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Introduction -
As most of you know, my all time favorite band is the little band from Ireland called U2.
My favorite song of theirs is “I still haven't found what I’m looking for.”
Here are the lyrics.
I have climbed the highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you
I have run I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
These city walls
Only to be with you
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for
But I still haven't found
What I'm looking for
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Why I love this song so much is, because I relate to it so, well.
I have climbed the highest Doctrines
I have run through one doctrinal camp to another
Only to be with you
Only to be with you
I have run I have crawled
I have scaled the Christian religion walls
All these crazy religious walls
Only to be with you
But I still haven’t found
what I’m looking for.
For so long this is what my prayers sounded like.
I had said the prayer, been dunked in water, prayed in tongues, prayed for the sick and had seen them recover.
I had attended Bible college, argued with professors, spent hours upon hours trying to understand the Word of God.
And yet, I felt like an aimless marathon runner who had no idea where to go, when to turn, and what the point of the race was.
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I am sure some of you can relate to this feeling.
I am even more sure most of you can relate but are scared to admit it.
I was told all of this was so I would escape the judgment of God, miss hell and go right to Heaven when I die.
But that was just not enough.
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I kept asking, screaming, really, “that cannot be all there is to this.”
I honestly felt very empty, alone, and depressed.
I had people try to talk me into not being upset, not shaking things up by, telling me Heaven will have gold streets, and etc.
As if streets of Gold was somehow going to fill this emptiness.
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As a youth minister at the Wesleyan church is Charles City, I stumbled across a word in my daily devotional time.
Disciple - I read that word over and over, and then I began to imagine myself as one of the disciples of Jesus.
I liked Peter so, I imagined I was him.
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All of a sudden I came alive inside.
I thought I had found the key.
But not long after I started having questions, Peter never asked.
I started reading things that Jesus said to His disciples that did not make sense to me.
And that is when the Holy Spirit gave me the answer.
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I needed Jesus the Rabbi.
I wanted to know more than just a few Scriptures to apply to my own selfish ambitions.
I wanted to know the way of Jesus.
I wanted to be His disciple.
I wanted Jesus to be my Rabbi
I wanted to walk in the dust of Rabbi Jesus.
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I was saved because I knew Jesus as my Savior and redeemer.
I had been healed and seen many people healed.
I knew Jesus as healer.
I had been rescued from drug addiction and new Jesus as deliverer.
But I had not learned how to honestly live the WAY of Jesus- I did not know Him as Rabbi.
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Jesus as Rabbi Changes How We Read the Bible.
Understanding Jesus as a 1st century Jewish Rabbi opens the Scriptures up to us.
It bridges the gulf between time and culture.
Here is an example - When 2 or more gather in my name there, I am with them.
Original Rabbi saying - When 2 or more gather to study Torah there the Shikinah is.
Jesus as Rabbi used an old rabbinical saying and turned it on it’s head.
Imagine what his followers who were very familiar with the original wording heard when Jesus put His twist on it.
When 2 or more of you gather in my name (His is calling Himself the embodiment of Torah.), there I am with you.
(He is also saying that He is the physical manifestation of the Glory of God.) WOW!
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Or how about
What does Jesus mean by a healthy eye?
Well when we see Jesus as a 1st century rabbi we can begin to understand.
All languages and cultures have idioms.
Jesus and the rest of his 1st century Jews were no different.
A healthy eye is an idiom to a generous person.
An unhealthy eye is an idiom to a selfish person.
Now this passage makes perfect sense.
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All this leads us to four important questions.
Was Jesus a Rabbi
Disciples
A Pharisee -
John 3:1-
So, yes Jesus was a Rabbi.
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What was a 1st century Rabbi
Educational System-
Beth Safer– House of Learning.
Ages 6-10 (Goal: learn and quote the 1st 5 books of the Bible)
Beth Talmud – 10-14 (Goal: Learn and quote all of the OT scriptures, know all the covenants with God and be able to explain how one is to live in covenant with God.)
Beth Midrash – The best of the best who would study under a Rabbi.
The goal was to become just like the Rabbi you studied under.
Rabbi - Teacher or better translated Master - Hebrew-Master
A Rabbi had memorized the entire OT
And was considered a master of the way towards true life.
Esteemed higher than your own parents -
Old Rabbinical saying - Your father brought you into this world but, your Rabbi is teaching you the way of the world to come.
This idea of a Rabbi being honored above your own parents sheds light on this odd verse.
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What did a Rabbi do
He taught His Yoke from one city to another.
Yoke - A yoke was the Rabbi’s application of the OT to a person’s life.
Jesus had a yoke -
The Yoke of Jesus is spelled out in what we call the Sermon on the Mount ()
As a Rabbi Jesus would travel from city, to the smallest of villages, teaching in homes and in fields and on hills.
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