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• Did Jesus Choose his Brother as his Successor? (The Gospel of Thomas)

  Today I look at the twelfth saying in the Gospel of Thomas. This saying is different from all the previous ones in that it deals with leadership in the early church. But it also contains some spiritual truth, which we will see in a moment. It reads: “The disciples said to Jesus, ‘We know that you are going to leave us. Who will be our leader?’ Jesus said to them, ‘No matter where you are you are to go to James the Just, for whose sake heaven and earth came into being.’"View Marshall's books here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Marshall-Davis/author/B001K8Y0RU

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• A Matter of Life and Death (Gospel of Thomas)

  This is the eleventh saying in the Gospel of Thomas. Listen to what Jesus said: "This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away. The dead are not alive, and the living will not die. In the days when you consumed what is dead, you made it what is alive. When you come to dwell in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were one you became two. But when you become two, what will you do?"This is really a collection of sayings. There are four pairs, but they are all connected. The first one is about two heavens. The second one is about life and death. The third is light and darkness. The fourth is about one and two. I will explore them in these segments.View Marshall's books here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Marshall-Davis/author/B001K8Y0RU

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• The Fire of Awakening (The Gospel of Thomas)

  This is the tenth saying in the Gospel of Thomas. Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the world, and look, I'm guarding it until it blazes." Another translation puts it slightly different: “I have thrown fire upon the world, and look, I am watching till it blazes.” What does this saying in the Gospel of Thomas mean? Spiritual awakening is fire. The world as we know it is consumed as if by fire.View Marshall's books here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Marshall-Davis/author/B001K8Y0RU

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• The Messiness of Spiritual Awakening (The Gospel of Thomas)

  This is the ninth saying in the Gospel of Thomas. Jesus said, "Look, the sower went out, took a handful of seeds, and scattered them. Some fell on the road, and the birds came and gathered them. Others fell on rock, and they didn't take root in the soil and didn't produce heads of grain. Others fell on thorns, and they choked the seeds and worms ate them. And others fell on good soil, and it produced a good crop: it yielded sixty per measure and one hundred twenty per measure."This doesn't mean what you think it means! Or what the church says it means!View Marshall's books here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Marshall-Davis/author/B001K8Y0RU

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• Jesus’ Big Fish Story (Gospel of Thomas)

  The eighth saying in the Gospel of Thomas is a big fish story. Jesus said, "The man is like a wise fisherman who cast his net into the sea and drew it up from the sea full of little fish. Among them the wise fisherman discovered a fine large fish. He threw all the little fish back into the sea, and easily chose the large fish. Anyone here with two good ears had better listen!" View Marshall's books here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Marshall-Davis/author/B001K8Y0RU

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