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Why me Lord?
Song by Ross King describes American Persecution:
My Lexus just ran out of gas.
My iPod needs new songs.
My cell phone battery is dead
Oh why me Lord?
Why you done me wrong?
My suntan salon just closed down.
And my summer glow is gone.
And the kid who cleans my pool just quit
Oh why me Lord?
Why you done me wrong?
There's people starving in Africa.
There's war in the Middle East
But I'm a rich dude out in suburbia who could use a little sympathy
Cause my grande no-whip mocha latte's way too strong
Oh why me Lord?
Why you done me wrong?
Got 150 channels on my TV but I think I need 100 more
Got a world of entertainment on the internet but I'm still bored, why me Lord?
My platinum credit card's maxed out can't remember what I spent it on
So I guess I'll have to settle for the medium fries
Oh why me Lord?
Why you done me wrong?
There's homeless families in New Orleans
And soldiers dying on a foreign shore
But I'm a rich dude living in luxury who could use a little something more
Cause there's some white trash folks in my country club and they really don't belong
Oh why me Lord?
Why you done me wrong?
I think I'll write a letter to my congressman maybe send him a tape of this song
He's probably in his big old mansion right now
Saying why me Lord?
Why you done me wrong?
Yeah I care about the people in Africa and I'm praying for the Middle East
But I'm a rich dude out in suburbia who could use a little sympathy
Don't forget that my grande no-whip mocha latte's way too strong
Oh why me Lord?
Why you done me wrong?
My iPod needs new songs
My iPod needs new songs
This song is funny because it is true in so many ways.
My cell phone battery is dead
We have adopted an American ideology that promotes comfort and we perceive suffering to be when that comfort is hindered.
Any time we preach Christ is the only way to salvation we face persecution.
There is a sense of social martyrdom that we face as we proclaim Christ in America.
The message we preach is no a politically correct message.
However, there are people dying across the globe for Christ and we have a responsibility to pray for them.
In 2016 90,000 people lost their life for their faith in Christ.
( 70% on the continent of Africa)
We suffer to read our Bibles, while our brothers and sisters in China rejoice at a piece of Scripture smuggled in to their country.
We suffer to come to church regularly, but our brothers and sisters in Africa walk for miles to hear preaching and are disappointed with a 30 minute sermon.
We suffer to make our kids participate in activities and functions in the church while in North Korea being a Christian means your kids may be killed or worse, left as orphans.
Oh why me Lord?
Why you done me wrong?
This song alludes to a funny prayer, but that was not the kind of prayer in the early Church in Acts.
We can learn how to pray for the persecuted Church and even our own churches from this prayer.
Acts 4:
Why do we pray?
Why do we need to pray for the persecuted Church?
1.
We pray because we are family.
Peter and John went back to their friends.
friends here is actually the Greek word that means their own.
They went to their own people.
After Peter and John were faced with this difficult time they leaned on their church family.
I know from experience in difficult times there is nothing like a church family to support you, love you, and pray for you.
The term brothers and sisters means that we are family.
(This goes beyond a local church and reaches throughout the world)
They lifted up their voices together.
They prayed in unison.
United in love and the Spirit of God.
The picture here is that in this time of persecution the church gathered together to pray as one family on behalf of each other.
This is the same picture we should have as a church today.
- “If one member suffers we all suffer..”
If one member of our local body or global body is hurting we should hurt too.
When one part of the body is hurting it should hurt us all.
Watching the movie Paul, the one thing the directors did well at was depicting the death of Christians under the Roman emperor Nero.
Watching our early brothers and sisters being covered in wax and lit on fire as a street lamp hurt me me deep down inside.
Men and women are dying just like they did in the early Church and we sit back like nothing is going on.
We pray and sympathize with our soldiers dying overseas for the sake of freedom.
That is important, but is it not more important to sympathize and pray for the Christian soldiers dying for the kingdom of God and the freedom in Christ.
2. We pray because we have one purpose.
These early Christians together no because its prayer meeting time, but because they have a mission.
They are together like a team in a huddle or soldiers preparing the strategies for the battle to come.
These are people who are on the front lines of a spiritual battle to proclaim the gospel.
They know that this war is beyond them and they need strength and power from God.
This prayer is not about deliverance from the the suffering, but about divine power to persevere through it.
Prayer is coming mistaken to be about us, when it is truly about God’s glory.
They wanted more than comfort, these believers prayed for God to be glorified through their actions.
The purpose of the Church is to proclaim the Gospel, declare the kingdom of God, and show His glory.
Whether it is easy or difficult we all have one purpose as believers.
Whether it is comfortable or by suffering we still have one purpose.
My suntan salon just closed down.
And my summer glow is gone.
And the kid who cleans my pool just quit
My suntan salon just closed down
We must come together as one family for one purpose and pray the Church to show the glory of God through the spreading of the Gospel no matter the costs.
Who do we pray to?
And my summer glow is gone
Even though you this is obvious, here in these believers spent five verses telling who God is before they ask for anything.
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