The Disciple's Walk
Jerry N Watts
Matthew 5:13-16
Jesus Christ, God's only Son, stepped out of eternity into time that you and I might have the opportunity to step out of time into eternity. He lived, died, resurrected, and ascended so that we might find forgiveness of sin and a personal relationship with the Father. His life was given to 'seek and save those who are lost', which is everybody.
While on earth, His invitations to all people were the same, "Come, Follow Me". If we been in the crowd, the invitation would have carried this meaning, "Because you believe in me enough to come to where I am and hear me teach, take the next leg of the journey to follow Me and become my disciple." With every word He spoke and every action He took, He was seeking disciples, learners, and followers. With Jesus it was (and is) all or nothing. In fact, one time He turned to the 12 and said, "Will you also abandon me?" Jesus understood commitment and called every person to it.
The older I get and the more I read this book, the more I seem to understand the call of Jesus, the more I am convinced that His call was the same to all - "Follow Me and be my disciple." Not only 'be' my disciple but become a part of my team and 'as you are going into this lost and needy world, make disciples of others." Of the 50+ Bible translations, paraphrases, or transliterations that I checked, 75% of them rendered His words in the Matthew 28 passage in this ways, "Go therefore and MAKE DISCIPLES of all nations." The KJV renders it, "God ye therefore and teach all nations" but remember, in the 1600's teaching was not just an academic exercise, it was an action.
Let me pause and give a confession and a statement. Mark Kroner came through a couple months back talking about the "AI" technology that would write stuff for you.
This week I ask the ChatGpt this question: Define a Christian Disciple: "A Christian disciple is a person who has chosen to follow Jesus Christ, to learn from H ...
Jerry N Watts
Matthew 5:13-16
Jesus Christ, God's only Son, stepped out of eternity into time that you and I might have the opportunity to step out of time into eternity. He lived, died, resurrected, and ascended so that we might find forgiveness of sin and a personal relationship with the Father. His life was given to 'seek and save those who are lost', which is everybody.
While on earth, His invitations to all people were the same, "Come, Follow Me". If we been in the crowd, the invitation would have carried this meaning, "Because you believe in me enough to come to where I am and hear me teach, take the next leg of the journey to follow Me and become my disciple." With every word He spoke and every action He took, He was seeking disciples, learners, and followers. With Jesus it was (and is) all or nothing. In fact, one time He turned to the 12 and said, "Will you also abandon me?" Jesus understood commitment and called every person to it.
The older I get and the more I read this book, the more I seem to understand the call of Jesus, the more I am convinced that His call was the same to all - "Follow Me and be my disciple." Not only 'be' my disciple but become a part of my team and 'as you are going into this lost and needy world, make disciples of others." Of the 50+ Bible translations, paraphrases, or transliterations that I checked, 75% of them rendered His words in the Matthew 28 passage in this ways, "Go therefore and MAKE DISCIPLES of all nations." The KJV renders it, "God ye therefore and teach all nations" but remember, in the 1600's teaching was not just an academic exercise, it was an action.
Let me pause and give a confession and a statement. Mark Kroner came through a couple months back talking about the "AI" technology that would write stuff for you.
This week I ask the ChatGpt this question: Define a Christian Disciple: "A Christian disciple is a person who has chosen to follow Jesus Christ, to learn from H ...
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