Jesus is Insulting

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We're going to talk about scriptures laced around that article as well, and we're going to talk about how Jesus yes was meant to be insulting a little bit, how we're supposed to stir us up in faith and more. Now, this may be your first time listening to us. Maybe your non believer, atheist, Maybe you're someone that's of that

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through testimony, stories, transparency, and hopes of transformation. So let's get transformed today on this episode of Let's Get Biblical. I was digging on the internet last week and things just pop up, as we know, and I have a lot of biblical things that pop up, especially when I follow websites like MSN dot com. They have some good articles from time to time. In this one article popped up in the title said Jesus is insulting. Okay, clickbait click.

I clicked on it, started to read a little bit of it, passage here, passage there. I didn't quite read it collectively because I want to read it with you guys, because I want you to experience with God is showing me in my heart at that time about a particular maybe writing in that article, and we can share it together. There's some great scripture inside this too. But before we get started, remember we always got to remember that Jesus

was a little insulting because he was insulted. There were times that he would go into the tabernacle when they were trying to collect taxes. And remember the tabernat is where they went to worship God. And he came in and turned over those titles and those tables and said, listen, this is a house of worship. How dare you collect money in a house of worship. But Jesus insults us sometimes?

Or are we egotistical thinking he's insulting us. Either way, he's stirring up that fire in your hearts to go after him. So let's read a little bit what MSN dot com has to say today, but let's go into prayer. Dear God, we come to you in the precious name of Jesus in the Holy Spirit. We thank you for another opportunity to share the Gospel to our family, friends and others all over the world. Lord speak to us in this article, show us what you want to show us,

and lead us down the lighted paths. We pray in the precious name of Jesus amen, All right, MSN dot Com Here we go. Starts off by saying, many years ago, when I'd be talking to unbelievers, I'd throw something out there and I'd hope that would get them thinking about the core of cris Christianity and Jesus. Normally, non Christians would stiff arm the faith and they would have a bunch of complaints about the church and being hypocritical about

the Church. Also, they had some intelligent issues about it surrounding the belief of God. Now we've heard this before, right guys, we'll pause right there. We'll hear people test us faith believers with science, theology, and history. We've been hearing this for years, nothing new to us, right. Well. The article goes on by saying, some of those criticisms, as you know, are valid and others are pretty bad.

But because Christianity founded the rests on a divine person, I learned to table those criticisms and ask them a simple question to get down to the heart of the matter. What don't you like about Jesus. We're going to pause there. You may be a non believer, you may be somebody just testing the faith. Somebody has stumbled upon this podcast and you've been looking for something in your life, and you've heard about Jesus. You've read about Jesus. He's a

historical character, right, No, he's a historical person. There are thousands of counts that people have seen Jesus on this planet. He was here as a human. He has left us, but he is now in spirit. I love Jesus, I know what he's done in my life. But there's a lot of you that question, just like this, what don't I like about Jesus. Well, that's what we're gonna ask today, what don't you like about Jesus? In this article? At the time, I thought it would be awfully hard for

someone to rail about a person of Christ. After all, when Jesus was allegedly put on trial by his enemies, Mark tells us now, the chief priest and the whole council kept trying to obtain testimony against Jesus to put him there death, and they were not finding anything. That's according to Mark, chapter fourteen, verse fifty five. You already can see right there. They've been trying to find ways to put Jesus down for years. I mean, for instance,

the resurrection. Some of you don't believe in the resurrection, right. Ah, his disciples took them. Ah, the disciples kind of snuck them out. Hold on, let's back up. You're to tell me the same people that were walking up Gogatha Hill as he was getting beat slandered, spit upon carrying a huge cross, somebody had to help carry it with him. Not even one of his own disciples carried that cross with him, by the way, you're to tell me those

same disciples were to overthrow two Roman trained guards. The disciples were cowards, you heard me. The disciples were cowards. They had countless chances to overthrow the Roman guards. Roman government didn't. They were cowards. They were scared, they were tired, they were hungry, they were lonely knowing where Jesus was heading on that faithful day. So you're to tell me they moved this big old stone, they jumped these two

Roman guards, and all of a sudden, they moved Jesus's body. Well, did you know that those guards the next day saw the tomb empty, and they didn't even go to Ponscious Pilot, their leader, to tell them what happened. Because what would happen to those Roman guards? Guys? When you were a Roman guard or a part of the Roman Empire fighting. You were on mission daily and if you failed any mission,

you were reprimanded for that. You got in trouble. Do you think these two guys that lost this very important figure that was uprising a community, we're gonna just go tell their leader. No, they ended up going to the Sadducees and Pharisees who wanted Jesus dead, that didn't want the story of Jesus out there. So the Sadducees and Pharisees paid off these two Roman men. And I would love to know where those Roman guys went to this day,

because we didn't hear from them since then. The Pharisees and Sadducees paid them off to create a story saying, oh, the disciples came and took them. Really, let's go back to what I just stated. Guys, you're to tell me the same cowards that didn't do anything as he was walking that cross up the hill were to overthrow two more Roman guards and move that huge stone and move the body and carefully fold his linens and put it down on the tomb. Just throwing that out there goes

into Mark fourteen fifty five. Now, the chief priests and the whole council kept trying to obtain testimony against Jesus to put him to death, and they were not finding any Mark fourteen fifty five. The article goes on and says Christ's enemies had literally dodged every step, sent false disciples to try to trick him into some verbal gath, and yet there was absolutely no dirt they could pull up against him. So how could anyone today think anything different?

Right on a very rare occasions, it says, some more learned about the Bible and would raise the complaint about Jesus supposedly calling a Cannonite woman a dog Matthew Chapter fifteen twenty one through twenty six, or following the atheist philosopher Burton Russell in a dinging Jesus because he believed in hell. There is one very serious defect on my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that he

believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who was really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. This is what the atheist philosopher Bertnand Russell had said. Well, what does the article continue to say? But those things aside? It was normally hard for a person I was conversing with to list out reasons to dislike Jesus, and yet most times there was still a firm resistance to him, an unwillingness to change their mind about Christianity and sign

on the bottom line as they speak. While that confused me. Back then the writer goes on saying, I get it now. When understood and not superficially dismissed, Jesus is quietly and indistinctively insulting to everyone not born again. The next topic goes on and says, go away Jesus. Tim Keller has said that the presentation of the Gospel typically produces one of two responsible responses in people. One side says they don't need forgiveness where areas? The other side says that's

too easy, leading him to conclude Grace is insulting. I could spend another podcast on Grace alone. I could share my testimony. When I first saw Grace save my family for the second time, I almost lost my family again. I lost a family early on in my life because I didn't have Christ in my life. I allowed the

world to run me. I thought it was all about the white picket fence going for the money, not worrying about my kids and my family, and doing things that made me happy because I was working so hard in this worldly affair. I hope that makes sense. We're so inabord by the brass ring that is not even there in life when we should be going for the crown of Christ. Think about that. Stop going for the brass ring,

and go for the crown of Christ. The article goes on by saying one group is offended by Jesus because he tells them that they need forgiveness and are thus bad, and the other side is upset with Christ because he tells them nothing they do is good enough to earn favor with God. And that's just for starters. That's according

to this article. Now, if you're a follower of Christ, you're like, ho, hold on, let's back that up, Katie, and I'm going to When it comes to forgiveness, all we have to do is come to Him and repent. It doesn't matter what you've done. Remember, no sin is greater than the other. Yes, you heard me right. A murderer in jail that has murdered fifteen people, or even your baby is no different than somebody who's has performed adultery.

Those sins are the same underneath God. But when we repent and truly come to God to change our lives, he gives that forgiveness. He gives us grace. This is why we're able to go out and talk about the Gospel, share the love that He's given us when we don't deserve it. So right there that article, up to there, I can really disprove some of the people that believe what this writer was saying. And the reason why people don't believe that is because they don't know God, they

don't know the relationship. They know the Bible. They read a book, and they read the book like they read any other book. They read it like a historical document. Well is it a historical document, absolutely, but it is so much more than that. It is that love letter to us. And when you break it down word for word, phrase for phrase for chapter, paragraph or paragraph, and actually read it in the context that God is meant to be through divinely written writers, you truly start to see

what the Gospels all about. You really do. Now, The article continues, goes on saying that you're going to see things just like this, people question our faith. People are going to question everything that they see. Well, what about evolution? Well what about a dinosaurs? Dinosaurs are not in the Bible. Yeah, actually they are. There's a word called terror in talked about a large lizard creature, behemoth. Go look it up. Go look up monsters of the Bible. There's actually a

book talks about these things. The word dinosaur was not created until the eighteen hundreds. What about dragons? We see pick drawings depictions of dragons all the time. Could they be here? Dinosaurs? These are things that are always questioned by non believers. Well it's not in the Bible. Well, they're not going to put everything in the Bible. Do they put everything into a history book about George Washington?

I want you to think about that. We have history books on George Washington crossing the Delaware right, amazing accomplishments in American history. But oh, did he go to the bathroom? Did he did? He? Did he go on the toilet? I don't see us writing about that. I don't think he ate. They're not going to write about these things. I joke about it because it's silly to think. If you're going to compare everything that needs to be in

the Bible that means they had to write down. Okay, today I got up, I had a cup of tar in the morning as a dragon flew by my window. These are things not what God is telling these writers to write, because it's about the love letter from God to us on how to achieve in life and beyond. A history book doesn't tell us everything either. Think about that George Washington did he wipe? I don't know he had to. He was human, but I don't know. I never seen him do it. Was Jesus alive. I don't know.

I wasn't there. I never seen him walk the earth. But you have accounts that he did. You have accounts that he has done miracles. Thousands of people have seen him do these miracles. We read about it in the Bible. But you a non believer and atheist, somebody that's questioning their faith, don't look at it as such. But when you open up a history book that talks about d Day, talks about the men that were there, share their accounts. Right, We see biographies on it all the time that share

their accounts. We believe that because we see it. Well, they have video back then, Okay, they didn't have video. They had pen and a paper and they wrote it down on a Torah. Then they transcribe the Torah into the Bibles we hear today. Well, the Tora is different from the Bibles that we read, yes, because words have changed over time. I mean, my kids say words like, man, that's fire, and I'm like, what I mean fire to means means it's hot. That's exactly what they mean. Man,

that bike is fire. Why don't you just say it's hot? But then you could say the word, oh, man, that's hot. That's cool. It means it's cool. You want to have it? Make up my mind as if fire hot or cold. Words change over time, so they're constantly rewriting the Bible. But the problem is we need to go back to collections in the Bible that were divinely written. Because what happens to a story over time, what happens to history over time, it gets watered down and it gets away

from the facts. We as christ followers need to stay as close to the Torah as possible. Older Bibles, the King James version the NIV is good and that's what my church that I go to uses the NIV. But when you start getting to some of these other translations, it's hard. I mean, there's kids today in this society to have their own Bible written. It's cool they understand

it because of the words that they speak. But as long as they're not getting away from the values of the Torah and the values of the original written Bible, we got to stay as close to that. And the reason why I say this today, guys, is the topic of our discussion is Jesus is instantulting. Jesus insult he does, but he's so much more than that. And although this article was clickbait, I kind of tell you, guys to go and look up this article and read the rest

of the article. If you can MSN dot com, go look up Jesus is Insulting MSN dot com. It's a good finish. It's a really deep read. I don't want to go through the whole article because it's really led us to what we're discussing today. You see, when you have a good teacher, mentor family person that has helped raise you, a coach, are they always perfectly good to you, Hey, you did a great job, you're awesome, fantastic. Here's your award,

here's your lollipop. Absolutely not, They shake you up. Sometimes they insult you. I have a kid on a basketball team right now. That is a pain in the butt. That's the best way I can say it. But he's a talent. But I have to shake him up and say, you've got to stop acting this way because he's not used to somebody telling him that. I need to be shaken up in my faith every once in a while, saying, hey, you shouldn't be thinking those thoughts. Those are impure. How

do you fix that? Okay, I heard you. I need to get in the Bible. I need to pray more. Lord help me with this. What shall I do? He's shaking me up. It's only insulting when it's insulting to you. Especially in this world, everybody wants to be right. Everybody wants to talk about their side. If the sky is blue, someone will say it's red. If you're drinking soup, they say, why aren't you using a spoon? There is a constant

battle for wanting to be right. And the only reason I share this with you guys today is because the only time something is in is when it actually affects you. But sometimes being insulted is meant to stir you up and that's exactly what Christ does. Sometimes he stirs you up. There's times that disciples had many questions and then He would speak to him or them in pariables. Why couldn't you just tell me the answer, Jesus, that's what we would say. That's what we say today, right. Why must

you put us through these trials? Why can't you just show me what to do? Well? I did, It's in the Bible. I have a lighted path before you. It's the Bible. Get your nose in it. But because you don't guess what, we veer off the path, we fall down a hill, we get back up, and then we continue to do the same things that we did. We don't find an easier path. We don't grab that Bible. We don't allow God lead, we don't trust in God, we don't give faith to God. We don't allow him

to insult us. And how dare he he's supposed to be a loving God. Well, he's also a fearful God, a vengeful God, a powerful God, an empathetic God, and a loving God. That kind of sounds like our leaders that we have in our lives, our mothers, our fathers, our aunts, uncles, our friends, our coaches, our teachers, our mentors. They're the same way. If you have somebody that's always just telling you good things about you, you're not going to really grow because you're going to think you are

the best thing since slice bread. You won't grow. You'll have ego, and ego hardens your heart. Doesn't teaches you to be humble, which the first thing to come to the Lord is to drop you humility. And when you do that things you go from ego to growing. And it's an amazing thing to see in my life and a lot of lives around us. So again, check out this article MSN dot com. Jesus is insulting. It's a great read. And as we always do on this show, we lay scripture about what we just talked about. We

lay scripture around what we just talked about. See, I stumble right there every week I stumble. Some ofy' all are like, yeah, we get it. You get right back up right. What does the Bible have to say about all this about God or Jesus testing us? The Bible teaches that God tests us to strengthen our faith, to refine our character. I'm reading a book right now called The Disciplines of a godly man talking about how I can be more godly in my family, godly for myself,

and godly in the world. It's an amazing read because we're so draped in worldly crap. Sorry I said it, hey, Listen. Paul used the word dung for saying the word ish. Okay in the Bible, all right, I can, I'll say crap all right. The Book of kat even says that now reading this book, it talks about how the world dumps all this stuff on us, and the reason why they do it is because we don't want to. They don't want us to find God, they don't want us

to develop a relationship with him. It's a power that is amazing and a power that everybody should have. And when you hear the word power, you automatically think superheroes. You think Spider Man, Batman, Superman. Listen, it's an inner power that will help you advance in this world and be prepared for the Kingdom of God that's about to come again. God tests us for strengthen our faith and refine our character. Now there's some good scriptures on trials

for your growth. God allows us to test and produce perseverance. Check out James chapter one, verses two and three, and Romans five three through four. This is fantastic. Also, I love Peter. I love reading about Peter the First Peter. I just wish some of his writings were a little longer. I would love to learn more. But First Peter chapter one, verses six through seven is about the purpose of testing us.

And we'll close today with First Peter. There are so many verses based on our trials, why we go through them, why God tests us, and also why he may do that that's kind of insulting to us. Right, you may think you know everything is like, how dare he test me on this? Well, thou shall not smite God, first and foremost, be careful, and thou shall not question God. Right, that's a lie. By the way, you can question God. You just can't test God. See I just shook you up.

You're like, wait a minute. He can test us, he can insult us, but we can't do that to him. No, because of what he does for us every second of the day, all our lives. You need to go to him. And that relationship is going to grow as we take a look at First Peter chapter six. Here we go

for all the younger generation Chapter six seven. All Right, Chapter six, verse seven states these have come so that the proven genuous of your faith, of greater worth than gold, which perishes even through refining by fire, may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. This emphasizes the importance of faith during the trials. Just remember that I love the beginning that these have come your problems, your issues,

your tests, your trials, your insults towards you. The reason why these th things come to you is to prove your genuineness in faith. And it's a greater work than gold. Instead of getting a gold bar, you are getting so much worth in the eyes of the Father. And when the kingdom comes man, those arms are going to be even wider than I can even imagine, because you just allowed what happened with that insult, that test in faith to grow you. We have to be refined through fire.

Guess what we're all lumpy, rocky stones. And what happens when you refine coal in fire? A diamond is produced through pressure and through fire. And this will be the glory in the honor given to Christ when he is revealed. So don't worry about these insults in life. Don't let these these insults get to you. Why Because these insults are to test us. They really are, maybe a non believer, you're insulted at your job. The insult is to test you.

Are you going to physically do something to that person. Are you going to turn around and kind of take what they kind of said, Hey, you're awful at that. You need to do better, And are you going to do better? Or are you going to take it as a personal insult to affect your day, your week, your month,

maybe your life. Think about it when you're in that job today and some insult comes your way and you just want to do something of the human physical nature against them, Be spiritual, lean on God because that's a fire come in your way to make you a diamond in that situation. You know what, You're right, I'm going to do better. Can you show me how I can

be better at this wall? What? What that person that just said this to you is now in an insulted moment, you could say, wait, wait, wait, I insulted them so they could get away from me. I don't want to work with Wait a minute, maybe they do need my help. They need to be refined. Too be refined together. This is a deep episode, I know, but when you're tested or insulted, lean toward God. Take a moment to pause and say what I need to learn here. I need

to learn patience. I need to learn to work with others. I need this right now because if I learned this part of my job or my life better, it's going to make my relationship better with my wife, my husband, my kids, my mother and father in law, the people around me. Maybe if it's at a job, it helps me get a better position so I can get paid better. Then I can sow into the church of my family.

I don't know that one little change in your faith, though, I know that that perseverance that insult is there to grow you. Guys, thank you for listening to a very deep episode of Let's get Biblical with your boy KD. Please make sure you share this with your friend's family, share it on your social media because when you do that listen, you are even more of a disciple for Christ because you're taking the Gospel to the ends of the earth. Thank you, guys for listening. We'll see you

next week. God bless y'all and take care