The Divine Crash

Today’s sermon was about sacrifice and seeing the work is what makes something sacred not the outcome.  You can scroll past all my notes and listen to it here or click here to open iTunes and download the podcast. Click below to read the notes, but I left out the illustrations and some other parts so you will have to listen to it if you want all that.We started with prayer and scripture from 2 Samuel 23:13-17

David is in a cave with 400 dysfunctional people and his family.  If you want to find out with people exactly read 1 Samuel 22:1-3

While he is in there he longs for water from Bethlehem.

This longing was really a longing for a simpler time.

A time when things were so complicated because David knew what his job was, to take care of sheep.

A time when it was so complicated to go on a date

A time when taxes weren’t so complicated.

A time when life in general just wasn’t so complicated.

And sure enough 3 guys hike from the cave to Bethlehem take out the Philistines and then bring back the water.

David takes the water and dumps it out as a drink offering to God.

David takes the work of the 3 guys and makes it a sacred offering all their sacrifice and work and turns it into something sacred to God.

When we sacrifice something that costs us it becomes sacred.

When we give of ourselves not to get something out of it but because it is the right thing to do it is the thing that we do that becomes sacred.

The sacrifice makes it sacred.

Were you in a relationship that fell apart after 10, 20, or 30 years? If we see the sacrifice as sacred then it was not a waste it is sacred.

We get no guarantees in life, so we take our costs and our sacrifice and we off that to God who makes it sacred.

We don’t have control either.  To assume we have control over anything is an allusion.

In Mark 14 Jesus is eating with Simon the Leper when a woman comes to him and pours expensive perfume on his head.  His disciples say “Why this waste?”

- After a child makes a stupid mistake, again do you say “Why this waste?”

- After the divorce do you say “Why this waste?”

- After that elderly parents takes even more of our time do we say “Why this waste?”

David looks at his 3 mighty men and says what you did was not a waste it was beautiful and sacred.

Jesus looked at his disciples and said “This is not a waste, it is beautiful and sacred.”

It is what we do that makes it sacred not the outcome.

The sacrifice makes it sacred.

Our God wastes nothing and through Jesus all sacrifice becomes sacred.

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