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2021, Calendar Reading Notes from The WORD, Gospel of Matthew

Dust Shaking

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 Matthew 10

14 But if the people of a house or town will not welcome you or listen to you, leave it and shake its dust from your feet! 15 Yes, I tell you, it will be more tolerable on the Day of Judgment for the people of S’dom [Sodom] and ‘Amora[Gomorrah] for that town!   emphasis added
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In recent years I have learned it is well for me to search for an Eastern eye view of Scripture rather than trusting these Western eyes with which I was born. Scripture was not written in the West and when we read it that way, we often miss out. 

Shake the dust from your feet. 

I’ve read some Scholars think this directive sounds harsh. 
I don’t.
I think it was life and health for the disciples and a prophetic reminder/warning to those left behind (that sounds like mercy to me).

What do you think? 

Allow me to give you some reading materials that might shed some Eastern light. 

Shaking the Dust from their Feet

From Dust You Came. The Biblical Hebrew Meaning

Difficult Sayings  Shake off the Dust

We were made for this, 


Please know your honest questions are welcome here, via comment or email. 

2021, Calendar Reading Notes from The WORD, Gospel of Matthew, Questions

That Hill ~ ~ ~

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I’m reading in Matthew 5 today.  Complete Jewish Bible.

Matthew 5

5 Seeing the crowds, Yeshua walked up the hill. After he sat down, his talmidim [disciples] came to him, 2 and he began to speak. This is what he taught them:  source

Seeing the crowds, Yeshua walked up the hill.

Yes, indeed He did!
This time He walked up the hill to teach. 

What other hill did He walk up? And did He walk up that hill for you?

We were made for this,

2021, An Assignment, Calendar Reading Notes from The WORD, Gospel of John, Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Matthew, Questions

An Assignment

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I have an assignment for you if you choose to accept it.

Matthew 20: 20-23

I read in Matthew 20 that James and John along with their mother came to JESUS to ask of Him a favor. The favor was that James and John could sit one on His right and the other on His left when He set up His kingdom. 

Mark 10:35-45 also gives an account of this happening. 
Forgive me if I am wrong but from this, I see the Disciples were oh so human. Yeshua is about to be crucified for the sins of the world, including theirs, and they have missed it. At this time James and John are thinking politics, power, getting out from under Roman rule, they are thinking Yeshua would soon be setting up His Rule, His Kingdom and they wanted in on it. Do you see what I mean? 

As you read Matthew 20:20-23, look what Yeshua tells them. 
What does He tell them about His Kingdom and greatness in His Kingdom?

NOW.
John 19:25-27
Where is John? 
Where are the other 10?

Your assignment: What could have happened to John between the Matthew 20 encounter and the John 19 happening?  How different was he, do you think? 

We were meant for this,

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Not Free

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Perhaps if we stopped telling People JESUS is free they’d be more interested.

A certified, professional Counselor told me decades ago his profession had discovered that people only appreciate and value those things in which they have an investment. In other words, if it’s free, who cares?!

JESUS is costly you know.

Ultimately costly.

HE will cost you your well-deserved place in hell,
your pride,
your anger,
your hate,
your failures,
your miseries,
your prejudices,
your blindness,
your unforgiveness,
your unbelief,
everything that has ever hurt you in your life or ever shall.
HE will cost you; yes, a covenant with HIM will cost you every bit of that! 

And few are willing to pay the price.

Free?
No.
JESUS is not free.

HE is the Pearl of Great Price and if you ever see HIM, you will be willing, thrilled, ready, and overjoyed to lay down His Price.

The question is are you willing to look until you see?