BECOMING A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS pt 2 // Sunday, September 4, 2022 // Pastor Jeff Hines
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Sunday — September 4, 2022
Becoming A Light in the Darkness
Today: Being A Disciple
Matthew 4: 19 (ESV)
“Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
We think disciples are students…
…People who want to know everything the teacher knows.
Disciples want to be what the Rabbi is!
When you agreed to follow a rabbi,
it was to the end…
Rabbi’s Prepared their Disciples…
The journey may be difficult…
It could mean facing your own death…
Jesus’ Method…
Discerned those who had a PASSIONATE COMMITMENT TO ACTION !!!
Not satisfied with Simply Knowing the Truth…
…They PERSISTANTLY, PASSIONALTLY… W / O Giving Up
PURSUED the Truth…
LIVED the Truth !!!
In Matthews we read about Jesus doing ministry…
Delivering People of Demons…
Healing the Sick…
Feeding Multitudes…
Challenged by Pharisees &
Sadducees
Asked for a Sign…
Then lead the Disciples to:
1. Caesarea Philippi
@ Foot of Mount Hermon
Herod Philip’s Capitol
2. “Gates of Hell”
Spring flowed out… Josephus…
Ancient cultures believed this spring was a portal for Fertility god’s to return to Hades…
330 B.C. Alex the Great…
Set Caesarea Philippi apart by establishing a shrine to the Greek Shepherd’s Fertility god… 3. Pan 1
4. Pan 2
5. Pan Mask
6. Pan (Half Man / Half Goat)
Satyr
Promised his worshippers fertility
7. Overhead View of
Caesarea Philippi
Two Large Areas…
1. Large enclosure for the sacred goats to mate
2. Dancers performed the dance of Nymphs and Pan…
8. Nymph Dance
Matthew 16: 13 - 18 (ESV)
13 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”