One of the great fundamental facts to which we must hold on, even when we hate and loathe and despise ourselves, is that Jesus believes in us. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. When the ten heard about this, they were angry with the two brothers. The truth of this is apparent, if we compare the gospel of Mark. Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year. There were many who died right there as the result of the scourging itself. I wish to give to this last man the same as to you. (iv) Here, also, is the infinite compassion of God. Some consider that John the Baptist enquired solely for the sake of his disciples. Then, after the parable of the mustard seed (ver. (Matthew 20:24-28) The disciples reaction; Jesus sets forth true greatness. She knelt respectfully to ask a favor. (Compare Mark 3:13-19, andMark 6:7-11; Mark 6:7-11; Luke 6:1-49; Luke 9:1-62) The mission of the apostles did not take place till afterwards. They may come at the beginning of their life, in their youth, in adulthood, in old age, or at the very end. All other things, although important, are secondary. He went to live in a six foot by six-foot hut in a Tokyo slum. Though a testimony to them, still it was in the result a recognition of what Moses commanded. It is a saying of R. Simeon ben Jochai (d). she cried; but what had she to do with the Son of David? But, as I have stated, the choice and ordination of the twelve apostles had really taken place before the sermon on the mount, though not mentioned in Matthew, but in Mark and Luke. About five o'clock in the evening he went out and found others standing there, and said to them, 'Why are you standing here the whole day idle?' Well, he did not come to get your service; he came to give you his services; not that you might first do him honor, but that he might show you mercy. (Spurgeon). So when the evening was come, and the lord of the vineyard said unto his steward, Call the laborers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. He came not to be served, but to serve. Take what is yours and go your way. said the Lord; and then stretched forth His hand toward His disciples with the words, "Behold my mother and my brethren! The two blind men called upon Him as the Son of David; a sample this of what will be in the end, when the heart of Israel turns to the Lord, and the veil is done away. About the third hour, [nine o'clock in the morning], he saw others standing idle in the market place, and he said unto them; Go into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. Where love is, there is God.' Matthew 5:45). Thereon, coming into the ship, the wind ceases, and the Lord exercises His gracious power in beneficent effects around. Secondly, Whatsoever is right,Matthew 20:4-7; Matthew 20:4-7. The bodily presence of the Messiah was not needed. What are they hired to do? Matthew calls her the mother of the sons of Zebedee; Mark calls her Salome; and John calls her Jesus' mother's sister. The point of this one is that God will reward all His disciples justly, graciously, and generously. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point They had their mistaken ambitions; they had their blindness; they had their wrong ideas; but he never dreamed of writing them off as bad debts. Peter asks a word from his Master, and leaves the ship to join Him on the water. Instead of repining that we have no more, let us take what we have, and be thankful. The amazing thing about Jesus is that he never lost patience and became irritated. I didn't come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give my life as a ransom for many ( Matthew 20:28 ). The point isnt that all have the same reward though all Gods people do go to the same heaven (where they will have reward in different measure). . "This man blasphemeth." On the evening of the day when He delivered the seven parables given in Matthew 13:1-58. As Matthew's Jesus preached earlier, God provides rain for the just and unjust alike (cf. Peter wanted to know what they would get in return. It is easy to sympathize with these who had worked all day. It says simply, "And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." Suffering from great humiliation and degradation. He is the Lord of the harvest. What do you want Me to do for you? "Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David!" The work of religion is vineyard-work, pruning, dressing, digging, watering, fencing, weeding. He healed, and bore its burden on His heart before God, as truly as He took it away from men. This utter, growing rejection of Jesus was coming out now rejection, at first allowed and whispered in the heart, soon to be pronounced in words like drawn swords. (Matthew 20:22-23) Jesus answers James and John: when you ask for a place of special status, do you know what you ask for? On the other side of the picture, behold the Lord leading on a soul to draw on divine grace in the most glorious manner. So Jesus stood still and called them, and said, What do you want Me to do for you? They said to Him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened. So Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes. This is applied to the Jews (Matthew 22:14; Matthew 22:14); it was so then, it is too true still; many are called with a common call, that are not chosen with a saving choice. Then, alas! Is not your eye evil, because I am good? It adds to the reason for this interpretation, that Christ was conversing about the rewards that should be given to his followers, and not about the numbers that should be called, or about the doctrine of election. In this work we must not be slothful, not loiterers, but labourers, working, and working out our own salvation. He has His rejection before His eyes, as well as the presumptuous unbelief of this sordid, and self-confident, would-be follower. The second is, "So the last shall be first, and the first last; for many are called, but few are chosen." To heal was the work for which He was come. The first is the defence of the disciples, grounded on analogies taken from that which had the sanction of God of old, as well as on His own glory now. THE CHRISTIAN REVOLUTION ( Matthew 20:20-28 continued). "Lord, save us; we perish," cried they, as they awoke Him; and He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea. Thus it is easy to see, that the reason for here putting together the leper and the centurion lies in the Lord's dealing with the Jew, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, in His deep grace working in the Gentile's heart, and forming his faith, as well as answering it, according to His own heart. Get the BEST VALUE in digital Bible study as you prepare for Easter. As the apostles were the first-fruits of the whole church, they appeared to possess some superiority; and Christ did not deny that they would sit as judges to govern the twelve tribes of Israel. Christ only meant to say that every one who has been called before others ought to run with so much the greater alacrity, and, next, to exhort all men to be modest, not to give themselves the preference above others, but willingly to share with them a common prize. In this we have another striking illustration of the same principle, because this miracle, in point of fact, was wrought long before the healing of the centurion's servant, or even of the leper. Can I not do what I like with my own money? Most clearly it is not so much a question of sin in the aspect of uncleanness (typifying deeper things, but still connected with the ceremonial requirements of Israel, as we find from what our Lord said in the chapter to the cleansed leper). He was going to build His Church "upon this rock" Himself, the Son of God. The deity of Christ was the hook; his flesh was the bait; the bait was dangled before leviathan; he swallowed it and was taken. Let them recognize the power that banished the leprosy, and the grace withal that touched the leper. They put it off until a more convenient time, but so often the more convenient time never comes. ., p. "According to your faith be it done unto you.". Though God is a debtor to none, yet he is graciously pleased to make himself a debtor by his own promise, for the benefit of which, through Christ, believers agree with him, and he will stand to his part of the agreement. Probably thisto teach us that men who have wrought in Christ's service all their days may, by the spirit which they manifest at the last, make it too evident that, as between God and their own souls, they never were chosen workmen at all. This is a good example of the word baptism having the sense of immersion or being swallowed up in.. They confess their faith, and He touches their eyes. He is there with the beggars. Johannine Writings There is simply the great, tremendous truth that without Jesus Christ and his life of service and his death of love, we could never have found our way back to the love of God. 97. There may be desires, there may be the working of the Spirit of God, but there can be no power to walk before men and to glorify God thus till there is forgiveness possessed and enjoyed in the heart. In the next discourse we may hope to have the rest of his gospel. He sets forth the sign of the prophet Jonah, the repentance of the men of Nineveh, the preaching of Jonah, and the earnest zeal of the queen of the South in Solomon's day, when an incomparably greater was there despised. Your partnership makes all we do possible. For many are called, but few chosen." a. That means that James and John were full cousins of Jesus; and it may well have been that they felt that this close relationship entitled them to a special place in his Kingdom. Copyright 2019 by Zondervan. God does not look on the amount of our service. 1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 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