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One Way
Praise Night May 21, 2005
I.
Introduction
a. Thinking of One Way
i.
Direction of getting something done
1. when I first come out to California
2. had a motorcycle and went to Redondo Beach
ii.
One way sign
1. there was a cop waiting there for me
2. paid the ticket
3. wait in line to show proof of payment and then I had to wait in another line to get my license reinstated
iii.
life is a series of lines
1. progression of educational system
a. we get in line through elementary school
b. through Jr high- proceed in the line through high school
c. then through college, we are so used to lines that we don’t get out\
i.
some of us become professional students find comfort in lines
2. sometimes we come to a crossroads
a. we’re not sure what direction to take
/ i.
//“Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.”
-Don Marquis/
b.
We go through hell to know what life is all about
i.
Movie Castaway
1. FedEx truck picking up a package with pink wings from farm sign “Dick and Bettina”
a. Song playing is Elvis singing Heartbreak Hotel and then changes to All Shook Up when she says she has another package to picked up on Thursday
b. Picks up pace as it is delivered to her husband having an affair in Russia
2. Chuck Nolan, being in control of everything, giving a speech
a. Three points
i.
Time rules over us w~/o mercy (rather than God who rules us with mercy)
ii.
We live or die by the clock (rather than the grace of a Sovereign God)
iii.
Never turn your back on the clock or commit the sin of losing track of time (rather than the sin of turning your back from the compassionate, loving God)
b.
He then opens a package he had mailed from the US with a clock in it
i.
87 hrs- that is an eternity
ii.
Man’s time vs. God’s time- theme of the movie
1. he even testifies he had to steal a bike to serve his taskmaster- time
3. we see him on the trip home, speaking with his friend Stan- wife has cancer
a. “I will get you a number to a good doctor, we will get this fixed.”
i.
Life is a series of problems to be fixed rather than to be lived
4. When Chuck is stranded on the island
a.
The first thing he notices
i.
His watch has stopped and his pager is filled with water
1. his master is no more and he is left alone- cast away
II.
Opening Prayer
III.
Life can be humbling
a. Humbling to realize the things we serve, the things so precious to us
i.
Actually has no value in terms of giving us answers
/1. //“Whatever a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines or rather indicates his fate.”
- Henry David Thoreau/
ii.
So actually where are we going in life?
1. many of us stand in line, doing what life has conformed for us to do
2. many of us are taught that certain things are right and have shaped our values and shaped a direction in life
3. some of us live in fear- fear driving us
a. some of us are just clueless and not even given it a single thought
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//“Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believe.” - Walter Lippman/
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what’s it all about?
1. movie Alfie
b. whenever we are lost, at a crossroads in our lives
i.
we need to two points
1. where we are
2. where we want to go
IV.
Where are we?
a. Beyond the obvious
i.
DFC, Saturday May 21, 2005
b. we live in a society that is plagued with problems
i.
we need to open the history books
1. read stories of genocide, mass killings
a. WWII
i.
Holocaust 6 million Jews
ii.
Recent story of protest of the Chinese against the history books of Japan dispelling the atrocities of Nan king- rape of Nan king- 300,000
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Firebombing of Japan- 3,000 tons of incenary bombs
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