Romans: The Christian Story (Fisherman Bible Studyguides)

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Jesus came to introduce something new, not to patch up something old.

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This is what salvation is all about. In doing this, Jesus doesn't destroy the old the law , but He fulfills it, just as an acorn is fulfilled when it grows into an oak tree. There is a sense in which the acorn is gone, but its purpose is fulfilled in greatness. While He spoke these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped Him, saying, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay Your hand on her and she will live.

A ruler came and worshipped Him: Note that this man worshipped Him, and Jesus received this worship - which would have been blasphemous if Jesus had not Himself been God. In other instances in the New Testament where such worship is offered to a human Acts My daughter has just died, but come any lay Your hand on her and she will live: This ruler did the right thing in coming to Jesus, but his faith is small in comparison to the centurion of Matthew 8.

The ruler thought it is essential that Jesus personally come touch the little girl, while the centurion understood Jesus had the authority to heal with a word, even at a great distance. And suddenly, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment.

For she said to herself, "If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well. And suddenly, a woman: Here we simply see the power of God responding to the faith of those who seek Him. If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well: Because this woman's condition was embarrassing, and because she was ceremonially unclean and would be condemned for touching Jesus or even being in a pressing crowd, she wanted to do this secretly. She would not openly ask Jesus to be healed, but she thought " If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well. It was meant to identify a Jew as a Jew, and as member of the chosen people, no matter where he was; and it was meant to remind a Jew every time he put on and took off his clothes that he belonged to God.

This also shows us that Jesus dressed like other people of His time. He felt no need to distinguish Himself by the clothes He wore. To the best of our knowledge, there was no promise or pattern that touching the garment of Jesus would bring healing. It seems tat the woman believed this in a somewhat superstitious way. Yet even though her faith had elements of err and superstition, she believed in the healing power of Jesus and His garment served as a point of contact for that faith. There are many things that we could find wrong with this woman's faith.

Yet her faith was in Jesus ; and the object of faith is much more important than the quality or even quantity of faith. And the woman was made well: Her faith, though imperfect, was enough to receive what Jesus wanted to give her. Her year disease was immediately cured. When He saw her, He said: This woman hoped to receive something from Jesus without drawing any attention to herself or her embarrassing problem. Jesus insisted on making public notice of her, and He did this for good reasons.

When Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the flute players and the noisy crowd wailing, He said to them, "Make room, for the girl is not dead, but sleeping. But when the crowd was put outside, He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose. And the report of this went out into all that land.

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The flute players and the noisy crowd: These were probably paid mourners, who in the custom of the day offered an ostentatious display of mourning for a price, and not out of sincere sorrow. When we notice how quickly they moved from wailing to ridiculing Jesus, it showed their lack of sincerity. When the crowd was put outside, He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose: Jesus endured the scorn from the crowd and raised the girl to life. He certainly would not let the criticism or mocking of the crowd keep Him from doing God's will.


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Jesus didn't raise every dead child He encountered, but Jesus did so here in a simple act of mercy and compassion to the grieving father. In addition, Jesus must have hated death and its cause, and enjoyed the opportunity to hand death a small defeat before He would defeat it altogether at the cross and the empty tomb. When Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out and saying, "Son of David, have mercy on us! And Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this? And Jesus sternly warned them, saying, "See that no one knows it.

Two blind men followed Him: It was not easy for these blind men to follow Jesus, but they did. They had to ask others where Jesus was going and they had to listen to every sound that might guide them. Yet they were determined to follow Him to the best of their ability. It came partly from the glare of the eastern sun on unprotected eyes, and partly because people knew nothing of the importance of cleanliness and hygiene.

In particular the clouds of unclean flies carried infections which led to loss of sight. Son of David, have mercy on us! The two blind men followed Jesus and shouted this open recognition of Jesus as Messiah, because Son of David was a rich Messianic title. They asked Jesus for the best thing they could ask for: There was no talk about merit, no pleading of their past sufferings, or their persevering endeavors, or their resolves for the future; but, 'Have mercy on us.

Though the occasion in John seems have been after this healing of the blind men, we can still believe that there was a price to pay for calling Jesus " Son of David. When He had come into the house, the blind men came to Him: This may have been to dampen messianic expectations on a day marked by two highly public and dramatic miracles. Do you believe that I am able to do this?

Again, Jesus healed the blind men in response to their faith. Faith does not guarantee healing for every individual, yet there are undoubtedly multitudes that are not healed because they lack faith. These men simply proclaimed their faith by saying, " Yes, Lord. According to your faith let it be so to you: Here again Matthew emphasized the proper faith that men should have in Jesus, and the blessings that come to men through that faith.

In many ways, God says the same to men and women today: We have the measuring of our own mercies; our faith obtains less or more according to its own capacity to receive. See that no one knows it: Despite Jesus' warning, they couldn't resist telling others. Though we do not admire their well-intentioned disobedience, we admire their excitement over the work of God.

This was their only area of unbelief - they didn't have the faith to obey Jesus as they should have. As they went out, behold, they brought to Him a man, mute and demon-possessed. And when the demon was cast out, the mute spoke. And the multitudes marveled, saying, "It was never seen like this in Israel! A man, mute and demon-possessed: In the Jewish understanding of demon possession, this man could not be helped.

This was because most rabbis of that day thought that the essential first step in exorcism was to compel or trick the demon into telling you its name. The name was then thought of as a handle by which the demon could then be removed. Therefore, a demon that made a man mute had cleverly prevented the revelation of the name of the demon inhabiting the victim, and therefore prevented the exorcism. Yet Jesus had no problem, the demon was cast out and the mute spoke. It was never seen like this in Israel! For these reasons this miracle was particularly amazing to the multitudes. It showed not only the complete authority of Jesus over the demonic realm, but also the weakness of the rabbis' traditions.

But the Pharisees said, "He casts out demons by the ruler of the demons. Surely this was going very near to the unpardonable sin. Carson on Matthew 9: Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest. Jesus went about all the cities and villages: As Jesus encountered the depth of human need He was moved with compassion for them.

Romans: The Christian Story (Fisherman Bible Studyguides)

Jesus was not unfeeling or stoic in the face of people and their problems. In the previous verses Jesus was terribly and unfairly criticized, yet it did not make Him stop His work. He didn't say, "Oh, they are saying terrible things about Me! What can I do? How can I make them stop?

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It is not found in classic Greek. It is not found in the Septuagint. The fact is, it was a word coined by the evangelists themselves. They did not find one in the whole Greek language that suited their purpose, and therefore they had to make one. They were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd: Jesus here described what man is apart from God; that we are like sheep having no shepherd. This means that we are in a lot of trouble until we come under the care of our Shepherd. Sadly, one could say that the Jewish people of that day did indeed have some kind of spiritual guides and shepherds, namely the scribes, priests, Levites, and Pharisees.

Yet for the most part they were worthless. Both imply, not only a pitiful plight of the people, but a blameworthy neglect of duty on the part of their religious guides. The Pharisaic comments on the Capernaum mission festival Matthew 9: The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few: Jesus saw the greatness of human need as an opportunity, as a harvest that was plentiful.

A harvest is a good thing, and this was a plentiful harvest.

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