Life of Christ

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Bible 1211 1311Life of Christ 10-18, Lect. 15
Can you answer these questions? What does Matthew
show Jesus is doing by the order of his miracles
and teaching? What is the limited commission?
The great commission? Where can each be
found? According to Jesus, when is worship
vain? What does I will have mercy and not
sacrifice mean? What can be learned from the
miracle of feeding the 5,000? What is learned
from Peter walking on the water? By his
sinking? What does Jesus say will will happen to
a religion not founded by the heavenly Father?
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Jesus Defines Vain Worship

• Mt. 159. But in vain they do worship me,
  teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
  (Is. 2913)
• Rom. 102. For I bear them record that they have
  a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge
• Every religion designed by man is vain (empty,
  worthless) it is not based upon the word of God.
• I Peter 411. If any man speak, let him speak as
  the oracles of God
• Gal. 18-9. But though we, or an angel from
  heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than
  that which we have preached unto you, let him be
  accursed.
• Rev. 2219. And if any man shall take away from
  the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall
  take away his part out of the book of life, and
  out of the holy city, and from the things which
  are written in this book.

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MATT. 16 Once again the officials seek to
ensnare Jesus

• 16 1. The Pharisees also with the Sadducees
  came, and tempting desired him that he would shew
  them a sign from heaven. 2. He answered and said
  unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be
  fair weather for the sky is red.
• 3. And in the morning, It will be foul weather
  to day for the sky is red and lowering. O ye
  hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky
  but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

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• 164. A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh
  after a sign and there shall no sign be given
  unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And
  he left them, and departed.
• (Mt 76 dont give whats holy to the dogs.)

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The sign of the Prophet Jonas

• Return to Mt. 1239. But he answered and said
  unto them, An evil and adulterous generation
  seeketh after a sign and there shall no sign be
  given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas
• 1. THE SIGN OF THE DEATH BURIAL AND RESURRECTION
• 40. For as Jonas was three days and three
  nights in the whale's belly so shall the Son of
  man be three days and three nights in the heart
  of the earth.
• 2. THE SIGN THAT GENTILES WILL REPENT AT THE
  PREACHING OF JESUS, YET THE JEWS REFUSED THE
  TEACHING OF A GREATER PROPHETJESUS
• A. 41. The men of Nineveh (Gentiles) shall
  rise in judgment with this generation, and shall
  condemn it because they repented at the
  preaching of Jonas and, behold, a greater than
  Jonas is here.

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Another Gentile will rise in judgment to the
Scribes and Pharisees

• B. 42. The queen of the south shall rise up in
  the judgment with this generation, and shall
  condemn it for she came from the uttermost parts
  of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon and,
  behold, a greater than Solomon is here. I Kgs.
  107 the half was not told me

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Beware of Poisonous Bread Which is False Teaching

• Mt. 168 Which when Jesus perceived, he said
  unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye
  among yourselves, because ye have brought no
  bread?
• 9. Do ye not yet understand, neither remember
  the five loaves of the five thousand, and how
  many baskets ye took up? 10. Neither the seven
  loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets
  ye took up? 11. How is it that ye do not
  understand that I spake it not to you concerning
  bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the
  Pharisees and of the Sadducees? 12. Then
  understood they how that he bade them not beware
  of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of
  the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.MK 424
  LK 818

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Two Great Divisions in Jesus Ministry

• PART ONE In this study we will see the close of
  the 1st phase of Jesus ministry leading them to
  discover the right answer to this question Who
  Am I, in 1615
• Mat. 1620 we have a verse of separation Tell
  no man until
• PART TWO Then there is the introduction of the
  2nd phase of of His ministry In 1621, The
  Messiah must suffer.
• 21. From that time forth began Jesus to shew
  unto his disciples, how that he must go unto
  Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders
  and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and
  be raised again the third day.

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Phase One of Jesus Personal Ministry Closes with
a Test
Mt. 1613. When Jesus came into the coasts of
Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples,
saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
14. And they said, Some say that thou art John
the Baptist some, Elias and others, Jeremias,
or one of the prophets. 15. He saith unto them,
But whom say ye that I am? 16. And Simon Peter
answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son
of the living God.17. And Jesus answered and
said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona
for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto
thee, but my Father which is in heaven.18. And I
say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon
this rock I will build my church and the gates
of hell shall not prevail against it.19. And I
will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of
heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth
shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever thou
shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
20. Then charged he his disciples that they
should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.
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Why close the First Phase Like this?

• Have the disciples a better understanding of him
  that the general public?
• What do the disciples think about him? How far
  have they come under his teaching? Do they
  really know who he is?
• THE GREAT DISCOVERY
• And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the
  Christ, the Son of the living God. 17. And
  Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art
  thou, Simon Barjona for flesh and blood hath not
  revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in
  heaven.

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• Jesus Revealed the way he had learned this.
• From my Father which is in heaven
• Matt. 1618 is used to promote The Petrine Theory
• Petros is masculine meaning small rock
• Petra is feminine meaning large boulder

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THE FOUNDATION STONE WAS JESUS, PETER WAS ONLY A
BUILDING BLOCK

• ISA. 28 4. Wherefore hear the word of the Lord,
  ye scornful men, that rule this people which is
  in Jerusalem. 15. Because ye have said, We have
  made a covenant with death, and with hell are we
  at agreement when the overflowing scourge shall
  pass through, it shall not come unto us for we
  have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood
  have we hid ourselves

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700 YEARS LATER IT HAPPENED

• 1. Covenant with death--- Mt. 2614. Then one
  of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto
  the chief priests,
• 15. And said unto them, What will ye give me,
  and I will deliver him unto you? And they
  covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

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2. With hell are we at agreement ---Mt. 2763

• Matt. 27 63. Saying, Sir, we remember that that
  deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After
  three days I will rise again.
• 64. Command therefore that the sepulchre be
  made sure until the third day, lest his disciples
  come by night, and steal him away, and say unto
  the people, He is risen from the dead so the
  last error shall be worse than the first.
• 65. Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch go
  your way, make it as sure as ye can.
• 66. So they went, and made the sepulchre sure,
  sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

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3. We Have made Lies our Refuge.

• 11. Now when they were going, behold, some of
  the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the
  chief priests all the things that were done.
• 12. And when they were assembled with the
  elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large
  money unto the soldiers,
• 13. Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by
  night, and stole him away while we slept.
• 14. And if this come to the governor's ears, we
  will persuade him, and secure you.
• 15. So they took the money, and did as they
  were taught and this saying is commonly reported
  among the Jews until this day.

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Regardless of all they would do, the Lord Will
Build His House

• 2816. Therefore thus saith the Lord God,
  Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a
  tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure
  foundation he that believeth shall not make
  haste. 17. Judgment also will I lay to the line,
  and righteousness to the plummet

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The Lord Will Build His House

• The stone would be laid in Zion (Jerusalem)
• It would be a tried stone, a sure foundation
• The believer will not be ashamed
• Judgment will be laid to the line and
  Righteousness to the plummet

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Isa. 28

• 17 and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of
  lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding
  place. 18. And your covenant with death shall
  be disannulled, and your agreement with hell
  shall not stand when the overflowing scourge
  shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down
  by it.

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Obviously this is the death, burial and
resurrection of Jesus.

• All this had to happened before the new house of
  God, the church of Christ, could be built. Dan
  245. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone
  was cut out of the mountain without handsJesus
  said he was going to build his church and the
  gates of hell would not prevail against
  it.After the church was est. in Acts 2, Peter
  said the stone had been laid. (Acts 412)
• The Big Corner stone is Jesus
• The small building stones are those, as Peter,
  who confess Jesus as the Son of God.

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Matthew 1618

• Jesus said he was going to build his church and
  the gates of hell would not prevail against it.
• After the stone was tried, His church was est. in
  Acts 2, then in Acts 412 Peter said the stone
  had been laid.

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Peter on Christ as the Foundation Stone

• 11. This is the stone which was set at nought
  of you builders, which is become the head of the
  corner.
• 12. Neither is there salvation in any other
  for there is none other name under heaven given
  among men, whereby we must be saved.
• CHRIST IS THE STONE ON WHICH THE CHURCH IS BUILT,
  NOT PETER.

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NOW NOTE THESE SCRIPTURES

• Eph. 219. Now therefore ye are no more
  strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with
  the saints, and of the household of God
• 20. And are built upon the foundation of the
  apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being
  the chief corner stone
• 21. In whom all the building fitly framed
  together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord
• 22. In whom ye also are builded together for an
  habitation of God through the Spirit.