CAESAREA PHILIPPI - THE BEST FIELD TRIP EVER! (4 OF 8)
Scripture: Matthew 21:19
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Caesarea Philippi - The Best Field Trip Ever! (4 of 8)
Series: Holy Land Highlights
Jordan Easley
Matthew 21:19
In school, as a kid... I always loved it when my teacher brought our class on a field trip. Anybody else with me on that? Who doesn’t love a good field trip? Right?!
For me, there was just something special about getting outside the walls of the classroom and entering a new environment where I could see, and touch, and smell, and experience it, firsthand... using all my senses to absorb new information.
I mean, you can try to explain to me what an anteater looks like... you can tell me how it eats, and how it moves... but it was a gamechanger when my teacher brought me to the zoo and showed me an anteater in real life.
You can try to explain what a space shuttle looks like and describe where the launches take place... but when my teacher brought us to NASA and I saw it with my own two eyes, I understood it on a completely different level.
Today, from [Matthew 16] we’re going to see Jesus (The teacher) take his class of disciples on a field trip... Now, they weren’t on a yellow-dog school bus with green vinal seats and no a/c... They would have traveled by foot through the desert roughly 35-40 miles north of the Sea of Galilee... to the place known as Caesarea Philippi (which would have been about a 2-3-day journey).
Caesarea Philippi sits at the base of Mount Hermon, and it was known (in the first century) as a major hub for worship in that region... but it wasn’t the kind of worship that most of us are most-likely familiar with.
People in that day traveled long distances to come to this particular place... and they did it for one reason... to worship and make sacrifices at the Sanctuary of Pan.
Pan, in Greek mythology was a fertility deity that was bestial... which means, he had the upper body of a man, but he also had the hindquarters, legs and horns of a goat.
That name (Pan) came from the Greek word Paneas... and he wa ...
Series: Holy Land Highlights
Jordan Easley
Matthew 21:19
In school, as a kid... I always loved it when my teacher brought our class on a field trip. Anybody else with me on that? Who doesn’t love a good field trip? Right?!
For me, there was just something special about getting outside the walls of the classroom and entering a new environment where I could see, and touch, and smell, and experience it, firsthand... using all my senses to absorb new information.
I mean, you can try to explain to me what an anteater looks like... you can tell me how it eats, and how it moves... but it was a gamechanger when my teacher brought me to the zoo and showed me an anteater in real life.
You can try to explain what a space shuttle looks like and describe where the launches take place... but when my teacher brought us to NASA and I saw it with my own two eyes, I understood it on a completely different level.
Today, from [Matthew 16] we’re going to see Jesus (The teacher) take his class of disciples on a field trip... Now, they weren’t on a yellow-dog school bus with green vinal seats and no a/c... They would have traveled by foot through the desert roughly 35-40 miles north of the Sea of Galilee... to the place known as Caesarea Philippi (which would have been about a 2-3-day journey).
Caesarea Philippi sits at the base of Mount Hermon, and it was known (in the first century) as a major hub for worship in that region... but it wasn’t the kind of worship that most of us are most-likely familiar with.
People in that day traveled long distances to come to this particular place... and they did it for one reason... to worship and make sacrifices at the Sanctuary of Pan.
Pan, in Greek mythology was a fertility deity that was bestial... which means, he had the upper body of a man, but he also had the hindquarters, legs and horns of a goat.
That name (Pan) came from the Greek word Paneas... and he wa ...
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