Come Follow Me LDS- Matthew 14-15, Mark 6-7, John 5-6 Part 1

'Bed & Bath, Graves & Dancing'
- Jesus heals a man who carries his bed on the Sabbath
- Jesus will teach in the Spirit World
- Herodias' daughter dances to get the head of John the Baptist

 

 

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all right in this episode we're gonna
talk about bed and bath a little dancing
and some grapes there we go alright
we're gonna start eating John chapter
five here's how it opens up verse one
after this there was a feast of the Jews
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem it's
interesting in the Gospel of John every
time Jesus is mentioned in Jerusalem
it's during one of the feasts and here
he has him again it's during Passover
now this has been a year since John
introduced Jesus in Jerusalem at the
Passover the previous year where he went
through the temple and cleansed it
remember using like a whip type movement
as you would in cleansing the temple
like the high priest would have done
with the sacrificial blood of the ox and
of the goat so he's out kind of this is
a representation of him cleansing the
temple and being the high priest being
the Melchizedek if you will so John has
him here at Passover this is his second
Passover now in Jerusalem and he says
now there is at Jerusalem by the Sheep
market a pool which is called in the
Hebrew tongue Beth Beth seda having five
porches in these lay a great multitude
of impotent folk of blind halt withered
waiting for the moving of the water so
if you can imagine perhaps something to
the effect of a spring and when the
spring comes up and there's water
movement from the underground spring it
could very well be that it brought
numerous minerals that could have been
healing now we don't know exactly what
this might have meant to people at the
time John actually says the following
that for an angel went down
certain season into the pool and
troubled the water whosoever then first
after the troubling of the water stepped
in was made whole of whatsoever disease
he had so at least the people here at
the time believed that this pool had
healing a healing effect on whoever was
that first got into the pool well if
you're crippled and you need to be
healed and you're sitting there waiting
near the pool to be healed and you can't
walk or move very well and you have to
be the first person in after after the
water moves you're gonna have trouble
getting in and making it happen so who
knows how long he's been there or tried
this how many times he's tried this but
the water moves and the man is never
able to get into the pool first to be
healed unless at least again what the
people here believed happened and you
know what it could be that the the pool
had healing effects on those that were
in it it could have been some minerals
there or something that had healing
effects on people maybe for arthritis or
or who know inflammation of some sort
who knows in fact after the Romans
conquered Jerusalem or destroyed
Jerusalem in the temple the second time
you know 30 or 40 years later they put
in place kind of a shrine of healing
there as well to their own gods and so
it didn't go away when the Jews left
right the Romans believed also that this
was a pool of healing and so Jesus
approaches the band down in verse six
and says when Jesus saw him lie and knew
that he had been now a long time in that
case he saith unto Him wilt thou be made
whole again isn't it interesting that he
asks him he wants to know where his
heart is where his mind is he doesn't
just go up and heal him he wants to know
he sees he's in trouble he sees he needs
to be healed but he still stops before
healing him to ask him do you believe
that you can be made whole
that has to happen first before it seems
that always is the case before Jesus can
do any healing he wants to know if there
is belief there first so down in verse
eight he he says to him rise take up thy
bed and walk well one big problem here
with this he does rise and he does take
up his bed but it's the Sabbath and of
course you can't carry anything on the
Sabbath that's a big big no-no to the
Pharisees the Sadducees the scribes
everybody else there in that culture in
Jerusalem you just can't do that
but he says go ahead and rise and of
course a man I mean he's healed he picks
up his bed whatever that means and he
carries it with him and so the Jews say
to him what are you doing you can't
carry that this is the Sabbath and he
says the man that healed me said rise
and take up thy bed and so I did
basically and he says who was the man
they said I don't know well then Jesus
goes to the temple sees the man there at
the temple and talks to him and then the
man knows who it is and so then he tells
the Jews that it was Jesus that healed
him and told him to pick up his bed on
the Sabbath and so the Jews approached
Jesus and say you can't do this on the
Sabbath how have you done this on the
Sabbath and they want to persecute him
they're looking to kill him maybe stone
him at this time and Jesus's response to
them is I basically I'm doing my
father's work this is the father's work
and this is what I am doing and so he is
saying I am the son of God I am equal to
the father to God and so then they
really want to kill him and then he
brings up a very important point he
talks to him about how he is the son and
that all of the judgment has been left
not by the father he's not gonna do the
judging but the son will do the judging
and he's basically just outright telling
them who he is that he is Jehovah that
he is the son of God that he is the
Messiah
and I think it's very interesting as you
as you go through the New Testament
there is something really peculiar that
is missing with the thought of the
Messiah to the Jews and I know we talk a
lot about how they weren't looking for a
spiritual Messiah and they were looking
for someone who would be like a King
David who would be a hero and and a war
you know someone to free them from the
Romans and from all these other empires
that have ruled Jerusalem for forever it
seems but there's something else that's
really missing here that has been
removed from the theology of the Jews
where they they don't really understand
that Jehovah is the Messiah our sort
seems to me that has been removed that
it's instead it's gonna be some prophet
or or some war hero that is coming in
but but the idea that Jehovah himself is
going to be the Messiah that he's going
to come down to earth receive a body and
take on the sins of the world has
completely seems to completely have been
lost at least within Jerusalem and the
power structure within Jerusalem this
theology is is it seems completely gone
now as he travels around different areas
in Galilee and and in other areas around
these other provinces it seems that
those people are looking for me remember
the woman at the well she was looking
for the Messiah and here the man coming
at the well and talking to her is
certainly no war hero figure that she's
looking for
and so this tradition again that when
you go back in time to the time of Lehi
and Jeremiah when the Babylonians
destroyed Jerusalem about 600 BC it's
587 BC there had already been a complete
loss of cry
at this point on what that meant what
the Messiah really meant at that time
that's why Lehi goes off and preaches
about Christ that's what they wanted to
kill him for in Jerusalem because he's
preaching about Christ it's not just
because he's preaching against the
iniquities that are there it is the
theology the people in Jerusalem see
Lehi as a blasphemer because he is
preaching about Christ coming down to
earth that Jehovah their God is going to
be born to a woman and and take on the
sins of the world that's the problem
and so that thought still existed with
Lehi he learned it from someone Jeremiah
believed it and so you have all of these
groups of people that were probably
scattered to the outskirts into the
deserts that still carried on this type
of tradition about Jehovah being born
and coming down as the savior of the
world
and that probably trickled down into
several of these areas that that existed
in Palestine at the time that Jesus met
up with so there are different concepts
of what the Messiah is at this time it's
not what we think of the Jews and that's
everybody but that's not the case there
are different sets of the Jews now
there's a certain stronger theology in
what John calls Jewry in the area of
jewelry that has one thought and they
have the power structure with the
Sadducees and the Pharisees and and
whatnot and they have different beliefs
but there there's a power structure
there without theology and then outside
of that into the deserts and Galilee and
other places there could be different
traditions of who the Messiah is but
here in Jerusalem it seems like they're
really off base on what their idea of
what of what the Messiah isn't so that's
kind of the environment that Jesus comes
into when he comes into Jerusalem
is is I am the Son of God I am the
Messiah and then of course that has a
lot of other implications to them about
the Messiah they know about these other
traditions in the deserts and the other
provinces they know about the Messiah
being the king and they don't want to
lose their power either so there's a lot
of different threads of threat threads
of threat that are going on here and a
lot of what they would consider
blasphemy about the preaching of the Son
of God and who he is
and of who the Messiah is and so Jesus
goes on here and on and on about who he
is and how he is the son of God and and
he says then he says down here Marvel
not at this for the hour is coming this
is verse 28 Marvel not at this for the
hour is coming in the which all that are
in the graves shall hear his voice that
is really powerful to me the graves all
that are dead will hear his voice why do
they need to hear his voice what would
that why would that matter now you look
at most of Christianity today even today
and what their belief system is based on
is if you don't accept Christ in this
life then you do not have the same
afterlife you don't have the same reward
and here Jesus right here is saying that
the those that have already passed away
will hear the voice you will hear my
voice in other words they're going to
hear the gospel and they're gonna have a
chance at responding to it and of course
then there's later on the temple work
and all the work that's done by proxy
for these individuals and that's the
doctrine that we have in the church
today here Jesus is saying it very
simply why would we care why would
anybody care about those that are
already dead if they didn't hear about
the gospel they didn't have
chants the fullness of the gospel and
it's because they will have the chance
and Jesus is stating that right here
then in verse 29 he says they shall hear
his voice and shall come forth they that
have done good and to the resurrection
of life and they that have done evil
unto the resurrection of damnation this
verse right here
verse 29 in John 5 is what triggered
Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon to go
pray and to receive the revelation in
verse or in section 76 so that's the
revelation of the three kingdoms and of
heaven and a description of all that you
should go read that it's very
interesting if you haven't read it for
awhile go look at the symbolism of what
they see and compare that to other
revelations or what we would call
apocalyptic visions of for example John
in the book of Revelation or that daniel
has it's very interesting to see what
they what they end up seeing in this
vision because it's all symbolism it's
all a symbolism of the heavens and God
etc and then toward the end of John five
he kind of condemns them a little bit
and he says let's look this is who I've
said I am I'm the one also which is
there must have been a tradition there
also that there's someone who was going
to be speaking to the dead about the
gospel and that was gonna be Jesus
Christ and so he's again giving a
witness of himself of who he is but he
says in verse 37 here and the father
himself which hath sent me hath borne
witness of me he have neither heard his
voice at any time nor seen his shape and
then down in verse 39 searched the
Scriptures for in them you think he have
eternal life and they are they which
testify of me so he is saying here again
to them I am Jehovah
I am the the God that you pray to
right I am the God of the Old Testament
and Here I am in the flesh and also that
all of the prophets you search the
Scriptures you think you have eternal
life in these well these scriptures
testify of me all of the prophets have
testified of the coming of the Messiah
even though what you understand now as
what the Messiah is is may be very very
different search them search the
Scriptures because they all testify of
the Messiah coming down and being born
of a woman and then continuing on he
says in verse 40 and you will not come
to me that you might have life eternal
life I receive not honour from men and
here in verse 40 42 but I know you that
ye have not the love of God in you to me
I go back and again I think about faith
hope and charity and being that's the
love of God would be charity the pure
love of Christ right would be charity
and they don't have that because they
don't have an understanding of what
Christ is that the God that they worship
is actually the God that will suffer and
that will take on all the sins of the
world and lower himself below everyone
and take on all of the burdens right all
of the burdens of the world because why
because that is what love is that is the
love of God and so they obviously do not
understand that there's no way you could
have a greater love of anything than
what Jesus shows in the atonement and so
he's saying you don't have the love of
God in you you don't understand what is
going on here you don't understand Who I
am and what the Messiah is and
represents and what he is going to do
and then he lays this on them remember
that they have lowered
Christ or the Messiah too little or
nothing in their theology at least what
we think of as a messiah in Christianity
but they have raised Moses right Moses
is the pinnacle he's everything and of
course that's why the law of Moses is
everything plus everything else that
they keep on top of the law of Moses to
try and create these laws and control
over the people but this is what Jesus
says he says do not think that I will
accuse you to the Father
there is one that accuse with you even
Moses in whom he trusts so yeah that's
that's the confirmation there what I've
been telling you right this is Moses now
Trust is the same thing as faith who do
they have faith in they don't have a
looking forward to the atonement of the
Messiah seems to me right they have
their trust in Moses he's saying this is
the contrast between me and Moses you
have faith in Moses and not in the
Messiah that will take on your sins and
save you he says in whom he trusts for
Haji believed Moses you would have
believed me for he wrote of me so in
other words Moses prophesied of Christ
of the Messiah and in fact he acted a
little bit like him on taman sinai it
was a representation of of the messiah
as he tried to atone for israel on mount
sinai and he prophesied about the cry
about the prophet that would be coming
about christ probably a lot more than
what we have in the Old Testament now
but here the Jews in Jerusalem have put
Moses at the pinnacle and Jesus is
saying you don't believe Moses you think
you have your trust in him your faith is
all in Moses but you don't believe him
because he prophesied of me and so
therefore you're not going to believe me
either
because you don't even believe Moses who
you trusted in and he finishes off
saying but if he believed not his
writings how shall ye believe my words
so he's bringing all of this together
he's see again that separation that the
Jews have of what the Messiah is and who
he is he's trying to bring that together
bringing it back with Moses Nephi has to
do the same thing with laman and lemuel
same issue
Moses is at the pinnacle at the time of
Lehi laman and lemuel have fallen prey
to that theology more than likely
and so Nephi has to use Moses to high
kind of preach to laman and lemuel so
that they can have a little more trust
in what Nephi is saying because that's
where their hearts are that's where
their trust is is in Moses okay and then
we're gonna move over to mark we don't
read from him as often but we're gonna
go to mark chapter 6 here and here I
want to talk about John the Baptist and
what happens to him where he gives his
life basically as a testimony to the
gospel and to Jesus Christ here remember
he had come to Herod and Herodias her
Herod's wife and said what you have done
here is not lawful because Herod had
married his brother's wife taking his
brother's wife for his own and so he's
saying this is adulteress you're in an
adulterous relationship this is against
what God wants and he calls them out on
it well Herod's wife Herodias is she's
furious she's livid about this whole
thing she doesn't want to be told what
to do some guy preaching in in the
desert worrying camel-hair right he
doesn't want to be told that she doesn't
to be told this she's very upset about
it and so she designs a plan and during
a feast that Herod is having her odious
has her daughter and has her come out
and dance for Herod and this by the way
is something that was done all the time
a common thing in fact we read about it
in the book of ether whether it's the
same kind of thing it's actually used in
the same way as a manipulation with the
king to get something so when we see
these parallels we see these things we
understand that these are these are
customs these are perhaps even rituals
sometimes that we're reading about from
their cultures and so this is a normal
thing to happen and so Herodias has
daughter dances pleases Herod and Herod
says look whatever you want up to the
half of my kingdom I will give it to you
so this is probably a common statement
that would be put out there in other
words he's saying I want to give you a
gift what gift can I give you and the
issue is here is that he's bound by it
he seems to be completely bound by
whatever she's want as she wants from
this and so she says I want the head of
John the Baptist who's down in Herod's
prison and I want you to bring me that
head and so Herod is very afraid to do
this he has a little bit of belief in in
John the Baptist he does not want to do
this but he knows his wife is livid with
him and he also everyone who has heard
him say this around him he is bound by
this oath that takes place here in this
kind of an event to follow through on
whatever it is that she asks for and so
he does it and sends a man right down
right then they behead John the Baptist
they bring his head up basically on a
saucer on a plate they call it a charger
- the daughter of Herodias and so
Herodias gets what she wants she is very
mad at John the Baptist she can't kill
him
but she knows a way to get it done and
so she does and she executes her plan to
perfection and John the Baptist dies as
a martyr preaching the gospel of Jesus
Christ

 

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