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Good morning, today we are finishing up our series in the book of Hebrews.
And we are going to be talking about breaking free from our disappointments..
All of us have been disappointed at some point in our lives.
And it starts early on in our lives..
Pam shared this post on FB recently… these kids didn’t get something they wanted—
Mom couldn't fix his cracker!
The muffins didn't come out of the oven cold
Dinner was late
Microwave ate his lunch
She couldn't have more bacon...I feel her Pain… that’s reasonable.
What is disappointment?
The sadness experienced when people or circumstances do not fulfil our expectations.
Disappointment is the gap between our expectation and the actual..or realized...
Psychiatrists have a name for it they call it "The Paris Effect."
In (2015) there was an article in The Wall Street Journal explained: "It was Dr. Hiroaki Ota, a Japanese psychiatrist working in France, who first identified the syndrome in the 1980s, which often affects women … who arrive expecting an affluent and friendly European capital where slim, beautiful Parisians walk around smelling of Chanel."
Instead, they find pavements peppered with cigarette butts and aggravated commuters in packed metro trains …
A biblical definition of disappointment is found in proverbs— It call disappointment - Hope Deferred - or Hope postponed...
What about our Personal disappointments?
There are number of reasons that can cause us to be disappointed..some of us don’t have to go to far in our thoughts to find the things that have disappointed us.
We can be.
Disappointed by People and Circumstances
Disappointment because of our failure.
Disappointment because we didn’t understanding God’s purpose.
The good news is regardless what is causing your disappointment… You don’t have to stay there..
The book of Hebrews is not written to a group of people who have got it all together…These are people who have been shaken by life.
The problems and the difficulties and the sufferings and the persecutions have just shaken them to the core.
In every Chapter of Hebrews the author/ preacher is trying to help his readers find ways to face the realities of life without melting down, find ways to stand solid when everything around them is shaking and falling apart.
The author lifts their perspective.. by skilfully makes contrasts between the two covenants — the Old Covenant of Law and New Covenant of Grace..
The author sights one of the biggest Blunders made in Scripture… Esau..
We are told of Esau who was first in line to receive the blessing of the Abraham… the Abrahamic Covenant...but unfortunately Esau despised his Birth Right… Instead of seeing embracing the blessings that God had often him he was not interested in the things of God… And it wasn’t too long before an opportunity came his way to sell out…one day when Esau came home from the hunt --- he was famished and his brother Jacob offered him a bowl of soup in exchanged for the Birth Right… In one moment he made the exchange...
He exchanged temporary for the eternal…
Esau did come to his senses and thought he could still get the blessing... but he lost out because the blessing already been given to his brother Jacob... Esau lived with regret and disappointment…
He sought the blessing with tears it was too late… Esau missed out on God’s best…
Now —Esau’s life ended with Regret… but this no longer has to be the narrative under the New Covenant…
The narrative of our life can Change because we have come to a different place it’s no longer law but to the Kingdom of Grace.. lets read our text.
Inspiration
How do we break free from our disappointment?
1. Delve into what God offers us in His present Kingdom
Instruction
The scene described in this passage comes from Exodus 19.
As the Israelites were camped at the foot of Mount Sinai, God was preparing the nation for receiving his Ten Commandments.
God commanded that no one, not even an animal, should touch the mountain under penalty of death…
Verse 18 is a negative propositional sentence… You have not come to what can be touched…
When God Spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai it was an awesome Scene..
It was shock and awe kind of experience where God coming down in 4 D and engaging in all the senses.
There was a blazing fire engulfed the top half of the mountain… which symbolized the presence of God … There was a loud trumpet blast that caused the people to tremble… The Israelites feared and begged that Moses be the Lone Mediator -they thought they would die if God spoke to them directly… At Sina God is viewed as one who was distant.. unapproachable..
A God was to feared whom required a mediator..
Sinai is a description of the old covenant - We see the Awesomeness of God… God is a Consuming Fire…Sinai represented an impersonal God who Could not be touched..… The preacher tells us — but you have not come to to this Mountain… If that is where you are standing — you are on the wrong mountain… God is not out to get you.. God is not to be feared in the sense where he is unapproachable.
We have not come to Mt Sinai but to Mount Zion! - we belong to a spiritual spiritual Kingdom.. WE have come to a new community and a new relationship with God, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem---
Hurst writes, “Christians have certainly ‘come’ to it (and ‘received’ it , but only through faith, a faith which grasps the future as though it were the present
Zion was the the center of Jerusalem… the part of the city that capture Davids heart the Mountain that became the site of great temple…The New Temple..
Mount Zion represents a new community and a new relationship with God, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.
It is the place where God lives in Glory and invites his people to share in his glory.
Here believers live with God and can worship him without reserve.
In the present Kingdom where Christ now reigns…
Instead of fear and dread....It is a Kingdom that meets us at a deep level… where Sinai distanced us from God… we have been brought near through the blood Christ… In Christ’s kingdom we come boldly to the throne of grace — We have come to the City of the living God where God meet our need in a very real way..
We have Arrived at a Kingdom of God… Eternal Kingdom where Christ Reigns… he has put everything under his feet… and our need meets Christs provision...
The way that we avoid disappointment… Is to know what kind of Kingdom we are in..
The contrasts between Mt.
Sinai and Mt Zion help us...Sinai God is at a distance --- At Mt Zion… God is experience personally…
The struggle with disappointments…affect everyone.. doesn’t matter who you are...
Illustration
Celebrity chef, writer, and TV personality Anthony Bourdain, wore a tattoo on his arm that read in ancient Greek, "I am certain of nothing," — We got the sad news that committed suicide just a few months ago in June at the age of 61.
In an interview for Men's Journal from 2014, Bourdain was asked: What are the benefits of hedonism, and what are the risks?
Bourdain replied, "Look, I understand that inside me there is a greedy, gluttonous, lazy, hippie—you know?
I understand that.
… there's a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, and smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons, and old movies.
I could easily do that.
My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy.
… I'm aware of my appetites, and I don't let them take charge."
When asked: How should a man handle regret?
And what's your biggest regret?
Bourdain replied, "Regret is something you've got to just live with, you can't drink it away.
You can't run away from it.
You can't trick yourself out of it.
You've just got to own it.
I've disappointed and hurt people in my life, and that's just something I'm going to have to live with.
… You eat that guilt and you live with it.
And you own it.
You own it for life."
How do we break free from our Disappointments?
Delve into what God offers us in His present Kingdom.
Hebrew Christians no longer lived in the Old Testament dispensation, centred on Mount Sinai, but in the New Testament era, centred on Mount Zion.
We have arrived at a Kingdom that gives us Hope.. a kingdom that meet our greatest innermost needs.
Application
Mt Zion meets our need for Intimacy - we are wired for relationship.. God who is a community himself created us in his image… we are created us for community.....not superficial but real relationships.
Our need for intimacy is the need to know and to be known…Mt Sinai God is to be avoided.. they wanted to shut off his voice.. contrast between impersonal and the personal.. God.
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we have come to Mt. Zion where.
Christ Reign meets our need for Hope..(purpose)
We have hope because we come the city of the Living God.
Christianity is all about resurrection… we come to a living God.. who offers abundant life.
Christ Reign meets our need for Our need for lasting Joy (fulfillment)
Picture of angels gathered in festival with all those believers who are now in heaven who are rejoicing…Kingdom of God is marked by celebration...this phrase joyful assembly is a very unusual Greek word that really means an incredibly wild party.
It’s very weird for it to be used here.
A celebration.
A festival.
A rejoicing.
A wild revelry of joy.
We have come to Mount Zion where
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