The FaithOfJesus2 Daily Devotional
Focus:
kjv@Revelation:14:12
( FaithOfJesus thread begun by rRandyP )
Today's Verse:
kjv@Luke:6:37 kjv@Luke:6:38 kjv@Luke:6:39 kjv@Luke:6:40 kjv@Luke:6:41 kjv@Luke:6:42 filter:NT-GOSPEL the twelve The teachings in these last few passages appear to be very similar to the Sermon on the Mount kjv@Matthew:5-7 with some minor variation. The obvious differences are the 3 Woes kjv@Luke:6:24-26 and the Parable of the Disciple not above the Master, the missing teachings along with some slight phrase modifications. Perhaps this could be thought of as the Sermon on the Plain starting at kjv@Luke:6:17-49. The key difference to me is the contextual time frame this Sermon was supposed to have happened. The Mount Sermon happened nearly immediately after the ministry kick off before the addition of Matthew (Levi), the Plain Sermon Matthew is already there and Jesus has a massive multitude of people attending from other great distances and includes a massive outpouring of miraculous virtue. If the two accounts are separate sermons, the meaning of Jesus looking up on His disciples takes on a whole additional meaning as He expects them/us to remember having heard this before. It is to say that in the light of all these miracles and oppositions that we presently face, here is what I most need you to remember; remember what I have already told you. If these two are the same sermon (see study resource above) then we must consider that the two accounts though they slightly differ do in no way alter the message the Holy Spirit intends to project and that the contextual details are meant to merge into one event/time frame. The mount becomes the place where the many disciples prayed the night before and the plain a flat elevation on the mount where the next morning where twelve were finally chosen out and then the healings and sermon continued through the day, looking up on could become the disciples (or at least twelve of them) seated on the mount at a higher elevation near the plain. The question then becomes of the twelve main disciples, those that would be chosen Apostles; when were they called out from the rest and when did they themselves know? Luke is the only one who emphatically states it, Matthew suggests it as early as the first commission kjv@Matthew:10:1 and Mark writes of it on a mountain after being at the sea kjv@Mark:3:14; Luke does not put the first commission until kjv@Luke:9:1-9. We have doctrinal issues as well to consider as at least four have been with Him from the start and had direct callings, others are identified almost immediately in the same early time frame. Did Jesus pick from all disciples this far into the ministry who was going to be on the first team? When did the many others directly receive their initial call? Did Jesus simply pick those who had been with Him the longest? Or did Jesus know all along whom was given by the Father? In terms of certainty, it is certain that we all seek for there to be harmony among the gospel accounts; all except the critic that is. And we believe that there are in many cases multiple ways that this harmony can be reasonably explained. The fact is that the three synaptic gospels were written independent of each other and are targeted toward different audience expectations. Matthew for example was written for Hebrews and is structured topically for the most part as culturally would be expected, not so much chronologically. Mark, the earliest of these perhaps, is written largely from a theological viewpoint as if for evangelists and is quick orderly and to the point. Luke is methodical and detailed with the widest gentile audience in mind. The fact that these three independent sources can be brought together having as much immediate harmony as they do suggests that for the remainder of the sought for harmony, in that pursuit the critic is simply intellectually lazy and insincere. John comes last having full knowledge and acceptance of the previous three adding to that the top down as to what all of it means in the born again Christian view to powerfully cement the three together as one. Declaring Certainty Further Resources: Comment Board:Luke:6:37-42
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filter:NT-GOSPEL disciples
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Key Messages:
kjv@Isaiah:52:7
kjv@2Corinthians:4:4
kjv@Colossians:1:23
kjv@Acts:20:24
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