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If you had six days to live, where would you go and why?
Interesting question, isn’t it?
Suppose astronomers discovered a mass extinction asteroid on a collision course with earth.
And we all know Bruce Willis isn’t available anymore to save us.
And it is going to hit in six days
Where would you go and why would you go there?
Jesus actually lived that situation.
There wasn’t an asteroid - but there was the cross.
And it was six days away and He knew it.
So where did Jesus go and why?
Open your Bibles to John 12:1-3.
While you are looking it up, let me set the stage.
In John 11, Jesus goes to Bethany because Lazarus has died.
He intentionally waited until Lazarus died to go there.
He could have come early and healed Lazarus - but that wasn’t the plan.
So Jesus shows up - Lazarus has been buried for 4 days.
One of my favorite King James words is used here - When Jesus tells them to remove the stone from the grave opening
Martha says, “Lord, by this time he stinketh.”
Jesus told them to do what he said - and with a prayer and a word, Jesus resurrected Lazarus.
That made Jesus a hero in Bethany.
But it added fuel to the fire for the establishment.
The high priest Caiaphas says rather famously, “John 11:50 “Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.””
John 11:53 says: “So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.”
Jesus left and stayed away from the Bethany area - until 6 days before the cross.
Knowing that he had just six days left to live, Jesus went somewhere.
Where did He go, and why?
Hear the word of the Lord from John 12:1-3
This is the Word of the Lord.
Six days before Jesus is going to die, He goes to a party.
But really, it was more than a party - its a church service.
Jesus was there.
Mary definitely worshipped Jesus.
And Jesus was surrounded by people that loved Jesus.
The Bible doesn’t really tell us why Jesus went there - but I think we can figure it out.
Jesus is going to say in the very next chapter: John 13:34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.”
Now follow me here:
Jesus went to this party because he knew that he was going to have a really hard week.
Just like you know sometimes you are going to have a really hard week, He knew.
He knew it wasn’t going to end well - he know it was go to end physically in about the worst way possible.
So he did what I think most of us would do.
He went someplace where He knew he was loved.
Where he wouldn’t be alone.
So he would be with “one another.”
If you go to a Bible search engine, like blb.org and search for one another in quotes in the English Standard Version of the Bible, which is what I use
You’ll get 159 exact matches in 146 verses.
And as you read all of these instances of the phrase “one another” you notice something happens right around John 13:34.
The phrase goes from a generic “they were talking with one another,” “they were going with one another,” - the meaning of that phrase changes
Because Jesus changed the world.
Outside Jesus’ band of followers, the world got incredibly hostile.
Jesus followers were getting killed because they told other people about Jesus.
So they needed a safe place to relax, to catch their breath - and that safe place was with “one another.”
Their safe place was the church.
And those two words became the essence of the church.
That’s who “one another” is beginning with John 13 - “one another” is the church.
Now, before you zone out because we’re going to talk about the church for the third time in 4 weeks, let me tell you why.
In 2023, my goal is to lead us to move to an Elder / Deacon model of church polity.
We’ll still be a congregational Southern Baptist Church, we’ll simply run things in a more Biblical manner.
Now the question that has to come to your mind has to be - from most people’s perspective, the system doesn’t look like it’s broken
Why fix it?
And my best answer is, because the world has changed and the church is in danger.
And the church needs to be strong.
Do you guys know that there is an Antifa group in Atlanta?
Not Portland, Oregon.
Not Seattle, Washington.
But in Atlanta.
Sure, they’ve come from all over the place - but they’ve landed in Atlanta.
They have set up an autonomous zone in the woods somewhere on the south side of Atlanta.
One of their members was shot and killed a week or so ago.
A state trooper was seriously wounded.
They called a protest at Five Points.
If you have someone at Georgia State University, the school of Business is 200 feet away from Five Points.
Mercedes-Benz stadium is 3/4 of a mile away.
Centennial Park is 1/2 mile away.
The Georgia Aquarium and the World of Coke are 1 mile away.
The Varsity and Georgia Tech are 1 1/2 miles away.
Have you been to any of those places?
Have you been to Grady Hospital, Emory Midtown?
All within 2 miles of the protest site.
You see, we want to live in Mayberry, but Mt.
Pilot is getting really, really big.
The world has changed.
And we were OK with sticking our heads in the sand while the militants were on the West coast.
But they aren’t just there anymore.
They are here.
They represent a special brand of unbelief and anarchy.
And while most people aren’t violent like them, a lot of folks think kind of like them.
Christianity is not their friend.
Natural revelation is a farce.
Common grace is a made up idea.
Jesus is not their Lord.
There is no God.
And if you are a Christ follower - then you are a bigot
You are the enemy.
The world has changed.
So we need “one another” now more than ever and we need to be with one another more than ever.
But we’ve not been real good at “one another” in the church.
Since we didn’t need to resist the world so much, we fought ourselves.
We can’t afford that anymore.
And anyway, Jesus said don’t do that.
He said, “one another” is the second most important thing in the world.
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