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Matthew 9:9-13, 16-22
INTRODUCTION
ONE OF THE MOST TELLING, IMPACTFUL AND IMPORTANT LINES IN THE BIRTH STORY OF JESUS ACTUALLY OCCURS
FOR US, THIS SEASON OF ADVENT 2022, IN THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST LUKE WHERE IT READS LIKE THIS LUKE
2:4-7
COME WITH ME ON THIS JOURNEY OF ADVENT BELOVEDS AS WE PURSUE THE IDEA THAT SCRIPTURE TELLS US
WITH AN ALMOST LITERAL PERSPECTIVE AND POWER THAT GOD SAW FIT TO FINALLY SEND JESUS INTO THE
WORLD, AND YET HERE IN OUR WORLD, IN THE VERY PLACE THAT HE WAS TO BE BORN....IN THE CITY OF NAZARETH
AND THE ROMAN PROVINCE OF JUDEA, WHERE THE CAPITAL CITY WAS JERUSALEM....THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR
JESUS.....
-NO ROOM FOR JESUS…OH WE’VE SOLVED THAT NOW, RIGHT BELOVEDS????
-WITH OUR WARRING FACTIONS IN UKRAINE.....AND THE DESPOT IN RUSSIA
-WITH THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION YOU CAN ACTIVELY ASK GOOGLE WITH ME RIGHT NOW, ARE THERE ANY
WARS IN AFRICA RIGHT NOW????? AND THE ANSWER IS:
ISSAFRICA.ORG REPORTS THAT LIBYA, SOUTH SUDAN, THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, NORTHERN
MOZAMBIQUE, ETHIOPIA AND CAMAROON’S NORTH-WEST AND SOUTH-WEST REGIONS ARE 6 AFRICAN CONFLICT
HOTBEDS TO WATCH IN 2022…HOTBEDS SOME OF WHICH BECAME WAR ZONES IN 2022
AT THE WORLD CUP WHERE THE OVERARCHING AGENDA IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT SOCCER OR FOOTBALL AS
IT’S CALLED IN MOST EVERY OTHER COUNTRY WHERE OUR OWN NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYS AS VISITORS,
SOCCER PLAYERS WHO SPEAK OUT TO MUCH OR WEAR ARMBANDS ESPOUSING ONE LOVE ARE BEING ACTIVELY
SANCTIONED, PUNISHED OUR OTHERWISE MADE PARIAHS IN THEIR OWN HOMELANDS
IN ALL THIS, AND THE PREVALENCE OF POVERTY IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, ONE OF THE RICHEST IN THE HISTORY OF
THE WORLD...
AND JUST IN CASE YOU BELIEVE THE WORST EXAMPLES OF UGLY ACTIVITIES, CRIMINAL BEHAVIORS AND
DESTESTABLE HUMAN ACTIONS ARE TAKING PLACE A LONG WAY FROM THE SHEER SHINE, SUNLIGHT AND BEAUTY
OF OUR GREAT CITY OF DENVER......THE DENVER OFFICE OF THE FBI REPORTED ON AN OPERATION THAT TOOK
PLACE HERE IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST, 2022:
The FBI Denver’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force joined with some 40 agencies across
the Front Range Aug. 4-6 in Operation Cross Country, a national, intelligence-driven FBI initiative focused
on identifying and locating child victims of sex trafficking.
The operation also investigates and arrests
individuals and criminal enterprises involved in the sex trafficking of both children and adults.
In Denver, the permanent task force includes detailees from the Denver Police Department, Arapahoe
County Sheriff’s Office, Colorado State Patrol, Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, and the 17th Judicial District
Attorney’s Office.
They were joined by state and local agencies, the U.S. Marshals Service, and victim
advocacy groups.
During this operation, the FBI Denver Field Office and our partners recovered and provided services to 11
child victims of sexual exploitation.
In addition, 27 missing or endangered children were located, and they
were offered services.
Eleven adult victims were recovered.
Six traffickers were identified and two were
arrested on unrelated felony warrants.
The Denver Field Office located more victims than any other field office in the country, and we were tied for
first in the number of subjects identified or arrested.
IT WOULD SEEM OUR WEARY WORLD AND CHALLENGING TIMES MAKE US UNREADY TO MAKE ROOM FOR
JESUS......UNREADY TO RECEIVE THE MANDATE AND INVITATION OF HEBREWS 12: 14
ADVENT IS THE SEASON TO MAKE ROOM FOR JESUS
LIKE A PIECE OF LOVELY POETRY, AN ANONYMOUS WRITER PENNED AN ADVENT DEVOTION WITH JESUS’ OWN
INVITATION IN IT’S CONCLUDING LINE......IT IMAGINES JESUS SAYING:
I MADE THE JOURNEY FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH, FULFILLING GOD’S PLAN THROUGH MY HUMAN BIRTH
WITH AN ANGEL CHORUS AND A STARLIT SKY, SHEPHERDS AND CATTLE HEARD MY CRY
SOON WISE MEN CAME THEIR GIFTS TO BRING AND LEFT THEIR HEARTS AS AN OFFERING.
AND THERE’S ROOM FOR YOU AT THE MANGER STILL TO CELEBRATE JESUS AND TO KNOW GOD’S WILL...
BELOVEDS, JESUS HIMSELF HAS MADE ROOM AT THE MANGER FOR YOU....AND IN THESE SEEMINGLY RANDOM
SAYINGS OF JESUS IN OUR TEXT FOR THE MORNING......THE THEME THAT EMERGES FROM EACH SAYING, EACH
STORY ITSELF IS YET ANOTHER ENCOURAGEMENT, YET ANOTHER INVITATION, YET ANOTHER SUMMONS,
BELOVEDS....FOR YOU TO MAKE ROOM FOR JESUS TOO.....
CONSIDER MATTHEW 9:9-11
HERE IN THE CALL OF MATTHEW STORY THIS IS OUR SAVIOR, JESUS SHOWING THE PHARISEES....THEY NEEDED TO
MAKE ROOM IN THEIR THINKING, TO MAKE ROOM IN THEIR HEARTS, TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE NOTION THAT JESUS
DID NOT COME TO EARTH TO LEAVE TAX COLLECTORS AND SINNERS BEHIND......THEY’D HAVE TO MAKE ROOM....
CONSIDER MATTHEW 9:16-17
AS JESUS TEACHES ABOUT PUTTING NEW WINE INTO NEW WINE SKINS HE IS SHOWING HIS FOLLOWERS WHAT TO DO.....NOT JUST TO KEEP THE BEST WINE ON HAND SO WE CAN HOLD ONTO IT UNTIL THE LAST DROP......
THE FRESH WINE SKIN IS AN INVITATION TO USE WHAT WE NEED TO USE, AND TO DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO.....TO MAKE ROOM FOR NEW WINE.....TO MAKE ROOM SO WE WON’T WASTE, OR WEAR OURSELVES OUT TRYING TO PATCH UP ALL THE OLD STUFF…TO MAKE ROOM BELOVEDS WITH THE NEW WINE SKIN.....
CONSIDER MATTHEW 9:18-22
CAN YOU IMAGINE JESUS TELLING JAIRUS, WHOSE DAUGHTER HAD JUST DIED, MAKE ROOM.....YOUR DAUGHTER
WILL RETURN TO LIFE........FOR JESUS RAISED JAIRUS’ DAUGHTER BACK TO LIFE....AND HIS ACTIONS SPOKE
LOUDER THAN HIS WORDS.....AMEN?
AND FINALLY, JESUS TURNED TO THE WOMAN WITH THE ISSUE OF BLOOD....AND LET HER KNOW, AFTER SHE HAD
TOUCHED THE HEM OF HIS GARMENT.....MAKE ROOM, DAUGHTER....MAKE ROOM FOR HEALTH AND
WELLNESS....MAKE ROOM FOR YOUR FAITH TO KEEP SUSTAINING AND STRENGTHENING YOU.....MAKE ROOM, FOR
YOUR FAITH HAS MADE YOU WELL......
WHEN YOU MAKE ROOM JESUS
WHEN YOU MAKE ROOM FOR JESUS THIS ADVENT SEASON YOU DO SO RECOGNIZING HOW WELL BROADCASTER
BOB LEPINE NAMED THE VERY FEELINGS OF THIS SEASON WHEN HE WROTE:
CHRISTMAS JOYS ARE DEEPER THAN OTHER JOYS.
SO ARE CHRISTMAS SORROWS.
AND CHRISTMAS
STRESSES.
THE SEASON THAT PROMISES HOPE AND PEACE AND JOY CAN OFTEN BRING VERY DIFFERENT,
VERY DIFFICULT EMOTIONS.
THESE EMOTIONS CAN OVERWHELM US.
WE FIND OURSELVES WONDERING
WHY THE MAGIC DOESN’T SEEM TO BE WORKING FOR US THIS YEAR.
WE WONDER WHY WE’RE FEELING AN
EMPTINESS INSTEAD OF PEACE AND JOY AND HOPE.........
WHEN YOU MAKE ROOM FOR JESUS THE SAVIOR KNOWS HOW TO SPEAK TO YOUR NEEDS AND LEAD YOU IN THE
MIDST OF ALL THAT KEEPS YOU BUSY AND ALL THAT KEEPS YOUR EMOTIONS IN KNOTS.....
CONCLUSION
WHEN WE MAKE ROOM FOR JESUS, THE REASON FOR THE SEASON......WE COME TO THE THE THRONE OF GRACE
HUMBLY KNOWING:
God enters our lives in unexpected ways, changing our course and bringing us to places unforeseen.
God
enables us to do the unimaginable; to bring life from a dry womb and a young woman who has never
“known” a man.
God challenges us to believe regardless.
During the season of Advent, we celebrate our
belief by looking ahead to the birth of that child who gave us life and enables us to love fully and without
fear.
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