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The season of adultery
Lord God in Jesus name we come to you desolate, with nothing and we ask that you make
our lifes full with abundance and you make the desolate woman leap for joy and give
abundance where there is poverty and desolation and that you make this land of poverty
into a land of abun....... dance in Jesus name amen
And so we look at Psalm 9
Psalm 9 (New International Version)
8 He will judge the world in righteousness; he will govern the peoples with justice.
9 The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
10 Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken
those who seek you.
11 Sing praises to the LORD, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he
has done.
12 For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
13 O LORD, see how my enemies persecute me!
Have mercy and lift me up from the
gates of death,
14 that I may declare your praises in the gates of the Daughter of Zion
and there rejoice in your salvation.
The LASB says , in verse 11, Sing praises to the Lord who reigns in Jerusalem.
Verse 14, Save me so I can praise you publicly at Jerusalems gates,
Instead of Jerusalem you could say " Zion "
But God does not just live in Jerusalem or Zion, another name for Mount Moriah,
On which that beautiful Temple was built.
The temple was the focal point of Israelite worship which was built by human hands,
in fact by Solomon and mentioned in 2 Chronicles 7:16.
The temple can be seen from the mount of olives the very place where Jesus
sat with some disciples and the very place where He will return again.
Mount Moriah where King Solomons temple was built is the very place where Abraham
offered his son as a sacrifice and Abraham called that place
" The Lord will provide "
Now we need to focus on the fact that this temple was made by human hands and was a
building to worship God the focal point of worship for the Israelite people.
And we know that God does not just dwell in building ......don't we ?
We know that now we are indeed a dwelling place for God to tabernacle in.
We know that indeed we are a place where God can dwell.
We are indeed a place where God can take residence.
We are indeed a temple !!
Which is why we as Christians offer up our lifes as a sacrifice to Him.
As Abraham offered the his only son we in turn offer our lifes.
And we do not want any " abominations " to desolate our lives or temples
....do we ?
We do not want to be barren, desolate, deserted, do we ?
And so we offer up our lifes daily as an acceptable offering of worship...
In Romans 12:1 Paul writes, "Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's
mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this
is your spiritual act of worship."
And in 1 Peter 4:11 we are told, "If anyone
speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God.
If anyone serves
, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may
be praised through Jesus Christ."
And so we look not to the temple made of stone but we look to the cornerstone
and we who are being made into a temple , we are living stones..
1 Peter 2:5 You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house
to be a holy priesthood."
And so we do not focus on a day being a Holy day, but we focus on Christ our rest,
for His yoke is easy and His burdon is light and as we come to Him the stone the
builders rejected we see that He indeed is the Chief Cornerstone, and we come to Him,
and all those who are burdoned and heavy ladened find rest in Him.
Not focusing on a day of the week or a building made of stone, nor indeed a time of
year !!
And so we come to Christmas....that time of the year when we might see...
TV worship, mobile phone worship, food worship, alcohol worship, worship of
material things and all manner of worship, that results in desolation....
But we look to Christ and we look to ourselves not judging or comparing ourselves to
others and how they worship Christmas !!!!!
No we do not compare ourselves alongside others either as Christians but we alone
follow Christ
Sorry I said " worship Christmas " tut tut
We worship Jesus of course as Christians and so really Christmas is like any other
time.!!!!!
Because as Christians, Jesus is born and maybe reborn in many hearts all the time
and surely that is what it is all about ?
It is about Jesus's birthday, a time to celebrate Jesus which of course as we know is
........????
EVERYDAY.
In the same way as the Holy Day of the week is not sunday nor monday..
In the same way as the place of worship is not JUST the Church building....
In the same way as the Church building is not Holy !!!
In the same way as we do not worship the actual temple that solomon built..
In the same way as Jesus taught and spoke of " another day ,, and all that enter"
And so we see that Jesus is not just for Christmas
Noooooo
Jesus is life....
I say again , Jesus is not just for Christmas but Jesus is life >......
Now to some it may be the only time you may go to Church, to some it may be the
only time you meet friends and family...
To some it may be the only time you have a " physical rest "
But as Christians Christmas is a time of celebration not just for this season but
for all seasons.
Now I want to get onto the actual message here and at this point you will need a
box, it can be an imaginary cardboard box or if you have a spare cardboard box handy
nearby then use that or even a bin will do.
Because you see at this point we are going to look at a word, its just one word which
is picked up often by bible readers and tends to be used often when referring to certain
groups of people.
I'm not quite sure why this word is so popular or why bible readers use this word in
regard to certain groups but here we go.
The word is " Abomination "
Now this word is often used when people talk about " homosexual practices "
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