Sunday, May 21, 2006
EVANGELISM IN MOTION
FIRST PUBLIC REJECTION BY JEWISH LEADERS
78. A tour with the twelve and other followers
Luke 8:1-3. And it came about soon afterwards, that He began going about from one city and village to another, proclaiming and preaching the kingdom of God; and the twelve were with Him, 2. and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and sicknesses: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, 3. and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others who were contributing to their support out of their private means.
Vv 1a-b. And it came about soon afterwards, that He began going about from one city and village to another, proclaiming and preaching the kingdom of God;
We follow Luke’s chronology and find the words: “And it came about soon afterwards,” referring back to the dinner where the sinneress cleansed Jesus feet at Simon the Pharisee’s house. Not long after this event Jesus began a traveling ministry; He began going about from one city and village to another. The purpose in touring these outlying communities was for proclaiming and preaching the kingdom of God.
I believe that this translation, the NASB, obscures the meaning in the words proclaiming and preaching where the AV reads: preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God. To understand these words we must understand to preach – kerusso means to proclaim. The kerux was the town crier who would bring the word to the common people from the ruling majesty. The common people knew that the proclamation was for mandatory hearing and obedience but before there could be compliance an understanding of the proclamation would have to transpire to the listener. The AV addresses this in the words: “shewing the glad tidings”, or showing the good news – euaggelizo – to evangelize. This would be the bringing of understanding to the contents of that preaching.
The proclamation was the good news pertinent to the kingdom of God. G. Campbell Morgan writes, “The kingdom of God means that God is King now, and always.” Jesus is going door to door, town to town proclaiming this message of God’s eternal kingdom and offering citizenship to those who are interested.
One only has access to the kingdom in which he surrenders his allegiance unto death. From a Biblical perspective very few men will escape death. Therefore death is a mystery to all men who live. Man has only one historic and reliable source that addresses life, death, heaven, and hell. This single source is the Holy Bible that plainly affirms the reality of these and the access portals to heaven and hell. This kingdom of God is described in Rev. 21:27 Nothing unclean and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it [the kingdom], but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
78. A tour with the twelve and other followers
Luke 8:1-3. And it came about soon afterwards, that He began going about from one city and village to another, proclaiming and preaching the kingdom of God; and the twelve were with Him, 2. and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and sicknesses: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, 3. and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others who were contributing to their support out of their private means.
Vv 1a-b. And it came about soon afterwards, that He began going about from one city and village to another, proclaiming and preaching the kingdom of God;
We follow Luke’s chronology and find the words: “And it came about soon afterwards,” referring back to the dinner where the sinneress cleansed Jesus feet at Simon the Pharisee’s house. Not long after this event Jesus began a traveling ministry; He began going about from one city and village to another. The purpose in touring these outlying communities was for proclaiming and preaching the kingdom of God.
I believe that this translation, the NASB, obscures the meaning in the words proclaiming and preaching where the AV reads: preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God. To understand these words we must understand to preach – kerusso means to proclaim. The kerux was the town crier who would bring the word to the common people from the ruling majesty. The common people knew that the proclamation was for mandatory hearing and obedience but before there could be compliance an understanding of the proclamation would have to transpire to the listener. The AV addresses this in the words: “shewing the glad tidings”, or showing the good news – euaggelizo – to evangelize. This would be the bringing of understanding to the contents of that preaching.
The proclamation was the good news pertinent to the kingdom of God. G. Campbell Morgan writes, “The kingdom of God means that God is King now, and always.” Jesus is going door to door, town to town proclaiming this message of God’s eternal kingdom and offering citizenship to those who are interested.
One only has access to the kingdom in which he surrenders his allegiance unto death. From a Biblical perspective very few men will escape death. Therefore death is a mystery to all men who live. Man has only one historic and reliable source that addresses life, death, heaven, and hell. This single source is the Holy Bible that plainly affirms the reality of these and the access portals to heaven and hell. This kingdom of God is described in Rev. 21:27 Nothing unclean and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it [the kingdom], but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
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