BEMA Episode Link: 99: Fruit of Fools
Episode Length: 34:52
Published Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 01:00:00 -0800
Session 3
About this episode:

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings finish the Sermon on the Mount, talking about gates, trees, fools, and houses.

Discussion Video for BEMA 99

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Transcript for BEMA 99

Notes

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

  • Wide is the gate and broad is the road the leads to destruction; small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life.
    • The jewish mind would have been reminded of Deuteronomy, “choose life or death”.
  • False Teachers
    • Orthodoxy versus Orthopraxy
    • We’ll know false teachers by their fruit, NOT by the words they use.
  • Three Folding Coming of Kingdom
    • The Three Ways Are:
      • The finger of God moves
      • People respond in obedience
      • People call on the name of the Lord
    • The Jewish teaching comes from the Exodus between the Hebrews leaving Egypt and when they reach Sinai.
  • Building on the rock versus the sand.

Discussion Questions

  • Marty: We don’t get a lot of mileage out of how we can tell a tree by its fruit. Jesus seems to emphasize orthopraxy over orthodoxy.
    • He’s not validating good trees, he’s validating good fruit.
  • Head Questions
  • Heart Questions
  • Hands Questions

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