Walking The New Testament Podcast

Greetings! Thank you for checking out another episode of WTNT. Today we’ll take a peek at what Jesus had to say about those who hear and see everything going on around us, miracles, calamities, and the like, and yet still just don’t get it. Don’t forget you can subscribe to WTNT on Spotify or iTunes if it’s more convenient for you. Just search for “Walking the New Testament” and you will find it. I hope you will find this episode beneficial. There is a lot going on in Matthew 13 so it would be impossible to cover all of it in one short episode, but Mark, Luke, and John, also cover a lot of the same topics so we will definitely get to explore some of the other things going on during the incredible ministry of Jesus. Stay tuned!This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes.Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heartsand turn, and I would heal them.” vs 13-16 NIV“…Where then did this man get all these things?” And they took offense at him.But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.” vs 56-57 NIVThanks for reading and listening to Walking The New Testament! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wtnt.substack.com

Hello everyone! Thank you for checking out another episode of WTNT! This week we’ll chat a bit about legalism and the way we are supposed to handle those who have taken human rules and made them more important than God’s law, and/or taken God’s law and misapplied it. I’ll do the best I can to shed a bit of light on this very important chapter of the New Testament.Don’t forget you can find Walking the New Testament on iTunes and Spotify if that is more convenient. Just search for it and you will find it there.“If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent. For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.” vs 7-8 NIV“…Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” vs 12 NIV“And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your people drive them out?” vs 27 NIV“The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here.” vs 41 NIVThanks for reading and listening to Walking The New Testament! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wtnt.substack.com

Greetings my friends! Thank you for checking in on another episode of WTNT! Today we will take a look at Jesus’ warning to countries that reject his miracles and blessings and refuse to repent. Don’t forget that if it is more convenient for you, you can listen to, or subscribe to WTNT in iTunes/Apple Podcasts or Spotify. As always, thank you for supporting my work and, more importantly, helping to spread the good news. “Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.” vs 20-24 NIV“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” vs 28-30 NIV“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7: 13-14 NIVThanks for reading and listening to Walking The New Testament! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wtnt.substack.com

Greetings! Thank you for checking out another episode of Walking the New Testament. This week, we are going to discuss the difficulties of being an ambassador of Christ in a fallen world. We’re all called to be witnesses of the truth. This doesn’t necessarily mean we are standing on a corner holding a sign that says “the end is near.” Sometimes, it also means living our lives in a way that points people to the truth. And, guess what? We will be hated for it. Of course, all verses below are from Matthew Chapter 10“If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.” vs 14-15 NIV“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another.” vs 21-23 NIV“…If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!” vs 25 NIV“For I have come to turn“‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother,a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.” vs 35-36 NIV“Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.” vs 39 NIVThanks for reading and listening to Walking The New Testament! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wtnt.substack.com

Greetings! I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter! Today we will chat a bit about how Jesus was an expert at putting the Pharisees and “Religious” leaders of his time in their place. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” vs 13“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse. Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.” vs 16-17Thanks for reading and listening to Walking The New Testament! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wtnt.substack.com

Greetings!I trust your week has been a good one. Today we will take a look at how a gentile recognized Christ’s authority and how, in many cases, people reject the power of Christ and beg him to leave them alone. Thank you for taking time to join me for another episode of Walking the New Testament! A Centurion recognizes the authority of Christ“The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it. When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.”” Verses 8-10 People beg Christ to leave them alone“Then the whole town went out to meet Jesus. And when they saw him, they pleaded with him to leave their region.” Verse 34Thanks for reading and listening to Walking The New Testament! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wtnt.substack.com

Today we’ll take a look at the end of Jesus’ sermon on the mount. I plan to talk a bit about judging others, treating others the way we want to be treated (and how Jesus said that when we do this, we are fulfilling “the law”), and finally, how simple it is to be a Christian if we will study the Sermon on the Mount and do our best to put the wisdom of this sermon into practice.“You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” vs 5“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” vs 12“But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.” vs 26Thanks for reading and listening to Walking The New Testament! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wtnt.substack.com

Thank you for bearing with me while I took a couple of weeks to visit family and recover from the traveling. I hope you will enjoy this episode!Don’t forget, if you use Spotify, you can subscribe and/or play these in the Spotify App as well!We will be discussing being “righteous” in public and how forgiving others is a prerequisite for being forgiven ourselves. Is saying, “I forgive you, but I won’t forget what you’ve done” the right way to handle forgiveness? “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.” vs 1“…Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” vs 4“…Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” vs 6“And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” vs 12“For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.” vs 14-15“…your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” vs 18Thanks for reading and listening to Walking The New Testament! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wtnt.substack.com

Jesus’ sermon on the mount is actually 3 chapters long. Chapters 5 - 7. We won’t go through all 3 chapters today, of course. Here are the verses I plan to expound upon a bit today:37 All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.*** There may be no episode dropping next week (March 2, 2026) because I will be traveling. I may skip two weeks, and if I do, I will let everyone know. Thank you! ***Thanks for reading and listening to Walking The New Testament! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wtnt.substack.com

“Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.”Thanks for reading and listening to Walking The New Testament! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wtnt.substack.com

“7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. 9 And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. 10 The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.11 “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”Thanks for reading and listening to Walking The New Testament! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wtnt.substack.com

7 Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. 8 He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”12 And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream…19 After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt..22 …Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee,…The Magi defied King Herod’s wishes by going home a different way.Joseph defied King Herod as well, not because he knew what King Herod had planned, but through his obedience to God. God used Joseph to thwart King Herod’s plans to kill baby Jesus.Thanks for reading and listening to Walking The New Testament! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wtnt.substack.com

“But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.”Thanks for reading and Listening to Walking The New Testament! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wtnt.substack.com