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A Dish Best Served Never
Introduction
A dish best served cold.
Meaning... vengeance is more satisfying when exacted some time after the harm that instigated it.
Ford v Ferrarri - after being snubbed by Ferrarri, Ford decided that the best revenge would be to beat them at their own game.
They spent enormous sums of money and two years to build a car in secret that would prove to be a world-beater on the race track.
Ford got their revenge - but two years after the fact.
1. Evaluate the Law of Retribution (38)
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
lex talionis
Jesus teaches a profound way of fulfilling the Law with Grace.
An example: Lex Talionis - The Law of Retribution.
With Cain
With Lamech
2. Do not Resist an Evil Person (39-41)
A slap
By our sin we have slapped the face of God.
God justly should have slapped us back.
Instead, he bore the slap himself.
This is grace.
A lawsuit
If someone wins your shirt in court, give him your coat as well.
A mile
If someone forces you to go one mile, go two.
David’s Autobiography (Psalm 37)
With Us
3. Give to the One Who Asks (42)
Joseph and his brothers
sold into slavery
imprisoned in Egypt twice
found substantial roles in Government
Led the nation of Egypt during a famine
Joseph and his brothers looking for grain and stood before Joseph.
Joseph tested them and when they returned with all of them, he declared who he really was.
Conclusion
You will be wronged.
David was wronged.
Anointed as a teenager…spent many years being threatened by Saul…crowned king much later.
1 Sam 19 Saul tried to kill David.
1 Sam 24 David spares Saul’s life.
1 Sam 26 David again spares Saul’s life.
Ps 37 Lessons from a man who chose not to retaliate
Don’t fret
trust in the Lord
Do good
Delight in the Lord
Commit your way to the Lord
Trust in him
Be still before the Lord
Wait patiently
Refrain from anger
Turn from wrath
Turn from evil
Do good
Hope in the Lord
Keep his way
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