3. Jehovah-Shalom (Judges 6:24)
Jehovah – self existing one, LORD, to be, to exist
• OT:7965 shalowm (shaw-lome'); or shalom (shaw-lome');
from OT:7999; safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly;
also (abstractly) welfare, i.e.
health, prosperity, peace, great, (good) health, peace (-
able, -ably), prosper (-ity, -ous), rest, safe (-ty), welfare, (all
is, be) well, wholly.
• Shalom implies a state of mind that is satisfied and has
relationships which are characterized by harmony - a
tuneful sound, a pleasing arrangement of parts, internal
calm). Quiet goodness, the way things ought to be.
"Peace in the Jewish sense is the symphony of life made
meaningful through a right relationship with God.“
4. Where and how you BEGIN the story and
where and how you END the
story, shapes and determines the story
you tell.
5. • Genesis :1 In the beginning….
DaSha’
• produce/ sprout
• Progressive generativity
• Creativity is fluid
• Creation is going somewhere
• Dynamic not Static
• Tomorrow will be different than today
6. • Genesis 1: v. 26-28
• “so that they may rule…” RADA
• “fill the earth and subdue it” KABASH
• Responsibility-stewardship
• Participatory physicality
• Harmony within the heirarchy
• Everything in its proper place
• The appropriate ordering of creation
7. Gen. 1:22,28
“and God blessed it” BARAKH
There isn’t “somewhere else”
Soil and spirit are united
Heaven and Earth are one
The action is HERE
8. • Whatever it is that we love about life is all
right here. In Genesis 1,2.
• Aesthetics
• Relationship/ Partnership
• Making things
• Organizing
• Naming things
• Worship
• Exploration
• Learning
• Responsibility
10. • Rev 21:1-5
• 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for
the first heaven and the first earth had passed
away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the
Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of
heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully
dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice
from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is
with men, and he will live with them. They will be
his people, and God himself will be with them and
be their God. 4 He will wipe every tear from their
eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or
crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed
away."
• 5 He who was seated on the throne said, "I am
making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this
down, for these words are trustworthy and true."
12. • Starts with a Garden and Ends with a City
• A City: Properly
ordered, organized, harmonious “gardens”
13. The Disruption of Shalom
• Genesis 1,2 Proper “Shalom “
• Genesis 3 Disruption of “Shalom”
• Sin: Any way in which I have participated
in distrupting Shalom – divine order of
God.
• Sin: Rebellion of the Heirarchy
• Saying to God: “YOU ARE IN MY SEAT”
14. The Disruption of Shalom
• Disruption
• Rebellion
• Active Participation in taking something
other than in the proper ‘direction”
• Missing the Mark
• Genesis 3 – Not how the Story Begins
• Genesis 3 – Not how the story Ends
15. SIN MUST TAKE ITS PROPER PLACE
IN THE LARGER STORY
• Confession – “Yadhah
Recognition, declaration, agreement
that I have participated in the disruption
of “Shalom” (falling short of the Glory
of God)
• Repentance – t’Shuvah! –
Turn, Return,
16. You are invited to return
to your proper
co-creative position in
goD’S orDer of thingS!
17. If your story begins in Genesis 3:
The central issue will always be SIN
If you begin in Genesis 1:
The central issue is the Restoration of
Shalom!
How you view yourself is determined by
which of these is your LARGER STORY
18. Sin must take its proper place in your
restoration story!
• Genesis 3 : Telling people what you ARE NOT
• Genesis 1: Telling people what you ARE
Your method of sharing Christ with others will
begin with one or the other of these
positions.
The way you receive Christ will begin with one
other the other of these positions.
19. WHERE DOES YOUR
RESTORATION STORY BEGIN?
• Gen. 3 “disembodied evacuation” – primal
importance
• or
• Gen. 1 Participatory physicality
• Is your story about “getting you out of
here”?
• Is the story about returning to your position
in the proper order of things and restoring
Shalom?
20. John 2 water to wine
John 4 official’s son
John 5 at the pool
John 6 bread
John 6 water
John 9 blind man
John 11 Lazarus -7th sign
John 20 …
RESURRECTION - 8th sign
21. 7 – Jewish Conscience: Creation
(creation week)
8 – New Creation
Resurrection: Inaugeration of
A New Creation
Right here in the midst of the
Old Creation!
Restoring the “GOODNESS” of Creation
Jn 20:15 “thinking he was the gardener . . ..
Restore – Renew –Reconcile
22. Jesus is called the “Prince of Peace”
Isaiah 9:6
He Rules in Peace (Shalom), Authority over
Peace, Bringer of Peace
New Testament Greek Equivalent of Shalom:
Eirene
John 14:25-27
25 "All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But
the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will
send in my name, will teach you all things and will
remind you of everything I have said to you. 27
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not
give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts
be troubled and do not be afraid. NIV
23. John 20:21-23 “Peace Be with you….Forgive”
SHALOM TO THE HOME!
Luke 10:5-6
"When you enter a house, first say, 'Peace to this house.' 6 If
a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; if not, it
will return to you.
John 16:33
33 "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have
peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I
have overcome the world."
NIV
24. Eph 2:14-18
14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one
and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of
hostility, 15 by abolishing in his flesh the law with its
commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create
in himself one new man out of the two, thus making
peace, 16 and in this one body to reconcile both of them to
God through the cross, by which he put to death their
hostility. 17 He came and preached peace to you who were
far away and peace to those who were near. 18 For through
him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
NIV
