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Everything 1pe 5:8
Contributed by James Lee on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: A relationship with Christ changes everything. Based on a skit by a drama team.
26 You blind Pharisee! First wash the inside of the cup and the dish, and then the outside will become clean, too.
27 "What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs—beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people's bones and all sorts of impurity.
28 Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.
Scene 4: Calling it Quits: In this scene the girl has reached the end of rope and can’t take life anymore. She is followed, closely by the devil who is trying to get her to cut her wrist. When that seemed to fail, he then handed her a gun…
She sits down on her knees with the gun to her head, crying uncontrollably. She drops the guns and looks at it, she looks up and then puts the gun back to her head.
1Pe 5:8,9 Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
9 Stand firm against him, and be strong in your faith. Remember that your Christian brothers and sisters all over the world are going through the same kind of suffering you are.
When the enemy controls the way you think you end up on the losing end. Stand strong and don’t give in. The enemy will try to keep you from believing and will do everything possible to keep help from arriving.
Here Jesus is trying to get to the girl but all the demons have surrounded Him and are pushing Him away.
Dan 3:16-18 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you.
17 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God whom we serve is able to save us. He will rescue us from your power, Your Majesty.
18 But even if he doesn't, we want to make it clear to you, Your Majesty, that we will never serve your gods or worship the gold statue you have set up.
Help arrived for Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and help will arrive for you if you just hold on.
The end of the skit the girl looked around and saw Jesus fighting to get to her and she reaches out for Him. At that moment Jesus throws the demons to the four corners of the stage and runs to the girl. He removes the gun from her hand and the fear from her heart. They walk off stage with the girl in the arms of the only one who could bring hope to her life.
Maybe you are here today and you have made it to the bottom. You feel hopeless and alone. Please hear me today. There is hope, there is peace, salvation is real and Jesus is here, reaching out for you, calling for you to come. Just like He walked through that fire with those three Hebrew children, He will