Jan week 2 Reflections - Gods Promise Fulfilled!

OT Narratives

• To have good looks can have blessing and curse!
• 2nd time that Sarah was the subject of the King’s desire! She really is that desirable and beautiful!!!
• Isaacs wife was to be from Abrahams relatives! preserve bloodlines!
• Isaac to bore twins Jacob and Esau, under hostility toward each other!
• Esau is the elder, skillful hunter, loved by Isaac.
• Jacob is the younger, holding his brothers heels, homeboy, but loved by Rebeccah.
• Wisdom will keep you away from bad vices, women and poor habits - all included!
• Been said time and time again - run away from vice!
• Obedience to the Lord can really make one blessed and wealthy in all aspects!
• Esau sold his birthright for some selfish lentil stew!
• But Jacob (with his mothers tricks) stole blessing from Esau!
• Isaac tells Jacob NOT to marry CANAANITE woman!
• Jacobs Ladder
• Jacobs Well
• Jacob marry's Leah and Rachel!
• What goes around comes around!
• Even in despair, GOD is just!
• God showed up in Laban's dream not to harm Jacob!
• When GOD promised something, count on it!
• Jacob obeyed and remembered Gods Promises!
• A wrong foot can end in the right direction!
• LABAN Tricked Jacob and gave Leah instead of RACHEL!!!!!
• LABAN tricked Jacob twice, second time on giving Jacobs spotted sheeps and goats.

On virtue of hardwork!

¹² Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold,because the Lord blessed him. ¹³ The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy. ¹⁴ He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him. ¹⁵ So all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.
Jacob and Esau Description
²⁷ The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents. ²⁸ Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words, ¹⁷ who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.[a]  Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead. ¹⁹ None who go to her return  or attain the paths of life.

Wisdom Bestows Well-Being

3 My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart,
² for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity.

NT Narratives

• Hardwork has been emphasized!
• Faith is done, not seen, not heard.
• Cost of following Jesus  - turning back away from brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers
• New wine to old wine skins!
• Workers are few,
• Jesus came to bring sword, not peace.
• Right context is peace to those who are sufferring.
• Sword to those who dont know the truth.
• Sword means animosity?

34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 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—
36     a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’[b]

The Wise and Foolish Builders
²⁴ “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. ²⁵ The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its oundation on the rock. ²⁶ 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. ²⁷ The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”²⁸ When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, ²⁹ because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.

The Faith of the Centurion

⁵ When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. ⁶ “Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly.” ⁷ Jesus said to him, “Shall I come and heal him?” ⁸ 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. ⁹ 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.” ¹⁰ 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. ¹¹ I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.¹² But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”¹³ Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would.” And his servant was healed at that moment.

The Cost of Following Jesus

¹⁸ When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side of the lake. ¹⁹ Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” ²⁰ Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Manhas no place to lay his head.” ²¹ Another disciple said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” ²² But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

New Wine into Old wineskins!

¹⁶ “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. ¹⁷ 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.”

The Workers Are Few

³⁵ Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. ³⁶ When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. ³⁷ Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. ³⁸ Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”