--Here's the quiz for week 5. We haven't covered everything yet, but tonight we cover 10 and 11
10) KINGDOM:
The "core message of Jesus"?
The Kingdom (p 16, Kraybill)
KINGDOM:In light of the video above, and the Bible's use of the term,
The "core message of Jesus"?
The Kingdom (p 16, Kraybill)
KINGDOM:In light of the video above, and the Bible's use of the term,
- not realm, but reign
- not place , but person
- not race, but grace
- not just "then and there," but 'here and now" (Matt. 4:17, 6:10)
>>How does the Kingdom "come" from the "future"?:
Many Jews of Jesus' day (and actually, the Greeks) thought of the Kingdom of God as largely a future identity/reality/location.
So when Jesus, in Matthew 4:17 announces that he, as King, is ALREADY bringing in the Kingdom,
The Jews talked often about "this age" (earth/now) and "the age to come." (heaven/future).
"Age to come" was used in a way that it was virtually synonymous with "The Kingdom."
Scripture suggests that:
The "age to come" (the Kingdom)
has in large part already come (from the future/heaven)
into "this age"
(in the present/on the earth
by means of the earthy ministry of Jesus: King of the Kingdom.
Thus, Hebrews 6:4-8 offers that disciples ("tamidim") of Jesus have
"already (in this age) tasted the powers of the age to come."
In Jesus, in large part, the age to come has come.
The Future has visited the present,
#10 on quiz: KINGDOM
Here are some articles that may help:
This week';s "COMMUNITY" topic is Greatness
Jesus came to serve.
The last shall be first.
That's who is great in the Kingdom economy:
Jesus said in it yet another chiasm:
But those who exalt themselves will be humbled,
and those who humble themselves will be exalted
(Matt 23:12)
ONE GREAT PERSON SURVEYS
" I Deny the Resurrection and I am not straight."
(uh, better click that title and get the context!)
we apply some "Three Worlds" theory to Matthew 18 and the topic of "Who is great?"
As we study, apply as many literary world symbols as you can
A video on that chapter featuring Keltic Ken:
Related outtakes:
Of LITERARY WORLD note:
- -There is a hyperinked account in Matthew 16, there only Peter receives power to bind and loose, here all the disciples do. Remember 'ustedes va"?
- -The sheep parable hyperlinks to Luke 15, but with a different context
- Structurally, the last section of chapter 17 is connected
- Two inclusios place this section in the middle of a unit about taxes/rights and children. Implications---
Of Historical World note:
- What did you learn about a millstone from tonight's video clip?: Half the clip is below, and notes from complete video here:
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Faith Lessons by Ray Vander Laan: The Weight of the World
“Gethsemane” means olive press. The film shows an image of an ancient olive press at Capernaum. The olive press symbolizes the crucifixion.There is a synagogue in Capernaum from the 3rd or 4th century, which is likely along the same plans as was used in the First Century.Jesus was asked to heal a centurion’s servant. The centurion had built the synagogue and was highly esteemed by the people.(Luke 7:2-5) There a centurion’s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. 3 The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. 4 When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, “This man deserves to have you do this, 5 because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.”Jesus was amazed at the faith of the centurion.In Matthew 11, Jesus pronounces a curse on Capernaum for failing to repent.(Mat 11:20-23) Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. 21 “Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! 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. 22 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. 23 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths. If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.RVL: We’ve been taught the miracles of Jesus. Therefore, we will have no excuse. The most severe curses in the Bible are against those who knew better — not those who sinned in ignorance.
Olive oil was used for lubricant, for fuel, for lamps, for cleaning, as a preservative, and in cooking. Olive oil production was a major industry.A massive stone rolled over the olives to produce olive oil. The crushed olives were then placed in another container and a massive stone column crushed the rest of the oil out of them. The olives were repeatedly crushed to get all the oil out.Only the wealthy, typically the aristocrats, could afford the equipment needed to press the olives, and so they had control over local agriculture.The Messiah is the “annointed one,” which refers to annointing with oil — olive oil.Every few hundred years, an olive tree will stop bearing fruit and so must be cut down, and a new tree will grow from the stump.(Isa 11:1) A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.The Jews taught that the new “shoot” was the Messiah — the shoot or branch out of Jesse.Paul teaches that the Gentiles are grafted into the stump, meaning that out roots are Jewish.And if God will cut down the natural tree for not bearing fruit, what will he do with the grafted-in tree?“Nazareth” means shoot. Hence, Jesus is from “shoot” or “branch.”Parents of children brought children to be blessed by the rabbi Jesus. Jesus insisted that the children come.(Mat 18:2-6) He called a little child and had him stand among them. 3 And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.5 “And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. 6 But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.Children had no status in that culture. To become like a child was to give up status and rights.Jesus felt strongly about those without status, who are unimportant. These are the “little ones.” If we don’t care about the little ones, the unimportant, the unloved, we’ll be tossed into the Abyss with a millstone (from an olive press) tied around our necks.
The column or pillar of stone used to squeeze the last of the oil out of a crushed olive was a “geth semane.” After telling the disciples to take on the gates of hell, he led them to Jerusalem, and then he went to the Garden of the Olive Press. There he felt the weight of the olive pressed — to the point of sweating blood.The burden of carrying our sins was enormous. The “olives” are Jesus. The “weight” is us — we are the weight that squeezed the blood out of Jesus.
NOTE A RECURRENCE OF the phrase "little one."
Watch
this (click)
video, "Weight of the World," and be prepared to discuss what these two items are
Remember Jesus said a lost sheep was great, Wow.
Page 22 of Syllabus,Matthew 18 Outline
(by Greg Camp/Laura Roberts):
1 Question #1: Who is Greatest?
2-17 Responses (each are counter proposals):
2-10 Response #1: Children
2-4 Counter Proposal: Accept children
5-9 Threat: If cause scandal
10 Show of force: Angels protect
12-14 Response #2: Sheep
(Who is temporarily greater?)
12-14 Counter Proposal: Search for the 1 of 100 who is lost
15-17 Response #3: Brother who sins (counter proposal)
15a Hypothetical situation: If sin
15-17 Answer: Attempt to get brother to be reconciled
17b If fail: Put him out and start over
18-20 Statement: What you bind or loose
21-22 Question #2: How far do we go in forgiveness?
23-35 Response #1: Parable of the forgiving king/unforgiving servant
----------------Read verses 15-17 and then ask yourself:
"What did it mean in their historical world to treat people like
"tax collectors and sinners?"
"What did it mean in their historical world to treat people like
Two answers
1)Don't allow them in your bounded set.
2)How did Jesus treat tax collectors and sinners? In a centered set way. Tony Jones writes:
but because anyone, including Trucker Frank, can speak freely in this church, my seminary-trained eyes were opened to find a truth in the Bible that had previously eluded me.”...That truth emerged in a discussion of Matthew 18's "treat the unrepentant brother like a tax collector or sinner.":"And how did Jesus treat tax collectors and pagans?" Frank asked aloud, pausing, "as of for a punchline he'd been waiting all his life to deliver,"....., "He welcomed them!""
11 on QUIZ: RECURRENCE)Recurrence (called "epistrophe" when it occurs at the end of a text): a word or phrase is repeated for emphasis; encourages tre reader to connect the dots thematically
a word, phrase, or idea is intentionally repeated throughout a text. Example: the five teaching blocks of Matthew.
Jesus is the new Moses."
Matthew
could have said that, or even said that five times..but instead he
embedded thematically five times in the literary structure/fabric of his
book;
It is no accident that 5 times Matthew offers an almost identical sentence to close off his five teaching blocks..
"When Jesus had finished saying these things, he moved on..."
..shows up in
- 7:28
- 11:1
- 13:53
- 19:1
- 26:1
See page 269 of your Hauer/Young textbook (the three paragraphs underneath the "Higher Righteousness" section) for more on this..
There is huge signficance of five teaching blocks in Matthew, how they are identified, and what they likely symbolize.
Why 5?
JJewish people reading Matthew would say"Oh, I get it. Matthew is trying to tell us (5 times, no less( that Jesus is the New Moses (or the fulfillment of Moses)!"
Why? The answer has to to with the obvious intentionality of the5 "teaching blocks" in Matthew..Five being a hugely significant number for Jews...it's the number of books in the Torah, AKA the Five Books of Moses, AKA The Pentateuch "(Five Books in One.") . Moses=5ness.
More "New Moses" symbolism in Matthew:
Coffee shop prank
These were to remind us of how shocking, subversive, surprising Jesus' temple tantrum was.
Here's BSN 12 getting pranked. Click here
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SOREQ
Temple Warning Inscription:
The Jewish Temple in Jerusalem was surrounded by a fence (balustrade) with a sign (soreq) that was about 5 ft. [1.5 m.] high. On this fence were mounted inscriptions in Latin and Greek forbidding Gentiles from entering the temple area proper.
One complete inscription was found in Jerusalem and is now on display on the second floor of the “Archaeological Museum” in Istanbul.
The Greek text has been translated: “Foreigners must not enter inside the balustrade or into the forecourt around the sanctuary. Whoever is caught will have himself to blame for his ensuing death.” Compare the accusation against Paul found in Acts 21:28 and Paul’s comments in Ephesians 2:14—“the dividing wall.”
Translation from Elwell, Walter A., and Yarbrough, Robert W., eds. Readings from the First–Century World: Primary Sources for New Testament Study. Encountering Biblical Studies, general editor and New Testament editor Walter A. Elwell. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1998, p. 83. Click Here
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Three thought experiments.
- -Think if I offered you a drivers license, claiming i had authority to issue it
- -Think if someone destroyed all bank records and evidence of any debt you have owe
- -Think what would happen if you pointed at something, hoping your dog would look at it.
Now watch this short and important video for explanations...Temple as SIGN-post.
The Jewish Temple in Jerusalem was surrounded by a fence (balustrade) with a sign (soreq) that was about 5 ft. [1.5 m.] high. On this fence were mounted inscriptions in Latin and Greek forbidding Gentiles from entering the temple area proper.One complete inscription was found in Jerusalem and is now on display on the second floor of the “Archaeological Museum” in Istanbul.The Greek text has been translated: “Foreigners must not enter inside the balustrade or into the forecourt around the sanctuary. Whoever is caught will have himself to blame for his ensuing death.” Compare the accusation against Paul found in Acts 21:28 and Paul’s comments in Ephesians 2:14—“the dividing wall.”Translation from Elwell, Walter A., and Yarbrough, Robert W., eds. Readings from the First–Century World: Primary Sources for New Testament Study. Encountering Biblical Studies, general editor and New Testament editor Walter A. Elwell. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1998, p. 83. Click Here
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Three thought experiments.- -Think if I offered you a drivers license, claiming i had authority to issue it
- -Think if someone destroyed all bank records and evidence of any debt you have owe
- -Think what would happen if you pointed at something, hoping your dog would look at it.
Wright:
For many centuries mapmakers put Jerusalem at the middle of the earth. That corresponds to what most Jews in the first century believed about the city, and particularly about the Temple. It was the heart of everything, the holiest spot on earth. It was the focal point of the holy land. Its decoration symbolized the larger creation, the world we read about in Genesis 1. It wasn’t, as sacred buildings have been in some other traditions, a retreat from the world. It was a bridgehead into the world. It was the sign that the creator God was claiming the whole world, claiming it back for himself, establishing his domain in the middle of it.
It was, in particular, the place where God himself had promised to come and live. This was where God’s glory, his tabernacling presence, his Shekinah, had come to rest. That’s what the Bible had said, and some fortunate, though frightened, individuals had glimpsed it and lived to tell the tale. But God lived, by definition, in heaven. Nobody, however, supposed that God lived most of the time in heaven, a long way away, and then, as though for an occasional holiday or royal visitation, went to live in the Temple in Jerusalem instead.
Somehow, in a way most modern people find extraordinary to the point of being almost unbelievable, the Temple was not only the center of the world. It was the place where heaven and earth met. This isn’t, then, just a way of saying, “Well, the Jews were very attached to their land and their capital city.” It was the vital expression of a worldview in which “heaven” and “earth” are not far apart, as most people today assume, but actually overlap and interlock.
And Jesus, had been going about saying that this God, Israel’s God, was right now becoming king, was taking charge, was establishing his long-awaited saving and healing rule on earth as in heaven. Heaven and earth were being joined up — but no longer in the Temple in Jerusalem. The joining place was visible where the healings were taking place, where the party was going on (remember the angels celebrating in heaven and people joining in on earth?), where forgiveness was happening. In other words, the joining place, the overlapping circle, was taking place where Jesus was and in what he was doing. Jesus was, as it were, a walking Temple. A living, breathing place-where-Israel’s-God-was-living.
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Homework Help:If in red you can skip
Week
4
Topic: Community Theme 4: Living in Many
Communities: Prophecy and Wisdom
Three Worlds of Philemon
Preparation Reading:
Fee and Stuart, ch 10: “The Prophets:
Enforcing the Covenant in Israel”
Article in class Bible, “Amos” (pp. 1282-1283)
Bible: Amos (entire
book)
Fee and Stuart, ch 12: “Wisdom: Then and
Now”
Bible:
Proverbs 10 – 15, Ecclesiastes 1-6
Finish Radical Loving Care: Part Two
(all chapters)
Grimsrud, ch 5, “Prophetic Existence:
Covenant and Conversion”
Grimsrud, ch 6, “God Remains Committed to
Healing”
Grimsrud, ch 7, “The Message of the Old Testament
Preparation
Assignments
1) Radical Loving Care Assignment: Your
choice of a or b.
a) Study Questions:
Part One: ch 1, “Opening
Challenge,” pg. 193
Part One, ch 4, “Sacred
Encounters, Sacred Work,” p. 194
Part One, ch 9, “The
Not-So-Surprising Outcomes of the Healing Hospital,” p. 195
Part Two, ch 4, “The
Sacred Encounter in Practice,” p. 197
OR
b)
Write a typed 2-3 page summary and response to the book.
2) Complete “The Historical World” worksheet
for Philemon (attached to this syllabus).
This worksheet and the worksheet from Week 5 prepare you for the final
paper.
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