Topical Listing of the Hard Sayings of Jesus Essays -

Topical Listing of the Hard Sayings of Jesus I have tried to arrange the hard sayings according to similar topics. I am sure that I have not done an adequate job, and there are better ways to group the, so please feel free to suggest your own groupings. I encourage you to find a theme and then study and teach on the topics relative to that theme. I bought two copies of G.F. Bruce's book, so please let me know if you would like to borrow it. Please send me notes that you would like posted on the web. Communion 1 Eating the Flesh and Drinking the Blood of the Son of Man 21 (Zagnoli) 66 This Is My Body... This Is My Blood 236 (Zagnoli) Sabbath 4 The Sabbath for Man 32 Forgiveness 2 The Son of Man Forgiving Sins 26 3 Not the Righteous but Sinners 29 18 If You Do Not Forgive Your Brother 77 Death 5 Not Dead but Sleeping 35 51 The Great Gulf 189 Christ Paid the Penalty 70 Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? 248 68 Why Are You Here? 243 Christian Lifestyle 6 Saltless Salt 37 (Mateko) 57 The Cursing of the Fig Tree 208 (Mateko) 60 Render to Caesar 214 (Mateko) 7 The Old Is Better 40 (Mateko) 8 One jot or One Tittle Shall in No Wise Pass 42 (Mateko) Commitment/Discipleship 29 Hating One's Parents 119 40 The Son of Man Has Nowhere to Lay His Head 159 37 Taking Up the Cross 150 46 Sell What You Have 174 39 For or Against 157 41 Let the Dead Bury Their Dead 161 42 Looking Back 164 56 The Wedding Garment 206 20 Pearls before Swine 86 24 Go Nowhere among the Gentiles 104 Humility 53 The Rate for the job? 195 54 The First Will Be Last 199 44 The Elder Brother 169 Wealth 46 Sell What You Have 174 48 The Camel and the Eye of a Needle 180 49 Serving God and Mammon 184 47 Give for Alms What Is Within 178 50 Using Unrighteous Mammon to Make Friends 186 60 Render to Caesar 214 Seriousness of Sin/Repentance 11 Plucking Out the Right Eye 54 13 Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven's Sake 63 9 "You Fool!" Merits Hell Fire 49 62 You Brood of Vipers 221 19 Lead Us Not into Temptation 81 Marriage/Purity/ Oaths 10 Adultery in the Heart 52 12 Divorce and Remarriage 56 14 Do Not Swear at All 66 Love for Enemies 15 Turning the Other Cheek 68 16 Love Your Enemies 72 17 You Must Be Perfect 74 Faith 58 Faith That Removes Mountains 210 52 Will the Son of Man Find Faith on Earth? 192 26 Let the Children First Be Fed 110 Eschatology 63 This Generation Will Not Pass Away 225 64 There the Eagles Will Be Gathered Together 231 38 The Kingdom Coming with Power 153 69 You Will See the Son of Man 245 25 You Will Not Have Gone through All the Towns of Israel 107 Spiritual Warfare 28 Violence and the Kingdom 115 30 Casting Fire on Earth 122 31 How I Am Constrained Until It Is Accomplished! 125 32 Not Peace but a Sword 130 33 The Fall of Satan 133 36 Get behind Me, Satan! 146 67 Let Him Who Has No Sword Buy One 240 Election/Salvation/God?s Sovereignty 23 Seeing and Not Perceiving 99 55 Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen 202 65 I Do Not Know You 233 51 The Great Gulf 189 21 The Sin against the Holy Spirit 88 27 Who Is Greater Than John the Baptist? 112 35 You Are Peter 139 Trinity/Nature of God 34 The Father and the Son 136 45 Why Do You Call Me Good? 172 59 Neither Will I Tell You 212 61 Call No Man Your Father 218 43 1 Will Warn You Whom to Fear 166 22 No Sign 94