Luke Ch 19 v41-44 :
This shows the Lords heart towards not just his people but the whole world. He is the Prince of Peace.
This weeping shows the authority & power of God. It simultaneously reveals the Cross and his willingness to die to make the impossible possible. To change the heart of a man, to become meek and lowly to have a heart set on the true values of heaven and not on material gain.
Jesus is speaking prophetically. He had the power of knowing the future and because their perception of what and who salvation is he knew they would miss the moment. But he is saying here that mans response to Gods times, mans response to what God wants to do can be a ‘fussion’ that changes this world!
Had Israel as a nation received him and all he taught, then Rome would have been converted & transformed before it was. Through him the blessings would have touched other nations.
This speaks into the universal need in man for heaven and for the love from God as Father, Son & Holy Spirit.
Jesus was the only teacher who actually cared about the application to his life of what was written. The religious are not concerned with this. Jesus longed for a house of prayer (Acts of the apostles – it all flowed out of houses of prayer).
Man was made with a heart.
Jesus weeping is the demonstration of love unto a world & people who didn’t know how far they had fallen.
Jesus weeping gets to the heart of the nature Christ wants to form in us. To reign with Christ is the weeping heart of the triumphal entry. Weeping is not condemnation or superiority it is water to soften the hard ground of others.
The house of prayer had to follow v41-44. God desires relationship and fellowship. Prayer & prayer corporate are the counter weight to hard dead religion.
More than a counter weight a contrast of life or death and that is the ultimate differentiation.
Luke Ch 20:
Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel.
Teaching and preaching – distinct from each other and yet inseparable.
Jesus taught an preached the gospel. Jesus integrated teaching and preaching.
Jesus’s teaching and preaching did not stop and start they flowed together. Yet the listener would have been able to separate his teaching from his preaching.
Teaching, requires students. Teaching has application, it is a building block of understanding.
Preaching is a proclamation of truth that does not require a student to apply its treasure in a reciprocated action, for it to be learned and benefitted from.
Preaching the gospel, is more than applied truth.
Preaching the gospel is a clear line of sight unto the provided sacrifice.
Preaching the gospel is an eternal realm from within eternity itself, as God himself provided the sacrifice.
Preaching the gospel is peace.
Preaching the gospel, is not applied truth as God himself has removed the veil, and therefore has ordained preaching as the vehicle of men hearing of their salvation.
Calling upon the name of the Lord is the correct response to the preaching of the gospel.
Calling upon the name of the Lord, is worship. It is a confession that he is the saviour and that he alone can save from sin. It is a confession that only through him am I made the righteousness of God.
Calling upon the nature who saves men from their sins. Jesus honored his heavenly and earthly father. Application comes through the life Jesus lived as he is the way the truth and the life, but preaching is a declaration of the mystery of salvation, that came from within the depths of God and not fallen and corrupted man. Man cannot be saved through the law and its application, man is only saved through believing what God has done in Christ
Salvation is by faith as it rests on the promise of grace. We find rest in grace, teaching and its application follow on from this foundation – a rest in grace. Teaching should not generate renewed effort, but fresh and renewed appreciation.
What gospel did Jesus preach?
John preached a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Tax collectors asked him to teach them what they should do – collect no more than you are authorized to.
Jesus preached a gospel that was good news to the poor. He came with a message of liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to bring liberty to those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lords favour.
Jesus taught them ‘Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing’.
They asked Jesus by what authority or who gave him the authority to do what he was doing.
They had no understanding of the reality of Gods word, they did not understand the prophetic ministry of the written word of God. They had it in their possession but they could not apply it, they were blind to its truths.
Nor did they want an answer to their question. They recognized it was authority, and they knew it was an authority beyond their own control. But they were not interested in whether it was an authority directly linked to the authority of scripture.
Despite being chief priests and scribes and elders they had no interest in the authenticity and authority of the written text. They were static to the movement and unction of a speaking God. They were static to a God who relates with man. They were unable to hear God, as they were holding onto a religious system and their personal status within it.
The question was perhaps a direct threat to him, that he was in fact challenging their own authority to be fit for office.
Jesus taught and preached the gospel within this environment within the temple. Therefore, the gospel is a liberating word to hear. The gospel sets you free from the inertia of indifference to the word of God, the scriptures. The gospel liberates you from the oppression of an environment where men do not want to change, or seek change – change in accordance to the blessings of God.
The gospel imparts an authority to pick up your bed and walk.
The gospel speaks no condemnation to those who believe.
The gospel has a prophetic mandate from heaven, and that is the what and who to their question. Their reasoning could not avoid the prophetic aspect of Gods word, the truth had them hedged in. The Word of God had come to John in the wilderness and John preached that which had been written, and the people responded to a man ordained and obedient to the prophetic word of God.
But to realize that Jesus answered them in such a manner, is to see more clearly the liberty of the gospel. The authority of Jesus was not challenged by their question, but his willingness to preach it despite knowing the religious institution was dead set against the reality of God and the promises of grace to his people . Jesus could have used his authority to rally the people against them. Jesus was not the next republican candidate.
Jesus, preached the gospel and taught the people, it was not a revolution nor a revolt it was a wonder and mystery in the midst of a system that had lost sight of the glory of God through the forgiveness of sins.
The authority of the gospel is life and freedom.
The authority of the gospel is the wonder of love that preached it despite the blindness and the oppression and the captivity!
Jesus was the answer to the what and the who concerning authority.
Jesus is the authority for your freedom and liberty, no matter the increase of a globalized world. It matters not how much this world becomes digitalized and surveyed, Jesus is the binary of creation and all matter. No system of control and inertia to the reality of God and his covenant blessings can alter the author and captain of are salvation. Jesus is steadfast and certain and has passed through the curtain, touching his Fathers throne.
The gospel is as powerful and mysterious and able to liberate today as it ever was, in Babylon within a fire or surround satellite tv.
Jesus is the answer to the what and the who concerning authority. Jesus is the provided sacrifice and through him all your sins are forgiven.
Only in Jesus can the covenant blessings be discovered and heard and learned.
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
The authority of Jesus is shared as Jesus was headed to calvary to fulfill all his Fathers will: Father forgive them for they have no true knowledge of their actions and reactions being evil and of thy life of light.
Jesus named to save men from their sins.
The Father heard the provided sacrifice, his own beloved Son in whom he was was pleased.
The Son of perfect obedience and in whom the Father was well pleased.
This Son who had never been corrupted and who had resisted all temptations that came against him. This Son had a prayer, despite being crucified outside the city of Jerusalem’s walls.
This Son in whom the Father was well pleased and in whom at this point was overcoming his greatest test to date- separation from the presence of God himself.
This Son prayed for others, that they could be united to his Fathers love.
Now where did this prayer come from? It came from a realm of unity and communion with his Father. Jesus prayed in communion with his Father at Calvary despite bearing the separations of the whole human race. Are freedom is a mystery wrapped up within the grace of God himself: For this my son was dead.
But it availed Hitler nothing, if he did not repent of his sins and believe the covenant promises of God: Unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the people of the book as Mr Ten Boom solemnly heralded and testified.
JESUS prayed unto his Father, and could it not be a prayer that the Father would be well pleased with! Could it not be a prayer that the Father would not answer, Paul the apostle of grace is the answer to what and who the Son is: In you (the Son of promise) shall all the nations be blessed.
Through Christ the dwelling place is answered prayer: May this Christmas be filled with the Joys of Immanuel.
Note: What & Who
Jesus was baptized under John the baptists ministry as it had been a command of heaven.
In this there is a what. And did not John herald Him.
And who gave you this authority: You are my Son, My Beloved in you I am well pleased and delighted.
The what and The Who are in Him – and in him to share with us. We may be repentant for what and who we are, but Jesus has the authority to forgive all sin and to reconciled unto the Father. And that is why he was baptized and why the Father spoke from an open heaven.
The wise men followed one star to Bethlehem – the bright and the morning Star. One star directed them to a manger in Bethlehem. The had wisdom to know that it represented the promised Messiah, the One born King of the Jews, the firstborn among many brethren.
eternalrays 