Untitled Sermon (4)

All together-on one accord.

SCENE IS JERUSALEM…JESUS ASCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS AND THE DISCIPLES ARE ALTOGETHER -ON ONE ACCORD WAITING FOR HIS RETURN

ALL TOGETHER-IS THAT US...

WE HAVE BEEN OBEDIENT—HAVE WE NOT?

WE HELD TO THE RESTRICTIONS—STAYED HOME (FOR THE MOST PART) FOR QUARANTINED FROM FAMILY, NEIGHBORS, FRIENDS-TRIED TO FOLLOW THE MEASURES—FOR SOCIAL DISTANCING—WE ALL WALKED AROUND LOOKING LIKE BANDITS…OR DOCTORS GETTING GEARED UP FOR SURGERY...

AND WE DID NOT WALK —AS THOUGH WE WERE IGNORANT OF WHO TRULY HAS OUR SAFETY IN HIS HANDS…WE WANTED TO —DO AS THE BIBLE SAID…RENDER TO CAESAR—WHAT IS CAESARE..

BUT SAINTS…I APPLAUD YOU FOR BEING ON ONE ACCORD

IT HAS NOT BEEN EASY

IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW --

MRS. ZEBEDEE—JOHN AND JAMES’ MOMA —FELT SHE HAD SUCH A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS THAT —SHE APPROACHED HIM ASKING

GRANT THAT THESE MY TWO SONS MAY SIT…ONE ON YOU RIGHT AND THE OTHER ON YOUR LEFT IN THY KINGDOM..

NOW IF YOU KNOW JESUS —LIKE I KNOW JESUS--

THAT WAS A MAJOR AFETY REASONS…AND

WE WAITED FOR FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS…JESUS SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES GO WAIT IN JERUSALEM.

CERTAINLY AFTER HIS FINAL WORDS -LEAVING IN ASTONISHMENT -IN AWE THEY SAW HIM…HE KEPT HIS WORD -AND ON THE THIRD DAY —HE AROSE FROM THE DEAD…NOW AFTER 3 1/2 YEARS…I THINK JESUS HAS THEIR UNDIVIDED ATTENTION.

THAT WASN’T ALWAYS SO…THEY SQUABBLED -WHICH ONE OF US WILL BE WITH YOU—IN GLORY…MY MOMMA —SPOKE TO YOU —WE’VE BEEN FAITHFUL—HAVEN’T WE?

LORD...WHO’S GOING TO BE WITH YOU-

MOMMA WANTS -AND JAMES…(JOHN AND JAMES ZEBEDEE)

THAT CONVERSATION DIDN’T GO WELL-JESUS SAID,