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When we lived in Cleveland,
we hired three young men to be Bible workers for a few months in one of our churches.
One of the young men was Canadian...
and the other two were Americans.
We invited them over to our house for dinner one evening...
and hosted them for a typical Romanian dinner.
If you ever travel to Romania and someone invites you over for dinner...,
be prepared for a big meal and to receive your meal in courses.
And that’s what we did for our Bible Worker friends.
We first put out appetizers for them to eat...
and they loaded up on the appetizers,...
not realizing that this was only the beginning of their meal.
But once we took the appetizers off the table...
and brought out a big pot of delicious, Romanian soup...,
they were surprised that there was more food.
Of course, at this point we decided to not let them know that we had the main dish next...,
so we let them load up on the soup, eating two or more bowls of soup.
After they were well filled with soup...,
then we brought out the main dishes of potatoes, patties, salads and other good stuff like that.
You should’ve seen the disbelief on their faces that their was so much more good food…
and so little space left in their stomach.
So they somehow ate some of the food, thinking that was it.
But once more, we took the main dishes from the table...
and then brought out some delicious Eastern European cakes and pastries.
That is Eastern European hospitality...,
and if you ever get a chance to go to Romania...,
get ready to enjoy the hospitality of Eastern Europe.
We stopped playing jokes like that on our guests...
and either warn them first or just put all the food on the table for them to see.
But Biblical hospitality is not much different from Eastern European hospitality.
There is great significance in the Bible when families or groups come together for a meal.
In the Bible, people don’t just come together to eat for the sake of eating,
but much symbolisms are understood when people sit down at the table to eat.
Let’s look at some stories in the Bible...,
to understand the deeper meaning of eating together.
Our first story is found in .
The Bible tells us that Abraham is sitting at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day.
He is resting, enjoying the afternoon...,
wouldn’t it be nice, we could just take time in the afternoon and rest,
sitting on a chair outside of our homes, looking at the cars drive by?
As he is sitting there, Abraham notices 3 strangers passing through nearby.
Now Abraham was very hospitable...
and not everyday do you have people pass by your tent.
So he quickly runs to the strangers and invites them to stay for dinner.
Runs to Sarah and surprises her with the news that he has invited people over for dinner.
(Don’t you love surprises like that?)
Extra people coming over for dinner, when you’re not expecting guests?
Listen how Moses reports the story in .
What is Abraham doing?
What is he saying to the three strangers...,
who turn out to be Jesus and two angels...,
when he invites them over for dinner?
Abraham says at least a couple of things here,
First, Abraham invites them to rest,
kind of like, let your hair down and relax.
You’ve been traveling so much, come and rest.
Second, Abraham invites the strangers under his care and protection.
In Biblical times, traveling was dangerous...,
there were dangers from thieves and robbers...,
and dangers from animals like lions and bears.
With the invitation comes the promise that under my roof there is safety and protection.
Now we go to another story, still here in Genesis, Genesis chapter 31.
Jacob, the grandson of Abraham ran away from home...
because he deceived both his father and his brother...
and did not want to face the consequences of his actions.
He worked for his uncle Laban for about 20 years…,
and in Laban, met a deceiver greater than him.
Laban deceived him once by having him marry Leah instead of Rachel,
and he tricked him many times with the way he paid his wages.
Jacob was longing to return home…,
and even face the consequences that he ran away from.
But instead of putting in his two-week notice with Laban,
he decided to just leave without telling anyone.
When Laban heard of this, he got angry...
and took some friends to catch up with Jacob and let him have it.
When Laban finally caught up to Jacob...,
he asked him why he left so quickly and why he never said goodbye.
And they made peace with each other and what they did next in very interesting.
Read .
Did you notice that they ate a meal together.
So what was the meaning of this meal?
First, it was a covenant of peace...,
that they will not harm each other...,
gossip about each other, or hurt each other.
Second, this was a meal of reconciliation...,
let’s put our differences aside and leave the past in the past.
Let’s put it all behind us.
Our third story takes us to the New Testament...
to a parable that Jesus said.
Turn with me to .
The parable is about a father and two brothers.
The older brother was content and hard working,
while the younger brother wanted to leave home.
He had no money and so he shamelessly disrespected his father...
by asking for his inheritance while his father was still alive.
By asking for his inheritance while his father was still alive...
was like telling his father that he wished his father was dead already,
so he could get his money and leave.
Now his father had every right to kick his son to the curb penniless.
But this was no ordinary father...,
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