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NASB | Matthew 4:23 ¶ Jesus was going throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 4:23 ¶ And He went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the good news (gospel) of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people [demonstrating and revealing that He was indeed the promised Messiah]. |
Bible Question:
Dear fellow Christians, When we see the four books of Gospel, the good news of the Kingdom of Heaven (or Kingdom of God) Jesus Messiah proclaimed emphasizes not only believing in Jesus but “mainly” the obedience to God’s Word. The modern Protestant church is stuck to justification by faith but ignores sanctification not necessarily theoretically but practically. This tradition produces more nominal Christians, hindering growth in true religion. We hear but do not practice or obey God’s Word. Do you agree with me that the Gospel Jesus preached was to urge us to live a life obeying God’s Word rather than to merely accept Jesus as the Savior? |
Bible Answer: 00123 The main theme of your posts come across as a frustration with what you perceive to be a lack of the Church to do certain things that you feel should be done by the Church. Your desire is that everyone answering your questions would only use the 4 Gospels to clarify just what it was that Jesus taught about the Kingdom, so the Church could then do those things properly. In your reading of the 4 Gospels, just what have you seen, where the church is failing to accomplish Jesus teaching? You use these verses to make your point. Matthew 7:26. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. John 12:47. If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. With these two verses in mind, what do you feel the Church should be doing to fulfill the teaching to be found within these two verses? It sounds as though you are asking a question with a preconceived idea as to what the answer should be, and you aren't looking for an answer, as much as a conformation to what you have already seen should be done. I am not trying to be argumentative with you, or point a finger at you, I am only trying to get you to see that whenever someone gives you an answer, you have an answer to cover their answer, and ask another question. That means the answers you are receiving aren't the answers you want to hear. They are not the conformation you are looking for. This ultimately means, you have seen something that should be done, but at this time you do not see it being done. My question to you would then be. Do you feel there is something the Holy Spirit has shown you that you need to speak to your Church leaders, Pastor about? Has God given you a mission for your life to reveal these things to those that do not see them? Setonahill |