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As we start this new series, I want to encourage us to commit to three things over the next 8 weeks.
A - Attend regularily
B - Bring a Friend to join this sermon series.
C - Connect with those in your Core group.
1. Opener: Do you have a short story where you have forgotten (lost) something that made you panic?
A couple years ago, at the Thrive conference, Ray Johnston talked about the idea for a book that was writing--it was going to be about Reintroducing Jesus to the American Church...
This began what was called the Jesus project -
The book is finished and it is entitled - "Jesus called and wants his church back."
Quite an enticing title... the premise of the book addresses a trend in the church in America over the past several years.
A Recent Pew research has showed that Christianity in America is in sharp deciline, while at the same time atheism had doubled..
Ray says that...Even though these statistics are troubling, there is a deeper truth here ...
These people who have left church also left Christianity.. Why this is happening .... what are we to do as churches and leadersers.
Getting back to the Gospels.
Jesus project is about being reintroduced again to the Jesus of the Bible.
The Jesus of the Bible was kind of radical... remember what C.S. Lewis said in Mere Christianity.
"A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.
He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell.
You must make your choice"
Jesus came claiming to be the son of God and having the power to forgive sins.
He is the only Rabbai of the day who discouraged people from following him...
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2. What do you find most challenging about Jesus call to Discipleship?
One day a scribe came up to Jesus and said to him that he would follow.
Jesus did say come and join us... we need extras...
Another came up to Jesus and said, Iwant to follow you but let me first go and bury my father.. Jesus said to him let the dead bury thier own n dead.
Jesus taught that his disciples would do great things..
The Jesus project is about getting back to the Bible -- and rekindling the hope that comes with the proclaimation of Jesus in our churches..
it's putting Jesus front stage again of lives.
One of the wonders of the world is the TAJ Mahal.
The shah who built the Taj Mahal in 1629 was hearbroken over the death of his favoite wife.
To commemorate her, he ordered this magnificent memorial to be built.
Before he started the building, the shah place his wife's casket in the middle of the construction site so the memorial would be built on top of her remains.
As he built, he became enamored by his project.
He worked on it with great passion, making it better, bigger, grander and more expensive than anything ever imagined.
During the construction, workers excavated portions of the land to sink the foundation.
As the story goes, the shah stumbled over the corner of a box in the dirt.
Irritated, he had it removed to make room for more construction.
The result was the building was erected, but when it was finished the womans remains were nowhere to be found.
He'd built the building , but he forgot to hang onto the woman it was meant to commemorate.
The very thing that the Taj Mahal was meant to celebrate was forgotten...
We need to keep Jesus as the centerality of our message... Christ in the center of our lives..
T/S This morning we are going to look at our text in Matt 6 one of the greatest speaches ever given.
There are some Great speaches in History one of the most famous address was given during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln - gave the Gettysburg Address - which lasted a whole 2 minutes reinterating the principes of equality in the Declaration of Independance.
then..there was
Winston Churchill's speach during second world war - "The Finest Hour" It was at the house of parlament at the beginning of war that united the nation.
Martin Luther King Jr - "I have a dream" - That called for an end to racisism in this country.
Forest Gump "Life is a box of Chocolates"
Each of these were impactful... and remembered in History...
But, One of the greatest addresses every is found was given by Jesus and is found in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6.
One of our Presidents Harry Trueman said
"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching on the sermon on the Mount."
President Harry Trueman
The Sermon on the Mount -- Basically the "how to manual" how to live out Faith n the real world.
T/S When it comes to our approach to life ... there are basically two paths we can take..
A. The Path to Panic
Stress is a huge issue in this country...
It really is an epedemic.
The American Institude of stress has these statistics.
44% of Americans feel more stressed thant they did 5 years ago.
1-5 Americans experience Extreme Stress (shaking, heart palpitations, depression)
3-4 Doctors visits are for stress- related ailments.
Stress is the basic cause of 60% of all human illinesses and disease.
We are going to first look at thath way to PANIC.
Step 1 - Deceived by Self-Sufficiency vs19-21
We think we can do it on our own..this is what Jesus warns against in Matt 6.
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3. What alternatives does Jesus propose with respect to treasures, desires, and matters?
Jesus is talking about treasure... treasure has value, importance and it often the way we organize our priorities... Descisons we make are often centered arround treasure...
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The kind of car we drive
b.
Were we shop
c.
where we travel.
d. what and how we celebrate.
The way we spend our money, our checkbooks are sure indicators of our spiritual condition.
We are accustomed to dividing life into the “spiritual” and the “material”; but Jesus made no such division.
Jesus gives us a negative command "Do not lay up for yourself treasures on earth"... what is followed by positive command "but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven...
What are the treasures Jesus is talking about in this verse?
He is talking about accumilating or haording wealth on earth.
Don't be decieved by self-sufficency because just because you have money in a bank somewhere doenst not mean its recession proof.
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Remember the great depression... remember the recession in 2008.
We need to have a proper attitude toward material wealth....
One of the main causes of worry for people is money... this proberbly doesn't surprise us but statistics.
Seventy-two percent of adults report feeling stressed about money at least some of the time and 22 percent say that they experience extreme stress about money
Nowhere did Jesus magnify poverty or criticize the legitimate getting of wealth.
God made all things, including food, clothing, and precious metals.
God has declared that all things He has made are good
God knows that e need certain things in order to live.
Matt 6:32...your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
In fact, He has given us “richly all things to enjoy” (1 Tim.
6:17).
It is not wrong to possess things, but it is wrong for things to possess us.
One of the battles that we have in our American culture is that of materialism.
Materialism world view can be summed up in one word "MORE."
People with a materialistic world view confuse their values with their valuables.
Jesus challenged conventional wisdom... which says that the more we have the happier we will become... we
What does it mean to lay up treasures in heaven?
It means to use all that we have for the glory of God.
It means to “hang loose” when it comes to the material things of life.
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