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Perfect?
We clean up pretty good.
And, there are some great stories in this church about how we look out for each other and this community.
Dave Kraemer to Joe Weaver
Efrin Gutierrez
Ken Van Doorne drove the woman to PHX
So many more.
Delivering bread, a meal, a kind word, encouragement, a little money, etc.
Lots of stories.
I need a volunteer who will go first.
We’re going to get to everybody in the room.
Though, there are lots of stories of unselfish, sacrifice around this room, the truth is that no matter how we try not to be, once in a while we let something out that’s ugly.
Every one of us.
So, what we’re going to do this morning is take turns telling each other about those times you messed up.
You hurt people.
When you hurt people, sinned.
This is just so we all understand, crystal clear, that we’re all imperfect and need for God and each other to not treat us as we deserve to be treated.
We all know it, we all see, we’re just not sure you see it about yourself.
So, we’re going to make sure you do.
So, who wants to go first?
The point is, if you think you don’t have any flaws then just wait your turn.
We’ll tell you all about them.
We all get the theory that nobody’s perfect and we all mess up, hurt people, make God mad; but can you describe it w/ some accuracy?
We’ll help you w/ that.
Okay, so we’re not really going to do this.
But, you understand how easy it is to point out someone else’s flaws until you realize they’re going to point our yours next.
And, if we’re going to be a group of individuals who point out each other’s flaws, to their face or behind their back, then we will remain a group of individuals.
But, a community is a group of people who look past each other’s flaws and treat each other w/ grace, talk about each other graciously to our face and behind our back.
That’s what makes a community, both among the members of this church and those who are not.
God has called us to be a community, not to treat people as they deserve to be treated, but to treat each other as God treats us.
Be gracious, not grumpy.
Be kind, not cutting.
Compliment, don’t complain.
You may remember a few weeks about I talked about the difference between being a bucket and a hose.
Abigail received grace and wisdom from God and b/c she didn’t keep it to herself but passed it along she saved a lot of lives and prevented David from serious consequences.
She was a hose.
We all received ample amounts of grace from God.
So, rather than sitting on it and keeping it to ourselves we can pass it along.
David did.
He received from God and Abigail and took the opportunity to pass it along.
This is the message of .
The story about how David reached out to Mephibosheth and kept a promise he made to Jonathan.
A Promise Kept
Here’s the king of Israel.
A busy man.
He’s been conquering the land, fighting battles, settling disputes, leading the people.
He remembered a promise he had made years earlier.
A promise to his good friend, Jonathan, son of Saul.
Private.
No one else knew.
Jonathan, long since dead.
No one would know if David chose to keep this promise or not.
Says something about David’s character.
He knew God knew he had made the promise.
The promise:
IOW: when you become king take care of my family.
Be as kind to them as God will be to you.
David promised he would.
Jonathan had one son.
His name was Mephibosheth.
This is his story.
Mephibosheth’s story
Mephibosheth was not his name given at birth.
In the culture it was customary to change someone’s name to fith their personality or traits or experience some how.
Originally, his name was Meribaal.
Original name
Not a Jewish name.
You see the Baal part of it.
That’s one of the gods of the Canaanites.
The people who occupied the land before Israel arrived.
God’s specific instructions were not to intermarry or take on the worship of their gods.
Apparently, Jonathan didn’t get that memo, or ignored it.
He took a non-Jewish wife and named his only son after her god.
The name means, “Baal is my Advocate”
You know what an advocate is, somebody who looks out for, protects somebody else.
Children who get caught up in court cases where their parents are fighting w/ each other have an advocate assigned by the court to look out for the child’s best interest.
Sadly, parents who fight aren’t always thinking of their children’s best interests.
Christians have an advocate.
Jesus.
And, Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to be our advocate.
To counsel us, pray to the Father when we don’t know what to pray, defend us when our Enemy accuses us.
Believing OT Jews had an advocate.
God Himself.
But Jonathan had rejected God as his son’s Advocate and sought help from Baal, who didn’t really exist.
Non-believing, Non-Jewish, Canaanite mother.
David would have been justified to walk away at this point.
And, Saul’s servant Ziba, gave David another good reason to walk away.
He had had an accident that left him lame in both feet.
His accident.
Saul and Jonathan die in battle.
David is the new anointed king of Israel.
It was customary for the men of the new king to kill all the descendants of the old king to prevent any chances of a coup from them.
The old king would have had his supporters even after he’d been deposed by God.
There was a nurse who had been hired to care for his son and as news broke about his father and grandfather’s death they knew they needed to evacuate, fast.
Their lives were in danger.
This is going to be a dangerous fire season.
We don’t need to overcook this, but, heading into spring we all need to be ready to get out fast.
If lightening strikes a tree by Lake Odell, all of Munds Park is in jeopardy.
Grab one bag, a child and go.
You can imagine the chaos.
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