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Peter, king David, and Jesus- Acts 1:18-20- Blog 9-5.4.21

Happy Tuesday family, may the fourth be with you! I finished the book of John yesterday and starting the book of the Acts of the Apostles! From a church history perspective this is such a important time for early Christians. Jesus was just resurrected and spent the following 40 days teaching the apostles about the kingdom of God, before returning to the right hand of God the Father. (Acts 1:1-9). The passage I want to focus on is Acts 1:18-20, Psalms 69:25, and Psalms 109:8. So apostles did not have the canonized bible we are blessed with today, all they had is the oral teachings of Jesus and the Holy Spirit(but not at this point). So since Judas fulfilled his work b betraying Jesus which led to the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. Judas committed suicide as stated in Matthew 27:1-10. So the apostles were one short. I bring this up because before the apostles decide to select Matthias to replace Judas, Peter was using scripture from Psalms 69:25, and Psalms 109:8 to justify why they had to replace Judas.

Acts 1:18-20- “(Judas had bought a field with the money he received for his treachery. Falling headfirst there, his body split open, and spilling out all his intestines. The news of his death spread to all the people of Jerusalem, and they gave the place the Aramaic name Akeldama, which means “Field of Blood.) Peter continued, “This was written in the book of Psalms, where it says, ‘Let his home become desolate, with no one living in it. It also says ‘Let someone else take his position

Psalms 69:25-”Let their homes be desolate and their tents be deserted.”

Psalms 109:8- “ Let his years be few, let someone else take his position” 

Peter is making the connection between King David and Jesus. Now we know ni the beginning of the Matthew, scripture shows the genealogy of Jesus all the way from King David(Matthew 1:17). Of course this proves that Jesus is the Messiah that came from the lineage of King David. But also Peter knows that the Jews clung to Old testament scripture, so connecting Jesus to King David. It is also an important distinction of Peter using scripture to support a point or claim is making. 

How does this relate to us today? Old testament scripture points to Jesus and supports Him being the Messiah, Eternal Son of God. Also we as Christians should always have scripture to support what we believe!   

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Accepting correction- Proverbs 9:7-9- Blog 5- 4.9.21

Happy Friday yal, sorry i have not been writing as much. My wife and I were blessed with our first child, our baby girl Ava a month ago. So I have been adjusting to fatherhood and blogging was put on the back burner, but let’s get back in Holy Scriptures.

Correction/Rebuke is a hot topic within the Christian niche right now, and I am not surprised. Today’s society does not like accountability or absolute truth because people don’t let to be “judged or help accountable to a standard” nowadays. The mentality has unfortunately crept into Christianity today. As followers of God we are absolutely held to the standards established in God’s Word the Bible, that has never changed, no matter how society changes. Let’s look a Proverbs 9:7-9

Proverbs 9:7: “Anyone who rebukes a mocker( (a person who teases or makes people feel worthless) will get an insult in return. Anyone who corrects the wicked will get hurt.” 

Proverbs 9:8- “So don’t bother correcting mockers(a person who teases or makes people feel worthless) they will only hate you.”

Proverbs 9:9- “Instruct the wise, and they will be even wiser. Teach the righteous and they will learn even more.”

Starting a verse 7, a mocker is a pretty horrible type of person. A mocker is person who loves to tease and make people feel worthless. So trying to correct a person like this will naturally lead to a type of confrontation. Now a Christian should not have the character of a mocker, but it somehow could still happen. Verse 8 says that people who have the attitude and heart of a mocker should not be corrected because it will hurt the corrector and it is a waste of time. A mocker unfortunately could be a christian or a non-christian. Verse 9 screams the idea of believers in Christ should be open to correction because it makes wise people wiser. Correction does not feel good and it does not always make us happy, but we as believers should be teachable and held accountable to the Word of God

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Servanthood/Jesus cleanses-John 13:4-17- Blog 2(2021)- 3.21.2021

Happy Sunday yal! We are going to talk about John 13:4-17! The two verses people like to reference from John 13 are verses 34-35 which are as follows:

John 13:34-35-” So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

But today I would like to focus on John 13:4-17. Please read the entire passage to get a full understand and to make sure I am representing the text correctly! To joggle your memory this is the passage where Jesus is washing the disciples feet. Now during this period of time walking on dirt roads to travel from one place to another made a person’s feet dirty. So before a person was to eat a meal, a servant would wash the person’s feet. So the fact that Jesus who is the Son of God and the Messiah took on the servant role in order to wash His disciples feet is a big deal. First we can learn from this is that we as followers of Jesus should have no problem serving one another! Serving others should be a natural part of our lives! Now let’s look at John 13:4-9 which is as follows:

“So he got up from the table, took of his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist.”

“And poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him”

“When Jesus came to Simon Peter, Peter said to him, “Lord are you going to wash my feet?”

Jesus replied, “You don’t understand now what I am doing, but someday you will.”

“No,” Peter protested, “you will never ever wash my feet!” Jesus replied, “Unless I wash you, you won’t belong to me.”

Simon Peter exclaimed, “Then wash my hands and head as well, Lord, not just my feet. 

So Jesus is using this situation to symbolize the redemptive work He was going to do on the cross. Only JESUS can truly cleanse us from our sin and make us right with God the Father. Jesus had to die on the cross in order for us to be made “right and clean”. It is not something we can do on our own, we can’t “wash our own feet” and be made right with God. Only Jesus can cleanse us and make us spiritually, morally clean! 

God bless yal!

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Proverbs 19:21- Lord’s plan > Your plan- Blog 1 2021-3.20.21

Proverbs 19:21- “You can make many plans, but the Lord’s purpose will prevail.”

In today’s society we see people claim to be “self made” people, which conveys the message that they are only responsible for the success in their life. Our American society these days likes to push the narrative the life is all about our plans, our dreams, and achieving  our aspirations/goals. That concept is not wrong in itself, but as a Christian we have to remember not to fall into this mentality. As the scripture clearly states no matter how many plans we can make, God’s will prevail. At the end of day are Almighty Father who reigns in the heavens is sovereign,  Another scripture to support this claim is 

Psalms 115:3- “our God is in the heavens, and he does as he wishes.”

Now you might be thinking, “Tim then why should I make any plans at all?!?”. Notice how the bible verse does not say that you shouldn’t make plans, it just says that “YOU CAN MAKE many plans”. So make plans for your future career, getting married, or whatever plans you make, as long as they honor the Lord. But just remember that if God’s plan is different than your plan, then you need to submit to God’s plan. Easier said then done for sure. My wife’s and I philosophy is to when we make a plan we are just submitting a “rough draft” to God, and that God can make any corrections He wants to our rough draft and we will live out the final draft! 

God bless yal

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Proverbs 18:1-Blog 3-8.18.2020-Self Isolation is no Bueno.

Sorry for the delay, was slacking on my blogging for the past week or two. Just got from back from a family vacation! But let’s get into the book of Proverbs today, i want to do a series of blog posts about a proverb of the day until I complete all of them!

Proverbs 18:1-"A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgement. “(NKJV)

As an introvert I definitely feel convicted about this. As yal know, I am married, but before I was married, I very much enjoyed spending majority of my time alone! Which is not a bad thing, but I believe this verse is talking about isolation which is completely different. Even as an introvert I still had friends in my life who loved Jesus, who I would hang out with. I would keep in touch with them via social media or text messages, so there was still room for them to keep me accountable, correct me, encourage me, and offer biblical counsel! But if a Christian intentionally decides to isolate themselves from everyone, this is very dangerous. The Devil is just looking at you like, “Got em”. The verse is saying how unwise it is to isolate oneself in this manner. When we isolate ourselves we are not allowing wisdom to be poured into out lives from other believers! No one to pray for us, if they don’t know our struggle. 

Moral of the story, have people in our life that can most definitely encourage you in your faith, call you out when you not being obedient to God’s word! God bless yal, Jesus is King! 

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Matthew 1:18-25-Blog 2-8.3.20-Joseph be like?!

Happy Monday yal! Another day, another post about the Word of God. Today we be looking at the rest of the Matthew Chapter 1. 

Matthew 1:18-25 is the account of the birth of Jesus Christ. If yal did not know, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was not conceived via natural ways normal humans are born. 

Matthew 1:20-21-”But while he thought about these things, behold an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”

So one day Mary finds out she is pregnant. Joseph and Mary know it can’t be them, because they have not had sex, so of course this raises a lot of questions. I mean can you imagine? I want to talk about Joseph, I wonder what kind of thoughts he was experiencing at this time. Imagine  all the doubts he must have had before the angel talked to him.

How often do we question the direction the Lord is leading us? How often do we feel like the calling God has on our life may seem too much or overwhelming? These two people were having the raise the SON OF GOD? Talk about what!?!

God did not leave them hanging tho, they did just fine obviously. God is going to test our faith in Him by asking us to do things that may take us out of our comfort zone.  But anything the Lord calls us to do is never impossible if we put our faith in Him. If Mary and Joseph can raise the Son of God, we can do whatever the Lord commands us to do. 

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Matthew 1:1-17-Blog 1-8.2.2020

Hey,yal, going to be going through the book of Matthew. 

Matthew 1:1-17

Anytime I see a genealogy in the Bible I slightly shed a tear, because they can be quite boring sometimes haha. But on this particular day, the Holy Spirit brought to my attention, Judah and Tamar. If you recall in Genesis 38, there is this odd story about a man named a Judah and a woman named Tamar. When I first the read the story i asked myself, “Why is this in here” Like I am sure a lot of us have done with some old testament passages in this Bible! Why is this significant?

Well in Matthew 1:3- “ Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram.” 

The biggest learning lesson here is the way that who could have known many many years later that the decisions of two people would actually be creating the bloodline of Jesus?!! The way God allows things in our lives are for a reason. We have no idea what the Lord has in store us when He is taking us through particular seasons in life. Judah and Tamar had no idea of what future consequences (positive or negative) their actions would have. 

Second learning lesson is that the choices we make today, affect future generations. Digest on that. 

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