Title Discipleship and its consequences
Contents
Topic: Discipleship and its consequences
Bible text:
Jeremiah 18:1-12 The maker of flesh and pottery
Luke 14:25-33 The Cost of Discipleship
Jeremiah 18:1-12 The maker of flesh and pottery
This text combines the story of a pottery and a potter. Connect with the surroundings that symbolize pottery. It begins with Jeremiah's explanation in the pottery maker's house. Jeremiah's lamentation and judgment against Israel for resisting God's word. Because the pottery maker's motive and other pottery are thrown away or destroyed, the judgment on Jerusalem is declared to buy and throw the pottery to destroy it. The text is clearly a negative message of the Last Judgment on Israel. Does the potter's vision of creating a type of object become a negative message of the Last Judgment? The answer to this question is the central problem that Christians of this age must solve. Could Jeremiah's message be a vision of the people of Jerusalem and the pottery maker as a message of doom or hope?
This is the message of judgment that came to Jeremiah. Here is a three-part message made clear from the structure of the text.
1-6 Explain Jeremiah who accepted God's message while observing the work of the potter. In particular, the formation process can be damaged (damaged) when the body is rebuilt. This act causes the prophet to speak the word of God. Because Israel is in the hands of God like the flesh.
7-10 Provides an illustration of God's relationship with man. Repeat and contrast this illustrative story for emphasis. The first contrast is concerned with God's judgment and reveals the reason for man's repentance to be crushed, broken, and abandoned. The second contrast reveals why we should nurture evil humans as concerns about the divine blessings of planting and nurturing.
11-12 Instead of discussing the general upbringing of continuing contrasts, the focus is on the present flesh of Jerusalem and the Jewish people.
This structure provides the result of the body and the potter's actions, including negative stories. It argues that the text needs to be a negative story.
This necessity is a story about change. God's relationship with man, symbolizing change, is a central feature, and because of this change, both man and holiness are at the heart of the debate. Emphasizes unpredictable changes in the life of faith.
Specifically,
Verses 7-10 shift the focus from God to man in the creation order, where God explores change from the perspective of human action and human or flesh. Verses 7-8 explore repentance toward God. Verses 8-10 sketch God's bringing human sin outward (either the knowledge of a world that does not hear God's voice, resists change, or uses the text's words only literally). We see three attitudes in these verses of the Bible.
First, Israel is God, the body in the hands of the potter, and for Israel, when the focus is on man rather than God, the body is a brittle being that becomes the potter's decision.
Second, human action has a role separate from evil in God's character in determining God's change. This symbol is a sign of God's change in response to human action.
Third, it is an evil that resists change even after recognizing God's voice. The focus of change on human sin, that is, the knowledge of stereotypes that resists change, is at the center of that focus.
Verses 11-12 focus the message on returning to God. Once again, I describe myself as a revelation of God in the message I decided on. It is not a simple continuation of the potter of verse 6. It emphasizes the body and explains the potter and the process of pottery formation. Therefore, the contemporary Jerusalem is said to be in the light. This verse gives a very special range of 'times', when its focus shifts from pottery to body, with endless hope and an infinite message. This ‘time’ is a concept of time that emphasizes human resistance that changes immediately or in the present moment, and the continuous formation process of a potter and a person who realizes the voice of God calling to repentance can be short-circuited. God is not a limited ornament. It modulates with humans for the changing moment of infinite ‘time’ in the body. The negative consequences of the final judgment in the text awaken the soul with a message of hope that calls the nation of Israel to repent and be separated from evil. The message of the Last Judgment is not repeated on any day.
Luke 14:25-33 Disciple's Cost
The text explains three stories of Jesus traveling through Jerusalem (9:51-13:21, 13:22-17:10, 17:11-19:27). Although each part is a large field of several subdivisions, the subject is not unified. The next part is concerned with rescuing the lost sheep. Verse 25 presents a complex challenge, starting with the 'time' of preaching to a large crowd of followers of Jesus.
25 Prepare for a situation where you understand the teachings of Jesus.
26-27 Begin to write about the ultimate importance of discipleship of Christ
We meet the teachings of the two parables.
28-30 First, the necessity of singleness to be devoted to Christ.
31-32 Second, critical action and the need for prudence
33 The type that proclaims the ultimate quality of what we call Christian discipleship.
summary
This part is united by the ultimate tone and urgency of Jesus' words, along with the idea and theme of the 'time'. Believers must continually reexamine the summoning attitude of Jesus in calling and shaping his contemporaries.
To the crowd coming to Jesus, Jesus makes the situation aware. Jesus, who said, “Whoever comes to me,” is not the goal of his ministry to create and simplify the simple (pure) reason to become a disciple of the Lord. Jesus faces the desperate demands of a true disciple. Disciple meaning as a true relationship with Jesus Christ is the realization of all other relationships and concerns. Before accepting the demands of a relationship to Jesus Christ, you must organize your life or your relationship with your family. Instead, when you give the first place to the plan of Jesus Christ, you get information about good manners and proper family relationships from Jesus' teachings. The language of Jesus is a hyperbolic language. Therefore, it is difficult to deal with. Above his desire to be a disciple lies the teachings of Jesus, and there is the difficulty of contending with such rigorous explanations that the believer must scrutinize rather than diminish the very real summons. The cross requires more than a metaphor for Jesus, a perfect and ultimate abhorrent and wretched illustration that calls for the life of a disciple. Discipleship is the orthodox (great and sublime) of skill, not cheap in cost, but frees in grace.
Jesus' language and parables are very eschatological. Jesus tells the story of the building of the tower, preaching all the nature of discipleship demands (28-30). The point of Jesus is not to start the hard work of a disciple if you are not going to do it with complex powers. In other words, the disciple's task fails by making it a bad joke. Jesus then uses the radical image of a turbulent war in his audience, so the disciple must live with an eye for the course of life. Disciples live in a relationship that looks forward to the future. If we believe in God in Christ, the characteristics of the future will appear, especially the end or results of God's work. Then we have to realize that God puts down our entitlements (claims) for our lives. We must now live according to God's standards. We are now living in the will of God in spite of all difficulties. We must live in God's future now, and for that life we can do nothing but obey God's will as disciples, for which there may be important consequences.
In the case of the audience, they don't grab the point of Jesus. If there's anything more important, without our own lives, families, or possessions, it's our discipleship to Jesus, where the cost of a disciple taking seriously the course of God's work in Jesus Christ is not heavy. Half a disciple is not a disciple, and we must recognize the disturbing and disturbing teachings, and perhaps in honesty we can claim that we become more faithful followers of Jesus Christ.
The identity of Jesus, the carpenter's son, includes factors that shape consciousness (such as customs). As vessels, man has the message of baptism that radically changes our relationship, and as a result of the message collide and crumble, so that they continue to experience the church and society formed by the hand of God, in order to live with us anew - Etching A picture, etc. is engraved with a needle on a copper plate that has been painted with milling, and it is corroded with acid to make an original plate - composition (arrangement, shape).