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Post by michelle on Feb 8, 2007 20:47:54 GMT -8
12/05:
I feel like there is so much to say about this chapter. 1) I was struck by verse 4 more than I have ever been before. "Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God." I've never really stopped and let that really sink in. It makes me think of times that I have lived on bread alone and even my current state of blahness. If one was to only eat bread, one would be malnourished and unhealthy and what kind of living is that??
2) I can't help but think of the control that Jesus had while He was in the desert. CAn you imagine having the ability to make anything happen, but suffering nonetheless?
3) The account of Jesus recruiting Peter, Andrew, James, and John seems so...easy. In this account I almost think of them as being under some sort of brain washing. I'm glad that John goes into it in a little more detail so we can see their exuberance over seeing the Messiah instead of it seeming like this random guy told them to follow him and they did.
4) Why does John give a different account of the calling of the first disciples?
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Post by Josh on Feb 8, 2007 21:36:28 GMT -8
12/05:
Some replies to your points:
2) Yancey calls this the "miracle of restraint", and it says an awful lot about the nature of God. It is hard to imagine. And, also, I see in the temptations Christ's rejection of using miracles, power, and acclaim to acheive his mission. Or as, Tolkien put it: "The weakest way the surest, to catch the enemy unaware"
3/4) My understanding is that John tends to tell us how Jesus first met them, and the synoptics tend to tell us how he official 'called' them: ie, He already had some relationship with them, which explains their willingness to follow him.
5){my own point}: I love the prophecy from Isaiah 9 here about Galilee. It's so powerful how God planted his Son right on the border between the Jewish and the Gentile world, and predicted it centuries before.
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Post by michelle on Apr 12, 2007 15:51:05 GMT -8
It just hit me that Satan tempts Jesus 3 times in the desert, which is how many times Peter denied Christ and how many times Christ made Peter claim his love for the Messiah. I just thought that was interesting.
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