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What Does It Mean “To Reason?”
Cathy Deaton – Fan The Flame Ministrieswhogodis.com#whogodisblog
Luke 5: 21
•And the Scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?
This was written at a time when
• Jesus was choosing the men who would become His Disciples.
•He was already becoming very popular with the common people.
•His teachings seemed like a breath of fresh air compared to the heavy load of their everyday religious lives.
•There were over 600 laws that had come into effect from the original Ten Commandments.
About The Sanhedrin And Pharisees
•They had become very powerful in Israel.•They had the power to lead the people in
almost any direction they chose.•They were revered by the people.•AND they could pretty much do whatever
they wanted and get away with it.•Life was great for them until Jesus came
on the scene.
Because the people started to follow and love Jesus…
•Their whole identity and way of life was threatened.
•They vowed they would stop at nothing to destroy Jesus – whatever it took.
•They ended up breaking many of the laws they had earlier made themselves in their desperate attempt to grasp for any way possible to get rid of Jesus once and for all.
The people quickly saw that…
• Jesus was totally different from the ball-and-chain religion they had been burdened down with for so long.
•He preached that they could be set free if they would just learn what the Truth was and start walking in it.
•Multitudes of people started to follow Jesus everywhere He went, and He healed them and did many miracles in their midst.
So now the Pharisees
•saw their power start to slip away.•They were losing their popularity.•Before they lost their identity totally, they
vowed to find a way to stop Jesus, and they agreed to do whatever it took to stop Him.
•But they had to find a way to do it without upsetting the people. They must convince the majority of them that Jesus had deceived them, and was not who He claimed to be.
But they couldn’t come up with anything concrete until…
• Jesus healed the paralyzed man that was let down through the roof in Luke 5: 17-19.
•The man’s friends were desperate to get him to Jesus, so they took off the roof and let him down into the room.
•They were convinced that if they could get their friend to Jesus he would be healed – AND JESUS DID HEAL HIM!
When Jesus said the words,
•“Man, thy sins are forgiven thee,” the Pharisees felt they had the legal evidence they needed to try to discredit Jesus before the people.
•They immediately started “to reason” about the audacity of Jesus to say that He could forgive a person’s sins, even though He had told them from the very start that He was the Son of God.
Who were the Scribes and Pharisees?
•Scribe – professional writer, secretary, town clerk
•Pharisee – a separatist that is exclusively religious
They should have known the truth.
•But they were so caught up in their own egos that they didn’t realize Jesus was the Savior that had been prophesied long ago.
•They expected Him to save them by going to war to defeat their oppressors.
•They never expected He would set up His Kingdom in a totally different way than they had experienced before.
What is the Greek meaning of “to reason”?
• To reckon thoroughly, to deliberate by reflection or discussion, cast in mind, consider, dispute, think
• “reason” is a verbal noun that in English usually has “to” in front of it. It has a great many more uses in Greek than in English.
• It’s used here in the present tense middle voice, which means that the subject always acts in some way upon himself or concerning himself. So the SUBJECT here would be Scribes and Pharisees. Also, there is no middle voice in English.
The present tense
• represents contemporaneous action that is, living or occurring at the same time, as opposed to action in the past or future. In all forms it refers to continuous repeated present action.
•So if a person “reasons” about the wrong thing, he is acting on that thing in some way with an action that is “living and occurring” in the present time. It’s alive in the here and now.
To “reason” in the flesh
•can be the beginning of doubt and unbelief that leads to criticism and other bad things, then takes you on a downward spiral that can quickly get out of control.
• It was the “reasoning” by the Scribes and Pharisees that was the start of what led to the eventual crucifixion of Jesus.
Be careful what you “reason” about.
• It is entirely possible to be so deceived about something and “reason” about it enough that you can get to the point of justifying that whatever you do is right.
•Never allow yourself to “reason” about something while you are in the flesh. It will lead to many wrong conclusions.
AND…
•SATAN WILL BE THRILLED TO FEED YOU A CONTINUOUS BARRAGE OF GARBAGE TO MAKE YOU MORE AND MORE UPSET.
•As soon as you know you are in the flesh, STOP!
•Then start to pray, read the Bible, or do whatever it takes to get back into thinking the way that God would have you to think.
•Don’t let Satan let you “reason” your way into doing something that you will deeply regret.
Who God Is
•To read this post on my blog click on the link below:
•http://who-god-is.com/what-does-it-mean-to-reason-2
•Cathy Deaton – Fan The Flame Ministries•whogodis.com•#whogodisblog
