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I - Flying a kite with Foster
Intro: Being a parent has this way of revealing your character weaknesses.
And I have never been more aware of my shortcomings as a father and as a human being as I was the first time I tried to fly a kite with Foster.
I’m trying to fly it, Foster is not cooperating.
Streamers
I found myself getting so mad.
And he is just having fun messing me up :) Of course the more I tell him to stop the more he wants to do it.
I want to get it up there!
He wants to play with the streamers.
“Foster, wait no.
Foster” sterner and sterner.
Finally the wind dies down completely and we bring the kite back inside.
As we are walking in, and Im still frustrated, I have one of those moments when you realize what you did wrong.
I missed his laughter and his smiles and his joy in that moment because I was so focused on playing with his toy!
Its amazing how easy it was for me to trade in something so great, right in front of me for something so small...
W - We trade In
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TRANSITION: I do this in other areas of my life too, and I don’t think I’m the only one.
We settle for another episode of whatever rather than doing the dishes.
We settle for a new toy now rather than paying down our credit card debt.
We trade in the stress of more credit-card-debt for that new whateve
We trade a restored relationship to not have a hard
Settle for self medication instead of getting real help with our issues
Settle for broken relationships rather than face the challenge of working things out.
Settle for ignoring problems rather than dealing with them
For the momentary comfort of infidelity rather than the pain of working on a marriage.
Even when it comes to faith.
We settle fro drifting from God rather than making time for him.
Settle for an easy answer rather than wrestling with tough questions.
For what someone told us the bible said rather than digging in ourselves.
We settle for trying to prove God is there instead of living like its true.
We settle for hiding our problems instead of being honest about our failures.
We settle for an emergency help faith but put it away when things are going good.
I think for many of us the trouble is less that the wrong thing, the lesser thing, that SIN is so enticing.
That it seems so attractive that it is objectively worthwhile or better than anything else.
Its just SO MUCH EASIER.
We dont fall into sin as much as we slide into it for the sake of ease.
When the best remedy seems distant or hard we take something else instead.
We so often trade in the MORE(life) we are promised for so much less.
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TRANSITION: I think this is why I like the story of Jacob and Esau so much.
The part that we are going to read today reminds me that I am far from the FIRST PERSON to trade in MORE for LESS because its easier or more convenient.
Tell the story of Jacob and Esau.
Abraham’s Promise and First born inheriting.
Twin brothers, but different as the sun and the moon.
Read it.
Esau trades in his EXTREMELY VALUABLE birthright for basically nothing
He traded it in for nothing
Esau’s story IS of all of scripture.
He had an unbelievebly good promise.
He traded it in for nothing
Examples
Someone has an unbelievable promise
They trade it in for a pittance.
Humans cant seem to be able to accept it.
They keep trading that offer in for less.
RINSE REPEAT
Not because the bible is unoriginal but because it seems to be incredibly interested in this habit we have.
Adam and Eve
God creates a beautiful world and puts humans in charge of working alongside him and on his behalf in it.
Humans refuse the offer: take from the tree of Good and Evil.
They take from God the autority to define what good and evil is.
Destruction ensues
Cain and Able
God tells Cain that sin (evil) is crouching at his door but he must rule over it.
He gives him a chance to not kill his brother.
Cain refuses the offer: it shatters his family, his life, and begets more and more violence in the world
Abraham and Sarah
God promises them a family that will save the world.
They refuse the offer: and try and use sahai’s slave to make one instead
Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Numbers wrestle with it
Isreal’s kings fall into it.
Leading to the downfal of God’s nation
OVER AND OVER AGAIN
Jacob and Esau
MOses and GOd
Hebrews and God
Isreal and GOd
Saul and God
David and God
SOlomon and God
Kings and God
FAILURE
FAILURE
FAILURE
But for some reason God keeps running the same play OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
And we keep falling short, we keep screwing up, we keep failing.
ANd the main question of the OT becomes: Are we trapped in a repeating, self defeating cycle forever?
Will humans ever amount to more?
WIll God’s promise to Abraham to save the world EVER come about?
you leave the Old Testament with that question.
Will this cycle ever be broken.
There are whispers in the OT saying that one day it will, but little else.
And we leave the Old Testament with that question.
Will this cycle ever be broken.
The Story of Jesus and God
Jesus comes along in the NT.
He is both HUMAN and GOD.
In one person we find both sides of the deal.
God’s promise to save the world through Abraham’s Family.
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