Christ Fellowship Church, Deer Lodge, MT - Dr. Thomas R. Wood
Religion & Spirituality:Spirituality
That Which Jesus Must Do or Be
Jesus must be in his Father’s house (about his Father’ business - NIV) (Lk 2:49)
Jesus must go through Samaria (Jn 4:4)
Jesus must preach the good news of the kingdom to other towns (Luke 4:42-43)
Jesus must not let man’s traditions about the Sabbath keep him from doing the work of God (Lk 13:16)
Jesus must do the works of God while it is day (while there is time) (Jn 9:4)
Jesus must go to Jerusalem (Lk 9:22)
Jesus must pursue a course that will culminate with his death in Jerusalem (Lk 13:33)
Jesus must stay at Zacchaeus’s house today (Lk 19:5)
Jesus must suffer many things (Mk 8:31) (Lk 17:25)
Jesus must be rejected by the elders, scribes, chief priests (Mk 8:31) and this generation (Lk 17:25)
Jesus must be delivered into the hands of sinful men (Lk 24:7)
Jesus must be numbered with the transgressors (Lk 22:37)
Jesus must be lifted up (Jn 3:14); killed (Mk 8:31); crucified (Lk 24:7)
Jesus must rise again on the third day (Mk 8:31, Lk 24:7, Jn 20:9) (be raised – Mt 16:21, Lk 9:22)
Jesus must enter into his glory (but only after he has suffered) (Lk 24:26)
Jesus must bring other sheep from another fold into the one flock (Jn 10:16)
Jesus must reign until death is destroyed (1 Cor 15:25)
Five Questions Worth Contemplating
Why must Jesus suffer many things?
Why must Jesus be rejected by the elders, scribes, chief priests, and this generation?
Why must Jesus be killed?
In Jerusalem?
At the hands of sinful men?
While being numbered with transgressors?
By being Lifted up on a Cross?
Why must Jesus rise again (Be raised)?
One Answer to Bind Them All
Matt 26:53-54 – Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? 54 But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?” … But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” The n all the disciples left him and fled.
In light of what Jesus has done, what must we do to be saved, to draw near to God, to live lives according to his will and pleasure, to be all that we were created to be?
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