plan to give you a special body that allows me to torture you with fire and brimstone forever. It is this Jesus I hate. It is this Jesus who looks at Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Atheists, Agnostics, Deists, Universalists, Secularists, Humanists, and Skeptics, and says to them before you were born I made sure you could never be in the group that gets the condominiums when they die. This Jesus says, and it is your fault, sinner man. It is this Jesus who made sure billions of people were born into cultures that worshiped other Gods. It is this Jesus who then says it is their fault they were born at the wrong place, at the wrong time. Too bad, this Jesus says, burn forever in the Lake of Fire. It is this Jesus I hate." -Bruce Gerencser "I agree with Bart and Bruce!" - Antonio Myers --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/support

OH.....MY.....JESUSES??? What the hell is a Grand Rising? Are you a Christian? Could you chew gum in church? Why do I smell like a wet dog? WHERE IS TRUMP?!! This episode includes a special guest by the name of JaQ. We talked about everything but what we originally had planned to talk about. JaQ talked about her struggle with attempting to stop smoking weed and not being a African American.. uhh ok? But aye, brace yourself. She didn't hold back nothing and this is only part 1. The drinking word in this episode is grand rising or each time you hear the bubble pouring DRINK UP! or whatever you do.. but be responsible. The Glass of Grass podcast social media page can be located @glassofgrasspodcast on IG. From there click the link tree in the bio for easy access to your podcast platform of choice. BE BLESSED! https://linktr.ee/GLASSOFGRASS

In this episode we delve into the last two synoptic gospels, Matthew and Luke to see how they update, change and even move around Mark's composition to suit their own narratives. Even fix what they don't like. We will also pay close attention to where these two authors find their source material for their stories about their Jesuses. These authors, like Mark, were very creative. (Source Ref: Carrier, MacDonald, Broadie, NT Wright, On the Historicity of Jesus/ An essay on the history of Religions)

Where is Jesus when we need him most? Every Christian is called to be a little Christ. Jesus is with them because Jesus is within us.

Some Greek manuscripts reveal that Barabbas, the criminal released instead of Jesus, was also named Jesus. These two Jesuses present two different pathways to freedom. Which Jesus do you follow? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jeremyberg/message

Jesus de Nazaré é a figura central da maior parte dos estudos religiosos nos últimos 2000 anos, pelo menos no que chamamos de civilização ocidental, encabeçada pela cultura europeia e muita coisa foi dita e cristalizada sobre a visão do “salvador”. Mas quais foram os fatos chave da vida de Jesus para ele se tornar o que foi e como isso foi estabelecido? Será mesmo Jesus um caucasiano de cabelos longos e ondulados? Um extraterrestre? Um infanticida maligno ou um Cogumelo muito louco? Neste episódio, os investigadores Andrei Fernandes, Marcos Keller e Tupá Guerra, unidos aos convidados Karl e Andreza Delgado, vão nos mostrar com quantos Jesuses se faz dois milênios de Ocidente.

Our experience has been that Jesus is on the side of the marginalized, always. But what do we do with competing views of Jesus out there? Kyle and Vince discuss the way competing views of Jesus cause internal and external strife in our lives and relationships, and workshop ways to navigate that well.

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Remember that 1980's cough syrup commercial when Chris Robinson said, “I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV”? I wanted to paraphrase these immortal words when I read what actor Joaquin Phoenix of “Gladiator” fame said about his role as Jesus in the upcoming movie, “Mary Magdalene.” Phoenix is not the Son of Man, but he plays him on the big screen. His is a very different Jesus than the one we meet in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Judging by the trailer and the press roll-out, the movie will draw heavily on a second-century Gnostic text known as “the Gospel of Mary.” In a recent interview with Newsweek, Phoenix slammed early Christianity for not canonizing this and other apocryphal writings about Jesus, saying: “Why was Mary's book not included in the Bible? The stench of blatant sexism,” he says, is “inescapable.” Phoenix went even further in another interview: “Somebody made that decision to exclude [Mary Magdalene's] observations and feelings about the life of Christ and her experience. There seems to have been an overt intention to exclude women from that process.” The truth is, no one excluded Mary Magdalene's experiences. Scholars universally agree that she didn't write this so-called gospel. Along with other texts like “the Apocryphon of John,” and “the Sophia of Jesus Christ,” “the Gospel of Mary” was never recognized by the Church as part of the New Testament. The reason is that it is an obvious forgery. The Gospel of Mary is a work of fan-fiction by members of a false religion who attempted to co-opt Jesus for their own purposes. True to the pattern of other Gnostic texts, the “Gospel of Mary” claims that Jesus delivered a private revelation to its namesake that radically contradicts the canonical gospels. Even more, the Mary Magdalene revealed in the Bible is the best response we have to the accusation that early Christianity was sexist. Recall that she is reported as the first witness of the risen Lord—a claim that would have scandalized first-century Jewish readers. In that culture, the testimony of a woman was considered worthless, yet she and several other women were entrusted to take the message of Christ's resurrection back to His disciples, and those disciples were hesitant to believe them. If the four gospels were written to make Jesus' male followers look good at the expense of the women, they did a lousy job. Authors like Alvin J. Schmidt and Rodney Stark have documented that Christianity—far from oppressing women—radically elevated their status in the ancient world. It's hard for us in 2019 to grasp just how revolutionary the Apostle Paul's words were that “there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” And speaking of important background material, Joaquin Phoenix grew up in a pseudo-Christian cult that seems to have soured him toward religion. While we should be sensitive to that experience, we have to admit he's no expert.  Even so, his unfounded statements and the false story this movie tells will strike many as convincing, in the same way Dan Brown's “The Da Vinci Code” did a few years back. The good news is, we live in what I like to call the “golden age of good arguments.” There is a wealth of apologetic resources available that ably debunks the idea that the Gnostic gospels were unfairly suppressed or that they offer any new information about the life of Jesus. We'll link you to just a few of those resources at BreakPoint.org. The problem isn't that the answers aren't available. The problem is that the answers rarely reach as many people as the falsehoods do from the publishing industry, the media, or Hollywood—which, like the Gnostics of old—never tire of producing false Christianities and false Jesuses. Our job is to learn the answers, to engage in conversations, to dialogue about those answers, and to do our best to set the record straight.