“Freely you have received, freely give.” Matthew 10:8 Freely – If Jesus said it, it must be Aramaic, not Greek. That drives us back to the Hebrew equivalent of the Greek word dorean. We find hinnam, “undeservedly, without cause”. You can see the word in use in 2 Samuel 24:24 and Jeremiah 22:13. Goods and…
“freely you have received, freely give” Matthew 10:8 Freely – Money, sex and power. The world’s great motivators. Every one of them deeply spiritual. But maybe you never thought about it like that. Money is the most pervasive spiritual commodity in the world. It is the single purest measure of submission and humility. The testing…
“freely you have received, freely give” Matthew 10:8 Freely – Jesus spoke Aramaic, not Greek. That means his thought patterns come from a Hebrew heritage, not a Greek worldview. If we want to understand what Jesus had in mind, we need to search behind the Greek New Testament. When we do, we see that “freely”…
“Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.” Matthew 10:8 Freely – Grace is the exception to the rule of life. Sin is not. Sin has inevitability. It always leads to death. Sin is structurally dysfunctional. It is the epitome of insanity. Sin is ubiquitous. …
