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Issue No: 1120 Published: 03 Apr 2023
THINKING GREEK OR HEBREW
EDUCATION METHODS
Greek (Western) In Western ways, education is the responsibility of teachers and pupils are streamed according to their abilities.
Our education system has been inherited directly from Greek culture. In Greece, large gymnasiums (from 'gymnos', meaning naked) were built in which to teach the elite. Professional teachers were employed to strip intelligent students of the information they had gathered at home and replace it with instruction on every conceivable subject. Knowledge was the key both to excellence and power.
Children from poor families were dissuaded from studying science or the arts and encouraged to learn a trade from their parents instead.
Eastern (Hebrew) In the original Hebrew, before the development of the more modern Rabbinical system, fathers and mothers were responsible for their children's education, imparting knowledge from the creator, including His moral values and judgments.
The Lord is to be the teacher. He taught Moses.....
10 Moses said to the LORD, “O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.” 11 The LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD? 12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.” (Exodus 4:10-12)
What Moses taught the people, the people were to teach to their children.....
9 Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. 10 Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.” (Deuteronomy 4:9-10)
Before Samson was born his mother asked for him to be taught by God's representative....
8 Then Manoah prayed to the LORD: “O Lord, I beg you, let the man of God you sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born.” (Judges 13:8)
Arts and science was taught, but it was all based on scriptural principles. Some knowledge was not included, even if it was the truth. The classic example, which still causes controversy today, is sex education. It was not held to be healthy for children to learn at an early age.
The Law set out the limitations on sexual relations.....
6 ”‘No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD..... (Leviticus 18:6)
But the mechanisms of bodily function were not taught at an early age. Birth control was facilitated by keeping the women separate from the men!
Unlike today, moral values were also taught. As fathers and mothers had a stake in their children's future, they had the child's entire life in mind in what they taught, and were not simply conduits for the acquisition of knowledge.
SOME SPIRITUAL IMPLICATIONS FOR TODAY
1. We must understand that our education system teaches knowledge but is limited in other areas.
2. We cannot abdicate the teaching of our children entirely to the system. Moral values need to be taught in the home.
3. We need to control what our children hear, see and read, for not all information is good and helpful in the healthy development of our family.
(Continued next week)
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FROM THE WORD
THE WORDS OF JESUS
Sermon on the Mount(Matthew 5:1-7:29, Luke 6:17-49)
The primary ‘life teachings’ of Jesus.
Not to Worry (Matthew 6:25-34)
“That’s why I’m telling you not to worry about your life. Don’t worry about what to eat, or what to drink, or what clothes to put on. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birdsg—they don’t sow or reap or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they are? Who of you by worrying can add a minute to your life? And why are you worried about clothes? Look at the beautiful flowers in the field. See how they grow: they don’t work hard, they don’t spin thread. But I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was dressed like one of these flowers. So if God decorates the fields like this, grass which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, won’t he do much more for you, you people who trust so little? So don’t worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ These are all the things that the heathen chase after, but your heavenly Father knows everything you need. Seek his kingdom first, and his way of doing right, and everything will be given to you. So don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow can worry about itself. There’s already enough evil in every day.
Do Not Judge Others(Matthew 7:1-6, Luke 6:37-42)
“Don’t judge others, so that you won’t be judged. For whatever standard you use to judge others will be used to judge you, and whatever measurement you use to measure others will be used to measure you. Why do you see the speck that’s in your brother’s eye? Don’t you notice the plank that’s in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take out that speck from your eye’ when you have a plank in your own eye? You’re being hypocritical! First get rid of the plank that’s in your own eye. Then you’ll be able to see clearly to take out the speck from your brother’s eye.
“Don’t give dogs what’s holy. Don’t throw your pearls to pigs. That way the pigs won’t trample them underfoot, and the dogs won’t turn and attack you.
Ask, Seek, Knock (Matthew 7:7-12)
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
Everyone who asks, receives; everyone who seeks, finds; and everyone who knocks has the door opened for them. Would any of you give your son a stone if he asked for bread? Or if he asked for fish, would you give him a snake? So if even you who are evil know to give good things to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him. “Treat others the way you want them to treat you. This sums up the law and the prophets.
(Continued next week)
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SUCCESS
871. Life experience has taught me that success is found by looking outwards and upwards, rather than inwards.
976. In order to find the way, we need to know where we want to go.
977. Every end has first had a beginning.
978. To arrive, we must first leave.
979. To win the race we must first respond to the starter's gun.
980. A race isn't won at the starting gun, but at the finishing tape.
981. The reward of training is found in the result of the race.
982. In the race of life, 'ability' is easily outrun by 'stick-ability'.
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'LAUGHING AT OURSELVES
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THIS WEEKS TUESDAY TEACHING.....
A REVELATION OF... REVELATION 12:11WALKING WITH JESUS continues
We are now entering the area that most of us don't really want to deal with. That of putting aside our own ideas and plans for those that form God's 'best' will for our life.
This is the ultimate calling of the follower of Jesus. "to love not your life so much as to shrink from death."
LAUGHING AT OURSELVES
***Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused***
330. Thank God I'm an Athiest.
T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care. They'd been worn all week long and they needed the air!
QWIK QWIP: “Fear knocked. Faith answered. No one was there.”
331. Some Evil
A lady had been teaching her three-year-old daughter the Lord's Prayer. For several evenings at bedtime the girl repeated it after her. One night the three-year old said she was ready to solo. The lady listened with pride as she carefully enunciated each word, right up to the end of the prayer.
"And lead us not into temptation," she prayed, "but deliver us some e-mail."
332. John
After hearing the Christmas story, and singing "Silent Night" a Sunday School Class was asked to draw what they thought the Nativity Scene might have looked like.
One boy did a good likeness of Joseph, Mary, and the infant Jesus, but off to the side was a roly-poly figure. The teacher, afraid that he had somehow worked Santa Claus into the scene, asked him who that was. She wasn't sure whether she was relieved or even more worried when the boy replied, "Oh, that's Round John Virgin."
333. The Lord's Prayer
The Lord's Prayer has always been easy for kids to misinterpret.
*One little boy said "Harold be Thy name."
*Two other lesser known prayers though are a little girl saying: "Give us this day our jelly bread."
*Or the little New York boy who petitioned God to "Lead us not into Penn Station."
334. Sad
A Navy Commander began teaching Sunday School for young children. One Sunday, the Pastor asked one of the Commander's 4-year old students what she had learned that day.
"Well," she said, "I learned all about the ten commanders. Isn't it sad that they're always broke?"
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A DAVID MUSING
HOW ABOUT........
FOLLOWING JESUS - A great idea! I can have my 'Ticket to Heaven' and live how i wish. He will give me presents and get me out of bad situations! And make me rich! .....A great deal!
ACCEPTING THE RELEASE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN ME - Hmmmm. To worship loudly and have a teacher and guide in my life....... Could be okay.
SURRENDERING MY LIFE TO THE FATHER - Wow, wow, wow. That is too difficult to do for I have a life to live and things I want to do..... Too hard for me. Let someone else do it.
Sadly this is the state of our church today.
Are you going to be the one to make a difference? I am!
Until next time
His servant and yours
David Tait
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