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Hope Wins - 4
Introduction
carry a very interesting story in the history of ancient Israel.
The Northern Kingdom’s capital city of Samaria is under siege by the nation of Aram.
That siege, which cut off all support and supplies, lasted so long that it produced a devastating famine.
- 24 Some time later, however, King Ben-hadad of Aram mustered his entire army and besieged Samaria.
25 As a result, there was a great famine in the city.
The siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a cup of dove’s dung sold for five pieces of silver.
26 One day as the king of Israel was walking along the wall of the city, a woman called to him, “Please help me, my lord the king!” 27 He answered, “If the Lord doesn’t help you, what can I do?
I have neither food from the threshing floor nor wine from the press to give you.”
28 But then the king asked, “What is the matter?”
She replied, “This woman said to me: ‘Come on, let’s eat your son today, then we will eat my son tomorrow.’
29 So we cooked my son and ate him.
Then the next day I said to her, ‘Kill your son so we can eat him,’ but she has hidden her son.”
That’s about as bad as it gets.
It finally gets so bad as people are waiting to die, that an unlikely group decides to do something about it.
Four lepers get tired of waiting and decide to surrender themselves to Aram.
The Arameans may kill them, but, they argue, they’re going to die anyway.
The risk is worth it.
Perhaps they’ll accept our surrender and give us food.
What they don’t know is that the siege has already ended.
God had already defeated the enemy on Israel’s behalf.
But no one had heard the good news yet.
God had thrown the Arameans into a panic, thinking they were being attacked by a huge army, and had fled so quickly, they left behind their tents, supplies, and food.
Only when the lepers get there do they see what’s happened.
- 8 When the men with leprosy arrived at the edge of the camp, they went into one tent after another, eating and drinking wine; and they carried off silver and gold and clothing and hid it.
It’s party city for them!
They have all the food, wine, wealth they want.
More than they could ever need.
They even start hiding it.
That is when we realize this is the most selfish, unloving thing they could do.
The entire city of Samaria behind them is in desperate need.
They are dying.
And these four lepers are living the good life, choosing to ignore the suffering around them.
Finally it dawns on them that they need to do something.
- 9 Finally, they said to each other, “This is not right.
This is a day of good news, and we aren’t sharing it with anyone!
If we wait until morning, some calamity will certainly fall upon us.
Come on, let’s go back and tell the people at the palace.”
10 So they went back to the city and told the gatekeepers what had happened.
“We went out to the Aramean camp,” they said, “and no one was there!
The horses and donkeys were tethered and the tents were all in order, but there wasn’t a single person around!” 11 Then the gatekeepers shouted the news to the people in the palace.
“This is not right…” Duh!
People around you are dying and you have what they need to live.
You have to go share it with them.
You have to go share it with them.
And that’s what they do.
They announce the good news throughout the city.
The army is gone!
The enemy has been defeated!
The whole city rushes out to the camp and eat their fill.
There is celebration, joy, hope.
All because four lepers told them the good news.
What if they hadn’t told anyone?
What if they decided to keep the good news to themselves?
Here is the harsh reality: if these lepers stay there and not tell anyone, the city dies.
They waste away, starving to death, without hope.
All because no one told them that God has already saved them.
All because no one told them God has already defeated the enemy.
Man, this sounds familiar.
“This is the day of good news and we aren’t sharing it with anyone!”
I know too many churches who could etch that over their doorways.
I know too many Christians who have adopted this as their life verse.
As Christians, we’ve discovered the empty camp.
We know where to have our hunger satisfied and our thirst quenched.
We know the enemy has been defeated and that God has saved us.
How could we keep that to ourselves?
This is the source of our hope.
We have victory.
God has done something great for us in Jesus.
What we come to understand is that once we’ve experienced this, it’s not right to keep that to ourselves.
We have to tell others.
We have to share that good news.
TS - Today we conclude our Hope Wins series.
We’ve been looking at what hope looks like and where hope comes from.
Last week we saw that if hope really does define us as a people, and drive us as the church, it’s going to change things.
We looked at where we are headed as a church in the days to come.
If hope is the power that defines us and drives us, let’s let it do that.
So we are going to organize our church around it.
Be Hope.
Give Hope.
Last week we talked about Be Hope, looking at what a life defined by hope looks like.
And we saw the three pillars that hold that up, that accomplish that—worship faithfully, grow spiritually, connect relationally.
If you do those things, your life will begin to be defined by hope.
Today, we are going to look at Give Hope.
Hope is meant to be shared.
If you live hope, you will naturally give hope.
As we wrap this series up and set our gaze on the future of this church as we Give Hope, we are going to look at an encounter Jesus has with a woman in .
Interestingly enough, this encounter takes place in Samaria.
Hundreds of years after the capital was under siege, the circumstances of the people are not all that different.
There is still a famine—only this one is a different kind of famine.
Not physical, but spiritual.
And that famine remains until someone shows up to give hope to the hopeless.
- Jesus knew the Pharisees had heard that he was baptizing and making more disciples than (though Jesus himself didn’t baptize them—his disciples did).
3 So he left Judea and returned to Galilee. 4 He had to go through Samaria on the way.
5 Eventually he came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime.
7 Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.”
8 He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food.
9 The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans.
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