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What is Discipleship?
What is Discipleship?
Disciples - Following Jesus and doing what He says (Humble student)
Disciples - Following Jesus and doing what He says (Humble student)
Backdrop
Backdrop
Genealogy
Birth
John the Baptist
Jesus’ Baptism
Temptation of Jesus
Begins his ministry
Calls disciples
23 And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people. 24 So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them. 25 And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.
1 Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.
2 And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
How to interpret these Ethics and Morals?
A standard for Church Leaders - not everyone?
Social Gospel? - Karl Marx
An Impossible Ideal?
How to understand the Bible?
Understand the setting and culture
Understand the principle
Balance the info with all of the scripture
Attempt to live in accordance with the new information
1 Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.
2 And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
Setting:
Setting:
Groups of people in the Gospel
Religious Leaders - Against Jesus
The Crowd - Observers of Jesus
Disciples
Everyone committed to believing and following Jesus
Not Special Christians or Leaders “Apostle” is a leader
Background information
Background information
Extraordinary things happen in Matthew
4:8 Mountain of Temptation
17:1 Transfiguration
28:16 Mountain of the Resurrection and Great Commission.
Moses
Moses
Jesus Sat down
Jesus Sat down
Rabbi giving an interpretation of the Torah
His Dispels came to him
His Dispels came to him
Students - humble
Fasting
He opened his mouth and taught them
He opened his mouth and taught them
The mouth of God
Discipleship is following Jesus and doing what He says (Humble student)
Discipleship is following Jesus and doing what He says (Humble student)
How to interpret these Ethics and Morals?
A standard for Church Leaders - NO EVERYONE
Social Gospel? - Yes, BUT MORE!
An Impossible Ideal? - NOW & NOT YET
24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
28 And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, 29 for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.
Why has Matthew given so much to the sermon on the mount?
16 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17 And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Everyone is welcomed - we will be teaching what Jesus said, and trying to live it out.
Stanley Hauerwas sums up the whole sermon on the mount this way:
Sermon on the Mount A New Obedience
When he called his society together Jesus gave its members a new way of life to live. He gave them a new way to deal with offenders—by forgiving them. He gave them a new way to deal with violence—by suffering. He gave them a new way to deal with money—by sharing it. He gave them a new way to deal with problems of leadership—by drawing on the gift of every member, even the most humble. He gave them a new way to deal with a corrupt society—by building a new order, not smashing the old. He gave them a new pattern of relationship between man and woman, between parent and child, between master and slave, in which was made concrete a radical new vision of what it means to be a human person. He gave them a new attitude toward the state and toward the “enemy nation.”
