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he wine. So Jesus giving them this meal was, therefore, not just an interpretation of his own forthcoming death. It was the means by which people could share in it. People today will often talk in terms of sharing Jesus's death and resurrection by faith, and that has good New Testament pedigree as w

ew Testament explicitly. That Jesus comes of the seed of David, according to the flesh. Romans 1:3, Paul's crucial early summary in Romans of the gospel message of Jesus, Son of David, Son of God, Lord of the world. And so, when God says, through the prophet Nathan, to David, I will raise up your se

ruth true God they commit idolatry they worship the bits and pieces of creation as if they were God instead but that doesn't stop Paul referring to similar arguments when he's speaking in Athens in Acts chapter 17 he's put up on the stump in the areopagus the highest court in the land because they'r

or thesis that is introduced in in what we call the first chapter obviously Paul when he was writing this there were no chapters but the first chapter of Colossians itself introduces this beautiful song or sometimes it's called the Christ him where verses 15 through 20 I just want to read some of it

of our regions or our politics or our opinions and this or that we can say you know what you belong to Jesus I belong to Jesus that means you belong with me and I belong with you and so the peace of Christ is reconciling us together now NT Wright is careful to say that for Paul unity never comes at

some some great cross references there so what we're doing for people without explicitly saying is we're teaching them to make connections when they read the Bible that's great that's great you get anything on that Colossians and Philemon question or should we say that yes I do but I can save it for

Tthroughout my life I've increasingly found that  reading scripture together in public isn't just   about feeding our own spirits and minds. It's  about rehearsing the mighty acts of God for   God's glory. So now let's think together about  Ezekiel 34:23-24. And first, let's have some tea   [Music]

David, then all those who are in him become the seed, the seed which is the true remnant, which is now going to multiply and grow. It won't be a little remnant getting whittled down to nothing. It will be a new remnant starting off the whole new worldwide proposal. Because in Galatians 3, Paul uses

But the word for descendants there is the same word as the word seed. Zera in Hebrew, and in the Septuagint translation, the Greek, sperma. And so descendants in Genesis, or family sometimes is also another translation that we find. In Genesis 22, after Abraham has been prepared to offer his own son

m the one who will make this land flourish and abound, it will multiply. It will be abundant again. This is the promise of new creation through the seed which is the word. So shall my word be. It will do this work. That's precisely what Jesus picks up in his parables. Before we get there, though, we