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Earlier this year, Tyler Bilskie, a 19-year-old in Vincennes walked into a Stop-N-Go like he does many times throughout the year.
Along with maybe some gas, a drink, and whatever else one gets at Stop-N-Go, he purchased ticket to the $7,000,000 Mega Ca$h game in the Indiana Lottery.
But he didn’t win the 7 million.
He won $250,000.
Now I don’t know what happened with Tyler after winning the money, but I can imagine what I would have done at 19.
Maybe I would have spent it on a nice car, a new clarinet, maybe build a top-of the line computer.
But I do know others would come wanting a piece of that pie.
One would say that I would have lots of friends…at least until that money is gone as Billie Holliday’s song suggests.
But Proverbs 17 tells us that a friend loves at all times—not just the rich times of ones life.
When I Google Proverbs 17:17, what I see the most is the phrase “A friend loves at all times.”
I saw it so much that I wanted to look at that.
Let’s get the obvious out of the way.
“At All Times”.
All = total, everything, the whole
Times= Occasions, points in time.
Put them together and it’s every time you can think of.
Good times, bad times.
In worship times and depressed times.
In tired times and in times when there’s a lot of energy.
All times.
What happens in all times?
Love!
We know all about love, don’t we? God IS love.
But how is a friend to love at all times?
It’s important to know what friend is.
It’s certainly not the group of people knocking on your door if you win the lottery.
In the Hebrew, the word for “Rrrayohhh” friend here is the same exact word used for “Neighbor.”
It’s the same word that’s used in the Ten Commandments of Exodus 20:
You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
You shall not covet your neighbors stuff
It’s also used in one of the two great commandments that Jesus recounts in Matthew 22:
Love your neighbor as yourself (from Lev.
19:18).
So the friend in this verse is a neighbor.
When an expert in religious law asked Jesus “Who is my neighbor?”
Jesus responded with the parable of the good Samaritan.
In this parable, there was a man attacked by robbers.
Three people saw him and all reacted differently.
They both agreed that the one who had mercy on the victim was the neighbor.
So, if I understand this correctly if we are all to love our neighbors as ourselves, we have to do it at all times—with mercy towards one another…in all situations, in all occasions, at all times.
We should stop there like the google results, right?
Or maybe we should continue on to the rest of the verse.
And a brother is born for a time of adversity.
Some look at these two, the friend and the brother, as the same person.
A friend loves ya, but may not be there for adversity.
A brother is a friend who sticks through everything.
In adversity, a friend is born into a brotherhood.
When talking about what the phrase "is born” means, The English poet William Wordsworth said, "Adversity brings him forth.
He comes, as it were, out of the womb of calamity, and seems to be born for it."
Wordworth and others use this word “born” as something figurative.
As something transforming—almost as if a part of friendship is awakened when needed by a friend in distress.
However, we have to look at what these words meant in their time, not our own.
When the Hebrews used the word brother, it didn’t mean just someone who shares the same parents.
It meant someone of blood relation, a fellow tribesman.
But mostly it was someone related to you by blood marriage.
It could be a brother, cousin, uncle, or various other relatives.
It would be odd for me to say that my father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate is my brother’s roommate.
But for the ancient Hebrew, this was normal…ish.
Is born for adversity
Yalaad.
Literally to be born.
Fathered, Begot, Commencement of life outside of the womb.
So a brother being born actually points to family ties.
It points to people who are united by a line of blood.
In other words, the meaning is rather that in trouble you see what family ties are for.
People of the same blood line had duties to perform in times of adversity.
This went all the way back to Genesis.
For instance,
1.
One of my favorite stories in Genesis is one of Joseph and his brothers.
His brothers sold him into slavery out of jealousy…but in the end, Joseph ended up saving his brothers from the adversities of poverty and hunger.
This led to all the people of Israel being brought into Egypt to be free of these adversities.
Joseph and his brothers died and when the population of Israelites within Egypt became too numerous, the new king put them into slavery.
2. In Exodus, Moses was tasked to lead the people from Egypt from under the adversities of slavery, and tyranny He didn’t free his people alone.
Aaron had to be there right beside him.
It wasn’t Moses’s best friend, but rather his brother that aided in this time of calamity.
3. When a man dies before he is able to have children, the brother has a duty to perform.
In doing this, the deceased brother’s line is kept going instead of dying with him.
In all these instances, it is the blood relative (or united to the family by marriage) that had to step up.
This is what this verse is talking about.
But! Something great happened due to this “brotherly” duty.
Years later, a woman named Naomi lost her husband and two sons.
She and Ruth, her widowed daughter-in-law (1 of the 2) ventured from Moab into Bethlehem and met Boaz who happened to be in the same clan as Naomi’s late husband.
There’s a bit more to it, but Boaz was a kinsman who stepped up to his duty and married Ruth.
Ruth and Boaz had Obed.
Obed was the father of Jesse.
The prophet Isaiah told us that :
This shoot brought the world King David, Solomon, and all the great kings of Judah and grew into a Branch bearing fruit.
This Branch that bears fruit has a name.
And that name is Jesus Christ!
He was born for a time of adversity!
Jesus Conquered the Adversities Poverty Abundant life
Hunger Bread of Life
John 6:35 New International Version (NIV)
35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life.
Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
Slavery Tyranny Freedom
Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,
O Come O Come Emmanuel
O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free
Thine own from Satan's tyranny
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