“Three Pennies and a Rock – Trust and Obey”
Introduction
- Braves win first World Series since 1995
- It was great being able to watch those games with my son.
- Some of the greatest memories I have with my dad were at or watching Braves games so it is really special to get to do that with my own son
- But, I gotta tell you, if it weren’t for Ben, I probably wouldn’t have watched many games
- Braves and TarHeels
- They lose a lot of big games
- Yes, I know it’s nice to get there, just wish they could be dynastic like the Patriots or the 70s UCLA Basketball teams.
- IT was Ben who trusted that they were going to win
- Final game, I wanted to bail, especially as the game got later and later.
- Ben had faith.
- But, beyond that, Ben’s trust wasn’t so much an intellectual consent as it was an action
- I talk frequently about love
- How we primarily view it as a feeling, but the Bible sees it as action
- Same thing can be said for Trust – It’s an action step.
- They lose a lot of big games
- Braves and TarHeels
Trust
- First of all, we need to get rid of a couple of outcomes of trust so as to not have false expectations of what trusting God will deliver
- FIRST - DOES NOT MEAN EVERYTHING WILL GO YOUR WAY
- This was my big mistake.
- Rain, T-Ball game, didn’t happen
- I trusted God BUT I ONLY TRUSTED HIM TO DO WHAT I NEEDED HIM TO DO.
- That’s actually doing a number of things deeply wrong with our faith
- The Bible contradicts this
- Jesus himself
- John 16:33-34 – “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
- 1st Peter really gets at this awareness
- Because the World is broken by Sin, there is no getting out of here without suffering
- But, Peter notes, it is far better to suffer for
- We typically trust God to deliver things to us
- Where it is easy to trust God
- Grace
- I’m not perfect but I get into heaven, anyway
- Yeah, I trust God on that
- Comfort
- My yoke is easy, my burden light
- Oh yeah, that’s a really good one to trust
- Nope, this burden is too hard, can’t be from Jesus
- Oh yeah, that’s a really good one to trust
- My yoke is easy, my burden light
- I’m not perfect but I get into heaven, anyway
- Grace
- Where it is easy to trust God
- Jesus himself
- I trusted God BUT I ONLY TRUSTED HIM TO DO WHAT I NEEDED HIM TO DO.
- Rain, T-Ball game, didn’t happen
- This was my big mistake.
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