Matthew 20:17-34 Press Along

Highlights:

* If anyone on earth could have helped Jesus, it would have been his disciples, but they could not.

* Jesus was utterly alone. He was the only person on earth with the Spirit of God.

* Take a moment to imagine what it would be like with no one on earth to understand you or encourage you. What a great blessing it is for us to have each other!

* The most precious gift we have is one another,
people who have the Spirit, too, who understand our testimonies and who can encourage us with theirs.

* Here is an important lesson: In spite of how good some people appear, if they are without the Spirit, they cannot edify you any more than the disciples could edify Jesus.

* Here is another important lesson: Those who are walking in the Spirit experience what Jesus experienced in this world, specifically, feeling the burden of those who are not in the Spirit but think they are doing well, spiritually.
Jesus; disciples, before they received the Spirit, were nothing but a burden to Jesus.

* Dead spirits are a burden to spirits that are alive in Christ. And the opposite is true: Spirits that are alive in Christ are a burden to spirits that are dead.

* Dead or dying spirits are NOT a burden to other dead or dying spirits. And spirits that are alive are not a burden to other spirits that are alive.

* If our unconverted friends and loved ones are not a burden to us, then we are a burden to Jesus and to everyone who is like him.

* Hear what the Spirit is saying!
"In flirting with the world, and in turning to the world for companionship, you are gambling with more than your soul; you are provoking the Lord to jealousy and gambling with the lives that are around you!"

* There is NO equality between the Father and the Son.

* In every way imaginable, the Father is greater than the Son.

* "He is anti-Christ, who denies the Father and the Son" (1John 2:22).

* There is a Father who never has been and never will be the Son, and there is a Son who never has been and never will be the Father.

* Stay away from that Trinitarian spirit; it's a malignant and contagious spiritual disease.

* If all God's children would take on the humble attitude of a slave, every conflict among them would immediately cease.

* To a foolish man, wisdom sounds wrong, and correction feels like a personal attack, not because wisdom is wrong, and not because correction is an attack, but because of this:

"The way of a fool is right in his own eyes" (Prov. 12:15).

* When God becomes very angry with a fool, He will bless him so that the fool will think everything is just fine with his soul, and then die and go to hell.

* As much as God loves His children, and as patient as He is with us all, He can reach a point at which He ceases to try any longer to correct a soul.

* I don't know how anyone could have less hope than a fool, but if God says that a proud man has less hope than a fool, then a proud man has less hope than a fool. So, avoid pride at all cost!

* May God save us from being either foolish or proud!

Scriptures referenced in this video:
(Scriptures are from the PJV version, found online at https://goingtojesus.com/gtj_translation.html

Psalm 69:20
Isaiah 63:5
Mark 3:21, 31-32
Mark 16:14
Luke 24:25
Jacobus (James) 4:4
Romans 8:26
1Corinthians 15:34
Mark 14:50
John 14:28

The Church "father" Athanasius: "And in Trinity none is before or after another; none is greater or less than another, but all three Persons [the Father, Son, and holy Ghost] are co-eternal together and co-equal. So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped. He therefore that will be saved must think thus of the Trinity."

Mark 3:31-32
John 5:26-27
Proverbs 8:22-23
Revelation 3:14
Hebrews 5:7
John 12:49-50
1Corinthians 15:24-25, 27-28
1John 2:22
Proverbs 13:10
Proverbs 1:7
Proverbs 12:15
Proverbs 1:32
Proverbs 27:22
Proverbs 17:10
Isaiah 1:5-7
Hosea 5:15
Amos 8:11
Proverbs 26:11
Proverbs 26:12
Proverbs 6:16-17
Proverbs 16:5