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Jesus Was a Radical!
And we’ve tamed Him over the years to be a thoughtful cerebral man.
We have chosen to see him more like a friendly traveling preacher, than the out right, world changing, paradigm shifting, crazy peaking man that He was.
We read His words and say a polite “Amen” and choose not to remember that most of the things that Jesus said in his life where completely crazy to the people who heard them.
He said crazy things Like.
Matthew 5:43
and everyone said “Amen”!
And then He said...
Which was an absolutely crazy thing to say! Jesus was not a man who came to be reasonable.
If he came to be reasonable He would not have stood on a mountain and said:
Blessed are the Poor
Blessed are the Meak
Blessed are the Peacemakers
He went to a temple, Made a whip and beat the people who were buying and selling.
He threw over their tables and chased them out!
Not are these the word and actions of a reasonable person?
A reasonable person, would have have entered the temple, scheduled a meeting with the counsel of elders.
Would have made a presentation stating the pro’s and con’s of having money changers, and livestock sales within the temple.
He would have made projections and shown how tithe money could be maintained without their presence, and then would have scheduled a followup meeting to discuss the outcomes of the previous meting.
going over timelines for the removal of the the money changers, and of course appropriate compensation for the premature cancellation of their services.
Perhaps He would have come to a compromise to have the money changers situated at a predetermined location outside of the temple.
This would have been reasonable.
But Jesus wasn’t reasonable.
He was Radical!
The Pharisees more than likely spent much time trying to figure out weather he was the son of Man or simply Insane!
And now over 2000 years later we read these words and say a polite amen and go on with our lives.
And maybe that’s the problem with Christianity today we’ve forgotten that absolute insanity of Christianity.
we’ve conformed Christianity to our lives rather than letting our lives become conformed to the Live Jesus called us to.
And so here we are talking about loving our neighbors, and we find that Jesus calls us to do something we thought should be simple, but then He takes it to a new radical level.
He says this several times, but here is one time in Matthew 19:19
Love your neighbor… easy!
As yourself… wait! what?
(as the Kids would say)
It’s easy to envision loving your neighbor… I mean, I know how to love someone.
But then again, maybe not the way Jesus would have us do it.
To love someone as I love myself?
This is one of those man in the mirror moments
Illustration about Loving yourself in Bible College (My dean in Bible college was William Racha)
My pint is that you have you love yourself for the “As yourself” to be useful.
Now I’m going to make the assumption that we all love ourselves here tonight.
But I want you to know that if this is something that you struggle with.
that your church is here for you.
we have lots of resources here as well as that can be recommended to help you see yourself as an object worthy of love (which btw.
you are)
But Let’s look deeper at this command to Love your neighbor…
It’s funny first of all that when we quote this verse we typically stop right at that point.
When we are asked what is the commandment we reply “To Love your neighbor...” But radical Jesus never said you should JUST love your neighbor.
He said you should love them as YOURSELF!
and it’s this “as yourself” as I mentioned that makes this a radical proposition because, well..
I love myself.
I think i’m pretty nifty.
I love the talents and gifting that God has given me and I try my best to use them everyday!
I cherish and honor myself, I hold myself in the highest of regards.
I try my best at all times to treat myself, my body, my mind and my soul, as well as I can.
I want the best for myself.
I challenge myself daily to be better than I was before.
I read everyday to expand my mind and knowledge.
I look for new opportunities to do more, and to do as many unique things as I can.
I love me and because I love me I treat myself a certain way.
I would never harm myself, because I love myself,
I don’t disrespect myself, because I love myself,
I challenge myself, because I love myself
I look for the best things in life I can get because I love myself.
and it’s this kinds of all consuming, radical, unreasonable love that Gods wants us to have for our neighbors!
and maybe that’s why we tend to cut out the “As yourself” from the verse, cause if we’re all truly honest about it, not one of us loves pretty well anyone as much as we love ourselves?
Oh, some of us may come close with our spouses...
Some may come close with our kids.
But i doubt any of us get to that level of love for the guy with the cardboard sign that says “Out of work and need money for food, anything helps”
I doubt any of us get to that level of love for the drug addict that you see shooting up in an ally.
I doubt any of use get to that level of love for the lesbian couple that you see walking down the street hand in hand.
But God does.
He loves them with a radical all consuming Love that surpasses our ability to understand it.
Now I think at this point its a god Idea to look at what love does and doesn’t look like.
because I can see that some of you are getting a little uncomfortable (and I don’t want that lol)
What Love is Not
#1.
Love does not say your sin is OK.
Nope, sorry....
When you love someone and you want he best for them you do not want hem to stay and live in sin.
Love doesn’t say “I know what you’re doing is wrong, but I won’t say anything because I love you” That is not love.
That isn’t even like.
Love does not accept your short-falling. it wants to see you better yourself.
Love says, What you’re doing is not OK and because I love you I want you to be better than this.
Loving someone means that you love them and accept them even though they are sinful, BUT it does not mean that you accept their sin.
That’s why we say that we should
Love the sinner, not the sin
Loving someone does not mean that you love their sin too.
Of course not!
In fact it is the opposite of Love to say that your sin is ok.
If I love my children and see them doing something wrong.
I don’t say “I will keep my mouth shut because I love you”.
Because I love my children I cannot keep my mouth shut.
I must tell them what they are doing is wrong and help them to correct their action.
See one of the problems today is that we live in a world that says if you love me you’ll accept whatever I do, you won’t challenge my beliefs or dare to disagree with me.
This is a lie from the devil.
When you love someone you are compelled to challenge them when you see them acting wrongly.
but our God has it differently, Hebrews 12:6
The world would say this isn’t love at all.... Jesus says this is ultimate love
#2 Love doesn’t act for itself
Look through the life of Jesus and you’ll find that there is something missing.
It’s not an obvious glaring mistake.
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