November 8

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Ezekiel 18:1-19:14
1.(2010) Last night during dinner my 5 yr old was asked by our guest if she understood her baptism. So I reminded her, "It means you belong to God and are under the same covenant as Mommy & Daddy. You have different rules to obey (like "Children obey your parents"; "Parents do not exasperate your children") but they are all from God and we will each have to answer to God for our obedience to Him."

2. (2011) Sour Grapes -

4 For everyone belongs to me, the parent as well as the child—both alike belong to me. The one who sins is the one who will die.

(2010) I use to think this passage supported the case for believer's baptism but I understand now that was due to a misunderstanding of baptism; not of this passage.

(2011) Matthew Henry explains what it means for the children to have their teeth set on edge: "which is as great an absurdity in the divine regimen as if the children should have their teeth set on edge, or stupefied, by the fathers' eating sour grapes, whereas, in the order of natural causes, if men eat or drink any thing amiss, they only themselves shall suffer by it." So Henry, logically it seems, goes on to preempt opposition to this interpretation by anticipating earlier references in Scripture:

Now, 1. It must be owned that there was some occasion given for this proverb. God had often said that he would visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, especially the sin of idolatry, intending thereby to express the evil of sin, of that sin, his detestation of it, and just indignation against it, and the heavy punishments he would bring upon idolaters, that parents might be restrained from sin by their affection to their children and that children might not be drawn to sin by their reverence for their parents. He had likewise often declared by his prophets that in bringing the present ruin upon Judah and Jerusalem he had an eye to the sins of Manasseh and other preceding kings; for, looking upon the nation as a body politic, and punishing them with national judgments for national sins, and admitting the maxim in our law that a corporation never dies, reckoning with them now for the iniquities of former ages was but like making a man, when he is old, to possess the iniquities of his youth, Job 13:26. And there is no unrighteousness with God in doing so.

Hebrews 9:1-10
1. (2011) The conscience.

8 The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning. 9 This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper. 10 They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.

Psalm 106:32-48
1.(2011)

Many times he delivered them,
but they were bent on rebellion
and they wasted away in their sin.
44 Yet he took note of their distress
when he heard their cry;
45 for their sake he remembered his covenant
and out of his great love he relented.
46 He caused all who held them captive
to show them mercy.

47 Save us, LORD our God,
and gather us from the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name
and glory in your praise.

Proverbs 27:10

Years Read
2010, 2011, 2025