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How Will Jesus Use His Power? – Firstborn E9

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The Powers Above and Human Powers Below

The formation of that collection of the Hebrew Bible took place over a very long course of many generations. Each generation receiving what came before was praying and meditating on the traditions they received. And as those new experiences became part of the tradition, then that was added to what was meditated upon all collected together. So when we get to the Gospels, there's been so much meditation on that that's why the Gospels present Jesus's conflict with the rulers of Jerusalem as a conflict with the snake. It's like David overcoming temptations and failures of King David, but he's also like a new human resisting the deceit of the snake in the garden. He's all of it.

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