"You call me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, because I am" (John 13: 13).
What is the reason why a person becomes a teacher?
In addition to having the right to bring your students knowledge, in a way many also influence their lives! Good teachers influenced the lives of their students. Not only teachers can influence our lives, but others can: Father, mother, someone special, and so on.
When it comes to the spiritual world, I would also like to quote some people who influenced and transformed lives.
Moses spent a lot of time with discourses to the people of God.
Josue was influenced and acted similarly.
Elijah influenced many, but Elisha took his main apprentice.
However, the best example of influence is the blessed person Jesus Christ.
THE LIFE AND THE MESSAGE OF JESUS PRODUCE ANY INFLUENCE IN YOU?
YOUR MESSAGE AND YOUR LIFE ARE IN FULL HARMONY.
His life shone in the middle of his teaching. His teaching was visible in his life. His life and his message were in full unity, and this made him irresistible. The legalists of the time were looking for a way to accuse him, but they could not achieve it because of the fullness of his life and his teaching.
What are the lessons we can learn from Jesus?
What made Jesus worthy before all mankind?
Have a vision of global reach. His message was aimed at reaching the whole world. He commissioned us to do the same. "And, coming to Jesus, he spoke to them saying:" All power is given to me in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go, teach all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Spirit "Teaching them to observe all the things that I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you every day , until the consummation of the ages, Amen. "(Matthew 28: 18-20). His message and his testimony reach not only this life, but it is eternal. "That the name of Jesus may bend the whole knee of them that are in heaven, and in earth, and under the earth," (Philippians 2: 10).
Know your goal, be close to man. This was one of the most striking features of Jesus: LOVE THE FOLLOWING. Jesus obeyed the Father's call, became flesh to be close to man. "And the second like unto this is, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" (Matthew 22:39).
Jesus had full control of the subject he taught. Jesus in his earthly ministry always showed obedience to the Father. He teaches us that we must be led by the Holy Spirit. "For I came down from heaven, not to do my will, but the will of him that sent me." (John 6:38) All knowledge of the Lord was from God. "Jesus said to them, When you raise up the Son of man, then you will know who I am, and that I do nothing for myself, but I speak as the Father taught me" (John 8:28).
Jesus was apt to teach. "And JESUS, seeing the multitude, went up into a mountain, and, seating himself, his disciples came near him, and, opening his mouth, he taught them, saying:" (Matthew 5: 1-2).
His life agrees with his teaching. "You call me Master and Lord, and you say well, because I am, if I, Lord and Master, washed your feet, you must also wash one another's feet, because I have given you the example, so that, As I have done to you, do you also, verily, verily I say unto you, that the servant is not greater than his master, nor the envoy greater than he that sent him: if ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye "do them" (John 13: 13-17)
Jesus is all of that and much more. He himself said: "I am the way, the truth and the life: no one comes to the Father, but by me." (John 14: 6)
This harmony between His life and His message was so evident that it is illustrated in the Gospel narrative.
JESUS WAS MANSO AND TAUGHT BEING MANSO. "Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls" (Matthew 11: 29).
No life demonstrated with such perfection the virtue of meekness like that of Jesus.
The act of washing the feet of the disciples showed such meekness.
When the soldiers came to take him to be tried, he offered no resistance.
Before the crowd, who cursed him, spat on him, and beat him. He kept quiet.
The teaching that He gave, in the sense of returning to another face, is until now considered a challenge that few people know how to accept, because they do not find in themselves the capacity to act like this. The meekness of Jesus was never equaled by men.
JESUS SERVED AND TAUGHT TO SERVE. "And whoever of you wants to be the first will be a servant of all, because the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and give his life as a ransom for many" (Mark 10: 44-45)
One can not cite a greater example of a life of service than that of Jesus. He "walked everywhere, doing good". Christ never rejected any request for help. He was always willing to go and give of himself.
JESUS FORGIVEN AND TAUGHT TO FORGIVE. "Then Peter, approaching him, said: Lord, how many times will my brother sin against me, and I will forgive him, up to seven?" Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you, up to seven, but up to seventy times seven" (Matthew 18). : 21-22).
Jesus forgave Peter after he denied it three times. Demonstrated a spirit of forgiveness to Judas, even when he came to betray him: "Friend, you must enter" (Matthew 26:50). On the cross, Jesus cried out: "Father, forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing" (Luke 23: 34). This is the supreme example of forgiveness, an example that Esteban imitated while he was being stoned.
JESUS WAS PERFECT AND TAUGHT WHAT IS TO BE CHALLENGE. "Be ye therefore perfect, as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" (Matthew 5:48).
Jesus did not demand perfection from anyone, but he himself was perfect. Jesus always turned away from evil. "Which of you convinces me of sin, and if I tell you the truth, why do not you believe?" (John 8:46)
To Pilate he testified: "Seeing him as the chief priests and servants cried out, saying: Crucify him, crucify him Pilate said to them," You bear it yourselves and crucify him, for I find no crime in him "(John 19: 6).
HIS AUTHORITY WAS NEVER SURPASSED. "And, Jesus coming, spoke to them saying:" All power in heaven and on earth is given to me "(Matthew 28:18).
The authority of Jesus was not restricted only to the physical plane, but even the angels obeyed him. Hell never prevailed over Jesus, and this demonstration of authority is demonstrated in the healing of the demoniac of Gadara. "And they came to the other side of the sea, to the province of the Gadarenes, and leaving the ship, he went out to meet him. from the tombs, a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling in the tombs, and even with the chains could carry it out, because, having often been imprisoned with shackles and chains, the chains were made by him pieces, and the shackles in crumbs, and no one could tame him, and he walked always, day and night, crying for the mountains, and for the tombs, and wounding with stones, and when he saw Jesus in the distance, he ran and He worshiped him and cried with a loud voice, and said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? -for God, do not torment me" (Mark 5: 1-7).
The authority of Jesus was based on being the truth itself. Jesus is an example of power and authority.
What does the unity of life and message mean, which is perceived in the teachings of Jesus?