Thy Will Be Done

Sermon- Thy will be done

- I’m setting back & taking in what all is happening in our world today.

- We have Covid19 (the corona virus) over 3,000 people have died

- We have the flu - over 16,000 have died

- We have tornadoes tearing apart lives & homes

- Earthquakes striking in many places

- & yes the list could keep going.

Q- What’s the list?

- It’s a list of suffering.

- Those things you can’t control.

- Then There’s the headlines where children have been found locked in cages for

years.

- Babies are found alive in cars with parents who overdosed on some drugs.

- Those are sufferings we say they could’ve been prevented.

- You’re right It could have, & should have been prevented, but that’s not how

our world operates.

- We do live in a fallen world, & it’s better described as a corrupted world.

- The things that are pure, & right are not what we always see first.

- I want us to read the Lord’s Prayer found in Matthew 6:9-13 this morning.

- While you turn there I want to implant a thought.

- Congress passed an 8.3 billion dollar spending bill for the corona virus, & yet it has

only killed 1/5 the number the flu has.

Q- Why do you think the money was approved so fast?

- We know how deadly the flu is & how you contract it.

- It comes from a fear of the unknown. It’s a fear of the potential of this disease!

- Jesus modeled a prayer that takes our mind’s eye off of the physical & the unknown,

& He places our focus on what never changes & from where our hope comes.

Matthew 6:9-13

9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

- My key verse is verse 10. We are looking to the way it is in God’s kingdom.

- It’s perfect, pure, sinless, & without disease.

- Let’s pause now & talk to the One who establishes our faith, & our lives.

Prayer

- In our world we have to admit the stresses are hard to overcome.

> Joke from (www.strictly-stress-management.com)

An old man lived alone in Minnesota. He wanted to dig up his garden to plant potatoes, but it was very hard work. His only son, who would have helped him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and mentioned his situation:

Dear Son,

I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my potato garden this year. I hate to miss doing the garden, because your mother always loved planting time. I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. If you were here, all my troubles would be over.I know you would dig the plot for me, if you weren't in prison.

Love, Dad

Shortly, the old man received this telegram:

For Heaven's sake, Dad,don't dig up the garden!! That's where I buried the GUNS!!

At 4 a.m the next morning, a dozen police officers showed up and dug up the entire garden without finding any guns. Confused,the old man wrote another note to his son telling him what happened, and asked him what to do next.

His son's reply was: "Go ahead and plant your potatoes, Dad.. It's the best I could do for you from here."

- The idea & motivation of stress is simply something that makes us look at ourselves

& think I can’t make it through this.

Q- Who said we can’t overcome these things?

- I know our first thought is, oh I would never be able fair if that happened to me.

Q- Where did that come from?

- Easy, we leveled our ability by watching what someone else went through.

Q- Now, is that someone else infallible?

Q- Are they perfect?

- No, then your test of evaluation is flawed.

- Jesus said in John 16:33

John 16:33

33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Q- Now, who overcame the world?

Q- Was it the person, or people you’ve used to evaluate your own strength?

- They’re not from where our strength comes from!

Q- Who’s to say their body is stronger or weaker than yours?