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Questions of Jesus

Questions of Jesus

著者： Don C. Harris (AP)
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In a unique twist, this podcast will present meditations on the questions asked by Jesus during his ministry as recorded in the Scriptures. What did Jesus want to know? What do his questions reveal? What do his questions require of us? It is fitting to investigate the mind-of-Christ. According to the gospels, it's the very mind he desires for his followers. What is Jesus asking you? There is a message in the Red Letter Edition of the Bible that has been overlooked. Don C Harris, Author, Radio and Podcast Host, compels his audience to take another look to apply Christianity with the mindset of Christ. "Think Red Ink" he implores. Don C. Harris is the founder of the Think Red Ink Ministry (2006) and has been labeled as the "Eraser" (for those whom are ready to listen to him). He is the author of many books (Think Red Ink, The Red Letter Questions, The Questions of Jesus, Revelations On Manna), and runs a radio station plus an internet television from New Mexico.Copyright 2026 Don C. Harris (AP) キリスト教 スピリチュアリティ 聖職・福音主義
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  • Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation?

    Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation?
    2026/09/11
    Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation?(Luke 7:31-35 - Matthew 11:16-19), “And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.”Have children always claimed to be bored? I have trouble remembering being bored as a child, but many children today, complain constantly that they are unstimulated if they find themselves idle for over three minutes. Perhaps it is a selective memory on my part, maybe things have changed somewhat, but I suspect that we all become “bored” when we do not have what we want, or want what we have.Jesus used the example of “little children” to illustrate His point about the men of the generation He then occupied. It was, as if they wanted what they did not have and, what they were given, they did not want. They were given John the Baptist and although, in the estimation of Jesus, he was the greatest prophet ever born, he was rejected as a lunatic. They were given the very Son of God and they said that He was not what they expected. By their rejection they said, “He is not holy, He is not mighty, He is not sympathetic to our religion, He does not fulfill prophecies or our expectations.”It is a pity, really, for He was all that and much, much more. Jesus saw the men of that generation as impudent children selfishly demanding more than what was given to them. Their actions spoke volumes, their words dripped with venom toward the Son of God. Their hearts, callused over with rebellion, were indifferent to the designs and desires of God; neither could their eyes see the gift of God who stood before them.As we complain about the degree to which our God has decided to reveal himself to us, or we cry and beg Him to be more real, more available or more willing to use His power on our behalf, we are acting as bored, spoiled children. Perhaps we do not perceive, like the Pharisees, that it is we who though we see, are not seeing, we who though we hear, do not understand, and perhaps it is we who cannot see what is plainly shown to us.The pleasures, as well as the heartaches of this world, tend to create in us an evaluation of good and evil, right and wrong, sin and righteousness and so forth. This evaluation system, over the years, creeps into everything we do and think about. It forms our policies and politics. This basis of good and evil becomes the foundation of teaching our children and learning from life. If we do not receive this foundation from Jesus Christ, the living Word of God within our souls, we risk the danger of making molds into which we expect even our God to fit. We create doctrines from our minds and experiences that we expect Him to sanction. The lifestyles we predict will please Him, repulse Him and ultimately condemn us. Worst of all, because of our warped and selfish views, we stand still in the streets while He plays music that, to Him, is lively and attractive, compelling and gay, but to our insensitive ears is dull and lifeless. We heard it before, it’s not our favorite tune, or for whatever reason we care not to dance.For centuries, Our God has given many prophecies about His sheep, His people, and their plight of sin and their subsequent separation from Him. He has voiced His displeasure with sin, and on several occasions, He named what grieves Him most. He has listed in Scripture the seven things He hates, things that are an abomination to Him and that He despises.[1] Most people cannot list these things. How many can you name? Do you know what grieves the God you claim to love and serve? Can you name the things He hates? Has it become a part of your nature to hate what God hates? How can you love as He loves if you do not know what He hates and why? His nature is foreign to most and little or no effort is made to discover His temperament.How Well Do You Know Him?The Father weeps over Israel. Do you weep with Him? YHVH cries out in anguish for the lost of His people who will not repent and turn to Him. Do you? He stands in fiery displeasure of those who lie in His name and falsely speak for Him and misrepresent the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ; do you investigate the validity and origin of what is taught you as doctrine? He weeps and laments and His Church does not mourn. “Whereunto then, shall I liken the men of this generation? They are like unto children.”It looks as though not much has changed from the men of that generation to the men of this one. We need, as they did, to see the gap between our desires and His, between our evaluation criteria and His, between our tastes and His. The gap is large, but it is not so large that it cannot be spanned.There are many changes to be made in our thinking, many pauses to be inserted into our speech, many of His concerns added to our list and ...
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    13 分
  • Can the blind lead the blind?

    Can the blind lead the blind?
    2026/08/14
    Can the blind lead the blind?“Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind…Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?” Luke 6:39, Matthew 15:12-14 (Combined)It is interesting that this analogy of the blind appears in two places and spans two separate subjects. In one place (Luke 6), our Lord is showing how we are blind leaders of the blind when we attempt to remove specks from our brother’s eye while blinded by a beam. (Ref. Question 9)The Matthew account presents to us the hypocritical Pharisees as blind leaders that will eventually cause themselves, and those they are leading, to fall into a ditch. Jesus asks, “Can the blind lead the blind?” He did not ask, should they, could they, or may they, He asked, “Can they?” The implication is that they cannot. Any of us would agree that it is an impossibility, and we will study this impossibility.In the age in which we live, education has become a necessity. Unfortunately, it has become common to look to education, teachers, institutions, and books whenever a field, an idea or an endeavor unfamiliar to us, presents itself. I say “unfortunately” because this habit transfers to the spiritual realm all too easily.When we find a passage of Scripture that is hard to understand, we may reach for a commentary to explain it. When we have difficulty in life and find ourselves tangled in emotion and unable to think objectively, we sit before counselors, ask opinions, and take advice. We scour books to deepen our spiritual understanding, when all we can gain from these things are the opinions our fellows. As well intentioned as it may be, and as good as it may be, when man offers his solutions, it is just one degree of blindness helping another. It is like someone with cataracts helping another with myopia. Jesus would ask, “Can the blind lead the blind?”Blindness is an excellent analogy. Jesus used it often to describe the condition of the religious teachers of His day. The Matthew 23 account, where Jesus chides the Pharisees, He uses the word “blind” five times. In John 9:39-41 Jesus states, “… For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.” Here, and many other places, there are examples of blindness depicting the spiritual condition of man. Being healed of blindness can stand as a parallel and metaphor to our first encounter with Christ. The thought of blindness and our state of sinfulness being allegorically equal offers something very special when it is carried over to other Scriptures like John 9:32, “Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.”The blindness, however, that we examine here is the blindness of humanistic leadership. The “help” of our modern Christian leadership can be engaged at nearly every level of spiritual growth. There are those on academic levels from so-called Sunday school teachers to seminary professors. There are counselors offering help to those who need emotional stability or help dealing with tragedy or loss. There are those who claim special powers of healing and deliverance from every bondage – mental, physical and spiritual.Actually, not unlike the other modern specialist fields, the modern “minister’s” domain is becoming more and more specific and professional. If anyone, in our country today, felt a desire to become more spiritual, or to attain peace with God, they could find thousands of books, thousands of tapes; they could attend hundreds of seminars all across the country, churches, study groups, Bible studies, sermons, and lectures. Yet, with all this help and knowledge at our disposal, our hearts are in turmoil, our minds are troubled, our churches fragmented, our families torn. A church starts on one side of town and another loses longtime members in a bitter split. Pastors, once held in high esteem, leave their towns in disgrace of sin.How Did This Happen?Why is the body of Christ so divided and diverse when we all use the same Scriptures, worship the same God, and all supposedly share the same goal? Are all these sources of help doling out faulty information? Are they false prophets, or are they simply “blind leading the blind”? We can come to no other conclusion when we look at the results of 2000 years of “Christianity” purportedly under the leadership of the same Spirit of God, for the outcome blatantly betrays us. We are not traveling the straight and narrow path, we ...
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    12 分
  • Is it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?

    Is it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?
    2026/07/15
    Is it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good?“Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?” Luke 6:9When a person decides to keep God’s Sabbath Day, seemingly out of the woodwork comes everyone to offer opinion, criticize, scrutinize, or in some cases, open their denomination to you for membership. If the subject of Sabbath comes up in discussions, we are apt to hear stories about how impossible it is to keep the Sabbath and how “Jesus changed all that Sabbath keeping stuff.” It is not a subject for the unprepared as the passions are deep and various.Some have chosen to avoid the subject altogether. I cannot blame them. It is unfortunate that such a pleasant thing as Jehovah’s ordained rest should be so tiresome. It is equally unfortunate that God’s gift of the Sabbath Day should become a matter of debate and division. But so it is when men confuse and convolute the simplicity that is to be found in Christ.[1]Let us begin with the apostle’s words in 1 John 5:2-3, “By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.” How sad that the Commandments of God are grievous to many who claim to be Christ’s.To some, giving God one day of their seven is as though they are being asked to give up something to which they are entitled, something that they own, or something that is owed them. How can those who seek communion with Christ neglect the time He has set aside for that communion? How can we consider it a grievous task to come aside and rest awhile? It is because man has added to the Commandment and made it into a chore of duty and drudgery. He has done this OUTSIDE of the Scriptures, yet we still consider man’s words over the Scriptures of truth.The Jews created documents that, with the intention of keeping the Commandments, made them more difficult to keep. The “Sabbath day’s journey” is a good example. The Sabbath day’s journey was intended to place an explanatory, or definitive framework around the Scripture. The Law they refer to only says, “See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath… abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.” (Exodus 16:29) Somehow, Jewish leadership decided how far it should be that a man can wander “from his place” without breaking the Commandment. They came up with 2000 paces or yards, how they arrived at this distance is unclear.Nevertheless, we find that many think to travel farther than “a Sabbath day’s journey” on the Sabbath is a violation of the Commandment and therefore, sin. But, the Scriptures make no such assertion. When we read the Scriptures pertaining to Sabbath we will find that Sabbath is not a grievous restriction, nor a calculated observance, but a day set aside, sanctified, and made holy by voluntarily ceasing from our labor and honoring God’s request to remember Him.The Sabbath Is a GiftWhen you read, for yourself, the Scriptures that pertain to Sabbath, you will find that the Commandment is not a grievous one, nor one that requires more than you can do, but a Commandment of love and promise. It is a Commandment that bears a gift from God.In the days of old, the Bible records an execution associated with the breaking of this Law. A man was found gathering sticks on the Sabbath and for that, he lost his life. Without understanding, we may find it hard to take comfort in a gift that we are forced to receive. But it was not the lack of acceptance of this gift that caused his death; it was his despite of God’s Commandment.The gift is not the Commandment and the Commandment is not the gift. The gift is to be found in obedience to the Commandment. When we place our own interests above the Commandment, are we not placing ourselves above our Lord? As says the Lord Jesus, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” (John 13:16-17) The operational phrase is, “Happy are ye if ye do them.” The happiness, blessedness, and the gift are to be found in the doing.When we submit to God’s Law we will find, in our obedience, that the Law is not grievous. When we go only to the Scriptures, we will find that the Commandments are not difficult either. The Jews of Jesus’ day (and the naysayers in our day) made the walk of faith into difficulty and impossibility. “We can’t do this on Sabbath day and we can’t do that” say they, while the blessed Scriptures may be completely silent on that particular subject.We need to take our cues from the words God has spoken in our heart, and our conscience, and forget the traditions of men. We make living by our faith impossible when we add to or take away from...
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    11 分
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