Keep it in the family

I totally started this yesterday, but then stuff happened, and I unstarted it, and....yeah.

Numbers 36
- Basically, one family had only women to inherit the land, so it got tricky because the land usually goes with the man, so if they married someone from a different tribe, the land allotments would get screwed up. So Moses declares that women who inherit land have to marry within their tribe so the land allotment stays with the tribe it was given to.
- The point being, as far as I can see, that God's promises to you are not negotiable. Don't give your inheritance to someone else.

Luke 5:29-39
[29-32] - The irony holds forever. Telling people who have screwed up that they can't go to God like they are is the same as telling sick people they can't go to a doctor. Come on....people...

[33-35] - While plenty of people will use this as an excuse to continue to lack discipline of any kind, there's something to be said about not feeling like you always have to be in a season of fasting or laborious wailing prayers. There are seasons for everything. Know where you are right now and what God wants you to do, and ignore the Pharisees who don't like that you're not on their schedule and don't get their newsletter.

[36-38] - The new covenant has been the plan all along. With a new body and a renewed soul, we can start living the way the Kingdom was originally intended. Forcing people to live according to the new modes of living when they have not yet been renewed is forcing new wine into old wineskins. People can't handle it. When they've been renewed, then they can be filled with the new stuff, and it will take some time to get used to.

Luke 6:1-11
- The Pharisees loved their rulebook so much that they would rather see people starve and languish in disease than break that rule. When traditions become so important that it becomes irrelevant whether or not they are fulfilling the reason they were started in the first place, it's time to shake things up.