Issue 47> 14 October 2002
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The LORD Associates with Us.

This past week I was in Colombo City, Sri Lanka and although I was thousands of miles away from home, I know I am not alone. Yes, I do feel homesick especially in the evenings when I have to come back to my hotel room alone and yet I know I am not alone. I know my Savior is with me for He lives within my heart in my spirit. Immediately my spirit is renewed. What a privilege we all have in Christ!

And yet this privilege is only for us after Jesus died on the cross. Before His death, Jesus was human and could only be in one place at one time just as we are. He was as much a human as we are, with all the emotions and physical attributes just like us. He walked and He talked; He ate, He felt tired and slept; He wept and He laughed and He had great compassion. After He rose from the dead, ascended and He sent forth His Holy Spirit to come and live among us and in us. Before Jesus came into this world as a human, the Holy Spirit was called the Spirit of God as in the Old Testament but after Jesus went home to Heaven, the Holy Spirit came to be called the Spirit of Christ.


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15 "For you have not
received a spirit of
slavery leading to fear
again, but you have
received a spirit of
adoption as sons by
which we cry out, “Abba!
Father!"
Romans 8:15 NKJV

18 "The Lord knoweth
the days of the upright:
and their inheritance shall
be forever."
Psalms 37:18 NKJV
Hard Sayings of the Bible ( IVP Press)

Mark 10:35: Who Asked for the Seats of Honor?

In Mark it clearly states that James and John themselves came to Jesus to ask him for the places of honor in his kingdom. Yet when we turn to Matthew 20:20 we find: "Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him."

What actually happened? Did the mother come or did the sons come?

The first thing that is clear is that if the mother did come, James and John were very much part of the request. In Matthew 20:22 Jesus responds "to them," indicating that the sons are there. In fact, from that point on he ignores the mother and speaks only to the two men. In 1 Kings 2:13-24 we have a roughly analogous incident in which Adonijah gets Bathsheba, Solomon's mother, to make a request for him. David is impressed neither by the request nor by the means Adonijah used; he quickly sees that the request came from Adonijah himself. Thus the account in Matthew agrees with Mark that the real issue was with the two men rather than with their mother.


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All references taken from RBC, Pat Robertson, Ron Rhodes, Kenneth/Gloria Copeland, Charles Slagle, Smith Wigglesworth, Selwyn Hughes, Charles Spurgeon, Manners and Customs of Bible Times, The Complete Bible Handbook, The Spirit Filled Bible(NKJV), The NIV Bible, God's Promises for your every Need, Idiot's Guide to Bible Mysteries, Hard Sayings of The Bible, Articles courtesy of Mr Andrew L W Lee.