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Forrest Jenan at Neighborhood Church - Apocalyptic Fascinations: Part Two

• 5:17 PM: We want to tackle Matthew 24.
• 5:18 PM: Matthew 21 ... Jesus goes into the temple and gets angry. This is an enacted parable. Jesus shows up in the Gospel, in the first century. Jesus is a prophet in the same sense as Isaiah, Ezekiel and Daniel.
• 5:19 PM: Enacted parables are making points with your actions.
• 5:19 PM: Jesus is declaring the temple is bankrupt. That's it's system is no longer needed.
• 5:20 PM: Jesus is forgiving sin away from the temple sacirficial system ... which is a big thing.
• 5:21 PM: Matthew 22 ... Jesus starts telling weird stories. He's talking about food. He's ripping down social boundaries.
• 5:22 PM: Upper class eat with lower class. Men eat with women. Jesus is shattering these social boundaries.
• 5:23 PM: Matthew 23 ... it's full of woes. He pronounced judgement on the religious leaders.
• 5:24 PM: He judges first the institution and then the leaders. He spends a lot of time judging the religious establishment ... and not a lot of time judging those in the margins. Those on the fringes
• 5:27 PM: "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"
• 5:28 PM: There's a chapter break right here at the end of Matthew 23 ... and that's sad.
• 5:29 PM: Matthew 24 ... Jesus then begins to talk about the temple. And the disciples are confused.
• 5:31 PM: Let's talk about how Jesus answers the disciples question.
• 5:32 PM: Jesus is clear about "this generation" not passing until something happens.
• 5:33 PM: At Jesus' trial, they ask him if he's the Christ, the Son of God.
• 5:34 PM: Because Jesus' message is "Repent, for the Kingdom is near."
• 5:35 PM: Jesus lays the groundwork for his trial all throughout the book of Matthew.
• 5:36 PM: Matthew 10 ... He called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and sickness. These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: "Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. As you go, preach this message: 'The kingdom of heaven is near.'
• 5:37 PM: For most of us, in our 21st century context, going out to save souls is the idea.
• 5:38 PM: If you read it like that, you're reading it wrong. You're reading it like a 21st century person rather than if you were in the 1st century.
• 5:39 PM: Jesus is not talking about individual souls ... he's talking about national crisis.
• 5:39 PM: Change your trajectory or a pagan nation will come in and destroy you.
• 5:42 PM: If your mission was to go out and to proclaim a kingdom different then Herod or Caesar, then someone's gonna sit up and notice.
• 5:43 PM: This has nothing to do with the universe ... and everything to do with the disciples.
• 5:44 PM: He told the disciples that the Son of Man would come before they would finish.
• 5:46 PM: The disciples, at the beginning of Matthew 24, asked about the "end of the age" ... not the "end of the world."
• 5:47 PM: A first century Jew's interpretation of personal salvation wasn't of a personal bliss called "heaven."
• 5:48 PM: Jews wanted Eden ... a return to peace and shalom.
• 5:50 PM: I wonder how we should read then the rest of Matthew 24.
• 5:53 PM: How we think about the end relates to the way we live today.
• 6:06 PM: I want you to think. I want us to think. I want us to read scriptures Biblically. I want us to leave changed. Our message to the world is one of beauty and hope and passion. It's not always gonna be like this. My God made a promise and he will fulfill it.

Videos That Make Me Smile

A couple random videos that made me smile ... hopefully for you, too. Which is your favorite?

Promised For You And For Me

Sitting here eating lunch and this moved me to the core. I wanted to share with you.

Awkward Questions About Jesus

Escorting Mrs. Reagan

Dave Haney was the speaker at the KDUVfm Hume Lake Mother's Day Family Weekend. Dave is the pastor at Riverbend Church in Austin, TX. So I was geeked out a little before I even met him and here's why.

Riverbend Church was the facility used 2 years ago for the funeral of former first lady Ladybird Johnson.

When I met Dave this past weekend, he shared with me his perspective of Mrs. Johnson's funeral. He was standing in a medium-sized room with some Secret Service agents and President and Rosalynn Carter walk in. The Carters, over the course of the next few minutes, proceed to greet members of seven First Families: the Johnson family, the Nixon family, the Ford family, the Reagan family, the first and second Bush families, and the Clinton family.

Can you imagine? Being in a room with that much history. It gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.

But that wasn't the end of Dave's story. One of Dave's duties for the day was to escort former first lady Nancy Reagan to and from her seat. He asked a Secret Service agent if there were any special protocols or instructions. All they told him was make sure she doesn't fall.

Needless to say, his day went successful because if Mrs. Reagan would have fallen, you would've heard about it in the news and Dave's name would've been everywhere. One of those circumstances which if you do your job right, then no one will know otherwise.

Dave shared his heart this weekend about being a parent and the importance of living out Micah 6:8: doing justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God. If you ever get a chance to hear him speak, I highly recommend.

Caedmon's Baby Dedication

Fuel: Forrest Jenan - Apocalyptic Fascinations: Part 1

• 5:29 PM: An important thing to look at is our culture ... movie after movie after movie.
• 5:30 PM: There's a reality that we don't have very much hope for the world.
• 5:30 PM: What should our response be as Christ-followers?
• 5:30 PM: Our natural response is to say "let's escape this place."
• 5:31 PM: I think we're caught in the middle of a big big problem.
• 5:31 PM: What do we do with these passage that don't seem to give much hope?
• 5:32 PM: Apocalyptic literature is a way of imagining the future.
• 5:32 PM: Apocalyptic literature is very scary sounding stuff.
• 5:33 PM: It's about something ending and something new beginning.
• 5:34 PM: Reading of Matthew 24
• 5:35 PM: Eschatology is the study of last things. But the Bible wasn't written in theological categories. It's a story.
• 5:37 PM: Eschatology is theology focused towards the future but within a certain context and from a certain perspective, which may not be ours.
• 5:38 PM: Audience member: my grandparents had the perspective of why do anything if his return is imminent...
• 5:39 PM: Audience member: One of the things that struck me is the concept of hope in the midst of escatology.
• 5:40 PM: Audience member: I like to connect eschatolgy with Romans 8. Jesus will be with us 'til the end.
• 5:41 PM: This is not going to be about me giving you right answers.
• 5:41 PM: I want to consider this: am I willing to learn?
• 5:42 PM: I may share something you disagree with ... but we need to be OK with that. Hope is the bottom line and Romans 8 is a great passage.
• 5:43 PM: Some people approach eschatolgy like a jigsaw puzzle.
• 5:44 PM: There's a fascination about when Jesus will come back.
• 5:47 PM: Jesus is very clear ... I am going to come.
• 5:47 PM: The Apostle Paul calls this "The Blessed Hope"...
• 5:49 PM: "I am coming back ... but be about my mission."
• 5:50 PM: We approach these types of things with humility. What would it look like if we just loosen our grip a little?
• 5:50 PM: Next week we'll look a hermaneutic ... really, the study of the study of the Bible.
• 5:52 PM: There are 4 umbrella veiws that are out there.
• 5:52 PM: The Historic View views it like it's happening right now.
• 5:52 PM: The Preterist View sees that the prophecies have already happened.
• 5:53 PM: The Futurist View view the prophecies have yet to be fulfilled.
• 5:54 PM: The Spiritual View doesn't concern itself with when or how ... it believes the language points to a spiritual reality.
• 5:55 PM: I hope that anything I say or do points back to Him.
• 5:56 PM: My prayer is that we see beyond this and we see a God who cares ... that we run smack dab into the face of God.
• 5:56 PM: We will not spend time predicting the future.
• 5:57 PM: Audience question: ofc the 4 views, which do most American Christian hold true?
• 5:58 PM: The most popular view is the futurist view ... largely popularized by Tim LaHaye and the teahcing in dispensationlism.
• 5:59 PM: Audience member: how do we best prepare for this discussion?
• 5:59 PM: Read Matthew 24 and use it as a springboard for understanding other Scriptures.
• 6:00 PM: If you know and study Matthew 24 well, it'll be huge.

Music Video: U2 - Magnificent

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