No Longer Under the Law but Not Above the Law

This week I talk about how as Christians we may no longer be under the law but that does not make us above the law.

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Journey Into The Unknown

This week I continue with the Radical series by looking at the faith of Abraham.

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The Crazy Task

This week I continue with the Radical Faith series of studies by taking a look at Noah, his faith, and the crazy task God gave him.

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What is Love?

This week at the prayer breakfast God just showed how things work together. I was planning on talking about love in this week’s unscripted but it was cemented in when during the prayer breakfast while talking about brokenness we touched on the love for the need to express love within teaching and discipleship.

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C.S. Lewis

This week I decided to take a look at the life of C.S. Lewis, who some consider to be one of the great modern theologians and Christian apologists.

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https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/musiciansartistsandwriters/cs-lewis.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis

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Loving Our Neighbors as We Love Ourselves

This week I decided I would change things up a little bit. I still give an idea about what is coming up as far as episodes go for the month; as I will be talking about C.S. Lewis and Noah on the two scripted episodes. However, I decided I will include an unscripted segment to the first week of the month as well. So in this episode I talk about how can we love our neighbors when often times we do not know how to love ourselves?

We as a society are constantly being bombarded from every side with reasons to hate ourselves. Either we don’t measure up to a certain standard of beauty, or we aren’t smart enough, talented enough, successful enough, etc.; or we see in the media that because we don’t think, act, or believe a certain way we are more evil that Satan himself and should be ashamed of ourselves. When we are constantly facing this in the media it is easy to get into a place where we don’t love ourselves and thus makes it harder to love our neighbor. So what can we do?

Well I challenge myself as well as all of you to pray “Lord, help me to learn to love myself the way that You love me; so that I may in turn love my neighbors as I am called to do.”

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Radical Faith

What does it really mean to be a Christian, and what does Lot’s wife have to do with explaining what Jesus meant in Luke 14:26? Well join me as I start a series for our Bible Message episodes on “Radical Faith.”

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Unscripted on Denominations

After talking about J.R.R. Tolkien last week I got to thinking about how some might not consider Tolkien to be a Christian due to being Catholic, so I decided to give my opinion regarding Christian denominations and how at times we seem judgemental of those denominations that don’t fully agree with our own.

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J.R.R. Tolkien

This week in my history episode I decided to take a look at J.R.R. Tolkien, who while not influential or known specifically for his faith it was his faith that played an important role in his life and his works.

The Christmas Story collection I was talking about is “Letters From Father Christmas” and can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007978M9S/?coliid=I3I6FRDMQWREAH&colid=FBNRYQGGSUTG&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

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Christ’s High Priestly Ministry

Outline/Notes:

  • Introduction
    • This week I am digging into my lesson archives by looking into Jesus’ role as our great high priest.
    • This subject was one that jumped out at me when I was looking at the different topics to choose from a couple of years ago for teaching Sunday School at my church
      • A couple of years ago I wrote a paper titled “Christ and Melchizedek: A Look at Christ’s Priestly Kingship.” which touched on this subject.
  • The question is when one wants to learn about Christ’s priestly ministry where should one start.
    • At first when I did this lesson I was wondering if I could get enough information for a full lesson
    • Then I realized that the book of Hebrews was a great source to use as a platform for this topic; and is where I will focus my attention.
    • Some background on the book of Hebrews.
      • This was a book written to Jewish Christians in a time of persecution.
      • The author is unknown
      • The audience as I stated were Jewish believers that due to persecution were looking at leaving the faith and go back to their Jewish roots, which was a recognized religion to the Roman empire.
      • Because of this the author spent a considerable amount of time explaining to the Jewish believers why what they have in Christ is better than what they had under the Mosaic law, this included the priesthood.
    • Hebrews 4:14-16
    • Here the author presents to us and the original audience that Jesus serves as our High priest, and even though Jesus is fully God he is also fully man.
    • Then the author goes into why this is important by explaining the priest’s duties and qualifications.
    • Hebrews 5:1-4
    • We see here that the priest was to represent man before God
      • As such he had to be human as he would be able to sympathize and understand what those he ministers to is facing
      • He is also to present sacrifices and offerings to God on man’s behalf to atone for their sins
      • This made him a mediator between man and God.
      • But with the Levitical priesthood, the priests themselves were imperfect and thus also needed to offer up sacrifices for themselves
    • Then the author points out that besides the priest being human he is to also be called by God, as Aaron and his successors were when the Mosaic law was established.
  • Having shown the qualifications for the priests the author goes on to explain how Jesus met them
    • Hebrews 5:5-10
    • He starts by showing Jesus’ divine calling
      • First it is rooted in his divine nature where the today is possibly looked at as being the day of Christ’s enthronement
      • Looking at His death on the cross as being the ordination sacrifice for his priestly ministry.
      • Then the author uses a quote from Psalm 110 indicating Jesus’ call to a priestly ministry.
      • Not being from the tribe of Levi, Jesus is called to the priesthood of the order of Melchizedek
      • The quote came from a royal psalm that was addressed to the Davidic king upon his coronation and on the New Year Festival.
      • The concept that some held was that as David conquered Jerusalem the Davidic king took on the priestly role of Melchizedek.
    • The author then goes into explaining how Jesus is able to sympathize with us
      • In his humanity Jesus faced temptations, struggles, trials, and fears; yet never gave in to them and thus was the perfect sacrifice to bring salvation to man
    • So with the qualifications why was Jesus’ priestly ministry needed?
    • Hebrews 7:11-28
      • With the Levitical priesthood being imperfect and unable to bring about perfection a change in priesthood and thus the law was needed.
      • The change in priesthood to an order not having anything to do with Levi meant a priesthood not restricted by the Mosaic law.
      • This priestly order of Melchizedek was such an order to not be restricted by the Mosaic law and whose duties were performed directly before God
      • Levitical priesthood was transient, everything that was related to it was bound by the physical; descent of the priests, a material shrine, and animal sacrifices.
      • Christ’s priesthood is permanent and effective due to its perfection
      • This priesthood due to the power of an indestructible life can also be regarded as a priesthood by the power of the Spirit
      • Christ’s priestly ministry is more in terms of being in relationship with God rather than being connected with the place of worship
      • Garden hose and bucket analogy
      • To understand the priesthood of Christ is to recognize a priesthood not bound by the Mosaic Law, and due to the perfect nature of Christ is a priesthood that supersedes the law.

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