When a Leader Who is in Need Approaches a Greater Leader Who Has Answers, Anything Can Happen
In our world today, countless everything is happening around us that individuals don’t understand and that we can do little about. The natural disasters we’ve recently noticed in the way of the Gulf Oil Spill, massive earthquakes and tsunamis, as well as the spreading unrest in Arab countries are unprecedented due to the frequency and magnitudes that they’re happening.
Judas Iscariot would only call Jesus Christ, Teacher. Judas never once called Jesus Christ, Lord. He would only say Rabbi, or Teacher. We have to make that transition from Teacher to Lord. You can argue or debate with or disagree having a teacher however, you would never a single thing like this with somebody who was which is Lord!
When someone rejects God’s Word they open themselves up to evil and the result will almost always be an accompanying fear. In Deuteronomy 28:66 God lets us know that because we reject His Word for молитва символ веры our lives, us will hang doubtful and we’re going to have fear night and day; that people will have no assurance of life at all. According to many commentaries, the crux of the is we will are now living in constant fear and expectation of our lives being removed from us. That certainly sounds as being similar to what exactly is happening to more and more people today, right? Look around and you will see what I mean; all of the fear as a result of economic uncertainty in the world, as well as the fear that accompanies the morning news and headlines with regards to global unrest… wars and rumors of wars!
Now, we should not way too hard on Peter, because Jesus does explain, “You knows what it’s about later.” Peter was objecting as he didn’t understand fully. No way did Peter want Jesus Christ to scrub his feet, and Jesus has got to say, “Unless I wash you, you can have no spend the me”. Unless I wash you, you will get no part within this ministry.
God planted a thing inside me away back in January in a Conference I attended with 2 hundred and thirty colleagues. We have been meeting three times annually for a long time now. I was invited to get thing about this group away last the early 1970’s when only twenty or thirty people were attending and it has slowly grown.