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 - Getting Run Over
What did Jesus, The Unique One, The Son of God, Full Deity and Full Man, do for us? Are we willing to do something even close to this for others?
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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:They're mocking him. And did he lash out? I guarantee you, I was not the one up there. I mean, at some point I would have just said that's it. I'm done with these folks. I'm the God of the universe. You're done. Toast. Now we all believe in me. Did you all see that?
Speaker 2:Okay, and while being reviled, he did not revile in return, See, while suffering, he uttered no threats, but he kept doing what. He didn't just do it one time, but he kept entrusting himself to him who judges righteously, Meaning he kept entrusting himself to him who judges righteously, Meaning he kept entrusting himself to his father. Right, he kept on. He kept on through this whole process, which I mean, you're the God of the universe, you created these people and you would let them talk that way to you. You would let it go. Yeah, but why did he do it? Because he was humbling himself unto the Father to do only the Father's will. He had the Father's plan in mind, Not my will, but thy will be done. I'm here for that purpose, To do your will. Why are you here? See, You're here for the same reason. I'm here to do his will.
Speaker 2:What if people get hostile toward that? We do it anyway. Why? Because we don't care about their approval. We only care about what God thinks. We only want his approval. That's why the Lord Jesus Christ did it, and he already put the footsteps down. So all we have to do is just walk in those same footsteps. See, Now, here's just a quote.
Speaker 2:If you really grasp Christian doctrine like the kenosis, the trinity, the hypostatic union, the world will strike you as astonishingly trivial. I don't know if you're there yet, but this is a true statement. The world will appear amazingly trivial to you and people will appear to you as extremely shallow, even though they're very valuable, so valuable that Christ came and gave his life for them. I'm going to read a quote from a guy named Richard Baxter. He was a Puritan. I don't agree with everything the Puritans wrote, but that's okay. These were some tough people.
Speaker 2:In the United States of America, the Puritans have basically been bashed by the political agenda of some I don't know people who kill witches or something. They don't have the slightest of who these people were. If these people had not come to the United States of America and employed Christian doctrine, America never would have seen the prosperity that we have. America is built on the backs of the Puritans. These people worked. They didn't believe in the government giving people money Okay, Silly stuff like that. Like that's a dumb idea. It is. It's a stupid idea. In fact.
Speaker 2:The number of decisions that have been made in this country over the last 30 years. If you were to systematically make that many stupid mistakes, you would consider yourself stupid. There is no way to escape the stupidity of this nation in the last 30 years. It is an absolute track record of stupidity. How could you make that many bad mistakes? The Puritans were remarkable people. They were powerful people. They were powerful people. They were a courageous people and they were the most humble people that our country has probably ever seen.
Speaker 2:So I'm going to read a quote by a pastor, Richard Baxter, and he's writing to other pastors. And he's writing to these pastors about how they should take care of their flocks, take care of their people and notice how he's going to root it in who Christ is. He says oh then, let us hear those arguments of Christ whenever we feel ourselves growing dull and lifeless. Can you hear Christ saying did I die for those people and will you then refuse to look after them? Were they worthy of my blood and they're not worthy of your labor. Did I come down from heaven to seek and to save that which was lost? And will you refuse to go next door or to the next street or village to seek them? How small is your labor or condescension compared to mine? I debased myself to do this, but it is your honor to be so employed. Have I done and suffered so much for their salvation and will you refuse that little that lies upon your hand?
Speaker 2:After you read that, you might feel like you just got run over by a 10-ton truck and you know what you should. I am dead serious. You should feel it, Because if you don't, you don't know what our Savior did for you. You don't have this. People are what matters. That's why Paul says at the end of 1 Thessalonians 2, he says who is our joy or our crown of exaltation? Is it not you who's worried about rewards and all that Getting some crowns? You know, stick on your little temple? It's the people that you invest in that matter. It's the people he invest in that matter. It's the people he came to die for people. We should give our lives to people. Next point, that's humility, Chief foundation virtue of the Christian life. If you can get anything, get humility.
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