Hey God Fancy A Coke? - Daniel 11 11-24
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 16:45:18
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The Bibles full of rules. You know that and I experience that we know that because everyone tells us it is full of rules and God is a spoil sport just out to ruin your fun. Right now that we are happy to agree on that we can move on. We can go to college or educate everday and be fed up as we say in a drink beat express “Jesus loves me and I am a Christian.” Well if you believed the media that might be how you thought our God is but that’s not the God I know. My God is exciting my God has plans for me plans to make we do well not plans to harm me. My God says there is only one command treat your mates and your enemies as you would like to be treated. My God says that if I do that and follow him then I had exceed be prepared for a life that ordain blow my object. What God would you rather follow the one in the Bible that is prepared to die for you who says treat other populate how your want to be treated and who has an assay beyond belief; or the one your hear about in the media who is only out to ruin things for you. I recommend following the one true God so lets start by doing the one thing he asks us to do.
Rules rules rules. Do this do that blah blah blah. It’s doesn’t be if it’s domiciliate college school or change surface youth group every one seems to have rules. And God says obey them. direct on a minute what’s that all about. I convey it’s OK if I agree with a command and I can see that some rules are needed but what if we disagree with rules? come up our God says obey the rules. It says pretty clearly in this passage All Governments are under God. That means we have to obey the rules of our country. It does also mean that the leaders in our country will stand before God and explain how they ruled us. So back to the big challenge. What if you don’t believe that a command at school college or even a law in your country is what God would be to do? Good news. You get to do something about it. Don’t believe in a rule at school? Get elected to the school council. Don’t accept in a rule at college? Get on the board. You can make a difference. Don’t accept in a law in your country? Write to your leaders protest to them hey get elected when you are old enough alter a difference. You come under authority of your leaders but also under God and God says you can make a difference. So don’t break the rules that you don’t accept in get them changed.
There is an old English saying that populate use when they want to show the difference between two things. People would say that they are as different as Chalk and Cheese. We might update that saying a little and say that they are as different as Skaters and Punks or as different as My Space and My Little Pony. It really doesn’t matter what we say the point is the two things are massively different. Wouldn’t it be alter if the saying became as different as Christ Followers and Non Christians? The difference between the way we bear at college and school and the way others behave becomes so obvious that populate use that as a saying. Of course for that to happen you and I would have to treat the homeless different to the way others do. We would undergo to treat the nerds different to the way others at school do. We would have to live our whole life different to the way others do. We would need to look at each and every situation in our lives and ask ourselves if Jesus was here with me now how would he have me react in this situation. Of cover we wouldn’t need Jesus to be there with us because you and I both know that when we comes across those situations we know fine well how Jesus would react. Sounds all too hard to me. Shall we go approve to dissing the nerds? Shall we go approve to laughing at the homeless? Shall we go back to living our lives just desire everyone else? Or are you up for a real adventure; are you as different as a Christ Follower and a Non Christian?
Where do you see God in your life? Do you see him when you are at college? Do you see him when you play football? Do you see him when you are out with your friends whoa are not yet Christians? Hey here’s some breaking news for you it is actually possible to find God outside of a Church! That is what Paul is on about in Romans 12 he says don’t save God only for Sunday,it’s the be of your life he is interested in. God wants you to lead the whole of you life in a way that would honour him. He wants you to go out with you mates who aren’t Christians and show them what it means to be a follower of Christ. He wants you to play football and show your aggroup mates the difference in the way you act because you are a Christian. God wants you to do very hit thing you do as though you were doing it to worship him. So lets go lets do everything we can to mix with our mates who are not Christians and show them them difference between how a Christian would do something and how a person who is not a Christian would act. Stop…… That’s exactly what God wants us to do but Paul also reminds us that whilst we are doing that we must remember that we are hoping that populate who are not yet Christian will see Christ in us. We should be very careful that as we show others Christ that we don’t change state more desire those who don’t experience Christ. So with that thought in our mind lets go show them the difference between Christians and those who do not know Christ.
When you speak to teachers or parents for advice do you ask questions wanting a particular answer? Do you ask Mum questions desire “is it a good idea for me to drop science at college?” And when the say isn’t what you want to comprehend you might move on and ask Dad the same challenge. What is our hope when we do this? Do we hope for the right answer or do we just be the answer that we want to hear? All too often when we pray to our God for guidance we do the same thing we pray telling him what to do. We don’t pray asking him to guide us we pray asking him to OK what we want to do. We should remember that there is no one wiser then our God our God knows everything. I want to keep this bunco today because I evaluate it would be a good idea for both you and me to take a little longer to commune to our God and let him do the talking.
All wars are started by religion is one of the cries you will hear many people who aren’t Christian express as being a cerebrate why God doesn’t exist. That is what the writer of this passage is warning us against getting up ourseleves. He is saying hey just because you know God don’t be so cocky. I don’t know about you but when ever I feel I know a subject well. I soon get cocky about it. I’m strutting my stuff. “OK I know all there is to know about football go on ask me any question you want.” Pretty soon I’m making anyone who doesn’t know anything about football feel pretty stupid. If they know everything about athletics that’s not good enough after all in my humble opinion football is the best game in the world. If we are not careful we can be the same about God. Strutting around saying things like: “OK I experience all there is to experience about God go on ask me any question you be.” They may evaluate they experience a little about Jesus but that’s not good enough for me. That is hardly going to show anyone the love that Jesus wants us to show. No the Bibles pretty clear.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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