Episode 18 - Proper 6C / Ordinary 11C / Pentecost +4
Luke 7:36 - 8:3 and 1 Kings 21:1-21
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SHOW NOTES -  6/16/2013

Intro Music: Jezebel by Frankie Laine

Introduction: Episode 18 - Proper 6C / Ordinary 11C / Pentecost +4

Luke 7:36 - 8:3

1 Kings 21:1-21

Primary Scripture -– Luke 7:36 - 8:3 - Jesus eats with the Pharisee and the woman washes his feet with tears

• Similar to Mary washing/anointing Jesus in John - but NOT THE SAME
  
  
• Mary- anointing, extravagance, irrational generosity
  
  
• Like the stories before this story is NOT about the woman (unlike Mary in John), but is about the Pharisee
  
  
• Pharisee- God cannot endure the presence of sin
  
  
• • the exact opposite
    
    
  • Return of the King, “The dead do not suffer the living...” “You WILL suffer me”
    
    
• Long debate for justification by faith or works (see v. 47a- how the Greek word “hoti” translated as hence is interpreted- how are grace and gratitude connected)
  
  
• Jesus never gets caught in the battle of “faith v works.”  He just tells people to love, and let him worry about the rest.
  
  
• Pharisee- forgiveness, arrogance, acknowledge our own sin.
  
  
• • Written to identify the woman as the sinner, but the subversive message of Jesus is that the Pharisees is just as much of a sinner.
    
    
  • Sin and Forgiveness are not quantifiable- they are.
    
    
  • • We sin, we need forgiveness
      
      
    • If we claim to have less sin, then we receive less grace...who wants that?
      
      

Secondary scripture - 1 Kings 21:1-21 - The story of Naboth’s Vineyard

• Palestinian Christianity - central theme
  
  
• Being “chosen” means taking care of the foreigner as much as the widow and orphan
  
  
• It is an irony of the human condition that power weakens those who are most eager to exploit it. - Carolyn Sharp Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary - Feasting on the Word – Year C, Volume 3: Pentecost and Season After Pentecost 1 (Propers 3-16).
  
  
• A lot of parallels to David and Bathsheba (the thematic reading for today)
  
  
• • Corruptible power overcomes mercy and grace
    
    
  • King falls to greed and kills/ then steals what he covets
    
    
• What is Power?
  
  
• • the ability to care for or the ability to dominate?
    
    
  • Total power corrupts totally
    
    
  • How does our view of power shape our view of God?
    
    
• “Jezebel” is a name from the Bible that has transcended Scripture.  The name Jezebel has become synonymous with “Feminist,” as both an honor and an insult.
  
  
• • Emasculation, manipulation, power-hungry, God-loathing. OR
    
    
  • Strong, assertive, cunning.
    
    
• “Jezebel Spirit” is used as a club against any woman that wants to take leadership, assert authority, or reveal talent, creativity. “Even so, when a woman in the church betrayed the slightest bit of leadership or giftings or callings, it became the quickest way to silence that feisty woman in question: accuse her of a Jezebel spirit. An unrelenting, power-hungry, manipulative spirit.” Sarah Bessey, author of “Jesus Feminist.”
  
  
• Jezebel and Lady Macbeth - Female characters that have been re-envisioned by modern readers.
  
  
• Phyllis Trible article
  
  
• • Jezebel=Woman, Foreign, Royal, Baal
    
    
  • Elijah=Man, Domestic, Prophet, Yahweh
    
    
• She is the ideal CEO
  
  
• • hostile take over
    
    
  • what kind of power do we celebrate and reward?
    
    

Closing

TY: Opening music, Dick Dale and the Deltones, “Misirlou”

TY: Closing music,Paul and Storm, “Oh No”

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