Is He the Teacher of Truth or the Truth to Be Taught - Part 2

Christian teacher would spawn a monster teacher will do much today on to the fourth Dr. David Jeremiah takes enforceable Jesus going throughout Israel was a gifted teacher over 2000 years ago continues to teach his followers today stated the conclusion of his trip the truth to be told and we thank you for joining us this is one of the chapters of a brand-new book called the Jesus you may not know answering questions like the ones were dealing with in these days see the teacher of truth through see the truths to be taught when we meet together tomorrow morning to talk about this one is he seeking us, or are we seeking him, here's my favorite of the whole series on Friday. Is he praying for us, or are we praying to him these questions and these chapters are meant to spur your thinking and drive you deeper into your understanding and knowledge of who Jesus really is in the ministry he has in your life and mine as we walk with him each day well is time to get back to our lesson this is part two is he the teacher of truth or truth to be taught. I do not have the authority to change the meaning of the Bible. My job is to find out what the Bible really means what it really says and then help us all understand what that means to us. Count me among those who will stand and shout that Jesus is the truth that Jesus is the author of truth. Jesus is the communication truth of Jesus Christ is the incarnation of truth. We can have a personal relationship with the incarnation of the truth. We cannot only know Jesus.

We can know truth. The truth is absolute good subjective, but it's also personal and knowable. That's why Jesus said you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Because this truth is a person you can know him and because he is Jesus he can set you free. Nothing more liberating than the truth no matter how hard it is. How many times I thought about this during my bout with cancer.

When I would take a test on Monday and be told I couldn't get the answer back for 10 days and all during that time, I would say to myself whatever it is is immaterial.

I just want to know what it is I want the truth today in our culture.

The greatest need.

We have is for truth honest reporting for honest speaking for honest living Bible says there's one who can give us that truth that way that life and that one is Jesus Christ. You will never have a true moment of truth until you meet the truth himself, the Lord Jesus Christ.

So Jesus the truth.

The question is, see the teacher of the true currency. The truth itself. He is the truth itself, but is also the teacher of truth. All can learn about Jesus as we study his teaching Jesus and Jesus the teacher at St. Francis high school in wrong Canada, California math teacher Jim O'Connor is known for his tough, no-nonsense approaching algebra, pushing his students.

All of them boys initiate O'Connor is a Vietnam vet told CBS.

It drives me crazy when people say school should be fun. I mean it's nice if it could be but you can't make school fun.

Pat McGoldrick, a senior at St. Francis is at this way until people get used to him. They think he's really mean well at Schaefer Pat one day when he and his classmates visited Los Angeles Children's Hospital to recruit blood donors for a blood drive they were organizing when the boys mentioned where they went to school.

They were immediately met with all hospital staff said things like. Also, you must know Jim O'Connor is wonderful. The boys were stunned and thinking was all that wonderful thought it was me as if they were being honest and little confused about the man they thought they knew that confusion was cleared up when they saw plaque in the hospital for all time, donors, and at the top of the list was Jim O'Connor universal blood donor typo negative.

O'Connor has donated 72 gallons of blood and platelets since 1989. Surely, saving countless lives along the way but there was more. The boys learned that day Jim O'Connor who never married or had children of his own volunteers three days a week holding and walking sick and dying babies when their parents can't be there. O'Connor says of the babies.

I don't want to see them alone. I can't do that. O'Connor students were blown away on July 1.

Said Pat but now it's to an even different degree. Now I know I respect him, to be like him. The most effective teachers in life are those who model the truth that they teach and challenge their students to grow beyond what they think other possibilities, and that was truly Jesus was it not influenced his disciples not only by what he said but by how we live by the curriculum.

He taught had a vision of what disciples could be any gave his life to teaching them what would that look like in you.

We don't have time to unpack all the essentials of his message but want to share with you just three ways that Jesus teaching not only affected those who heard it when he walked on this earth but how it affects us today as well. As followers of Jesus. First of all, when Jesus taught his teaching challenged people in his teaching will challenge you Jesus. You may not know was a teacher who constantly challenged people and challenge their priorities, their potential there possibilities. For example, Jesus challenge the rich young ruler's priorities.

Remember what he said to him, he said, go and sell everything you have and then come back and follow me. He didn't really care what the man sold everything he had or not here's what the problem was this man didn't have his wealth as well have him.

And Jesus wanted to find out if he was willing to walk away from that in order to put Jesus first in his life.

Jesus also sent out his disciples to accomplish things that seem beyond their potential. Things like feeding 5000 people healing the sick and most of all casting out demons and remember, they fail, they came back and he said Lord what we do now.

It didn't work and it was a teaching moment for Jesus and his young men, and when Jesus gave the great commission. It was physically impossible for them to completed but he used it to expand the vision and get them started planting churches around the world and were still following that teaching and still feeling the impossibility of it all, but because of the teaching of Jesus, we continue to take the gospel to the whole world. Perhaps the most challenging part of the teaching of Jesus, and the most famous by way is found in Matthew five through seven. This is what we know as the sermon on the Mount chapters prove that Jesus was more than a carpenter more than a preacher and more than a mere man from his first word he spoke as if he would be off for an interpreter of Scripture's words and their tone amazed the crowds as they astound us today and in the sermon the Mount we have a set of ethics that has never been bettered a set of images that have never been forgotten and a set of instructions so relevant and challenging for us today as if they were written just for us. There are 107 verses in the sermon on the Mount, and here we have notice of this in the sermon on the Mount. We have this the Beatitudes the Lord's prayer.

The golden rule the city on a hill salt of the earth. The narrow gate and the wise man who built his house upon the rock here in the sermon we discovered the eternal dimensions of morality and spirituality and we discover how to deal with anger and lust in divorce and retaliation and anxiety" and hypocrisy. All of those are taught in the sermon on the mount, and we know what to do when we read them in Matthew five through seven.

We have the greatest advice ever given in the greatest sermon ever preached by the greatest man who ever lived. The sermon on the Mount provides evidence for the truthfulness of Christ and Christianity and Jesus were any less than a claim is message would have been less than it was how otherwise do we explain the here we are over 2000 years later, talking about a sermon that was preached by a man outside on the mountain to a group of people who don't have anything to do with us or our culture today, that sermon is still the greatest sermon from the greatest preacher who ever lived, and it is also regarded as one of the most famous speeches in world history, and the greatest message on practical ethics and moral psychology that has ever been delivered by anyone. The secularists say that not religious people. This great sermon which was preached in Matthew five through seven was only the beginning of our Lord's instructional ministry, for the sake of time, let me just give you a few little tidbits what he said just in the verses. This is some of what Jesus taught in his great sermon. Matthew 516 let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven, 544, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you. Matthew 66 but you, when you pray going here Roman. When you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place.

Matthew 620 lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. Matthew 625. Do not worry about your life. Matthew 633 seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Matthew 634. Do not worry about tomorrow. Jesus said that in his great sermon in Matthew 712 therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them for this is the law and the prophets. Can you imagine having that kind of truth packed into one sermon given by one person at a specific time and place in history. Herbert Taylor was a Chicago business leader who salvaged a nearly bankrupt company called club aluminum in time.

Taylor made a small fortune and invested most of it in question causes.

It was a deep and dedicated Christian, he became the major financial backer for many of the great student ministries that shape the last half of the 20th century. Once during an illness. Taylor felt God wanted him to memorize the sermon on the Mount, and while bedridden, he did it. While he couldn't do anything else he could work use this time he was sick to memorize the sermon on the mount hundred and seven verse and he recited the sermon on the Mount to himself every day, and those who knew him said his life increasingly begin to take on the truths which Jesus spoke, so let me make a suggestion to all of us know Mike ask you to memorize the sermon on the Mount memorization for most of us is like you want me to do what take a few minutes though in the next few days.

Perhaps during your daily Bible reading time and just work your way through Matthew 567 sermon on the Mount use of colored pencil to highlight any command you find there. Make a list of them on the tablet. Choose one of those things you read strikes you in a special way and ask the Lord to pump that into your bloodstream until the obedience of your life reflects the truth that came from the lips of our Lord.

You will never have a more interesting experiment to experiment on the sermon on the Mount and learn the truth but is there and apply to your life number two is teaching will challenge you and is teaching will change you Jesus teaching inspires us to change to be different to be better when we read about his life and study his words. We want to be more like him. The perfect picture of what it means to be a holy healthy human being only one person ever successfully live the Christian life and I was Christ himself when he returned to heaven he sent his Spirit to live within us, so that his spirit could form the personality of Jesus in our hearts and that's why you read in second Corinthians chapter 3, but we all, with unveiled faces. Behold, as in a mirror the glory of the Lord and we are being transformed were being changed into the same image from glory to glory is by the spirit of one other words, Paul told the Corinthians, when God brought Jesus back to heaven. Jesus and his Holy Spirit down here and when you accept Jesus as your Savior is Holy Spirit comes to live within your heart and one of the things the Holy Spirit does one of his key job is ministries is to convict us of sin and help us to grow into the likeness of Jesus is nothing would become religious windows, but that would just become quiet people of God who live out the reality of the Lord Jesus Christ in our life as we notice him doing that is that begins to happen in our hearts.

We are often surprised by ourselves because we ourselves are not ourselves.

We were surprised because we seek the Lord Jesus doing things in us that we never dreamed we would ever do we stop and say where did that come from another words as we keep our eyes on Jesus, the Holy Spirit transforms us into the very person that Jesus himself is we become more like Jesus.

Romans 829 says God has chosen us to be conformed to the image of his son, and Ephesians 415 tells us to grow up in all things unto him who is the head, Christ as we grow up in Christ, our lives become more intrinsically truthful, for we are becoming like the one of whom we speak could stop for a moment and say that in the world. You can have a job and unless you do something really really bad what you do on your own time will never become an issue.

In fact, in many places you can go to work at the fiber.

What are the hours are and live like a demon outside of that time, nobody finds out. Nobody cares makes no difference at all, but that is not true.

If you're a Christian, you're Christian and you name the name of Christ, and you claim him to be your Savior. Somewhere along the way it has to start making a difference in the way that you live you cannot live like you'd ever met Christ and then come to church on Sunday and so yes, I'm a Christian, Christian, and one of things we have here is a school district. We have some the greatest teachers you ever meet your life teachers that are truly making a difference in the lives of the kids who sit on their ministry. I've had four children and now all kinds grandchildren go through the system. So grateful we asked the people who teaching her to sign a lifestyle agreement that basically deals with some things that are part of our culture today that don't belong in the life of the person who's teaching children. We want men and women here who not only teach the truth but live the truth and we are going to be perfectly all know that we make mistakes, but if were out in the world living as if Christ did not exist in our heart we are actually doing more damage to our students that if we didn't teach at all for the worst thing that can happen is to say with your mouth. This is who Jesus is and then to live your life in such a way that you deny everything if you don't believe what you teachers should teach teaching is not a career it's a calling.

We don't expect to be perfect, as were not perfect, but we do expect you to live for Jesus because if you don't live for Jesus. You can ever persuade your students deliver Jesus either an teaching is not just about more information. Teaching is about a life that changes. Finally, this teaching will challenge you his teaching will change you and is teaching will cheer you up, it will cheer you. I love to read the words of Jesus one time his disciples had gotten wind of the fact that he was going back to heaven late in the what, that all men and women for three years and they love them and so they started asking him questions and here's what Jesus said he's a guy just cooler let not your heart be troubled you believe in God believe also in me.

In my father's house are many mansions I go to prepare a place for you and if I go to prepare a place for Ella come again and receive you to myself by where I am, there you may be also. I love that passage of Scripture because I can get into what disciples were feeling.

Jesus is leaving something is going to another world when we can do. Jesus stepped right into that moment of despair with his comforting words was Jesus who said let not your heart be troubled. It was also Jesus who said, peace be still, and it was our Lord, who reassured us for your heavenly Father knows that you need all of these things Jesus was a teacher. All of us were teaching somebody outweigh just as parents were teaching our children current teacher retention.

Our Sunday school will never find a better model for what it means to be a true teacher than to go to the teacher himself, the Lord Jesus Christ and discover how committed he was majestic communicating truth, but the changing lives. Here's what I know men and women, you can't walk with Jesus. The way you're supposed to walk with Jesus and not the changed Jesus will change you.

So let me tell you what you need to do is really easy. How many of you know that in many Bibles. Maybe you have one Exodus at how many of you have a red letter edition of the Bible you miss your hand so many now you know that means is in the Bible and the New Testament. You have all of the words of Jesus in red right can I tell you something that's way better than a red letter edition of the Bible. It's in our EAD Bible is more important to have in our EAD Bible that RED Bible so if you want to grow in your faith will go by a red letter Bible.

Go get a Bible and read it and if it's red letters. That's great, but recent. The greatest resource we have is this book and it's the most neglected resource for all of us. If were honest, the devil has done a huge task on many of us to push the Bible to the circumference of our lives so that it cannot make an impact on us by challenge to us all is we have this book and it's primarily a book about Jesus.

And when you read this book.

It makes you different and it makes you better and it makes you the person you really want.

I pray that for all of us today. We are friends.

During this time when just about anything is been shut down and churches have been closed and you and wonder what happens during this time I need to tell you that I've never seen anything like what God has been doing in the church and Turning Point in the lives of people.

This pandemic has gotten our attention and I mentioned to noonday that in recent service we held on the weekend at the shadow Mountain online hundred and 30 people responded to receive Christ at the end of the services I've ever seen it before in good times, when things are going well those things just normally don't happen, but God is using his word. His using the teaching of the Scripture is using our evangelistic thrust to bring many to himself and some of you are like that.

Maybe you like that today. You have never trusted Christ, but you know there's an emptiness in your life once you take a moment right now and get that right asked Jesus Christ to come and live within you to forgive your sin and give you new life you drift through prayer.

All you do is pray and ask him, repent of your sin asked Jesus Christ to come to your Savior and I want to try something encouraging. The Bible says he never turns anyone away and he never has and you will be the first one.

So come with your prayer come with your open heart, with your sin asked Jesus to forgive you and become a Christian writer message you have just originated in Shadow Mountain Community Church with senior pastor Dr. David Jeremiah with us the difference to the point is making like to Turning Point, PO Box 338, San Diego, CA 92163 visit our website Jeremiah dog/like you asked for a copy of David's new book the Jesus you might not help Christ, and we discover the joy of salvation also purchase the Jeremiah study Bible and the English standard version as well as the new international version and then standard will not send articles by Dr. Jeremiah David Jeremiah dog/lady of join us tomorrow as we continue the series Jesus, you may not know you are on point with David Jeremiah from the