Embracing God's Grace in Our Messiness
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God does not reject us because of our messiness. How many are happy about that? He does not reject us because of our messiness. The exact opposite of rejection happened. In the birth of Jesus Christ. In the incarnation. That God sent Jesus. To come into this mess. Called life. This messy planet. This fallen world. Of Adam. He came in on a rescue mission. For us. Never forget that. That he came for you. And he does not reject you because of the messes you have made. Or you are making. Or yet you will make. Of course he wants to help us. Let us get healthy. But he does not reject us. [00:13:35] (49 seconds)
God uses messy people. How many are grateful for that? I definitely wouldn't be here. Think about the Apostle Paul. Before the Apostle Paul became Paul, he was Saul the Pharisee, Saul of Tarsus. Paul might be the most prominent figure in Scripture outside of Jesus. But Paul, and he wrote three quarters of the New Testament, brought the gospel to the ends of the world, the known world. And yet, he was a religious terrorist. He thought he was doing God a favor by killing Christians, by rounding up men and women and children who followed the way. [00:20:27] (47 seconds)
God comforts us in our messes so that we can help others in their mess have some comfort and some wisdom and help them through that. And then the last point I think we can glean from this big messy story to all the messes. God comforts us in our messes so that we can know how to comfort others in our messes. God comforts us in our messes. God comforts us in our messes. And one of the things that I love about the messy stories is God uses the messes of life to create fruitful lives. [00:23:37] (24 seconds)
Life creates manure. Life creates messes, right? It can either be self-inflicted or it can be maybe somebody inflicted a mess to you and brought this manure. Manure is death. But when you put this death into the soil, it helps produce life. It helps produce life. It helps produce life. It helps produce life. It helps produce fruit, crops, vegetation, plants, trees. It needs manure. It needs this death. It's a weird thing. But death brings life. God does some of his best work out of manure to make us trees planted by living water who are fruitful in season so that we can be blessed and be a blessing to others. [00:24:26] (57 seconds)
We love you and praise you. You're the King of kings and the Lord of lords, the Savior of humanity, the Lord of all, the creator and sustainer of all things. We humbly submit ourselves to you and our lives to you. We want to follow you, Jesus, in every aspect of our life, in thought, word, and deed. In your name I pray. [00:33:24] (25 seconds)
He meets us there. Secondly, what do we glean from this? We're not gleaned from a messy story. It's this, God uses messy people. How many are grateful for that? I definitely wouldn't be here. Think about the Apostle Paul. Before the Apostle Paul became Paul, he was Saul the Pharisee, Saul of Tarsus. Paul might be the most prominent figure in Scripture outside of Jesus. But Paul, and he wrote three quarters of the New Testament, brought the gospel to the ends of the world, the known world. And yet, he was a religious terrorist. [00:20:20] (46 seconds)
God sent his son into the world. He did not send him to judge the world. Guilty. But to save the world. Through him. That is fantastic news. In the Greek. Which we translate from Greek into English. In our Bibles that we read. There is one Greek word. That we either translate. Lost or perish. But they are interchangeable words. So if something is lost. It is perishing. If something is perishing. It is lost. Keep that in mind when you read. 3 .15. The three parables of the lost coin. The lost sheep. And the lost son. [00:14:40] (46 seconds)
The woman at the well we talked about last week, Jesus meets her, confronts her, wants to heal her. She had five husbands. The man she was with, you know, wasn't a her husband. And Jesus confronts that, says, hey, I'm the Messiah. And then the woman caught in adultery. All her condemners were there ready to throw rocks at her. And Jesus says, whichever one of you is without sin, hey, throw the first stone. One by one, they all left. Jesus stands up and he says, woman, where are those who condemn you? She says, they all left. He says, I don't condemn you either. Go and sin no more. [00:19:44] (35 seconds)
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God uses messy people. How many are grateful for that? I definitely wouldn't be here. Think about the Apostle Paul. Before the Apostle Paul became Paul, he was Saul the Pharisee, Saul of Tarsus. Paul might be the most prominent figure in Scripture outside of Jesus. But Paul, and he wrote three quarters of the New Testament, brought the gospel to the ends of the world, the known world. And yet, he was a religious terrorist. He thought he was doing God a favor by killing Christians, by rounding up men and women and children who followed the way. [00:20:27] (47 seconds)
God comforts us in our messes so that we can help others in their mess have some comfort and some wisdom and help them through that. And then the last point I think we can glean from this big messy story to all the messes. God comforts us in our messes so that we can know how to comfort others in our messes. God comforts us in our messes. God comforts us in our messes. And one of the things that I love about the messy stories is God uses the messes of life to create fruitful lives. [00:23:37] (24 seconds)
Life creates manure. Life creates messes, right? It can either be self-inflicted or it can be maybe somebody inflicted a mess to you and brought this manure. Manure is death. But when you put this death into the soil, it helps produce life. It helps produce life. It helps produce life. It helps produce life. It helps produce fruit, crops, vegetation, plants, trees. It needs manure. It needs this death. It's a weird thing. But death brings life. God does some of his best work out of manure to make us trees planted by living water who are fruitful in season so that we can be blessed and be a blessing to others. [00:24:26] (57 seconds)
We love you and praise you. You're the King of kings and the Lord of lords, the Savior of humanity, the Lord of all, the creator and sustainer of all things. We humbly submit ourselves to you and our lives to you. We want to follow you, Jesus, in every aspect of our life, in thought, word, and deed. In your name I pray. [00:33:24] (25 seconds)
He meets us there. Secondly, what do we glean from this? We're not gleaned from a messy story. It's this, God uses messy people. How many are grateful for that? I definitely wouldn't be here. Think about the Apostle Paul. Before the Apostle Paul became Paul, he was Saul the Pharisee, Saul of Tarsus. Paul might be the most prominent figure in Scripture outside of Jesus. But Paul, and he wrote three quarters of the New Testament, brought the gospel to the ends of the world, the known world. And yet, he was a religious terrorist. [00:20:20] (46 seconds)
God sent his son into the world. He did not send him to judge the world. Guilty. But to save the world. Through him. That is fantastic news. In the Greek. Which we translate from Greek into English. In our Bibles that we read. There is one Greek word. That we either translate. Lost or perish. But they are interchangeable words. So if something is lost. It is perishing. If something is perishing. It is lost. Keep that in mind when you read. 3 .15. The three parables of the lost coin. The lost sheep. And the lost son. [00:14:40] (46 seconds)
The woman at the well we talked about last week, Jesus meets her, confronts her, wants to heal her. She had five husbands. The man she was with, you know, wasn't a her husband. And Jesus confronts that, says, hey, I'm the Messiah. And then the woman caught in adultery. All her condemners were there ready to throw rocks at her. And Jesus says, whichever one of you is without sin, hey, throw the first stone. One by one, they all left. Jesus stands up and he says, woman, where are those who condemn you? She says, they all left. He says, I don't condemn you either. Go and sin no more. [00:19:44] (35 seconds)
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