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*/Getting the Conversation Started – part 1/*
*/“Can You Hear Me Now?”/*
*/March 11, 2004/*
*/Adapted from a sermon by Chris Seidman, Farmers Branch Church of Christ/*
Communication Impaired.
Have you had trouble getting through to somebody?
How many of you get email telling you about bizarre stories that have happened.
They are almost unbelievable.
Well the story I’m about to share with you has been validated by Snopes.Com.
This is a web page that searches out urban legends to see if they are really true.
They have verified that the story I’m about to tell you really occurred.
/FBI agents conducted a "search and seizure" at the Southwood //Psychiatric Hospital// in San Diego in 1993, which was under investigation for medical insurance fraud.
After hours of poring over many rooms of financial records, some sixty FBI agents worked up quite an appetite.
The case agent in charge of the investigation called a local pizza parlor with delivery service to order a quick dinner for his colleagues./
/The following telephone conversation took place:/
/Agent: Hello.
I would like to order nineteen large pizzas and cases// of soda./
/Pizza man: And where would you like them delivered?/
/Agent: To the Southwood Psychiatric Hospital./
/Pizza man: To the psychiatric hospital?/
/Agent: That's right.
I'm an FBI agent./
/Pizza man: You're an FBI agent?/
/Agent: That's correct.
Just about everybody here is./
/Pizza man: And you're at the psychiatric hospital?/
/Agent: That's correct.
And make sure you don't go through the front doors.
We have them locked.
You'll have to go around to the back to the service entrance to deliver the pizzas./
/Pizza man: And you say you're all FBI agents?/
/Agent: That's right.
How soon can you have them here?/
/Pizza man: And you're over at Southwood?/
/Agent: That's right.
How soon can you have them here?/
/Pizza man: And everyone at Southwood is an FBI agent?/
/Agent: That's right.
We've been here all day and we're starving./
/Pizza man: How are you going to pay for this?/
/Agent: I have my check book right here./
/Pizza man: And you are all FBI agents?/
/Agent: That's right, everyone here is an FBI agent.
Can you //remember to bring the pizzas and sodas to the service entrance in the //rear?
We have the front doors locked./
/Pizza man: I don't think so.
//Click./
Have you ever had trouble getting through to somebody?
Communication is hard work.
It’s not just a struggle among people.
We have struggles communicating with God.
This is why we are spending time talking about prayer in the series, “Can You Hear Me Now?”
The issue we are dealing with today is not so much that people have struggles talking with God; they don’t talk to God at all.
Sometimes a sign that your marriage could be in trouble is that you have never have communication problems.
You may not be trying to communicate with each other at all.
This morning I want to attempt to help you establish a foundation to have a conversation with God, for some of you to start talking with God again.
How you start a prayer life or kick start your prayer life with God?
I want to give you three foundations to start or kick start your prayer life.
*First, It is by grace we pray.*
This is very important to understand because many feel they are wasting time.
The primary reason is because we don’t feel ready to pray.
We have to get things just right.
I want to pray but I don’t.
I need to know more about prayer.
I need to know more about God.
What should I pray for and should I not pray for?
I have a mix bag of motives, selfish and unselfish, pure and impure, merciful and unmerciful, and holy and unholy.
Why would God listen to me when I don’t even know what my motives are?
I need to get my act together before I ask God for anything.
Listen to me, IT ISN’T YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO GET YOUR *ACT TOGETHER SO YOU CAN PRAY TO GOD.*
*/Hebrews 10:19-22/*
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Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
20. by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,
21. and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
22. let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
In the temple of the Jews, the High Priest could only go into the Holy of Holies once a year to offer an atoning sacrifice for the Jewish people.
He would go behind a curtain that was 18-24” thick of animal skins.
It wasn’t just your basic piece of fabric hanging there.
This curtain was put there because they had sinned against God.
Therefore, they would have very limited access to God.
They had to have someone, the High Priest, go to God in their behalf.
Everything changed when came to earth to die on the cross and be resurrected from the grave.
So when we put our faith in Jesus to save us and take charge of our lives.
Jesus Christ comes to live in us.
When He lives in us then His righteousness is your righteousness; His purity is your purity; His holiness is your holiness; and His access to God is your access to God.
We can have confidence to enter the most holy place before the throne of God.
How can we do that?
*Matthew** 27:50-51 (NIV).
50 **And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
51 **At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
The earth shook and the rocks split.
\\ *This was a visual commentary of what the death of Jesus is all about.
The curtain has been split and opened.
You no longer a priest.
You no longer are closed off from God. Through Jesus Christ, you have access to God.
My confidence to enter the Most Holy Place has nothing to do with what I do or don’t do.
It is based on what Jesus Christ has done.
We are not just saved by the grace of God but by the grace of God you pray.
*Galatians 3:26-27 (NIV) \\ 26 **You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, \\ 27 **for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
\\ *When we are immersed in the waters of baptism we come up out of the water clothed with Christ.
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