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Chemical Reactions
My freshman year in high school, I had one of those teachers who loved his subject, and he wanted his students to love it as well.
The subject was biology.
It was one of those classes where we were always doing something.
Every day I’d come to class, I’d be excited about what we were going to learn or do.
Even getting in trouble was fun.
If you got in trouble we had to write factoids.
Factoids were basically, 20 useless facts, that you had to handwrite, and turn in.
Kind of like
And I wrote them a lot.
I liked the class, and I talked a lot.
I pretty much got in trouble every day.
I decided, I was spending too much of my time in my favorite class writing factoids -
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That’s how often I got in trouble.
I realized I spent too much time writing factoids and that my time could be better spent.
I’ll never forget the time, Mr. Largent said, “Luuuuke … factoids.”
It didn’t phase me.
I reached into my Trapper Keeper, and pulled out factoids already written.
I wrote them in the more boring classes ahead of time.
I pulled them out of the trapper keeper, and handed them to Mr. Largent.
Sadly, Mr. Largent didn’t want my prewritten factoids.
He crumpled them up and threw them away, and wanted to watch me write them.
I’ll never forget that a blue whale’s tongue is the size of a VW Bug … that was one of the factoids.
I loved Mr. Largent’s biology class.
We disected frogs, played with lasers and electricity.
But my favorite was playing with chemicals.
It probably wasn’t the smartest thing to teach a 14 year old boy how to blow stuff up.
But we would learn how you could take normal household items … mix them together and make cool stuff that’s super flammable.
My favorite was learning how to make hydrogen.
We made hydrogen with things found around the house.
And we also learned that hydrogen is flammable.
Remember the Hindenberg?
That’s hydrogen.
We also learned about chemicals
We made gun powder, and would light it on fire.
I’m not going to say all that goes into making hydrogen, but I will say it’s made with water.
Water contains 2 hydrogen molecules and one oxygen molecule.
That’s where you get the H20 from.
The trick is separating the hydrogen from the oxygen.
You get the ingredients together.
But by themselves they won’t do much.
You need a catalyst.
The catalyst makes the reaction work.
Once the catalyst is added to the mix, things get real hot, real fast.
I will say that one of the by products was this acidic liquid burned your skin real bad.
What we see today is a reaction of sorts.
In high school:
I wanted to take the water, and capture the hydrogen from it, so I could blow stuff up.
In today’s reaction, our ingredients are:
We have shepherds.
Shepherds
We have angels.
And angels.
And we have a desired outcome.
I call the shepherds, “Idle Lives”.
Because we don’t want to live idle lives.
Idle lives are boring.
They are stale.
They’re just water.
God hasn’t created us to be idle.
The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
That’s doing something.
say, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
That is not an idle life.
We are called to live productive lives.
Today’s sermon will trace the reaction God desires in our lives.
It begins with idle lives.
They receive cataclysmic news.
And end with energized worship.
And those happen to be our 3 points as well:
Idle Lives
Cataclysmic News
And Energized Worship.
Ed read our text earlier, but let’s look at it again.
Look at .
Read :8-20.
We begin with the first ingredient in our chemical reaction … Idle Lives.
The shepherds are our raw materials in the equation.
They are the idle lives.
They are not idle lives because they are lazy, because they certainly are not lazy.
But they are not living to their potential.
And this has nothing to do with them as shepherds.
It’s more along the lines of what their potential is in Christ.
At this point in time if you were to ask someone in the area, what the potential of a shepherd is … they’d say there is no potential.
They are a level above homeless.
Being a shepherd is like being a worker at a carnival.
But they were not always this way.
Shepherds, and these shepherds especially, shouldn’t have been seen so poorly.
Being a shepherd was not always a bad thing.
Israel’s history is filled with shepherds.
Jacob made his riches … as a shepherd.
Israel entered Egypt … as shepherds.
David … was a shepherd.
But as time progressed, the romantic view of shepherds, became nothing more than almost homelessness; they were weird people.
They were socially ostracized.
Away from the community, because they are watching sheep.
They were spiritually ostracized as well.
They are not able to participate in the religious life of Israel.
They couldn’t attend religious feasts.
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