Post by kim on Jan 3, 2007 11:52:51 GMT -5
Acts 4.
Here I want to just think about verse 11. "The stone despised by you builders has become the cornerstone".
Jesus gave a parable in Luke 20:9-19... the same author of Acts... and I think all that goes into this parable may help me understand what Peter was feeling at this time, what the resurrection meant to him.
Because the people cry, Let it never be! And I'm not sure if they are outraged at the son being killed or the father wanting to destroy his killers. I'm guessing it's the son being killed is my guess. Maybe saying the father wanted to destroy the killers, that statement expresses the rage and pain of the father, huh? I mean, I know any mother feels rage when her children are threatened. I know any peaceful man still feels rage when his loved ones are hurt. I met a man who leads a peace group up in Brookings, and I asked him why he started it. He said he was a counselor at the college. And a boy came to him. His girlfriend had just been raped, and the boy felt this horrific rage and desire to kill inside him and was scared to death. I mean, it's part of who we are, I think, even if we would never touch a hair on anyone's head. So maybe that's it? Kind of crazily amazing, really, when I think of it. But you see, I'm trying to do some background thinking into the stone that becomes the capstone statement, because that is quoted in Acts 4. Perhaps this parable might help me understand what Peter was feeling when he spoke to the leaders in Acts 4... help me understand a bit of what it was resurrection really meant to him. I mean... what it meant for God to give up His Son, I guess.
Though it doesn't make complete sense, because God knew exactly what He was getting into, unlike this parable. So I wonder what was the point of the parable, really. I mean, to help the listeners udnerstnad the love of the father? Because it seems that was their response.
Here I want to just think about verse 11. "The stone despised by you builders has become the cornerstone".
Jesus gave a parable in Luke 20:9-19... the same author of Acts... and I think all that goes into this parable may help me understand what Peter was feeling at this time, what the resurrection meant to him.
Because the people cry, Let it never be! And I'm not sure if they are outraged at the son being killed or the father wanting to destroy his killers. I'm guessing it's the son being killed is my guess. Maybe saying the father wanted to destroy the killers, that statement expresses the rage and pain of the father, huh? I mean, I know any mother feels rage when her children are threatened. I know any peaceful man still feels rage when his loved ones are hurt. I met a man who leads a peace group up in Brookings, and I asked him why he started it. He said he was a counselor at the college. And a boy came to him. His girlfriend had just been raped, and the boy felt this horrific rage and desire to kill inside him and was scared to death. I mean, it's part of who we are, I think, even if we would never touch a hair on anyone's head. So maybe that's it? Kind of crazily amazing, really, when I think of it. But you see, I'm trying to do some background thinking into the stone that becomes the capstone statement, because that is quoted in Acts 4. Perhaps this parable might help me understand what Peter was feeling when he spoke to the leaders in Acts 4... help me understand a bit of what it was resurrection really meant to him. I mean... what it meant for God to give up His Son, I guess.
Though it doesn't make complete sense, because God knew exactly what He was getting into, unlike this parable. So I wonder what was the point of the parable, really. I mean, to help the listeners udnerstnad the love of the father? Because it seems that was their response.