PRAYER coming out of worship…
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Eliana
Deckelmann baby at 9:15am
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Lydia
Lytel baby at 11:00am
Open
WHY A BABY?
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I’ve
been wrestling with this idea for awhile now.
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I
know all the “church” answers…
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To
show his humanity
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To
give us an example
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To
teach humility
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But,
for me, all of these ideas rang hollow to the struggle I was having…
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I’ve
experienced “baby life” 5 different times (slide?) and I couldn’t figure out why the Kingdom
had to Break In in that way?
o
Take
a look at this baby here (living example) … why would Jesus have to come this
way? Not just as a human… not just as an example…
o
But
WHY A BABY?!
Word
As
I began to ask the Lord for His reasoning, the Holy Spirit led me to a very strange
place… to a place I wasn’t ready for… back to the beginning:
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Genesis
2:7 then the Lord God
formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
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In
the creation accounts of Genesis 1 and 2, we hear about the Father creating his
favorite creation. He makes the man (woman comes later) to co-create, name, and
work alongside Him.
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We
read this and we realize just how much the Father loves and wants to partner
with man… that in and of itself is an amazing revelation… but I began to press
a little deeper in my thoughts and prayers.
And
then it hit me, I’d made a bad assumption about the Scriptures… I assumed that when God made “man”
that He’d made a MAN… and not a baby.
I’d
missed the whole point of the intimate relationship between a Father and a son…
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I’d
missed that after He created the little baby He cared for it Himself
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I’d
missed that as the child grew, the Father wanted to create an amazing
playground for Adam, so He made this beautiful garden
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I’d
missed that as he became a young man, the Father wanted to pass along teaching
and work, so they named the animals together, tilled the ground together,
harvested the fruit of the trees together.
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I’d
missed that the Father wanted to teach Adam how to love, so He formed a young
woman for Adam to express compassion, affection and partnership with.
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I’d
missed that God is Father because that was His original design… to be a parent
to a little baby!
New Creation
So
“WHY A BABY?”
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How
could He come any other way?!
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Jesus
was coming to show us the InBreaking of the NEW CREATION
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He
was coming to restore relationship with His kids
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He
was coming to get His family back!
He
came as a baby to completely UnMake the idea we have of how the universe works.
1
Corinthians 15 (ESV) puts it this way:
45 Thus it is written, “The
first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became
a life-giving spirit. 46 But it
is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.47 The
first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from
heaven. 48 As was the man
of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of
heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as
we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the
image of the man of heaven.
He
came as a baby to show you that His family can be reborn… not just of dust, but
of the things of heaven!
With
the coming of the baby, everything is turned upside down… the last become
first, the least become the greatest, the servants become the leaders… the
Father becomes the Son…
Paul
tells us that we don’t even have to look at people the same way...
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2Corinthains
5:16-17
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16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to
the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we
regard him thus no longer.17 Therefore, if anyone
is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed
away; behold, the new has come.
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Because
of this New Family Dynamic, we can see people according to their destiny and
purpose and not due to their past hurts and mistakes.
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Because
of the NFD, we can find ourselves in an unhindered relationship with the King
of the Universe.
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Because
of this NFD, everyone can find themselves on the INSIDE and not the OUTSIDE of
the family… we are all welcome at the family table.
God
is with us.
God
is amongst us.
God
is around us.
God
wants to change the world through us!
The
old way of relating to the Father is gone… a new day has come!
What
better way could He show this, but through a baby!
Ministry/Action
Healing
the broken – (2) Prayers for your family – (3) Loving those not yet in the
family
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