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.
Hello All, I will be picking up the review of Jesus Character until about mid-December. For October I will look at the failings and outright sin of Peter, and how that reveals Jesus’ good character and thereby reveals God’s Character.
On June 26th 2012, I wrote about the 1st of 3 times that the disciples really sin through selfish ambition as they fight about “which one of them is the greatest.” (See the Blog article at http://godisjustlikejesus.blogspot.com/#!/2012/06/patience-of-jesus-who-is-greatest-1.html ) The first recorded time is Mark 9:33 after the Mount of Transfiguration. The last time is at the Last Supper Luke 22:24. […]
One more passage might be worth thinking about as we are considering Jesus’ desire. After Jesus eats the Passover meal with His disciples and friends, they all go out to Gethsemane. Jesus has most of the disciples (there were probably others besides the 12) sit while He went aside to pray. He does take Peter, […]
Luke 24:28 is a fascinating passage! Jesus has overcome death. And now He starts appearing to people. For various reasons He wants people to start knowing Him, not based on His physical appearance, but based on who He is! Two disciples are walking on the road going to Emmaus, which is about 7 miles from […]
Luke 13: 31-35 is a fascinating passage. Some Pharisees come to Jesus telling Him to run away because Herod wants to kill Him. Jesus likens Herod to a fox. Then He says something very interesting.
At least three different times (that are recorded) the followers of Jesus argued about which of them was the “greatest.” (Mark 9:33, Mark 10:35 and Luke 22:24). At first glance we can pass over this because Jesus deals with it so gracefully. But we need to first stop and take a moment to examine this.
Luke 10:38 shows us an event where Jesus and His disciples were invited into Martha’s home. As Jesus is speaking Mary, the younger sister, sits at His feet and listens intently to everything He is saying. Martha is distracted from Jesus because she is concerned about all the preparations that need to be made for […]
Last week, we saw how Jesus strongly disciplined or corrected His followers for wanting to harm the Samaritan people. Today, let’s contrast Jesus’ discipline with His acceptance of the Thief on the Cross.