There is a pretty intense metaphor for what the people have done here. I mean intense. And a very nice accusation that Sodom had nothing on them (Sodom’s sin was: “pride… did not aid the poor…” so… injustice and oppression. Not that other thing). But it’s chapter 18 I want to focus on. Personal responsibility. …
So this is how I read this story: So, this is how it plays out in my life: To complete the comparison, the people of Judah basically said, “well, as soon as we stopped poking our little sister, we got put in time out! Maybe if we start poking her again, we’ll get out of …
Once again we had a really faithful servant of the Lord and a kid that was… the opposite. In the beginning, there isn’t really anything all the remarkable. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob… they’re all pretty comparable. They all have their moments of greatness, they all have their moments of weakness. Moses is interesting because not much …