Jesus Questioned About Fasting
18Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, "How is it that John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?"
19Jesus answered, "How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them. 20But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast.
John 10:30
I and the Father are One
30 I and the Father are one.
Matthew 5:22
But I Tell You
22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.
Matthew 5:28
But I Tell You
28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 5:32
But I Tell You
32 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Matthew 5:39
But I Tell You
39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.
Matthew 5:44-48
But I Tell You
44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Jesus told the Pharisees that His Disciples would not have to fast until He died and is taken from them...Then they can fast...There was no need to fast while He is on earth and alive, everything is fine...They need to fast when He dies...What kind of Man makes these types on comments often?...He even puts in your thoughts (or at least my thoughts), that He has never sinned...His attitude is that while He is on earth, life is different, and a whole lot different...Why is this?...First, it can only be by one who thinks very much on His own...Yet, He is tied so closely with another...The Other One is His Father...His Father and He are One...Yet, He is the most original Man and most Independent Thinker, we have ever read about, in the history of mankind (if it fair to call Him a Man)...Yet, we still want to put and place Him in our minds, as something that conforms to some of our ways...We can accept him, when He suits us...
But what is interesting about this, is that we often try to make Him fit into our own individual way of thinking...So this would make Him many different things...If I have Him one personality and you have Him another -He (and rightfully so), becomes many different and complex ways...So we mold Him, a little, if not a lot, to conform to some of our ways of thinking...A lot of new age thinkers have Him similar to a buddha type personality...The Muslim has Him as a prophet of God...Many have Him as a nice Man, others have Him as a great moral teacher...Many think He was just a wise Man...He may have these characteristics, but He is much, much more than just a Nice Man, a Buddha Type, Prophet, a wise Man, and a Great Teacher...
He may be a little in part and a small slice of all those things, but when we look at what He taught, His sayings are hard teachings...When we read His teachings He will not conform to us, we must conform and be obedient to Him...But we still want Him to be more like us...So we make Him out to be more like us, and less like Him...If we want to be like Jesus, we cannot sin...He never sinned...We are wicked, and we sin...How, after reading and studying His teachings -does He fit into that compartment (we put Him in) where He looks more like us?...
Jesus is not me...He is not any of us...He is the Son of God...He is divine and full of grace...He taught about love and forgiveness...In His "But I tell you" or His "But I say unto you" statements He shows us the meaning of what absolutely moral and being perfectly moral is like...It is being like His Father...Then we better can see what He is like, and what He expects us to be like...We cannot completely understand who Jesus is...But in studying and learning about Him we find out something else...Jesus shows us, who we really are...