Please join our new Mentor 123 campaign starting this coming Easter Sunday, March 31, 2013!
What you need to do is to find two more people meeting once a week for three months, encouraging each others to have daily devotion - a daily intimate personal relationship with Jesus!
To create a momentum to this new yearly campaign I am going to start a new blog and podcast on that day. I will direct my two blogs and podcasts to that new site to have a 40 days BREAK.BUILD daily devotion. For a preliminary format please go to this site: http://www.breakbuild.blogspot.ca/ .
You can see the layout and titles of all 40 days. Come on , let's get two more people to start a daily tasting of Jesus wonderful banquet specially prepared for us!
Today's Reading: Luke 20: 9-19
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Bible Study
Yesterday's passage tells us that Jesus is being challenged of His authority. Today's passage shows us how Jesus uses the parable of the tenants to tell people how He is going to exercise His Messianic authority in God's time.
N.T. Wright says:
What sort of reaction will the gospel receive when it is announced in places where people use religion - including Christianity! - as a means of reinforcing their own security instead of shining God's light into the world? It may well mean rejection and violence; the history of Christian martyrdom, not least in the last century, bears stark witness to that.
But the vineyard owner will have the last word. Not only is the blood of the martyrs always the seed of the church. What happened to Jesus was not just an example of what always happens under these circumstances. It was the decisive victory. Ever since then, his followers have gone on their mission, not in order to try yet one more time to persuade the rich, the powerful and even the religious to accept God's way of peace and love, but in order to declare, by their life and their words, that this way has already triumphed in Jesus, that the renewed vineyard is bearing fruit, that the new Temple is being built, with its corner-stone already in place.
Are you in the renewed vineyard with its corner-stone already in place? Where is Jesus in your vineyard?
N.T. Wright says:
What sort of reaction will the gospel receive when it is announced in places where people use religion - including Christianity! - as a means of reinforcing their own security instead of shining God's light into the world? It may well mean rejection and violence; the history of Christian martyrdom, not least in the last century, bears stark witness to that.
But the vineyard owner will have the last word. Not only is the blood of the martyrs always the seed of the church. What happened to Jesus was not just an example of what always happens under these circumstances. It was the decisive victory. Ever since then, his followers have gone on their mission, not in order to try yet one more time to persuade the rich, the powerful and even the religious to accept God's way of peace and love, but in order to declare, by their life and their words, that this way has already triumphed in Jesus, that the renewed vineyard is bearing fruit, that the new Temple is being built, with its corner-stone already in place.
Are you in the renewed vineyard with its corner-stone already in place? Where is Jesus in your vineyard?
Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"
Spiritual Journal
What I heard from Jesus today is: Are you in the renewed vineyard?
If you have been intimidated, attacked and beaten by those cruel tenants, don't be afraid. Your sacrifice will never be in vain. The blood of the martyrs is always the seeds of the church. The owner, God himself, will have the final judgement! Those who kills will surely eat their own fruit!
What you need to concern is whether you are one of those cruel tenants treating God's servants badly? Whether you are in the renewed vineyard? Whether Jesus is the corner-stone of your own church? Whether Jesus is your Lord? That is what we need to be really careful!
What you need to concern is whether you are one of those cruel tenants treating God's servants badly? Whether you are in the renewed vineyard? Whether Jesus is the corner-stone of your own church? Whether Jesus is your Lord? That is what we need to be really careful!