week 3

Remember this sign that I had you research in class to discover what it was?
It's the soreq that was posted outside the Jewish temple.
Read the two links below to learn what it was and to learn what it says. This will help you in your Moodle assignment later in course.

http://www.bible-history.com/archaeology/israel/temple-warning.htmlhttps://www.thattheworldmayknow.com/soreq-temple-courts

Agenda:

• Song as Text
• Moodle results: TV post/Peter Popoff
• Timelines and Testations
• Matthew 18/Great Person
• Review, View, Preview
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Peter Popoff. Great discussion on this, as followup to your TV assignment:

    

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To illustrate set theory, we did an in'class exercise. Students had to decide which side of the rppm to stand on. based on which of each pair they preferred.

Pick a side of the room to stand on for each pair:

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• Target or Wal-Mart
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• Jew or Gentile
•   extrovert or introvert
• Lenno or McCartney
• rock or country

• innocent or depraved? (text me for extra credit  if you can explain this reference---that is where have you heard those two terms before in class material.  Deadline : 6:10 PM Week 3 class)
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• FUNERAL OR WEDDING?

FUZZY SET:

-When does a mountain begin?

-Is it about predestination or free will?

-Faith or science?

These can be debated...as the border can be fuzzy...Thus :
"Fuzzy sets"

Here below is some help on Fuzzy Sets. These readings will help:

• new nets: bounded sets, fuzzy sets, or centered-sets?
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Timelines

Remember "demise" XXXX0?:

(found this online)

It has been hugely productive, revelational and (even) fun to, as part of a class that several others and I teach, have students plot out (on the whiteboard) their timeline.

As Pastor/Trucker Franks suggests below, sometimes it's "more about the journey than the destination."  See also  "What if Torah/ מלכות השמים, is more 'journey  than 'doctrine'?"

We then take time to interweave/intertext our personal timelines with the timeline/trajectory of Jesus' life in Matthew's gospel (the thrust of the class).

Especially helpful is the suggestion by Donald Kraybill ("The Upside Down Kingdom") and Ray Van Der Laan (  video)  that throughout  his earthly life, Jesus was revisited by remixes of the original three temptations ("testations" ) of the devil"in chapter 4.

Kraybill provocatively proffers the following taxonomy of the temptations; suggesting that any later temptation Jesus faced (or we face) is at heart in one of these three spheres:

1=  Bread into stones: Economic 

2=Jump from temple and test God:Religious 

 3=Own all kingdoms: Political; 

So, it may be useful to plot out various temptations along your life timeline, and ask which of Jesus' temptation are each is  tied to.

SO..if every temptation can be filed under one of the three categories:

Economic    Religious   Political..

Hmm..

How might virtually all temptations (the three Jesus faced, or others you could name) be fundamentally economic?  Kraybill, you'll remember, calls the bread temptation "economic," but how might any/all others temptations trace to this root/'garbage"?
HINT: We noted that he term economics comes from the Ancient Greekοἰκονομία (oikonomia, "management of a household, administration") from οἶκος (oikos, "house") + νόμος (nomos, "custom" or "law"), hence "rules of the house(hold)".^[1]   

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This week';s "COMMUNITY"  topic is Greatness

Jesus came to serve.
             The last shall be first.
                         That's who is great in the Kingdom  economy:
                                    

Jesus said in it yet another chiasm:

But those who exalt            themselves will be               humbled, 

and those who humble     themselves will be                exalted

(Matt 23:12)

ONE GREAT PERSON SURVEYS

My Dack Rambo story?  Click here  to read all about it, and for the sequel click:
" I Deny the Resurrection and I am not straight."
(uh, better click that title and get the context!) 

 we apply some "Three Worlds" theory to Matthew 18 and the topic of "Who is great?"

As we study, apply as many literary world symbols as you can

A video on that chapter featuring Keltic Ken: 

Related outtakes:

Of LITERARY WORLD note:

• -There is a hyperinked account in Matthew 16, there only Peter receives power to bind and loose, here all the disciples do.  Remember 'ustedes va"?
• -The  sheep parable hyperlinks to Luke 15, but with a different context
• Structurally, the last section of chapter 17 is connected
• Two inclusios place this section in the middle of a unit about taxes/rights  and children.  Implications---
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If you have your computer tonight, Scriblink some diagrams with me:

Of Historical World note:

• What did you learn about a millstone from tonight's video clip?: Half the clip is below, and notes from complete video here: 
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• ← Faith Lessons by Ray Vander Laan: The Lamb of God

  Renewing Our Worship: Clothing →

  Faith Lessons by Ray Vander Laan: The Weight of the World

   by Jay Guin

  
  

  “Gethsemane” means olive press. The film shows an image of an ancient olive press at Capernaum. The olive press symbolizes the crucifixion.

  There is a synagogue in Capernaum from the 3rd or 4th century, which is likely along the same plans as was used in the First Century.

  Jesus was asked to heal a centurion’s servant. The centurion had built the synagogue and was highly esteemed by the people.

  (Luke 7:2-5)  There a centurion’s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. 3 The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. 4 When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, “This man deserves to have you do this, 5 because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.”

  Jesus was amazed at the faith of the centurion.

  In Matthew 11, Jesus pronounces a curse on Capernaum for failing to repent.

  (Mat 11:20-23)  Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. 21 “Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. 23 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths. If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.

  RVL: We’ve been taught the miracles of Jesus. Therefore, we will have no excuse. The most severe curses in the Bible are against those who knew better — not those who sinned in ignorance.

  Olive oil was used for lubricant, for fuel, for lamps, for cleaning, as a preservative, and in cooking. Olive oil production was a major industry.

  A massive stone rolled over the olives to produce olive oil. The crushed olives were then placed in another container and a massive stone column crushed the rest of the oil out of them. The olives were repeatedly crushed to get all the oil out.

  Only the wealthy, typically the aristocrats, could afford the equipment needed to press the olives, and so they had control over local agriculture.

  The Messiah is the “annointed one,” which refers to annointing with oil — olive oil.

  Every few hundred years, an olive tree will stop bearing fruit and so must be cut down, and a new tree will grow from the stump.

  (Isa 11:1)  A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.

  The Jews taught that the new “shoot” was the Messiah — the shoot or branch out of Jesse.

  Paul teaches that the Gentiles are grafted into the stump, meaning that out roots are Jewish.

  And if God will cut down the natural tree for not bearing fruit, what will he do with the grafted-in tree?

  “Nazareth” means shoot. Hence, Jesus is from “shoot” or “branch.”

  Parents of children brought children to be blessed by the rabbi Jesus. Jesus insisted that the children come.

  (Mat 18:2-6)  He called a little child and had him stand among them. 3 And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

  5 “And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. 6 But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

  Children had no status in that culture. To become like a child was to give up status and rights.

  Jesus felt strongly about those without status, who are unimportant. These are the “little ones.” If we don’t care about the little ones, the unimportant, the unloved, we’ll be tossed into the Abyss with a millstone (from an olive press) tied around our necks.

  The column or pillar of stone used to squeeze the last of the oil out of a crushed olive was a “geth semane.” After telling the disciples to take on the gates of hell, he led them to Jerusalem, and then he went to the Garden of the Olive Press. There he felt the weight of the olive pressed — to the point of sweating blood.

  The burden of carrying our sins was enormous. The “olives” are Jesus. The “weight” is us — we are the weight that squeezed the blood out of Jesus.   by Jay Guin
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  NOTE A RECURRENCE OF the phrase "little one."

  
  

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  video, "Weight of the World," and be prepared to discuss what these two items are
  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Remember Jesus said a lost sheep was great,  Wow.
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Page 22 of Syllabus,Matthew 18 Outline

(by Greg Camp/Laura Roberts):

1 Question #1: Who is Greatest?

2-17 Responses (each are counter proposals):

2-10 Response #1: Children

2-4 Counter Proposal: Accept children

5-9 Threat: If cause scandal

10 Show of force: Angels protect

12-14 Response #2: Sheep

(Who is temporarily greater?)

12-14 Counter Proposal: Search for the 1 of 100 who is lost

15-17 Response #3: Brother who sins (counter proposal)

15a Hypothetical situation: If sin

15-17 Answer: Attempt to get brother to be reconciled

17b If fail: Put him out and start over

18-20 Statement: What you bind or loose

21-22 Question #2: How far do we go in forgiveness?

23-35 Response #1: Parable of the forgiving king/unforgiving servant

----------------Read verses 15-17 and then ask yourself:
"What did it mean in their historical world to treat  people like
"tax collectors and sinners?"

Two answers

1)Don't allow them in your bounded set.

2)How did Jesus treat  tax collectors and sinners? In a centered set way. Tony Jones writes: 

but because anyone, including Trucker Frank, can speak freely in this  church, my seminary-trained eyes were opened to find a truth in the Bible that had previously eluded me.”...That truth emerged in a discussion of Matthew 18's "treat the unrepentant brother like a tax collector or sinner.":

"And how did Jesus treat tax collectors and pagans?" Frank asked aloud, pausing, "as of for a punchline he'd been waiting all his life to deliver,"....., "He welcomed them!""

-Tony Jones, The New Christians, p.92

If you got  bar of soap:

Bring it back next week in a different form

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