I have been misled on this verse all the years of being a Christian. Thanks for making the truth of Jesus story known , and also quoting John Neuton explains the very same point! Wow! Thank you Jesus!
This is an awesome sermon and like Tullian said, an "AHA MOMENT" ...loved it!! this teaching helps my mind to understand other verses in the Bible that have been "incorrectly" taught...it's always a One Way Love! :) GREAT SERIES!
And now on to the scariest story of them all - the master and the disperse of talents where the 3 slave is cast out into outer darkness w teeth and such - shared many deceived Ah ha reconstructions of these teachings - thank you T I v been pulled from the ditch by my Jesus - imagine my pathetic but sincere gratitude 4:384:38
It's hard to love others when I'm lying half-dead in a ditch. Anyway, in John 8:48 people accused Jesus of being a Samaritan and having a demon. Jesus did not have a demon, but he didn't deny he was a Samaritan. Finally, Ephesians 2:10 tells us we have been created in Christ Jesus for good works, works we don't have to plan or identify
You’re importing words like “perfectly” onto the text. When did Jesus tell the Torah expert that he must do these things “perfectly”? Also, your view of “go and do likewise” as a tongue-in-cheek way of saying, “You can’t actually do this perfectly, Torah expert,” just doesn’t make sense of what is written there. And not only that, but the Torah expert isn’t trying to keep the Torah in order to get into heaven. As a Jew, he understands himself as already in covenant with the God of Israel. He didn’t have to earn that. He’s asking Jesus what he should “do” so that he can “inherit eternal life” (the text says that he did this to “test” Jesus, suggesting the expert already had an answer in mind and perhaps had bad motives). He’s already an heir, from his persective. He just wants to test what answer Jesus would give to trigger his inheritance. Jesus doesn’t tell him, “Well, you better keep the Torah perfectly then, but haha, you actually can’t, you legalistic Jew. It’s about grace, not works.” No, that’s not what Jesus is saying. (Framing Judaism as legalism, by the way, is antisemitic, and Christians should stop doing that.) He asks him two questions about the law, and the Torah expert gives him a response that Jesus himself uses when asked about the Torah in other Gospel accounts, summing it up with Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18. The story is about grace, but it’s not about God’s grace. It’s about grace from someone you least expect, someone from a group you hate. A Samaritan. Now emulate that person you hate.
Doesn't the Law demand perfection from us? If sin starts in the mind before we ever commit it outwardly, then doesn't it follow that we must do our good works and obedience with a perfect heart and perfect mindset?
Amen. Thank you Jesus. Amen
I have been misled on this verse all the years of being a Christian. Thanks for making the truth of Jesus story known , and also quoting John Neuton explains the very same point! Wow! Thank you Jesus!
This series should be made into a book.
This is an awesome sermon and like Tullian said, an "AHA MOMENT" ...loved it!!
this teaching helps my mind to understand other verses in the Bible that have been "incorrectly" taught...it's always a One Way Love! :) GREAT SERIES!
That was good.teaching.thank you.,thank you Jesus, Amen
Loved this. Jesus BECAME sin for us! Great message Tullian, thank you!
And now on to the scariest story of them all - the master and the disperse of talents where the 3 slave is cast out into outer darkness w teeth and such - shared many deceived Ah ha reconstructions of these teachings - thank you T I v been pulled from the ditch by my Jesus - imagine my pathetic but sincere gratitude 4:38 4:38
It's hard to love others when I'm lying half-dead in a ditch. Anyway, in John 8:48 people accused Jesus of being a Samaritan and having a demon. Jesus did not have a demon, but he didn't deny he was a Samaritan. Finally, Ephesians 2:10 tells us we have been created in Christ Jesus for good works, works we don't have to plan or identify
You’re importing words like “perfectly” onto the text. When did Jesus tell the Torah expert that he must do these things “perfectly”?
Also, your view of “go and do likewise” as a tongue-in-cheek way of saying, “You can’t actually do this perfectly, Torah expert,” just doesn’t make sense of what is written there.
And not only that, but the Torah expert isn’t trying to keep the Torah in order to get into heaven. As a Jew, he understands himself as already in covenant with the God of Israel. He didn’t have to earn that. He’s asking Jesus what he should “do” so that he can “inherit eternal life” (the text says that he did this to “test” Jesus, suggesting the expert already had an answer in mind and perhaps had bad motives). He’s already an heir, from his persective. He just wants to test what answer Jesus would give to trigger his inheritance. Jesus doesn’t tell him, “Well, you better keep the Torah perfectly then, but haha, you actually can’t, you legalistic Jew. It’s about grace, not works.”
No, that’s not what Jesus is saying. (Framing Judaism as legalism, by the way, is antisemitic, and Christians should stop doing that.) He asks him two questions about the law, and the Torah expert gives him a response that Jesus himself uses when asked about the Torah in other Gospel accounts, summing it up with Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18.
The story is about grace, but it’s not about God’s grace. It’s about grace from someone you least expect, someone from a group you hate. A Samaritan. Now emulate that person you hate.
Doesn't the Law demand perfection from us? If sin starts in the mind before we ever commit it outwardly, then doesn't it follow that we must do our good works and obedience with a perfect heart and perfect mindset?