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I. As the world rebels against God, pray.
A. Our instant reaction to wickedness should be look to God.
Illus: We are living in a time where it seems we are always at war with someone.
The kind of war we are in is not a physical get out your guns (though I do know we live in a highly concentrated place with lots of guns).
Instead we are living in a day where we are constantly called to take sides on issues that surround us.
If someone offends you, or speaks against you or your group, you feel a need to react immediately.
You cannot let their fake news or false truth stand unanswered.
The same is true if you hear someone gossiping about you.
Not only do you feel the need to correct their gossip, you also feel the need to justify your actions by belittling them.
Moses prayed.
Instead of reacting , he prayed.
In fact, the Bible teaches that there is a specific process when you are offended, but even in confronting offenders, the entire process should be bathed in prayer.
Prayer places both ourselves and our circumstances under God’s control.
B. When we pray, God leads.
Illus: Notice Moses’ reaction… He did not say that He would assume comand, instead he placed the decision in God’s hands.
Moses had to have the humility to accept God’s leadership.
He had to have the faith to accept God’s way.
BTW, God could have told Moses to step down.
Moses position in prayer was for God’s will to be done, not for his position and ego to be preserved.
How tough is that.
In your life, do you care more for your reputation, your way, your position, or for God’s will?
True faith take the position that you will not vindicate yourself, but instead trust that God is in control.
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As the wrath of God approaches, pray.
A. A day of reckoning is coming for those who rebel against God.
Illus: I remember a particularly tough season for Jenn and myself in ministry.
We had stepped into a church which had attempted to fire pastors before me, attempted to fire me, and fired the pastor after me.
There was a woman, and she was a gossip.
She stirred the contention of the church.
She would grasp and stoke any gripe she could get to cause more and more dissension in the church.
At one point during my pastorate I didn’t want to come to church.
In fact I hated going to church.
Seeing the spiritual battle I was in, my wife started coming up at the ridiculous hour with me so that as I turned on the lights throughout the church, she would pray over every class in the church.
During one very contentious time in my life, as I was wounded and weary as a pastor, my wife realized that I could not handle seeing the woman during the morning service.
She prayed that God would prevent her from coming to the church if she meant harm.
That morning, she had a heart attack.
You might think that the moral of that story was that you should not cross Jenn’s prayer life…
but after church, I made a hospital visit to this woman.
Why?
Because I needed to love my enemies and trust that God was in control.
B. Do you have a heart to plead for the salvation of sinners?
Illus: Do you care more for the souls of those opposed to you, or more about proving your are right in their eyes.
Do you care more about other’s spiritual condition, or for your own reputation?
It really is a question of faith.
Do you genuinely believe God is in charge, that he sees all that happens in this world, and than what he thinks of you what matters.
Moses didn’t worry about whether he was in charge, because he knew God was.
He saw through spiritual eyes understanding what would happen to the people if they continued in their rebellion.
What if we saw the culture war not through politics, but instead through spiritual eyes.
Would we demean those whom are opposed to us? Would we slander them?
NO… Instead we would earnestly seek God’s hand at work in their lives, all the while our words and actions would reflect the hope of Christ for them.
III.
Do you care enough to pray?
A. Moses could have turned to anger or bitterness, but he chose to pray.
Illus: This is a hard sermon for me.
The list of people that I hold on my heart who have hurt me.
Something will come up, and the memories of wrongs done will just hit me like a sledge hammer.
I don’t want to forgive.
That said, my ability to forgive is not based on them doing the right thing, or apologizing for what they have done.
My forgiveness sits on Jesus Christ who died for me when I was a broken sinner.
If Christ can forgive me of every thought, word and action, surely I can forgive my fellow man.
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