Brokenness

2nd Circle: Brokenness

Last week, we talked about how God has a design for all of us. But we are human and we screw up and sin. That ends up being our brokenness.

WE LIVE IN A BROKEN WORLD

Do agree with this statement?

Let’s just look at some statistics here

In the United States today:

» Forty percent of children live in single-parent homes.

» One half of 1 million children have been removed from their homes due to abuse and neglect and placed

in foster care.

» An estimated 20 million people are ensnared in some kind of addiction.

» Police report over 3,000 violent crimes a day.

These are rising numbers!

Let’s look at what happened in Texas this week. The final number as of 3 days ago is 21. 19 children and 2 Teachers.

We LIVE IN A BROKEN WORLD

So there once was this guy and you may know him but he sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty was his name. He had a great fall and and cracked, All the king’s horseman and all the king’s men couldnt figure out how to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

So we all know this wasnt for lack of trying. Im sure if they had duct tape it couldve worked right men?

Duct Tape doesn’t fix everything

What happens when duct tape gets wet, it loses its stickyness. Its mean to be a temporary fix.

Let’s look back at our lives. We sin, we feel guilty and we become afraid to see God. This happened with Adam and Eve. They were ashamed and hid from God.

So we go to other things, money, drugs, alcohol, getting angry, and even worse, some people go to cutting themselves or even suicide.

But why is brokenness such an important thing to realize.

First off,

We chose to depart from God’s Design

Now you may be asking yourself, Erich, did we really choose this if God already knew it was going to happen.

Yes, we chose it, why because you have the choice of free will.

This has been true from the very beginning.

Adam and Eve thought they knew better than God

Genesis 3:1–7 ESV

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

They made a choice. and Sin entered the world. which meant from then on we have departed from God’s Design.

We all do it.

Isaiah 53:6 ESV

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Genesis 3:8 ESV

And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

This scripture leads to the next point of

When we depart from God’s design, it always leads to brokenness

We know when our communion with God is broken. IT feels like fear, shame, guilt, loneliness and so forth right. We just talked about and when we feel this way we immediately try to hide from God.

Genesis 3:9–10 ESV

But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”

There is something that needs to be said here and it says it clearly in this scripture

I was afraid

Lets take a look at this from our perspective.

How many people here know about “The Good China”

The Good China

This is the china that comes out when someone important comes over and Mom runs frantically all over the house to clean it.

Now as a kid we all had butterfingers and we wanted to make sure the plates, cups or whatever does not fall and break.

And if something were to break, immediately you knew the WRATH OF MOM was coming.

You were afraid, you try to find the superglue to fix it immediately and hopefully she wont notice. SHE NOTICED

So instead of telling the truth and just getting the wrath over, you hide it, try to fix it on your own and Mom finds out and the punishment is wayyyy worse.

Brokenness disrupts God’s Design

God had a design for every aspect in our life we learned this last week.

Brokenness disrupts our Spiritual life

Genesis 3:14–15 ESV

The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

We have an enemy which is Satan.

Brokenness disrupts our family life

Genesis 3:16 ESV

To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”

He wanted us to multiply and be fruitful but now it comes with a cost because we didn’t listen.

Brokenness disrupts our married life

The other half of verse 16 says Your desire shall be contrary to your husband but he shall rule over you. The Christian Standard bible says Your desire will be for your husband yet he will rule over you.

Brokenness disrupts our work life

Genesis 3:17–19 ESV

And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

This is our toll to work the earth. We have to work at everything.

Brokenness disrupts our physical life. the ending of verse 19 says You will return to the ground since you were taken from it, for you are dust and you will return to dust.

But now we see the bad of brokenness, but it actually helps see the need for change.

Brokenness helps us see our need for change

We try to cover our own sin, but it doesnt work

Genesis 3:7 ESV

Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

We do what we can to fix our own brokenness but it doesn’t work

Brokenness seems like a bad thing but in may ways it’s good because it’s how God gets our attention

God has made way out of our brokenness by using the Gospel.

Starting next week and for the month of June we will be doing a Series called Foundation of the Church.

The first week will be the Gospel and the meaning of the Gospel which is also the last Circle

The second week we will have Big John from U Turn for Christ speaking on accountability and how we need to hold each other accountable as we the people are the church.

The 3rd week we will have Dr. Harry Watson back out again speaking on Stewardship

The 4th Week we will have one of our very own Dennis Gaddy, who is a Gideon, showing us what Gideons do in this world and the OUTREACH they have.

These are all very important foundations the church needs to have

The GOSPEL, ACCOUNTABILITY, STEWARDSHIP, and OUTREACH.