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Does anyone do what is right?
Genesis 34:1-31
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Jesus is courageous in the face of danger administering jus?ce at the appropriate ?me
Introduc)on:
One of the most horrific things a rancher might imagine is a fire breaking out in the livestock barn.
If the barn
is full of animals the terror of them perishing in the flames is overwhelming.
In movie scenes where barn fires
are used as part of the story, the animals, I’m thinking par?cularly of horses, have their eyes covered as they
are brought out of the dangerous barn and led to safety (Black Beauty 1994).
This type of rescue requires
courage, it requires ac?on, and it requires a willing and submissive horse.
If an element is missing then the
result is destruc?on, the destruc?on of life, the destruc?on of property, the destruc?on of the ability to carry
on one’s livelihood as before, and even the destruc?on of one’s reputa?on.
Consider what you have the next day if you are the rancher that experienced such a fire on your place: you
have whatever livestock you managed to rescue: Praise the Lord!
You have the charred remains of your once
prized barn, the acrid smell of burned flesh from the animals lost, the overwhelming feeling of what now, and
maybe even the scorn of some passersby that heartlessly states you should have been more careful with your
heat lamp over the chicks, or the moisture content of your hay, or whatever seems like a plausible reason for
your barn to have caught fire.
Even in this brief descrip?on of the horrors of a barn fire I hope you begin to see some similari?es to the
passage that was just read, the passage we will be working through.
We will go through the verses in depth but
at the end of the passage: Dinah has s?ll been defiled, no possibility of her being made whole in her culture
was really available to her, the reputa?on of Jacob was in jeopardy, the wrongdoers and all their people were
slain, the wrong commi[ed in the name of retribu?on made nothing right.
So, whatever remains at the end of
Genesis 34 is clearly damaged and the path of destruc?on is iden?fiable by all the li[ered remnants of what
was once there.
Even though we see destruc?on bege]ng more destruc?on in Genesis 34 that doesn’t veil the truth of what is
needed.
What is needed is someone to be Courageous in the face of danger administering jus?ce at the
appropriate ?me.
Transi)on: I give you no pretense that the walk we will take through these verses will be cheery but this is the
text that we have, the Word of God as inspired by the Holy Spirit preserved throughout the ages never returns
void.
Impulsiveness Destroys Purity (vv1-5)
1.
Two things to look at in our opening sec?on and they both have to do with the home life: 1) past pa[erns
of a family can be detected and 2) passive paren?ng reaps no rewards
a. Look at v1 “Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the
women of the land.”
i.
We are immediately being reminded of Jacobs only daughter recorded up to this point (Gen
30:21).
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