Disabilities Need Not Disqualify
Miles Seaborn
Intro: Tucked away in fine print in the Old Testament is an account of a man whose life is magnificently obscure. It is like a meteor that appears in the scriptural sky, blazes for a few seconds, and then passes into oblivion, never to be mentioned again in all the Bible.
''Jebez more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jebez saying, Because I gave birth to him in pain. Jabez cried out to the Go of Israel, 0 that thou would bless mean enlarge my territory. Let your hand be with me and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain. And God granted his request.''
And that is all we know.
As a matter of fact, the name Jabez appears among the tombstones of perhaps one of the most ancient obituaries of all the histories of literature. And it is found in 1 Chr. 4:9-10 that we read. Now 1st Chronicles is inspired, but it s not interesting. It is a series of names and genealogy of people whose names you can hardly pronounce, most of whom you've never heard of, and none of whom you've ever met. And then all of a sudden God lingers over one man for two verses. Now Why?
When God purposely gives attention to one person in a myraid of other names that get no other attention, it is worthwhile to ponder that name and the life behind it.
Now let's look at the 9th verse together. You will see that his mother named him Jabez, and it is a descriptive title, for his name means ''pain'' or ''distress'' or ''vexation.'' (Why would you name a baby boy distress, I mean while he is still a baby. Later on you might call him distress, but not while he is a baby.)
What was there about the situation that caused Jabez to bear that name?
Well the scripture says she named him that because she bore him within pain. In other words, his title was given to him because of the times in which he was born.
ILL. Now there are Bible scholars who say that she named him this because of a difficult time in deliver ...
Miles Seaborn
Intro: Tucked away in fine print in the Old Testament is an account of a man whose life is magnificently obscure. It is like a meteor that appears in the scriptural sky, blazes for a few seconds, and then passes into oblivion, never to be mentioned again in all the Bible.
''Jebez more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jebez saying, Because I gave birth to him in pain. Jabez cried out to the Go of Israel, 0 that thou would bless mean enlarge my territory. Let your hand be with me and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain. And God granted his request.''
And that is all we know.
As a matter of fact, the name Jabez appears among the tombstones of perhaps one of the most ancient obituaries of all the histories of literature. And it is found in 1 Chr. 4:9-10 that we read. Now 1st Chronicles is inspired, but it s not interesting. It is a series of names and genealogy of people whose names you can hardly pronounce, most of whom you've never heard of, and none of whom you've ever met. And then all of a sudden God lingers over one man for two verses. Now Why?
When God purposely gives attention to one person in a myraid of other names that get no other attention, it is worthwhile to ponder that name and the life behind it.
Now let's look at the 9th verse together. You will see that his mother named him Jabez, and it is a descriptive title, for his name means ''pain'' or ''distress'' or ''vexation.'' (Why would you name a baby boy distress, I mean while he is still a baby. Later on you might call him distress, but not while he is a baby.)
What was there about the situation that caused Jabez to bear that name?
Well the scripture says she named him that because she bore him within pain. In other words, his title was given to him because of the times in which he was born.
ILL. Now there are Bible scholars who say that she named him this because of a difficult time in deliver ...
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