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All of us have a concept of God
What he expects from us
What we can expect from him
What our life as Christians should be like
We emphasis the parts of God from scripture that we like and easily understand and create God around that.
Pentecostals have a high expectation of miracles and supernatural intervention in their life by God
Baptists maybe don’t expect miracles but more wisdom about how to live right
Catholics maybe have a far less intimate understanding of God, more separate from us
We all have different expectations around our concept of God
Life’s experiences gradually teach us what walking with God is really like....and often we do not like it
Everyone who has walked with Jesus for any length of time has experienced God not working like we expected
A prayer not being answered
A loss that was not expected
A change we did not expect
An experience we never expected to go through
In some cases it causes people to walk away from the faith
Jesus talking about the different kinds of faith experiences with God.....
They fall away as soon as they have problems
Why?
2 reasons are possible:
1)As long as it was an “ I get” from God relationship, everything is fine
Once it starts costing:
Trust
Patience
Discomfort
Things change drastically
Marriages are suffering the same consequences of selfishness
2) A wrong understanding of God and the Christian life
Being taught that God promises:
All problems solved
All wants and desires met
Answers to all our questions
Christian preachers need to be very careful about the type of God they proclaim
I believe God heals…but he does not do it all the time
I believe God answers prayers…but not always the way we expect or when we expect
I believe God loves me.....but his idea of love may not be mine (discipline-character-teaching)
What makes me happy may not be what makes me better
Getting what we want may not be what is best for us.
Jesus faced people leaving him because he was not who THEY thought he would be
Jesus was describing how you had to drink his blood and eat his flesh
Alluding to his being the atoning sacrifice for sin in the world
Peter said something very important here:
You have the words that give eternal life.
He did not say…The good life
The healthy wealthy life
Peter’s realized the most important element of Jesus’s message…eternal Life
Jesus’s purpose in coming was this:
Jesus did not come just to:
cure all our diseases
pay all our bills
provide all our comforts
Jesus came because all of humanity needed atonement for their sins....why?
Because though the world does not believe it, there is a judgement coming
(if this was not so - why did God send Jesus?)
God loves you and I and does not want you and I to face that judgement
When our devotion to Christ becomes more about what he does for us here instead of there....disappointment happens
The Jews wanted someone to come and restore Israel
Everyone had their own idea of what Jesus was here to do
But Isaiah prophesied Jesus’ purpose
Most of our problems we suffer in life are not because of anything God is not doing for us
It is because we are living or responding to life in a manner contrary to scripture
Scripture is full of directions about how to live your best life..(not easiest life)
How to handle your enemy -
forgive and love and serve
How to handle your finances-
generous to others and don’t spend it all on yourself
How to handle your marriage
Love & respect
How to be a good citizen
Obey laws and don’t be gossips and work for a living
If we are not consuming scripture and learning from God’s word....when trouble comes we fall apart
We need to listen to Jesus’s teachings........and follow what they say.
Scripture teaches us how to handle life’s trials
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