Luke 1:46-56
One of the things I love about Luke is the songs you find in it. Luke was a doctor and an intellectual.
Well through out the bible, when people have a really good relationship with God and are in communion with Him, they sing, and express thier joy.
I know I sure didn't expect to find it. I thought, cool, I'll get some stuff resolved, maybe feel close, have a nice life, get a few nice things, have some friends. I never in my wildest dreams expected to find the joy I have started to experiance lately. Deep, warm, gentle, genuine, feelings of expectation, and having things that make me want to celebrate the relationship with Jesus.
This series is a real treat because a few weeks before they had gone to the holy land for 10 days and got footage, so when they talk about places in scripture you get to see it.
Sermon on Luke 1:46-56
http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/luke/marys-song
Here are the rest of the sermons he has already preached on the book of Luke.
http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/luke
Pastor Driscoll does a real good job laying down the foundation by painting a really good picture of Jesus, of God dad, of God. What He is like. It's real easy when you've been abused by authority figures to put that on God. In fact one of the first tasks I ever had to do as a Christian was to peel my dad off Christ. So I wouldn't confuse the two.
Our first glimpse of God is our parents, especially our dads. To one point or another we need to go through renewal process and filter out the stuff that was our dad from the way God truely is to begin to see how He is.
Two things that Pastor Driscoll talked about were worry, anxiety. And coveting because you lack things.
Pastor Driscoll was right when He talked about rembering. Remebering what the bible says about God, remembering what God has done in our life and rembering what God has done in other's lives. It makes a huge differnce where you get your strength, what you are looking to help you out. If you are just depending on yourself, when things go rough you will tend to get more worried. If you are depending on God and friends and healthy family to help you, its makes a huge differnce. But it doesn't stop there.
In Monday's show, (10/26/09) Steve and Dr. Cloud talked about the roots of anxiety and dealing with it.
http://newlifeaudio.com/2009/10/new-life-live-october-26-2009/
How a lot of it is bound in our relationships. If as a small child we were left on our own or didn't bond well in relationships we will be anxious people. Develop anxiety.
There is a basic growth process we all have to go through to become, caring loving adults. It's reflected in the life of Jacob.
Jacob bonds with his uncle laben. (Genesis 31:43) They form a covant, or are commited to a relationship with each other. Jacob had been working for his uncle for 20 years and wasn't perfect but they had bonded. Had a friendship.
Next Jacob and his uncle put a boundary in the relationship. (Genesis 31:45-32:2)
The word Mizpah (watchman) is translated as law, divine duty in Hebrew. Its a boundary you lay down to help draw property lines, and help structure things in a relationship. Also to seperate what's good from what's bad. What you should be saying yes to and what you should be saying no to. Because Jacob was able to lay down boundaries with his uncle he was able to grow into adult hood. Not become enmeshed with Him. He's able to develop his own camp, with his own family and livestock and lively hood. (Gen 32:1) But he was still bonded with his uncle, they did not break ties. (Gen 31:54-55, 33:20- El-Elohe-Isreal God is my, Isreal's, God)
Jacob would not have been able to follow and worship God if he had stayed enmeshed with his family or origin or his uncle.
Then Jacob struggled with life. With fear. How things were with how things could be. (Genesis 32:3-33:20) Jacob followed Jesus (YHWH) but he had to still contend with life. Reality didn't go away. This is calling the good bad split so life and people aren't either all good or all bad. If we don't and we stay stuck in this stage we get perfectionistic and full of wraith at ourselves, (perfectionism) or others (judgementalism). By wrestling with things when they are bad and grieving how things should be, we are set free to grow and have a good life. Free to recieve reality. Jacob also rembered what God did and what's amazing about him is he didn't turn into a control freak. He delegated responsiblity to his wives to help and relied on God. Its a real easy tendancy when things go bad and you feel afraid to get real controling.
Then because Jacob had gone through the growth steps, he was able to start fulfiling the dream that God had given his grandfather Abraham. Able to start implimenting the dream that God gave him. Fulfil it because he was an adult. God blesses him with a new name to reflect the character that God carefully helped cultivate in jacob. (Genesis 35:9-15) Paul talks about adult maturity in I Corinthians 13.
So we have basic bonding with God and people, which is faith. learning what the good things are and the bad things and recieve the good and say no to the bad and draw property lines or boundaries.- Hope Then wrestle with the reality of life, reconsile how broken things are with how they are supposed to be. Heal the good bad split and die to the ought to recieve reality. Hope grounded in reality. And then adult maturity- Love
Dr. Cloud- Expounds on the growth process in his book, Changes that heal.
https://secure2.convio.net/nlm/site/Ecommerce/416474341?VIEW_PRODUC...
When your an adult, your able to start to fulfill the dreams and desires God puts in your heart. LIke marriage, or a career or a ministry.
The life is a good template for what it looks like to struggle and make a dream come true. (Genesis 25-50) Especially for young men.
In church we need both the exposational pastors, preachers and Christian counselors because too often the pastors try to do both and impossible for one man to do all that. It's two specializations. They are like Moses, when he first took on the role of leadership of God's people and tried to do everything. He had to learn to delegate.
The preacher, pastor helps unpack God's word and what it says about God for everyone. And the counselor helps unpack an individual person's life and how to apply the principals, God gives us in the bible to it. How to be obediant.
That's one reason I like the "Life recovery Bible". When I go to 12 step growth group, it shows me where in the bible it talks about the principals they talk about, and when I go to church and the pastor talks about stuff I need to do like deal with anxiety or coveting, it helps put me on the path to truely being obediant.
Well through out the bible, when people have a really good relationship with God and are in communion with Him, they sing, and express thier joy.
I know I sure didn't expect to find it. I thought, cool, I'll get some stuff resolved, maybe feel close, have a nice life, get a few nice things, have some friends. I never in my wildest dreams expected to find the joy I have started to experiance lately. Deep, warm, gentle, genuine, feelings of expectation, and having things that make me want to celebrate the relationship with Jesus.
This series is a real treat because a few weeks before they had gone to the holy land for 10 days and got footage, so when they talk about places in scripture you get to see it.
Sermon on Luke 1:46-56
http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/luke/marys-song
Here are the rest of the sermons he has already preached on the book of Luke.
http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/luke
Pastor Driscoll does a real good job laying down the foundation by painting a really good picture of Jesus, of God dad, of God. What He is like. It's real easy when you've been abused by authority figures to put that on God. In fact one of the first tasks I ever had to do as a Christian was to peel my dad off Christ. So I wouldn't confuse the two.
Our first glimpse of God is our parents, especially our dads. To one point or another we need to go through renewal process and filter out the stuff that was our dad from the way God truely is to begin to see how He is.
Two things that Pastor Driscoll talked about were worry, anxiety. And coveting because you lack things.
Pastor Driscoll was right when He talked about rembering. Remebering what the bible says about God, remembering what God has done in our life and rembering what God has done in other's lives. It makes a huge differnce where you get your strength, what you are looking to help you out. If you are just depending on yourself, when things go rough you will tend to get more worried. If you are depending on God and friends and healthy family to help you, its makes a huge differnce. But it doesn't stop there.
In Monday's show, (10/26/09) Steve and Dr. Cloud talked about the roots of anxiety and dealing with it.
http://newlifeaudio.com/2009/10/new-life-live-october-26-2009/
How a lot of it is bound in our relationships. If as a small child we were left on our own or didn't bond well in relationships we will be anxious people. Develop anxiety.
There is a basic growth process we all have to go through to become, caring loving adults. It's reflected in the life of Jacob.
Jacob bonds with his uncle laben. (Genesis 31:43) They form a covant, or are commited to a relationship with each other. Jacob had been working for his uncle for 20 years and wasn't perfect but they had bonded. Had a friendship.
Next Jacob and his uncle put a boundary in the relationship. (Genesis 31:45-32:2)
The word Mizpah (watchman) is translated as law, divine duty in Hebrew. Its a boundary you lay down to help draw property lines, and help structure things in a relationship. Also to seperate what's good from what's bad. What you should be saying yes to and what you should be saying no to. Because Jacob was able to lay down boundaries with his uncle he was able to grow into adult hood. Not become enmeshed with Him. He's able to develop his own camp, with his own family and livestock and lively hood. (Gen 32:1) But he was still bonded with his uncle, they did not break ties. (Gen 31:54-55, 33:20- El-Elohe-Isreal God is my, Isreal's, God)
Jacob would not have been able to follow and worship God if he had stayed enmeshed with his family or origin or his uncle.
Then Jacob struggled with life. With fear. How things were with how things could be. (Genesis 32:3-33:20) Jacob followed Jesus (YHWH) but he had to still contend with life. Reality didn't go away. This is calling the good bad split so life and people aren't either all good or all bad. If we don't and we stay stuck in this stage we get perfectionistic and full of wraith at ourselves, (perfectionism) or others (judgementalism). By wrestling with things when they are bad and grieving how things should be, we are set free to grow and have a good life. Free to recieve reality. Jacob also rembered what God did and what's amazing about him is he didn't turn into a control freak. He delegated responsiblity to his wives to help and relied on God. Its a real easy tendancy when things go bad and you feel afraid to get real controling.
Then because Jacob had gone through the growth steps, he was able to start fulfiling the dream that God had given his grandfather Abraham. Able to start implimenting the dream that God gave him. Fulfil it because he was an adult. God blesses him with a new name to reflect the character that God carefully helped cultivate in jacob. (Genesis 35:9-15) Paul talks about adult maturity in I Corinthians 13.
So we have basic bonding with God and people, which is faith. learning what the good things are and the bad things and recieve the good and say no to the bad and draw property lines or boundaries.- Hope Then wrestle with the reality of life, reconsile how broken things are with how they are supposed to be. Heal the good bad split and die to the ought to recieve reality. Hope grounded in reality. And then adult maturity- Love
Dr. Cloud- Expounds on the growth process in his book, Changes that heal.
https://secure2.convio.net/nlm/site/Ecommerce/416474341?VIEW_PRODUC...
When your an adult, your able to start to fulfill the dreams and desires God puts in your heart. LIke marriage, or a career or a ministry.
The life is a good template for what it looks like to struggle and make a dream come true. (Genesis 25-50) Especially for young men.
In church we need both the exposational pastors, preachers and Christian counselors because too often the pastors try to do both and impossible for one man to do all that. It's two specializations. They are like Moses, when he first took on the role of leadership of God's people and tried to do everything. He had to learn to delegate.
The preacher, pastor helps unpack God's word and what it says about God for everyone. And the counselor helps unpack an individual person's life and how to apply the principals, God gives us in the bible to it. How to be obediant.
That's one reason I like the "Life recovery Bible". When I go to 12 step growth group, it shows me where in the bible it talks about the principals they talk about, and when I go to church and the pastor talks about stuff I need to do like deal with anxiety or coveting, it helps put me on the path to truely being obediant.
Comment
-
Comment by Gem on October 30, 2009 at 10:35am -
I forgot to add the Jewish concept of rembering:
Memory is among those easily overlooked gifts for which we ought to offer up daily gratitude to God.
Without memory, one is isolated from others. But even worse, one is isolated from oneself. Without memory, life is a disconnected sequence of thinly sliced moments of time. It is memory that stitches together those instants, compiling them into our identity.
The word “re-member” means to join together just as the word “dis-member” means to separate.
Loss of family memory is also a tragedy. Happy memories help unify families. Creating a repository of good times spurs smiles and a strong sense of connection when those memories are later shared.
Not surprisingly, Scripture repeatedly directs Israel to remember. Take a look at this general admonition:
Remember the days gone by
(Deuteronomy 32:7)
© 2009 Created by Community Moderator
You need to be a member of New Life Ministries Online Community to add comments!
Join this Ning Network