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What Brings Out The Best In People
Contributed by Damien Saylor on Jun 9, 2020 (message contributor)
Summary: - I believe some of the greatest stories for this pandemic, is all the outpouring of help & love. - If the virus had not have come, I do not believe people would have noticed others like they do now.
Sermon- What brings out the best in people?
- If you’re like me, I like to watch the mystery science shows. They present a mystery &
then give you scenarios of what that something could be. They finally end up with
showing you what the mystery is.
Q- What’s the point of their tactics?
Q- Why don’t they just tell you what the mystery is?
- They keep us interested, & enticed to continue watching, by keeping our minds
working.
- I believe some of the greatest stories for this pandemic, is all the outpouring of
help & love.
- If the virus had not have come, I do not believe people would have noticed others
like they do now.
- There is a silver lining, in the midst of this horrid tragedy!
- I know the question is made of,
Q- How could God allow such a disaster?
- There’s a lot that goes into a question like that.
- The first answer is, God didn’t cause this, it was Our sin!
- The second answer goes deeper though, I love the way that Jesus worked.
When He was often asked a question. He answered it with a question.
- So, here it is,
Q- Why did God allow sin?
- Sin is the most vile & devastating disease to infect human civilization.
- countless numbers of lives have been lost to it.
- In this even God mourns the affects of this disease, & that’s where we will
begin our reading.
31 The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.
32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
- Jesus was traveling from northeast Peræa, going to Jordan, with His destination
Jerusalem.
- As Jesus traveled he saw the curse of sin on mankind.
Q- When you go out do you see the curse of this pandemic?
- Face masks are everywhere, & stores are shuttered or changed.
- These are the eyes Through which Jesus sees our world.
- Each person marked, or stained by sin.
Prayer
- Here’s the picture, Jesus mourns that Jerusalem, the place He will set up His throne,
will ultimately crucify Him.
- We see the heartbreak of Jesus, & ask, why then did you allow sin?
- The answer is given in the same outcry, & mourning.
- Listen again,
34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
- The answer is simple, He wanted us to choose Him.
- In the Garden, the choice was simple. Choose to believe God, or believe the devil.
- A choice was presented at that moment. A choice that God already knew the
decision, but He gave it to us anyway.
- The same choice is presented in this pandemic.
Q- Do you trust God?
- Did God cause this virus?
- Did God cause sin?
- No, but He will use them to increase the number of citizens for His Kingdom.
- No, I don’t mean in death, but God will use this fear of death to awaken many
people who have been asleep.
- Listen to Paul,
14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
- Jesus looked out & could see those who were marked. His crying out was Awake
thou that sleepest.
- Chaplin’s are seeing a rise in people questioning eternity now, & there’s great
reason for it.
- People are seeing first hand what sin is doing to mankind, it’s killing us!
Q- Is this virus bringing an awakening, & revival in our world?
- I pray it is, but church let’s be ready for when see those awakening. We ca be the
beacon of light for them to see.
