Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder
Be With Me is a daily 7 minute chronological walk through the New Testament hosted by Michael Smith. It is for everyone who is curious about what Jesus actually said and did in the gospels. Most episodes will leave you with at least one good thought to chew on for the rest of the day. We start with the Bible and hopefully end with Awe. We are walking through the chronological events of Jesus' life and then thoughtfully considering them. It is meant to spur the devotional life of the Christian and the not-yet-Christian. We occasionally venture into the Old Testament when it helps our understanding of the New Testament events. Everybody has 7 minutes. Everybody needs to wonder. Be With Me is hosted by Michael Smith who has absolutely no special qualifications to do a podcast. He is not a pastor. He has not been to seminary. He does not lead a mega-church. He is not a professional and he has no more credentials than you do. He does, however, follow a great God with an observant eye and a curious heart. Each day, he starts with a study bible and aims for astonishment. ‘be with him’ for 7 minutes as he sets out daily to discover the God who invites us to ‘Be With Me.’
Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder
What if we really have A GOD WHO SEES? S31e3
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The beatitudes, in a sense, start with a genealogy. For a long time, God has seen the rebellion of humans, even the rebellion of His chosen people. It is all recounted, in a sense, by the recalling in a genealogy.
It isn't a pretty picture. We end with our great need. You have got to help us God!
The good news is that He does. All along He has been the God who sees. It is a necessary thing. Join me today to be seen.
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The Book of Matthew Podcast-the beatitudes of matthew
What if we really have A GOD WHO SEES? S31e3
Matthew starts his gospel and his beatitudes with a geneology.
I’d argue the geneology is a testament, that we have God who sees
As if to say…You weren’t born yesterday, people of God
You weren’t righteous yesterday or today, people of God
You have had the unmerited kindness of God for a long time that has manifested itself in a particular way…
But hold on to your hat: Jesus is coming. That is, the kindness of God, which is to say the connection of God to mankind, this is the way He makes Himself accessibe, is coming again in a particular, way, thru Jesus. He enters the picture thru some familiar characters, Mary & joseph.
He comes from a lineage of people we may not know, but we know these things about them:
They had the option for God
They had the option and choice for Good and Evil
They enjoyed the common graces of God life breath sunshine
They enjoyed some of the uncommon graces of God—most were of the Jews, chosen and
They were all seen by God. How do we know? He tells us for many of them.
12 And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, 13 and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, 14 and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, 15 and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob, 16 and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.
17 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.
They enjoyed the discipline of the Lord. This is how you know you care enough about people of God. You discipline them to remind them of the great fellowship you had. The good graces they enjoyed. When God found they abused this fellowship, He punished them via the hand of the neighboring nations of the middle east.
I love you enough to not let you break relationship. Here’s discipline
Deportation to Babylon Assyria
We talked about some of the evil characters.
Today it mentions some of the evil countries, used by the Lord.
The Lord saw the sin and rebellion. Who did NOT see? Israel
The Babylonians helped, thru the sovereignty of God, to re-set
His chosen people to follow Him again.
How do you get to Jesus?
Thru generations, that is thru characters
Thru countries
All the way thru, by the contact of God.
He is the thread, the kind hand, the disciplining hand
Gen 16 Sarai gave EGYPTIAN servant, HAGAR as wife,
When she saw she conceive, she looked with contempt on her
Sarai dealt harshly with her, she fled
…The angel of the Lord found her. Where have you come from and where are you going? Return, submit…promises to Ishmael
So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “You are a God of seeing. Truly here, I have seen him who looks after me.”
I see You, the God who sees, seeing ME here, now, really.”
El roi: God who sees us. God of seeing
Do we see the God who sees?
Here in the geneology, we see God SEEING, saving slowly.
In a sense, this geneology IS the gospel, or it least sets it up.
The very next paragraph is titled the Birth of Christ.
Gotta love the OT. In it we see the El Roi el o E
We see the God who sees, seeing the people of the world in trouble.
We see Him inventing a family for the trouble fixer Jesus to come into. Oh and guess what they are no picnic.
Come into history, people and scandal
Sexual sins, violent sins, covetous sins, sins against their parents, sins of idolatry, sins of literal carved images, sins of speaking, sins of the Sabbath, sins of false witness. It is all here ladies and Gentlemen. It is all seen to our great shame and humiliation.
What kind of people are you from?
People in need of a Savior
People who have been seen by God. By the God who sees.
This should terrify every one of us.
He knows we are dust ps 103: 14 For he knows our frame;
he remembers that we are dust.
He sees our frame. He sees our dust. He sees our need.
He sees out most needful thing---our need for Jesus. Rescue. Relief, Righteousness
We have a God who sees. Knows. Sees the scandal. Commits to the fixing.