What Was Jesus Point Of The Teaching?

Many people do not know that loving your enemy is the heart of the gospel. Although loving and praying for your enemy may seem impossible at times, it is written in the gospel of Matthew that loving your enemy is loving God. In Matthew 5:43, Jesus teaches about loving your enemy, praying for your enemy, and shows examples of loving your enemy.

Matthew 1:44 says, “But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” (Matthew 1:44). This verse means that God wants us to love and pray for our enemies, not to hate them. This verse is also true in a lot of different books like The Bronze Bow. In the novel The Bronze Bow, by Elizabeth George Speare, the theme “Love can overcome Hate” is shown by Samson, Jesus, and Simon to Daniel.

In contrast Pope Benedict XVI’s book, Jesus of Nazareth, stated that the ‘Kingdom of God’ is “… an inner disposition characterised in daily behaviour by adopting the mind and outlook of Christ…” A teacher of the law once asked Jesus, “Which commandment is the most important?” He deemed loving God and your neighbour as the two most important. So here it is clear that Jesus is talking about love as a major theme in personal conduct a theme which is exemplified by biblical stories of Jesus’ own behaviour. Jesus demonstrated his love for others on many occasions and in many different ways. He spoke to people who were outcasts or disliked such as the woman at the well and Zacchaeus. He met people’s physical needs through some of his

Lastly Jesus teaches us about chapter 5 verses 43-48, which explains that you should love your neighbor, and love your enemies. Pray for the people that mistreat you, by doing that you will be acting as a child of God. If you love only that loves you, what 's really the point? How does that make you different from anybody else? Jesus explains you are to be perfect like God is perfect.

Some critics of this passage would argue that there are two sets of behavior standards given for Christian and Jews. In order to obtain salvation in Jewish faith one must follow the rule of like and ceremony. In order that a Christian obtain salvation they must only believe in Christ. Some were worried that this new religion would be saturated by people who wanted to commit acts against the law and still be saved because they professed to believe in Christ. The concept of grace and mercy was a foreign one and harsh judgment was a reality of the day. The other part of this verse was, is Christ a master of sin?

He sought to stay close to God by avoiding committing “the sins of the flesh,” again. He wanted to live a more righteous life than he had when he was living against the will of God. He felt that each person, should, above all things, have a relationship with God.

‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. The second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two precepts hang all the law and the prophets’ (Mathew 22.37, 38, 39, 40). ‘By this all men know that they are my disciples, if ye have love one to another’ (John 13.35) …’He who loveth God loveth his brother also’ (1 John 4.21) …’If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar’ (1 John 4.20) …The first thing that takes our attention is the saying of Jesus, ‘Thou shalt love,’ etc. (501-2)

A biblical worldview should influence the way I think about, treat, and speak to others on a daily basis because I do not want to go around and degrade everyone that comes into sight. I should always treat others with the upmost respect even if I do not get treated with respect by that individual. I should not always judge others on how they look, speak, or act because I would not like it if someone came up to me and started pointing out every flaw that I had. Matthew 7:12 states “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” Therefore, individuals need to be more mindful of their words and actions because an individual can really hurt someone mentally, physically, and emotionally.

Jesus uses Himself to teach others about Him through His Word. Jesus wants you to be able to open up your mouth and command order to flow from it. There were about five thousand men all over the place and were speaking all at the same time and wanted their voice to be heard over someone else. Jesus gave an order to the disciples for order by having the men sit down in groups of fifty.

Henceforth it says to treat everyone with love and the way we expect others to treat us.

As I look around and see so many people in darkness oblivious to the need of a Savior or even what he has done for us it truly breaks my heart. I see so many hopeless, hurting and, abandoned souls that need to know that God loves them and will never leave them nor forsake them according to. When I serve at my church in the food pantry and see the countless of individuals coming into the pantry for natural food but also in need of spiritual food. Jesus said that “man should not live off bread alone but by every word that proceeds out the mouth of God” Matthew 4:4. Observing these things makes my purpose very clear to me. For Jesus told us to “Go into the entire world and preach the gospel to every creature.” As I submit to God and his call I pray in doing so I hope that souls would be

The original 1st century hearers and readers of this text would have had taken away many meanings from this text. The first being that even those that spent the most time with Jesus did not believe that he had resurrected at first (24:11), but the redemptive work of Christ was successful. This success now gives eternal life in heaven without the success we would not be possible.

The point of this assignment is to discuss the passage chosen, as well as information regarding the historical/cultural background of the passage and applying it to my life as a human being. It is also important that I apply this information on the passage to the Christian life or church ministry. The passage I have chosen for this assignment is from Matthew chapters 5-7 and is labeled “The Sermon on the Mount”. The Sermon on the Mount is the longest and most prominent of the five discourses of Jesus in Matthew. The whole point of the Sermon on the Mount was to show people who converted to Christianity how to live. It is to show how Christians should live in their actions, words, thoughts, and others ways of life. With that being said, this way of life was preached by Jesus Christ as he “went up on the mountain” to deliver his powerful message. The information for this passage is in, of course, the bible and our textbook “Encountering the New Testament”, as well as many other resources on the web that are related to the bible and passage.

The gospel according to Matthew is full of the Lord’s messages of love, how you should love people, and the types of people you should love if you follow the messages and teachings of Jesus. This gospel also provides an outline of the way people who seek to be a part of the Catholic faith should live their lives. Focusing specifically on love and how you should treat other people, Jesus gives precise directions on how we should approach and deal with others, especially those who wrong us. One of the instructions Jesus provides for us through Matthew is, “But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven;” (Matthew 5:44-45). The word of Jesus is very clear here, that we should love all those around us, our neighbors and even those who wish the worst on us. His message becomes even more clear when

Everyone enjoys stories and a major plus is that we can learn a lot from stories that are told, especially the parables told in the Gospel of Matthew. Jesus used these stories to help teach people important lessons, and we can still learn from them today! When Jesus began to teach using parables his disciples were confused. In Matthew 13:10-16 the disciples asked Jesus why he taught this way, and he explained it to them by saying, “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him” (Matthew 13:11-12). In his teachings Jesus knew he could not tell the crowds everything he knew, the purpose of His Parables were to reveal some teachings to the people, but to keep some information from them as well. Of course, the disciples already knew what they needed to know, but some people were not completely ready yet to fully believe Jesus is the Son of God. As Matthew 13:14-15, Jesus describes their hearts as being calloused and they cannot see or hear. Making it quite difficult for them to receive Jesus as their savior.