Jesus and Technology

Jesus & Technology

• How did Jesus use “tools, machines, utensils, weapons, instruments, housing, clothing, communicating & transporting devices,” etc. in his life here on earth (Bain)?

• What can we learn from him?

1. Jesus used technology in daily life.

Mark 6:3 – “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, & Joses, & of Juda, & Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?”

Mark 3:9 – “And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.”

1. Jesus used technology in daily life.

1. Jesus used technology in daily life.

John 2:15 – “And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, & the sheep, & the oxen; & poured out the changers’ money, & overthrew the tables;”

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1. Sometimes Jesus used technology.

1. It’s Ok for me to use technology.

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Mt 10:9-10 – “Go out without money, luggage, shoes or walking stick. Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor

brass in your purses, nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves ….”

2. Sometimes Jesus Didn’t Use Technology

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Mt 14:22-33 – And in the 4th watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea…. And Peter … said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.

2. Sometimes Jesus Didn’t Use Technology

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Mark 1:16-18 Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon & Andrew his brother casting a net

into the sea: for they were fishers. And Jesus said unto them,

Come ye after me, & I will make you to become fishers of men. And

straightway they forsook their nets, & followed him.

2. Sometimes Jesus Didn’t Use Technology

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Mt 26:52-53 – “Then said Jesus unto him, ‘Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, & he shall presently give me more than 12 legions of angels?’”

2. Sometimes Jesus Didn’t Use Technology

1. Sometimes Jesus used technology.

1. It’s Ok for me to use technology.

2. Sometimes Jesus Didn’t Use Technology.

2. Sometimes I need to trust in God.

3. Jesus used technology To Show God.

Mark 2:21 – “No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, & the rent is made worse.”

3. Jesus used technology To Show God.

Mark 2:22 – “And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the

bottles, & the wine is spilled, & the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new

bottles.”

1. Sometimes Jesus used technology.

1. It’s Ok for me to use technology.

3. Sometimes Jesus used technology to show God to others.

3. Sometimes I can use technology to show God to others.

2. Sometimes Jesus Didn’t Use Technology.

2. Sometimes I need to trust in God.