Ahab - Vineyard?
Naboth - No

Economic Model
Every family had its inheritance from the Lord, freely

Stewardship - the earth is the Lord’s
Ruth
Inheritance not just for Naboth but for his line

Ahab - envy, jealous, prestige

Jezebel
Isn’t much of life full of men who are moping on the couch while the women actually get stuff done?
Idolatry and Injustice
Always tied

Worship and life
Ultimately connected

Elijah
Meets him in the vineyard
Ahab - Have you found me, O my enemy?
You have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the Lord?

Unique insight into sin
Worship and life together
You are tethered to something
God, his design, leads to life
Israel, Inheritance - Naboth wouldn’t sell
Ahab thought he was the buyer - but he sold himself to evil

Ahab sold his inheritance to obtain another
Not to be buried with his fathers
Sold to sin, evil

We are both - Naboth AND Ahab/Jezebel

Naboth
We have been abused and sold by people in power

Ahab - filled with envy and coveting hearts
Wanting
Possessed by more

Jezebel
Bent and misshapen love
Negative sum world - for me to win someone else has to lose

World operates like that
Commerce - not just trade, but a winner and a loser
JC Penny and the illusion of the sale
There has to be a winner

Jesus doesn’t fit our boxes
Crowds and a Scribe
“Foxes have dens, birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head”
Jesus owned nothing
Friend still sold him - 30 pieces of silver
The world can’t stand what it cannot own
Cast lots for the last thing he owned - he literally died with nothing

Phil 2
Jesus has it all, but willingly gives it all away
Not a fair trade
Grace

Jezebel’s false gods led her to a false love
Killed another to give her love what he wanted
Brought death to life
Jesus, our true lover
Allowed himself to be killed to give his love what we needed
Brought life from death

In Christ, his kingdom is not a negative sum, but a positive sum
Not moving money from one sheet to another
But a seed, given freely, becomes a hundredfold
More doesn’t mean less for someone else, but more for all

The cost has been paid in full
Only grace and gift remain
All that we have is grace