11th Hour
SERIES:
“FIRE”
THEME VERSE:
James 1:22
QUOTE (Jim Cymbala & Mark Buchanan dialogue):
Jim Cymbala: "It's not the plague of internet pornography that is consuming our men. It's not that the divorce rate in the church is roughly the same as society at large…The number one sin of the church in America…is that its pastors and leaders are not on their knees crying out to God, 'Bring us the drug-addicted, bring us the prostitutes, bring us the destitute, bring us the gang leaders, bring us those with AIDS, bring us the people nobody else wants, whom only you can heal, and let us love them in your name until they are whole.'"
Mark Buchanan: I had no response. I was undone. He had laid me bare, found me out, and exposed my fraudulence. I was the chief of sinners. I had never prayed, not once, for God to bring such people to my church. So I went home and repented. I stopped sinning. I began to cry out for "those nobody wants.”
SCRIPTURE:
James 1:26-27
BIG TRUTH:
PIERCED BY THE ARROW OF COMPASSION
SCRIPTURE:
Hosea 11:8
Hosea 1:1
Hosea 1:2-5
POINTS:
I. FEEL THE PAIN
Hosea 11:1-9
David Platt Quote:
“But I had heard these statistics before. As you may be prone to do, I could read a paragraph like the one above and move on without a second thought. But everything changed when we opened our lives to the possibility of adoption. Everything changed when we first saw the face of a precious ten-month-old boy in Kazakhstan who was in need of a mom and a dad. Everything changed when we visited his orphanage, saw children playing outside, and saw their crib-filled rooms inside. Everything changed when we realized that the statistics represent individual children just like our soon-to-be son.”
II. FIND A WAY
Hosea 11:8
III. FUEL THE FIRE
Hosea 11:8
