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Introduction and Devotional
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Blessed are the righteous…dwell in the law.
Women, be quiet!
1 Corinthians 14:26-
What is the problem with this text?
What are possible definitions?
Ok when you read this passage what are some clues about what is going on?
You can use background information or something you have learned in the past.
Look at immediate context or any knowledge of the whole book 1 Corinthians.
Yall this is a safe space.
I will present my view on this text eventually but we can work this out together and we can disagree.
Ok on the surface what do we see?
Passage is to whole group about when to speak, then specifies women here.
Indicates something specific is going on.
Then in Paul makes this specific statement.
1 Corinthians is a corrective Epistle…he is speaking to some very specific issues.
Now look at Paul Romans talking about women....
Romans
In they are the ones that teach Apollos, the great 1st century evangelist, “The way of God.”
Then show the Bible word study for “ask”
Finally, one more thing I want to show you is how a lens changes the way something is translated here.
Why is this important?
John Macarthur
Go home!
“There is no case that can be made for a woman preacher.
Period.
Paragraph.
End of discussion.”
“Narcissistic.”
He said, “When I first saw her I thought, ‘This is what it looks like to preach yourself rather than Christ.'”
MacArthur went on, “Just because you have the skill to sell jewelry on the TV sales channel doesn’t mean you should be preaching.
There are people who have certain hocking skills.
Natural abilities to sell.
They have energy and personality and all that.
That doesn’t qualify you to preach.”
Dead Fig Tree
Let’s read
Well start in 12 and go from there.....
Luke 12:54-13:8
What clues in the text tell us is going on with the fig tree?
Where else might we look in the bible?
show slides of comparison of Matthew and Mark:
Matthew is about faith.
Could be tied to the cleansing of the temple but it is really a focus on the faith and power available for those that follow Jesus
Mark intentionally brackets the story.
Fig tree curse, cleaning of the temple, then it dies.
Judgement of the temple
Luke tells it different.
There is really a threat of judgement on all the people that are hearing.
A emphasis on urgency of repentence when comparing to everything around....those killed by Pilate, then those dying from an accident, etc.
Hate your family
Luke 14
What is the most important theme in this text?
What is the main idea?
Ok, let’s brainstorm together about what it could mean to hate mother and father.
Give me a few options.
What do you think?
....(I think this is a rhetorical device and not to be literal).
Why? Well think about Jesus’ command to love neighbor as you love yourself as a summation of what God desires…well the literal sense of hating family falls apart.
The next chapter has a parable about family.
That would not be as effective if it was a literal sense.
We do not see Jesus act in this way....
But what does it mean?
Yes, all about allegiance here.
The challenging aspect here is to hold this relationship with Christ above all others.
Compare to Matthew to drive it home:
Stop your babbling!!!!
Check out
Matthew 6
What are our options about the meaning of babbling here?
Ok just a little bit quick here.....there is something specific here about babbling like pagans.
There was a question about the difference of babbling and what Paul says pray about all things.
So using the Bible as a hermeneutic to study itself....let’s weight this.
We believe the Bible, particularly in commanding or prescribing is consistent.
Babbling like pagans has to be something else.
I consulted a couple of commentaries and tried to look at greek.
Only time used in Greek NT so that does not really help.
However, historically it was known that pagans would try to manipulate their gods by reminding them of past dues and then to just call out all sorts of names of gods hoping one would answer…or just trying to manipulate.
Some of that is going on here I think.
Demons and Failures
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Mark 9:14-
Setting is important here immediately following the transfiguration.
This back half of Mark is really going to focus on discipleship.
They come off the mountain the three of them and then right into ministry.
Taking the bigger book in context we see some of the themes of teaching and leaning into inadequacies.
This is a very challenging, nuanced, and layered text.
Let me share some commentary....I dont think we have enough time to take a deep dive here.
The present passage also introduces prayer in the context of faith, connecting it with spiritual power.
Grundmann correctly notes that “prayer is faith turned to God.” Prayer is the focusing and directing of faith in specific requests to God.
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