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Paul to Rome
Paul ‘rented’?
v. 30.
Pretty cushy outfit.
“relaxed form of detention” (Peterson)
Phil 1:13 “13 so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ.”
Acts 28:20 “20 For this reason, therefore, I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I am wearing this chain.””
v. 15: “I’m not trying to go against Israel, I just know what’s best for Israel!” It’s the gospel!
Proclaiming the Kingdom in the Center of the Political Universe
Isaiah passage:
What do you hear but don’t understand?
Who is God?
What is the gospel?
Who is Jesus?
Define the Trinity?
Is Mary the Mother of God?
Did God die on the cross?
Did the Father really turn his face away?
Does God have reckless love?
What is required?
Verse flanked by the content of what needs to be heard!
Kingdom
Teaching about Jesus from the Law and Prophets
Teaching about Lord Jesus Christ
Breaking down the passage:
All day explained two things:
Testifying to the Kingdom
Trying to persuade about Jesus from the Law and Prophets
When they were not persuaded, Paul ticks them off by quoting from Isaiah 6:9–10.
Breaking down verses 26–27
“You will indeed hear but never understand,
and you will indeed see but never perceive.”
WHY?
v. 26:
Hearts are dull/calloused
Ears can hardly hear (what’s that?)
Eyes are closed
v. 27:
LEST they see with their eyes
LEST they hear with their ears
LEST they understand with their heart
Turn and I would heal them:
Liberation:
And so this past week, I asked my grandmother what it was like to experience the taste of victory after a war…
Grandma Benjamins is my only grandparent still living, and she is one of my faith heroes.
She has lived through a lot.
She grew up in the northwest corner of The Netherlands, which, if you know you geography, would have made them direct neighbors to Germany.
Nazi Germany occupied Holland when my grandma was just 8 years old: May 10, 1940.
Fortunately for her, she lived out in the country on a farm.
That meant they always had enough food to grow and give out to others.
But for 5 years they lived under this constant threat and fear of this foreign invader.
They witnessed things that would require a book to share.
But for our purposes this morning, I want to share with you a story that was once published in her small town newspaper called the Blyth Citizen.
In this article, Grandma shares what it felt like for Holland to be liberated from Nazi Occupation.
After 5 years of constant threat and constant fear of things getting worse, on May 5, 1945, the German army surrendered in Holland.
And so to celebrate this victory, soldiers in full gear and tanks would go through town after town to share the news and to celebrate together the long awaited victory over the enemy.
This is what my grandmother remembers so well: As a 13 year old girl, she remembers lining the streets and watching the parade of soldiers and tanks go down the streets of her little town.
She remembers that no one ever went out like this.
But she says, everyone came to town to celebrate.
She recalls the soldiers passing out chocolate bars, which was a real treat for them!
Maybe once or twice a year would they get to eat chocolate, so this chocolate represented something powerful.
She said to me this past week, “Today you can eat chocolate every day, but as a child, it was only for special times.”
And this, this was a special time.
Chocolate was the sweet taste of victory!
She recalls people just screaming out to the soldier- thanking them, singing together, rejoicing together.
She said, in her beautiful Dutch accent,
“Mark, I can not explain how happy we were.
I have never experienced anything like it.
People back then, you know, they just didn’t come together in public like this, but here everyone came!
You just had to be there… I have never been so happy in my life.”
She said she remembered going to church afterwards and even remembers what the preacher preached that Sunday.
Psalm 66, or, as she puts it ‘P-salm 66’:
1Shout with joy to God, all the earth!
2Sing the glory of his name;
make his praise glorious!
3Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!
So great is your power
that your enemies cringe before you.
4All the earth bows down to you;
they sing praise to you,
they sing praise to your name.”
That phrase, ‘I have never been so happy in my life,’ hit me.
She was 13.
Later on in life, she would have 7 kids.
35 grandkids, and now a whole slew of great grandkids with more rabbits coming!
She loved her husband, immigrated to Canada, lived a successful career as a farmer’s wife.
She had plenty of moments of joy in her life.
But that feeling of relief back in 1945- that moment produced a once in a lifetime feeling?...
Let me wrap up this morning with my 13-year-old grandmother watching troops parade through town.
What I didn’t mention was that the country that liberated Holland was, in fact, led by Canada.
Thousands of Canadian soldiers died for that liberation to happen.
It was also Canadian soldiers who through the streets of small towns to announce victory.
It’s no coincidence that my grandparents moved to Canada.
It’s no coincidence that many thousands of war-torn Dutch immigrants moved to Canada in the 1950’s and 60’s.
The happiest moment in my grandmother’s life changer her forever to the point that my grandparents moved an ocean apart to start a whole new life.
They left everything behind and started new.
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Witness to OneRomans 10:9-15: If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
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