Jesus gives us commands — “demands,” we might call them. They are
words issued to us from his comprehensive authority in all of heaven and
earth, all linked together in some way, forming a beautiful tapestry of
what it means to live under his lordship.
But the question remains for us in how they are connected.
How do we understand them in relation to one another? Take, for example,
the commands to rejoice and renounce.
Jesus tells us in Luke 6:22–23,
Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.
This command is to rejoice. Paradoxically, we are blessed when we’re
reviled on account of Jesus. And when that happens, “in that day” Jesus
tells us, we should rejoice and leap for joy. Why? Because our reward is
great in heaven. Continue at Jonathan Parnell
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