The Incomparable Christ: Talk 3 - Jesus The Teacher Series

SERMON OUTLINE:

(1). Jesus taught openly.

(2). Jesus communicated effectively.

(3). Jesus talked appropriately.

(4). Jesus preaching never avoided controversy.

(5). Jesus’ instruction was practical.

(6). Jesus’ teaching was Scriptural.

(7). Jesus spoke about himself.

SERMON BODY

Ill:

• (1). A teacher tells this story in Readers Digest magazine.

• Performing Mozart should have been the highlight of my middle school chorus class.

• But after a few uninspired attempts, an exasperated student raised her hand and said,

• “Mrs. Willis, we want to sing music from our generation, not yours.”

• (2). A parent phoned her child’s school to complain,

• During a school swimming trip her child’s towel was stolen,

• The irate parent said,

• “What kind of young criminals are in class with my child?!”

• Calmly the teacher replied,

• “I’m sure it was taken accidentally, what does it look like?”

• The angry parent said.

• “It’s white, and it says Holiday Inn on it.”

• TRANSITION: Being a teacher is not always an easy thing!

• Whatever age group you are teaching, children, students or adults!

• This morning we are doing an overview on Jesus the teacher:

• Jesus never entered a classroom as we know a classroom.

• He never had a degree as we understand an educational degree,

• Yet all the world was his classroom.

• No degreed teacher did anything greater than what Jesus Christ did.

• He was truly and absolutely the Master Teacher and the greatest teacher of all time.

Ill:

• Now think for a minute about three Ancient Greek philosophers,

• Three men who have impacted our world.

• Socrates taught for forty years.

• Plato taught for fifty years.

• Aristotle taught for forty years,

• Now consider Jesus only taught for three years,

• Yet the impact of those three years,

• Transcends the impact left behind by the combined 130 years of teaching,

• From the three men considered the greatest philosophers of all ancient antiquity.

• Now you might be surprised to know,

• That only fifty or so days of Jesus ministry is recorded in all four gospels.

• Now that is not a lot,

• Think about it this way, just 50 out of 1095 days.

• And if you really want to do the maths,

• That is 0.046% of Jesus actual ministry is recorded.

• TRANSITION:

• Wow! What an impact those 50+ recorded days have had on history.

• The teaching of Jesus in incomparable, unique, unmatched and unrivalled.

Note:

• The reason Jesus came into the world was to die,

• He said so himself on numerous occasions.

e.g., Matthew chapter 10 verse 45.

“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

e.g., John chapter 10 verse 18.

“No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.””

But during his three years as an itinerant preacher,

• His main ministry was to teach and to preach.

• Now there is a difference between preaching and teaching,

• Although, some preachers teach and some teachers preach!

• Preaching – Is trying to affect a person’s thinking by appealing to a person’s heart.

• Teaching – Is trying to affect a person’s heart by appealing to their thinking.

• Jesus main ministry was to teach and to preach.

• The healing and miracles complimented his teaching,

• But they were always secondary to it.

• Jesus was a teacher who did miraculous things,

• He was not primarily a miracle worker who taught from time to time.

• The priority in his mission was to teach and to proclaim God's Word.

Example #1:

• Of the 90 times Jesus was addressed directly in the gospels,

• 60 times he was called Teacher.

• This was the word the crowds, the multitudes used when encountering him.

• And this was also how the disciples referred to him.

Example #2:

• And Jesus himself used the term regarding himself,

• “You call me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, for that is what I am.”

• (John chapter 13 verse 13).

Example #4:

• When Nicodemus came to Jesus by night, he said,

• “We know that you are a teacher who has come from God”.

• (John chapter 3 verse 2).

Example #5:

• In the greatest batch of his teaching the Sermon on the Mount.

• Found in Matthew chapters 5-7.

• The description Matthew uses is that Jesus "Taught them" (chapter 5 verse 2).

• e.g., There has to be an element of teaching in any effective sermon,