Matthew 21:1- 6 (KJV)
The LORD Had Need of a Donkey
1 And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,
2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.
3 And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.
4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,
5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
6 And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,
7 And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon.
Jesus was in need of a donkey...And He ask two of His Disciples to get one...He knew He would find one, because God has given Him all authority...So when he owner of the donkey and a colt asked why the disciples might take it, the answer of the LORD hath need of them...That answer would be completely sufficient...That answer was enough...This is because Jesus had a Special Relationship with His Father...He and His Father were One...Jesus is in the Father and the Father is in Him...Jesus is a reflection of His Father...Jesus is dependent on His Father...Jesus' authority comes from His Father...Jesus and His Father Both could bring life back from the dead, and give eternal life to those whose believed in Jesus and the One who sent Him...
Thomas Forsyth Torrance MBE FRSE FBA, commonly referred to as T. F. Torrance, was a Scottish Protestant theologian and minister...Torrance served for twenty seven years as professor of Christian dogmatics at New College, in the University of Edinburgh...Torrance said this about Karl Barth...Thomas Torrance argues that Karl Barth was ‘the most powerfully biblical and evangelical theologian of our age’, and that he ranks with the very greatest theologians of all time—including Athanasius, Augustine, Luther and Calvin’...It is therefore only with the greatest respect and trepidation that I venture to engage with what Barth says about natural theology...
Natural Theology is theology or knowledge of God based on observed facts and experience apart from divine revelation, in which Barth believed...
Karl Barth is one of our Great Theologians...He lived for 1886-1968...He wrote the books The Epistle to the Romans which was named one of Church Times's Best Christian Book...He also wrote the four-volume theological summa called Church Dogmatic...
Mr. Barth tried to convey the importance of the Trinity of God...He believed the Bible was the Word of God and of Jesus...And Jesus was a witness to God...He believed in Natural Theology...Karl Barth defined “natural theology” as any approach to dogmatics in which claims about God are grounded on an account of divine revelation other than God's revelation in Jesus Christ...
Barth's favorite quotes were: “God is not an abstract category by which even the Christian understanding of the word can be measured, but he who is called God is the One God, the Single God, the Sole God.”...“To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.”...“Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.”...“The best theology would need no advocates: it would prove itself.”...“No one can be saved – in virtue of what he can do...Everyone can be saved – in virtue of what God can do.”...“Jesus does not give recipes that show the Way to God as other teachers of religion do...He is Himself the Way.”...
Barth thought about his Great Theology studies and work and when ask summed it up by saying what his mother had taught him as a young child...Jesus LOVES me yes I know, cause the Bible tells me so...
Barth believed that Jesus is a complete, human person who is distinct from God but who can be said to be Divine because of God's unique presence in and with Him...He believed that the unique relationship Jesus had with God made Him Divine...Divinity in the strictest sense belongs Only to God, but it can be attributed to Jesus because of his Special and Unique Relationship to God and His role as the special medium of God's revelation...
Karl said, “If I have done anything in this life of mine, I have done it as a relative of the donkey that went its way carrying an important burden...The disciples had said to its owner: ‘The LORD has need of it.’...And so it seems to have pleased God to have used me at this time...I was permitted to be the donkey that carried this better theology for part of the way, or tried to carry it as best I could.”...
Karl Barth was a Servant of God...