No One Else Knows

Intro

Play No One Else Knows by Building 429

Good afternoon everyone, I hope yall had an amazing week so far. How many of yall actually had school today?

Today we are finishing up our song series with a song called No one else knows by Building 429. This song is a little bit older of a song, but the reason I chose this song is because it played a big part in me still being able to stand in front of you here today.

This is not the end

We are going to read Luke 6 but first I want to give some back ground info. This is part of the sermon on the mount. for those of you that may not know, this sermon is where Jesus flips everything upside down. and tells us all that the things we think we know, we dont really know.

Right before Jesus goes into this sermon we see that He was healing people of diseases, and removing evil spirits from people, and so we have this great sense of God’s power, and then after doing these miracles He stops and says this

Luke 6:20–23 (NIV)

20 Looking at his disciples, he said:

“Blessed are you who are poor,

for yours is the kingdom of God.

21 Blessed are you who hunger now,

for you will be satisfied.

Blessed are you who weep now,

for you will laugh.

22 Blessed are you when people hate you,

when they exclude you and insult you

and reject your name as evil,

because of the Son of Man.

23 “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.

I love the part where it talks about Blessed are you who weep. I dont know where you are right now but I know there were times in my life where I was weeping. And Jesus said you are blessed, also says for you will laugh.

When I was in high school I had thoughts in my mind that I wanted to wrap my car around a telephone pole or a tree. Not because I wanted to kill myself but I wanted to know who would show up to the hospital. I wanted to know who cared enough about me to take time out of their day to be there.

God is close to the broken hearted

The next point that I want to make is that God is close to the broken hearted. Some of you have gone through some incredibly difficult things, that others couldnt even imagine. Thinks that should never have happened. Things that have broken you to your core, and I want to say I am so sorry you have had to go through those things. However we do have hope.

Psalm 34:18–19 (NIV)

18 The Lord is close to the brokenhearted

and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

19 The righteous person may have many troubles,

but the Lord delivers him from them all;

If you are broken hearted if you feel like you have no place left to turn understand that God loves you, and cares for you.

I also love the reminder here in verse 19. reminding us that the righteous will have difficult times but God will deliver us.

You may be wondering but that says the righteous ive messed up, ive done some pretty crappy things, I am not righteous. If you are a believer in Jesus then you are included in that righteousness

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV)

21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

So if you have trusted Jesus to forgive you of your sins, and to follow Him, you are righteous no matter what your past says. You are righteous, not because of anything you have done, but because of everything He has done.

Repeat that

and lastly I want to finish up with this.

We have to support one another

We have to support each other, we have to stand up for each other, not just within these walls, here it should be easy. But most importantly outside of these walls.

Ecclesiastes 4:9–10 (NIV)

9 Two are better than one,

because they have a good return for their labor:

10 If either of them falls down,

one can help the other up.

But pity anyone who falls

and has no one to help them up.

We will accomplish so much more in life if you have someone to walk through it with you, but not only will you accomplish more, but when you feel like theres no one else around. When you feel like no one else knows whats going on inside your head you can look to one another and lift each other up, and support each other.

I am here for you, your youth leaders are here for you, anytime you need someone to talk to we are here, but we cant be in the schools with you all of the time. However yall are in the schools, yall see each other every day. You have to be each others support system.

Dont let each other get to the point where I was, where I was wondering who would show up, who would care if I was in the hospital. Care for each other now, so that they never get to that point.