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JABEZ TURNED PAIN INTO GAIN (4 OF 4)

by Tony Thomas

Scripture: 1 Chronicles 4:9-10
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Jabez Turned Pain Into Gain (4 of 4)
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1 Chronicles 4:9-10


1 Chronicles 1-8 is the most unknown, unread and uninteresting section of the Bible! It begins like this ...

1 These are the earliest generations: Adam, Seth, Enosh, 2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, 3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah.

The names continue for eight chapters! Not exactly life-changing information. If you've ever read 1 Chronicles, then you read over 2,000 difficult-to-pronounce names - like Hazzelelponi, Haahashtari, and Eshtemoa the Maakathite.

My birth mother used to read three sections of the newspaper: the Police Blotter, the sports section, and the obituaries. 1 Chronicles 1-8 is a glorified obituary page.

I heard about an executive who started every day by reading the obituaries. He'd walk into the office with a paper under his arm, greet everybody and sit down at his desk to read the paper. Several minutes later he'd reappear and say, ''I didn't see my name on the obituary page, so I guess I'll get to work.''

One day his secretary decided to prank him. She called the newspaper and paid to publish his obituary. Then she emailed everybody else in the office to let them know what she'd done. The next morning everybody was waiting for the executive to make his appearance. Like clockwork he walked in, greeted everybody, and disappeared into his office to read the paper.

Then, his secretary heard him phone his wife. ''Honey, have you read the paper? Check out the obituary page.'' Several minutes later she picked the phone back up and asked, ''Where are you calling from?''

1 Chronicles is a boring list of names of men who once lived. You might say it's monotonous ... uninteresting ... even wearisome. It's just one name after another. It might have mattered ''back in the day'' - but they don't matter now. Until you get to 1 Chronicles 4:9.

9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother ha ...

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