Scripture (1609)
  1. A paralytic is lowered through a roof, sins are absolved, an unlikely person is called to follow Jesus and Jesus gets in trouble for partying with sinners.
  2. In many ways [this text] brings to mind Judgement Day and the separation of the sheep from the goats when Christ the King comes to take His treasured possession home to be with Him in the courts of everlasting life.
  3. The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends.
  4. Five kings rise up to go to war. We remember the plagues of Egypt. And the sun stands still?
  5. Leprosy, demons, sinful fishermen and a mother-in-law. All that in more in this episode.
  6. These last words of the Old Testament Scriptures prepare us for the incarnation and beyond.
  7. The Gospel outpaces all would-be and eventually fleeting identity-makers and brings in the truth of a renewed-in-Christ humanity.
  8. Jesus offer us this vision of violence not so we might be drawn into it but so we might be drawn through it to come closer to Him.
  9. Israel’s neighbors trick them into making a covenant with them in a strange way. How will Joshua deal with his promise when he discovers they have been deceived?
  10. Temptation in the wilderness. A riot in His hometown. Silencing a demon. Jesus is busy in this episode.
  11. Note Moses’ big question is, “Who am I?” However, this is the wrong question. It matters not who Moses is, or who we are. What matters is who God is.
  12. Everything is destroyed and something very unpleasant is done to the king of Ai that ends up pointing us to Jesus.
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