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The value of foundation
What determines someones response to challenging situations where there seems to be no answer or direction?
The basics and foundations
From the womb to the present we are given instructions on how to live and conduct ourselves in life.
utilizing spiritual tools
We question the utility of them at times
Often drop them because we fail to see how they are used
When we drop one tool…we naturally pick up another…consciously or unconsciously
In this slow replacement of spiritual tools with non-spiritual tools we overtime change the foundation we stand on.
We don’t realize our foundation has changed until we are faced with some real difficult challenges and need to navigate them.
Your Christian Ethic is challenged at work…how do you respond?
do you hold on to your job or your ethic?
You can’t seem to find a partner in life?
do you lower your expectations and settle
You are doing a good work but your health is taken…how do you respond to God
You see many of your Christian friends heading down a path with red flags…Peer pressure is real from within…what do you do?
Decreased church attendance....stop serving…etc.
Context
History of the kingdoms
One Kingdom (Saul, David, and Soliman)
Two kingdoms
Northern Kingdom Israel (Jereboam) (10 Tribes)
Southern Kingdom of Juda (Rehoboam) (Judah and Benjamin)
Northern Kingdom was conquered by the Assyrians
Exiled to Nineveh under King Shalmaneser (722 BC)
Likely Tobit was part of this exile
During his time in exile he experience a change in leadership from Shalmaneser to Sennacherib
Tobits’ Formation
Tobit Reflects on his time in the Norther kingdom and transition to exile
The most difficult peer pressure to withstand comes from within.
Why?
How does Tobit respond?
One of the keys to withstanding internal peer pressure comes from an acknowledgement of what is ‘everlasting’.
What has God established as true that will not fade in time or bend in circumstances is what we must hold on to.
How would you describe Tobit's actions of not eating the food of the Gentiles?
Its an act of sanctification…setting himself apart.
Sanctification always has an element of loneliness incorporated.
it’s something we have to get accustomed to if we are to stand against the grain/current of the world
But it was his sanctification that elevated him in the kingdom…(Similar to Daniel).
God uses those who wrestle with being sanctified, because what He is orchestrating is always against the current.
In a trip Tobit leaves a large portion of his money with someone named Gabri
Change in Regimes
King Sennacherib and Hezekiah king of Judah
2 kings 19
King Sennacherib came to attack Judah and was degrading of the God of Israel.
Prayer of King Hezekiah
Angel of the Lord struck 188k of the Assyrians.
The king returned to Nineveh and was hostile to the Jews, killing more as he pleased.
Tobit would respectfully bury his brethren
The king found out and was furious with Tobit
Tobit flees Nineveh with his wife and son Tobias…leaving his home and possessions which are commandeered.
Sennacherib is killed by his sons.
Tobit’s nephew, Ahikar, becomes 2nd to the king…(ie.
Joseph)
Ahikar petitions for Tobit, who eventually returns to Nineveh to his home.
Formation of the mind
What is striking about these verses?
After running for your life and experiencing losses, no one would fault Tobit for ceasing his activities.
But opposition was expected…It did not de-rail Tobit from doing what he knew was right by God
How would you describe Tobit’s character?
Devoted, convicted, and compassionate
These are the fruit of being sanctified.
trips to jerusalem
not eating bread of the gentiles
Almsgiving
respect for the brethren
openness to all
Bad things to Good People
Why do bad things happen to good people?
The problem with pain and suffering.
we could easily reconcile pain and suffering when it happens to wayward individuals....they brought it upon themselves.
The problem is to reconcile it when it happens to the righteous person.
His wife even challenges him after he rebukes her for receiving a goat in addition to her wages which he things was falsely taken.
QUESTION: how do you reconcile the issue of righteous people suffering?
Augustine
The righteous are tested in order to bring about their improvement.
This is why we must be strong in the face of temptations, knowing they do not occur in order to humiliate us but in order to make us grow if we face them with a serene mind for the sake of Christ.
REMEMBER: The books included in the LXX were useful for everyday life.
They helped people wrestle through their problems.
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