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The Gifts of Jesus Week 5
Teachers
Robert Morris
We’re finishing our series, The Gifts of Jesus
Today we’re going to talk about teachers
I love teachers and we need to appreciate teachers!
(Stand up)
Teachers can be misunderstood sometimes
And I’m going to try to help us understand them today
By using the greatest teacher as an example: Jesus
Matthew 13:54
When He had come to His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “Where did this Man get this wisdom and these mighty works?”
Matthew 22:33
And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
John 7:32
The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning Him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take Him.
John 7:45
Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?”
John 7:46
The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this Man!”
Teachers love students.
Mark 6:34
And Jesus, when He came out, saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep not having a shepherd.
So He began to teach them many things.
Mark 10:21
Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack”
Great multitudes followed him all the time even into deserted places
Where there was no food just to hear Him teach!
Why?
Because they knew He loved them!
People don’t care how much you know
Until they know how much you care!
Jesus was full of grace and truth, not just truth
The pharisees focused on rules
Jesus focused on relationship!
Jesus taught practical truth!
He never spoke religious nonsense!
He said, “If you’re at odds with someone in the Church,
Don’t go to Church and play some religious game.
Go get it right first and then come to Church!”
Don’t worry about tomorrow!
God provides for the flowers and the birds!
He’ll provide for you!
That’s practical!
You can’t serve God and Money at the same time!
Stop being greedy and start being generous!
You’re not happy greedy!
You’ll be happy giving!
Why?
Because my Father wired you to give!
Jesus answered life’s most complicated questions in simplistic ways
Do you want to know where you came from?
You didn’t evolve from a one-cell gob of goop!
You were created in the image of God!
Here’s what you are today!
You are a marred image of God, marred because of sin!
Here’s what you need!
You need a loving, sympathetic, compassionate Savior who can do for you what you cannot do for yourselves!
Here’s how to get to heaven!
Believe in me and put your trust in me!
Here’s how to act in the marketplace!
Here’s how to build a marriage!
Here’s how to raise kids!
Here’s how to have relationships!
Here’s how to be successful!
What would you give to be in the audience if Jesus were preaching?
Before you sign up, I want you to know His teachings are in this book
This book is worth reading!
Teachers challenge students.
Great teachers know they have to challenge students for them to learn
Sometimes they have to challenge us because of our traditions
Or our interpretation of Scripture is keeping us in bondage
Jesus would say this: You have heard it said, but I say to you
Thou shalt not murder or commit adultery
Where had they heard it said?
The Bible
He wasn’t contradicting the Bible.
He was clarifying the Bible!
He was contradicting their understand and application of the Bible
Teachers do this all the time
Teachers will say look at this verse.
Now, look at this verse
They’re not trying to get us to be skeptical about the Bible
They’re trying to get us to think so we can get free!
I try to do it slowly and give you some warning
But I have a lot of relational equity with you
I’ve watched guest speakers who watch me on TV
And they’ll challenge you and you resist
And so, they push a little harder and you resist more
The good ones will slow down and then come in the side door!
Jesus taught sinners differently than He taught skeptics
He used deductive and inductive reasoning (Richard Rising)
He was teaching the sinners with deductive reasoning
And as soon as the pharisees showed up, He switched to inductive reasoning!
I’m going to give you practical definitions instead of dictionary definitions
The word deductive comes from the word deduce
I tell you some things so you can deduce the conclusion
The word induction comes from the word induce
I tell you some things to induce you to think differently
Matthew 22:15
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