Mailbag: Why Was Jesus Rejected by His Own People? Also: Don’t be a Normal Christian.

Back in January, I received this interesting question from a listener: 

“So how is Jesus Jewish but Jewish people do not believe he is the messiah?? This is something I’ve been trying to wrap my head around… Nyssa from Houston Texas”

That’s a good question. Jesus was the Jewish Messiah. He had all of these prophecies about Himself throughout the OT, which He then fulfilled. He worked all kinds of miracles. He even died and rose again, and some of them still didn’t get it. So, that’s kind of weird, right?

Well I think it’s weird. And I’d like to explore why it worked out that way in the Bible.

Turn with me to John 6 and let’s get weird.

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0:00 - Why Jesus Was Rejected? (Nyssa)

11:35 - Was Balaam’s Oracle Messianic? (Greg)

15:00 - Why Was Elihu not Pardoned? (Beau)

16:55 - The Dominion of Man (Walter)

20:40 - Be a Weird Christian

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