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Afraid to Lose?
Who’s afraid you’re going to lose $10 million?
Who’s afraid you’re going to lose $10 million?
I’m not.
I don’t have $10 million.
Can’t be afraid to lose what I don’t have.
Things my grand parents never worried about losing.
We live in an over-stressed age.
Things we worry about that our grandparents never dreamed of worrying about.
They didn’t have most of what we do.
You never worry about losing what you don’t have.
My g-parents never worried about losing their phone.
It was attached to the wall.
Or, the handset.
It was attached to phone attached to the wall.
Our children never had the pleasure of twirling the phone cord, and then untangling it.
They never worried about losing their passwords.
Or, losing their ID, or being hacked.
Lizzy Borden, maybe.
They didn’t worry about spilling their hot, Starbucks coffee in their lap in the drive thru.
They drank instant coffee at their bfst table.
Drive thrus weren’t invented until the 70’s.
We worry about losing so much more
What are you afraid to lose?
Afraid to lose a couple of pounds?
Losing control of something, someone?
Keys?
Hair?
Money, retirement?
Hair
Health, life?
I’m not afraid of dying.
I’m afraid of what’s going to kill me, it might hurt.
But for the possibility of the rapture, who here is not going to experience the end of their life on earth?
Who isn’t going to die?
Honestly, I’m more concerned about losing Sara than I am my own life.
Things we worry about that our grandparents never dreamed of worrying about.
They didn’t have most of what we do.
You never worry about losing what you don’t have.
My g-parents never worried about losing their phone.
It was attached to the wall
They never worried about losing their passwords.
Or, losing their ID, or being hacked.
Lizzy Borden, maybe.
They didn’t worry about spilling their hot, Starbucks coffee in their lap in the drive thru.
They drank instant coffee at their bfst table.
Some things are more worthy of our concern.
But, we stress over so much more.
We stress over things that someone else might say is ridiculous.
But, then, they stress over something we think is silly.
Fear, stress is relevant, but real.
Book of Acts.
The foundation of the church.
An Old House, 2000 years old.
We are an addition to what was started in .
Jesus said He was going to build His church.
We don’t need to worry about that.
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It’s going to happen.
Nothing will stop it.
No one’s death will prevent the successful completion of the church.
Jesus is collecting people.
Ekklesia = a gather of people w/ and for a common purpose.
Make Disciples.
Right after, Jesus gave his recruiting pitch:
I’ve been to a few church-growth seminars and conferences.
Comfort and relevance tend to be hot topics.
Coffee shops, graphics on the slides, music volume, things like this are in the workshop schedule.
I don’t think Jesus ever attended one of these.
Right after saying He was going to build his church He said this:
OK, Jesus, I’ve been to a few church-growth seminars, read a few books, and I think we can do better than this.
This is hard to market.
No pithy sayings or iliterations.
Deny yourself, pick up your cross, lose your life.
That’s like exactly the opposite of what will work.
That doesn’t seem to be good messaging.
And, yet, here we are.
Counter-intuitive as it may be.
I get the impression Jesus wouldn’t be too worried if the room has wooden pews or padded chairs.
This is so counter-intuitive.
Wouldn’t you think He’d say if you join I’ll make your life more comfortable?
We’re trying to build something here and attract a lot of people.
I just doesn’t seem like it would work to ask people to give everything up to join.
But, He does.
Faith alone, in Him, nothing else.
Give everything else up to receive what He will give you.
Jesus poked us in a sensitive spot.
Jesus just asked us to give up everything we are most afraid to lose.
We stress over losing these things.
Anxiety, embarrassment, confusion, perplexity, anger.
These emotions compound our problems.
We don’t sleep, we act and speak rashly, making matters worse.
But Jesus chose His words, schpeal, carefully.
First of all, we’re all going to die and, as the saying goes, I’ve never seen a hearse towing a U-haul.
We’re going to lose all anyway.
Jim Elliot, missionary to the Auka Indians in Papua New Guinea, who lost his life to these South American Indians, said, before, He went to New Guinea,
“He is no fool to give what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
Why do we stress so much over what we are certainly going to lose especially when we have gained so much more that we cannot ever lose.
This is the message of .
Don’t stress over what you cannot keep when you’ve gained so much more that you cannot lose.
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