A Time To Take Action

Sermon- A time to take action

- If we look at the emotions stirring this year. We will definitely say this is the year that we are saying it’s time to take action!

- It’s an emotion that drives at the heart of unrest.

Q- Doesn’t that show us what Jesus was here for.

Matthew 11:28-30

28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

- You will find rest.

- Constantly searching. We work, we express our hearts, & we fight to feel that we are

accepted. To feel that it’s a world unified.

- We live in a world of unrest, & this is why we desire for things to change.

- Before we pray, Think of the way it is. We call for something to change. Well, it

happens. Then, not too long after, we are calling for something else to change.

Q- Why is that?

- It’s because as much as this world changes, it will never be perfect.

- Let’s Pray to the One who will make it Perfect.

Prayer

- I feel that the growing unrest we are experiencing is because of, or heightened by, a fear of death.

- Something is going to change, & we don’t know what is going to happen.

Q- So, What are we crying for?

- We want to make sure that it changes to benefit us.

- Think back to the rich young ruler. He came running, & kneeling before Jesus. He

asked, what shall I do to inherit eternal life.

- The moment Jesus answered with, sell all that you have, & give it to the poor, the

young ruler was destroyed, very sorrowful.

- He wanted change, in this case eternal life, but when it wasn’t going to come

the way he wanted it. He wanted nothing of it.

- This virus has caused a great deal of searching in all of us.

- Some of the things that have come up, have been good, but I totally disagree with

the movement to defund the police.

- Of course there are bad cops mixed in with the good ones. There always has

been.

- Think about these verses.

Matthew 13:36-43

36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.

37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;

38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.

41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;

42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

- This world is very much like a farmer’s field. Within the field is what the farmer plants

(wheat), & What the enemy plants, tares(a weed or darnel). Both of these, at least at

first, look the same, but only one of these is what the farmer wants.

- In this parable verses 39 & 40 say, the end of the world & the end of this world. The

Word world in both of these verses is the word aión in the Greek. It doesn’t mean

world. It means age.

Q- What age?

- In the end of the age of the gentile. That is in the moment that all that will be saved

has come to an end. Christ has returned, & all of Israel is under the political control of

Israel at Christ’s return.

- This parable reveals to us that there will always be a bad apple in the bunch.

- No matter how hard we try, until the world as we know it ends, there will always be

a bad apple in the bunch.

- So When I look at the notion of defund the police. What that looks like is

exactly what many farmers would do before weed killers were made. They