Victory Life KY
Commissioned VI
Episode Summary
Remember, we’ve been commissioned, entrusted with supervisory authority for a specific action.
Episode Notes
- Matthew 28, MSG,CEV- God authorized and commanded me to commission you: Go out and train everyone you meet in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and teach them to do everything I have told you.
- Now as with everything pertaining to Jesus and His Kingdom, faith is the constant.
- Remember, we’ve been commissioned, entrusted with supervisory authority for a specific action.
- This assignment isn’t just about telling people that Jesus offers humanity eternal life, it’s creating disciples that openly acknowledge our allegiance and reliance in Christ.
- I believe that everything Jesus did with His life here was not only pointing to what He was about to accomplish on the cross, but showing us what humanity, anointed by the Holy Spirit is supposed to look like.
- Remember, Jesus told His first disciples to go and teach others to do everything He told them.
- In Matthew 9, Jesus goes back to His home town and right away, guess what’s the first thing He does? He heals a paralytic. I like Marks version of this passage.
- Mark 2:1-12,NKJV- And again He entered Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that He was in the house.
- Immediately many gathered together, so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door. And He preached the word to them.
- Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men.
- And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying.
- When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
- And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,
- “Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
- But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts?
- Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘ Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’?
- But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” —He said to the paralytic,
- “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.”
- Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
- Then He calls Matthew to be a disciple and immediately goes to hang out with Matthew’s sinner friends, where He makes this radical statement from the prophet Hosea in v.13, “But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
- Matthew 9:17 Jairus comes to Jesus about his daughter and is interrupted by the women with the issue of blood.
- Once again Mark gives us much more detail. Jesus tells Jairus, “Don’t be afraid, only believe.”
- v.29, He tells two blind men, “According to your faith, let it be done to you.”
- Matthew 9:35-38,NLT- Jesus traveled through all the towns and villages of that area, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And he healed every kind of disease and illness.
- When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. He said to his disciples, “The harvest is great, but the workers are few.
- So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields.”
- Matthew 10:1,NKJV- And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.
- v.7-10,“And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’
- Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.”
- He warns them of persecution, He also tells them they’ll be brought before kings as a testimony.
- v.25, It’s enough that a disciple be like his teacher.
- v.27, Then he says whatever I tell you in the in the dark, speak in the light and preach from the housetop.
- Don’t be afraid, I know the number of hairs on your head.
- 10:37-40, “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
- And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.
- He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.
- He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”
- In chapter 11, John the Baptist asked if Jesus was the Christ or do we look for another?
- v.4-5, “Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.”
- Remember, Jesus told the 11, it’s to your advantage that I leave.
- v.11, “Assuredly, I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”
- v.28-30, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
- Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
- For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
- The legalistic, religious system of that day was a severe burden, but Jesus is introducing a brand new way of living.
- Matthew 12:7-8,NKJV- But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.
- v.8, For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
- v.15, a great multitude followed Him and He healed them all.
- Later in the chapter Jesus is still teaching about the Kingdom and He says that any kingdom divided against itself cannot stand.
- A tree is know by its fruit. This is a heart thing. Remember, from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
- v.36-37, “But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
- As we go into chapter 13, Jesus begins revealing one of the foundational principles of how the Kingdom of Heaven operates in the parable of the sower.
- Matthew 13:10-13,NKJV- “And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
- He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
- For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
- Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.”
- As Jesus explains this parable, in Mark’s version He says this, “He who has ears to hear, let him. Then He goes on to say, if you don’t understand this parable, you won’t understand any of them.
- Luke’s writing of this account lets us know that the seed is the word of God.
- Matthew 13:19-23,NKJV- “When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.
- v.20, But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;
- v.21, yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
- v.22, Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
- v.23, But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”
- Throughout this chapter Jesus repeatedly tells us through different parables about what the Kingdom of Heaven is like.
- Matthew 14 Jesus feeds the five thousand, v.16, “But Jesus said to them, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.”
- Jesus walks on water as well as Peter. And once again, “As many as were brought to Him were healed.”
- Matthew 15 shows us the only other account Jesus referred to as “great faith.” v.28, “Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.”
- Once again in chapter 15, Jesus heals all the sick that came to Him.
- Matthew 16:15, “He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”