Responsibilities Towards God: A Reflection on Origins and Service
Exploring our obligations to God, considerations on what to withhold, and the importance of serving by all means. Delve into the origins of violence in daily life and towards historical legacies devoid of meaning.
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SUMMARY WHAT DO WE OWE GOD? _________ ___________ WHAT SHOULD WE KEEP FROM GOD? ____________________ WHY SHOULD WE SERVE GOD BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY? ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
ORIGINS VIOLENCE IN EVERYDAY BEHAVIOUR, VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PAST THAT IS EMPTIED OF ALL SUBSTANCE, VIOLENCE AGAINST THE FUTURE, FOR THE COLONIAL REGIME PRESENTS ITSELF AS NECESSARILY ETERNAL. WE SEE, THEREFORE, THAT THE COLONIZED PEOPLE, CAUGHT IN A WEB OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIOLENCE, A MEETING POINT OF MULTIPLE, DIVERSE, REPEATED, CUMULATIVE VIOLENCES, ARE SOON LOGICALLY CONFRONTED BY THE PROBLEM OF ENDING THE COLONIAL REGIME BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. FRANTZ FANON,ALIENATION AND FREEDOM:PART 3, CHAPTER 22, "WHY WE USE VIOLENCE". 1960[1]
ALTERNATIVES WHATEVER IT TAKES. NOTHING IS OFF LIMITS. EVERY OPTION IS ON THE TABLE.
THE PHRASE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY SHOULD BE, FOR GOOD REASON, A TERRIFYING PHRASE. WHEN IT IS MEANT, IT TAKES AWAY ALL LIMITS, INHIBITIONS, RESERVATIONS. IT HOMES IN ON ONE GOAL AND FOCUSES SOLELY ON THAT GOAL AT THE EXPENSE OF ALLELSE.
EXAMPLES RESCUE OUR PEOPLE. HOW? BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
EXAMPLES I WILL MAKE THEM LOVE ME. HOW DO YOU PLAN TO DO THAT? BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. WHAT ABOUT IF BY ANY ANYMEANS NECESSARY.
EXAMPLES WE WILL WIN THIS WAR. HOW? WHATEVER. IT. TAKES.
ABSALOM WANTED REVENGE, BUT WAITED 2 YEARS 2 SAM.13:20
AND HER BROTHER ABSALOM SAID TO HER, HAS AMNON YOUR BROTHER BEEN WITH YOU? NOW HOLD YOUR PEACE, MY SISTER. HE IS YOUR BROTHER; DO NOT TAKE THIS TO HEART. SO TAMAR LIVED, A DESOLATE WOMAN, IN HER BROTHER ABSALOM S HOUSE. 21 21WHEN KING DAVID HEARD OF ALL THESE THINGS, HE WAS VERY ANGRY.4 22 AMNON NEITHER GOOD NOR BAD, FOR ABSALOM HATED AMNON, BECAUSE HE HAD VIOLATED HIS SISTER TAMAR. 2 SAMUEL 13:20 22BUT ABSALOM SPOKE TO
ABSALOM WANTED REVENGE, BUT WAITED 2 YEARS 2 SAM.13:20 MANIPULATED AND SCHEMED TO TRAP HALF-BROTHER 2 SAM.13:23-27
AFTER TWO FULL YEARS ABSALOM HAD SHEEPSHEARERS AT BAAL-HAZOR, WHICH IS NEAR EPHRAIM, AND ABSALOM INVITED ALL THE KING S SONS. 24 BEHOLD, YOUR SERVANT HAS SHEEPSHEARERS. PLEASE LET THE KING AND HIS SERVANTS GO WITH YOUR SERVANT. 25 NO, MY SON, LET US NOT ALL GO, LEST WE BE BURDENSOME TO YOU. HE PRESSED HIM, BUT HE WOULD NOT GO BUT GAVE HIM HIS BLESSING. 26 ABSALOM SAID, IF NOT, PLEASE LET MY BROTHER AMNON GO WITH US. AND THE KING SAID TO HIM, WHY SHOULD HE GO WITH YOU? 27 PRESSED HIM UNTIL HE LET AMNON AND ALL THE KING S SONS GO WITH HIM. 24AND ABSALOM CAME TO THE KING AND SAID, 25BUT THE KING SAID TO ABSALOM, 2 SAMUEL 13:23-27 26THEN 27BUT ABSALOM
ABSALOM CONVINCED OTHER TO KILL ON HIS BEHALF 2 SAM.13:28-29
THEN ABSALOM COMMANDED HIS SERVANTS, MARK WHEN AMNON S KHEARTIS MERRY WITH WINE, AND WHEN I SAY TO YOU, STRIKE AMNON, THEN KILL HIM. DO NOT FEAR; HAVE I NOT COMMANDED YOU? BE COURAGEOUS AND BE VALIANT. 29 DID TO AMNON AS ABSALOM HAD COMMANDED. THEN ALL THE KING S SONS AROSE, AND EACH MOUNTED HIS MULE AND FLED. 2 SAMUEL 13:28-29 29SO THE SERVANTS OF ABSALOM
ABSALOM CONVINCED OTHER TO KILL ON HIS BEHALF 2 SAM.13:28-29 SAW AN OPPORTUNITY TO RULE: DID WHAT WAS NECESSARY TO GET ATTENTION OF KING 2 SAM.14:28-31
SO ABSALOM LIVED TWO FULL YEARS IN JERUSALEM, WITHOUT COMING INTO THE KING S PRESENCE. 29 SEND HIM TO THE KING, BUT JOAB WOULD NOT COME TO HIM. AND HE SENT A SECOND TIME, BUT JOAB WOULD NOT COME. 30 SERVANTS, SEE, JOAB S FIELD IS NEXT TO MINE, AND HE HAS BARLEY THERE; GO AND SET IT ON FIRE. SO ABSALOM S SERVANTS SET THE FIELD ON FIRE. 31 AT HIS HOUSE AND SAID TO HIM, WHY HAVE YOUR SERVANTS SET MY FIELD ON FIRE? 29THEN ABSALOM SENT FOR JOAB, TO 2 SAMUEL 14:28-31 30THEN HE SAID TO HIS 31THEN JOAB AROSE AND WENT TO ABSALOM
ABSALOM PITTED DAVID S FEELINGS AGAINST HIM 2 SAM.14:32-33
ABSALOM ANSWERED JOAB, BEHOLD, I SENT WORD TO YOU, COME HERE, THAT I MAY SEND YOU TO THE KING, TO ASK, WHY HAVE I COME FROM GESHUR? IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR ME TO BE THERE STILL. NOW THEREFORE LET ME GO INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE KING, UANDIF THERE IS GUILT IN ME, LET HIM PUT ME TO DEATH. 33 JOAB WENT TO THE KING AND TOLD HIM, AND HE SUMMONED ABSALOM. SO HE CAME TO THE KING AND BOWED HIMSELF ON HIS FACE TO THE GROUND BEFORE THE KING, AND THE KING KISSED ABSALOM. 2 SAMUEL 14:32-33 33THEN
ABSALOM PITTED DAVID S FEELINGS AGAINST HIM 2 SAM.14:32-33 ENSORCELLED HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE 2 SAM.15:2-6
AND ABSALOM USED TO RISE EARLY AND STAND BESIDE WTHEWAY OF THE GATE. AND WHEN ANY MAN HAD A DISPUTE TO COME BEFORE THE KING FOR JUDGMENT, ABSALOM WOULD CALL TO HIM AND SAY, FROM WHAT CITY ARE YOU? AND WHEN HE SAID, YOUR SERVANT IS OF SUCH AND SUCH A TRIBE IN ISRAEL, 3 3ABSALOM WOULD SAY TO HIM, SEE, YOUR CLAIMS ARE GOOD AND RIGHT, BUT THERE IS NO MAN DESIGNATED BY THE KING TO HEAR YOU. 4 4THEN ABSALOM WOULD SAY, OH THAT I WERE JUDGE IN THE LAND! THEN EVERY MAN WITH A DISPUTE OR CAUSE MIGHT COME TO ME, AND I WOULD GIVE HIM JUSTICE. 5 5AND WHENEVER A MAN CAME NEAR TO PAY HOMAGE TO HIM, HE WOULD PUT OUT HIS HAND AND TAKE HOLD OF HIM AND KISS HIM. 6 6THUS ABSALOM DID TO ALL OF ISRAEL WHO CAME TO THE KING FOR JUDGMENT. SO ABSALOM STOLE THE HEARTS OF THE MEN OF ISRAEL. 2 SAMUEL 15:2-6
ABSALOM USED RESPONSIBILITY TO GOD TO MAKE DAVID ORCHESTRATE HIS OWN DOWNFALL 2 SAM.15:7-13
AND AT THE END OF FOURYEARS ABSALOM SAID TO THE KING, PLEASE LET ME GO AND PAY MY VOW, WHICH I HAVE VOWED TO THE LORD, IN HEBRON. 8 8FOR YOUR SERVANT VOWED A VOW WHILE I LIVED AT GESHURIN ARAM, SAYING, IF THE LORD WILL INDEED BRING ME BACK TO JERUSALEM, THEN I WILL OFFER WORSHIP TO THE LORD. 9 9THE KING SAID TO HIM, GO IN PEACE. SO HE AROSE AND WENT TO HEBRON. 10 MESSENGERS THROUGHOUT ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, SAYING, AS SOON AS YOU HEAR THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, THEN SAY, ABSALOM IS KING AT HEBRON! 11 11WITH ABSALOM WENT TWO HUNDRED MEN FROM JERUSALEM WHO WERE INVITED GUESTS, AND THEY WENT IN THEIR INNOCENCE AND KNEW NOTHING. 12 12AND WHILE ABSALOM WAS OFFERING THE SACRIFICES, HE SENT FOR AHITHOPHEL THE GILONITE, DAVID S COUNSELOR, FROM HIS CITY GILOH. AND THE CONSPIRACY GREW STRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WITH ABSALOM KEPT INCREASING. 13 AND A MESSENGER CAME TO DAVID, SAYING, THE HEARTS OF THE MEN OF ISRAEL HAVE GONE AFTER ABSALOM. 10BUT ABSALOM SENT SECRET 2 SAMUEL 15:7-13
ABSALOM USED RESPONSIBILITY TO GOD TO MAKE DAVID ORCHESTRATE HIS OWN DOWNFALL 2 SAM.15:7-13 MADE UNMISTAKABLE (EVIL) SIGN OF USURPATION 2 SAM.16:20-22
THEN ABSALOM SAID TO AHITHOPHEL, GIVE YOUR COUNSEL. WHAT SHALL WE DO? 21 21 AHITHOPHEL SAID TO ABSALOM, GO IN TO YOUR FATHER S CONCUBINES, WHOM HEHAS LEFT TO KEEP THE HOUSE, AND ALL ISRAEL WILL HEAR THAT YOU HAVE MADE YOURSELF A STENCH TO YOUR FATHER, AND THE HANDS OF ALL WHO ARE WITH YOU WILL BE STRENGTHENED. 22 FOR ABSALOM ON THE ROOF. AND ABSALOM WENT IN TO HIS FATHER S CONCUBINES IN THE SIGHT OF ALL ISRAEL. 2 SAMUEL 16:20-22 22SO THEY PITCHED A TENT
ABSALOM LEFT SAFETY TO ENSURE THAT FATHER WAS DEAD 2 SAM.17:11-14
BUT MY COUNSEL IS THAT ALL ISRAEL BE GATHERED TO YOU, FROM DAN TO BEERSHEBA, AS THE SAND BY THE SEA FOR MULTITUDE, AND THAT YOU GO TO BATTLE IN PERSON. 12 12SO WE SHALL COME UPON HIM IN SOME PLACE WHERE HE IS TO BE FOUND, AND WE SHALL LIGHT UPON HIM AS THE DEW FALLS ON THE GROUND, AND OF HIM AND ALL THE MEN WITH HIM NOT ONE WILL BE LEFT. 13 CITY, THEN ALL ISRAEL WILL BRING ROPES TO THAT CITY, AND WE SHALL DRAG IT INTO THE VALLEY, UNTIL NOT EVEN A PEBBLE IS TO BE FOUND THERE. 14 14AND ABSALOM AND ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL SAID, THE COUNSEL OF HUSHAITHE ARCHITEIS BETTER THAN THE COUNSEL OF AHITHOPHEL. FOR THE LORD HAD ORDAINED TO DEFEAT THE GOOD COUNSEL OF AHITHOPHEL, SO THAT THE LORD MIGHT BRING HARM UPON ABSALOM. 13IF HE WITHDRAWS INTO A 2 SAMUEL 17:11-14
JEWISH LEADERS TO KEEP POWER: DECLARED THAT THEY WERE WORTHY OF SALVATION MATT. 3:7-9
BUT WHEN HE SAW MANY OF THE PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES COMING TO HIS BAPTISM, HE SAID TO THEM, YOU BROOD OF VIPERS! WHO WARNED YOU TO FLEE FROM THE WRATH TO COME? 8 8BEAR FRUIT IN KEEPING WITH REPENTANCE. 9 9AND DO NOT PRESUME TO SAY TO YOURSELVES, WE HAVE ABRAHAM AS OUR FATHER, FOR I TELL YOU, GOD IS ABLE FROM THESE STONES TO RAISE UP CHILDREN FOR ABRAHAM. 10 THE ROOT OF THE TREES. EVERY TREE THEREFORE THAT DOES NOT BEAR GOOD FRUIT IS CUT DOWN AND THROWN INTO THE FIRE. MATTHEW 3:7-10 10EVEN NOW THE AXE IS LAID TO
JEWISH LEADERS TO KEEP POWER: DECLARED THAT THEY WERE WORTHY OF SALVATION MATT. 3:7-9 ACCUSED JESUSOF BEING A SINNER MATT. 9:10-11
AND AS JESUSRECLINED AT TABLE IN THE HOUSE, BEHOLD, MANY TAX COLLECTORS AND SINNERS CAME AND WERE RECLINING WITH JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES. 11 11AND WHEN THE PHARISEES SAW THIS, THEY SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, WHY DOES YOUR TEACHER EAT WITH TAX COLLECTORS AND SINNERS? MATTHEW 9:10-11
JEWISH LEADERS CALLED GOD THE SON OF SATAN MATT. 9:32-34
AS THEY WERE GOING AWAY, BEHOLD, A DEMON-OPPRESSED MAN WHO WAS MUTE WAS BROUGHT TO HIM. 33 DEMON HAD BEEN CAST OUT, THE MUTE MAN SPOKE. AND THE CROWDS MARVELED, SAYING, NEVER WAS ANYTHING LIKE THIS SEEN IN ISRAEL. 34 CASTS OUT DEMONS BY THE PRINCE OF DEMONS. 33AND WHEN THE MATTHEW 9:32-34 34BUT THE PHARISEES SAID, HE
JEWISH LEADERS CALLED GOD THE SON OF SATAN MATT. 9:32-34 PLOTTED TO KILL JESUSBECAUSE HE SHOWED HE WAS MASTER OF THE LAW MATT. 12:9-14
HE WENT ON FROM THERE AND ENTERED THEIR SYNAGOGUE. 10 A MAN WAS THERE WITH A WITHERED HAND. AND THEY ASKED HIM, IS IT LAWFUL TO HEAL ON THE SABBATH? SO THAT THEY MIGHT ACCUSE HIM. 11 11HE SAID TO THEM, WHICH ONE OF YOU WHO HAS A SHEEP, IF IT FALLS INTO A PIT ON THE SABBATH, WILL NOT TAKE HOLD OF IT AND LIFT IT OUT? 12 12OF HOW MUCH MORE VALUE IS A MAN THAN A SHEEP! SO MITIS LAWFUL TO DO GOOD ON THE SABBATH. 13 HAND. AND THE MAN STRETCHED IT OUT, AND IT WAS RESTORED, HEALTHY LIKE THE OTHER. 14 14BUT THE PHARISEES WENT OUT AND CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM, HOW TO DESTROY HIM. 10AND MATTHEW 12:9-14 13THEN HE SAID TO THE MAN, STRETCH OUT YOUR
JEWISH LEADERS TEMPTED (TESTED) JESUS: SIGNS MATT. 16:1
AND THE PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES CAME, AND TO TEST HIM THEY ASKED HIM TO SHOW THEM A SIGN FROM HEAVEN. MATTHEW 16:1
JEWISH LEADERS TEMPTED (TESTED) JESUS: SIGNS MATT. 16:1 TEMPTED (TESTED) JESUS: LAW MATT. 19:3
AND PHARISEES CAME UP TO HIM AND TESTED HIM BY ASKING, IS IT LAWFUL TO DIVORCE ONE S WIFE FOR ANY CAUSE? MATTHEW 19:3
JEWISH LEADERS TEMPTED (TESTED) JESUS: WORDS MATT. 22:15-22
THEN THE PHARISEES WENT AND PLOTTED HOW TO ENTANGLE HIM IN HIS WORDS. 16 WITH THE HERODIANS, SAYING, TEACHER, WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE TRUE AND TEACH THE WAY OF GOD TRUTHFULLY, AND YOU DO NOT CARE ABOUT ANYONE S OPINION, FOR YOU ARE NOT SWAYED BY APPEARANCES. 17 17TELL US, THEN, WHAT YOU THINK. IS IT LAWFUL TO PAY TAXES TO CAESAR, OR NOT? 18 OF THEIR MALICE, SAID, WHY PUT ME TO THE TEST, YOU HYPOCRITES? 19 BROUGHT HIM A DENARIUS. 20 LIKENESS AND INSCRIPTION IS THIS? 21 21THEY SAID, CAESAR S. THEN HE SAID TO THEM, THEREFORE RENDER TO CAESAR THE THINGS THAT ARE CAESAR S, AND TO GOD THE THINGS THAT ARE GOD S. 22 HIM AND WENT AWAY. 16AND THEY SENT THEIR DISCIPLES TO HIM, ALONG 18BUT JESUS, AWARE MATTHEW 22:15-22 19SHOW ME THE COIN FOR THE TAX. AND THEY 20AND JESUS SAID TO THEM, WHOSE 22WHEN THEY HEARD IT, THEY MARVELED. AND THEY LEFT
JEWISH LEADERS TEMPTED (TESTED) JESUS: WORDS MATT. 22:15 CARED NOTHING FOR INTEGRITY JOHN 8:3-9
THE SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES BROUGHT A WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY, AND PLACING HER IN THE MIDST THEY SAID TO HIM, TEACHER, THIS WOMAN HAS BEEN CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF ADULTERY. 5 5NOW IN THE LAW, MOSES COMMANDED US TO STONE SUCH WOMEN. SO WHAT DO YOU SAY? 6 6THIS THEY SAID TO TEST HIM, THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE SOME CHARGE TO BRING AGAINST HIM. JESUS BENT DOWN AND WROTE WITH HIS FINGER ON THE GROUND. 7 7AND AS THEY CONTINUED TO ASK HIM, HE STOOD UP AND SAID TO THEM, LET HIM WHO IS WITHOUT SIN AMONG YOU BE THE FIRST TO THROW A STONE AT HER. 8 8 AND ONCE MORE HE BENT DOWN AND WROTE ON THE GROUND. 9 9BUT WHEN THEY HEARD IT, THEY WENT AWAY ONE BY ONE, BEGINNING WITH THE OLDER ONES, AND JESUS WAS LEFT ALONE WITH THE WOMAN STANDING BEFORE HIM. JOHN 8:3-9
JEWISH LEADERS PAID MONEY FOR BETRAYAL MATT. 26:14-16
THEN ONE OF THE TWELVE, WHOSE NAME WAS JUDAS ISCARIOT, WENT TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS 15 YOU GIVE ME IF I DELIVER HIM OVER TO YOU? AND THEY PAID HIM THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER. 16 MOMENT HE SOUGHT AN OPPORTUNITY TO BETRAY HIM. 15AND SAID, WHAT WILL MATTHEW 26:14-16 16AND FROM THAT
JEWISH LEADERS PAID MONEY FOR BETRAYAL MATT. 26:14-16 SUBORNED MEN AT JESUS TRIAL MK. 14:55-56
