New Testament (1597)
  1. Jesus is not celebrating diversity or difference. He is promising sameness. Redundancy. A repeat of what has happened before.
  2. Jesus suffered for our sins. He died for us. This is the supreme example of the principle our text has been unfolding. It is all about meeting wrong with right, rendering good for evil, and answering malice with love.
  3. Our LORD is identified as the One who provides for our needs, serves us to the point of obedience unto death on a tree so that we who can do nothing are rescued and redeemed by His actions on our behalf.
  4. A giver, a thief, a donkey, and a whip in the hand of Jesus.
  5. Jesus sees His disciples facing future uncertainty and responds not with details about dates and times and procedures to follow, but with His promise and His presence.
  6. The temple Christ inhabits is His own body and His body has been expanded, as it were, to include both Jew and Gentile in the Church.
  7. The Church is called to be Christ-like and that means reaching out in mercy to the widows, orphans and outcasts-the disenfranchised and helpless-like Christ Jesus gave example.
  8. Jesus, a rich ruler, a. blind man, and a short tax collector.
  9. We have one thing which will never change. We have a shepherd who knows us by name and who promises to speak to us in all of life’s situations.
  10. You have been chosen to come out of the darkness and into this marvelous light, the light of the Resurrection. You are a people who constitute an exodus from racism, sexism, elitism, classism and now participate in a new race of human beings who are, through baptism, the foundational cure for the evils of these things in human society.
  11. The teaching of the Apostles, the fellowship of believers, the breaking of bread and prayer lay out the components of worship.
  12. Erick and Daniel spend a lot of time on a parable Jesus tells to “some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt” and how everyone gets trapped in it. They end by discussing what it means to bring children to Jesus.
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