Sunday, January 15, 2017

sermon notes for Jan. 15,2017

Jan. 15 Is. 49, Ps. 40 I Cor. 1, John 1:29
Is 49 servant song-early call-moth as weapon-labor for nothing- v. 6 too light a thing light to the nations Holy One Redeemer from captivity from slavery how far does passage extend??
Ps 40, v.6-8  God calls unlikely servants and, perhaps more importantly, how often those servants do not recognize themselves as such. New song great things and small things are accounted for in the memory of God.

I cor 1-9 thanks for you-every  in what ways has the faith enriched you?spiritual gift God is faithful we are often thankful for things or for family in general, but how often are we thankful for particular people in our lives?

John 1:29 lamb of god  who takes away the sin of the world-lambs were not sacrifices In John, he is killed on the day when the Passover Lamb is sacrificed (for a helpful chart on this, In fact, Jesus clearly and repeatedly states that he lays down his life of his own accord. He has the power to lay it down and the power to take it up again (10:17-18). No, John simply piles up metaphors on Jesus to impress upon you the significance, identity, and ultimacy of Jesus. He is simultaneously the Lamb of God and the Good Shepherd (chapter 10) who knows his sheep and who asked Peter to feed his lambs (chapter 21).The Greek verb is meno: abide, remain, endure, continue, dwell, in the sense of permanence or stability.  John the Baptist recognizes Jesus when the Holy Spirit remains (meno) upon him (John 1:32). He promises that he will abide (meno) in those who abide (meno) in him (John 15:4-10). Wherever Jesus stays (meno), people have the opportunity to believe (John 4:40; 10:40)

Epiphany linked to sight clearly here.seeing" found in this short pericope: blepo (1:29); ide (1:29, 36); theaomai(1:32, 38); orao/eidon (1:33-34, 39, ); emblepo (1:36, 42). The combined weight of so many references gives added emphasis to Jesus' answer: "Come and see."If you want to know the word made flesh, come and see Jesus. If you want to know what love is like, come and see Jesus.  Everett Fox notes that a translator might choose to use a dash rather than a comma at this point (“God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering -- my son”) to capture in English the irony of the Hebrew sentence.1 recall the blood on the lintel-The paschal sacrifice belongs to the "shelamim," thus forming one of the sacrifices in which the meal is the principal part and indicates the community between God and man. It is really a house or family sacrifice, and each household is regarded as constituting a small community in itself, not only because the lamb is eaten at home, but also because every member of the family is obliged to partake of the meal, The fact that the paschal lamb might be killed only at the central sanctuary of Jerusalem, on the other hand, implies that each household was but a member of the larger community; What matters, I think, is that the phrase “lamb of God” does not point easily and simply to a single symbolic referent. Rather, it weaves this chance encounter with Jesus into the whole variegated tapestry of Jewish Scripture. The lamb is eaten,  w for sin-revealed mediated vision of the baptism name change as change of ID-Baptizes with the holy spirit. In our tradition spirit baptism occurs within the sacrament of baptism.I realize that baptism has little relevance for  us, except in some minds it is a talisman against going to Hell. It seems so small and insignificant as we have lost the power of symbol and ritual.

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