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Food and Forgiveness
Last week we looked at an attempted trick question posed to Jesus about:
What must I do to inherit eternal life
Love God (Shema)
Love Neighbor
Clarifying question, who is my neighbor
Good Samaritan
Jesus explains how to Love God.
Mary and Martha
Image: A relationship requires both.
You cannot focus only on loving others and never generate a relationship with God and visa-versa.
What is prayer?
Why pray?
How do we pray?
What should we expect?
What does God desire?
These are great questions.
Society has challenged prayer.
A little more than 3 years ago people were fed up with “thoughts and prayers” in light of tragedies, violence, and mass shootings.
Outsiders of Christianity were looking at the insiders of Christianity and were fed up.
Why?
This used to bother me…But not any more.
Modern people began to question how a good God can let bad things happen.
It is a good question, we are not going to give a satisfactory answer in a short sermon.
That is not to say I have a satisfactory answer, I have what I believe, but it may not be what you believe.
You might ask…why does this not bother me?
Because critics of “thoughts and prayers” are recognizing the same thing we are.
They see evil deeds, and they lament and lash out with anger, wanting something done.
They lament the situation.
Scripture is full of lament, people who are experiencing or witnessing evil, often shout out in disgust.
Authors of scripture repeat often, “How long Lord?”
Their cry is our cry.
Their response is to legislate the hate away
Our response is to ask God to fix this, but how?
Do we want God to fix everyone?
Do we want God to remove evil from the earth?
Do we want God to get rid of the evil doers?
Do we want God to make everyone believe?
Do we want God to fix our government?
What is it we want?
I think MARTHA and MARY (last week) give us some insight into HOW we behave.
Luke 10:39-42
This is not a life or death situation, but for Martha it is VERY IMPORTANT.
Notice what she asks of Jesus.
CHANGE MARY.
FIX MARY.
MAKE HER HELP ME!
Remember, this event was put here to teach us what loving God looks like.
Mary has chosen the better thing.
But, this is often how we approach problems in our world.
God, fix them!
Make them do it!
Mary showed us how to listen…But how do we speak to God.
Luke addresses that too.
Luke 11:1-4
This may not be the form we learned, and that is okay.
Let me ask you a question…when evil rears its ugly head, is this the prayer you pray?
And not word for word, Jesus taught against that.
But is this the model you use?
This is an important passage.
Jesus is teaching how to pray.
New Testament authors would go on to expand on this a bit more, but this is the fundamental model for prayers of request.
Father (intimate), reminder that we are children of God, we are his creation, he breathed life, and we benefit from that.
This is the WHO, WHO WE ARE.
May your name be kept holy (Name theology).
You MUST know your Hebrew Bible (OT) to understand this.
We BEAR THE NAME.
This is the WHY, WHY WE ARE
May your kingdom come soon (Victory over evil) This is the what.
Evil must be crushed and Eden will be restored.
There is only one plan, PLAN A
This is the WHAT, WHAT WILL BE DONE
Give us each day the food we need (God provides) The earth and the trees were given a function to provide food for us.
The ONLY REASON people in the world go hungry is because of other people.
(Kings, rulers, authorities)
Notice the cycle.
Daily.
Important.
Forgive us our sins (restore us to Eden).
God will bring his kingdom, but nothing UNCLEAN can be in his kingdom.
Make us CLEAN.
Godward relationship
We forgive those who hurt us.
This is how we IMAGE GOD.
An imager reflects the character of God because we are the image of God.
Human relationships, how we relate to other imagers.
i.e.
Imagers share food with other imagers.
And don’t lead us into temptation.
Tricky and confusion.
It means the same thing as “deliver us from evil.”
We need delivered from something we cannot overcome or fix.
Evil.
You must acknowledge evil to be delivered from it.
This is a lament.
This is what the critics of “thoughts and prayers” agree with.
This gets a bit complex.
Don’t judge.
Don’t grudge.
Those are temptations.
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