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Oops - We learn a lot by watching (RELATIONSHIP!)
Becca imitating Meagan
shirt in a knot
hair
You better believe I thought a lot about Meagan’s discipleship…I knew the eyes that were watching her.
My parents had an expression for the way I would imitate: Monkey See, Monkey Do.
Noticing how monkeys will imitate human expressions and actions…they don’t understand the why, but imitation is how all life learns basic lessons
Consider what you learn without being taught in a classroom
walk
talk (accents)
using a spoon
the habits and expressions we pick up
Now we’re getting into the problem…our lives of Loving God, loving others, and making disciples…our being woven…our emotional health…our response to challenge
So much of “us” is caught more than taught…and is catching even when we think we aren’t teaching.
if the most important thing we do as disciples, those who follow Jesus is to make disciples, bring others along in following Jesus…
And it’s also true that we learn by watching…even on accident…and we teach those watching…even on accident
if Monkey see, monkey do...
you will learn and teach...
Ugh - But who we watch makes a difference (do what ph.
say, not what they do…)
So we better pay attention to who we pay attention to and what we’re teaching.
Jesus speaks out loud the importance of what is caught and taught
Matthew 23:1-3 “Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples: “The scribes and the Pharisees are seated in the chair of Moses.
Therefore do whatever they tell you, and observe it.
But don’t do what they do, because they don’t practice what they teach.”
Let’s look at how this plays out.
Monkey See
The Crowd
The hipster effect (great band name…)
When we reject mainstream…the inevitable result is finding a new conformity.
I can fight this reality, or understand it and make a choice.
The crowd impacts you.
period
In Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, he is concerned about their wavering on trusting the story, specifically the resurrection.
They were diminishing it’s importance, questioning if it matters or if it even happened.
He makes his case for the validity of the event
He goes into the importance of its truth
Then he speaks directly to the monkey see, monkey do truth when it comes to what we trust:
1 Corinthians 15:31-32 “I face death every day, as surely as I may boast about you, brothers and sisters, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus as a mere man, what good did that do me?
If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Hear it: Look AT ME.
If the resurrection doesn’t matter, does MY life make sense?
Ooh…can I suggest that if we sat with that question for ourselves…does my life make sense apart from a relationship with the risen Jesus?
Can my life be explained apart from it?
Then we would have a better understanding of our own walk with Jesus...
Then he quotes the Greek poet Menander:
1 Corinthians 15:33 “Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.””
We often use this verse to talk about behavior.
But that’s not Paul’s point.
He’s going deeper.
In the context we see him saying: We will start to think like the crowd we follow.
Regardless of it’s truth.
So what crowd are you watching?
We just read Jesus’ warning against the scribes and pharisees, experts in knowing scripture, doing the law, but failing to live out the purpose of the law.
Paul then warns us against learning from the example of those who deny the power of God in the resurrection.
Note: Jesus spends time with?
Sinners.
Right.
We covered that earlier, but lets review:
Mark 2:15-16 While he was reclining at the table in Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who were following him.
When the scribes who were Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
This is where Jesus points out he came specifically for those who know they have a need.
The sick need a doctor.
Who else?
The Pharisees.
If we just look at the geography of his ministry, he’s in the heart of Pharisee country.
Read through and they are ALWAYS there.
Bottom line, if we are going to follow Jesus, we will care for and invest in the religious and the pagan.
We will love them, befriend them, and walk with them.
We can’t follow Jesus if we don’t go where he goes...
But we can’t follow Jesus if we start following the crowd.
Let’s put a pin in that for the moment and address another wrong person to follow
The Mirror
When I was a kid, I loved to make faces in the mirror...
wiggle my ears
I learned by watching myself.
Great for funny faces…not so good for wisdom.
Proverbs 14:12 “There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way to death.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding; in all your ways know him, and he will make your paths straight.”
There was an episode of mythbusters where they tested the myth that if you are blindfolded you can’t go a straight line.
They tried it in walking in a field, they tried it swimming, they tried it in a car.
They used GPS to show them the path afterward.
Looked like spaghetti.
Follow your heart remains one of the dumbest things humans can do that we do all the time.
We hurt ourselves, we hurt others, we hurt God when we follow ourselves…because we just can’t see on our own what we need to.
Let’s jump straight to the better option here:
What did Jesus say about who we should follow?
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