Take your feelings of being done to God, and – just like God gave Moses some help to lighten his load – God will give you EXACTLY what you need to lighten your load, to feel done no more.
First Christian Church, Grand Junction – Praising God, Changing Lives!
First Christian Church, Grand Junction – Praising God, Changing Lives!
Sermons on Numbers
I told you near the beginning of this sermon that I realized something this week, that God placed a revelation of sorts before me this week: that Pentecost is about MORE than just the birth of the Church, that Pentecost is about the PURPOSE of the Church, that Pentecost is about God’s long held desire to place God’s Spirit upon people to get stuff done. God has done God’s part. Will we do ours and use the Spirit’s power to get stuff done for the common good?
I said it before; I’ll say it again. I’m not an environmentalist. You will not anytime soon be hearing me advocating any kind of mandatory restrictions on people’s enjoyment of God’s creation. However, what you’ve heard today and what you will CONTINUE to here is a person of God imploring you to CHOOSE to perform one of the primary jobs God placed people here to perform: caring for God’s creation the way God would care for it, the way God showed us throughout scripture to care for it. Choose to participate in God’s desires and efforts to care for creation in such a way that creation can continue to care for people for generations to come.
Folks, all around us, as in the time of Moses, people are dying. Literally, everyone dies. Metaphorically, people are dying to the ways of this world long before their earthly bodies give out. Just as the people of Moses’ time had to gaze upon the serpent if they wanted to live, people of our time must gaze upon Christ, must look up to Him and experience Him and make a decision to follow Him, in order that they might have the new life God offers through Him. Will you give them a chance to see Christ? Will you help them look up?