Book : Twelve Ordinary Men How The Master Shaped His...

-Titulo Original : Twelve Ordinary Men How The Master Shaped His Disciples For Greatness, And What He Wants To Do With You

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Thomas Nelson

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Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Twelve Ordinary Men HOW the MASTER SHAPED HIS DISCIPLES for GREATNESS, and WHAT HE WANTS TO DO with YOUBy John MacArthur Nelson BooksCopyright © 2007 John MacArthur All right reserved. ISBN: 978-0-7852-8824-4 Contents Acknowledgments................................................................................................viiIntroduction...................................................................................................xi1. Common Men, Uncommon Calling................................................................................12. Peter-The Apostle with the Foot-Shaped Mouth................................................................343. Andrew-The Apostle of Small Things..........................................................................724. James-The Apostle of Passion................................................................................905. John-The Apostle of Love....................................................................................1116. Philip-The Bean Counter.....................................................................................1387. Nathanael-The Guileless One.................................................................................1578. Matthew-The Tax Collector; and Thomas-The Twin..............................................................1739. James-The Less; Simon-The Zealot; and Judas (Not Iscariot)-The Apostle with Three Names.....................19310. Judas-The Traitor..........................................................................................210Notes..........................................................................................................223 Chapter One Common Men, Uncommon Calling * * * For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence. -1 Corinthians 1:26-29 From the time Jesus began His public ministry in His hometown of Nazareth, He was enormously controversial. The people from His own community literally tried to kill Him immediately after His first public message in the local synagogue. All those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff. Then passing through the midst of them, He went His way (Luke 4:28-30). Ironically, Jesus became tremendously popular among the people of the larger Galilee region. As word of His miracles began to circulate throughout the district, massive hordes of people came out to see Him and hear Him speak. Luke 5:1 records how the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God. One day, the crowds were so thick and so aggressive that He got into a boat, pushed it offshore far enough to get away from the press of people, and taught the multitudes from there. Not by mere happenstance, the boat Jesus chose belonged to Simon. Jesus would rename him Peter, and he would become the dominant person in Jesus closest inner circle of disciples. Some might imagine that if Christ had wanted His message to have maximum impact, He could have played off His popularity more effectively. Modern conventional wisdom would suggest that Jesus ought to have done everything possible to exploit His fame, tone down the controversies that arose out of His teaching, and employ whatever strategies He could use to maximize the crowds around Him. But He did not do that. In fact, He did precisely the opposite.