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INTRODUCTION:
A normal, natural response to suffering is frustration and cynicism.
But may I suggest the Christian has no reason to be cynical and every reason to be hopeful.
But may I suggest the Christian has nothing to be cynical about and everything to be
And that may seem - unrealistic and out of touch with reality.
All of humanity born since the fall has been faced with a constant reality - futility and pain.
After all,
Everyone born since the fall has been faced with a constant reality - futility and pain.
We live in a world where -
Careful organization has no guarantee of success.
Wisdom may not yield wealth and happiness.
And suffering and pain is often unavoidable.
We live in a world where -
disaster and
You might say - we live in a world of Murphy's Law.
"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong"
“"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong"
So,
why shouldn’t a Christian be a cynic?
The Christian has nothing to be cynical about.
There are several answers to that … and even will teach us different answers to that.
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Consider these Portraits of suffering
And will teach us - Because Glory changes everything.
Rom 8:18-23
According to Paul -
PROP: We should place our hope in the future Glory instead of this World.
TRANS: and we will explore two questions that will help us answer why.
love
value
The first question -
1) Why shouldn’t we value this world?
ILLUSTRATION:
If you're like me, you grew up singing “America the beautiful”.
Every year my elementary school would have a school wide music concert.
And every year we would sing, America the beautiful.
And this song might make you think this world is perfect and wonderful.
And as an unsaved, heathen … I thought … We live in an awesome world.
I bought into one of the great lies of American culture - that this world is wonderful, beautiful, and can satisfy you.
After all - consider the opening lines.
America the Beautiful - (The edited song my school had me sing)
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain;
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America!
America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea.
In America, and along with the rest of the world,
We have championed the belief - that this world can satisfy you.
Because this world isn’t worth
That if you work hard,
do the right things,
… you can find success - and that success will make you happy.
For spacious skies
But let me declare to you… That is a out right lie.
- What is perhaps amazing is that we can live in such a wonderful world while it is still corrupted.
- It speaks more of the majesty and grace of God ... then the reality that we can live successful and happy lives.
It speaks more of the majesty and grace of God ... then the reality that we can live succesful and happy lives.
Because our mountains may be beautiful,
but our lives are futile and painful.
In the wealthiest country in the world,
we more often find life to be hard and painful … then full of success and happiness.
Consider what Paul teaches us about the reality of this world.
Far from success and happiness -
a) This world is futile.
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American you can live a wonderfully blessed life.
For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
Romans 8:20
The word futile has the idea of "being unable to achieve its purpose".
In other words… Your best efforts in this world can often result in utter and total failure.
Even careful diligence… Can result in utter destruction.
Even careful diligence… Can result in utter destruction.
a) This world is futile.
ILLUSTRATION:
After all,
consider one person who on September 11th started the first day at the World Trade Center…
The person worked hard through college.
They worked hard through an MBA.
They were careful to apply to the right internships.
They were careful to apply to the right internships.
They carefully groomed themselves for their dream job… a business executive at a Fortune 500 company in the World Trade Center towers.
But what did their best efforts achieve?
Nothing… Because the person died on the first job day of their dream job.
It was futile.
It was futile.
This world is futile.
This world is futile.
ILLUSTRATION:
It's interesting that our Constitution does not promise happiness,
only the pursuit of happiness.
The Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I think our founding fathers knew it was futile to say that we had the right to happiness.
And that we are naïve to think that we have any guarantee of happiness.
Don’t hope in this world because this world is futile.
ILLUSTRATION:
It’s like banging your head against the wall.
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