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I. We focus on the wrong things.
A. How often do we see our fellow man as a debate to be won over a person who needs healing.
Illus: WHat is astounding in this passage is the mess that Jesus purposely walks into.
The scribes “the learned” and the crowd were arguing about a boy.
THe boy in large part lost his humanness because the crowd saw him as an issue.
He was was a fight to be won, not a person.
How often do we do that?
An event happens in our nation, and we all retreat to our political or cultural narratives.
Look back at the things you have cared about the most over the past few years.
How often have you allowed the culture wars of our country to turn your hearts away from loving people.
For the church we must regain the love of people again.
We must see people as beings created in the image of God again.
When we dehumanize and politicize people, we are degrading the image of God.
People are not issues, they are image bearers of God.
B. When we view the world through a culture war mindset, we show ourselves to be faithless.
Illus: I believe much of the culture war that we face every day is a tool used by the devil to distract us.
Think about it.
God gave us clear instructions on this earth.
We are to love people as God loved us, forgive them, sacrifice ourselves for them, bring the gospel to them, and teach them to follow Jesus.
Pretty simple.
Then a cultural storm arises.
We see it on the news, or read about it on the internets.
All of a sudden our blood is boiling, and we are angry at folks God called us to love and sacrifice ourselves for.
The devil has realized that if we can care about whatever cultural topic of the day we will end up hating those on the other side… the exact opposite of what is necessary to reach them with the gospel.
Where we are called to love and sacrifice for our fellow man we end up screaming at them.
Where we are called to love our enemies, we end up hating them.
When we engage in a foolish culture was we end up making ourselves pharisees who care more about how we look, than the mission field God has given us.
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Hope is in Christ, not our strength.
A. We doubt the power and love of God.
Illus: Why was the crowd arguing, instead of running this boy to Jesus....
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They were not looking for a solution, they were looking for a win.
2. They did not believe/ Care that God would heal this child.
3. they did not truly believe in the benevolence of God, not were they benevolent themselves.
When we retreat to argument over prayer, when we seek to scream more than love… we show what we really believe deep down.
We show that our faith is in something else besides God, and that the solution is in something else other than his way.
If we truly believe in the power and love of God, we become driven by the power and love of God.
That means we cease fighting with the world like that changes lives, and take up God’s playbook… to go and die for our enemies.
B. It is OK to be weak.
(man doubted himself not God)
Illus: What happens in this mans life is that he sees the emptiness of the broken world around him, turns to Jesus, admids his weakness, and places his hope in God’s hands.
You know what that is called.
Faith.
Faith is admitting that you are not strong enough but God is.
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The world is broken around us.
2. life is found in turning to Jesus.
3. We are incapable of fixing ourselves.
(and others)
4. We place our weakness in God’s hands.
III.
Do we actually seek God?
God desires to lead us to a complete dependence on Him.
That is the starting place of prayer.
Illus: We are not called to ignore the foolish world around us.
We are called to react differently to the world around us.
Instead of reacting immediately, jumping to our culture war camps, and hating those who view the world differently… our hearts should turn to prayer.
LEt me give you three things to pray for as you feel pulled into the culture war.
1. wisdom.
2. those involved.
3. you own heart… to love those you disagree with.
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