David Journal

Tag: Matthew

  • Copying vs Repeating

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    Some people see the many statements in the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the teachings of Joseph Smith which appear in the bible and conclude that Joseph was just voting thoughts and ideas to claim revelation. Those who have a testimony of the prophet recognize these things as a sign that he…

  • Touching the hem of His garment

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    When the people requested to be able to touch the hem of Jesus’ robe to be healed I have to think they had heard of the woman who had been healed that way when He didn’t even know she had reached for Him.

  • Selling everything to obtain something precious

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    Two of the parables tell of someone funding something of great worth and then trading all they had in order to obtain it. That only works if you have learned to identify what is truly of great worth. Without that preparatory knowledge it is easy to be tossed about by every wind of doctrine or…

  • Selective memory

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    It is interesting how selectively the Pharisees used scripture. That would wrote it all day long but they ignored any that would justify this that they hoped to condemn.

  • The Yolk of Christ

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    Is the yolk of Christ that He invites us to take upon ourselves the yolk that he bears as our companion in the yolk our is it the yolk that he drives as our keeper? I’m sure both images have value to our understanding.

  • The laborers are few

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    The timeline of Matthew suggests that Jesus called his twelve apostles after noting a lack of laborers for the harvest. He had called on his disciples to pray that the Lord of the Harvest would send more laborers. It’s possible that this wasn’t when He called them as apostles but rather, this was when He…

  • Swine vs Men

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    The people asked Jesus to leave because of the swine that went crazy and killed themselves when he cast the devils out of the wild men. They feared that he might ruin people financially (the swineherd probably felt economically devastated). I’m sure Jesus knew the economic impact of allowing the spirits to enter the swine…

  • Not one jot or tittle passed away

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    I just realized why Jesus told the leper to show himself to the priest and offer the sacrifice that Moses commanded. Showing himself to the priest would be necessary for others to be able to accept him as clean (I already knew that) but going before the priest and offering the required sacrifice were each…

  • Types of Ground

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    What is the difference between the stony ground and the thorny ground? They sound very similar but there seems to be an important difference. Thorny ground is good soil because it can support the thorns. Stony ground can’t support thorns any more than it can support the good seed being sown. The thorns are evidence…

  • The Lord’s Prayer

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    Notice that after admonishing against using vain repetitions Christ shared a prayer that took less than 30 second as a model of prayer. While we seek to be thorough in our prayers we still need to guard against vain repetitions. That means saying what we mean rather than what we feel we are expected to…