BEMA Episode Link: 92: How to Bring Order Out of Chaos
Episode Length: 27:25
Published Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2018 01:00:00 -0800
Session 3
About this episode:

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings examine the stories of Jesus’s baptism and temptation.

How to Bring Order Out of Chaos Presentation (PDF)

Discussion Video for BEMA 92

BEMA 1: Trust the Story

BEMA 2: Knowing When to Say “Enough”

BEMA 4: His Bow in the Clouds

BEMA 5: A Misplaced Curse

BEMA 20: With All Your Heart

BEMA 21: With All Your Soul & “Very”

Transcript for BEMA 92

Notes

*Note: The following notes are handwritten by me, Adam, and I reserve the right to be wrong.

  • Why does Jesus get baptized? “To tell the world, ‘I am choosing to walk the path correctly.’”
  • Back to the beginning.
  • Six steps to bring order out of chaos
    • Chaos Tohu vavohu.
    • Water
    • Spirit over water
    • God speaks
    • Order is expected
    • Order is tested
    • Tragedy
  • Times we see this happen
    • Creation
    • The Flood
    • Exodus
    • Crossing the Jordan
    • Jesus’ baptism
  • Trust the Story
    • Know the Text
    • Walk the Text
    • What would have happened if Jesus didn’t know the text? Is it enough to just know the text? It’s important to walk the Text as well.
    • Satan knows the Text as well. He also misquotes it. How many know the text well enough to notice that?
  • The temptations are from the Text.
    • Matthew orders the temptations differently than the other Synoptics.
    • These temptations correspond to those texts in the desert with the Israelites after the Exodus when God leads them through shema. Love the Lord your God with all of your heart, soul, and very/might.
    • God wanted to experience his people through these tests.
    • Stones to bread: Deut 8:3 and manna… man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.
    • Thrown from the Temple: Deut 6:16 and Water from the Rock in Exo 17… Do not put the Lord your God to the test.
  • We must see the experience of the Israelites as an extension of our own experience.
    • Not Jews were a failure and Jesus was a success.
    • However, Jesus shows all of us who seem to follow God how to follow God correctly.

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