This subject is critical because the Bible highlights the “full” character of Jesus. We have seen His compassion, His tenderness and His wonderful humility! That is Jesus the Lamb of God (Rev 5:6)! However, we also need to see the ‘goodness’ in Jesus “Lion” side. Correction without rejection is part of Jesus, “the Lion of […]
Let’s consider another event where the disciples fail and Jesus corrects them but does not reject them. Right before Jesus dies He spends the last evening with His disciples eating, talking about the Kingdom and revealing that He will die in Jerusalem. The disciples are shattered. They don’t know what to make of it. Later […]
The previous 2 emails and posts on the Blog that I wrote in October 2012 were about Jesus correcting His disciples when they failed or sinned. However we found out that He never rejects them. Let me finish this mini-theme in 2 or 3 emails and then we will move onto another aspect of Jesus’ Character.
Let’s stick with the theme of seeing Jesus’ correction or discipline for His follower’s failures or sins that is devoid of any rejection. Often we are afraid of correction or discipline. However, most of this stems from a fear of being rejected either personally or positionally. As we review Jesus’ correction, we find the Gardner […]
We are in a series to find out what Peter’s failures show us about Jesus’ character. Mostly of the time we find that Peter’s failures and sin reveals Jesus’ patience and instruction. This reveals God’s patience and instruction when we fail or sin. In this post and the next we will see that sometimes Jesus […]
Let’s compare the 6 posts from October. Peter’s screw-ups, failures and even his sins reveal Jesus’ consistent patience and instruction. When we see Jesus’ goodness towards Peter’s sin, this gives us confidence to press into God (verses running from God) when we fail or sin. The knowledge of His patience strengthens our relationship with God!
The next post I will send out, after this one, will be a Roll Up or summary of the previous 8 posts. All of these will be looking at Jesus patience and instruction for Peter’s failures, screw ups or outright sin. Today let’s look at the disciples struggling with the outright sin of Selfish Ambition.
Let’s keep with the theme of discovering God’s character and how that is different than our parent’s or an authority figure’s character. Let’s continue to disconnect Jesus’ words from the wrong image of God and connect His words to the right and wholesome image of God.
During the month of October I am trying to show several times where Peter’s 1) failures or 2) actual sin reveals Jesus’ patience and instruction. Subsequently we can understand that this also reveals the Father’s patience & instruction.
When we open the Bible to search for Jesus’ Character (vs. just looking for rules) we find that the Fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22) gives us a great picture of character elements to look for! Let’s consider two of the Fruit of the Spirit: patience and faithfulness.