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GOT A TRAGEDY? (2 of 12)
Meet Jesus
John 4:45-54
It is altogether possible this morning that one of
you, many of you, or any number of you have come into
this service today and you are dealing with a tragedy.
You have had in recent days a series of events or
occurrences which has brought tragedy to your life.
In
the Novel, "Brothers Karamazov," one of the characters
says, "What terrible tragedies real life contrives for
people."
Of course, that is true.
Real life brings with it
many, many tragedies.
The word, tragedy, is a rather
interesting word.
I got interested in it as I was
thinking about trying to help people today deal with
the subject of tragedy.
So, I looked up the word,
tragedy and I found that it means a disastrous event.
Then I got interested in the etymology of the word—
where did the word come from.
I discovered, much to my
surprise or amazement, that it comes from a Greek word
for goat.
It also comes from a word that means to
gnaw.
You know goats gnaw on things.
So the very root
of the word, tragedy, means to gnaw.
A tragedy is a
disastrous even which gnaws at the heart.
It gnaws at
the soul.
So, there may be some here this morning and you are
dealing with tragedy and I'm glad you are here this
morning because you have an opportunity in this place
to meet the Lord Jesus Christ, if you have not, and
let Him help you with your tragedy.
When we study the New Testament—the Gospels of the
Lord Jesus.
We find that any number of people who had
tragedies brought those tragedies to the Lord Jesus
and they were helped by Him.
The verses of Scripture
which I have read this morning give us the account of
the nobleman's son who was at the point of death.
We
learn a great deal about how to deal with tragedy in
this account.
One of the things we learn here is -what faith is.
The
basic elements of faith and how faith can grow and
progress in a person's life are revealed in this
particular account.
Here was a man who had a need.
He
brought his need to the Lord Jesus.
Jesus Christ made
a promise to him.
The man believed the promise and he
discovered that Jesus would do just exactly what He
says He will do.
That is a great lesson on faith.
It is also a great lesson to us when people in the New
Testament had tragedies and they brought them to the
Lord Jesus Christ and were helped.
Jesus Christ, who
is the same yesterday, today, and forever stands ready
to help you deal with the tragedies that may come in
to your life.
I want us to follow the very simplicity of this story
and do it in a very simple way.
From that I want us to
see how to deal with tragedies in life.
The first thing I want you to notice about this story
is that—
I.
The Man Has a Great SORROW.
The sorrow is immediately given to us.
We find out
what the sorrow is in the condition of his son.
We are
told that this boy of the noble man was at the point
of death.
We learn down in verse 52 that he had a
fever and evidently it was very serious in nature.
It
was a symptom of something even deeper down within the
boy.
It has now brought him on the brink of death.
He
has come right now at death's door.
That is a tragedy.
If a person has a problem, if there is a child that is
at the point of death, that is indeed a tragedy.
"At the point of death."
I found that to be an
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