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*Riddles before bed
What type of field has 1000s of ears?
What type of house grows?
You all have probably seen this before...
SLIDE: Eat Timmy
And so - like this - riddles are meant to distract, and confuse
RIDDLES require us to - think - Deeply about what’s being said...
AND no one epitomized this more than Jesus Christ.
When He spoke - people scratched their heads!
And we’re going to dive into this truth today…
And so let’s get started...
This section of scripture begins with these words… “When many of his disciples heard IT, they said, “THIS is a hard saying, who can listen to it?”
This section begins by POINTING back to something that Jesus had said prior...
And if you remember from last week - that HARD saying was uttered by Jesus Himself...
Let’s look at it...
Sounds like a 21st century HORROR film...
Imagine what it sounded like back then!
See people didn’t know how to handle Jesus!
Here you have a guy that was....part...
Choir boy…part
Fire breathing dragon!
On the one hand He performed crazy miracles...
Did GOOD things...
RAISED the dead
healed the LAME...
People were DRAWN to Him - wanted to hear Him speak - whether for malice or for blessing...
BUT THEN...
He would say things like this!
EAT MY FLESH!
DRINK MY BLOOD!
But even these types of sayings were common place when it came to Christ!
We’ve talked about it before, but He was constantly saying things that made people scratch their heads...
We’ve gone through most of these before - but it behooves us to look again!
- the Jews MISSED their Messiah
They were expecting PHYSICAL freedom
They were expecting a PHYSICAL kingdom to be set up
They were hung up on - THE PHYSICAL
They didn’t UNDERSTAND that IN Christ DYING - He brought Spiritual FREEDOM!
When Jesus spoke to the woman at the well...
He said to her - Will you give me a drink?
And she says - you’re a Jew and I’m a Samaritan...
Jesus says - If you knew who I was, you would have asked Me for a drink, and I would have given you LIVING WATER.
Her reply?
Well sir, you don’t have a bucket to draw up the water with, and this well is very deep...
…Where is this living water?
Did she get it?
No - Jesus spoke using PHYSICAL language, yet was speaking - Spiritually
When Jesus spoke with Nicodemus, the most Religious man of the time...
Jesus said to him - You must be born again if you want to see the Kingdom of God.
What did Nicodemus reply?
“Uhhhhh, How can a man be born when he is old?
how am I supposed to RE-ENTER my mothers womb?”
Did he get it?
No - Jesus spoke using PHYSICAL language, yet was speaking - Spiritually
When Jesus was washing the apostles feet...
Jesus is about to wash Peter’s feet...
And Peter says - “Jesus, you will NEVER wash my feet”
Jesus says to him - “If i don’t WASH YOU, then you have no share with Me”...
Did Peter get it?
NO - he was hung up on the physical - and what Jesus did had a Spiritual meaning!
When Jesus told the apostles of His coming Death....
Peter took Jesus over in the corner and said - “Nope - this will NEVER happen to you!”
Jesus replied - “Get behind me satan”
What was Peter’s problem…?
Jesus tells us....
“Get behind me, Satan!
You are a hindrance to me.
For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
Peter didn’t get it...
NO - he was hung up on the physical - and couldn’t GRASP the Spiritual side of it...
When Jesus said…Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life...
How did the people respond?
“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
Did they get it?
No - Jesus spoke using PHYSICAL language, yet was speaking - Spiritually
When Jesus said - Whoever comes to Me shall never hunger, whoever believes in Me shall never thirst...
Did the people get it?
No - Jesus spoke using PHYSICAL language, yet was speaking - Spiritually
Jesus tells his disciples - Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees!...
How did the disciples understand Him?
“Hey, we didn’t bring any bread!” - “Did you bring any bread?”
Jesus says: You are the SALT of the earth.
You are the light of the world.
“We’re salt?…We’re light?”
Huh?
Jesus tells mankind - I will make you FISH for MEN!
“What?”
214 verses speaking of 356 commands of Christ to His disciples...
and ALL of them - with an UNDERLYING Spiritual truth that is NECESSARY for the command itself to be obeyed.
See - here’s the thing...
SLIDE: The Words of Jesus: Spirit
The Words of Jesus
The words of Jesus are - Spirit.
And here’s the implication of this truth for ALL that Christ COMMANDED us...
Let’s look at a popular verse...
Now let’s look at this phrase here - “teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you”
SO Jesus says - “Go and make disciples…TEACHING them to observe ALL that I have commanded you”
So MAKING a disciple entails - teaching them to observe ALL that Christ commanded...
Question: SLIDE:
What does it mean to “observe” all that Christ has commanded?
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