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Trapped Chilean Miners Rescued from Deep Down Dark
In Deep Down Dark, Hector Tobar tells the story of 33 Chilean miners who were trapped 2,000 feet below the surface for 69 days.
They had to live in the dark, with almost no food, cut off from the rest of the world.
They didn't know if they would ever see daylight again.
Many of the miners, face-to-face with imminent death, took stock of their lives and realized they had a lot of regrets.
Somebody asked Jose Henriquez, a Christian, if he would pray for everyone.
As he got down on his knees, some of the other men joined him, and he began to talk to God: "We aren't the best men, Lord, but have pity on us."
He actually got more specific: "Victor Segovia knows that he drinks too much.
Victor Zamora is too quick to anger.
Pedro Cortez thinks about the poor father he's been to his young daughter …"
Nobody objected.
It was the beginning of something special.
In the deep down dark, buried under the earth, with death staring them in the face, the men got real before God and each other.
They met every day to eat a meager meal, hear a short sermon, and then get on their knees and pray: "God, forgive me for the violence of my voice before my wife and my son."
Or "God, forgive me for abusing the temple of my body with drugs."
They confessed to each other too: "I'm sorry I raised my voice."
Or "I'm sorry I didn't help get the water."
Meanwhile, above the surface a rescue effort had begun.
People from all over the world began trying to help, or give, or pray for the men to be saved.
Unfortunately, the happiest part of the story is also the saddest.
The drill cuts a narrow hole through the rock.
The miners get food and supplies and iPads; they know that eventually they'll be rescued; they find out they're becoming famous and they might get rich.
And then the confessing stops.
The praying stops.
The lure of money and fame undoes the transformative community that had developed in their shared suffering.
They were at their best when life was at its worst.
"The Deep Down Dark" is the place where you know you can't make it on your own.
"The Deep Down Dark" is the place where you realize you need God.
Possible Preaching Angles: Christmas; Christ, birth of—To use this as a Christmas illustration say something like, "God knew we all have Deep Down Dark places.
He knew we could not make it on our own.
He knew we could not find our way up to him.
So he came down to us at Christmas …
Source: Adapted from John Ortberg, I'd Like You More If You Were More Like Me (Tyndale Momentum, 2017), pages 181-183
La vie du roi Josaphat est à la fois étrange et fascinante.
Il a fait e bonnes choses pour Dieu, et aussi commis des erreurs.
Dieu a été patient envers lui, l’a béni, mais lui aussi adressé des reproches.
Mais quelque évènements de sa vie sont plus marquants.
En voici un: une attaque massive par les Ammonites, les Moabites et des Édomites.
Application: dans chaque église que je visite, dans les conversations, il y une constante: Quelqu’un fait face à un défi trop grand pour lui ou pour elle;
Une famille qui fait le bien, suscitant la colère ou la jalousie des autres et se faisant faussement accuser de négligence ou de choix de vie pro-Christ.
Des familles qui n’ont pas les moyens d’habiter près de l’église et qui doivent déménager loin de toute bonne église qu’ils connaissent.
Une famille qui tente d’adopter un enfant mais le processus légal s’étire et s’étire.
Les parents biologiques ont fait des choix de vie vraiment contraires à la Parole de Dieu et sont encore autour.
Vous avez vos propres situations.
Et elles sont au-delà de vos forces, de votre sagesse, ou de votre intelligence.
Ces moments deviennent souvent les panneaux qui indiquent les moments et les endroits où Dieu est intervenu et où votre foi a été bâtie.
I. Une mauvaise nouvelle v. 1-2
Nous recevons des mauvaises nouvelles chaque semaine, souvent chaque jour.
Des mauvaises nouvelles pour nous, ou encore pour nos amis, nos frères, nos soeurs.
Elles ne sont peut-être pas aussi dramatiques ou dangereuses qu’une “grande multitude qui s’avance contre nous”.
Mais cela est souvent plus vrai que nous ne le réalisons.
Ephésiens 6:12
Car nous n’avons pas à lutter contre la chair et le sang, mais contre les dominations, contre les autorités, contre les princes de ce monde de ténèbres, contre les esprits méchants dans les lieux célestes.
Quelle que soit la nature de la mauvaise nouvelle; qu’elle se rapporte à nous ou à un autre, cela devrait quand même nous “disposer à chercher l’Éternel”.
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Une bonne disposition v. 3
2 Chroniques 17:3-4
L’Eternel fut avec Josaphat, parce qu’il marcha dans les premières voies de David, son père, et qu’il ne rechercha point les Baals; 4car il eut recours au Dieu de son père, et il suivit ses commandements, sans imiter ce que faisait Israël.
Quelle belle expression: “il eut recours au Dieu de son père”!
Cependant, nous devons comprendre que “parce qu’il marcha dans les premières voies de David, son père” alors il eu cette occasion: “il eut recours au Dieu de son père”.
Ensuite, de plus “il suivit ses commandements”.
Remarquez aussi “les PREMIÈRES voies de David, son père”.
L’idée n’est pas de justifier ce qu’on fait par l’imitation ou l’exemple d’un grand homme.
Ce qui est important c’est de faire le bien, selon la Parole de Dieu.
L’alternative était les idoles.
C’est à dire des recours, des faux recours, que l’homme avait créé pour remplacer le vrai et véritable recours: l’Éternel.
Nous cherchons souvent les autres recours (médecin, banque, etc.) avant de chercher l’Éternel.
Ce n’est pas que toutes ces choses sont des idoles, mais si elles deviennent notre recours SANS l’Éternel, elles deviennent des idoles.
2 Chroniques 15:1-3
L’Eternel est avec vous quand vous êtes avec lui; si vous le cherchez, vous le trouverez; mais si vous l’abandonnez, il vous abandonnera.
3Pendant longtemps il n’y a eu pour Israël ni vrai Dieu, ni sacrificateur qui enseigne, ni loi.
Lorsque nous nous réunissons pour prier, nous exprimons à Dieu que nous voulons être avec lui.
Que nous voulons avoir recours à lui.
Il est vrai que certaines prières peuvent être du bout des lèvres, sans passion, mais qu’il n’en soit pas ainsi pour nous.
Cherchons le Seigneur de tout notre coeur!
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Une excellente réponse v. 4-12
Only 12-years-old, and in a moment one Ethiopian girl's world turned into a nightmare.
Seven violent men abducted the pre-teen, intending to force her into marriage.
The men held the girl for seven days, beating her repeatedly.
Such incidents are common in Ethiopia, as several men band together to abduct young girls for the purpose of securing a bride.
The girls are typically beaten into submission and raped.
In this particular instance, there was not a human being within earshot to hear the cries of this girl.
But her cries were heard.
The unlikely heroes were three majestic Ethiopian lions.
Famous for their large black manes, these lions are the national symbol of the country.
In response to the girl's cries for help, three large lions leapt from the brush and chased her captors away.
Perhaps the child thought she had traded one danger for another, but remarkably, her heroes formed a protective perimeter around her.
A half-day later, when the police arrived, the guardian lions simply stood up and walked away.
Sgt.
Wondimu Wedajo said, "They stood guard until we found her, and then they just left her like a gift and went back into the forest."
Among the explanations for the lions' unusual behavior, one wildlife expert suggested the girl's whimpering could have sounded like a lion cub.
For whatever reason, the predator served as protector.
The carnivore became a sentinel.
"Everyone
thinks this is some kind of miracle," Wondimu commented.
This 12-year-old girl was helpless, powerless to change her horrific circumstances.
Her deliverance had to come from a power greater than, and outside of, herself.
In the same way, we are powerless to save ourselves from sin and death.
Our only hope is in Christ, the Lion of Judah.
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