Tonight we discussed the different translations of the bible and how the Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant bibles came into being. We also rehashed Eros Love!
Habakkuk 1:2-3, 2:2-4
Time frame - roughly 600 BC. Against the advice of the Lord, Judah had made an alliance with the Egyptians against the Babylonians. Now Babylon has just defeated the Egyptians. Guess who’s next? Habakkuk (pronounced a little like Chewbacca) sees nothing but bad times coming to Judah and is saying, “Whoa is me!”
As one of two prophets who don’t prophesy about the future but instead get into a big disagreement with God (the other is Jonah), Habakkuk is complaining to God about “Where’s our hope? Where’s justice?” God initially answers him that justice is happening. Then He then says ultimate justice will come, have faith.
Luke 17:5-10
5-6: And the apostles said to the Lord: Increase our faith. And the Lord said: If you had faith like to a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this mulberry tree: Be thou rooted up and be thou transplanted into the sea. And it would obey you.
Comments… Apostles are worried about needing more faith. Jesus is saying they are worried because they are thinking of themselves as the source of the things they’ve done. That just a mustard seed of grace is more powerful than anything they can do themselves.
7-10: But which of you, having a servant ploughing or feeding cattle, will say to him, when he is come from the field: Immediately go. Sit down to meat. And will not rather say to him: Make ready my supper and gird thyself and serve me, whilst I eat and drink; and afterwards thou shalt eat and drink? Doth he thank that servant for doing the things which he commanded him? I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.
Comments… the apostles were bragging when they returned from the villages having healed people. They asked who will sit next to the Lord when he comes into his glory?
It appears the servants of the field feel they are special and should sit next to the master and eat with the King.
Jesus is telling them to slow down. The good they are doing comes from God, not them. Salvation cannot be earned. It is a gift from God. We are to be humble instruments of God. Jesus himself has given them an example of humble servanthood!
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