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Hearing and Hope
Hearing and Hope
Week 5
Theme: Overcoming Disillusionment—Finding my identity—Following Gods leading
Theme: Overcoming Disillusionment—Finding my identity—Following Gods leading
Open: Encounters have the power to change our lives forever for the worse or for the better.
Moments that change our lives forever.
Disillusionment- a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be.
Disillusionment- a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be.
Worse: My first car accident ‘67
1. Have you ever been at point in your life and had the thought “it has to be better than this?” or “Is this what my life has come to?"
1. Have you ever been at point in your life and had the thought “it has to be better than this?” or “Is this what my life has come to?"
Better: First Time I saw my wife / Held my child
a.
Maybe recently or when you were younger you applied for a school that you hoped would help you reach your goals but got rejected.
a.
Maybe recently or when you were younger you applied for a school that you hoped would help you reach your goals but got rejected.
Theme: Encounters will change you.
Each of us need fresh encounters with Jesus to transform us.
b.
Or you followed your heart and nothing ended up like you planned or wished.
b.
Or you followed your heart and nothing ended up like you planned or wished.
Acts chapter 9- Saul’s conversion was pretty abnormal.
c.
Maybe you felt stuck.
Not knowing how to grow or progress as a leader, parent or friend.
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Maybe you felt stuck.
Not knowing how to grow or progress as a leader, parent or friend.
Transition: Paul was responsible for 2/3 of the New Testament.
Most of what we read today is a result of Paul’s journey.
d.
Or the “friends” you thought you had weren’t truly friends at all.
d.
Or the “friends” you thought you had weren’t truly friends at all.
1.
We are all on a spiritual journey
e.
Maybe you were praying for healing for a loved one and they still passed away and you are left asking God how or why.
e.
Maybe you were praying for healing for a loved one and they still passed away and you are left asking God how or why.
a. where are you at? Occasionally we need to stop and take a spiritual location finder.
This DISILLUSIONMENT STORY may help:
This DISILLUSIONMENT STORY may help:
Illus.
GPS every app wants to use your location to determine the best way to get there.
At Sunday school they were teaching how God created everything, including human beings.
Little Johnny, a child in the kindergarten class, seemed especially intent when they told him how Eve was created out of one of Adam’s ribs.
Later in the week his mother noticed him lying down as though he were ill, and said, “Johnny, what’s the matter?”
At Sunday school they were teaching how God created everything, including human beings.
Little Johnny, a child in the kindergarten class, seemed especially intent when they told him how Eve was created out of one of Adam’s ribs.
Later in the week his mother noticed him lying down as though he were ill, and said, “Johnny, what’s the matter?”
b. “If we do not change direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.”
Johnny said, “I don’t feel well, I think I’m having a wife.”
Johnny said, “I don’t feel well, I think I’m having a wife.”
c.
There are still steps for each of us to continue to grow…there is more.
I think little Johnny is about to experience some disillusions!
I think little Johnny is about to experience some disillusions!
Transition: Paul had a massive change in direction.
Lets turn in our bibles to 1 Kings Chapter 18 as we talk on hope today.
Lets turn in our bibles to 1 Kings Chapter 18 as we talk on hope today.
2. Saul (Paul) encountered Jesus
PRAY
PRAY
a. “Meanwhile, Saul was uttering threats with every breath and was eager to kill the Lord’s followers.
So, he went to the high priest.
He requested letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, asking for their cooperation in the arrest of any followers of the Way he found there.
He wanted to bring them—both men and women—back to Jerusalem in chains.”
Acts 9:1–2, NLT
Heres the thing:
Heres the thing:
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Paul was sincere, but sincerely wrong
Disillusionment and disappointment causes us to think in absolutes.
When absolutes of hopelessness form we enter a place of despair.
Disillusionment and disappointment causes us to think in absolutes.
When absolutes of hopelessness form we enter a place of despair.
c. “Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe.
They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News.
They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.” 2 Corinthians 4:4, NLT
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STRONGHOLD “I used to believe that I ought to do everything I could to oppose the very name of Jesus the Nazarene.”
Acts 26:9 NLT
2. As of last year 40 million people in the US suffer from depression or an anxiety disorder.
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As of last year 40 million people in the US suffer from depression or an anxiety disorder.
d.
“For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,” (2 Corinthians 10:4–5, ESV)
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We describe feeling like that to express two kinds of situations.
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We describe feeling like that to express two kinds of situations.
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The Encounter
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One where you are just a little gloomy
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One where you are just a little gloomy
a. “As he was approaching Damascus on this mission, a light from heaven suddenly shone down around him.
He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul!
Saul!
Why are you persecuting me?” “Who are you, lord?” Saul asked.
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