The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Turkish Delight

 

This Sunday, June 26, is the Third Sunday after Pentecost.

This week’s sermon is Plough Ahead! and it will be presented by Rev. Dr. David Zachrich.

This week’s readings are:

1 Kings 19:9b-21

Galatians 5:1, 13-25

Luke 9:51-62

Psalm 16

A Weekly Word: Turkish Delight

Edmund – 3rd Child

-        Not very nice.

-        Sarcastic with Peter and Susan.

o   Interchange with the Professor that they believe Edmund would lie.

-        Torments Lucy – especially about the Narnia.

 

The Next Rainy Day

-        Hide and Seek

-        Lucy is starting to doubt.

-        Decides to check the wardrobe as she seeks a hiding place.

-        Edmund sees her hide and decides to join her to torment her.

-        They enter Narnia – but separately.

o   Lucy to Tumnus’s

o   Edmund meets the Queen

 

Edmund out in the cold, the Queens sledge comes by.

-        Beautiful, proud and stern

o   Devil masquerades as an angel of light.

o   Appearance is deceiving

o   The devil lies.

-        At first she is harsh, but then changes

o   Manipulates Edmund with kindness, promises and food

§  Turkish Delight and Hot Chocolate

·       Disgusting!

§  Sometimes we are tempted through physical pleasures.

·       Temptation consumes and we desire more and more.

§  She feeds his jealousy and cruelty after she learns that there are four children.

·       He will be a prince, far more clever, the others a duke and duchesses.

§  She urges him to lie to his siblings.

o   Edmund betrays Tumnus.

o   Edmund reveals there are 2 Sons of Adam and 2 Daughters of Eve

§  We have still not been told the significance of that information.

§  Notice the Biblical Creation Identity.

·       Children of Adam and Eve

 

Edmund aligns himself with the Witch.

-        Genesis 3 – enmity

-        Bound Will

-        He is an example of the depth of sin – and it will get worse.

 

Edmund and Lucy return and he lies about Narnia.

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