Vocabulary Oct 28th

If something is at hand it is _______________- probation

Someone who gives help, support or money is a _____________ repent

If you change your mind or your outlook, you ____________ ark

A locality is a ______________ benefactor

The small wooden box containing the commandments was the _______ ewe

People who were instructed in/converted to Christ’s teachings were________ near

A female sheep is a ___________ evangelized

A time of proving yourself is called ____________________ place

You can walk through a ____________________ portal

Abideth or abides Imagine, suppose

Fancy Became pregnant

Condemns Stays with, remains or lasts

Conceived Blameless, innocent, righteous

Paramount Greatest in significance, supreme

Upright Reward or payment

Recompense Cancel, pay, excuse, forgive

Rectified Complete happiness or joy

Bliss Erased, obliterated, expunged

Remit sentences, dooms, rebukes

Effaced corrected, set right

David and Bathsheba

( from the Message)

1When that time of year came around again, the anniversary of the Ammonite aggression, David dispatched Joab and his fighting men of Israel in full force to destroy the Ammonites for good. They laid siege to Rabbah, but David stayed in Jerusalem.

2-5 One late afternoon, David got up from taking his nap and was strolling on the roof of the palace. From his vantage point on the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was stunningly beautiful. David sent to ask about her, and was told, "Isn't this Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite?" David sent his agents to get her. After she arrived, he went to bed with her. (This occurred during the time of "purification" following her period.) Then she returned home. Before long she realized she was pregnant.

Later she sent word to David: "I'm pregnant."

6 David then got in touch with Joab: "Send Uriah the Hittite to me." Joab sent him.

7-8 When he arrived, David asked him for news from the front—how things were going with Joab and the troops and with the fighting. Then he said to Uriah, "Go home. Have a refreshing bath and a good night's rest."

8-9 After Uriah left the palace, an informant of the king was sent after him. But Uriah didn't go home. He slept that night at the palace entrance, along with the king's servants.

10 David was told that Uriah had not gone home. He asked Uriah, "Didn't you just come off a hard trip? So why didn't you go home?"

11 Uriah replied to David, "The Arkt is out there with the fighting men of Israel and Judah—in tents. My master Joab and his servants are roughing it out in the fields. So, how can I go home and eat and drink and enjoy my wife? On your life, I'll not do it!"

12-13 "All right," said David, "have it your way. Stay for the day and I'll send you back tomorrow." So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem the rest of the day.

The next day David invited him to eat and drink with him, and David got him drunk. But in the evening Uriah again went out and slept with his master's servants. He didn't go home.

14-15 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. In the letter he wrote, "Put Uriah in the front lines where the fighting is the fiercest. Then pull back and leave him exposed so that he's sure to be killed."

16-17 So Joab, holding the city under siege, put Uriah in a place where he knew there were fierce enemy fighters. When the city's defenders came out to fight Joab, some of David's soldiers were killed, including Uriah the Hittite.

18-21 Joab sent David a full report on the battle.

"By the way," said Joab's messenger, "your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead."

Then David told the messenger, "Oh. I see. Tell Joab, 'Don't trouble yourself over this. War kills—sometimes one, sometimes another—you never know who's next. Redouble your assault on the city and destroy it.' Encourage Joab."

26-27 When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she grieved for her husband. When the time of mourning was over, David sent someone to bring her to his house. She became his wife and bore him a son. 27-3 But God was not at all pleased with what David had done, and sent Nathan to David. Nathan said to him, "There were two men in the same city—one rich, the other poor. The rich man had huge flocks of sheep, herds of cattle. The poor man had nothing but one little female lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up with him and his children as a member of the family. It ate off his plate and drank from his cup and slept on his bed. It was like a daughter to him.

4 "One day a traveler dropped in on the rich man. He was too stingy to take an animal from his own herds or flocks to make a meal for his visitor, so he took the poor man's lamb and prepared a meal to set before his guest."

5-6 David exploded in anger. "As surely as God lives," he said to Nathan, "the man who did this ought to be lynched! He must repay for the lamb four times over for his crime and his stinginess!"

7-12 "You're the man!" said Nathan. "And here's what God, the God of Israel, has to say to you: I made you king over Israel. I freed you from the fist of Saul. I gave you your master's daughter and other wives to have and to hold. I gave you both Israel and Judah. And if that hadn't been enough, I'd have gladly thrown in much more. So why have you treated the word of God with brazen contempt, doing this great evil? You murdered Uriah the Hittite, then took his wife as your wife. Worse, you killed him with an Ammonite sword! 13-14 Then David confessed to Nathan, "I've sinned against God."

Nathan pronounced, "Yes, but that's not the last word. God forgives your sin. You won't die for it.

Parables vs History

Different than myths, fables, allegories, or tales, a parable was a form of teaching in Jewish tradition. In the New Testament it is called "parabole," from "ball - to throw" and "bole - the other side." And in Jesus' parables it is interesting that although he was speaking of and to the simple, there was often a surprise element, and a link to a deeper reality.

PARABLE OR HISTORY?

An unjust judge gives a persistent woman justice.

A man who owed a lot of money is forgiven, but then puts the screws to people who owe him a few bucks.

A house built on sand fell in a big wind and rain storm; a house built on a rock was fine.

Someone makes an axe head float

A good Samaritan helps a wounded man.

A man leaves this world in a chariot of fire.

A son who wasted his inheritance is sorry, comes home and is instantly forgiven.

Two men walk on top of the water and don’t sink.

Many different nationalities hear people speak the same words, but they each hear the words in their own language.

A shepherd left 99 sheep in the wilderness till he found the lost one.

A woman calls her friends to celebrate her finding of her 10th piece of silver, for which she had been searching for by cleaning her house.

A man is healed after 4 days being dead.

A rich man died and in torment in a fire, looked up and saw Lazarus being held by Abraham.

An arrogant Pharisee and a humble tax collector prayed in the temple together, but the tax collector’s prayers were effective and not the bragging Pharisee.

A man was swallowed and hurled by a whale.

3 men walked in a furnace and were not burnt.

Men break up a roof to get their sick friend in a house to see a healer..

A man calls down fire which burns up stones and water.

At midnight a man knocks on his neighbour’s door to borrow food for his guest. The neighbour, who is in bed with his children eventually comes down and gives it to him because of his persistence.

A man feeds 100 men with a few loaves. A man feeds 5000 men with a few loaves

The kingdom of God is like unto a woman who put  some bread and hid 3 measures of leaven in  them until the whole was leavened.
(talking about the Kingdom of Heaven, about what we might call the ultimate spiritual reality, not about baking bread! )

Parables for Oct 14

The Parable of The Dragnet

Matt 13:47-50 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind, which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away. So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth." (web)

The Parable of The Wheat and the Weeds

Matt 13:24-30; 36-43

He set another parable before them, saying,
"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
but while people slept,
his enemy came and sowed darnel also among the wheat, and went away.
But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel appeared also.
The servants of the householder came and said to him,
‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field?
Where did this darnel come from?’
"He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ "The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’

"But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel,
you root up the wheat with them.
Let both grow together until the harvest,
and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers,

· "First, gather up the darnel, and bind them in bundles to burn them;

· but gather the wheat into my barn."‘"

The Parable of The Leaven

Matt 13:33; Lk 13:20,21

Luke 13:20,210 Again he said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God? It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened." (web)

The Parable of The Mustard Seed

Matt 13:31,32; Mk 4:30-32;

Lk 13:18,19 He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall I compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches." (web)

The Parable of The Lost Sheep

Matt 18:12-14; Lk 15:3-7

Luke 15:3-7 He told them this parable.
"Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing. When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’ I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance." (web)