Before reading any further, if you have not seen this video, please watch it. If you choose not to watch it because it is 5 minutes and 30 seconds of your life you may never get back, you should best not read ahead or at all for that matter. If you have already seen it, I give you fullest permission not to waste another 5 minutes and 30 seconds. Or if you like reading articles that make little to no sense because you don't know what they are pertaining to, feel free also to read through; and I hope that you find this as one of the better nonsensical pieces you have encountered. Finally, if you are choosing to pretend to read this article, while you are really skimming through hoping to gain some points here and there so you can leave a comment feel free as well. (Hey, it's better to have people pretending to be interested in what you write than having no one at all;))
If you are reading my blog, you are probably thinking, "Wow, that's not biblical..." because most of you who read it agree with me. But if you are not, (welcome to the site by the way) and you disagree with me, and therefore cannot be closely associated with me (:P) you may be thinking, "Way to go Pastor J.! Tell them sinners to start acting the way God calls us to." After all, Jesus got what could be called "snippy" with the Pharisees on several occasions. Goodness, he even acted out in righteous anger calling the salesmen inside the temple thieves. Peter and Paul and many others are also seen actively rebuking people.
I would have to disagree in several areas,
1) Jesus is God, i.e. He kinda knows everything, including how to make every individual receptive to what He says.
2) He was very humble, and stated facts like "I am God." Not saying, "I am important, you all should be paying attention to me." He also rebuked this behavior passionately.
3) When He rebuked the Pharisees and such, He rebuked them as a group, not as individuals. And only in one case that I can recall (and I admit fully that I could easily be wrong, and ask that references would be provided for other such cases) did he rebuke an individual, Matt. 16:23, which was not directed at Peter to irk him, but as a means of literally rebuking Satan.
4) Mt 18:15-17 "Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear [thee, then] take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell [it] unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican." Which pretty explicitly tells us what we are supposed to do, not what Jesus in His infinite wisdom, or Paul and the other apostles with their face-to-face conversations with God, did.
And finally 5) When he took his swig of water and said, "That felt good." It reminded me of this scenario:
Which....did not make for a good impression on my part. But that probably just proved my bias.
So what can we say we've learned from this? Perhaps that as a pastor, one should do as Jesus tells us to do and not what you think He was doing. Perhaps that we should pray for our pastors as the Bible also commands us, so that the immense stress of their job, and the constant power Satan puts into causing these personifications of Christianity to stumble.
But one thing we all have hopefully learned, as a few of the wise youtube commentators speculated: All hail King of the Video Room!
If you are reading my blog, you are probably thinking, "Wow, that's not biblical..." because most of you who read it agree with me. But if you are not, (welcome to the site by the way) and you disagree with me, and therefore cannot be closely associated with me (:P) you may be thinking, "Way to go Pastor J.! Tell them sinners to start acting the way God calls us to." After all, Jesus got what could be called "snippy" with the Pharisees on several occasions. Goodness, he even acted out in righteous anger calling the salesmen inside the temple thieves. Peter and Paul and many others are also seen actively rebuking people.
I would have to disagree in several areas,
1) Jesus is God, i.e. He kinda knows everything, including how to make every individual receptive to what He says.
2) He was very humble, and stated facts like "I am God." Not saying, "I am important, you all should be paying attention to me." He also rebuked this behavior passionately.
3) When He rebuked the Pharisees and such, He rebuked them as a group, not as individuals. And only in one case that I can recall (and I admit fully that I could easily be wrong, and ask that references would be provided for other such cases) did he rebuke an individual, Matt. 16:23, which was not directed at Peter to irk him, but as a means of literally rebuking Satan.
4) Mt 18:15-17 "Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear [thee, then] take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell [it] unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican." Which pretty explicitly tells us what we are supposed to do, not what Jesus in His infinite wisdom, or Paul and the other apostles with their face-to-face conversations with God, did.
And finally 5) When he took his swig of water and said, "That felt good." It reminded me of this scenario:
Which....did not make for a good impression on my part. But that probably just proved my bias.
So what can we say we've learned from this? Perhaps that as a pastor, one should do as Jesus tells us to do and not what you think He was doing. Perhaps that we should pray for our pastors as the Bible also commands us, so that the immense stress of their job, and the constant power Satan puts into causing these personifications of Christianity to stumble.
But one thing we all have hopefully learned, as a few of the wise youtube commentators speculated: All hail King of the Video Room!
