COMPANEROS IN GROWING PEOPLE OF GOD

 Yahweh is King  Jesus is Lord

 Creation  Rebellion  Redeemed Covenant People  Exile  Jesus  Church  Consummation

 God  Creator  Sovereign  Creation  Good  Ordered  “Teeming”  Humanity  Genesis 1: image of God – rule the earth  Genesis 2: formed by God – guard and serve earth

 Creation connection (Proverbs 8, Job 28)  “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom”  Creation order : Worship order  Ethical order : Choose life, not death  Catechism  Story  Family life  Covenant challenge

 Human rebellion distorts created shalom.  Violence  Enslaving systems  Whose mishpat ?  Pharaoh  Saul (1 Samuel 8:10-18)  David  Ahab

 School of the prophets  Nathan  Elijah  Elisha  Writing prophets

 Power via wisdom  sustained critical reflection on lived experience in order to discern the hidden shape of reality in daily life  family/tribal wisdom  wisdom of the school and court to manage and master others  international reputation and competition; “success”

 international commercial trade in arms and luxury items  taxation  cheap labor  royal military bureaucracy

 the uncompromising “if” of covenant  1 Kings 3:14  1 Kings 6:12-13  1 Kings 9:6  indictment and sentence  royal compromise violates Torah  land loss  choosing death

 New community of the new covenant  redemption from the alienation of sin by the cross  new covenant community  “in Christ”  Jesus brings abundant life

 community of aliens and exiles  chosen race  royal priesthood  holy nation  God’s own people

 Christ gives new life to those who were dead in disobedience, strangers, without hope, without God  Christ reconciles enemies into a new community which he equips to make known the mystery of God  Christ teaches his followers to make disciples, teaching everything that he commanded  Christ offers abundant life, peace, a new Jerusalem of light and life