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Sunday Morning: Daybreak & Refresh
March 27, 2011 — The Peculiar Path of Joe Jacobson: The Coat, The Cloak, and The Signet Ring
Lesson 1: The Coat
(All Aboard at Dysfunction Junction!)
Core Ideas:
- Just Another Dysfuntional Family
- Want to use "Baggage" video right before the sermon time, but not counted in the sermon time, at both services. Sets the table for the message that is to follow from Joseph's life!
- Summary of Joseph's Early Years to his brothers lie to selling him into slavery and to his rise in Potiphar's house.
- Connect this to the mess of his daddy's cheating and lying ways, the mess of multiple wives and rivalries, and the preferential treatment of a dad. In the middle of this, an arrogant little brother gets more than his comeuppance and he has to find out who he is what he is made of.
- Bottom line, however, most of us get on the train at dysfunction junction -- satan makes sure most of us have a deep wound, a problematic family, someone who has treated us unfairly. The real issues are ...
- Will I trust in God or will I try to play God? (cf. Genesis 50:15-21)
- Will I look out for number 1 (me), or will I look up to Number 1 (God)?
- Will I believe that God is present even though he is silent and life feels very unfair?
- How would I live if I am confident that God was with me despite the obvious circumstances around me?
- What will it take for me to drop my baggage and let God give me a fresh start?
- Let's acknowledge that we all come from flawed families, but there is something crucial and important about them that needs to be redeemed. Let's not give up on them. Yes, some are evil, but we don't have to be — being broken doesn't mean we are useless or unimportant.
- God can and does work redemption through broken people ... if we do not give up and lose heart. Satan and those who partner with him may mean it for evil, but God intends it for good ... our good and the good of who knows how many more!
Key Focus:
- Let's quit whining about the problems we've had and that we've inherited, and get on with living the life at our fingertips trusting that God will work it for His glory and our grace.
- Let's understand that Romans 8:28-29; Philippians 2:12-13; Genesis 50:18-21 are not slogans or quick fixes, but the work of God through a life that is yielded to him.
- To LIVE_holy, we have to make the SH!FT to trust God is at work even when the circumstances and our previous history suggest otherwise!
SH!FT Elements:
- LIVE_holy — This is the real battle of Joseph's life: will he trust God and live confidently that God is involved even when God is silent and circumstances suggest God is absent!.
Key SoHills Emphasis:
- WATS is coming
- Keep focusing on SH!FT
Communion Emphasis:
- How God uses broken things to give us life
- Broken Clouds give us rain
- Seeds must be planted and then broken for them to grow
- Wheat grain must be broken to give us bread
- Jesus offered himself to be broken for our sin, to show that God can make something new, powerful, and life-giving out what was broken!
- Behind every time we share in Communion, there is both the 2 Corinthians 5:21 reality and the 2 Corinthians 5:17 potentiality — this is not a time to mourn, but to rejoice knowing that out of brokenness, God creates life, real life, never ending life!
Key Scriptures:
- Romans 8:28-29 & Philippians 2:12-13
- Genesis 50:18-21
Sunday Evening: Sundown
Title: "Beware of Pigeon Holes: Of Labels and Libels"* (John 9:1-7) Speaker: TBD Prayer & Matthew 7:1-5: TBD Communion Devotional: TBD Song Leader: TBD Closing Benediction: Psalm 19:12-14
* based on the book, The Jesus Touch by Lynn Anderson
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