We are praying over the topics to teach about in next August's Homeschool Family Conference. What would you like to learn?

Does his mercy endure forever?

As they went away, #jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings' houses. What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
Matthew 11:7-9

#yeshua asked these rhetorical questions in order to build up the audience's expecations of what he would say about John, but I think his high praise of John must have still been quite a surprise to them. "Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist."

The contrast to what he said immediately afterward would have been even more startling: "Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he."

Blessed is the one who is not offended by me. #yeshua
Matthew 11:6

Messiah doesn't conform to people's expectations. Blessed are those who are able to set aside their own desires and preconceptions and accept Messiah Yeshua for who he actually is.

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As many of us seek to decouple from the system. There are many things that need to be considered in living outside the system. I recently came across this story and it raises the question on what exactly are your reproductive rights according to the system, where is the line drawn? What are your rights to your offspring in the system? Without a support network, how does one handle this situation outside the system and also once tangled in it. www.thedailybeast.com/amy-and-....drew-hoenigke-had-ne

[John] said to him, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?”
Matthew 11:3 #yeshua

I think there are two interpretations of John's question:

1. He was beginning to doubt what he had known his whole life, that Yeshua was the promised Messiah. He was asking for confirmation.
2. He was observing Yeshua's peaceful approach and wanted to know if there was one Messiah or two separate messiah's, one to suffer and atone for the people's sins and one to drive out foreigners and restore the throne.