JESUS THE TEACHER

Psalms 119:120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

How seriously do we take the Word? How much do we believe it?

We are surely saved by grace, but the lessons of our salvation are learned through experience, bitter experience sometimes.

Jesus also has a ‘No Child Left Behind’ program, and He pays the tuition fee with His blood. He teaches us lessons though His Word, and through life’s experiences, He drills us on the concepts learned. He also makes sure to get from us spiritual dividends from what He teaches us. His grading standard is the un-compromised, unadulterated Word forever established in heaven (Psalms 119:89) and He doesn’t grade on the curve. No matter what or how long it takes, we graduate.

How much easier though it would be if we would learn just by believing the course’s text, not having to drill concepts through the trials of experience. As the Jews of old, we are not always able to believe just by faith; we require a sign, the pangs of experince (1 Corinthians 1:22).

Oh how much trouble we would avoid if we only had enough respectful fear for His Word. Our soul would easily be convicted of sin big and small, just because “He said so”. Also, we would read in His words about the fate of the unsaved, and feel desperation for our friends and relatives; we would see ourselves as the proverbial Good Samaritan to our ‘neighbors’ (Luke 10:36,37) in the whole world.

“Oh my Lord, put in us a spirit of clear understanding and integrity towards your Word. Clear away the semantic fog of excuses and the doctrinal confusions. Let us once again see and understand Your words in their full values so that we may have proper respect unto them!”

2 Peter 3:9-11 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (10) But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. (11) Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness.