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KNOW
As we come to the end of our series we are looking ahead to a couple of things we want to cover this summer.
PRAY
The next series will be on the topic of prayer, it’s mystery, and how it looks in the life of a follower of Jesus.
Together with ideas from our prayer team we’ll explore that through June.
Then in July and August we will enter a series we need your help with.
We have pieces of paper that we want you to write your questions on, we’ll have a look at the ideas and then work through some of them this summer.
The series is
STRANGER THINGS
Weird stories from the Bible.
Maybe you have been reading along in your Bible when you come across something that you just go.
HUUUU?
There is a sermon that killed a guy because he couldn’t stay awake.
There is an axe head that floats.
Lighting a field on fire using foxes.
Teens getting mauled by bears after calling a guy bald.
A talking Donkey.
A left handed judge who took down a king.
a little tree was cursed by Jesus because it didn’t have fruit.
And more.
What we need from you is your ideas.
So on this piece of paper being handed out answer this question:
What strange / confusing / weird stories from the Bible would you like to explore this summer?
Fill it out and drop it off with the ushers on your way out.
We are conluding our series Living in the Light and are in 1 John chapter 5 today if you won’t to head their in your Bibles.
Through all of history the sayings of Jesus have turned religions on their head.
Instead of us trying to get something out of God, God says, I want to give you my rest.
Instead of us being afraid that we can’t measure up to God, we can come to him and receive a burden that is lighter than the one that we have placed on ourselves.
Instead of God being distant we find Jesus we wants to relate to us intimately.
Every so often someone is confronted with Jesus and inside them something stirs that says, “Finally here is a clear voice among all the voices out there.”
Here is someone that knows me and cares about me.
Here is someone who holds that words of life.
I want to know this person.
I can trust this Jesus.
Through all of history the sayings of Jesus have turned religions on their head.
Instead of us trying to get something out of God, God says, I want to give you my rest.
Instead of us being afraid that we can’t measure up to God, we can come to him and receive a burden that is lighter than the one that we have placed on ourselves.
Instead of God being distant we find Jesus we wants to relate to us intimately.
Every so often someone is confronted with Jesus and inside them something stirs that says, “Finally here is a clear voice among all the voices out there.”
Here is someone that knows me and cares about me.
Here is someone who holds that words of life.
I want to know this person.
I can trust this Jesus.
The problem is, the world, my own desires, and the devil want to cloud that message and make it less clear.
This past weekend I traveled down for my Dad’s 80th birthday.
We had a great time together.
Before I left to fly back my mom brought 3 full size chocolate hammers that were given away as prizes at a party they had with brothers and sisters.
I shoved them in my bag and wondered what was going to happen at security as the scanned my pack.
As I waited on the other side of security I saw a confused look pass over the person operating the x-ray.
Then i saw concern.
Then my pack was shuffled to the side and a security attendant came over and opened the bag herself.
Looked in, looked at me, looked in again.
Then asked, “Are those chocolate hammers?”
I said, “Yes.”
She said, “Why?”
I said, My Dad turned 80, he is a carpenter.”
What could have turned into a more serious situation erupted into laughter.
What looked like a hammer was a glorified chocolate bar.
Now imagine I was bringing three real hammers through security and trying to pass them off as chocolate.
A different situation would have ensued.
Not such a big deal really in the end, but there is something that isa big deal.
How we view Jesus.
How we view Jesus matters.
Some people view him as a good teacher, a wise man, who lived a good life and died and was buried.
Some people view him as a mystic who had special powers that allowed him to twist reality.
Today some people view Jesus as a chocolate treat.
There was even a song written about by tom waits, the chorus goes like this:
Well, I've got to be a chocolate Jesus
Make me feel good inside
Got to be a chocolate Jesus
Keep me satisfied
Even the folks in the early church were being presented with an idea about Jesus which was undermining their faith and how they were behaving in their community.
Today we call it Gnosticism or in the case of this letter that John wrote, proto-Gnositcism.
Not something we encounter much today but there has been a resurgence with a book called, “A Course in Miracles” which Oprah Winfrey highlighted in one of her shows.
still important to understand so we have context for the letter.
In this community in Ephesus a belief system was developing which denied that Jesus was both fully man and fully God.
How it was presented was that there was a human Jesus who lived 30 years out of te spot light, then at his baptism by his cousin John the “spirit of Christ” a different being came and took over Jesus.
Then, just before Jesus was crucified, the “spirit of Christ” left him and Jesus the human died and stayed dead.
Some of the core elements of this belief system were that the nonmaterial world, or “spirit” was good while anything material or physical was evil.
Bring into this an idea that only few people have this secret knowledge.
in their teaching Jesus could not have been fully God and fully man because God simply would not do that.
Then it evolved into the idea of sin being an illusion, and the door was open for all kinds of abuses.
Two of the biggest being who Jesus really was and a lack of love for each other which we have seen in the book so far.
So John wraps up his letter reminding them of what is really important.
We are going to attack it in two sections , then 16-21.
The clam: Jesus is the Christ
The witness: God
Committee: Readers/Us
Jesus Christ is a title: Messiah/anointed one
Our eternity rests on how we repond to Jesus.
Wow right.
Thanks for clearing things up John.
That wasn’t confusing at all.
As we look at this passage I want to start in verse 6-8.
What is John talking about here?
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