The Last Journey of Life - Funeral Seminar. When teenage switched to life of styles and fashion. Thou chose love, affection. In thine last journey when you went. From the world outer and outer.
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Early in his ministry, Jesus avoided the limelight.
Jesus would go to Jerusalem and stay a while, but then leave for another area when fame or controversy began to build.
He often told those he healed to keep it to themselves. Mark 1:40-44
On several occasions he told the disciples to keep quiet:
Peter’s confession, Matthew 16:20.
The Transfiguration, Matthew 17:9.
But now, in the last few months before his crucifixion he is speaking out publicly about who he is and confronting the religious leaders more strongly.
John 10:22-40
Pretend you are one of the twelve disciples and you are with Jesus at this time.
“I and the Father are One.”
What are you thinking when you hear Jesus say this?
What are you thinking or doing as some people pick up stones and raise them?
“Again, they sought to arrest him but he escaped from their hands.”
How do you think he escaped?
He left town again to let things cool down.
As a disciple, how are you feeling and what are you thinking now that you are out of Jerusalem and down the road a ways?
John 11:1-19
So Jesus has left Judea and gone into another jurisdiction where the people who want to get him have no legal standing.
Jesus receives word by messenger that his good friend Lazarus is sick.
As a disciple, what are you thinking when you see that Jesus seems in no hurry to head back to Judea and Jerusalem?
After two days Jesus says to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”
What is their reaction?
As a disciple, what is going through your mind now?
Once it is clear that Jesus is going and cannot be talked out of it, What is Thomas’ response?
Set the scene for Bethany; a small village 1-3 miles from Jerusalem, depending on the route you take, beyond the “Mount of Olives”. If you go directly up and over the mount, it is about a mile. If you take the longer, but easier, route, it is 2-3 miles.
John 11:45-53
What effect does the raising of Lazarus have on the religious leaders and politicians?
What are they thinking? What is their solution to the Jesus problem?
John 11:54
Jesus leaves town again, this time for Ephraim, about 15 miles north of Jerusalem.
John 11:55-57
What is on the minds of people as the time for this Passover approaches?
What preparations have been made for Jesus?
Jesus and the disciples move around Samaria and Galilee and then head back to Jerusalem through Jericho.
Luke 18:31-34, Even though Jesus speaks plainly about what will happen, the disciples are not getting it; they seem to be in denial.
Saturday, six days before the Passover.
John 12:1-9, Jesus arrives back in Bethany on the Saturday before the Passover.
Afternoon, he arrives.
Evening, they give him a dinner.
What are the plans for Jesus’ enemies?
Jesus makes three trips into Jerusalem and to the Temple on three consecutive days and spawns three major confrontations.
The Three major confrontations:
1. Sunday: The King is announced, and he rides into town with great fan-fair.
Mark 11:1-11
2. Monday: Jesus takes control of his Temple.
Mark 11:15-19
He throws out the profiteers.
He stays there in the temple all day long teaching, as if to claim it for his own.
In the evening he goes back out to Bethany for the night.
3. Tuesday: Jesus sets the record straight.
Mark 11:27-12:44
Jesus goes back to his Temple, but his enemies are prepared and waiting with a trap.
11:27-33, Jesus’ authority questioned.
12:1-12, The parable of the Tenants - Who really has the authority?
The three traps:
Pharisees and Herodians: We really shouldn’t pay taxes to Caesar, should we? We owe our allegiance to God and his kingdom, don’t we?
Sadducees: There’s not really such a thing as a resurrection, is there?
Scribes (teachers of the Law): What is the most important commandment?
The contrast: Who are the true people of God?
Mark 12:38-40
Beware of the scribes, who should be your teachers and examples.
Mark 12:41-44
Simple, true faith.
“And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box.”
Tuesday: Jesus leaves the temple for the last time.
Mark 13:1-4
Picture Jesus and the disciples walking out of the temple and walking away from it. As they walk away some of the disciples turn around and look at the buildings, then one of them comments to Jesus, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings.” Jesus response is that they will all be destroyed, “thrown down”, suggesting a violent end.
Now picture them walking out of the city, down through the valley, then up the side of the Mount of Olives. Then they sit down on the mount where they can look back across the valley and see the temple buildings from a distance.
The disciples are beginning to get it, maybe, and they ask two questions:
Matthew 24:3
1. When will these things be? (destruction of the buildings)
2. What will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?
Jesus then enter-twines the answer to these two questions in an apocalyptic prophesy.
When Jesus finishes this teaching, they return to Bethany.
Wednesday: As far as we know Jesus stays in Bethany on Wednesday. Some time Tuesday night or on Wednesday, Judas cuts his deal with the Sanhedrin.
Thursday evening: Jesus and the disciples observe the Passover.
Thursday late evening: Jesus is arrested in the garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives.
Thursday overnight: Jesus is tried by the Sanhedrin.
Friday morning 6 AM: Jesus before Pilot.
Friday morning by 9 AM he is on the cross.
Friday 12 PM to 3 PM: Jesus on the cross, darkness.
Friday 3 PM: Jesus passes away.
Friday before 6 PM: Jesus in put in a tomb by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus.
Sunday, sometime soon after 6 AM: The Resurrection.
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“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'
John 14 (ESV)
The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer (1999) is a non-fiction work by author Jason Moss, co-authored with counseling professor Jeffrey Kottler, in which he details his fascination and subsequent correspondence with several notorious American serial killers.
Synopsis[edit]
In 1994, Moss was an 18-year-old college student at UNLV. While studying for his honors thesis, he established relationships by correspondence with John Wayne Gacy, Richard Ramirez, Henry Lee Lucas, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Charles Manson. He obtained samples of correspondence from and interviews with these men. Moss researched what would most interest each subject, and cast himself in the role of disciple, admirer, surrogate, or potential victim.
In his book Moss said that he had been interested in a career with the FBI. He thought that gaining the trust of a serial killer, possibly learning more about their stated crimes or unsolved murders, was a way to distinguish himself as a job candidate.[1]
Moss forged the strongest relationship with Gacy; their letters led to regular Sunday morning phone calls, during which Gacy reiterated his innocence even as he gave Moss a guided tour of his world. In the book, Moss recounts his correspondence and eventual two meetings with Gacy about two months before the killer was executed. Moss believed that he became Gacy's 'last victim' after this face-to-face meeting in prison, in essence being psychologically overpowered by the manipulative, depraved sociopath. For a time he suffered nightmares from the encounter.[2] Moss felt that this misadventure allowed him to understand how a killer's mind works in controlling the vulnerable and forcing them to submission. He based the title of his book on this episode.
Reception[edit]
The book became a bestseller, selling 76,000 copies in its first 10 weeks. In 2000 the paperback edition also appeared on the Bestseller List of the New York Times.
Sales were boosted by controversy over Moss's methods. The author was interviewed on TV's 20/20 and Hard Copy, and radio's The Howard Stern Show. People argued whether Moss was exploiting the lurid histories of these killers or whether he contributed to studies of criminal psychology.
Jason Moss committed suicide in June 2006. His co-author Kottler said that he had given no indication of distress.[2]
Film adaptation[edit]
A film adaptation of the book, titled Dear Mr. Gacy, was released in 2010, starring Jesse Moss (no relation) as Jason Moss, and William Forsythe as John Wayne Gacy.
References[edit]
- ^Moss, J with Jeffrey Kottler: The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer, chapter 3. Grand Central Publishing, 1999.
- ^ abKalil, M (June 13, 2006): Best-selling author of book on serial killers kills himself. LV Review-Journal archive, Retrieved October 20, 2011
External links[edit]
- Dear Mr. Gacy[permanent dead link], website for film adaptation of Moss' book
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