Quiet Time Notes
Notes from my daily Quiet Times with God
Master Plan - Demonstration (part 1)
December 7th, 2009Previous |
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He showed them how to live
- Prayer
- Jesus often let His disciples see Him conversing with the Father (They ask, not forced)
- Unless they grasped the meaning of prayer and practiced consistently – not much would come from their lives.
- Using Scripture
- He never ceased to use the Scripture in His conversation with them.
- 66 references to the Old Testament
- 90+ Old Testament references speaking to others
- Jesus could freely recall scriptures by heart
- Everything that he did and said had some relevance to evangelism
- Revealing the truth
- How to deal with men
- Disciples may (at the time) have not known that they were being taught
- Jesus was the Master of His own teachings
- Presentation was not flashy; the truth was the main attraction.
- Disciples observed how to:
- Jesus drew people to Himself
- Won their confidence and inspired their faith
- He called them to the way of salvation and He called them to make a decision