Proper Care and Nurture of Others – Discipleship
This is the way video – https://youtu.be/XF3Mcn_UAuw
Mandalorian code of conduct:
• Never remove your helmet in presence of another being
• Help other Mandalorian
• Raise your children as Mandalorian
• Rally to the Mand’alor’s cause
• Face death with integrity.
Matthew 15:7-8 “If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.”
We are:
What does disciple mean? – A student or a learner
Three levels of education in Jesus times
First stage of education – Beth Sefer
• In the local synagogue starting at the age of five through ten
• Both boys and girls, but mostly boys
• The teaching focused primarily on the Torah
• All oral and memorizing
What percentage of Jews were literate (Read and Write)? 3%
Second stage of education – Bet Talmud “House of Learning”
• Ages 10-14
• More extensive memorizing
Luke 2: 46-47 “After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers.”
Third stage of education – Bet Midrash “House of Study”
• A Rabbi would select you and you would follow him everywhere.
• You would agree to take on his beliefs and interpretations of Scriptures
• The purpose was to become like your rabbi in every way.
Matthew 4:18-22 “As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people. At once they left their nets and followed him. Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets. Jesus called them, and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.”
The threefold plan of discipleship:
• Follow, watch from a Rabbi
• Learn all that they do and teach.
• Now go and make your own disciples
Matthew 28:16-20 “Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
How do we imitate Jesus?
• Pray for our enemies
• Build up others
• Speak life
• Forgive those who persecute you
• Teach others God’s truth
Here is how it works in our life:
• Jesus chose us to be his disciples
• We go to church and start reading our Bible’s
• As we learn we start teaching others
• Then we mentor others.
John 15:16 “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last”
Matthew 28:19-20 “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you”
Hebrews 5:11-12 “We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!”