Mustard seed faith verse2/27/2024 By the way, the parallel account to this story is found in Mark, chapter 9, and in Luke, chapter 9. And we're told a couple of other things in the parallel account of this event in the other gospels. There's already a crowd gathered and there's arguing going on and there's great discussion going on and a great deal of turmoil.īut as Jesus and His three disciples come to meet this large crowd in which the other disciples are found, a man presents himself to Jesus and prostrates himself before Jesus begging Jesus for help. And as Jesus and these three disciples descend from the summit they come into a great multitude of people. The other disciples have been carrying on their ministry while Jesus and these disciples have been on the Mount of Transfiguration. ![]() Jesus and Peter and James and John are returning to rejoin the other disciples. Sin always ravages, and we're seeing a picture of those ravages painted by Matthew. In a fallen world, you have both victimizers and victims. We're not claiming that this boy did something and was therefore being punished by these particular activities, but we're seeing, in this young man's misery is a picture of what sin does. Now it doesn't matter how this particular condition came about. Matthew has painted us a picture there of what sin does to a person. In these verses we see Christ coming down from the mountain into this fallen situation, a tragic situation involving a young man, a demon possessed epileptic boy, and in those verses we see that sin brings misery and self-destruction. And I’d like to look at this passage with you for a few moments, looking again at these main points. And through each of those themes Matthew continues to point us to the importance of faith. And then Matthew shows us Jesus' words, and in Jesus' words of response and rebuke we see the perversity of the unbelief of the multitude and especially the scribes.Īnd then, finally, Matthew shows us the lack of faith that exists even in the disciples' hearts. He paints for us first the picture of sin, and the misery that always accompanies sin, and he paints in bold colors in the story of this poor, young possessed boy and the plight of His father as he comes to speak to Jesus about receiving help. At every turn, he sets before us the peril involved in refusing to believe Christ, in refusing to believe God's word. It is very clear in this passage that Matthew wants to highlight the danger of unbelief. ![]() Our Lord and our God, we ask that by the Spirit You would open our eyes to behold wonderful things in Your word. And so, let's turn our attention to Matthew 17, beginning in verse 14 and see these events which followed the glorious revelation of Jesus Christ on the mountain. ![]() The gospel writers seem to stress the tremendous contrast between the glory above and the shame and the confusion beneath in this town. In the first thirteen verses we saw a description of the transfiguration of our Lord on the mountain and now, as the Lord Jesus and His three disciples make their way down from the summit, they come to a very, very different scene. Today we come to a new section of chapter 17. If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew, chapter 17.
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