What has Jesus done for me? (long)
April 22, 2011 at 11:08 am | Posted in Christianity | Leave a commentTags: abortion, accept, Achilles tendon, adultery, aggressive, America, angel, artery, asleep, asphyxiation, ateasetees, attitude, authority, Barabbas, Bartholomew, beat, berate, betray, Bible, blaspheme, blessed, blind, blood, bone, bread, break, breathe, burial, Caesar, cat o nine tails, center, children, Christ, Christian, church, cleansing, clothes, cohort, comfort, compromise, condemnation, convert, creation, cross, crowd, crown, crucify, custom, Day of Atonement, dead, death, denial, deny, disciple, dislocation, dive, donkey, Egypt, elder, Elijah, Eloi, envy, evangelism, Exodus, failure, faith, false, fear, feet, Field of Blood, fight, finished, flesh, forgive, forsaken, foundation, fullness, Galilee, gamble, Garden, gardener, genie, Gethsemane, glass, God, Golgotha, gospel, gossip, governor, grace, gracious, guard, hail, hang, happiness, heart, heaven, hell, Herod, high priest, Hill of the Skull, holy, holy of holies, holy place, homosexuality, honest, hope, Hosanna, hypocrites, I AM, innocent, insurrection, Israel, James, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jew, John, joint, Joseph of Arimathea, Judas, Judge, judgment, king, kingdom, kiss, Lama, Lamb, lame, laugh, law, leader, leg, leper, Leviticus, lie, life, linen, lots, love, lust, Malchus, marriage, Mary Magdalene, material, Matthew, mercy, metal, militant, miracle, mock, money, moral, motive, mourn, murder, mute, Nathaniel, nation, Nazarene, nerve, Nicodemus, nine inch nail, Nisan, pain, palm, paradise, Passion Week, Passover, pastor, peace, Peter, Pharisee, pierce, pious, plastic, Pontius Pilate, pottery, Praetorium, prayer, preach, pride, priest, prisoner, prophesy, rebellion, rebuke, reed, reject, religion, remorse, repent, Resurrection Day, righteous, risen, robe, Roman, rooster, rose, Sabacthani, sabbath, salvation, Samaritan, Sanhedrin, Satan, Savior, scourge, scribe, scripture, seal, seat, self, self-righteous, separation, servant, shallow, shoulder, side, Simon of Cyrene, sin, sinless, solider, Son of God, spear, spices, Spirit, spit, spotless, stench, stone, stoning, success, suffocation, table, tax collector, teaching, temple, temptation, ten commandments, theft, thief, thorns, TIME, tombs, tomorrow, trial, tribulation, Trinity, truth, upper room, uprising, veil, washed, water, weep, whip, wife, wish, witness, woman, women, Word, wrath, wretch, Yom Kippur
It seems that more and more these days people are asking one simple question. It may take a few different forms, but at it’s root, it’s all the same: “What has Jesus done for me?”. Sometimes it comes out in the attitudes, sometimes in actual words but it’s there none the less. Man’s pride puts himself at the top of the pyramid with everything else beneath him. Even family and friends are often under self. Some that ask this question, do so because they can’t see how Jesus has done anything for them. They think that they are responsible for their own success. Ironically, they always seem to blame God for their failures. Continue Reading What has Jesus done for me? (long)…
Pharisees
June 15, 2010 at 4:55 pm | Posted in Christianity | Leave a commentTags: abortion, adultery, America, angels, anger, angry, ateasetees, attack, attention, authority, Bible, blind, burden, charlatan, cheek, Christian, church, clean, coat, compromise, criminal, cross, danger, death, deeds, defend, demons, disciples, divorce, earth, enemy, evangelism, evil, exegesis, eye, faith, faithfulness, false, fame, flesh, fool, footstool, Gentile, glory, God, gospel, grace, Greeks, greetings, guide, guilty, hand, Hasidism, heart, heaven, hell, Hellenistic, hermeneutic, holy, homosexual, honor, hope, humility, hyperbole, hypocrite, idolatry, image, infidelity, Islam, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus, John Hyrcanus, Judge, judgment, justice, king, law, lawlessness, lawyer, legalistic, life, light, love, lust, marriage, mercy, mile, militant, ministry, money, Mount Olivet, murder, oath, obedience, Old Testament, peace, perfect, persecution, Pharisees, pray, prayer, prison, rage, rant, rebuke, reconcile, regulations, religion, repent, resurrection, righteousness, ritual, sabbath, salt, salvation, Sanhedrin, scourged, scripture, separated, Sermon on the Mount, serpent, sin, strict, stumble, tax collector, ten commandments, throne, tithe, tooth, tradition, tragedy, truth, unchastity, unclean, understand, viper, vow, whitewashed tomb, worship
Often, when we are hearing about events that took place in the gospels, we are told about the enemies of Jesus. Those people who opposed Him and tried everything they could to show Him to be a charlatan. Of all the groups that did this, the one that Christians are most familiar with are the Pharisees. Because of the often simple light in which this group is painted, many people don’t realize the dangers inherent in what they said and did. To understand this, it is important to understand where the Pharisees came from.
The group of Jews known as Pharisees arose during the reign of John Hyrcanus. They came from the Hasidism, which was a militant religious community that was focused on obedience to the Law and worship to God. They began around 168 B.C. (before Christ!…). The name Pharisee means “separated one” and was applied to this group because they separated themselves from the Hellenistic influence brought in through the Greeks. At the time of Jesus, it is believed that there were around 6,000 Pharisees in Israel. The Pharisees saw the entire Old Testament as authoritative, but accepted oral tradition as authoritative as well. They believed in the existence of angels and demons. They believed in life after death and bodily resurrection. They believed that the study of the Law was worship. They strove to live holy by keeping the Law and saw the Law as determining what was clean and unclean. They felt very strongly about obedience to the Law and developed a set of regulations to help save people from breaking the Law. There are 613 laws in the Old Testament and the discussions that they had were as specific as whether or not a person should eat an egg laid on the Sabbath. The Pharisees lived for the Law and sought to use it in all situations. Continue Reading Pharisees…
What has God done for me?
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