Reflection About God

2 Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath. 3 Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, "Stand up in front of everyone." 4 Then Jesus asked them, "Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they remained silent. 5 He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. 6 Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill

Now, Theissen presents the Pharisees as being much less unified and opposed to these teachings. For example, Theissen shows the lack of unification on this issue by showing that the two Pharisees do not agree on if it’s permissible to save a sheep who is

he begins to realize he is not worthy to be a god or have everlasting

When dealing with God, on both the practical and spiritual levels, we have two dissimilar concepts running in our heads simultaneously. On the one hand is the concept of God’s ability, of what he is capable of doing, and on the other is the concept of what God will do for us in this particular situation.

From very early on in Everyman, the messenger makes a clear statement that foregrounds, the peregrination of sin and the ramifications of the sin. “Sin starts so sweet but bitter becomes, and tears soon follow.” All of us have experienced a moment of gratification that shortly lead to remorse. When in the depths of these activities, we can sometimes become blind to the hazardous things that eagerly wait to devour our identity. Our identity should be found in God, people and materialistic things will fail

In addition, here is another important element within this story, the Pharisees with the Herodians are setting a trap against Jesus, right? They asked him in seemingly sweet and charming words. “Teacher, we know that You are truthful and teach the way of God truthfully, and are swayed by no one. For You do not regard the person of men. 17 Tell us then, what do You think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” But Jesus perceived their wickedness and I like when Jesus told them: “Why test Me, you hypocrites?” the following is really brilliant. Jesus said: “Show Me the tax money”. Show me the money! Do you knew that the Pharisees themselves, they had forbidden to people to carry idolatrous images? even Roman coins that had any image?

The parable of the Good Samaritan is triggered by a conversation between Jesus and a Lawyer. The notary seeks

Jesus' decision to physically cast out the moneylenders from the temple stands as one of the most interesting events of his life, because it represents what seems to be the only moment in the Gospel narratives where he becomes visibly angry to the point of physical action. While one could argue that Jesus is frequently (and justifiably) angry with the disciples from time to time, this is the only moment that Jesus' anger moves him to physical force. Although the event is recorded in all four of the Gospels, this study will focus specifically on its rendering in Matthew, because when considered in the context of Matthew's larger narrative, one can see how Jesus' decision to cleanse the temple does not represent an aberration in either his character or theological message, but rather the natural culmination of Jesus' life and works prior to that point, and demonstrates a kind of revolutionary, anti-authoritarian element of Jesus' message of salvation that is all too often overlooked by Christians and critics alike.

The problem for the Pharisees was that, Jesus had disobey the laws by healing on the Sabbath. Something that was against the laws. They believe that the healings should have taken place on a different day, and not the Sabbath. Since the Sabbath was a day when no one ought to work. Jesus made a decent point, that if is okay for the Pharisees to take care of their animals on the Sabbath, which is consider doing a chores, then he should be allow to heal a daughter of Abraham. He did not only see them as pretenders, yet those that did not practice what they preach. Besides, they were not abiding by the laws either.

Who is God to you? According to his name, he is the essence of whatever you need at the moment. "I am your strength.” "I am your courage.” "I am your health.”

“It is not seldom that our silence and our prayers do more to bring people to the knowledge of God than all our words about Him”

The remedy when we sin as a believer is to simply confess our sin (1 John 1:9). “Confess” literally means to “agree with” God about that sin. If we still defend the sinful thought or act in any way, we have not confessed. True confession produces a desire to change. But even if we sin the same way again, the solution is again confession. Confessing sin is a major truth of the Christian’s life. Confession brings the cleansing Christ provided (1 John 1:7). All sin is

We have all been there. The moment where all time stands still, as though holding it’s breath waiting to see how a Christian acts in the battle of sin. Yet, the Bible does directly address the problem of sin in a Christian’s life.

Likewise, the Pharisees and the Herodians, a political party at the time, concocted a plan to entangle Jesus in His convictions (Matt. 22:16). The aforementioned leaders orchestrated the plan; however, they sent some of their disciples who were zealous, conscientious men to pose their assumedly trick question to Jesus. At this time in Israel, there was a controversial question of having to pay taxes to Caesar or not and they wanted a clear-cut answer from Jesus (Matt. 22:17).

Two men went into the temple to pray. One, a Pharisee, valued his appearance and works, believing his works would gain him favor in God’s eyes. When the Pharisee prayed, he emphasized the fact that he was better than other people, mentioning his bi weekly fasts and faithful tithing practices. He even pointed out the tax collector as being especially unrighteous. Contrarily, the tax collector approached God in humility. He understood his own inability to save himself. He recognized that he was unworthy to even speak to the perfectly holy, supreme God. Unwilling to even look to heaven, he beat his chest in agony and cried out to God one simple yet striking request: “God, be merciful to me, a sinner! (Lk. 18:13)”