The End of the Exile (10 of 12)
Series: Return and Seek: The Minor Prophets
Patrick Edwards
Haggai
Introduction
I think one of the easiest things for humans to do is to settle, to just accept things as they are, stick with the status quo, just tolerate whatever is in front of us rather than expect or aspire to something more. We all do this at various levels, like my wife and I are terrible at this when it comes to receiving an incorrect order at a restaurant. You know what I'm talking about. Your food comes and it's not quite what you asked for, and I don't mean its totally wrong, just parts of it are a bit off. Maybe you asked for that side instead of this one, or for the olives to be left off, something small but significant to you. This will happen to Teresa or I, we'll look at our food, notice it's not quite what we had wanted, but then just keep our mouths shut and tolerate it. Like, we don't want to make a fuss and so we'll just put up with it and settle for something lesser than what we hoped for.
Of course, human beings do this on a much bigger level. Maybe out of fear of being alone we settle on someone as a partner. Maybe out of laziness or lack of ambition or because of obstacles we settle in a job. But might I submit to you this morning for your consideration that most, if not all of us, have settled on Christianity. Now, of course, I don't mean to suggest that true Christianity is something that one settles for because they cannot find anything better. There is unequivocally nothing that is higher or better or more satisfying than true, biblical Christianity.
What I am arguing right now, rather, is that most of us, if not all of us, from time to time, if not more frequently than that, settle for a shadow or a reductionist form of that which is true Christianity. We assume that this message of getting out of hell by 'making a decision' at some point in our lives is the fullness of the Gospel and is the extent of the work that God inte ...
Series: Return and Seek: The Minor Prophets
Patrick Edwards
Haggai
Introduction
I think one of the easiest things for humans to do is to settle, to just accept things as they are, stick with the status quo, just tolerate whatever is in front of us rather than expect or aspire to something more. We all do this at various levels, like my wife and I are terrible at this when it comes to receiving an incorrect order at a restaurant. You know what I'm talking about. Your food comes and it's not quite what you asked for, and I don't mean its totally wrong, just parts of it are a bit off. Maybe you asked for that side instead of this one, or for the olives to be left off, something small but significant to you. This will happen to Teresa or I, we'll look at our food, notice it's not quite what we had wanted, but then just keep our mouths shut and tolerate it. Like, we don't want to make a fuss and so we'll just put up with it and settle for something lesser than what we hoped for.
Of course, human beings do this on a much bigger level. Maybe out of fear of being alone we settle on someone as a partner. Maybe out of laziness or lack of ambition or because of obstacles we settle in a job. But might I submit to you this morning for your consideration that most, if not all of us, have settled on Christianity. Now, of course, I don't mean to suggest that true Christianity is something that one settles for because they cannot find anything better. There is unequivocally nothing that is higher or better or more satisfying than true, biblical Christianity.
What I am arguing right now, rather, is that most of us, if not all of us, from time to time, if not more frequently than that, settle for a shadow or a reductionist form of that which is true Christianity. We assume that this message of getting out of hell by 'making a decision' at some point in our lives is the fullness of the Gospel and is the extent of the work that God inte ...
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