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The Art of Following Jesus
Matthew 8:18-22 The Art of Following Jesus
Jesus is in Capernaum.
but about to leave… The conversation we will engage is in the context of the feeding of the 5000.
18 Now when Jesus saw a crowd around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side.
19 And a scribe came up and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” 20 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
21 Another of the disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”
22 And Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version.
2016.
Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.
There’s no one specific formula on how to follow Jesus, yet following Jesus is the key to living a whole Christian life.
You can find books on how to follow Jesus, but everyone’s opinion is different.
How do you know the “right” way to follow Jesus?
Matthew: An Introduction and Commentary (v.
Two Would-Be Followers (8:18–22))
Matthew mentions Jesus’ decision to leave Capernaum, apparently to escape from the growing crowds (a frequent necessity in Jesus’ Galilean ministry).
This decision inevitably results in a separation of his true followers, who will accompany him, from less committed supporters, and thus Matthew introduces in vv.
19–22 two case-studies illustrating the demands of committed discipleship.
Matthew: An Introduction and Commentary (v.
Two Would-Be Followers (8:18–22)) for while the scribes as a class are normally mentioned as in opposition to Jesus, as individuals they were potential disciples.
Wherever you go is literally ‘wherever you may be departing’, and probably refers only to the proposed journey across the lake, not to a lifetime commitment.
He is an academic dilettante disciple.
This was a matter of choice, not of necessity, as Jesus’ family was probably a comfortable, if not affluent, ‘middle-class’ one.
What is in question is his degree of commitment.
The “disciple” who had to go...
If his father was already dead, his request was a natural, even essential, one.
The dead must be buried within 24 hours.
It was so important that it took precedence over essential religious duties (Mishnah Berakoth 3:1), and even justified priests in contracting ritual defilement (Lev.
21:2).
It has been suggested, however, that the father was not yet dead, so that what was requested was an indefinite postponement.
Matthew: An Introduction and Commentary (v.
Two Would-Be Followers (8:18–22))
If the consecration of a Nazirite or of the High Priest did not allow him to attend even to his father’s funeral (Num.
6:6–7; Lev.
21:11), Jesus’ demand is no less absolute.
The urgency of discipleship will be emphasized further in 10:5ff.
The dead can only mean those outside the disciple group, who lack spiritual life, and who in the absence of a higher calling can be left to deal with mundane matters.
The reply seems needlessly stark, even offensive.
France, R. T. 1985.
Matthew: An Introduction and Commentary.
Vol. 1. Tyndale New Testament Commentaries.
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
HERE WE HAVE A DISCIPLE WHO IS NOW IN A STATE OF CONFLICT WITH HIS MASTER.
Which “master” will he obey?
4 Elements in the process
Surrender Time
Surrender Expectations-self/others
Surrender Mind
Surrender the Future
character groups to consider- types of common folks-Everyone Can be a Follower!
Common Man- fishermen
Women.
Mary & Martha,
Wealthy, Joseph of Arimethia & Nicodemus
The Outcasts... the possessed, lame, lepords
Surrender Time
Surrender Expectations
Surrender Mind
Surrender the Future
Questions of Hard Declarations.
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