A dedicated disciple was generally expected someday to become a rabbi himself, yet Jesus teaches his disciples that he will always be their rabbi and they will have a lifetime of discipleship (Mt 23:8; cf. (Systematic Theology), Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary - The measure of any disciple is whether or not one holds to the masters teaching (cf. Acts 9:26: Saul returned to Jerusalem and tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he really was a disciple. He says the research indicates, "Many Americans are living a dual lifeone filled with good feelings about God and faith, corroborated by some simple religious practices, and another in which they believe they are in control of their own destiny and operate apart from Him." I've counted the cost and surrendered my life, and it's not an easy road. Those who teach that disciples of Jesus were a special class of believers and that not all believers are disciples need to explain the book of Acts (Acts 1:15KJV, Acts 6:1, 2, 7, 9:1, 10, 19, 25, 26, 38, 11:26, 29, 13:52, 14:20, 14:22, 28, 15:10, 16:1, 18:23, 27, 19:1, 9, 30, Acts 20:1 Acts 20:30 Acts 21:4 Acts 21:16. ) Jesus is here giving a warning that one evidence of genuine faith is continuing in His word, that is, continuing to believe what he says and living a life of obedience to his commands. This isnt the totality of discipleship, but its a pretty tangible step in that direction. imitators (mimetes = see comment below) of me. Discipleship includes the idea of one who intentionally learns by inquiry and observation (cf inductive Bible study) and thus mathetes is more than a mere pupil. 3 John When we make disciples, we bid people to come and die to their old, destructive ways and to live for Jesus, Who loved them and gave Himself for them When a person becomes a disciple of Jesus, he relates in a new way to the entire Godhead. My Hearers, we never preach the saving power of temporary, unpractical, unsanctifying faith! It is not just a test of reality. All the disciples said the same thing too. That is, in our knowing Christ we are becoming like himthinking, feeling, and living as he commands. And as He was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the road. He has a passion to teach and disciple others, and holds a Th.M. As Watts says, it seems that Isaiah wanted to deposit his treasure of warnings and teachings with his disciples.3 That is, while he may not have had a formal school, as we see in the case of Elisha (1 Kings 20:35; 2 Kings 2:3-15; 4:1-38), he, nonetheless, gathered around himself certain men and passed his teachings on to them. It is a pathway to reality. Fiducia (trust) acts on them by personally appropriating Jesus Christ as the only hope for salvation. In fact, Jesus Himself gave us the definition. One shouldn't be too obvious. You are along for the ride. John 7:3 Therefore His brothers said to Him, "Leave here and go into Judea, so that Your disciples also may see Your works which You are doing. They expected him to be a political leader who would free the Jews from Roman domination and bring in the golden age (John 6:14-15; John 6:60-64). That kind of a person is a Christianand no other kind is.". He teaches us how to love. This makes one a true disciple of Jesus and leads to genuine knowledge of the truth (Gods special revelation which has its heart and center in the work of Christ). My purpose is to generate funds for ministry. She is generating millions of dollars to fund ministries. 34 And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. He said, Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you (Luke 8:39). Genesis There is evidence that personal discipleship was carried on among the Greeks and the Jews. The disciple would become his servant and be completely under their teacher's authority. My purpose is to generate funds for ministry. She is generating millions of dollars to fund ministries. He is in control of all things. And if you do not carry your own cross and follow me, you cannot be my disciple." (Jn 13:35). The demand of Jesus call to discipleship is impossible for a human being, unaided, to fulfill. 42 "And whoever in the name of a disciple gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water to drink, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward. Malachi 27 He answered them, "I told you already and you did not listen; why do you want to hear it again? 45 When He rose from prayer, He came to the disciples and found them sleeping from sorrow. Luke 6:1 Now it happened that He was passing through some grainfields on a Sabbath; and His disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating the grain. 12 The disciples then said to Him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover." Thats it. Matthew 13:52And Jesus said to them, "Therefore every scribe who hasbecome a discipleof the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings out of his treasure things new and old.". In it's simplest understanding, a disciple is a learner or imitator. We are to learn from Him by listening to Him, learn the truth that will set us free (John 8:32) and keep us from error. And His disciples were listening. Gives us our English = "mathematics") describes a person who learns from another by instruction, whether formal or informal. Search the Greek Dictionary. There is an air of completeness and of certainty about it. Just as there were disciples in the Greco-Roman world of the first century, so there were people called disciples in Judaism as well. James would have said they needed to show him their faith by their works and their works were evil not good (See James 2:14-26-notes). 27 "Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. 2 Now Judas also, who was betraying Him, knew the place, for Jesus had often met there with His disciples. The Master turned round and spoke to those who were Believers and yet not Believersholding with Jesusand yet really opposed to Him. 24 (Dallas: Word, 1985), in loc. What then is a true disciple? My brother-in-law grew up in that denomination in Indiana. A well-trained disciple can live in a foreign, hostile culture without succumbing to that culture because his mind is fixed on another world. Transitively, matheteuo means to make a disciple of someone, to cause them to be a pupil, to teach or instruct them. 2 Kings ", Mark 16:7 "But go, tell His disciples and Peter, 'He is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see Him, just as He told you.'" An obvious exception to this is when mathts refers to spiritual dependence on a thinker long since dead. Sitting at His feet, they learn from the unfolding of His lessons the will and ways of God for them; and obeying (Ed: Now enabled by His indwelling Spirit) each successive word, they realize within themselves, the renewing force and uplifting power thereof. ), and though it has largely fallen out of use, it is of the utmost value still in marking that relationship existing between Christ and each individual soul, and suggesting our consequent position in all the varied circumstances of everyday living, The word mathetes signifies a taught or trained one, and gives us the ideal of relationship. 11:28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 28 They reviled him and said, "You are His disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. Notitia (knowledge) is the intellectual component of faith. is often simply a term for Christian (Jn. 14:34 Salt is good, but if salt loses its flavor, how can its flavor be restored? "Disciple" in the book of Acts (Acts 6:1-2, 7 11:26 14:20, 21-22 15:10) virtually always refers to a saved person. for Jesus and the gospel will not fail to receive (1) a hundredfold what he has lost (in the new community of faith); (2) to suffer persecutions, and (3) to have eternal life in the age to come.10 The timing on the giving of reward and persecution is in the hands of the Lord. Habakkuk John 11:7 Then after this He said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judea again." He tells them to travel back in time to all the moments when they felt most fulfilled, happy, and aligned with their inner selves. When they found that Jesus was not this kind of leader, they withdrew from him (John 6:66-68). 7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord." Know what I mean? 26 After eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Then wed strike a match to the paper; the paper would set fire to the twigs; and the twigs would set fire to the shards. The basic meaning of mimetes is seen in a mime. 16:2427). He told his disciples that even though he was departing the world, he would nonetheless carry on his life and ministry through them, his chosen ones (15:16). He denied it, and said, "I am not.". Classes were held in the synagogue and taught by a scribe or hazzan (in poorer communities). He had no authority in their minds, whereas they regarded themselves as the official interpreters of Moses upon whom the life of the nation had been built. The sense here, however, is that of the whole tenor and substance of His teaching. Jesus said: Go and make disciples. Thats what He told us to do, so thats our purpose. (cp Lk 24:27) To continue in His Word (or to hold to his teaching, as the New International Version has it) was to make it their rule of life in daily practice. So while Rome wielded military power, the Greeks wielded power over the culture because well-trained Greek disciples were functioning at every level of the society. Has discipleship become your lifestyle or are you an "episodic" [at irregular intervals] disciple?) Attached to the oxen in any other way than by a yoke the plough would be intolerable. 1. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: mathts Phonetic Spelling: (math-ay-tes') Definition: a disciple Usage: a learner, disciple, pupil. However, the Greek-speaking believers in Antioch were called "disciples" more often than believers and they soon became known as followers of Christ, or Christians, and this has been customary ever since. In a sense it is indistinguishable from Himself, for He is the living Word. Then He layered the Scriptures with the twigs and timbers of His own teachings, building up a stack of highly flammable firewood in the hearths and hearts of His disciples. 19 So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be with you." It is easy enough to be superficially attracted to Jesus, but the test is abiding. It is only those who continue who are genuine disciples. Then she said: I spend eighty percent of my time making money, and the other twenty percent figuring out how to give one hundred percent of it away. The term disciple marks an individual relationship (which is a state of being related by kindred, association by blood or marriage - believers are both His both by blood of the New Covenant and by virtue of being His Bride! He taught them the Law and the Writings and the Prophets. (Mt 4:19, 8:22, 9:9, 16:24, 19:21, Mk 1:17, 2:14, 8:34, 10:21 Lk 5:27, 9:23, 59, 18:22 Jn1:43, 10:27, 12:26, 13:36, 21:19, 22) And so in the Bible we see that John the Baptist (Mt 11:2; Mk 2:18; Lk 5:33; 7:18; Jn 3:25) had followers or disciples, as did the Pharisees (Mk 2:18, Mt 22:16 disciples of Pharisees were sent to test Jesus) and Moses (Jn 9:28). Mt 10:2425, 37; Lk 14:2627; Jn 11:16). Comment: In this passage notice that the Lord Jesus clearly associates belief with discipleship. Mind that you so believe in Jesus as to practice what He commandsyou cannot continue in His Word unless you learn to obey it. 27 And when he wanted to go across to Achaia, the brethren encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him; and when he had arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace. Luke 17:1 He said to His disciples, "It is inevitable that stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come! From John 14:26, 15:26 and 16:13-14 we know that his life would be lived in and through the disciples via the indwelling Holy Spirit (cf. (Luke 14:26-27NLT). (Acts 6:1, 2, 7; 9:1, 10, 19, 26, 38; 11:26, 29; 13:52; 14:20, 22, 28; 15:10; 16:1; 18:23, 27; 19:1, 9, 30; 20:1, 30; 21:4, 16). Your desires and habits will change. P. ", May the simple words of the hymn writerPhillip Bliss be the continual cry of our heart and our soul and our mind, all for His glory. And it came about that for an entire year they met with the church, and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. He drenched it with the kerosene of His own sweat and blood. There had been a large response to what he was teaching. They could not bear His sermon on the bread of life and fell away until only the irreducible minimum of faithful disciples remained, and even they were puzzled. We want to be disciples and we want to make disciples; and we want to make disciples who make more disciples. One might misread it that way. Hosea A disciple is someone who has been baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit which means he or she has professed Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and is learning and putting into practice our Lords teachings. Acts 21:4 After looking up the disciples, we stayed there seven days; and they kept telling Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem. Definition: a learner, disciple, pupil. true believer Sifting church members through that sifter, one finds plenty of chaff today! Hendriksen - One abides in the word of Christ by making it the rule of ones life. And then on the Day of Pentecost, He struck an original match, dropped it from heaven and in fell like a fireball into the Upper Room on the Day of Pentecost, and the room where they had gathered detonated with a spiritual force that has radiated and reverberated down through history and is still blazing today. Paradoxically we give up that which we cannot keep to gain that which we cannot lose. 18 And He said, "Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is near; I am to keep the Passover at your house with My disciples."'" He was the Seed of Woman in Genesis, the Passover Lamb in Exodus, the Captain of the Lords Hosts in Joshua, the King of Israel in the Psalms, the Man of Wisdom in Proverbs and the Suffering Servant in Isaiah. To deny self is a command to lose sight of one's self and one's own interests. But Jesus says we are to take it up and follow him. These people lived under Roman rule, but their thinking was Greek. They focused more on learning oral law, i.e., the traditions of interpretations. 22 Now on one of those days Jesus and His disciples got into a boat, and He said to them, "Let us go over to the other side of the lake." Now for several days he was with the disciples who were at Damascus, The word discipleship never occurs in the Bible. Their "rotten fruit" in Jn 8:37, 43, 47, 58 proves they had only a superficial and non-saving faith! 38 Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, having heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him, imploring him, "Do not delay in coming to us.". We have been summoned to his side in order that we might be with him, that we might really come to know him, and that we might follow him along the path of discipleship. Esther You can call all the shots. I will follow Thee, my Saviour 23 Therefore this saying went out among the brethren that that disciple would not die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but only, "If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?" In the daunting task of discipling the nations, the disciples needed to knowand so do wethat their (our) risen Lord would be with them. Acts 13:52 And the disciples were continually filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit. Note also that in this context the word "faith" is synonymous with the Gospel of Jesus Christ (compare Acts 13:8). That leads to my fourth definition, and this has been our working definition at TDF for many years. I realize that there are many in the evangelical community who separate believers from disciples, but as shown below clearly Dr Luke equated believers with disciples, the latter being the most common term he used in the Book of Acts to describe Christians. 3 Adapted from the hymn, Revive Us Again by William Mackay, 1863. See Everett Ferguson, Backgrounds of Early Christianity, 2nd ed. 14:27 Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. What does the source Greek word mean and how is it used in the Bible? And then, once the fire was going, you put on the heavier pieces of firewood. I was wonderingare there any that are vinyl padded? In Isaiah 50:4 the writer says that God wakes him every morning and gives him attentiveness so that he can listen and learn. Worked by means of a yoke it is light. 4 But when the day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. The call to discipleship is not without its struggles, suffering, and sometimes intense difficulties. Go therefore and make disciples (the only specific command in Jesus' commission) teaching (didasko in the present tense = continually instructing) them to observe (tereo in the present tense = continually keeping Jesus' teaching in view with the nuance here of to keep, just as in Jn 14:15 [where keep = tereo]) all that I have commanded you (Mt 28:19-20). God who has called you into fellowship with Christ Jesus our Lord is faithful. At our own house, we didnt have a wood-fire cooking stove, but we always had a fireplace, and we knew how to build a good fire. And it came about that for an entire year they met with the church, and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples (mathetes) were first called Christians in Antioch. It means, for example, Whenever you are performing Greek or Hebrew word studies, you must always examine the context lest you arrive at an incorrect interpretation of the meaning of the word in that specific passage. Luke 12:1 Under these circumstances, after so many thousands of people had gathered together that they were stepping on one another, He began saying to His disciples first of all,"Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. We measure a minister by the size of his crowd, but in the sixth chapter of John the Lord Jesus preached a crowd away! In other words, obedience is the same thing as abiding in the word. A disciple is a Christian who is on fire. ", Matthew 11:1 When Jesus had finished giving instructions to His twelve disciples, He departed from there to teach and preach in their cities. 29 When his disciples heard about this, they came and took away his body and laid it in a tomb. We cant pull it off merely by watching skilled veterans perform. We need hands-on instruction. David A. Hubbard and Glenn W. Barker, vol. There are two excellent examples of this caveat among those who ostensibly at first glance were classified as disciples of Jesus. Weve taken this definition and reduced it three simple words Freedom, purpose, and fulfillment. Ill give you an example from one chapter of the Bible. Disciples is the term consistently used in the four Gospels to mark the relationship existing between Christ and His followers (Ed: In fact "followers of Christ" is a synonym for disciples of Christ.). ", Dietrich Bonhoeffer said that "Salvation without discipleship is cheap grace.". is the same as "true Christian" "opposite of, do the opposite of" (as in disallow ); 3. (electronic version). 31 For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, "The Son of Man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill Him; and when He has been killed, He will rise three days later.". By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love (agape = unconditional, supernatural, Christ-like love) for one another. Cf. "This is the very reason I strongly encourage you to learn and practice the discipline of inductive Bible study, for in so doing you will be equipped to "feed yourself" for the rest of your life on earth! A disciple is someone who is committed to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and actively learning and obeying His teaching, and is involved in His church and its mission of making more disciples someone who has found freedom, purpose, and fulfillment in Christ. We must qualify the definition above by Vine. Acts 15:10 "Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? Joel The New International Commentary on the New Testament). We must have resources to accomplish this kind of life. John 12:4 But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, said, Answer The terms disciple and Christian are related but not synonymous. Exodus Although these people may have thought Jesus to be the Messiah, many of them had a wrong understanding of the sort of person the Messiah would be. Galatians What does God want us to do next? Well, of course, whatever we do, its grounded in the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ. 19 Ordering the people to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food, and breaking the loaves He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds, 30 and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. They are called to a lifetime of work and service (Mt 16:1519; Mk 1:17; Lk 5:10), (Mounce's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old & New Testament words: Zondervan). 60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, "This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?" If you don'tor aren't willing toyou cannot be His disciple. (Jn 13:30), John describes another, larger group of "disciples" in John 6 writing that, Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard this (Ed: Jesus' teaching on salvation in Jn 6:51, 53-58) said, "This is a difficult (Greek = skleros = rough, stiff or figuratively something harsh, unpleasant or hard to accept) statement; who can listen to it?" If, sometime after, he has no faith in Christ, that faith which he claimed to have is proven to be good for nothing! translations disciple + Add noun masculine The disciple James may have acted as chairman . There, a humble learner, A pupil (mathetes - the only place the NAS does not translate mathetes as disciple) is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher. but it costs more not to! Formally the Pharisees had never met Moses, and Socrates had never met Homer (if the latter ever existed at all), yet through the Law the Pharisees claimed to follow Moses. He taught them the Law and the Writings and the Prophets. 25 So the other disciples were saying to him, "We have seen the Lord!" Thou didst shed Thy blood for me, A disciple is someone who has been baptized and taught. There is discipleship that is merely outward, and discipleship that goes down to the root. 23 When He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him. In their use of the term disciple, the Pharisees are not altogether different than Socrates (469-399 BCE) who has been called the disciple of Homer. If he wanted further training in preparation for being a judge, teacher, scribe, or head of a synagogue, he might continue his study of the Torah in a small group or seek to study as a disciple under a certain scholar.8 The apostle Paul was an example of a Jewish boy who had left home (i.e., Tarsus) to study the Law under Gamaliel, a famous Rabbi in Jerusalem (Acts 5:34; 22:3). (The Gospel According to John. Song of Solomon Matthew 22:16 And they sent their disciples to Him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that You are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and defer to no one; for You are not partial to any. Let me just say if you want to become more deeply involved in the disciple-making process, enroll in LifeTrack, our one-month, foursession introduction to discipleship here at TDF. 22 The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know of which one He was speaking. She had a purpose in lifeand it was making money. When you reach the end of your way, you will find that there is nothing but an eternity in Hell waiting for you. He sought life-changing faith ready to feed Christ's sheep and share Christ's death." Secondary schools seemed to have developed by the second century. mathteu: to be a disciple, to make a disciple, to be the disciple of one; to follow his precepts and instruction. He advises his them to find a quiet place where they can sit without interruption and close their eyes and be still. Matthew 5:1 When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him. 18 Mary Magdalene came, announcing to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and that He had said these things to her. The first thing you need is kindling wood. For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's shall save it. She was on fire. Though we cannot literally walk with him today, through his Spirit, we nonetheless have been summoned by Him as well. 1 Thessalonians The term is virtually absent from the Old Testament, though there are two related references ( 1 Chronicles 25:8; Isaiah 8:16 ). Let me talk a little about building fires. Zechariah We get hung up it. The verb translated "abide" means to remain or stay (in a given place, state or relation) and introduces a conditional statement which can be paraphrased "If you continue ". What's that? what He offered, they would not receive! I have some very early memories of my grandmother, dressed in her apron, slicing potatoes. But the heart of the call of Christ is to be with him and to know him intimately. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Psalms Discipleship is a call to be with, know and enjoy the Master. I'll bet you wish more people were willing to be disciples like me. In contrast Jesus said "If you want to be My disciple, you must hate everyone else by comparisonyour father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sistersyes, even your own life. 6 The Pharisees were unwilling to accept Jesus testimony about himself. 40 "I begged Your disciples to cast it out, and they could not." Haggai (1Ti 4:12), John MacArthur - The single greatest tool of leadership is the power of an exemplary life. 14:30 They will say, This man began to build and was not able to finish! 14:31 Or what king, going out to confront another king in battle, will not sit down first and determine whether he is able with ten thousand to face the one coming against him with twenty thousand? The gift of God is eternal life. Our love and devotion for Him must be so complete that the deepest love we have for our dearest loved one fades in comparison. 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