Mathew Chapter 8<\/p>\n
How do you perceive Jesus?\u00a0 In this chapter we experience some amazing healings.\u00a0 There are many reasons one ventures over to Jesus, and our reasons are formulated by our perspective of the personhood of Christ.\u00a0 In this chapter we see first an enthusiastic leper who could not keep quiet about what happen to him.\u00a0 The only reason for not telling people was to allow Jesus to minister more in the city, but now because of His fame Christ had to move outside the city.\u00a0 The next person we see healed is a humble man.\u00a0 This centurion was very powerful and rich but understood that Jesus was God and above all.\u00a0 The centurion did not feel worthy to have Christ in His home.\u00a0 Because of this demonstration of humility and awe before the Son of God, Christ said there was not anyone else with any greater faith.\u00a0 True faith is void of pride and totally surrenders to the power and ways of Christ.\u00a0\u00a0 As we continue through the chapter we see Peter\u2019s mother-in-law (by the way this means Peter was married) was healed to serve Christ.\u00a0 Further in the chapter we see people being compassionate for others and bringing them to Christ.\u00a0 There are many reasons we get excited about following Christ and bringing others to Him.\u00a0 Your perspective must be generated out of a sense of need for Christ, and that He is truly God.\u00a0 Without a solid truthful perspective we will fall away when earthly things call us.\u00a0 The Apostles had not yet developed a deep faith that could withstand a storm in their life.\u00a0 Jesus said they had little faith.\u00a0 I think I would have woken Jesus up as well in the storm.\u00a0 The point is do we trust Christ with our eternal life as well as our earthly life?<\/p>\n
The last perception of Christ in the chapter is that Christ is bad for business.\u00a0 Jesus cast demons out of two men.\u00a0 The demons who knew Jesus as the Son of God were cast into the swine.\u00a0 This of course caused the business to go under and the people not wanting Jesus to be in their region any longer.\u00a0 No celebration for these two men! There wasn\u2019t any celebration for these men being set free.\u00a0 Is Christ more important than your business?\u00a0 Are people more important than your business?\u00a0 There is so much about saving dogs on facebook.\u00a0 I am against treating animals poorly, but don\u2019t lose sight that we humans are God\u2019s crowning creation.\u00a0 Humans are the only creation where God breathed in the breath of life and we became a living soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}