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Good Morning, Welcome to Sunday School.
I am excited about today’s lesson.
Generally when I prepare a lesson, God will either lay a passage of Scripture on my heart to meditate on; or something will happen in the week that will challenge me to search out what does Scripture say about this.
Or a topic will come up in conversation that will be the springboard for my lesson.
We can thank Joey for this morning’s discussion.
My son is approaching finals this week.
He is taken a psychology class studying the topic of relationships.
Why do people do the things that they do?
His final project paper covers the topic "relationships".
The question~/theme he is to explore throughout the paper is "what do I bring to the table?"
The title of his paper is "the good, the bad, and the ugly".
There’s the outline for today’s message.
The easiest way to learn the lesson is by observation.
The hardest and often most painful way to learn lesson is to go through it yourself.
I really believe that is one of the main reasons why God gave us the Bible.
Not only does it reveal to us whom He is, but it gives us the insights into the lives and thought processes of the other people we share this planet with.
I shared with the Wednesday night prayer group how he had made the observation after service last week that the people from church really hadn't changed.
They were the same as they had been before he left.
He had expected them to change, because he had.
-- I responded that yes he had changed.
He had gone to a new place, and met new people, and did new things, and had new experiences.
He was now in an environment where most of the people he came into contact with were not Christians.
I told him that all these things had the potential of changing his perspective.
He was being exposed to a world view.
I don't want to sound philosophical or even psychological.
I'm simply saying that, the majority of the people we interact with on a daily basis do not have the same eternal perspective on life that we do.
And while the holy spirit will help us minister to them, I have found it helpful in praying for them, to know why they do and say the things that they do.
OK, here is my epiphany, my light bulb moment!
Why do people do the things they do?
say the things they say?
And live the way they live?
It's about relationship!
It's all a relationship thing; their relationship with God first, and then their relationship with the rest of us on this planet.
Now I know you're thinking, Duh! Lisa we know that!
Good!
Now how do you take that knowledge and use it to lead others to Christ, to disciple, and to live a victorious lives?
Using Joey's assignment as our outline, and the Bible as our reference source, let's look at good, bad, and ugly relationships with God.
I'm going to read a list of names and ask you to rate the individual's relationship with God as good, bad, or ugly.
Now be careful to only to rate the relationship and not the individual.
Let's start at the beginning.
We know that Adam and Eve had a good relationship with God before sin entered the world.
Afterward the relationship changed.
Let’s look at their sons Cain and Abel.
Turn to Genesis 4:2-7
2 Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.
3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord.
4 But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock.
The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor.
So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry?
Why is your face downcast?
7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?
But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.”
So each of them brought in offering to God.
Abel's was accepted as pleasing and Cain's was rejected.
What happened next?
Cain lures his brother out into a field and kills him.
Was their relationship with God good or bad?
Abel – good.
Cain – bad.
What was the fruit of the bad relationship?
Separation from God.
Genesis 4:13-16
13 Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear.
14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence;
Sound familiar?
Cain didn’t learn anything from the lesson his parent’s learned the hard way.
14b I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
15 But the Lord said to him, “Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over.”
Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
16 So Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
This last part we just read is significant.
Despite the fact that Cain’s action had taken him out of fellowship with God, God still cared for Cain.
By placing His mark on Cain’s head God provided for his protection.
How about the following, good, bad, or ugly relationship with God?
And what is the fruit of that relationship?
· Noah – good: salvation from the flood for himself and his family
· Abraham – good: Father of faith, called the friend of God (James 2:23)
· Joseph – good: became 2nd in command in Egypt, saved his family from famine
· Moses – good: Spared from death as an infant, met God in the burning bush, received the 10 commandments from God’s hand…
Those were fairly easy.
Up until this point Israel had been led by first the patriarchs and then judges.
Turn to 1 Samuel 8:2
When Samuel [prophet & last judge of Israel] grew old, he appointed his sons as judges for Israel.
3 But his sons did not walk in his ways.
They turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice.
4 So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.
5 They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways; now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have.”
Israel never had a king.
The nations around them however did.
6 But when they said, “Give us a king to lead us,” this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the Lord.
7 And the Lord told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.
Why didn’t Israel have a king?
Because Israel was a Theocracy, not a monarchy.
God was their leader.
9 Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do.”
In the next 11 verses we find out that the king will oppress them
· Their sons will be conscripted into the army
· The fruit of their fields and flocks will go to the king
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