KNOWING THE END IS NEAR (16 OF 20)
Scripture: 1 Peter 4:7-11
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Knowing the End is Near (16 of 20)
Series: 1 Peter
Robert Dawson
1 Peter 4:7-11
A couple having dinner with friends was surprised and amused when Andrew, their friend’s 5-year-old son, took it upon himself to entertain them. He walked into the family room carrying his kindergarten class photo and climbed up on the sofa between them. He pointed to every child in the phot and offered a brief bio on each one. That’s Sophie. She cries all the time. That’s Robert. He’s mean. That’s Jason. He’s always in trouble. That’s Jim. He never listens to the teacher. That’s Rebecca. She aggravates everyone. Pointing to his own picture he says, ‘‘And this is me. I’m just sitting here minding my own business.’’
A lot of Christians are like little Andrew. The world may be falling apart around us, going to hell in a handbasket, as the old saying goes, and we take solace in the fact that we have not contributed to the insanity. We point to the hurts, brokenness, and depravity around us then smugly point to ourselves and say, ‘‘That’s us, minding our own business,’’ which is code for not doing anything that matters.
‘‘I believe a very large majority of churchgoers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God. (Charles H. Spurgeon in Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 11).’’
While Jesus does not want us to contribute to the chaos and depravity, I don’t think He wants us to sit around and do nothing more than observe the fallenness of the world while minding our own business. He doesn’t want us to be unthinking slumbering worshipers. He wants us to be about His Kingdom business.
• Mark 16:15-16 - And He said to them, ’’Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.
• 2 Corinthians 5.18-19 - Now God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the ...
Series: 1 Peter
Robert Dawson
1 Peter 4:7-11
A couple having dinner with friends was surprised and amused when Andrew, their friend’s 5-year-old son, took it upon himself to entertain them. He walked into the family room carrying his kindergarten class photo and climbed up on the sofa between them. He pointed to every child in the phot and offered a brief bio on each one. That’s Sophie. She cries all the time. That’s Robert. He’s mean. That’s Jason. He’s always in trouble. That’s Jim. He never listens to the teacher. That’s Rebecca. She aggravates everyone. Pointing to his own picture he says, ‘‘And this is me. I’m just sitting here minding my own business.’’
A lot of Christians are like little Andrew. The world may be falling apart around us, going to hell in a handbasket, as the old saying goes, and we take solace in the fact that we have not contributed to the insanity. We point to the hurts, brokenness, and depravity around us then smugly point to ourselves and say, ‘‘That’s us, minding our own business,’’ which is code for not doing anything that matters.
‘‘I believe a very large majority of churchgoers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God. (Charles H. Spurgeon in Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 11).’’
While Jesus does not want us to contribute to the chaos and depravity, I don’t think He wants us to sit around and do nothing more than observe the fallenness of the world while minding our own business. He doesn’t want us to be unthinking slumbering worshipers. He wants us to be about His Kingdom business.
• Mark 16:15-16 - And He said to them, ’’Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.
• 2 Corinthians 5.18-19 - Now God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the ...
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