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This is a lesson about narratives.
Stories.
What voice we allow to tell us who we are and what we believe about God and ourselves.
These voices are not just notions.
Not just ideas but those voices contain the essence, the identity of the speaker.
Because they are supernatural voices, they shape reality and identity.
So which voice?
The Voice in My Head
The Story I Believe
The Desires I Indulge
Big Idea: The Devil you know is more is a desire than a person.
His influence is more subtle
His voice often familiar and sensible.
(easy to rationalize)
My own Dads Voice: Having now lost that, trying to remember what he said, how he said it....etc.
THE BEGINNING
That God appears at time’s beginning is not too difficult to comprehend, but that He appears at the beginning and end of time simultaneously is not so easy to grasp.5
A. W. Tozer
These are believing Jews, and still THEY stumble
(discuss skandalon?)
Over what do they stumble, specifically?
How is it that they get to this place even in the face of belief.
What do they see that is not truthful?
What do they hold to that is not real?
what is is about the ‘voice’ they hear that sounds reasonable and make s them believe it?
MAIN BODY IDEA:
Track all of the main ideas of this text concept by concept and illustrate it in a slide:
“From the Beginning” the ancient narrative
The Light and Life that are promised
The dig at Jesus for “where is your dad” speaking perhaps of Josephs absence
Question his legitimacy because that dont see his Dad around.
He says he is going away, they assume suicide
“Lifting Up” is a metaphor for Roman death, not stoning.
Remember Luke 3 “Do not say ‘we have Abe as our father’”....out of these stones...
they are seed, but that is not the same as descendent...
as this Genealogy argument evolves he uses the aphorism “SON” for the first time in their presence.
He is a SON, they are illegitimate sons..and not of Abraham either
Ancestry not equal to salvation
unless it is the proper father, like the SONs is a matter of life and death, being free or enslaved.
Finally Jesus makes the issue about who we LISTEN TO AS THE DEFINITIVE OF WHOSE SON OR DAUGHTER WE ARE.
THE VOICE IN MY HEAD
46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin?
If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47 He who belongs to God hears what God says.
The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
the hearing issue is no aural, its linked to identity.
They hear the voice of one to whom they belong, to whom they have pledged allegiance.
THE DEVIL PUTS HIS VOICE IN MY HEAD TOO...
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
The Devil speaks: He Tells, He gives us a set of identities, we call them ideas, but they are more powerful than ideas.
they are actually latent desires, these desires drive us to action, that action is self reinforcing.
And the desire for more of what we have grows, and after some time of doing this, its no longer even processed as “desire” but just “who I am”
How Temptation Works
This is the most difficult circumstance: Now I have to “destroy myself” (so I perceive) if I am to repent.
This idea is in fact Biblical, but once I get into this place it is most unpalatable.
Indeed it is now easier to rationalize my sins and appetites than it is to deal with them or live the cruciform life.
James 1:13-15 “When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.”
For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed.
Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.”
This is about WILL AND DESIRE.
James tells that desire creates battles for supremacy.
Desires create rivalry.
These rivalries are also seen
People Say Stuff, but I have to decide it is worth my time to refute
People say stuff, and I have to decide whether I believe God will make it right, if I choose to engage, I am engaging in enemy territory..I am allowing myself to fight on tainted soil.
We call it by other names.
Character assassins.
Slander, lies, fabrication, running people down.
Gossip.
It seeks some special understanding about another person that you just HAVE to share.
And it’s always negative
Using lies and misinformation and misrepresentation to gain advantage over another.
This is devil speech.
Stop it.
It creates mistrust.
It sows dishonesty and distrust .
“We are not born of unlawful intercourse,” they quickly reply.
The challenger of legitimacy.
They are begging to be seen as legitimate
The desire for legitimacy or “genuineness “ are still hot buttons for most of us.
We have to remember that legitimately is not claimed, it is show by action and practice.
Not by genealogy.
In many ways these Jews grew up in the church, so to speak.
Don’t settle for this.
Teens: the answer is not to be bored, or abandon the faith you see,,,maybe it’s to do it better and make it your own.
FALSE NARRATIVES.
LIES MAYBE.
BUT LETS EXPLORE.
WE KNOW BETTER
I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose; but my inclination gets the better of my judgment.
1078.
Euripides
They had been told.
This Abraham argument was entrenched.
It was how they imagined their entire relationship with YHWH.
It’s very hard to abandon a truth you have heard from your community for years.
Perhaps at some point the true even becomes more
Important than GOD.
Needing to be right.
Needing to be part of something.
Once we substitute God for these other things, the water gets cloudy pretty fast.
Let me share about how that happened to me:
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