Aim: To overcome our fallen nature, in Jesus' grace.
Doctrine: Sin, left unchecked, destroys everything in its path. This is why we must deal with it, in ourselves (first); God's government—civil and ecclesiastical—is to suppress it.
Exegesis: Ishmael's example of depravity: it begins in a heart of deceit (vv. 4-6); it seeks to cover itself (with respectability) (vv. 7-9); it is seditious and rebellious (v. 10).
Further application: How to address the traitor of sin (within each of us): face it head-on, loathing oneself; and fight it fiercely (by grace)—as long as I live here.
Key verse: v. 7 ''So it was, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them and cast them into the midst of a pit, he and the men who were with him.''
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Rev. Mark Henninger is a retired, ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). He graduated from the University of Northern Iowa (B.A.) and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.Div). He is married to his wife, Lesley, and together they have one daughter and...
