Tonight we continued our look at the greatest book, the Bible by looking at the third thing that makes a book well written: Rising Action. Rising action is th epoint in the book in which things are leading our characters toward a climax. It is the point in which the path to the solution starts to make a little more sense. In The Hobbit the rising action is what takes place after Bilbo is hired to help get the mountain and treasure back from the dragon. He and his group go through many adventures and Bilbo embraces his role as hero. He gets into the mountain using a map and is able to stand safely before the dragon because of the ring that makes him invisible. He is able to determine what to do in order to defeat the dragon. The solution is now out and we are very close to the climax so that the conflict can be resolved. Now there was a plan, it was just a matter of waiting for the timing to be right.
In the Bible the rising action is anything from Genesis 4 to the death of Jeesus. We see Noah and his family survive a worldwid flood, we see a man named Abraham chosen by God to have a future descendant bless the whole world, we see a man named Jacob chosen by God to be the father of a nation (Israel) that will have that offspring that will bless all people, we see prophet after prophet foretell the coming of this person who will restore relationship with God and man, and we see Israel fall apart but God sitll promise there is one coming to solve the conflict. There was a plan in place, it was just a matter of waiting for the timing to be right.
Galatians 4:4-6 tells us that the right time did come and Jesus was born, as we see in Luke 2:1-12. And it is proclaimed that this child would be the one that everyone had waited for to solve the conflict that seperated God and man. There are some of you who are having a very difficult time in your life and you want God to solve it...know this, God has a plan, he has a solution, it is just a matter of time. So what should we do while we wait for the time to be right? #1. Pray, #2. Have Patience, #3. Trust, #4. Get others to pray with us.
I give tonight: A-
Favorite Moment: Sharon's two innapporpriate comments
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