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Disciple
›to learn, one who learns
›Disciples follow both the teaching and the teacher. At first its biblical use is of the special group of twelve men but then the use extended to any convert to Christianity. In Jesus’ day a disciple would go and find a rabbi whose teaching that he liked and then would submit himself and his lifestyle to the rabbi. This is most likely how John the Baptist gained his followers; they would come and find him. This is not how it worked (and still works) with Christ though: Christ goes out and selects his disciples.
›Disciples follow both the teaching and the teacher. At first its biblical use is of the special group of twelve men but then the use extended to any convert to Christianity. In Jesus’ day a disciple would go and find a rabbi whose teaching that he liked and then would submit himself and his lifestyle to the rabbi. This is most likely how John the Baptist gained his followers; they would come and find him. This is not how it worked (and still works) with Christ though: Christ goes out and selects his disciples.
Matthew 4:18-22; Mark 1:16-20; Luke 5:1-11
›Here we have Jesus calling two sets of fishermen brothers- Simon Peter & his brother Andrew and James & John the sons of Zebedee. All four were in their natural environment (fishing) when they became Disciples of Christ. Use this story as an example of how Christ chooses his Disciples; you were out minding your own business and working in your natural environment until Christ came and pulled you from that environment to follow him.
Listening to the Master
›Also in this example we have more detail in the Luke account than we do in the other two, which lends to Luke’s meticulous style and attention to detail. From Luke we learn that Jesus went and got close to the fishermen and spent some time preaching from their boat after they had fished all night. It is here that Jesus works a miracle in order to win over the group. Don’t put too much thought into the process; exactly what is written happened and it doesn’t really matter how. They dropped their nets where Jesus said to, and they caught fish.
Matthew 4:23-25; Mark 1:21-2:17; Luke 5:12-32
›In these passages we have parallel accounts from Mark and Luke about a leper, a paralytic man, and the call of Levi (Mathew). We also have Mark elaborating on three verses from Matthew and explaining some various healings and a ministry into Galilee. Why are these various healings and exorcisms recorded? They give us some insight into why the crowds were following Jesus around.
›One may question why Jesus told the leper and the paralytic to tell no one and go straight to the priests but Jesus was alluding to his mission of being the Messiah who can work miracles- not the great miracle worker who tried to save everyone. Jesus’ mission was not to heal every sick person in the entire region- instead the mission is to prove that he is the Messiah by performing select miracles.
›One may question why Jesus told the leper and the paralytic to tell no one and go straight to the priests but Jesus was alluding to his mission of being the Messiah who can work miracles- not the great miracle worker who tried to save everyone. Jesus’ mission was not to heal every sick person in the entire region- instead the mission is to prove that he is the Messiah by performing select miracles.
Righteous and the sinners
›We also learn an important truth from the calling of Levi: Jesus did not come to preach to the “righteous” but instead to save the “sinners”. When it comes to the priests and the “righteous”- if their hearts were truly in the right place didn’t need to be saved and if their hearts were in the wrong place couldn’t be saved because they (wrongly) felt that they were better than all others. Jesus will use any man from any walk of life in the master plan and quite often Jesus will pick the one who seems to not be the best suited for the job to accomplish his mission.