Brokeness: The Heart of God
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The conditions of contentment
Tim 6: 5 These people always cause trouble. Their minds are corrupt, and they have turned their backs on the truth. To them, a show of godliness is just a way to become wealthy.
6 Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth.
7 After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can’t take anything with us when we leave it.
8 So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content.
Some people use godliness as a means for wealth let this not be so.Its not a means for wealth but godliness and contentment is the wealth.
The responsibility of the rich
17 Teach those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which is so unreliable. Their trust should be in God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment. 18 Tell them to use their money to do good. They should be rich in good works and generous to those in need, always being ready to share with others. 19 By doing this they will be storing up their treasure as a good foundation for the future so that they may experience true life.
BROKENNESS
THE PICTURE of brokenness is of a wild stallion that wants its independence. It does not want to be ridden; it does not want to be told what to do.
Now, it doesn't mind the cowboy feeding it or keeping the trough full of water. It doesn't mind having a place to go into out of the rain. It just doesn't want anyone to get on its back. But the process of breaking a stallion or breaking a wild horse involves the cowboy getting on its back and riding it. Th stallion usually bucks and bucks an tries to throw the cowboy off. "Get off my back!"
"Bless me with the food. Bless me with the water. Bless me with a covering. But don't get on my back!"
The cowboy gets on the back of the horse and rides it out. Sometime he's thrown off, but if the goal is the breaking, he rides that wild horse until it yields. How do you know when a horse has been broken? It doesn't lose its strength; it doesn't lose the muscles in its legs. It does not lose its God-given uniqueness and identity as a horse. It's just now a horse under somebody else's control.
Many of us want the blessings from God, but we don't want Him riding us and bringing us into submission to His will.
We don’t like to be broken because brokenness means I’m not in control
We enjoy the benefits of a broken life but don’t like the submission thats required for a broken life.
41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it,
42 saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
43 For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side,
44 and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
This is Jesus triumphal entry, the is the national acceptance of Him. They are celebrating some of His last days on earth before He was crucified.
His disciples begin to worship Him as He is making His way to Jerusalem.
But as Jesus drew near to the city is wept over it.
Jesus weeping at this point wasn’t just a mere tear that came rolling down His face. But the greek implies that He was wailing and sobbing.
This word for weeping is the word that was used for the widow at Nain who only son died. She lost a husband and her only son Luke 7:13 “13 When the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.””
This was the kind of weeping when the women who was considered a sinner ( maybe even a prostitue) started to wipe Jesus feet with her tears and the alabaster flask of fragrant oil. Luke 7:38 “38 and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil.”
Jesus had similar sorrows for the children of Israel
Luke 13:34 “34 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!”
As a hen takes care of her chicks and puts them under her wings to protect them so is Jesus love towards Jerusalem.
Jesus was very broken tender and loving, but they where not willing to respond to Jesus.
Luke 13:35 “35 See! Your house is left to you desolate; and assuredly, I say to you, you shall not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’
Christianity is sometimes accused of being opposed to the spirit of patriotism: but there is deep patriotism in this lamentation.
Jesus loved Jerusalem but he was grieved.
vs 42
Theres a strong emotional presence in this text.
This day referring to the God’s Kingdom. In this case Israel’s King which is the person of Christ.
These things make for your peace.
In Jersalem same salem means peace .
Jesus who is there peace .
Romans 5:1 “1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,”
Phil 4:7 “7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
But because they rejected the messianic peace instead they would experience war.
Peace is not Geographic but real peace is with God which is through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The road of the transgressor is hard.
15 Good understanding gains favor, But the way of the unfaithful is hard.
Hidden from your eyes - meaning God has hidden these things from your eyes.
The rejection of Israels visitation inevablaly will bring Israels judgement.
vs 43
For days will come upon you - This was a prophesy about the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in AD 70 under the hands of the Romans Empire.
9 And He said, “Go, and tell this people: ‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’
10 “Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed.”
14 And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive;
15 For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.’