{"id":2182,"date":"2021-02-23T10:12:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T10:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2021-02-23T10:12:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T10:12:24","slug":"kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/02\/23\/kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Sunday’s Lectionary<\/a>, there’s one of the Bible’s many references to kings, in the promise to Abraham… ’17:15 God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. 17:16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”‘<\/em> I don’t find these references very easy, because we don’t really recognise what kings are. Then they would have been people with real power, rather than the different role monarchs play in a present-day democracy. Paul would write later about the promise to Abraham being because of his faith rather than because of his birth, hinting at something new about kingship – the kingdom of God. Jesus is the one we follow, God is the one we believe in. Just as I have seen with the word ‘father’, I have heard of too much abuse of power from actual rulers in our world to be completely comfortable with the word ‘king’.
Another note: the promise that Sarai\/Sarah will bear a son is considered a blessing. That’s not something everybody<\/em> would recognise, for all that he will have a key role in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a pleasant day today, but I’m spending couple of days being gentle with my foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Sunday’s Lectionary, there’s one of the Bible’s many references to kings, in the promise to Abraham… ’17:15 God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. 17:16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. I … <\/p>\n

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