Come follow in His steps and consider how you, too, can create significant memories of eternal value.Reference Book:\u00a0 Surprised by Jesus by Tim StaffordRead Zechariah 9:9-10; I Corinthians 11:26; John 13:2-17; Luke 22:7-20During His active ministry, Jesus often \u201cflew under the radar.\u201d The people wanted a Messiah who would liberate them from Rome. Jesus was giving them a Messiah who would liberate them from sin and create the Kingdom of God. Had He not been careful, the people may have seen Him as the great liberator. At the end of His ministry, however, He spoke symbolically, first to the people, then to the religious leaders, then to His disciples.Read aloud, Zechariah. 9:9-10. The people knew this Messianic passage. The passage indicated the Messiah would come either in a lowly fashion or in peace, both symbolized by the donkey. Jesus\u2019 entrance into Jerusalem on the day Christians call Palm Sunday was a definite symbol saying \u201cI am your Messiah.\u201d\u00a0 The people reacted appropriately!Why did Jesus make such a loud public statement when He did?Read aloud Jn 13:2-17. In what has become known to Christians as the Upper Room, Jesus did something unprecedented in the sight of His disciples \u2026 make that to His disciples. He washed their feet, the task of a servant. He already had told them to gain their life they had to lose it, and that He had come to serve, not to be served.What did the disciples learn from this selfless act of Jesus? Is there any application to the Church today?Read aloud Lk 22:7-20. The disciples had taken part in many Passover meals. They probably knew what it originally had meant per God\u2019s instructions and the meaning eventually given to it by the people. God told the Theocracy when celebrating Passover that the meaning of the rite was a Passover sacrifice to the Lord who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians but spared the Israelites (Ex 12:26-27). Then the Pharisees changed the focus to celebrate the Exodus and its lessons, which continues through today. Jesus built on the meaning of the celebration for the disciples at the time, i.e., liberation. He also re-focused the meaning of God when He said \u201cDo this in remembrance of me.\u201dWhat did Paul mean when he wrote \u201cFor as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the lord\u2019s death until He comes\u201d? (1Cor. 11:26)Read aloud Mt. 21: 12-13. This time, the context of His symbol-making was His Father\u2019s house, a very hallowed place \u2026 instead of hallowed, replace it with special. The Temple was special to the religious leaders in Jesus\u2019 day, special in their terms. Jesus was letting them know they had lost their holiness.Discuss the cleansing of the Temple from the perspective of a religious leader, a disciple, and a common Jewish citizen of Israel.Discuss the various questions and ideas found within this assignment description.\u00a0 Give fuller meaning and support your ideas with Scripture.How can you engage in the use of symbols to teach spiritual truth?Scholarly academic resources, textbooks, or other sources provided.\u00a0 Quoting or paraphrasing from any source in discussion posts requires APA 7 format by including an in-text citation and listing the reference at the end of the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Come follow in His steps and consider how you, too, can create significant memories of eternal value.Reference Book:\u00a0 Surprised by Jesus by Tim StaffordRead Zechariah 9:9-10; I Corinthians 11:26; John 13:2-17; Luke 22:7-20During His active ministry, Jesus often \u201cflew under the radar.\u201d The people wanted a Messiah who would liberate them from Rome. Jesus was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-64889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}