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I - A time I had a hard time making sense out of something.
Y - We have a fundamental need for meaning - “We need to know why things happen the way they do.
So we cry out to God, why and we want to hear”
When things happen in our lives we tells stories about them.
I got that job because I was the best applicant
The cop pulled me over because he was trying to make his quota.
Taxes are theft.
He got sick because he diddnt take care of himself.
What comes out of all that meaning making, and meaning finding is our worldview.
Something we build intentionally and unintentionally to make sense out of our lives.
Usually our worldview to us is hard to see because it just seems obvious, natural and common sense.
People who have a different worldview seem impossibly foreign even evil to us.
Because to us our worldview just seems so obvious its invisible, its just common sense.
But sometimes things happen that dont fit very well into how we understand the world....
New Information
When Colin Kapernick kneels during the national anthem
We need it so much we create it, without even thinking about it.
It becomes really obvious when you have a arugument with someone and you are s
Life Circumstances
I worked really hard on that paper and I got an F...
Donald Trump’s wall
This is called a worldview.
Its how we make sense out our our lives and experiences and everyone has one
I go to church every week but I still lost my friend...
I work out every day but I still had a heart attack...
That person cheated and is successful...
I read my bible every day but I had a terrible week...
When these sorts of things happen in our lives and they dont fit into our ways of understanding the world it can really through us for a loop.
We have to find out why?
We have to find a place in our worldview for those kinds of events or information.
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If we cant it can really mess us up.
Sometimes it can completely shatter our worldview.
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Trans:
Since we Left off - Jesus has been challenging the Worldview of Religious Jews through his actions
Healing, teaching,
but also
spending time with the poor, the sick, and the bad people.
also, breaking rules for good behavior.
Violating best practices.
If your a religious leader its your job to keep everyone on track and Jesus is doing damage to the system
Our Text - Jesus attacks their worldview directly - He tells a counter story - What is his story?
- This world is upside down
17 He went down with them and stood on a level place.
A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coastal region around Tyre and Sidon, 18 who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases.
Those troubled by impure spirits were cured, 19 and the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.
20 Looking at his disciples, he said:
“Blessed are you who are poor,
for yours is the kingdom of God.
21 Blessed are you who hunger now,
for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.
22 Blessed are you when people hate you,
when they exclude you and insult you
and reject your name as evil,
because of the Son of Man.
23 “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven.
For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.
24 “But woe to you who are rich,
for you have already received your comfort.
25 Woe to you who are well fed now,
for you will go hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will mourn and weep.
26 Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,
for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.
What Jesus is saying isn’t a slightly different way of understanding life.
Its a complete shift.
Explain how....
People believed - like we (most religions, and most people) do today - that “things happen for a reason” and generally if you do good things good things will happen to you.
And they believed the reverse.
That if things were going good in your life, it must be because you are good or at least worth emulating.
Not always, but most of the time.
We tend to believe this too, why else would we care about what Kim Kardashian does?
4 Blessings, 4 Woes that Make no sense.
They made no sense then, they make no sense now what do we do with them?
Jesus has been showing everyone that he thinks the world is upside down.
That is held captive by sin and evil and he is setting it right.
Every time he heals, ever time he eats with a sinner, every time he teaches.
He is literally “fixing” it bringing the kingdom, righting parts of the world.
The Pharisees see what he is doing and they dont know how to fit him into their worldview.
Is he good or evil, sinner or saint, from God or the devil.
Our passage puts Jesus actions to words.
JESUS FORCES a Confrontation
His message is clear, this is wrong, its backwards.
Your worldview cant contain me, because its wrong.
Jesus and what he is doing is TOO BIG to fit into a worldview.
He must be the foundation, or be rejected all together.
“We usually want to find a place to fit Jesus into our worldview.
But hearing God is about rejecting our worldview in favor of his.”
Will we hear the message or not?
Y - Jesus is speaking to you
Trans: Jesus says, the way things work out in this world is wrong.
Success/failure in this world is not a measure WORTH, morality, closeness to God, hard work, or whatever.
I am doing something new.
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