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right / freedom-power
transition / end / transmission
overreact
find someone who has earned your trust and disagrees with your position—that’s part of the Abigail Advantage
the Abigail advantage—the benefit of a perspective that’s unhindered by your hangups
** Big deal—in almost any emotionally hightened situation, we tend to overreact and underrelate.
the worst part of that may not be simply what happens in that moment, but what comes out of that moment to be part of every future situation that carries any influence from it.
It’s like DNA—it passes along to every offspring, for better or for worse.
intro
growing up— lots of tough talk around.
one phrase
?? re: the whole premise is that even a small change 30 years ago could have huge ramifications today.
Evere ask “what if I had been born in a different country…, what if ___ had never happened, what if instead of choosing _____, I chose ______ (I was a flunkie at Gordon—took a while to get my head on straight.
If I had been more responsible…, would I have met and married Kim? Would God have redirected her life?
Some of those questions are just extraneous thoughts, but think a little bit deeper.
What if we had caught the hijackers before they tool over the planes September 11, 2001, what if the wright brothers had decided to open a bakery instead of a bicycle shop?
What if ____
Here’s the reality—major aspects of our lives might be very different if even a small set of circumstances had been different some time in the past.
IOW—the world we live in today is a result of the world someone created before we got here.
In a god way, we have received… But in a much different way...
TIMEs is all about the value of understanding what’s happening
At some level you believe that somehow knowing things about God and the Bible will make a positive difference in your life, otherwise you wouldn’t be here.
But one of the most substantial ways God brings benefit into our lives isn’t simply by teaching us religious ideas.
In fact… What God really wants to do is by showing us thiungs from His Word, to help us even understand the world we live in.
We don’t simply ned to know what the Bible says.
We need to know what to do in response.
And that means not only getting a grasp of the great beyond, but also to understand
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You believe knowing God things...
But in fact, it’s allowing the god things to help you understadn the world things that really makes it possible to know what to do.
Today, we’re going to continue… TIMEs… understand taht teh world we live in today… and see a way to put that to work...
judg 21:1
** Summary of book of judges.
But in closer way, summary of last series of events in book of Judges that summarizes not just the book, but what the people were like “when they had no king”
** Judges does a couple of things in the Bible—tells about life in first couple hundred years of Israel first coming into the promised land; and it sets up for th estory of Israel finally getting their first king—a king that was not going to be very good news to them
A couple really critical things to notice here:
1- the story never ends
every end creates the next beginning
Cf. sit com
?Who shot JR
No ending is ever really and ending.
Every episode of life and history accomplishes both transition and transmission
the transition is the functional link between episodes.
It’s the conjunctions of life.
the end of the last thing is the beginning of the next.
that’s part of what makes endings so critical.
Starting points matter.
Imagine Gilligan’s island starting in a corn farm in Iowa.
It’s true, they may go for days without seeing another living soul.
But professor is not going to making radios out of bamboo and coconuts and they are not going to end up on a deserted island.
Imagine is Christopher Columbis’s voyage HAD ended in teh far east.
There would be no pecan pie this thanksgiving—and no thanksgiving for that matter.
See, nothing in life happens in a vacuum.
And while most of us are at least decent at figuring out where we are, we rarely do enough work at thingking about how this ended up being our starting place.
Why does that matter?
Tracing the steps on the path behind us often points out a trend that will predict the results ahead.
If the steps have been increasing anger, maintaining the same path is only going to see the problem grow worse.
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Where I am starting is not accidental.
Either through the actions of myself or thos who came before me, I am where I am because a series of actions and events brought me here.
Understanding why i am where I am is critical to knowing which option in front of me is the best.
At so many points, you could begin this story and it would be bizarre!
Try starting at almost any point, and you’ll find yourself asking, “why werent they enough?” “why did they refuse to let their kids marry?
why are they kidnaping the dances?
why ..”
That’s teh transition-
the transmission is the transfer of some quality, mindset or condition from one situation to teh next.
Here, it’s the oath against the Benjamites, or the blame agains those from Jabesh Gilead, or even the feverish anger that traces all the way back to the day those body parts showed up all over teh nation.
Whether anger, hostility, passivity, hotheadedness, cynicism, racism, greediness, dishonesty—there are all sorts of character qualities that simply make sense to teh next generation or the next people downline from us in the story we are living because our lives made it seem so normal.
the wurd we use for that is culture.
Cf definition:
the characteristic features of everyday existence (such as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time (eg popular culture or southern culture)
The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit.
And I think that's what's happened in our culture.
Fast food has become the everyday meal.
(Michelle Obama)
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/culture
the reason taht matters to us is all over the place in our land.
It’s teh story behind teh fight over teh GA governor’s race or teh FL governer’s race.
It’s part of hwat’s going on when people ask the question whether or not the ATL braves or the KC Chiefs need to change their names.
It’s in the fight over government funded healthcare and the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.
I watched an episode of a sitcom (Last Man Standing) in which the non-Christian son-in-law is expected to set up the big nativity scene in front of the church simply out of love for his mother-in-law.
his father-in-law, who is teh one who put him up to it, threatens.... His ascerbic reply--”combining your religion with violence!
that’s never been done before!”
It’s the quick reaction to Christianity these days when attempting to show that it’s no better than Islam or any other.
people point to the Crusades (but not honestly) or the salem sitch trials, or teh church-going people of teh KKK and make the case that Christianity is jsut one more reason people can’t get along, just like all the other violent and mean-spirited religions.
And it’s here that you have to appreciate teh last line of the entire book of Judges.
(REPEAT VERSE)
Everyone did what was right.
they were all doing what was right!
How can you fault that?
Most of the people I know who do wrong things are often doing them, as far as they know, because they are the right things.
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And we;ve see some pretty reprehensible things done.
The Indian Removal Act and trail of tears—just w/ Cherokee alone saw as many as 8,000 die along the way of starvation, disease, and exposure to the elements.
The rally in Chraleston that set off events…, the vengeful and vindictive burning and pillaging of GA and SC taht brought the war to its parcitcal close...
Cf Lynching:
According to the Tuskegee Institute figures, between the years 1882 and 1951, 4,730 people were lynched in the United States:
Between the 1830s and the 1850s the majority of those lynched in the United States were whites.
Although a substantial number of white people were victims of this crime, the vast majority of those lynched, by the 1890s and after the turn of the century, were Black people.
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