Monday, December 30, 2019
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The Most Ironic Story Ever Told.
The Most Ironic Story Ever Told - by Jack Kinsella
The story of the Virgin Birth, sinless life and blameless death of Jesus Christ, an itinerant Jewish preacher from the Judean village of Nazareth is often and rightly called “the Greatest Story Ever Told.”
What makes it great is its theme.
A Child born to a young Jewish virgin and (as was supposed) a Jewish labourer of low estate Whose birth is announced by angels.
“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” (Luke 2:11)
The Child is the Son of God,
come to bear the sins of the world.
He grows to maturity,
living low as a labourer in Nazareth until He is called to ministry during His baptism in the Jordan by His cousin John.
Jesus preaches repentance and the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven.
He teaches love of God and to love one’s neighbour.
He lives a blameless and perfect life,
is condemned as the King of the Jews and crucified for the sins of the world.
Three days after His execution,
He rises from the dead to announce that the hereditary penalty for sin imposed on all men since Adam had been paid.
In evidence, He offers His own Body, showing the nail scars and the side wound.
“This is the price paid on your behalf for sins.
Believe in Me, and Him that sent me, and thou shalt be saved.”
THAT is why it is the greatest story ever told.
But what makes it ironic is the WAY that it is told – as a Christian story.
The story actually begins way back in the Book of Genesis.
Abram was the son of an idol maker named Terah who lived in the great city of Ur in modern-day Iraq.
The Bible relates that Abram was called by God to a new land that God would show him.
By faith Abram undertook the journey. Genesis 15:6 says;
“And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.”
But Abram wanted a guarantee, nonetheless.
“And he [Abram] said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?” (Genesis 15:8)
It was then that God proposed a blood covenant after the manner of the Chaldeans...….
“And He [God] said unto him, [Abram] Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
Abram knew what to do next, since this was something he was familiar with.
“And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.”
The blood covenant worked this way:
The animals were slaughtered and cut up.
The pieces were intermingled and then carefully arranged to form a kind of aisle through which the two parties to the covenant would walk together, hands joined.
The principle of a blood covenant,
and the symbolism of the animal parts was clearly understood to Abram.
Whoever broke the covenant would end up like those piles of animals.
A blood covenant was, by common custom, a joining of 2 or more persons, families, clans, tribes, or nations,
where the participants agree to do or refrain from doing certain acts.
What God proposed was a patriarchal covenant.
The patriarchal form of covenant is a self-imposed obligation of a superior party, to the benefit of an inferior party.
Something like adoption by agreement.
In this form, the terms the parties use to refer to each other are:
father and son.
And God’s proposal included not only Abram, but extended to Abram’s seed forever.
Abram’s seed, as we learn in Galatians 3:29, are the Jews and Christians that are “heirs according to the Promise.”
What promise? The one made by God to Abram and to his heirs and guaranteed by a Chaldean blood covenant.
Abram waited, driving away the carrion eaters from his grisly creation, waiting for God Himself to come down, join hands with Abram and together, they would swear a blood oath. God would be the Father of Abram and his descendents, who would then be required behave as sons of the covenant.
Genesis 15:12 records that as Abram waited for God, a deep sleep fell upon him. During that deep sleep,
“it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:” (Genesis 15:17-18)
Abram didn’t join with God in passing through the aisle.
The Bible says that God took TWO forms that Abram saw as a “smoking furnace” and “a burning lamp” to symbolize that the covenant was “signed” the requisite two times – but both times by God.
By passing through the aisle alone, God signed the contract — alone — for both sides, binding Himself to keeping both parts.
And THIS is where the Christmas story begins.
Of the covenant that God signed on behalf of Abraham, Paul explains,
“Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man dis-annulleth, or addeth thereto.” (Galatians 3:15)
The covenant could only be confirmed when the price demanded for its violation was paid in full.
When the Law was given to Moses four centuries later, it was assumed by the Jews that to break it was to break the Abrahamic Covenant, for which the penalty was death. Remember, somebody had to die.
But God signed on behalf of Abraham, and Paul pointed out the blood penalty required of the covenant was paid in full.
“And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.”
The covenant demanded satisfactory payment for its violation and no one guilty of violating it was qualified to stand in full payment except those that signed it. The penalty for its violation was death.
Justice required that someone keep the provisions of the original covenant and be a true Son as it demanded.
So Abraham could not pay the penalty on behalf of his seed. Abraham was already under penalty of death. But somebody had to die for justice to be satisfied and the only signer was God.
The terms of the Abrahamic covenant required God Himself to step out of eternity and into space and time where He could be subject to the death penalty justice demanded.
Two thousand years after the first covenant, an angel announced that “unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” (Luke 2:11)
Unto WHO was born a Saviour?...…..
Unto the Jews of Israel, first.
And then to the Gentiles
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew FIRST, and also to the Greek.” (Romans 1:16)
That is what makes it the Most Ironic Story Ever Told.
Christmas is the most Jewish of all holy days.
It is the fulfillment of the Abrahamic Covenant whereby the terms demanded were satisfied.
But to most observant Jews,
Christmas is a Christian holiday that celebrates something to do with the Christian God.
That is the irony of the story. It is a day that celebrates the birth of a Jew from Nazareth, born unto them in the city of David, which is Christ the Lord.
So this Christmas...….
pray for the peace of Jerusalem. And pray for His Chosen People that they will receive Him as their King. And may our God richly bless you and yours, until He comes.
Shalom. And Merry Christmas.
*
Jack Kinsella
Omega Letter Community
The story of the Virgin Birth, sinless life and blameless death of Jesus Christ, an itinerant Jewish preacher from the Judean village of Nazareth is often and rightly called “the Greatest Story Ever Told.”
What makes it great is its theme.
A Child born to a young Jewish virgin and (as was supposed) a Jewish labourer of low estate Whose birth is announced by angels.
“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” (Luke 2:11)
The Child is the Son of God,
come to bear the sins of the world.
He grows to maturity,
living low as a labourer in Nazareth until He is called to ministry during His baptism in the Jordan by His cousin John.
Jesus preaches repentance and the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven.
He teaches love of God and to love one’s neighbour.
He lives a blameless and perfect life,
is condemned as the King of the Jews and crucified for the sins of the world.
Three days after His execution,
He rises from the dead to announce that the hereditary penalty for sin imposed on all men since Adam had been paid.
In evidence, He offers His own Body, showing the nail scars and the side wound.
“This is the price paid on your behalf for sins.
Believe in Me, and Him that sent me, and thou shalt be saved.”
THAT is why it is the greatest story ever told.
But what makes it ironic is the WAY that it is told – as a Christian story.
The story actually begins way back in the Book of Genesis.
Abram was the son of an idol maker named Terah who lived in the great city of Ur in modern-day Iraq.
The Bible relates that Abram was called by God to a new land that God would show him.
By faith Abram undertook the journey. Genesis 15:6 says;
“And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.”
But Abram wanted a guarantee, nonetheless.
“And he [Abram] said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?” (Genesis 15:8)
It was then that God proposed a blood covenant after the manner of the Chaldeans...….
“And He [God] said unto him, [Abram] Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
Abram knew what to do next, since this was something he was familiar with.
“And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.”
The blood covenant worked this way:
The animals were slaughtered and cut up.
The pieces were intermingled and then carefully arranged to form a kind of aisle through which the two parties to the covenant would walk together, hands joined.
The principle of a blood covenant,
and the symbolism of the animal parts was clearly understood to Abram.
Whoever broke the covenant would end up like those piles of animals.
A blood covenant was, by common custom, a joining of 2 or more persons, families, clans, tribes, or nations,
where the participants agree to do or refrain from doing certain acts.
What God proposed was a patriarchal covenant.
The patriarchal form of covenant is a self-imposed obligation of a superior party, to the benefit of an inferior party.
Something like adoption by agreement.
In this form, the terms the parties use to refer to each other are:
father and son.
And God’s proposal included not only Abram, but extended to Abram’s seed forever.
Abram’s seed, as we learn in Galatians 3:29, are the Jews and Christians that are “heirs according to the Promise.”
What promise? The one made by God to Abram and to his heirs and guaranteed by a Chaldean blood covenant.
Abram waited, driving away the carrion eaters from his grisly creation, waiting for God Himself to come down, join hands with Abram and together, they would swear a blood oath. God would be the Father of Abram and his descendents, who would then be required behave as sons of the covenant.
Genesis 15:12 records that as Abram waited for God, a deep sleep fell upon him. During that deep sleep,
“it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:” (Genesis 15:17-18)
Abram didn’t join with God in passing through the aisle.
The Bible says that God took TWO forms that Abram saw as a “smoking furnace” and “a burning lamp” to symbolize that the covenant was “signed” the requisite two times – but both times by God.
By passing through the aisle alone, God signed the contract — alone — for both sides, binding Himself to keeping both parts.
And THIS is where the Christmas story begins.
Of the covenant that God signed on behalf of Abraham, Paul explains,
“Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man dis-annulleth, or addeth thereto.” (Galatians 3:15)
The covenant could only be confirmed when the price demanded for its violation was paid in full.
When the Law was given to Moses four centuries later, it was assumed by the Jews that to break it was to break the Abrahamic Covenant, for which the penalty was death. Remember, somebody had to die.
But God signed on behalf of Abraham, and Paul pointed out the blood penalty required of the covenant was paid in full.
“And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.”
The covenant demanded satisfactory payment for its violation and no one guilty of violating it was qualified to stand in full payment except those that signed it. The penalty for its violation was death.
Justice required that someone keep the provisions of the original covenant and be a true Son as it demanded.
So Abraham could not pay the penalty on behalf of his seed. Abraham was already under penalty of death. But somebody had to die for justice to be satisfied and the only signer was God.
The terms of the Abrahamic covenant required God Himself to step out of eternity and into space and time where He could be subject to the death penalty justice demanded.
Two thousand years after the first covenant, an angel announced that “unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” (Luke 2:11)
Unto WHO was born a Saviour?...…..
Unto the Jews of Israel, first.
And then to the Gentiles
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew FIRST, and also to the Greek.” (Romans 1:16)
That is what makes it the Most Ironic Story Ever Told.
Christmas is the most Jewish of all holy days.
It is the fulfillment of the Abrahamic Covenant whereby the terms demanded were satisfied.
But to most observant Jews,
Christmas is a Christian holiday that celebrates something to do with the Christian God.
That is the irony of the story. It is a day that celebrates the birth of a Jew from Nazareth, born unto them in the city of David, which is Christ the Lord.
So this Christmas...….
pray for the peace of Jerusalem. And pray for His Chosen People that they will receive Him as their King. And may our God richly bless you and yours, until He comes.
Shalom. And Merry Christmas.
*
Jack Kinsella
Omega Letter Community
The Worship Wars (Part 2) – Pastor Brandon Holthaus and Eric Barger
Well worth a listen
Blessings
Yaddy
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100% Sanctification - Guaranteed (Part 2)
I hope you are enjoying these messages, I sure am.
Blessings
Yaddy
Friday, October 25, 2019
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Still Ready for Jesus to Return – 1 Thessalonians 1:8-10
I pray this blesses you as it seems to follow the previous update....
Yaddy
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
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2019 Understanding The Times Conference - Olive Tree Ministries
A very long 8 hours of Olive tree ministries conference....2019. I took it in hourly bits, but it's so good!
Blessings
Yaddy
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
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Bethel Church: Incorporating New Age Mysticism, Spirit Guides, Auras, An...
only if you have nearly 2 hours to spare, but it's really interesting to listen to!
Blessings
Yaddy!
Simon Peter, a bond servant!
I can't help but think, that those who are in the N.A.R ( new apostolic Reformation) are putting tickets on themselves. That means they are lifting themselves up higher than is needed....They say there is an apostolic mantle that has fallen on them, (nowhere do we read about such a mantle in Scripture) and this is what they are now...apostles....and none of them want to be known as "bondservants" They have given themselves this title to let you know they are a little better in knowledge and closer to, whet they think, is the truth....and their teaching is totally wrong.
The word apostle actually just means messenger, and we are, or should be, all of us, that kind of an apostle.
But there were just 12 Apostles, chosen by Jesus Himself. We read in acts, that Judas was replaced, to make up the 12th.....
As pastor Jack Hibbs puts it so nicely, and I quote:
"We tend to put our best foot forward when meeting someone new, so what would possess a person to say, "Hi, I'm a servant" as Peter did? He could have simply written Apostle, a title that carried obvious clout, and he would have been truthful. But his main identity had become bondservant and that powerful identification spoke volumes to those reading his letter."
Peter himself starts off his letter in 2 Peter 1 verse 1 :"Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ."
See more here
I have been reading the book of Acts yet again, and nowhere can I see, anyone else being called Apostles.....there were quite a few in the upper room, who were there when the Holy Spirit came, but they are not referred to as Apostles....no one else is either...it's only those who actually were with Jesus...
Blessings
Yaddy
The word apostle actually just means messenger, and we are, or should be, all of us, that kind of an apostle.
But there were just 12 Apostles, chosen by Jesus Himself. We read in acts, that Judas was replaced, to make up the 12th.....
As pastor Jack Hibbs puts it so nicely, and I quote:
"We tend to put our best foot forward when meeting someone new, so what would possess a person to say, "Hi, I'm a servant" as Peter did? He could have simply written Apostle, a title that carried obvious clout, and he would have been truthful. But his main identity had become bondservant and that powerful identification spoke volumes to those reading his letter."
Peter himself starts off his letter in 2 Peter 1 verse 1 :"Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ."
See more here
I have been reading the book of Acts yet again, and nowhere can I see, anyone else being called Apostles.....there were quite a few in the upper room, who were there when the Holy Spirit came, but they are not referred to as Apostles....no one else is either...it's only those who actually were with Jesus...
Blessings
Yaddy
Monday, September 16, 2019
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2019.08.25 John Haller's Prophecy Update: "Trigger Points"
Gives me the shudders to watch and listen to this......but there it is....today's church leaders?????
Blessings
Yaddy
Thursday, August 22, 2019
She is me....
By Phillip Holmes
Phillip Holmes served as a content strategist at desiringGod.org. He is the Director of Communications at Reformed Theological Seminary and a finance coach and blogger through his site Money Untangled. He and his wife, Jasmine, have a son, and they are members of Redeemer Church in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Recently, my wife and I started having family worship again, a time set aside each day for us to read the Scriptures and pray together.
Although we pray and read on our own, we need time in the Bible together as well.
We decided to start light with a seven-day reading plan on marriage.
Our first passage was Ephesians 5:21–33. Verses 28–33 left me speechless and in tears:
"In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body.
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband."
Paul, like a skill-full artist, overwhelmed me with his picture of marriage. I could hardly speak,
I was so convicted.
I was awed. I asked my wife for observations so that I could gather my thoughts.
But as she spoke about submission, I could only feel the weight of my responsibility.
I hadn’t loved my wife as if she was a member of my own body. I failed to even aspire to love her as Christ does the church, his body.
read more here
Blessings
Yaddy
Monday, August 19, 2019
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019
A Heavenly Mind
What is a heavenly mind?
Centuries ago I bought a nice house in a quiet little street in an inner-city suburb. It was a haven nestled away from the outside hustle and bustle of the larger city.
Although small, it was big enough to house me, my widowed mother, my brother and his new bride. The secluded back yard was large enough to contain an enormous peppercorn willow tree, a shed, and a little vegetable garden. O! – and a German Shepherd dog.
I loved the fact that a half a mile away up the hill, you could find fashionable wine bars and restaurants. There was a convenient shopping mall around the corner. Even a beautiful wetlands walking park complete with the appropriate native fauna and wildlife.
In fact I hardly ever availed myself to those restaurants and bars. All the years I lived there, I think I only walked that park a handful of times. Still, it was a highly desirable area. I just liked boasting that I lived there.
We all lived in that same little house, yet occupied different worlds. My brother and his wife were busy planning their lives. I had my job, my beloved gymnasium and friends to occupy time. While I had the odd “spiritual” inclinations, my life was largely governed by more earthy pursuits.
See more here
Centuries ago I bought a nice house in a quiet little street in an inner-city suburb. It was a haven nestled away from the outside hustle and bustle of the larger city.
Although small, it was big enough to house me, my widowed mother, my brother and his new bride. The secluded back yard was large enough to contain an enormous peppercorn willow tree, a shed, and a little vegetable garden. O! – and a German Shepherd dog.
I loved the fact that a half a mile away up the hill, you could find fashionable wine bars and restaurants. There was a convenient shopping mall around the corner. Even a beautiful wetlands walking park complete with the appropriate native fauna and wildlife.
In fact I hardly ever availed myself to those restaurants and bars. All the years I lived there, I think I only walked that park a handful of times. Still, it was a highly desirable area. I just liked boasting that I lived there.
We all lived in that same little house, yet occupied different worlds. My brother and his wife were busy planning their lives. I had my job, my beloved gymnasium and friends to occupy time. While I had the odd “spiritual” inclinations, my life was largely governed by more earthy pursuits.
See more here
Monday, August 12, 2019
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The Second Biggest Problem In Your Life (Part 2)
This is part 2 ( of a previous "the second biggest problem in your life)
blessings
Yaddy
Monday, July 29, 2019
2019 07 28 John Haller's Prophecy Update "Real Stuff"
Keep wearing the armour of God and
Blessings
Yaddy
Friday, July 26, 2019
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2019 03 31 John Haller's Prophecy Update - "The Prophetic Spring"
Need to watch this
Blessings
Yaddy
Sunday, March 24, 2019
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Devil or angel....
By Wendy Wippel
Arber Tasimi was your basic carefree collegiate until targeted in two completely random attacks in just a few weeks. Then he didn’t leave his house for months. When he did, it was to study the basic nature of humankind using the “raw materials”. Meaning babies. Before societal morals were introduced. His findings? well…downright Biblical.
Tasimi went to work as a researcher at Yale University’s Infant Cognition Center, intent on discovering where, as humans, our ethical framework really comes from, his recent Series of Unfortunate Events causing him to wonder, in his own words, “are we a failed species?”
The experiments that ensued were ingenious. The lab produced animated videos that that featured three specific animated shapes with goggle eyes. The main character, let’s say a green square, is depicted as a man on a mission-specifically, to climb up a mountain. The second character, maybe a blue circle, plays a villain, who constantly knocks the protagonist back to his starting point, and the third, a helper (maybe a yellow triangle) comes to the main character’s assistance by knocking the villain out of commission.) The scnenarios-with the same characters, readily identified by shape and color-were repeated six times, with very minor differences, so that the children got the chance to confirm that the blue circle was always mean, and the yellow triangle was always nice.
Researchers then determined how the babies (initially 6-12 months old) felt about the characters by giving each child an opportunity to choose which character (offered now as plush dolls in the same outfits) they wished to interact with.
read more...here
Quite interesting.....
Blessings
Yaddy
Saturday, March 16, 2019
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Porter Wagoner - What Would You Do (If Jesus Came To Your House)
Love this an oldy but a goody!
Blessings
Yaddy
Sunday, February 17, 2019
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Daniel Episode 28. Hebrew July 4th Pt2. Daniel 8:9-14
Very good lesson by Pastor Andy Woods.
Thought you might like it too
Blessings
Yaddy
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Look What Jesus Christ Did (Part 4) | 1 Peter 3 18-22
At last part 4
another good sermon
Blessings
Yaddy
Monday, January 28, 2019
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Jesus as a 12 year old...
How can Jesus as a twelve year old boy debate with the experts of the Mosaic Law at the Temple?
In Luke 2:40 we read "And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him."
In this one verse, Luke summarised Jesus’ development from the age of four to the age of twelve.
Although Jesus was brought up in a spiritual Jewish home, this alone does not explain His tremendous knowledge of Scripture which allowed Him to carry on an intelligent, theological discussion with the experts of the Mosaic Law by the age of twelve (Luke 2:46-47).
So how did He do it?
It’s in the Book of Isaiah where we find the explanation.
"The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary. He awakens me morning by morning, He awakens my ear to hear as they that are taught." – Isaiah 50:4
Jesus is a unique individual;
He is the God-Man.
He is only one person, but He has two distinct natures...
a divine nature...
and a human nature.
These two natures exist side by side;
they never mixed. While in His deity He is omniscient, He knows all things...
but in His humanity He had to undergo the same type of learning experience that all humans have to undergo.
In His humanity, He simply did not know everything.
He needed to grow up and to be trained.
God the Father did that by waking Him up morning by morning to train Him in matters concerning His person, His message, and His work.
Even when He realised that His mission included suffering and death, He was not rebellious; He kept His ear open and did not try to turn away backward or escape His call (Isaiah 50:5).
When the time finally came for Him to fulfil His mission, He gave His back to the smiters...
His cheeks to them that plucked off the hair...
and did not hide His face from shame and spitting (Isaiah 50:6).
As a result of His personal training by God the Father, at the age of twelve Jesus knew exactly who He was: the Son of God.
He also knew the Scriptures so well that He was able to debate them with the scholars in the Temple compound.
link here
Blessings
Yaddy
In Luke 2:40 we read "And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him."
In this one verse, Luke summarised Jesus’ development from the age of four to the age of twelve.
Although Jesus was brought up in a spiritual Jewish home, this alone does not explain His tremendous knowledge of Scripture which allowed Him to carry on an intelligent, theological discussion with the experts of the Mosaic Law by the age of twelve (Luke 2:46-47).
So how did He do it?
It’s in the Book of Isaiah where we find the explanation.
"The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary. He awakens me morning by morning, He awakens my ear to hear as they that are taught." – Isaiah 50:4
Jesus is a unique individual;
He is the God-Man.
He is only one person, but He has two distinct natures...
a divine nature...
and a human nature.
These two natures exist side by side;
they never mixed. While in His deity He is omniscient, He knows all things...
but in His humanity He had to undergo the same type of learning experience that all humans have to undergo.
In His humanity, He simply did not know everything.
He needed to grow up and to be trained.
God the Father did that by waking Him up morning by morning to train Him in matters concerning His person, His message, and His work.
Even when He realised that His mission included suffering and death, He was not rebellious; He kept His ear open and did not try to turn away backward or escape His call (Isaiah 50:5).
When the time finally came for Him to fulfil His mission, He gave His back to the smiters...
His cheeks to them that plucked off the hair...
and did not hide His face from shame and spitting (Isaiah 50:6).
As a result of His personal training by God the Father, at the age of twelve Jesus knew exactly who He was: the Son of God.
He also knew the Scriptures so well that He was able to debate them with the scholars in the Temple compound.
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Blessings
Yaddy
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