Peter’s priority is making sure they know these character qualities so well that they’re front and center in their thinking and play out in their actions.
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Window to Heaven | Acts 20:7-12
Poor Eutychus can’t Paul’s long teaching. He picked a bad spot to sleep – a window on the 3rd floor! It was a window to heaven since he fell to his death.
Royal procession | Genesis 50:7-14
The brothers fulfilled the wish of Jacob which they had vowed to him. The honored him. Are we careful when we make vows, and faithful to fulfill them?
Take me home | Genesis 49:28-33
Then Jacob died, “was gathered to his people”. The tense confirms it happened immediately. It was not referring to the burial to come in the future.
Don’t bury me here | Genesis 47:27-31
He asks him to promise to not bury him in Egypt, but carry his body back to Canaan, the promised land, to bury him with his fathers.
Judah’s sin and rip-off | Genesis 38:1-11
Judah’s 3rd son was supposed to marry Tamar per the levirate custom. But Judah didn’t want him to also die so he lied to Tamar and withheld his son from her.
Finally home | Genesis 35:22b-29
Jacob has been living in different parts of Cannan but never moves to be with dad until now. He’s been in Bethlehem. Jacob finally makes it home, back to Isaac.
Mission accomplished | Genesis 25:1-11
As God’s chosen to start “the people of God”, Abraham had 1 unique purpose that provided the context for his faith exploits – the birth of and raising of Isaac.
Evicted from Eden | Genesis 3:22-24
The process of evicting them created a physical separation from God’s presence in paradise – which had already happened spiritually.