51)
Jesus & Beelzebub - Matthew
12:22-37 -
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a) Matthew
12:22-23 - Is
This The Messiah? -
The main reason why Jesus Christ
came and cast out demons and
healed the people, wasn't
because of just his compassion
but mainly to show the people
that he is the Messiah because
the Messiah according to
prophecy Isaiah
35:5 was
to show the people of the
evidence that he is the promised
Messiah, his proof of it.
b) Matthew
12:24 - Pharisees
Tries to Discredit Jesus Christ -
Because of the Pharisees
dwindling influence on the
people, and that no
ordinary human could cast out
demons, nor heal people, the
Pharisees tried to contribute
Jesus power to the power of
satan (Beelzebub instead of
contributing Jesus power to our
Heavenly Father God.
c) Matthew
12:25-28 - Divided Kingdom
Can Not Stand -
Only God can know the heat &
thoughts of people that also
shows that Jesus
Christ is the son of God, that
is God in the flesh. So in that
Jesus has turned the tables on
the Pharisees showing them that
if Jesus cast out demons by
Beelzebub then who do their sons
cast them out? And then Jesus
points out that a kingdom that
is against it self can not
stand. That is Jesus showing the
power of God and that he is the
promised Messiah that promotes
God would be entirely against
himself if he used the power of
satan in casting out demons and
healing people, that actually
attracts people to God and not
satan.
d) Matthew
12:29 - Jesus Has Taken
Satans Property -
This is to say when Jesus
delivers people from their sins,
cast out demons or
healed the people that Jesus Christ has taken these people away
from satan, and away from their
bondages that satan himself had
them.
e) Matthew
12:30 - Gaither with
Jesus Christ -
If we do not act with Jesus, do
the great commission then we are
against Jesus Christ, and
we are not serving him, but if
we share our faith with the lost
and even work towards bringing
wayward Christians back to Jesus
Christ then we not only are
united with Jesus Christ but we
are being in service to Jesus
Christ, therefore we are for
Jesus Christ.
The Unpardonable Sin - Matthew
12:31-32 -
f) Matthew
12:31 - Jesus
Christ Warns the Pharisees of
Their Blasphemy -
Jesus Christ here warns the
Pharisees that them contributing
his divine power of casting out
demons and healings of people is Blasphemy Against
the Holy Spirit and will not be
forgiven.
g) Easton's
Bible Dictionary Definition of
Blasphemy - Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost (Matthew 12:31,32; Mark 3:28,29;
Luke 12:10) is
regarded by some as a continued
and obstinate rejection of the
gospel, and hence is an
unpardonable sin, simply because
as long as a sinner remains in
unbelief he voluntarily excludes
himself from pardon. Others
regard the expression as
designating the sin of
attributing to the power of
Satan those miracles which
Christ performed, or generally
those works which are the result
of the Spirit's agency.
h) Matthew
12:32 - Do Not Speak
Against the Power of The Holy
Spirit -
If anyone speaks against the
power of the Holy Spirit and his
character will never be forgiven
the person who speaks against
the Workings of Jesus Christ
through the Holy Spirit,
therefore the person that does
such a wicked thing shall never
be saved and enter into the
kingdom of heaven.
A Tree Known by Its Fruits - Matthew
12:33-37 - To
Top^
i) Matthew
12:33-35 - A Persons Words
& Works Reveals their Heart -
In this verse Jesus is referring
to a persons heart. If their
heart is
evil and corrupt so will their works be as well. But if a persons
heart is good, then there works
also will be good works. So
whatever is
in a mans heart he will speak
and do.
j) Matthew
12:36-37 - By
Our Words, Either Justified or
Condemned -
So if one speaks words with evil
intent, or unjust accusations
for
example then on judgment day
they will be held accountable
for their evil words that comes
from a evil heart. And if the
words speaks of Gods Holy
Goodness, good things of one
thing or another, then on
judgment day he will be
justified before our Lord and
shall not receive any
condemnation.
52) The
Sign of Jonah - Matthew
12:38-42 -
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a) Matthew
12:38 - They
Ask for Proof -
The Pharisees & Scribes ask for
proof that God is with Jesus
Christ, even though they may
have
already seen or heard of the
Miracles that Jesus Christ has
already performed and when some
of them has seen his miracles
such as casting demons out, they
accused him of casting the
demons out by the power of satan.
The Pharisees are never
satisfied to any evidence that
God is with Jesus Christ.
b) Matthew
12:39-40 - Evil
People Seeks for a Sign -
It is the whore, that is the
Jewish people, the OT church
that has committed Idolatry
many
times over, the wicked people
who seeks a sign, and yet Jesus
Christ only one sign will they
see, that is a major miracle
more powerful than that of other
miracles that Jesus Christ has
performed, and that is like
Jonah was in the belly of a big
fish for 3 days, so only for 3
Days will Jesus Christ be in the
heart of the earth for 3 days
and 3 nights. The meaning in the
heart of the earth is not
intended to mean that Jesus
Christ went to hell and
preached, then cleared it out,
no it does mean in the grave,
asleep in the grave for 3 days
and 3 nights until he is to be
waken by the power of God to
rise from the grave.
c) Matthew
12:41-42 - People
of Nineveh & Queen Sheba Would
Condemn Them -
The people of Nineveh who
repented at the preaching
of
Jonah and Queen Sheba who sought
wisdom from King Soul would
condemn the Jewish people
because of their sinful and
wicked ways and because the
Jewish people neither seeks the
wisdom of God and yet they have
even more opportunity to repent
and seek Gods Holy Wisdom than
anyone on earth, and yet they
refuse, so they will receive a
greater condemnation than anyone
else who had less opportunity
than them.
An
Unclean Spirit Returns - Matthew
12:43-45 -
a) Matthew
12:43 - The
Jews Would not Find no Rest in
Jesus Christ -
Jesus uses this illustration to
show the Pharisees that if he
was to
show
them a sign, that sure they
might believe in him and appear
that they reform, but only for a
time, but they would not find no
rest in him because their hearts
would not be changed due because
they required physical proof of
a sign that God was with Jesus
without them having any actual
faith in Jesus Christ.
b) Matthew
12:44-45 - The
Jews Would Just get worse -
So because the Jews would not
have actual faith in Jesus
Christ, in other words,
they
didn't make Jesus their rock,
their foundation, they would
return back to how they were,
they would just be worse on
being
wicked than they were before
Jesus showed them a sign.
53) Jesus
Mother & Brothers - Matthew
12:46-50 -
a) Matthew
12:46-47 - Jesus
Mothers/Brothers Wanting to
Speak to him -
These 2 verses refers to Jesus
earthly mother Mary and his
brothers, his siblings that he
was raised up with, Jesus of
course being the oldest and the
first born. Jesus family wanted
to speak to him, to try to stop
him from what he was doing,
because they thought that he was
out of his mind (Mark
3:21).
b) Matthew
48-50 - Jesus
Mother, Brothers/Sisters Do the
Will of God -
Here our Lord Jesus Christ
confirms that his Mothers,
Brothers
and
sisters are only those who do
the will of God, that has left
both mother, father, siblings,
homes and such for his name
sake.
54) The
Parable of the Sower - Matthew
13:1-23 - To
Top^
a) Matthew
13:1-2 - Many
Came to Listen to Jesus Christ -
Evidently Jesus teachings were
so intent and with such
authority and for the
people of the poor, the crippled
and such that countless numbers
as followed Jesus Christ to the
sea shore that he was forced to
go out in a boat in order to be
able to teach the people and be
heard.
b) Matthew
13:3 - Jesus
Spoke in Parables -
The reason why our Lord Jesus
Christ spoke to the people in parables is
because to reveal the
mysteries of heaven to those who
do not have a hardened heart,
nor death ears, they are hidden
from those who do, his truth are
only revealed to those who are
ready for the truths, that is
the mysteries of the kingdom of
heaven.
c) MSN
Works 9 Dictionary;
Definitions of Parable; 1. moral
or religious story: a
short simple story intended to
illustrate a moral or
religious lesson 2. story
ascribed to Jesus Christ: a
parable that appears in the
Bible, as told by Jesus Christ -
(ADDITION) To give an idea of
the mysteries of the kingdom of
heaven in a relative term that
those with open hearts can
understand.
d) Matthew
13:4 - Seeds
by the wayside, They had no
understanding -
(MT
13:19)
This is the people who hears the
gospel preached, to
which
they had no understanding
because of the hardness of their
hearts, so satan snatched away
from them, from what they even
heard.
e) Matthew
13:5-6 - Seeds
on Stony places, They Fall Away
Because of Tribulation &
Persecution -
(MT
13:20-21)
This is a person who
rejoices at hearing the gospel,
Gods Grace, Love, hope, and
praises God for their blessings
etc but when hard times come and
they are persecuted for the
faith they quickly fall away
from the Faith because they had
no real sense of their wretched
condition or love for Jesus
Christ, they had no root to be
able to stand up against
temptations and the hardness
that comets upon those who wish
to live Godly lives.
f) Matthew
13:7 - Seed
Fell among Thorns, The
Distractions of this World
Chokes out the words of God -
(MT
13:22)
These people
hears
the gospel of Jesus Christ but
they have their hearts, and
their minds focused on the
things of this world, the riches
and the concerns of it rather
than having their hearts and
minds focused on the things of
God. They do not examine the
state, that is the condition of
their own souls, so with all of
that, they are more concerned
about receiving worldly gain,
rather than heavenly gain, so
their bodies and souls are set
to be destroyed in the lake of
fire on judgment day
g) Matthew
13:8 - Seed
Fell On Good Ground, Christians
who will enter the kingdom of
Heaven -
These are professed Christians
who has
not
only heard the gospel of Jesus
Christ but also those who
understands, believes in it,
have faith in its truth, and
also who grows in the faith, in
their understandings, their
learning, in their Faith and
then in service to Jesus Christ
when God calls them to use that
knowledge for his glorious
kingdom for unselfish reasons
they share their knowledge and
Faith with the lost and the
Christian communities as well.
h) Matthew
13:9 - Let
Him Hear -
That is those who opened hearts
by the grace of God and those
with understanding by the Grace
of God
hear
what Jesus is warning professed
Christians about, let them hear
to how the professed Christian
hearts and minds should be so
they can be saved.
The Purpose of Parables - Matthew
13:10-17 - To
Top^
a) Matthew
13:10-11 - Disciples
are to know the Mysteries -
Here Jesus Christ wants the
disciples to know the mysteries
of the kingdom
of
heaven especially since they
will be going out later in order
to preach the kingdom of heaven.
But as for the Jews, their
hearts are closed off to hearing
the mysteries, they are not
ready to listen to it, their
hearts are dull, and their ears
do not hear, nor do they
understand.
b) Matthew
13:12-13 - The
Jews Deprived of the Truth -
Because the Jews could neither
have their hearts opened up to
the truth, opened
up to
the knowledge of the promised
Messiah, they can not
understand, nor hear it nor see
the promise has then been taking
away from them, but those who
hearts that are opened up to the
truths and knowledge of God,
their knowledge of the promised
Messiah, the Light shall be
increased even more than before.
c) Matthew
13:14-15 - Isaiah
6:9-10,
Prophesied About The Jews -
Isaiah has foretold the
condition of the Jews corrupt
and sensual
hearts, that because of that
they are not able to understand,
nor see, nor hear the gospel of
Jesus Christ, and in that they
could not see the Old Testament
prophecies being fulfilled that
Jesus Christ is the promised
Messiah, so they walk in total
blindness, total depravity of
spiritual truths.
d) Matthew
13:16 - Jesus
Blesses the Disciples -
Jesus Christ blesses the
disciples because their hearts
are no corrupt, they seek the
absolute of God, so in that they
do see the truth of the gospel
of Jesus Christ and they do hear
the gospel of Jesus Christ.
e) Matthew
13:17 - The
Prophets Longed to See Jesus
Christ -
The prophets of old often longed
to see the promised Messiah, the
coming
hope
for the world, and yet they did
not live long enough to see, to
enjoy the prophecies being
fulfilled concerning the coming
Messiah, that is Jesus Christ.
The Parable of the Sower
Explained - Matthew
13:18-23 -
a) Matthew
13:18-19 - Seed
by The Way Side (False
Christian/A Average Person) -
Jesus Christ commands to hear
the Parable of the
Sower,
in other wise we are to
understand them with our hearts
and minds. The seed is the Holy
Words of God and the birds of
the air represents satan and
because of the people that has
hearts and minds that are so
hardened into sin, that when
they hear the Holy Words of God,
it makes no impression on them,
it doesn't effect them at all,
so when they hear the Holy Words
of God, even that is taking away
from them, that they are no
longer touched by the love of
God because of their own wayward
hearts that invites satan into
their lives with a open
invitation.
b) Matthew
13:20-21 - Seed
on Stony Places (False
Christian) -
These are those who are
professed Christians who quickly
receives the
Gospel of Jesus Christ, their
peace and joy are temporary for
a time, they have no permanent
commitment to Jesus Christ, they
are not true Christians because
when tribulation and persecution
comes along they quickly fall
from the Faith. They never have
seen their guilt of sin, the
danger of their souls being
lost, they never seen their
wretched and sinful conditions
sin and they never seen the true
grace of God, they never had a
change of heart and of mind.
These are false Christians.
c) Matthew
13:22 - Seed
Among The Thorns (False
Christians/Average Person) -
These are false Christians that
because of the
deceitfulness of the riches of
this wicked worlds, its
anxieties and empty promises,
its wayward ways, its empty
philosophies and ideas chokes
the Holy Words of God out of a
persons heart that hears the
word and yet they drown in the
wicked ways of this world that
only encourages gain at any cost
to them selves and the
oppression of other people.
d) Matthew
13:23 - Seed
on Good Ground (True Christians) -
These are the True Christian
that not only hears the Holy
Words of God
because of his Holy Grace, they
receive it honestly and fully
that submits to its complete
truths and not just a part of
it, and this world has no real
meaning to them, their treasure
is not of this world, but their
treasure is the Kingdom of God,
they grow in the Faith, they
learn from Jesus Christ via the
Holy Spirit, they learn the
difference between evil and
good, they resist the evils of
this world, they are over comers
of it, and they are totally
committed and dedicated to their
service in Jesus Christ at any
cost to them selves.
55) The
Parable of the Weeds - Matthew
13:24-30 - To
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a) Matthew
13:24 - Story
about True & False Christians -
In this Parable "The Kingdom of
Heaven" meaning Jesus Christ
rule, his
authority, and "a man" meaning
Jesus Christ himself, and the
"Good Seed" that is the "Wheat"
to which means "True
Christians", the
field
meaning the world.
b) Matthew
13:25-26 - satan
planted false Christians in the
church -
"Tares" or in some Bible Version
"Weeds" to which means false
Christians, the hypocrites that
are apostasy. So in this since
satan couldn't cause the true
believers to fall, he planted
"Tares", false Christians in the
church to try and cause the true
Christians to fall and to try
and hurt the Holy Works of God
in the church that is the Body
of Jesus Christ.
c) Matthew
13:27-29 - Do
not Gather up the Tares (False
Christians) -
Jesus is showing us that if we
try to gather that is separate
the
Tares
(false Christians) from the
Wheat (True Christians) we could
end up trampling the Wheat with
the Tares because it is hard to
tell the difference between the
true and false Christians.
d) Matthew
13:30 - Separation
of False & True Christians -
In the Day of Judgment Jesus
Christ will separate the true
and false
Christians from each other. The
True Christians will be with him
in heaven and the false
Christians will be thrown into
the lake of
Fire
for their Bodies and souls to be
destroyed forever more.
56) The
Parable of the Mustard Seed &
Yeast - Matthew
13:31-32 -
a) Matthew
13:31 - Planting
of The Gospel- The
gospel of Jesus Christ that has
been planted in the smallest &
least of places in this
world
(Israel), and Jesus Christ has
chosen the week & foolish things
of the world the least of the
people of this world to spread
his Holy words among the world.
b) Matthew
13:32 - They
Come for Hope -
And as more of the gospel is
spread through out this world,
the more that some of its people
comes
to Jesus Christ for the hope of
salvation, a hope for eternal
life.
The Parable of the Leaven - Matthew
13:33 -
a) Matthew
13:33 - The
Preparation of the Heart -
A person heart must be prepared
to receive the gospel of Jesus
Christ and as flour
is
kneaded until it reaches the
texture and such that it needs
to be so is a persons heart
until it reaches its Spiritual
Growth in the
Faith
that it needs to be. Sin and
worldliness is worked out of the
persons heart and mind all for
the purpose of advancing the
Christian Faith in SERVICE to
Jesus Christ, Amen!
Prophecy and The Parables - Matthew
13:34-35 -
a) Matthew
13:34 - What
is a Parable? -
According to MSN Works
Dictionary 9, a parable is
a comparison type of moral
religious story
related to for example the point
that Jesus Christ was getting at
when he told a parable of
what the Kingdom of Heaven is
like.
b) MSN
Works 9 Dictionary, Parable -
par·a·ble [párrəb'l] (plural
par·a·bles) n
1.
moral or religious story: a
short simple story intended to
illustrate a moral or religious
lesson
2. story ascribed to Jesus
Christ: a parable that appears
in the Bible, as told by Jesus
Christ
c) Matthew
13:35 - Secrets
of Heaven Revealed -
Since Jesus Christ the truth of
God and the Kingdom of Heaven is
revealed to us, that
is
the true saints of God, but as
he said before, they are hidden
from the Jews because of their
rebellion, their stubbornness
towards
God
and Jesus Christ, so he reveals
his truths to the disciples, &
us gentile Christians so that we
may know the mysteries of the
Kingdom of Heaven.
57) The
Parable of the Weeds Explained - Matthew
13-36-43 -
a) Matthew
13:36 - Explain
to us the Parable of the Tares
of the Field -
The disciples did not know what
the Parable of the Wheat &
Tares
even meant. So they asked Jesus
in private about their meanings.
b) Matthew
13:37-39 - Meanings -
The Son of Man (Jesus Christ)
that sows the Good Seed (True
Christians) in the field (the
World),
but
the tares (sons "false
christians" of the devil)
sprouted up,
c) Matthew
13:40-42 - Unsaved
& False Christians Cast Out -
but the end of the age
(Harvest/Judgment day) the
reapers (Angels)
will
gather up the tares (sons
"Unsaved/False christians" of
the devil) those who practices
sins and will be cast into the
furnace of
fire
(lake of fire) and their bodies
and souls will be destroyed
forever more
d) Matthew
13:43 - Their
(True Christians) Righteousness
Will Shine -
Then that on that day of
judgment/rapture all of the Old
Testament Saints and the New
Testament saints shall all be
gathered up in the barn (Heaven)
and they shall receive their
glory,
their
glorified bodies with no defect
that shall shine fourth through
out all time.
58) Parables;
Hidden Treasure & Pearl - Matthew
13-4-46
a) Matthew
13:44 - Kingdom
of Heaven is of Great Value -
Jesus Christ and his ministry
being that kingdom of Heaven,
that is
represented here. A man that has
heard the gospel of Jesus
Christ, his messages and his
teachings, that cherished Jesus
Christ so much, that he has
given up all of his life, his
past, his old wicked ways, his
very own life. and enters into
the rest. That rest is Jesus
Christ. That man has made Jesus
his rock & foundation, he has
denied him self, he has picked
up his cross, (share in
sufferings & persecutions of
Jesus Christ, at any cost to
himself) and followed Jesus,
learned his teachings, and their
meanings, and applied them
to
his daily life.
The Parable of the Pearl of
Great Price - Matthew
13:45-46 -
a) Matthew
13:45 - Searching
for Truth, & Purpose -
This merchant (Man) one day went
searching for his purpose in
life, and the truth of
life,
as so many of today does search
for truth, but very few people
finds it.
b) Matthew
13:46 - Finding
the Truth & Purpose -
And when that merchant (man)
found the truth that is the
Gospel of Jesus Christ that
gave
him meaning & purpose he truly
seen his sinful condition, he
then cherished Jesus Christ so
much, that he has given up all
of his life, his past, his old
wicked ways, his very own life.
and enters into the rest. That
rest is Jesus Christ. That man
has made Jesus his rock &
foundation, he has denied him
self, he has picked up his
cross, (share in sufferings &
persecutions of Jesus Christ, at
any cost to himself) and
followed Jesus, learned his
teachings, and their meanings,
and applied them to his daily
life.
59) The
Parable of the Net - Matthew
13:47-52 -
a) Matthew
13:47-50 - Separating
the God from the Bad -
This is referring to the last
days when God gathers the world
together on
Judgment day, and he goes
through them separation the good
(Born Again Christians) from the
bad they will receive eternal
life, &
those
who practices wickedness, those
that not only rejected Jesus
Christ but also those who are
professed christians that turned
Gods
Grace into a license for sin
will be tossed into the lake of
fire for their bodies and souls
to be destroyed.
b) Matthew
13:51 - The
Disciples Understood the Parable -
The disciples completely
understood Jesus parable
concerning the last
days
of separating the righteous from
the wicked as Jesus asked them
if they understand what he said.
c) Matthew
13:52 - A
Good Trained Minister -
In this verse Jesus Christ shows
us that a good minister must be
well instructed &
taught on the Kingdom of Heaven
and then he can be a ready
(scribe/minister) to be able to
teach and train others. (See
Mathew Henry's Notes) - A good
minister must be able to teach
from the Old Testament as well
as from the New Testament, in
order to be
able
for their hearers to understand
and learn the complete meanings
of the messages to which the
ministers teach.
60) A
Prophet without Honor - Matthew
13:53-58 -
a) Matthew
13:53-54 - Jesus
Wisdom & Mighty Works -
Jesus came to his own country,
that is his home town that he
was raised up in
and
most of the people there knew
him from childhood. And Jesus
on the Sabbath taught in the
synagogue with such wisdom and
with
such wonderful works that the
people asked where did he get
such wisdom & works.
b) Matthew
13:55-56 - The
People Knows Jesus -
They have known him from
childhood, that his the son of
Joseph and Mary, and that he
also
had brothers and sisters that
were born after him through
Joseph and Mary. They even known
that Joseph was a carpenter and
that he also trained Jesus to be
a carpenter as well.
c) Matthew
13:57 - A
Prophet Without Honor -
When Jesus noticed that the
people were offended at him
because of his great wisdom
& his
wonderful works so in what Jesus
said to them, he suggested that
a prophet only is accepted and
have honor to people not of
their own home town, but of
other people that does not
personally know the prophet.
d) Matthew
13:58 - Lack
of Faith Causes Miracles not to
be Done -
The people had no faith in Jesus
Christ, so he could not to
hardly any
miracles there, and that shows
us one reason why in so many
churches of today that many are
sick, with family problems and
so on because of their lack of
true and sincere faith in Jesus
Christ.
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