The Fortunate Christian
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you guys ever sat around your living room just searching the ever ending apps and subscriptions you have searching for a movie to watch?
are you a trailer watcher or a description reader?
Im more of a trailer kinda guy ill sit there ans watch trailors to about 100 movies before we pick one. ANd mika tend to read the about this movie section. SO she can learn iin 15 seconds what will take me about 2 1/2 minutes to find out. But i like good cinematography
Movie descriptions: Funny Scary Known ones
Movie DescriptionsL #explain a film plot badly
Group spends 9 hours returning jewelry. Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
everyone tries the ice bucket challenge....titanic
Leonardo DiCaprio wanders a frozen wasteland in search of an Oscar....The revenant
Boy spends 7 years being a third wheel....harry potter.
A guy learns to love a girl without her instagram filters....Shrek
Girl has to pretend she's a man to be taken seriously.....Mulan
After losing his father a young boy joins a hippie group and becomes a vegan....The lion King
Dad tries to get his son to take over the family business....Star wars
Movie descriptions usually paint a picture of where the characters are, and what is the plot or the conflict in which the story’s directions is heading.
And depending on that conflict you want to see the resolve.
He was a powerful man who abused his power to sleep with another mans wife. But he got her pregnant. and out of fear of exposing his wickedness he tried to hide behind a cover up that turned murderous (2 sam 11)
Her life was a wreck. After five failed marriages she stopped with the personal relationships. She would go out in the blazing sun to run errands in order to hide from the comments, the whispers, and the condemning looks. (john4)
She has suffered from an illness for 12 years with no hope of passing it. All that time dealing with uncleanliness, uncomfortable and uncomforted. Then she heard of the man name Jesus healing others and she longed to receive his touch. But how! How could she ask him in front of the whole crowd? So she set out to hide among them in hopes to only touch the end of his robe. (Luke 8 43-48)
David uses his power or authority to get what he wants and after he is for lack of a better picture finished the consequences roll in. Consequences he attempted to cover up and in so created a heap of lies and self inflicted condemnation upon himself.
She opened up 5 different times only to crash and burn. Was it something she was doing? Was she not capable of love? It didn't matter because of the failures and the abuse to her mind she quit. So she hid in the heat. She withdrew all emotions and depth trying to just survive until her day had come. Covered in Shame she had no escape.
With the issue of the blood, she wondered what did i do to deserve this. Knowing it wasn’t her doing but a medical issue she felt dirty because her body was. She was felt uncomfortable with her issue so she was uncomfortable in public with others. Never having a support around her she was closed off and never cared for. Shame crept in as a decease but would leave through an act of miraculous Love.
Shame is the game changer. Shame isn't the devil but it is his highway. If he can get us on the autobahn of shame we can with our own minds travel as fast as we can go in an endless cycle of desolation. My friends ive been on that road of destruction to many times.
So much i know the way there still to this day. But by God as my strength and my rock i shall never self destruct under the weight of shame ever again because i know his love.
However its important i realize. Adam and eve Also knew God’s love....But still walked the course of sin which lead to shame.
1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.
5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
Shame can be defined as feeling of embarrassment or humiliation that arises in relation to the preparation of having done something dishonorable, immoral, or improper.
Meaning we feel shameful when we violate a belief or a set of standards we have always counted on.
and in doing so we become our worst critics. To the point of devaling our lifese. We claim we are bad people, we are worthless, and we have no value of any kid.
You know what we tend to blame these assumptions or thoughts on the devil. However thats not always the case.
Our minds are mended to think fault. so we focus in on whose fault is it and we never handle the issue of sin.
Its the knowledge of good and evil its the tear between the realities of knowing and doing.
Wishing you had the strength to stop being sinful.
More times than not its a issue with how we internally view ourselfs. We tend to use the view of this world and the sin state it lives in. In stead of the view throught the cross like God sees us.
So the question is are you have you been battling with these feelings?
Heres a list of signs that shame is affecting your life.
Feeling sensitive
Feeling unappreciated
feeling used
feeling rejected
feeling like you have little impact
being worried about what others think about you
wanting to have the last word in
being a perfectionist
wanting to shut people out or withdraw
feeling dishonorable
feelings of regret
feeling like you are losing your identity
and the list can go on....Im sure with that short list we can all agree we have either now or in the past dealt with these thoughts.
If we have had those thoughts we tend to respond in this way
We keep our heds hung low
we hide ourself from others
we feel frozen in thoughts and scared to take action
we even respond in anger.
In gen 3 adam and eve sinned knowing and having built a trust with God they have now done him wrong. And they believed it wasnt a good thing…so they acted.
Here we see adam and eve in the garden after they have sinned and hear God on his way back. Walking in the Garden. and we all know the response but for my sake lets read these last few verses again.
12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
God asked have you and adam said she made me, she said he made me.
The more adam and eve begin to ramble the more they are passing the blame game to someone else. Chaotic spiral of shaming others because of the shame they feel in there life’s.
This is a response common among people. When we have sinned.
God says hold up did you eat and adam points the finger. and then eve for another time misdirections the issue from sin to why.
they didn’t focus on the sin they did but the way the sin entered. And God ain’t worried about the way he is worried about this sin.
Because our God in heaven cares not about why you made the decision he is worried about the relationship that is severed because of the sin.
So God answers our sin in consequences but they come to an end.
While shame tells us lies that our sin is hopeless and will forever be who you are. Thats a lie because theres and answer to sin its name is Jesus and its HIs blood that runs deep over you that has set you free from this oppression
19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
What is your darkness today?
The serpent has stopped whispering to you but you continue to grow in the iniquities of sins
We all want to host the power and presense of Jesus to take back the authroity of this land and go healing the sick and changing lifes for the kingdom of God but what we dont want is to get rid of the sin. We just want to get rid of the small ways we recieved the message of this sin.
What IS your Darkness?
16 There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him:
17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,
19 a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
if those aren't clear enough then the acts we portray should be.
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions
21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Adam and Eve Failed. one little whisper and they gave in. I’ll say it again. Serpent made an argument to make a thing look good, seemed pleasing…and created a desire in the hearts. Which led to the failure.
However sin isn’t the only way that shame creeps into our life’s. See we fail...
And some may fail morally..through a sinful nature…while other time we fail due to our limitations(weaknesses)
We talked about the concept of David and his authority, he had it all, the temple the loyalty to his name, he had the money the wives. but one day in his garden he saw something else he wanted. A whisper into his mind and then a sinful decisions was made. The coverup was for his sins.
While the Samaritan woman may not have done anything wrong but open up her heart to many times. Allowing room one more time for a chance to not be alone.
While the woman with the issue of blood was just born with a medical issue no doctor or sorcerer could fix.
We cover up sin with a blanket of shame just as much as we cover up our weaknesses with shame.
We are familiar with sheltering in place. there was a sickness that had the whole world shelter in place for months at a time. Lock down after Lockdown to prevent a passing a sickness.
Weaknesses bring in a mental state of shelter in place. But its not to save others from you weaknesses, its in order to hide them from others.
We tend to hide in our insecurities.
Why do we hide? And is that the proper thing to do?
See this is different than us living in sin, were living in weakness sometimes. Maybe its our bodies that are weak or we have an issue that may not be kosher with society. We have interesting personalities or awkward at social gatherings, Maybe our past doesn't set a good reputation for our present.
maybe
We are to grateful and people use that as a weakness.
We are too open minded and people call us insufficient
No matter the reason we what we do is put up the walls of insecurities
and we build these walls either
because a part of our identity is being taken from us. Meaning its being made fun of laughed about or ridiculed
Or a part of our identify has been defined for us. Meaning someone else took us and used us and made that us.
the walls of insecurities stem from a blanket of shame.
So why do we hide because we are afraid of the consequences.
Just like adam not only did he and eve cover themselfs up with leaves. adam attempts to protect himself further by pointing blame on someone else.
God’s response is the same response today.
21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
God covred them properly. They used leaves. God used a piece of mammal skin to cover them. To keep them warm, protected. God gave a covering that would not only provide comfort but provide protection to there vulnerable bodies.
1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
3 Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
those who seek God are covered under his wings where we will always find refuge. always have a shield.
Our response weather it is to Shame from a sinful nature or one of limitations shouldnt be to build walls.
Today God is calling you to take the weight of sin,
the covering of shame
and the walls of insecurities and lay them at his feet.
But the ministering doesn’t happen just when we lay it down its when we allow God to confront us where we are.
the fortunate christian is the one who takes there burdens and addresses the shame and insecurities in life and lays them not just at the feet of jesus but choose to live in the Love of there Father in Heaven.
Some Christians may never obtain this but today God wants to minister to you. So for the next 20 minute i want us to sit here and allow God to speak to us completely.
As we get ready to sit in the presense of this song as God speaks to your hearts and minds i want to say a prayer over you this morning myself. And i invite you to pray with me.
Pray for