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Awakening Prayer
Jared Pruett
Student Scripture Reading
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Weekly Briefing
Old people are lonely.
They love children and they love company.
One of the greatest ways to minister and love on elder shut-in’s is to be with them.
Have a meal with them.
Drop in on them and say “hi”.
So this month at our “Trunk or Treat” on October 31st we are going to host the hay ride again with a trick or treat twist.
We will have set up multiple stops where children can get off and go “trick or treating” and come into some of our shut-in’s houses.
Here’s where you come in: I’m challenging every student to bring one bag (large) of candy over the next two weeks.
There are 80ish students so we are looking for 80 bags!
Let’s do this.
This is a great way to love on some lonely people.
We will provide them with the candy to pass out to all the “trick or treaters”.
Introduction
Introduction
Let’s get our bearings.
Jesus in has arrived in Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths.
This feast was one of three major pilgrimage feasts that Israel celebrated each year.
What is a pilgrimage feast?
It is a feast people travel for - they make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to celebrate.
It’s kind of a BIG deal.
So, during the 7th month at the end of the agriculture season - after harvest - the Feast of Tabernacles would be celebrated for 7 days.
It was a time of celebrating the harvest which meant wine and dancing and singing, but it was also a historical feast - it pointed backward:
LEviticus 23:4
The Feast of Tabernacles was to point back to a time when Israel was rescued from Egypt and when they wandered the desert for 40 years.
During that time they lived in booths or tabernacles.
which are just a temporary shelters made of palm branches and other lightweight material.
Here’s a picture of a modern day “sukah” or tabernacle/booth:
Show picture of Sukah Katie’s friend - missionaries in Israel (Katie grew up with them).
Okay, this is the setting for Jesus’ statement tonight - but over the years as the Feast of Tabernacles was celebrated a few rituals were added to the celebration.
This is normal - think about your Christmas.
The first Christmas that was celebrated most likely looks different than today.
Do you read the Christmas story?
Do you bake Jesus a birthday cake?
Do you have naughty elves on your shelves?
Do you act out the Christmas story?
Do you go to a candle light service?
Do you give gifts away instead of getting gifts?
Celebrations have a way of shifting and changing over the years and one thing that the people of Israel, back in biblical times, added to the festival was a lighting ceremony.
In the temple, one night, they would light giant lamps.
The wicks of these lamps were made from the worn-out garments of the priests.
And the light from the lamps would illuminate the temple area and the people would gather and sing praises and dance.
The lighting ceremony was a reminder of how God led the people during the wilderness years - a pillar of fire at night..
I Am The Light Of The World
And, during this feast, at the end of the feast, Jesus makes this claim:
Jesus is aware of his culture.
He knows his audience.
I’m not making this up!
It’s like a movie!
Fresh on the minds and eyes of the people gathered would have been the lighting of the lamps and as that memory is fresh - Jesus says “guys, guys, come in, listen…I am the light of the world.
Those lamps they are cool, they have some meaning and significance.
They remind you of my Father’s rescue and guidance during the wandering years, but they aren’t THE light - I AM THE LIGHT!”
the lighting of giant lamps in the women’s court in the temple (see the diagram).
The wicks were made from the priests’ worn-out garments.
The light illuminated the temple area and the people gathered to sing praises and dance.
So what does this all mean:
(1) Jesus Or Darkness
Bring Katie to the front.
I am a husband of Katie vs.
I am the husband of Katie.
Jesus being “the light of the world” means at bottom our world has no other light than him.
Like it says in , “the true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.”
And the light that we are talking about is a spiritual light - not a physical light.
Jesus is not a lamp, physically speaking.
He is the spiritual light of the world.
The only hope our world has for light is Jesus.
Jesus makes it clear - he draws a line in the sand - it is me or it is darkness.
Nothing else in this world can be spiritual light.
Every religion that claims to be a path to “god” is darkness.
says, “whoever follows me will not walk in darkness...” so that means every other path of “non-truths” or “good teaching” or “religious observance” is a dark path.
It is darkness.
Students, Jesus makes the claim here that it is Him or it is darkness.
But we also see a massive problem...
(2) We Love Darkness
Do you want to know the sad news?
Even though Jesus has come as the true spiritual light, our inclination as sinful people is to hate Him and run from this light.
Listen to this:
John 3:19
We love the darkness.
We were not born mostly good.
We were born into sin and we’ve been completely corrupted by sin.
Give a kid a coke.
Oh, yeah it is 1% urine.
1% ruins the batch.
We’ve inherited a nature of sin and the result is we love darkness.
I’ve seen this in my kids.
I didn’t have to teach my kids to lie or to misbehave or to roll their eyes.
They came by that naturally, because, as much as I love them, they are sinners - from birth.
As John says - we love the darkness.
We love our sin.
We love our idols.
We love crafting them in our own images.
Application: girls - isn’t the idol of beauty and image - isn’t it attractive?
Doesn’t it pull on your heart strings.
Isn’t it seductive?
And doesn’t it bring about some instant gratification?
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