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What are the Gospels?

FOUR Gospels:

GOOD NEWS! (That’s what Gospel means.)

Matthew, Mark, Luke & John begin the New Testament proclaiming the Good News of Israel’s long-awaited Messiah and talk of JESUS Christ.

The four Gospels are first hand witness + proclaiming GOOD NEWS

  • by two Jewish Apostles of the Messiah JESUS, Matthew & John
  • Two gentile (non-Jewish) followers of THE WAY of Jesus Christ, Mark & Luke, who proclaim the GOSPEL recorded from witness of Peter, Paul and other Apostles and disciples of JESUS in the first century.

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  • The Beatitudes and the Multitudes – Part 2

    The Beatitudes and the Multitudes – Part 2

    Matthew 5

    King James Version (KJV)

    • Blessed are the poor in spirit.

    NOT the poor in money – not the poor in anything other than a downcast spirit and soul of hopelessness. God has not looked on you with blessing. You live the life of curse and lack of blessing. God’s wrath must have looked on your life as worthy of nothing better than the dust of the earth.

    • For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

    How can this be? Cursed. Living as souls paying the price of every sin. How can one so downcast in heart be blessed with the Kingdom of Heaven?

    • Blessed are they that mourn.

    We all mourn. We mourn the loss of a father, a mother, a husband, a wife, a child, a dear friend, a relative. We mourn their loss by death, by war, by famine, by disease, by abduction, by slavery, by imprisonment, by addictions, by drugs, by alcohol, by divorce, by hatred, by broken relationship, by loss of all hope of making all that is death and evil into desperation of grief. We all wail in the mourning of our hearts, broken again and again until the final grieving as death. I need freed from this!

    • For they shall be comforted.

    What comfort short of death has any man? What peace may a suffering servant know?

    • Blessed are the meek.

    The self-made, driven man is the one blessed by his own hand. Do we not aggressively pursue the best God has for our life now? God helps those who help themselves, right? Those who want to expand their kingdom of blessings on earth cannot be gentle, submissive, mild and gentle.  The world will take from me every blessing, if I am meek.

    • For they will inherit the earth.

    How can I end up with nothing, yet inherit the earth?

    • Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.

    No, not blessed are the hungry – not blessed are thirsty. Am I not hungry every day? Do some hunger for food in their extreme poverty and even thirst for unpolluted water to drink? Yes, these do suffer more than me and more than you. But here in this place Jesus asks the filled and the hungry both to hunger and thirst after righteousness. Hunger to do the right thing before God at all times and in all ways. Desire to feed your flesh with the food and water of God.

    • For they shall be filled.

    How can I be filled with the bread and wine of righteousness? How can the Word of Jesus fill the hunger of my soul?

    • Blessed are the merciful.

    Who would show me mercy? Do the rich and the powerful not enslave us without mercy? Will the conquering nation show mercy on the slaves of their might? Will the poor criminal not pay every penny owed to the rich man, while the influential will bribe the judge?

    • For they shall obtain mercy.

    Will God please show me some mercy, and the unrighteous justice?

    • Blessed are the pure in heart.

    I stand before God with a hypocritical heart and a soiled soul.

    • For they shall see God.

    How will I be cleansed of my impure spirit of the flesh?

    • Blessed are the peacemakers.

    We live in a place where our conquerors have forced peace. Shall I make peace with the unrighteous? We have peace only when we give in to the rule of our leaders.

    • For they shall be called the children of God.

    Does God not call on His children to fight for what is right? Can we be instruments of peace in a place of war? Is it the place of children to fight for the Father?

    • Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake.

    Have the righteous and unrighteous both not been persecuted? Why would I do what is right knowing that I will be persecuted?

    • For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

    And if I do not do what is right? Will heaven have my soul?

    • Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.

    Is the man also a Prophet? Why does he say that others will speak evil of me for his sake?

    • Rejoice, and be exceeding glad; for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

    I don’t want to be persecuted for my own sake, let alone for the sake of this Jesus. The Prophets of God were opposed by evil men of their captors and of their own religion.

    (Just some possible thoughts of some in the multitude, hearing Jesus teach the Beatitudes.)

    To be continued…

  • Impersonal, Indifferent

    Impersonal, Indifferent

    Your Christianity is too impersonal for me, dear brother.

    Your claim of Christ is too distant from me, dear sister.

    Your cause of Christ is too narrow for me, dear born again believer.

    Your concern of Christ to me seems indifferent, dear spirit-filled singer.

    Your text is too convenient,

    Your facebook page too unfriendly,

    Your phone call too infrequent,

    Your visit too unheard of.

    Your life appears too pristine,

    Your sin is too much covered,

    Your love is too too distant,

    Your witness too self-affirming.

    If the Lord were here

    And I with Him,

    Would He say, “You have done for me

    As you have done for him?”

    Would we even know you, dear member of Christ Jesus?

    Matthew 25: 45 Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ 46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

  • The Beatitudes and the Multitudes – Part 1

    The Beatitudes and the Multitudes – Part 1

    Matthew 5: KJV And seeing a multitude, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came to him: and he opened his mouth and taught them saying:

    Blessed are they… Happy are those… etc.

    You may have even memorized the following verses, according to the Bible version of your upbringing; but let us set the scene properly.

    John Wesley begins his commentary of the scene: ‘And seeing the multitudes – At some distance, as they were coming to him from every quarter, He went up into the mountain. – Which was near, where there was room for them all.’

    Do you see it? Jesus has sent the Disciples out into the towns and the countryside. The response of the people has been miraculous. It seems that everyone wants to hear what the Teacher and Messiah has to say.  The crowds approach from every direction in numbers exceeding the services of the popular mega-church.

    They are Jew and gentile alike. They are rich and poor alike. They are believers and unbeliever alike. They are Galilean and Judean, Samaritan and Roman, businessman and farmer, resident and traveler. The multitudes have, by the power of the Holy Spirit, come to hear what a Savior might say.

    Who will listen?  Who is this Jesus of Nazareth? What will He say? What will He do?

    Is His teaching for me? Will the Lord bless me? Will Jesus bless me?

    Before we begin, understand that Jesus is NOT preaching to the church. He is not recruiting members for the church. He is not even giving advice and direction for the church. Jesus is teaching the multitudes. Jesus is telling truth to all. The church and followers must come later – on their own – each believer – each who understands and would worship the Lord as He IS come to our salvation.

    He will suffer and die for our sins. He IS our Shepherd.

    (Have you ever thought this of the baby in the manger?)

    The multitudes have come to the Shepherd on the mountainside. He will lead by the Word of God. Some will reject Him immediately. Some will follow and stray soon. Some will follow and stay after they have understood the cost. Some, a few, will remain faithful. All will listen. Each must decide.

    To be continued…