Archives for 9.14.06

I am not too happy with the blogger setup. Hopefully it will not be long now before I migrate to a more permanent site (and a new name).

Two comments were posted today that show up on the sidebar, but when I check the entry where they are supposed to be, they are nowhere to be seen. Strange.

So if you have commented and can’t see your comments, it is not entirely my fault. I have set comments to moderated in order to control what is said. I may or may not have comments at all in the future. Some of the best blogs don’t have comments and I don’t think they are absolutely necessary, although I do enjoy interacting with a few of my on-line friends via comments.

Anyway, just remember that I am only ‘practice blogging’ over here so if your comment doesn’t show up it isn’t because I am just ignoring you!

Usually!

Regards,
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3

Well, tonight we looked at Christ Misunderstood. We covered three incidents that revealed the observers misunderstood what the Lord was all about. First was Simon the Pharisee, thinking Jesus couldn’t be a prophet otherwise he would know what kind of woman was anointing his feet. I called this Cynical Misunderstanding, and the cure for it is confession. Certainly after the Lord’s rebuke, he had only two options: crawl in a hole and die, or confess his faults before the Lord. His reaction is not given, I surely wonder what he did. The second misunderstanding I called Malicious Misunderstanding, where the Pharisees said Jesus cast out demons because he had a demon, Beelzebul. There is no cure for this misunderstanding, only rebuke. The last misunderstanding was the Concerned Misunderstanding of the Lord’s family (Mk 3.21), “he is out of his mind”. The cure for this misunderstanding is faith and obedience: “do the will of God”. Interestingly, both his brother James and his brother Jude identify themselves only as “servants [doulos = slaves] of Jesus Christ. They got the message.

There are times when we as believers might misunderstand what God is doing. We might think God is even a little bit crazy. May God help us! We need to simply trust and obey. And may the Lord keep us from the other two kinds of misunderstanding!

Regards,
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3