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Is the Bible TRUE?

To those confused by my sermon yesterday,

You asked about the sermon yesterday.  Let me see if I can clear up some things.

1) I do believe that the Bible is True.  I believe that everything in it is written without error. 

2) However, there are times that things are written from the perspective of the human author, in ways may not quite square with the way we understand the world today. 

3) This passage at the beginning of Matthew is one of those texts.  I did not know until I started to study the passage last week that the numbers that Matthew presents at 14-14-14, are from my perspective not right.  But from Matthew's perspective he must have had a reason to write it as he did.  I did not mention this on Sunday but Matthew was a tax collector, and would not likely make a mistake in counting!  So what is going on in this chapter. 

a) It could be an example of inclusive and exclusive counting being used for effect.  In the first and last grouping of 14, inclusive counting includes the first and last person in the count and thus gives you 14.  In the middle 14 exclusive counting leaves out the first, and you get the number 14.  Several commentaries suggest that this was a typical practice in Jewish culture. 

b) The kings left out of the count were all cursed by God, and its possible that in the counting of the Kings during Matthew's day, those kings were excluded but everyone, so it is only us - separated by time from the NT era, that want to include those kings in the count. 

There are other options, and I would encourage you to do some research yourself and see what you can come up with. 

The point I was making on Sunday was that God's plan remains perfect, despite our human errors.  In effect it is Romans 8:28, which says God works all things for good.  So all those mistakes made by the people in Jesus' family tree do not keep the messiah from coming to Earth just as planned.  And regardless of how you account for Matthew's numbers, it is clear that God is using Matthew to connect the dots to tell us that Jesus is the legit son of Abraham and David.  Thus, God's perfect plan prevails and we see once again that we can trust him, no matter how messy our own lives become. 

Now concerning your question specifically - did Matthew make a mistake?  And if he did, is this evidence of errors in the Bible, and if so, do we have to admit that the liberals were right and the Bible is full of mistakes and unreliable as a source of ultimate truth in all things. 

I would answer this first question as no, I don't think Matthew made a mistake in what he wrote.  He wrote exactly what he intended to, I just don't know why he would write that.  If he wanted to make a big deal out of the number of generations, it does not make sense to me that he would skip 4 kings in the list of David's decedents, but I suppose it is possible that he was just repeating a pneumatic tool to remember the generations between Abraham and David, and David and the exile.  As for the final set of names, those are specific to Joseph, and Matthew must have learned that list from Mary.  And perhaps is was while comparing Mary's list to a well known memory tool listing the other names, that Matthew came up with the 14-14-14.  

However, as I mentioned on Sunday, and I restate now, as I look at his list, he is missing people and I don't get 14-14-14, and therefore I can see where people would say, "Matthew is wrong!!!"  And having given it some thought, I guess I would have to say that I am not all that bothered by those who might say this.  Often when we put the bible under the scrutiny of modern thought, one can find areas where our ways of thinking are different from the thinking of Biblical times. 

For example, there is a Psalm that says that the Sun revolves around the Earth.  But we now know that the Earth revolves around the Sun.  Does this make the Bible wrong?  No.  It means it was written at a certain period of time historically.  They believed the Sun revolved around the Earth, and we do not. 

They were "creative" in the way they counted generations, we are not.  But this does not invalidate the Truth of the Bible. 

As I said before, I would love hear your thoughts on this.

Mark

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Today's sermon - Arrival, Matt 1:1-17

Mark's Sermon, Matt. 1:1-17,

Arrival, Christmas Logistics

Making it all come together

Arrival – the time that the wheels hit the ground.  For those of you who travel often in this room, it happens so often for you, you probably don’t even notice that the rest of us have just breathed a sigh of relief.  We made it.

Have you considered how much effort and energy is put into an arrival.  The planning, the purchasing of tickets, and the coordination of schedules all take time. This year during our advent season, I would like for us to think about how many details came together in the birth of Jesus: the arrival of our savior on this planet.  I am going to do my best to pull back the veil of heaven, and to reveal the God of the Universal, the maker of heaven and earth, as He mighty works on put on display in the birth of a baby boy in a barn.

We have been in the book of Matthew, and we will stay here, only now we will back up to the beginning.  Having studied the beatitudes of Jesus, we now flip the pages back and start at the beginning of the book. 

And we find there a list, a historical record.  This family tree is unlike any other.  This one connects some dots that would be of the utmost importance to any Jewish reader. 

The first sentence sets up the importance of the list:

Matthew 1

The Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah

 1 This is the genealogy[a] of Jesus the Messiah[b] the son of David, the son of Abraham:

 2 Abraham was the father of Isaac,

   Isaac the father of Jacob,

   Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

 3 Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar,

   Perez the father of Hezron,

   Hezron the father of Ram,

 4 Ram the father of Amminadab,

   Amminadab the father of Nahshon,

   Nahshon the father of Salmon,

 5 Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab,

   Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth,

   Obed the father of Jesse,

 6 and Jesse the father of King David.

   David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife,

 7 Solomon the father of Rehoboam,

   Rehoboam the father of Abijah,

   Abijah the father of Asa,

 8 Asa the father of Jehoshaphat,

   Jehoshaphat the father of Jehoram,

   Jehoram the father of Uzziah,

 9 Uzziah the father of Jotham,

   Jotham the father of Ahaz,

   Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,

 10 Hezekiah the father of Manasseh,

   Manasseh the father of Amon,

   Amon the father of Josiah,

 11 and Josiah the father of Jeconiah[c] and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.

 12 After the exile to Babylon:

   Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel,

   Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,

 13 Zerubbabel the father of Abihud,

   Abihud the father of Eliakim,

   Eliakim the father of Azor,

 14 Azor the father of Zadok,

   Zadok the father of Akim,

   Akim the father of Elihud,

 15 Elihud the father of Eleazar,

   Eleazar the father of Matthan,

   Matthan the father of Jacob,

 16 and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.

 17 Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Messiah.

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This leads to the first insight, the first clue as to why this list is important.  

1) It shows us that God’s planning is perfect!

God lined up the generations exactly so that Jesus would be born 14 generations after the exile, which was 14 generations after David, which was 14 generations after Abraham. 

Abraham - promised the land

David - ruled the land

Exile - lost the land

Jesus - fulfills the promise, rules the land, and redeems the people lost in exile.

You might wonder why it matters who Joseph’s ancestors were if Jesus was not by birth his son.  The answer is found in John Darby’s Synopsis of the Bible:

It is the legal genealogy which is given here, that is to say, the genealogy of Joseph, of whom Christ was the rightful heir according to Jewish law. The evangelist has omitted three kings of the parentage of Ahab, in order to have the fourteen generations in each period. Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim are also omitted. The object of the genealogy is not at all affected by this circumstance. The point was to give it as recognised by the Jews, and all the kings were well known to all. (John Darby's Synopsis of the Bible) 

But this is where this sermon takes it first turn.  I had intended this to be a one point sermon: God’s plans are perfect, so relax.   But as I studied I discovered that this 14-14-14 thing was not quite what it seemed. 

Now to be fair, it is not that Matthew is lying.  When he says that Jothan is the decendant of Uzziah, that is true.  But Matthew skips two generations to get to Jotham. 

Now I was stuck between a theological rock and a biblical hard place.  How does Matthew, the holy spirit inspired writer of the first gospel in the NT get his history wrong? 

And then, as if to add insult to injury I read in another commentary that the numbers  of the generations actually go 13-14-13.  And again, I find myself asking, is Matthew a bad historian and a bad mathematician?  

1) Abraham - 2) Isaac - 3) Jacob - 4) Judah and his brothers - 5) Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar - 6) Hezron - 7) Ram - 8) Amminadab - 9) Nahshon - 10) Salmon - 11) Boaz, whose mother was Rahab - 12) Obed, whose mother was Ruth - 13) Jesse – 14) King David.

 1) David - 2) Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife- 3) Rehoboam - 4) Abijah - 5) Asa - 6) Jehoshaphat - 7) Jehoram - 8) Uzziah - 9) Jotham - 10) Ahaz -  11) Hezekiah - 12) Manasseh - 13) Amon - 14) Josiah – 15) Jeconiah[c] and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.

12 After the exile to Babylon - 1) Jeconiah - 2) Shealtiel - 3) Zerubbabel - 4) Abihud - 5) Eliakim, 6) Azor, 7) Zadok, 8) Akim, 9) Elihud, 10) Eleazar, 11) Matthan, 12) Jacob, 13) Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of 14) Jesus who is called the Messiah.

And before I go any further, I should say there was no lack of answers to these questions.  Evidently the Hebrew culture was not particular in its use of inclusive and exclusive counting.  Which means you can count 13 generations, by not including the first person in the chain.  Or you can get the number 14 by counting the first person. 

As to the people left out, one person suggested it was a tool used by the teachers of the day to make it easier to memorize. 

Regardless of how you account for it, its messy.  And to be honest, I find this to be refreshing.  I will explain this further in my next point, but let me just hint at it here.  There are times in my life when I submit to God, and I ask that he use me, and I fully commit my plans to him, and when its all said and done, something goes wrong.  And I say to myself – why was that not the perfect plan!  Why were there errors in my math?  How could that have happened?  Wasn’t God using me?  Wasn’t God working in me?  And what I find here is Matthew, filled with the H.S. and making mistakes, and God using it anyway, and getting glory from it!

2) This leads to point two: God’s plan allow for human error.

And this is not just found in this text, but also in the content.  If you look back at our list there are 4 women included.  Which is unusual, and therefore attracts our attention.  Each one brings us back to an OT story. 

The story of Tamar –

            Judah’s daughter-in-law,

            Married to two sons, both died, promised the third son

            Promise not kept, so Tamar comes up with a plot to sleep with Judah

            Acts as a prostitute, and becomes pregnant.  Judah wants to kill her

            Judah finds out its his kid.

The story of Rehab

            A prostitute in the city of Jericho

            Saves the lives of the two spies.

            Makes the list of people of faith in Hebrews 11

The story of Ruth

            Naomi has two sons and they both marry Moabite women

            Moabites are the descendants of Lot and his daughters.

            Sons die, one daughter in law returns to Moab, Ruth goes with Naomi

            “Wherever you go, I will go, Your people will be my people, Your God will be             my God”

The story of Bathsheba

            Her name is not mentioned, Urriah’s wife

            The story here is well known.  Adultery, Deceit, Murder

All this to say, the stories that come to mind as we read this list are…messy

And from this we can pull two conclusions.

1)

God is not afraid of messy stories, in fact, he includes messy people in his family tree and in so doing he honors them. 

2)

We are left with a sense of awe that Jesus would descend from Heave to be a part of our very human family.

Which leads to the third insight from this passage:

3. God exceeds all our dreams and expectations

Abrahams expectations: blessing

In Genesis 12:3 God promises Abraham that his descendants would bless the whole earth.  He repeats that promise in 22:18

David's expectations: rule

God promises David that the Messiah (the anointed one) will descend from him,

2Sa 7:12; Ps 89:3; Ps 132:11;

The Exiles expectations: redemption

And these promises are all met  - be it takes time, and its messy. (42 generations – 43 people)

CONCLUSION God’s plans for you

1)

Are perfect – 14 -14-14

2)

Allow for human error – not the best family tree

3)

Exceed all our dreams and expectations

Be patient!

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Bright Lights, Good Deeds Sermon - revised and improved

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Salt and Light: Bright Lights, Good Deeds

    13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

   14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

Problems:

When your life is radically different than those around you, you stick out!

Have you attended a high school reunion? 

Perhaps in the early reunions, your class was mostly single,

And those Christians stuck out because they stories were not nearly as wild

Then 5 years later, they are mostly married, and

10 years later, they are mostly divorced,

and people are curious why you are still married – and you like it

Are you an alien?

It comes time for the annual end of the year donation,

And you feel lead to give a generous gift

And everyone around looks at you like you don’t really love your own kids

Are you an alien?

Its Saturday night, and you leave the party early

And every asks where you are going

And you say you have church in the morning, and its really important to you

Are you an alien?

You receive bad news – like Kevin Chenoweth did this week

And you don’t freak out, you act as if there were some higher power

Who loves you and has your back, and you are actually peaceful

Are you an alien?

How on earth to we make sense out of the “strange alien” look. 

Point one: YOU ARE

It is not a suggestion.  It is not a goal.  It is not a choice.  It is a declaration to his disciples.  You are radically different from the world.

You are light. 

I would have expected this at the end of the three year training process, Jesus’ school of discipleship.  Congratulations, Peter, I didn’t think you were going to make it.  Particularly with that triple denial at the end there, but you pulled it out, and now I declare you – LIGHT!

I also would have expected Jesus to point to the religious leaders of the day.  Now they are the light of the world.  Look how good they are.  Look at how they follow the rules, even the obscure ones, and they are very careful in their teachings to make sure everyone else also follows the rules.

But instead, Jesus points at his rag tag collection of fishermen and tax collectors and says, “I just want you to know, YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WHOLE WORLD.”

Point two: Let your light shine before others.  

Second phrase I want to pick up is the line, “let your light shine before others.”  We are God's plan for lighting up the world.  We must do our jobs.  It is who we are, and it is what we do.  

When I was young we did a lot of camping.  We had a Coleman lantern.  This was a monster.  You had to have the right filament.  You had to fill it with kerosene, and you had to pump it forever.  But once it was lit, the whole campsite would light up with this blue/green hue.  We were free to continue with whatever activities we were doing – dominoes, UNO, even reading Charlie Brown comic books to each other. 

This is what we are called to do.  We are to bring light to the dark campsites of the world. 

Now this bright beacon of light was not always a welcomed addition, particularly to a heavily populated camp ground.  I learned new words, as the people in the tents near us shouted out, “Turn off that @#$%@ light, we are trying to get some ^&*$% sleep.”

Which brings us to point three:  The light goes into the darkness.

Point three: Hill tops, bushels, and candle operas.  Where does the light come go?

We are called to expose the darkness.  People don't necessarily even know that its dark until the light comes on.  We make it possible for people to see themselves and we expose their motives and expectations.  It is all dark.

John 3:19 (New International Version)

¹⁹ This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.

The world hates the light and loves the darkness.  But the light goes into the darkness.

We have been placed by God on hilltops and on candle stands.  But we often want to crawl under a bushel (A bowl).  

Why would we not shine our lights?  Because it is too hard to “stick out.”  We want to be unique, but we also want to be popular.  Some of us have a very strong desire to be liked.  To be admired.  To be welcomed as an equal and as a friend, is just a part of life.  Just watch jr high kids in action some time. 

But the bible teaches clearly that the world will not embrace the light.  And we must choose.  To either shine our light, or hide it under a bushel.  And to be fair, it is not really a choice.  If we are truly a follower of Jesus, we can not not shine.  That is Jesus point when he says, “A city on a hill can not be hidden.”  When Jesus places us on a hill, we are by our very nature “un-hide-able.” 

The light comes from with in us, as the Holy Spirit dwells with in us.

Light not only exposes sinful deeds, it shows the way to the go.  It provides hope.  

Point 4: Hope

According to Peter we are children of light, who declare God’s praises.

1 Peter 2:9-10

⁹ But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. ¹⁰ Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

God will lead us to hope.  

In John 3, Jesus declares he did not come into the world to condemn the world, but to save it.  

If our lives only condemn, and do not lead to truth, we leave people in a worse place than before they encountered us.  Our lives should lead people to Jesus.

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Sermon notes - Bright Lights, Good deeds

Still pretty random...but here are my thoughts for tomorrow

Sermon notes for November 21, 2010

Salt and Light: Bright Lights, Good Deeds

Latern from Evergreen?

Candles, light bulbs, oil?

    13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

   14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. 

Point one: YOU ARE

It is not a suggestion.  It is not a goal.  It is not a choice.  It is a declaration to his disciples.

Point two: Let your light shine before others.  We are God's plan for lighting up the world.  We must do our jobs.  It is who we are, and it is what we do.  

Point three: Hill tops, bushels, and candle operas.  Where does the light come from?

We are called to expose the darkness.  People don't necessarily even know that its dark until the light comes on.  We make it possible for people to see themselves and we expose their motives and expectations.  It is all dark.

The world hates the light and loves the darkness.  But the light goes into the darkness.

According to Peter we are children of light.

We have been placed by God on hilltops and on candle stands.  But we often want to crawl under a bushel (A bowl).  The light comes from with in us, as the Holy Spirit dwells with in us.

Light not only exposes sinful deeds, it shows the way to the go.  It provides hope.  

Point 4: Hope

God will lead us to hope.  He provided his Son not to condemn the world, but to save it.  

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Henry Hedstrand is getting his appendix out tonight

Hey everyone,

My sister just posted this on facebook:

Henry's at the hospital to get his appendix OUT TONIGHT!

Please pray for him (he is 5?).

Josh (4?) had his tonsils out about a week ago, so it has been quite a week for the Hedstrands.

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Notes from today's sermon: Keep It Salty, Matthew 5:13

Mark's sermon, Matt 5:13, Keep it Salty

Salt and Light

    13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

   14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. 

This is a pair of directives given by Jesus.  It makes the transition from the Beatitudes into the more formal teaching sections of the sermon.  

On a surface level, these are here to show the relationship between the disciple and the world.  

As the beatitudes come to a close, the emphasis in persecution.  You will be persecuted.  So the natural inclination of a disciple might be to flee to hide, or at least to stay below the radar.  But in light of this teaching, that is not an option.  

There is an ancient saying that states "There is nothing more useful than salt and the sun."  This sums up when the heart of this passage.  The disciples of Jesus are supposed to be useful.  

Now this sets up a very interesting relationship: they hate us, we help them.  We will look at this relationship this week and next.  This week we will look more carefully at the salt aspect of the relationship, and next week we will consider the light aspect.  Before we get into salt, lets look at some general observations.

1) Us vs.Them, Those who live the beatitudes and those who do not, Those who love God and those who do not.

2) In each case, the "Us" is impacting the "Them."  Salt is impacting the food it is put on.  Light impacts the darkness it shines into.  

3) In the first case the "Us" prevents change in "Them," in the second case the "Us" brings the change.

4) So we are called to look for the good and preserve it, and look for the bad and expose it.

That is the point.  Disciples are to be agents for good in a world of evil.  But how do we do that?  Do we don a mask, and a cape, and run around looking for bad guys.

Now, lets talk about salt.  

Until recently, the primary purpose of salt was to preserve meat.  And after a bit of study, it seems logical to me that this is the use Jesus had in mind.  Do we have an bio-chemist in the room today.  I am about to make this the most exciting sermon you have heard all year.  Here is how salt preserves food.

Salt performs several functions in preserving food: http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1999-05/926363092.Bc.r.html

1. Salt shifts the growth conditions to favor Gram-positive instead of 

Gram-negative bacteria. Most human pathogens are Gram-negative. These 

include Salmonella, Escherichia coli and Clostridia. There are only a few 

Gram-positive pathogens, such as Listeria and Staphylococcus.

2. Salt removes available water from the food by changing the osmotic 

pressure. This makes it harder for bacteria to obtain water to grow. The 

availability of water in food is called "water activity", and every 

species of bacteria has a minimum water activity below which it won't 

grow. Most pathogens will not grow below a water activity of 0.92 (pure 

water is 1.0).

3. Salt in itself eventually becomes poisonous to the microbes by creating 

an electrolyte imbalance within the cell.

This then leads to the obvious question, how does salt lose its saltiness.  Certainly the creator of the universe knows that sodium chloride is a stable substance.  It cannot be less of what it is, without ceasing to be salt.

But it can be mixed with other substances that make it less effective.  If you intend to use salt to preserve a piece of meat.

It understand this, we simple need to put our selves in the position of the ancient Roman world.  When someone wanted to preserve a piece of meat they would add salt, but the ability of the salt to do its job, it had to be salt doing the job.  If something else got added to the salt, the meat would spoil.  It seems logical to me that this would be the best way to describe "Salt losing its saltiness"  and when someone in ancient times discovered their salt had be contaminated, it could not be thrown in the field, it would kill the plants, so it was thrown on the path.

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It that is what Jesus was saying, the next question is what did he mean?  

I think he means that we are to be spread out through out the face of the earth.  We are to preserve the good in our world.  We lose our saltiness if we don't continue to do our job.  

So how do we preserve the good?

1) Recognize that we can have an impact.  We can make a difference.  

2) Open your eyes, and look for things that are going well.

3) Be an encourager.  

4) Leverage your resources to do all you can.   

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Denver Seminary > Job Board > Worship Leader at The EDGE Colorado

Worship Leader at The EDGE Colorado

• Posted: 10/19/2010
• Location: Littleton, CO
• URL: http://www.theedgecolorado.org
• Hours: Part Time

Description:

Only 6 miles from the Seminary! New and growing church looking for a part-time worship leader to plan and lead our weekly worship. Candidate needs to be able to grow and develop our worship team, and demonstrate a heart for worship to the congregation. Must have a growing faith in Jesus Christ, passion for worship, and a strong musical background. Responsibilities include: - Assist the pastor in weekly planning of music and theme of service - Select music, prepare charts and rehearse vocal and instrumental musicians - Coordinate audio/visual materials and operational crew - Meet with and become a member of the staff - Lead the congregation in worship

To Apply: mark@theEDGEcolorado.org

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