Okay, so let me sum up...Jesus was baptized by John some three years earlier and began His public ministry. He gathers followers, cleanses the temple in Jerusalem for the first time (He does it twice) which insights the religious crowd. He then travels throughout Galilee for approximately 12-18 months miraculously healing the sick and feeding multitudes of people, delivering the demonically enslaved, and teaching the truth about the Kingdom of God. For a short while He withdraws from Galilee and continues to prepare His disciples giving them a fuller revelation of who He is and His impending death, hence the Transfiguration and the voice from Heaven. The first indication that Jesus was turning his attention toward His final suffering in Jerusalem was when He was in Samaria, "Now it came to pass, when the time was come that He should be received up, He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem" Luke 9:51. Wanting to manage the growing conflict with the Jewish leaders to God's timetable He travels throughout Judea for three months and then turns towards the Perean region for approximately another three months, back to where He began His ministry...the baptismal waters of John the Baptist, how fitting. It is the Perean ministry I would like to concentrate on for the next few weeks and then end our final week of Lenten season with the Passion week of Christ. Well, I think the Lord has our course set for us now and I know He will richly bless us each day as we seek and search to know more about His Beloved Son, in whom He is well pleased...may the Lord open our ears to hear him.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Samaria
Luke 9:51
Okay, so let me sum up...Jesus was baptized by John some three years earlier and began His public ministry. He gathers followers, cleanses the temple in Jerusalem for the first time (He does it twice) which insights the religious crowd. He then travels throughout Galilee for approximately 12-18 months miraculously healing the sick and feeding multitudes of people, delivering the demonically enslaved, and teaching the truth about the Kingdom of God. For a short while He withdraws from Galilee and continues to prepare His disciples giving them a fuller revelation of who He is and His impending death, hence the Transfiguration and the voice from Heaven. The first indication that Jesus was turning his attention toward His final suffering in Jerusalem was when He was in Samaria, "Now it came to pass, when the time was come that He should be received up, He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem" Luke 9:51. Wanting to manage the growing conflict with the Jewish leaders to God's timetable He travels throughout Judea for three months and then turns towards the Perean region for approximately another three months, back to where He began His ministry...the baptismal waters of John the Baptist, how fitting. It is the Perean ministry I would like to concentrate on for the next few weeks and then end our final week of Lenten season with the Passion week of Christ. Well, I think the Lord has our course set for us now and I know He will richly bless us each day as we seek and search to know more about His Beloved Son, in whom He is well pleased...may the Lord open our ears to hear him.
Okay, so let me sum up...Jesus was baptized by John some three years earlier and began His public ministry. He gathers followers, cleanses the temple in Jerusalem for the first time (He does it twice) which insights the religious crowd. He then travels throughout Galilee for approximately 12-18 months miraculously healing the sick and feeding multitudes of people, delivering the demonically enslaved, and teaching the truth about the Kingdom of God. For a short while He withdraws from Galilee and continues to prepare His disciples giving them a fuller revelation of who He is and His impending death, hence the Transfiguration and the voice from Heaven. The first indication that Jesus was turning his attention toward His final suffering in Jerusalem was when He was in Samaria, "Now it came to pass, when the time was come that He should be received up, He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem" Luke 9:51. Wanting to manage the growing conflict with the Jewish leaders to God's timetable He travels throughout Judea for three months and then turns towards the Perean region for approximately another three months, back to where He began His ministry...the baptismal waters of John the Baptist, how fitting. It is the Perean ministry I would like to concentrate on for the next few weeks and then end our final week of Lenten season with the Passion week of Christ. Well, I think the Lord has our course set for us now and I know He will richly bless us each day as we seek and search to know more about His Beloved Son, in whom He is well pleased...may the Lord open our ears to hear him.
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