Category: Scripture Notes
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Back to work
After lamenting that the vineyard was failing despite all his prior work, the Lord of the vineyard rallied himself again with a new plan to recover the trees of his vineyard. That’s what I have to keep doing with raising my family.
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A change of heart
I get the feeling that Judas disapproved of Jesus seeming to place more importance on himself and being the center of attention than on helping the poor. After Jesus justified the woman anointing him with expensive ointment Judas had a change of heart. Perhaps he decided that Jesus was getting full of himself and needed…
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Eyes opened
It occurs to me that Jesus has no personal interested in riding a donkey into Jerusalem. He would have been perfectly content to walk in as He always had before but knowing the prophecies and intending to be perfectly obedient, He made a point to come with pomp according to the words of the prophets.…
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Uneven results
The the olive vineyard reminds us that even for God there is no 1:1 correlation between His efforts and the fruits of His efforts (obviously this is a result of the agency of man which He guards so jealously). It would be a poor way of training us if He designed a system where our…
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Making room for growth
I have often focused on shuffling the olive branches, putting the natural branches in other parts of the vineyard and grafting in wild branches for their strength. I’ve never paid attention to removal of natural branches to be cast into the fire in order to make room for growth and change. Sometimes we just need…
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Ye yourselves know
How is it that Jacob could tell the people that “he yourselves know that He counseleth in wisdom, and in justice, and in great mercy”? What could he rely on to support the assertion that they knew for themselves?
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A nugget
People have complained about the Book of Mormon talking about dark skin as a curse on the Lamanites but the fact that Jacob explicitly tells his people that they should not look down on the Lamanites for their dark skin but should instead look to the ways that they have been more righteous and look…
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Bread of Life
Jesus notes that the people followed him after the feeding of the 5000 not because if the muscles they had seen but because he had fed them. It occurred to me that feeding them was not convincing because unlike healing that people had need of from time to time (and in many cases just once)…
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Who was Herod?
It sounds as if Herod had a fascination with Jesus and that if it weren’t for the influence of Herodias he would not have imprisoned John, let alone killed him.
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Losing John
I wonder how Jesus felt hearing that John the Baptist had been killed. Has he known it would come? Did it signal a new phase in His own mission?