Sometimes, perhaps more often than I realize, I don’t make a very good transition from the teaching I receive to the living I do.<\/p>\n
I think about that in the considering the jarring transition between these two verses in Matthew 20:<\/p>\n
“And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again”<\/font><\/b> (19).<\/p>\n “Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him”<\/font><\/b> (20).<\/p>\n How could you hear verse 19 but come up with verses 20 and 21?!<\/p>\n As easily as I might hear a message on forgiveness . . . and then avoid a certain brother after the service.<\/p>\n Or as easily as I might read these very verses . . . and then go on to resent someone lording it over me.<\/p>\n I am blessed, though, by how Jesus takes the outlandish mother-and-sons request and ties it in with the teaching He had given just before that:<\/p>\n “And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant”<\/font><\/b> (27).<\/p>\n “Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many”<\/font><\/b> (28).<\/p>\n “You become great by doing as I do!”<\/p>\n Posted: November 27<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes, perhaps more often than I realize, I don’t make a very good transition from the teaching I receive to the living I do. I think about that in the considering the jarring transition between these two verses in Matthew 20: “And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-matthew","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-5K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}