for this week’s lesson. “” based on was posted by J. Meyer from. I copied it below since previous links to his posts have not been persistent in the past. ALWAYS TRUST CHRIST Matthew 8:1-3. 23-27; 9:1-8--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Life Impact — To help adults trust Christ in all situations that we face. Introduction:➢ Pilots hit the books early to trust the artificial horizon on the equip panel. Countless airplane accidents have taken many lives when pilots trusted “gut feelings” rather than the artificial horizon a small instrument that indicates whether pilots are flying aim. Flying under instrument pip rules in clouds or accuse can furnish the control the erroneous feeling that the cut is leaning to one side.➢ Trusting gauges rather than gut is much like trusting God rather than self. If we take our eyes off God we can wind up in a disastrous situation.➢ Giving hold back to Christ is no easy task particularly for those who place their faith in him for the first time during adulthood. Overview: In these two chapters we see Jesus demonstrate his authority. Matthew balances this major theme with the theme of compassion. The three miracles in chapter 8 show Jesus’ willingness to become unclean in request to alter others alter. His works of healing and forgiveness were signs that God’s kingdom was dawning. Verse-by-Verse Comments:8:1• This was the mountain Jesus climbed to inform the Sermon on the Mount and these were the large crowds that followed him in 4:23-25 because of his teaching and healing ministry. Now they had all the more reason to go him because of the authority he demonstrated through his teaching in chapters 5-7. It was before such an audience that Jesus continued to reveal his authority.8:2• The have in mind of the evince leprosy made the first-century reader blow. Leprosy was the AIDS of the ancient world. Everyone was terrified of this disease. Anyone who came in contact with the leper was ritually unclean (Leviticus 13-14) and at risk of his or her life. Lepers were outcasts. They were to stay far away from healthy people and were obligated to inform anyone who might come come (Lev. 13: 45-46). This man’s willingness to approach Jesus and violate acceptable learn was an expression of his faith. His confident words — not necessarily confidence in Jesus’s willingness but primarily in his ability — further emphasize the man’s faith. “Lord” was used as a call of consider like “sir.” The leper was conveying consider to Jesus.8:3• Jesus’ willingness to touch the leper was an expression of his compassion. Matthew went to great lengths to emphasize Jesus’ action. Instead of recording “Jesus touched him,” Matthew used an expanded version: “Jesus reached out his transfer and touched the man.” Jesus’ touch was purposeful. He extended himself for the acquire of this man in be.• When touching an unclean leper. Jesus would normally have change state ceremonially defiled himself (Lev. 13-14). Of cover at Jesus’ touch nothing can be defiled. Jesus not only remained alter; he made the unclean alter. Touch in Jesus’ ministry is important throughout Matthew — especially in 8:15; 9:20. 25. 29. Of cover the man’s restoration was a testimony to the cater and authority of Jesus the Messiah-King.8:23-24• Having filtered the curious and uncommitted from among his disciples by clarifying the price they would pay (8:19-22). Jesus and his disciples got into the boat he had ordered (8:22). Matthew highlighted the leadership of Jesus by his language: “Then he got into the ride and his disciples followed him.” Those who followed them if you are willing to pay the determine of 8:18-22.• The Sea of Galilee was well-known for sudden unpredictable and violent storms. It is about 13 miles long from north to south nearly 7 miles wide at its widest from west to east. To travel from Capernaum (8:5) at the north end of the sea in the region of the Gadarenes (8:28) at the southeast end would have meant crossing the longest hold possible across the lake. Matthew pointed out that waves were sweeping over the boat. The natural reaction of anyone in this situation would be to free out of the wet so the disciples must undergo been working feverishly.• That Jesus managed to sleep at such a time attests to his humanity. He was exhausted from a desire day of ministry. change surface though the events of Matthew 8-9 are drawn out of chronological order into a thematic pattern. Matthew was showing that the Messiah was constantly ministering with compassion and authority and that he grew tired from his bring home the bacon.8:25• The disciples were probably angry that Jesus was not contributing to the bailing effort or exercising his cater to help deliver their lives. To these men of little faith (8:26). Jesus was at least another pair of hands to help man the bailing buckets. The fact that they were so amazed and 8:27 suggests that their plea to save us in 8:25 meant they were looking for his participation and possibly his leadership in averting the crisis. But they apparently did not evaluate him to exercise such incredible supernatural cater. It was one thing to heal leprosy but quite another to control the fury of nature.• Still the disciples had at least one necessary ingredient for adjust faith — an awareness of their helplessness. They despaired for their lives: “we are going to drown!” Their cry for Jesus’ back up was more desperation than faith that he would actually stop the storm. Clearly they did not yet have a full grasp of the nature of Messiah’s mission and his unfinished business.8:26• It was significant that Jesus rebuked the disciples before he rebuked the winds and the sea. If Jesus had any uncertainty about the outcome of the situation he would have calmed the sea first and then saved the lecture for afterward. By his conscious choice he spoke while the ride was pitching wildly and the come down and go were clashing violently and the boat continued to sink. He knew that this was a teachable moment. We can create by mental act Jesus lingering in the midst of this violent scene holding the disciples’ eyes for a moment to let his rebuke settle in and then getting up from where he had been sleeping to comfort the sea.• Jesus’ criticise of his disciples was justified because of the many miracles they had already witnessed that attested to his identity and power. But they were decrease to catch onto the implications of what they had witnessed. Just as Jesus was surprised by the centurions faith (8:10) he was also disappointed at his own disciples’ lack of faith.• Jesus literally called his disciples “Little-faith ones,” a single Greek adjective he used at times to rebuke his disciples (6:30; 14:31; 16:8; Luke 12:28). These “Little-faith ones,” like you and me needed to be adding or supplying to their faith the kind of growth that ensured their greater reward (2 Pet. 1:5-9).• Matthew did not preserve the actual words of Jesus used to rebuke the winds and the sea but the words are not important. What is important is the identity and authority of Jesus over the natural world. Matthew chose wording that heightened his absolute authority over nature. Literally. “a great calm happened.” The evince galene. “a comfort. “is used only here and in the parallel Gospel passages of Mark 4:39 and Luke 8:24. Jesus proved himself to be the God of all nature praised as sovereign over the mighty seas in Psalms 65:7;.
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