Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy approaches Bible teaching with a passion for getting the basic doctrines explained so that the individual can understand them and then apply them to circumstances in their life. These basic and important lessons are nestled in a framework of history and progression of revelation from the Bible so the whole of Scripture can be applied to your physical and spiritual life.
Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
NT Framework - Jesus doing God Things
Jesus did things only God was able to do; and some reacted with anger while others reacted with awe. What do His actions mean?
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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner.
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and our series on the New Testament Framework. Today a smaller, bite-sized piece from the larger lesson. We hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 2:Now let's go to Mark 2.5. Mark 2.5. Gospel of Mark, Matthew, Mark, so the second of the fourfold gospel, Mark 2. In verse 5, verse five actually we'll be here for a couple of these real quick there's a paralytic right. He's being carried by four men being brought into the house. They couldn't get him in the house it's so crowded right, verse four so they had to remove the roof and lower him down into the room where Christ was. In verse 5, it says Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic Son your sins are forgiven.
Speaker 2:Now, who forgives sin? God, You're as smart as all the Jews that were in the room that day. Because what do they say? In verse 5? It says some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, saying no reasoning. Where In their hearts, not out loud in their hearts.
Speaker 2:Why does this man speak that way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins but God alone? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins but God alone? Were they right that the Old Testament taught that God is the only one who can forgive sins? Yeah, because God is the only one who has been offended, because he's the standard of righteousness by which sin is measured, and he is therefore the only one who has the right to forgive sin. And Isaiah, chapter 43, 25, says Yahweh forgives transgression. And that's where they were referring back to Passages like Isaiah 43, 25. But if Jesus is forgiving someone their sins, then who is Jesus? Well, he's God.
Speaker 2:Now they say well, he's blaspheming. I mean, you know, he's claiming, in other words, to be who. He's claiming to be God. Now, this is why Lewis made the statement he's either a liar, lunatic or Lord. I mean, he's either lying here like you're not God, or he's absolutely crazy. He's a loon, right, Claiming he can forgive sins, or he is the Lord himself. He is God himself in the flesh. Okay, so that's another evidence of Christ doing something that only Yahweh can do forgiving sins. Look in verse 8. Let's just continue. We'll pick up the next evidence Immediately.
Speaker 2:Jesus, aware in his spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves, said to them why are you reasoning about these things in your heart? Uh-oh, what attribute I mean. How could you know what people are thinking? Who has access to that? Only Yahweh. It's part of his omniscience, right, Meaning he knows all things, but he's displaying that here. He right Meaning he knows all things, but he's displaying that here he's displaying that he knows all things, that he's the. The Greek word is cardiogonostos, Cardio, heart, gnostos, to know. He's the heart knower. He knows their hearts. He knows what their reasoning in their heart. By the way, he knows what your reasoning in your heart is too, and mine he knows all of reasoning in their heart.
Speaker 2:By the way, he knows what your reasoning in your heart is too, and mine. He knows all of our thoughts. So this is another evidence that he's God, because he can only do the things that God can do. In this sense, omniscience, he's the only one who knows all things. All right, let's look at another one Matthew 8.23. Matthew 8.23. Matthew 8.23. Go to the first of the fourfold gospel. I do think Matthew was written first too. By the way, I don't think Mark was written first, and I don't think they depended on some document called Q. You've ever heard that kind of theory. They tried to explain the harmony of the gospels. I think they wrote independently, under the inspiration of the Spirit.
Speaker 2:Matthew 8, 23 and following Jesus demonstrates another attribute of God here, verse 23,. When he got into the boat, his disciples followed him and behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being covered with the waves. This is out on the Lake of Galilee, right? But Jesus himself was asleep. Are you kidding me? I mean, have you ever been in a boat and you know the water is coming over the boat, into the boat, and you are asleep? No, nobody does that, but he's totally content, he's totally relaxed.
Speaker 2:Verse 25, they came to him and woke him, saying Save us, lord, we are perishing. And he said to them why are you afraid, you men of little faith? Then he got up and he rebuked the winds and the sea and it became perfectly calm and the men were amazed and they said what kind of man is this that even the winds and the sea will ban? Well, yeah, I mean, who is this? And isn't that the point we're supposed to be asking? Who is this? Who can do this?
Speaker 2:What's kind of interesting is that this word rebuke he says he rebuked. That word is used exclusively elsewhere to rebuking people, to rebuking people, not inanimate objects. But here he's rebuking what we would just normally say inanimate objects like sea, the sea and the wind, which makes us wonder where their forces, demonic forces behind the seas and the winds, because this word is always used of a personal rebuke, not just impersonal rebuke, and so there's a lot going on here in the text about his power and of course, that's what we're to gain is that no man can do this. He must be God, god in the boat with you. Talk about a fearful moment when the realization strikes you Also an awesome moment. Right, you have experienced this, so he is demonstrating his omnipotence.
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