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Where Stuff Comes From
I lost 5 lbs in 2 days this week.
Not a diet I would recommend.
Have been sicker in the past year than I was in the previous 10.
Flu, upper respiratory, stomach virus.
Might be a coincidence that our granddaughter moved in w/ us a year and a half ago.
3 weeks ago they went to a friends house for an evening and their kids had the virus.
Edris got it.
Jason got it.
Kristen got it.
This week I got it.
Sara hasn’t got it yet.
This is what families do.
We share.
I could have picked it up somewhere else.
It’s around in the community.
I shake a lot of hands.
Could have been at the gym.
Post office or Walmart in Flag.
Impossible to know for sure.
But, most likely from family.
Being sick this week I missed something important.
Last night Sara and I had a reservation for our anniversary dinner.
Today is 34 years.
Impressive in some rooms.
Not going to go load up on good food if I’m just going to lose it later.
I get so much good from my marriage.
Unconditional love.
It has to be b/c I”m an idiot.
Commitment.
Trust.
Faith.
All the things a good marriage offers.
It is important to know how to maintain this.
For instance, if I go looking elsewhere for the good that comes from my marriage you know what will happen.
I’m a dead man.
I will lose much more that what I might be looking for from someone else.
Sara is the only person on earth who can do for me what a godly wife can do.
And, the consequences of trying to find it somewhere else are severe.
Here’s the point:
It’s important to know where the bad stuff comes from so you can avoid it.
It’s important to know where the good stuff comes from so you can get more.
Don’t go looking for good stuff in bad places.
It will cost you more than you know.
Avoid the bad stuff.
Go get the good stuff.
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Young house.
Early expansion.
Important lessons about receiving and maintaining the good stuff God offers and avoiding the bad stuff the world encourages.
Pressure Amps Up
James’ death
Persecution is intensifying.
Herod was friendly w/ the Jews.
It was primarily self-interest.
They recognized it and took full advantage.
They didn’t cause trouble.
B/C trouble meant Rome would get involved and everybody would lose.
Whether he was paying attention or not, he saw this upstart movement as the problem.
He knew the Jews.
He didn’t know the Christians nor how they would keep the peace.
And, there was not peace right now.
So, how do you squelch the problem?
Kill the leadership.
So, 1st, James.
Know your James in the NT.
Apostles named James.
1 was John’s brother, the other Alphaeus’ son.
There was a Judas, son of James, not Judas Iscariot.
There were 2 Simons. 1 renamed Peter.
Later in this passage Peter will refer to another James.
Jesus’ half brother who became a believer after the resurrection and then became the pastor of the Jerusalem church.
He also wrote the NT book.
This James was John’s brother.
The first Apostle to be martyred.
Go after the leadership.
Cut off the head and the body dies.
Herod saw the approval of the religious leaders and like any good politician he knew the importance of pleasing his constituents.
Keep the peace.
First James.
Next, would be Peter.
Peter’s arrest
Peter was seen as the leader of the 12. So, get to the top dog soon.
Maybe the rest will scatter and give up.
He was also friendly w/ non-Jews.
This was a problem for the traditionalists.
He ate things and w/ people the law said was wrong.
During the feast of unleavened bread.
It’s immediately after Passover.
It begins w/ the Passover meal.
Jews would not eat bread w/ yeast as the yeast was symbolic of sin.
They remembered how God delivered them Egypt and how He will deliver them from the bondage of their sin.
It made the Jews happy to kill James but it would upset them to kill anyone on their behalf during the feast.
So, they agreed to hold him in prison.
4 squads of 4 soldiers each to secure him in his cell.
One chained to each arm and 2 at the locked door.
For the worst of the worst.
He’s a (mostly) non-violent fisherman.
He did cut a man’s ear off.
But that was more ineptitude w/ a knife than focused aggression.
He missed his target of the center of the man’s head.
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