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Title: Separated
What this is all about: How we see things
What I want you to know: Disagreements are inevitable
What I want you to do: Handle disagreements in an appropriate manner
How I want you to do it: With love, with grace, with peace.
Series: Acts of Harvest
Text:
Date: March 18, 2018
Pastor Mike Ellis
Introduction:
Read
1. Same Passion
· Paul and Barnabas
· The best of friends who had been through a lot together
o They traveled together for about a year throughout Paul’s first missionary journey.
o They saw the great works of God, people being saved, people being healed.
o They planted many churches together
o They had been persecuted and beaten together
· Both in agreement of wanting to go back and check up on the churches they had planted.
o This should be a wanting for all who discipling others.
o When you invest yourself into others, you want to know how they are doing.
· Both in agreement about the mission and the purpose.
o This is what happens when people are of one mind.
o We focus ourselves on what is important.
2. The Disagreement
· Not in agreement about who should come along.
· John Mark
o Cousin to Barnabas
o Likely the same young man who was written about in
o The same young man who grew up to be an outstanding early church leader
o The same young man who would pen the gospel of Mark
- We find Mark struggling early on in the ministry.
o Had left Paul and Barnabas in the middle of the work.
o The Greek says that he had deserted them.
o Barnabas wanted to give John Mark a second chance
o Paul did not want any part of him involved in the work that him and Barnabas were doing.
· Unresolved issues
o It is likely that this disagreement had some old feelings tagged to it.
o We can read in that during the middle of another tense filled moment between Paul and Peter that Barnabas had wrongly sided with Peter.
- We would be wise to recognize when we are allowing old—unresolved feelings to creep up and cloud the issues that are at hand.
- It is never a good idea to be in a new argument when an old one is unresolved.
- The outcome could be disastrous and the relationship may be ruined.
· The debate begins
o What should come first the work of God or the people of God?
- A question that all of us would have an immediate and honest answer to.
- God has wired each of us with different capabilities, gifts, strengths, weaknesses and lives.
o Paul’s focus was the work of God
o Paul would look at the people as ask, “what can they do for God’s work?”
§ As far as Paul was concerned, John Mark had deserted him and those with him, as well as the work in which they were all called to do
o Barnabas’ focus was the People of God
o Barnabas would look at the people and ask, “what can God’s work do for them?”
§ Barnabas, wanted to give John Mark a second chance, regardless of what was done in the past.
· Barnabas sees something
· Paul sees something
- Having different perspectives is normal.
- No two people are going to see things the exact same way.
· So, who’s right, and who’s wrong?
o Luke does not take sides in his account of Acts.
o We have no idea if he received his information from Paul whom he worked directly with, or if he met up with Barnabas at a later time and got his account.
o What we do know is that he does not take sides.
o Nor should we.
· The fact is, in this instance neither are wrong.
· God has made some to see the people and some to see the work, and the idea is that we need to do what we can to co-exist with each either for the greater good of the ministry.
· We need both.
· Which means we need each other.
- So, how do we do this?
- We need to sacrifice ourselves for the greater good.
- There will be times where the work is what needs to be focused on.
o So those who are people focused need to yield.
- There will be times when the people will need the focus.
o So those who are work focused need to yield.
- The attitude of its my way or the highway does not work with God nor does it work with His people.
- Love, grace, and peace need to be rooted in what we do.
- When we love, we put aside our own desires and seek Gods.
o It is then that we are start to build one another up.
o We recognize God inside of the other person.
o We see how God is using them.
- Disagreements have a way of putting people on edge.
o We start to pull away from love and instead of seeing the other person as God does which is forgiven and washed clean from their sins; we see the flesh.
o We need grace.
- That same grace that God extends and continues to do so to us, needs to be extended to the other.
o We dare not undermine God and His work in other people by thinking that we are somehow worthier of His love and grace then they are.
o We should always give each other the benefit of the doubt first.
o Showing each other grace, forgiveness, and love in such a way that it can only be recognized as God’s work in you.
- Then and only then we will be able to seek peace.
o This is not peace at any cost.
o We dare not sacrifice the gospel for peace.
o But a peace that comes with an understanding that we are all God’s children and that He uses each of us in different ways as He chooses.
- This is the Gospel.
o In our sins we are separated from God.
o We are in disagreement with Him.
o And in His unimageable wisdom He saw in it necessary to seek peace.
o A peace that could only come through the blood of His one and only Son, Jesus Christ.
o And because of His unimageable love for us He made the sacrifice.
o He extended His grace to all of us, by emptying Himself of what was rightfully His, becoming a man, and dying one of the worst deaths imaginable.
o As His blood ran down that cross, He thought of you, as His lungs filled with His own blood, He thought of you.
o He did all of this so that you can live at peace with God.
o He did what we were never capable of doing on our own.
o Through Love, He gave us grace, so that we could have peace with our Father in heaven.
- We should never show anything less to anyone else.
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