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*Luke 22.39-46 Prayer in the Press*
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Introduction
*/Talladega/**/ Nights/*
*Ricky Bobby*: Dear Lord baby Jesus, we thank you so much for this bountiful harvest of Dominos, KFC, and the always delicious Taco Bell.
I just want to take time to say thank you for my family.
My two beautiful, beautiful, handsome stricking sons, Walker, and Texas Ranger, or TR as we call him.
And of course my red hot smokin' wife Carley, who is a stone cold fox.
\\ *Cal Naughton, Jr.*: mmm... \\ *Ricky Bobby*: Dear tiny infant Jesus... \\ *Carley Bobby*: Hey, um... you know sweetie, Jesus did grow up.
You don't always have to call him baby.
It's a bit odd and off puttin' to pray to a baby.
\\ *Ricky Bobby*: Well look, I like the Christmas Jesus best, and I'm sayin grace.
When you say grace, you can say it to grown up Jesus, or teenage Jesus, or bearded Jesus, or whoever you want
 
*/Shadowlands /*(context of Joy’s cancer)
In conversation with two colleagues, Magdalen College (Oxford) Chaplain Harry Harrington declares that if Joy (Mrs.
Lewis) recovers from cancer, it will be a "victory for the power of prayer."
He is challenged immediately by atheist professor Christopher Riley, who goads him with questions about who qualifies for divine aid and whether or not God intervenes only when asked and whether or not there's a need to pray if God already knows and does what's best for us.
Harry, obviously stumped, dodges the questions.
CS Lewis interrupts to tell them that Joy’s cancer had gone into remission.
Reverend Harrington feels vindicated and announces, "God is answering your prayers."
Jack replies with fervor: "*That's not why I pray--I pray because I can't help myself--the need flows out of me.
It doesn't change God; it changes me*."
Riley (an atheist friend) thoughtfully comments, "That's the first sensible thing I've ever heard anybody say on the subject."
What is prayer and how do we pray?
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1.  Jesus in Gethsemane
- Olive Press
- Details
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2.  Fear
ILL – Tuesday Night
 
Unreasonable fear
Like flies on a summer day
Just keep pestering, coming back, swatting only annoys them more
 
!!! ?
Do you think Jesus was afraid?
Jesus’ Fear
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3.  What’s Our Olive Press?
!!! A.  The Disciples
Soon would scatter when the guards came
Three Days of fear and hiding.
John 21 – Jesus appears in their room.
“Peace” / Shalom
John 20:21       "Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you!
As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”"
·         Jesus’ blood was still on the courtyard where they’d beaten Him
·         His cross still stood on Golgotha
·         Jesus died because the Father had sent Him to the cross
·         “As the Father sent me, I am sending you.”
!!! B.  What Brings Us Fear?
·         The Unknown
·         Change
·         Disease?
*/Marriage/*
Ill- Christian Lawyer in Seattle w/ a family practice
-          ½ of his cases were with Christian families
-          Divorce
-          Abuse
Mal 2:13-16           "Another thing you do: You flood the Lord’s altar with tears.
You weep and wail because he no longer pays attention to your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands.
You ask, “Why?”
It is because the Lord is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you have broken faith with her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.
Has not the Lord made them one?
In flesh and spirit they are his.
And why one?
Because he was seeking godly offspring.
So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
“I hate divorce,” says the Lord God of Israel, “and I hate a man’s covering himself with violence as well as with his garment,” says the Lord Almighty.
So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith."
(Malachi 2:13-16, NIV)
\\ */Parenting/*
What is this church’s children’s ministry?
-          moms & dad – raise your hands
Youth ministry?
-          Parents
Women’s Ministry?
-          Husbands
 
Kids like to mirror their Parents
ILL – Shaving with Tahlia
 
John 5:19         So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing.
For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
Matthew 18:6  "But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea."
*/Criticism/*
Elaborate
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2.  What is the Role of Prayer in the Press?
!!! A.  Jesus                                                             
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That, when Christ was in his agony, /there appeared/ to him /an angel from heaven, strengthening him,/ v. 43.
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It was an instance of the deep humiliation of our Lord Jesus that he /needed/ the assistance of an angel, and would /admit/ it.
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That, /being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly,/ v. 44
 
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That, in this agony, /his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground  (v.44)./
\\ !!! B.  Prayer Connects us To God Through Gospel Means
I am accepted, nothing else matters
I am loved, everything else is okay.
1 John 4:18      */There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.
For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love/*.
!!! C.  Us
 
*ILL** – Cutis “The Voice” Allen*
·         Last October invited to perform at John Piper’s church in Minneapolis
o       First person ever to rap at the Church
o       People received him well and the night could be called a “success”
·         Then the video of the service was up-loaded to the internet
·         And the criticism began
o       A dozen blogs fired up about this
o       On one blog in particular, there were 34 pages of posts, over 20,000 views and whole lot of vitriol.
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