... chapter five of the gospel of Matthew we see the basic theme that is put forth throughout the book of Matthew. According to the text (pg 93) it suggested that Matthew is portraying Jesus as the new Moses. Matthew tends to see Jesus as "pouring out" (class notes) and focuses on Jesus" teachings to the disciples and is generally more of a compassionate gospel. So in ... ready to depend on God for your blessings. This is easy to understand. As long as a person remains rich, then in spirit they are self-sufficient and never imagine that they need God. They manage their life and make their cho...

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... 's flock. The sheep need rest and they need to be given food and drink which is safe for them, because they easily harm themselves in search of nourishment (v.2). They wander away and get lost, needing a shepherd to seek them out and restore them (v.3). They need to be shown the correct way, not merely by explanation, but being ... is freedom from passions, keeping your head by avoiding violence, anger, arguments, and alcohol. This comes through self-control and creates the watchfulness which is necessary in a pastor. If a man is tangled in his own sinful passions, how will he rescue ot...

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... is that he is the creator of all things past and present. God holds the future in his hands. He is the savoir of mankind. My relationship to God is one that is indescribable. Everyone has a different and much more complicated relationship with God. My relationship with god is basically factual and ... spiritual. 2. I view Jesus and a creator and a leader. Mostly I view Jesus as a teacher who taught all of the world's people ... and our great clergy what we know today. I believe that Christology is what God has been trying to say for all of these years. God has sent many examples to all...

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... was able to get the reader to look closer at their own life as to how they can fix it. Through the reexamination of the church in the story the reader begins to reexamine themselves. Then the pastor asks the congregation to for one year ask themselves what would Jesus ... great question Charles Sheldon started a fad and a great self awakening. Self awakening is when a person realizes that they need to look at their life and change it some how. Charles started a fad of clothing bracelets and such by asking this question but in actual fact that was not his sincerest intention. The ... t...

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... allusion, and logical ending to portray this theme. An example of character development is a character that evolves from self indulgence into caring about his or her family, and then finally society. Many characters in the novel complete this cycle, especially Tom Joad. When we first meet Tom in chapter two, he is walking down the road in a cheap new suit because he was just released from ... sure no one is looking for him. Until the end, she never shows concern for society. In the last chapter, Rose of Sharon breast feeds a starving man from her milk that was meant for her baby. Theref...

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... , to get you through trials and tribulations. For Hebrews 11:1 states "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." The shield to block the troubles you will face. With faith you can get through anything. Pray all the time. Ask God for anything in the line with the Holy Spirits wishes. Plead with him reminding him ... of your needs. And don't forget to put on the whole armor of God. The helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the ... belt of truth, the feet shod, the shield of faith. So put on the whole armor of God, you will need it t...

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... Eliezer walks past him. The man says "Where is god now?(61)" Eliezer says to him-self "Where is He? He is Here - He is hanging on the gallows (61)" The child has been hanging for about a half of an hour struggling for his life as Jesus also struggled after being nailed to the cross and ... his brothers starring at him as Jesus with his brothers most of the apostles and his followers watching him suffer and finally die. Both of them had made a huge impact on their community. The child would never be forgotten in the eyes of Eliezer and the rest of the camp as Jesus will never be forgotte...

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... Eliezer walks past him. The man says "Where is god now?(61)" Eliezer says to him-self "Where is He? He is Here - He is hanging on the gallows (61)" The child has been hanging for about a half of an hour struggling for his life as Jesus also struggled after being nailed to the cross and ... his brothers starring at him as Jesus with his brothers most of the apostles and his followers watching him suffer and finally die. Both of them had made a huge impact on their community. The child would never be forgotten in the eyes of Eliezer and the rest of the camp as Jesus will never be forgotte...

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... fill a specific gap in ones life or an initiation of a journey and end with a completion of that journey which is usually a fulfillment of that original void. In the three myths examined, the Satanic Verses, Siddhartha, and Luke, a main character begins on a journey, by first realizing a certain need in their life, then moving away from home in search of what they are lacking in which they eventually find ... conflicts either physical or spiritual that lead to transformations of the characters spirituality or physicality. However, transforming is not the final destination because a char...

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... Peter? Acts elevates Peter by describing miraculous things that he did. The first occurrence of these activities is in Acts 3. In this chapter Peter and John were walking into a temple where they came across a crippled man begging for money. Peter told him that he had nothing of monetary value to give to him, but what he did have he would give. ... At that moment Peter told the man that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to ... stand up and walk. After doing this Peter lifted the man up and he began to walk and jump around praising God. The next thing that happens is when people ar...

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... Seminar now discusses technical writings that are sent prior to the gathering. After the 1985 meeting, a book titled "The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus" was published. This was published in 1993. In 1997, a second resulting text titled "The Acts of Jesus: The Search for the Authentic Deeds of Jesus" was published. According to the Seminar, the books assess the words and deeds ... do. We require a new liberating fiction, one that squares with the best knowledge we can now accumulate and one that transcends self-serving ideologies. We need a fiction that we can...

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... to high doth dissolution climb, And sink from high to low, along a scale Of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail;" In the first two and a half lines of the sonnet, Wordsworth compares death ("dissolution") to a musical scale of awful or out of tune notes. Christians are taught of the "stations of the cross," a representation of the 15 stages in Christ's journey to Calvary where he would be crucified. There are ... 8 notes in a musical scale; the C scale, as an example, contains the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B, and repeats C again an octave higher. When playing a full scale, you"d pla...

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... are very similar to the ones in Mark's Gospel. This is where Jesus performs most of his miracles and is at the heart of his teachings. Like in the Gospel of Mark Jesus also heals the sick and drives out a number of demons in Matthew's Gospel. One of the stories that I enjoy that shows how miraculous Jesus was is in chapter eight of Matthew where he calms the storm and it ... says, "Save us Lord, we are Lost! And he said to them, why are you so frightened, you who have so little faith. And then he stood up and rebuked the winds and the sea." As you can imagine the disciples on the boat w...

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... Higher Power. Not much is known about the actual details of his life, but a lot is known about the way he lived his life, his teachings, and healing powers. The article notes that Jesus and other prophets relied on the Spirit world to gain power. Jesus used his power in order to help people who were suffering and to change the social order ... of his time. The turning point in Jesus" life is when his cousin John baptized him. It was then that ... were impressed by what they saw as well as by what they heard. They saw the transformation of lives. The newly converted Christians loved one...

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... to lead ourselves and ultimately this is achieved on a higher spiritual plane. By leading ourselves properly we are in turn able to help lead other. The second chapter we will examine is "Cleanse your insides". This chapter examines how to keep your insides clean, your heart, so that your outsides will project your purity. "Are ... , we need to make sure our teeth are extra white so that we can have that winning smile or if we don't have the newest line of shoes or clothing it will say that we aren't "keeping up with the Jones"" But Jesus wasn't concerned with that. He was concerned by w...

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... . Chapters two and three include John's letters to seven churches which Christ had addressed. These churches were in Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. Christ evaluated every strength and weakness of these churches and what they were going to go through in times of persecution. In chapter four, John was sent up to heaven. He saw God sitting at a throne with twenty-four elders ... around Him. These elders were a "representative group of all the saints in heaven."1 He also saw four peculiar-looking living creatures that kept ... 's name does not appear...

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Holy week is the final week of lent. Holy week recalls the events that lead to Jesus" death and Resurrection. Holy week involves Jesus entering into Jerusalem, his death, crucifixion and resurrection. This is why ... 's love for us all when he sent his only begotten son down to earth to forgive us of our sins. Jesus had risen from the dead. He overcame death so believers in him would have eternal life. It was truly the greatest act of unconditional love for all mankind. To lay down his life so we could not be defeated by ... death and have eternal life. It also shows the strength of Jesus fo...

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... with an opposite personality to teach me the side of God I cannot comprehend. Combined with an unstructured person oriented in relationships, both of us could accomplish more for God. The chapter, "Salt: Make Use of It" from Briner, influenced my growth in the class with the idea of what Christ wants us to be. To be the kind of salt Christ spoke about is to be the cutting ... edge, in the fray, at the forefront of battle. Jesus thought the idea of salt was stinging ... . It could also be an outlet for stress by if I focus on using my passions, I will forget about the hardships in life. ...

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... 11. Jesus also reveals himself as a supernatural Messiah with the healing of the blind man in John 9, and the feeding of the feeding of the 5000 in John 6. Also, Jesus is shown as an in control King when He is on the Cross in Chapter 19. He shows this by taking care of his mother. We witness Jesus being King as He firmly declares, "it is finished" ... ; in verse 30. In the Gospel of John, Jesus is portrayed as a supernatural, in controlled King. In the book of ... who saves all mankind, and reveals His goodness while He was saving the world by his grace and mercy, because he was a d...

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... mentioned by name just five times. Nowhere in the Qur'an will one find words/titles that defame Jesus AS. Additionally, the 19th chapter of the Qur'an was named after the Virgin "Mary " while there is no chapter in the Qur'an bearing the name of Prophet Muhammad's mother, any of his wives or daughters. It is ... bless you as you do so. The Qur'an mentions that fair-minded Christians are the ones closest to the Muslims: "You will find the nearest of them in affections to the believers those who say, "We are Christians." That is because among them are priests and monks and because they ar...

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... is plagued by the departure and fall of God from their lives, " this falling away is the soul's own doing turned away in search of satisfaction in itself and by doing so, have lost that light and warmth." of God. The Earthly city is a pure example of the philosopher Plato's Republic, it is a city in which self-interest and the individualism thrive. A city in which no thanks is given to ... God and his food is consumed in vain. These citizens prefer their own impious ... , the greed and selfishness of these rulers grasp for self-serving privileges and divine honors at the expense of thei...

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... ? Should I be baptized? Should everyone be baptized? And, the most important question of all, why did Jesus imperatively stress baptism. This question of baptism falls into the category of spiritual growth in Jesus. Baptism, in the Assemblies of God handbook is covered in chapter twenty-three. It talks less about water baptism, and more about baptism in the Holy Spirit, not to say that one is more important than ... 113) To answer Menzies" past two examples isn't that what we are doing when we are water baptized? We are starting over in Christ. Menzies" words at the beginning of the chap...

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... asks his disciples who they thought he was. To which Peter replied to the Messiah and then Jesus forbids them to tell anyone about him (MK 8:29-30). Another example of silence portrayed in the Gospel of Mark is the beginning of chapter 15 when Pilate asked Jesus quite a bit of questions and Jesus never replied to him, which shocked Pilate (MK 15:2-5). Although the Gospels ... Luke are basically telling the same story, the main focus of how the message gets across in the form of theme is nowhere near close. The three themes in Luke are divine plan, justice to the lowly, and Jesus' normal...

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... for the resurrection would be if a revival Jesus appeared in broad daylight in front of witnesses, which the Bible states he did over a period of forty days. In I Corinthians 15:6, Paul notes, while listing the post resurrection appearances, "After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time (in a hill in Galilee), most of whom are still living (at the time Paul is writing ... this). Though some have fallen asleep (are deceased). Commentary in the NIV Study Bible on this ... passage notes that this was probably written to shore up the faith of doubtful ...

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... without any food and during that time he is tempted by Satan himself. This temptation helped insure our salvation because Jesus did not fail. Of the three accounts of Jesus" temptation, the first of the three can be found in Matthew 4:1-11. Here we are told that Jesus was lead out into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit so that he could be tempted ... but we can learn by example. The next place we find the story of Jesus" temptation is in the book of Mark, chapter 1:12-13. The story of Jesus" temptation is very small within the book of Mark. In comparison to the book of Matthew, the stor...

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