Title True Disciple
Contents
Subject: True Disciple
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1 Samuel 8: 4-20 Life Between Reality and Vision
Mark 3: 20-35 Disagreements, Conflicts, and True Disciples
1 Samuel 8: 4-20 Living Between Reality and Vision
The God who brought Jesus from death to life will lead faithful servants from death to life with people of faith in community and with Jesus. The reason that Christian worship, which has a solid foundation for life, directs people to the glory of God is because of faith.
Faith in the hearts of men and the life of faith in the world are branches of anthropological language on two levels, but are kept hidden in the life of God's new creation. Because God has given us new life, we must give our lives in this world to God. However, the present that has been 'already' is not a 'complete present yet'.
The attitude of the priest Eli's lack of self-reflection is contrasted with Hannah's prayer, bending down and bowing down, reflecting on her specific needs in a low voice. Hannah's reversal is the appearance of Samuel in front of the priest Eli, realizing God's saving power. Just as Samuel exemplifies God's ability to save children before he understands his reflection: clairvoyant power, so Eli's ambiguous vision is a contact response to God's saving power. This response does not explore the necessity of religious experience and freedom of religious life. It is a confession of faith that reflects on the shortcomings of reality and establishes a greater ideal.
Paul said that when Jesus' enemies began to plot his destruction, 'death works in us'. The result of Eli's rejection of God's will for Samuel's call is also a message to trust in God's ultimate goodness. God's word of judgment is a sign. Because Israel did not forsake the Word of God, they experience salvation through the fulfillment of the covenant.
2 Corinthians 4:5-18 Jewels in earthen vessels
One). What does earthenware mean?
2). What's inside the earthenware?
3). Why are you in the earthenware?
4). What kind of process goes through in the earthen vessel?
God is the source of the consecrated power to work in the Christian community. The apostles consistently speak in faith of the event of Christ as the dynamic manifestation of life from death. Faith, that is, faith given by and from God, is the goal of the true life of faith. The content of Paul's message is revealed by his faith in his ministry.
The significance of Paul's theology of approach is to make clear the love of God that, in spite of the misfortunes in weak-willed man, must save and preserve the closed and perishable humanity from ruin. Paul does not consider Christians being used as subjects. Rather, it preaches the Lord Christ. The name of Christ Jesus describes a life of self-giving as a life of sacrifice in the vocation of the actual human economy of our Lord. God calls the apostles to be the medium of labor that forms the image of Christ (John 4:24; Romans 12:2).
Paul's point of view is a pluralistic culture, a clay vessel that makes the important concern of Christian sharing conditions. Paul's earthenware metaphor contrasts the infinite power of God with the finite humanity. God is the source of power. Furthermore, it argues for the paradoxical content of the spiritual saving power of Christ's event at work in human weakness. “We wait for the hope of righteousness by faith in the Holy Spirit” (Galatians 5:5) likens the life of faith to earthen vessels.
Our religious life is a sustaining force in faithful worship and interlocking with evangelism. Paul's basic point of view is to explain the faith revealed by the Holy Spirit hidden in the life of faith. For people of faith, worship and mission include the suffering of Christ, but people come to know God at work through faith that is expanded through evangelism and a life of faith in which God's influence is maintained.
The gospel is the story of Jesus, the Son of God. To know God's anointed One, the Messiah, the Christ, the only Son of God, the Jesus of history. The clash of Jesus with the authority of the Jewish religion was first, forgiveness of sins, second, freedom, third, godliness, fourth, reformation; New invention Fifth, attitude toward the Sabbath, etc. You can understand the process of establishing the ministry of salvation, including death on the cross.
Mark 3: 20-35 Disagreements, Conflicts, and True Disciples
These themes find interest in the family of Jesus as a form of the family of God. The family of Jesus is an act contrary to the purpose of the ministry in relation to the daily conduct of Jesus from the misunderstanding of God's revelation and failure to condemn God's salvation. The precise understanding of the new revelation of the family of Jesus and of God's will should not be assumed by the presumptuous scribe's intellectual meaning or our past experience.
The basis of our relationship with God is not knowledge, fellowship, and personal past experience. Rather, we must hear the active call of the final scene of the crucifixion that is opened and called as a response to God's present work in our lives. Reformation of faith and awareness of the process of faith growth and development are at the center of our relationship with God. This relationship forms the conviction of faith in God's intention for creation by the fundamental discontinuity of the cross of the resurrection of life and the cross of death.
Numbers 13:25-33 There is a story of 12 spies. The contents of the reports of 10 and 2 people and the results of their differences indicate their beliefs about reality and ideals. The ten spies, with their worldly ambitions to occupy the land, saw only the realistic environment. So when they saw the people living in the land, they said, “We will not be able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” Rather than God's vision for Canaan, they thought of the reality that was unfolding before their eyes. They go on to say: 'The land we went through is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there were of great stature, and there we also saw the chieftains of the descendants of the Anak, the descendants of the Nephilim. Forgetting God's vision and having worldly views and worldly desires, they overestimated their environment and underestimated themselves.
Worldly ambitions despair over the conditions they face and stop in the environment, but if you have the vision God gives you, there is peace and hope. In Numbers 13:30 it is said, “Caleb calmed the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up immediately and take possession of the land, for we are well able to overcome it.” What is the difference between 10 people with worldly ambitions and 2 people with a divine vision? Their difference was in their recognition of Jehovah God's saving power and their trust in the promises of the land of Canaan.
The Bible says in Hebrews 11:1, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” In Genesis 37:6-10, Joseph believed God's promise and accepted it as reality and evidence. Joseph firmly believed in the dream that God had planted. In Hebrews 11:6, he longed for a 'better home', that is, 'things in heaven'.