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Kingdom of God & Justice #4

This is session 4 of a study that Rob is leading on understanding the Kingdom of God, the mission of God's people, and Justice. What is God's mission? In order for the people of God to be faithful, we must understand what God's mission is. Then we must ask: What is Justice? And what is the relationship between Justice and the Kingdom of God? And what does it mean for you and me? 

Here is the outline that Rob was teaching from 

 

18:16-33 Sodom and Gomorrah

People oppressed and victims of violence cry out to God to save them (Exod 3:7; Ps 34:17; cf Exod 11:6; 12:30; 1 Sam 4:14; Deut 22:24-27)

 

1. Abraham was called to do the ‘Way of the Lord’: _________________ and ___________________
   1. Walking in YHWH’s way is to not walk in the way of other gods or nations
   2. Here it contrasts with Sodom

 

1. Gen 18:19: Doing ‘righteousness and justice’: In Gen 18, YHWH draws Abraham’s attention to His concerns about the suffering and oppressed (Psalm 103:6-7)

1. Gen 18:19: Righteousness: sdq (sedaqa): root means ‘straight’; something that is fixed and fully what it should be; the norm—something by which other things are measured. Comes to mean ‘rightness’; that which is as it ought to be—matches up to the standard; Sdq: when applied to human actions it is a highly relational word; ‘Allows an individual to live in such a way that they respond correctly to the values of a relationship
   1. Accurate weights and measures are sdq (Lev 19:36; Deut 25:15)
   2. Safe paths for sheep (Ps 23:3)

 

2. Gen 18:19: Justice: spt (sapat; mishpat): refers to legal action that covers a wide-range: can refer to a lawgiver, or to act as a judge who arbitrates between parties in a dispute; to pronounce who is guilty and who is innocent in a dispute; in a wide sense it means ‘to put things right’; to intervene in a situation that is wrong, oppressive, or out of control and to fix it
3. Mispat is often used in accord with the mispat of the orphan or widow and refers to their rightful case against those who exploit them
4. Exodus 21-23—Covenant Code; of the Book of the Covenant—is called the Mispatim
5. Thus, Mispat refers to what needs to be done in each situation if the people and circumstances are to be restored to sedaqa
6. Mispat is the actions required; sedaqa is the resultant state of affairs
   1. Gen 18:20: sedaqa: cry of pain or help from those who are being oppressed (Cf Exod 2:23-25; Ps 34:17; Deut 22:24, 27)

 

What was the sin of Sodom?

Ezekiel 16

 

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Kingdom of God & Justice #3

This is session 3 of a study that Rob is leading on understanding the Kingdom of God, the mission of God's people, and Justice. What is God's mission? In order for the people of God to be faithful, we must understand what God's mission is. Then we must ask: What is Justice? And what is the relationship between Justice and the Kingdom of God? And what does it mean for you and me? 

Here is the outline that Rob was teaching from 

Immanuel principle: God’s presence among us (Lev 26:11-13; Gen 17:7-8; Exod 29:45; Jer 24:7; 31:1, 33; 32:8; Ezek 11:20; 14:11; 34:24; 37:23, 27-28; Zech 8:8; 2 Cor 6:16; Heb 8:10; Rev 21:7)

1. The purpose of redemption was so that God would __________________ (Exod 29:44-46)
2. Moses understood that this is what distinguished Israel from the nations and was the purpose for Israel’s existence (Exod 33:15-16)

 

God’s presence requires ethical holiness

1. Lev 19:2: ‘Be holy’
2. Result was that the nations would notice (Deut 4:6-8)

 

For Israel, everything was divided into two categories: holy and common/profane

1. God and anything associated with God was holy
2. Everything else was profane/common and ordinary (profane has a neutral meaning)

 

The common/profane was also divided into two categories

1. _____________________ the normal state of people and things

1. _____________________ : because of pollution

 

Only that which was ___________________ could come into the presence of God

1. Sin and pollution renders

1. the holy ____________________
2. the clean __________________
   2. Sacrificial blood would provide cleansing
3. Blood makes the unclean __________________
4. Blood also can make the clean _________________

Since Holiness and cleanness were required to enter the presence of God, and since God’s presence among Israel was a distinctive element of them as a people, and since their distinctiveness was to be their mission to the world, then even their sacrificial system was missional 

1. Because the sacrificial system was fulfilled on the cross; the laws of clean and unclean food symbolized Israel’s distinctiveness from the nations, were also fulfilled
2. Moral and spiritual cleanliness is still in force
3. Paul quotes Lev 26 in 2 Cor 6:16 in order to urge Christians not to compromise their exclusive worship of Christ and their distinctiveness from unbelievers

 

Rom 12:1-2

 

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Kingdom of God & Justice #2

This is session 1 of a study that Rob lead on understanding the Kingdom of God, the mission of God's people, and Justice. What is Justice? And what is the relationship between Justice and the Kingdom of God? And what does it mean for you and me? 

Here is the outline that Rob was teaching from

Immanuel principle: God’s presence among us (Lev 26:11-13; Gen 17:7-8; Exod 29:45; Jer 24:7; 31:1, 33; 32:8; Ezek 11:20; 14:11; 34:24; 37:23, 27-28; Zech 8:8; 2 Cor 6:16; Heb 8:10; Rev 21:7)

 

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Kingdom of God & Justice #1

This is session 1 of a study that Rob lead on understanding the Kingdom of God, the mission of God's people, and Justice. What is Justice? And what is the relationship between Justice and the Kingdom of God? And what does it mean for you and me? 

Here is the outline that Rob was teaching from 

Exodus 2:11-12, 23-25; 3:7-10

1. Biblical Concept of Missions/Mission of God
   1. The biblical focus is on ___________________________
2. Nature of God’s Mission: Bringing the Kingdom of God in its fullness
   1. Gospel: _______________________________________________________________________________
      1. All who believe and follow Jesus may enter
   2. Kingdom of God: the totality of God’s work ______________________________________ _____________________________________________________ (Rom 8:19-22; Isa 65:17-25; Rev 21:3-4)

• We are the agents of God’s mission
  1. The body of Christ is God’s vehicle for his mission in the world
     1. We are to implement what God is going to do

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Jer Swigart Interview: Evangelicalism and peacemaking

Rob and Vinnie interview Jer Swigart the Co-founder of Global Immersion to discuss peacemaking and the evangelical church. How to form activists for peace in accordance with the Gospel and the disconnect that is too found in evangelical churches between peace making and evangelical theology and practice 

Here is a link to the Global Immersion website 

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Here is a link to the Howard Thurman book Jer mentioned  Jesus and the Disinherited

Here is a link to the article by Andy Crouch Jer mentioned "Year without a Summer" 

 

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Gospel of Mark #4: OT background: Jace Broadhurst

Rob and Vinnie interview Dr Jace Broadhurst who takes us on an incredible journey into the ancient world and shows us how understanding the stories that circulated around the world at the time of Mark helps illuminate the Gospel of Mark: e.g., The disciples being "tormented" while rowing across the sea; Jesus' walking on the water is Him trampling the ancient gods as Job 9 speaks about! A fascinating study. 

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Here is a link to Michael Heiser's work The Unseen Realm that Jace referred to. 

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Gospel of Mark #3: How Mark tells his story and Discipleship in Mark

Rob and Vinnie look at the structure of the Gospel to show how Mark tells his story and illuminates its meaning. Rob and Vinnie also look at Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark

 

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Gospel of Mark #2: Sandwiching and the Feedings of the Multitudes

Vinnie and Rob look even more deeply at the Gospel of Mark and discuss how Mark arranges his stories so that a second story interrupts the first story in order to provide a key insight into how Mark wants his readers to understand the first story. Why does Mark tell of Jesus feeding 5,000 and 4,000? Why tell of a similar miracle? 

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Gospel of Mark #1: Introduction and Overivew

Join Vinnie and Rob as they provide Part 1 of an Introduction and Overview of the Gospel of Mark. 

 

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Christmas: The Coming of the King!

in this episode, Vinnie and Rob explore the Gospel stories about the birth of Christ and argue that the story is about the coming of the King! 

 

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