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My Grandparents were devout Catholic when I was little.
In fact, it was the fact that they took me to church that I felt my first call into the ministry.
I remember the priest saying that there was a great shortage of people answering the call to go into the ministry and something inside me asked, “Could it be me?”
And I remember looking at the Jesus statue and asking Him if I should go into the ministry.
But this time of year, starting on Ash Wednesday a time of fasting, reflection, and repentance starts and lasts for 40 days.
Traditionally your supposed to give up meat and other luxuries to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for us - specifically we remember the fast that Jesus went on for 40 days in the desert.
Currently it is less rigid than it used to be but the general idea is the same… consider those things that are in your life that are hindering your walk with Christ and cut them out.
I actually think it is a very healthy thing to do from time to time.
The fact is that if you lay something at the foot of the cross and you can’t leave there, then you are not in control, it is.
IF YOU CANNOT LAY SOMETHING DOWN FOR 40 DAYS WITH OUT PICKING IT UP, YOU ARE NOT IN CONTROL.... IT IS.
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When that fact crosses our path the reality of that truth goes deeper.
Stop eating meat, fine.
Quit smoking, awesome.
No more swearing, beautiful.
But there are deeper things that quite honestly if you give them up a ripple effect will happen in your life that causes other things to fall right off.
I used to be a raging alcoholic.
I would be quite drunk at least every other day.
Smoked 4 1/2 packs of cigarettes a day.
I swore so much it would make a sailor blush.
But one day I gave control of my life to Jesus and when that happened those things fell right off.
There is the first thing that is worth losing… control.
We are going to talk about who is supposed to have it.
We are going to talk about what happens when He doesn’t have it.
We are going to give it back.
The Fall
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THE EATING OF THE FRUIT WAS NOT THE ISSUE.
God created everything.
God placed mad in the Garden to work and keep it.
God gave them one “Do Not.”
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Who is in control?..... God is.
THE TEMPTATION WAS NOT ABOUT THE FRUIT IT WAS ABOUT CONTROL
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The Devil questioned the authority of God by introducing a lie.
She thought
the tree was good for food
It was pleasing to look at
her eating of the fruit would make her wise.
Adam thought
duh - okay
Who was in control?
the devil
Ave
Adam
NOT GOD
The real sin wasn’t so much about how evil the fruit was, the real sin was not the attempt to take control from God.
The wages
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Separation from paradise
Separation for walking with God in Paradise
All work has thistles and thorns - life is not easy
The Answer.
The New Testament describes Jesus as a comparison between himself and Adam
1 co 15:
`ro 5:14-15
Because Jesus was man, humanity has a second chance.
In the Desert
bread
demonstration of authority
having authority.
What was Satan tempting Jesus with? - losing control.
God had a plan.
Jesus as a man was not going to change the plan
Jesus in the Garden
Who is in control?
- God is.
Conclusion
In the Liturgical Calendar, we are in the season of Lent.
On Ash Wednesday they put ashes on your head and say, from ashes you came and to ashes you will return.
The simple Idea here is that in order to get to paradise and walk with the Father so that He can make us into all that we were created to be we have to recognize that left to ourselves we aren’t all that.
We are not smart enough, fast enough, powerful enough, to really have control.
Starting with Adam, we have always had an issue with trying to take control… we need to lose it.
Jesus even did it.
- Gave control to His father.
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Lets spend sometime giving control of our lives to the only one who knows what to do with it....
If that was your first time praying that prayer… please tell me.
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