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Tackling Tradition 56: The Rich Young Ruler

  Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good  Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?” 17  So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one  is  good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.” 18  He said to Him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’  19  ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ” 20  The young man said to Him, “All these things I have kept from my youth. What do I still lack?” 21  Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” 22  But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. Some people think that this text proved that Yeshua taught a species of ...
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The Beattitudes As Law & Gospel (Part 3)

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.  ( Matthew 5:1 , ESV) God spoke all these words, saying, I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.  (Exodus 20) And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:  ( Matthew 5:2 , ESV) You shall have no other gods before   me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You  shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This  is the grea...
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The Beattitudes As Law & Gospel (Part 2)

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.  ( Matthew 5:1 , ESV) God spoke all these words, saying, I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.  (Exodus 20) And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:  ( Matthew 5:2 , ESV) You shall have no other gods before   me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You  shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This    is the gr...
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The Beattitudes As Law & Gospel (Part 1)

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.  ( Matthew 5:1 , ESV) God spoke all these words, saying, I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.  (Exodus 20) And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:  ( Matthew 5:2 , ESV) You shall have no other gods before   me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You  shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. Kingdom Longing  Matthew 5:3 - 6 Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those wh...
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Tackling Tradition 55 - O Ye Of Little Faith

14 And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and, kneeling before him, 15 said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he has seizures and he suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. 16 And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.” 17 And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.” 18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly. 19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” 20 He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”  ( Matthew 17:14–20 , ESV) On first glance, the text presents us with a...
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