WEiRD - Weird Way To Save the World, EASTER WEEKEND.

Matther 7:13-14
Destruction, many enter
Life, few find it

Two Views of God

The normal way:
1. Religion: Man's normal attempt to reach God.
Isaiah 29:13
Hearts are far from me
Rules taught by men

Religion is an outward show.

Religion leads to:
1. Pride
2. Despair

Pride, we think we right and better than others.
Despair, I try but I'm not that spiritual, not good enough.


The weird way:
2. Christ: God's weird way to reach man.
Philippians 3:4-7
Paul did everything right a religious person could do, but all of it is rubbish.

Isaiah 3: 8b-9
Knowing Christ Jesus my Lord
Lost all things, consider them rubbish.
Through faith in Christ
The righteousness that comes from God

Rubbish: skúbala (scoo'-ba-la) , garbage, human or animal dung.
Skúbala happens.

You can take all the religious things and works but it is still poo.
No matter how mich you have, its still poo.

Through faith in Christ
Righteousness that comes from God
The purpose of the law is to show that you need a Saviour.
Jesus took all our bad things from us.
John 11:25-26

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WEiRD, because normal isn't working. Weird Desires.

If you want what normal people have, do what normal people do.

If you want what few people have, do what few people do.

For example, Eve wanted the fruit that was forbidden.
David wanted another man's wife.
You want friendship of others from others.

1 John 2:16-17 NLT :
1. Physical pleasure
2. Everything we see
3. Achievements and possessions
4. From this world
5. Everything that people crave.

Normal people do what they want, what feels right.

Normal People

1. Want what they want now not later.
Luke 15:12 NLT
The prodigal son, wanted his share now.
Now, now, now.
Ice cream before dinner now.
Wanting to do what we're only suppose to do in marriage.
To show our anger now.


2. Trade the ultimate for the immediate.
Genesis 25:29-32
Jacob & Esau
Esau wanted to eat now.
Esau said, "I am about to die," and "What good is the birthright to me?"
He does the most unthinkable thing, to traded his birthright for a bowl stew.
We think who would be so foolish to do that trade.
Normal people do that everyday.

We trade God for a bowl of stew.
It builds up by each small bowl of stew.

Like a girl who loves the boy, and wants to honor God but the boy pushes and she gives in and traded the ultimate for the immediate.

Most of us do it all the time.
3. What's your bowl of stew?
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Oh.... like wanting a relationship with a person so much that we push away God and our attention and concentration goes to pushing that relationship to happen now, now, now.



Weird People
1. Know later is often better than now.
Proverbs 16:32 NLT
Patient, self-control.
Like to a kid, you offer him a cookie now but wait! You say, if waited for an hour you get another one. Which is better?

Normal people buy liabilities, weird people buy assets.

2. Seek God until God's desires become their desires.
Psalms 37:4
Delight your in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
You desire God's desires, to help people, to love God.

Galatians 5:16-17 NLT
You won't be doing what your sinful nature craves.
The Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires.

Say you can wait, trade your immediate for your ultimate.
When you seek him they will call you weird but embrace it.

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Weird~ Pastor Craig

Matthew 7:13-14
Jesus said that people are on the wrong road that does not lead to life.
Normal the life leading to death.
Being normal, taking out the Bible and looking at it worldly,
is getting divorce, premaritial sex, adultery, looks, bankruptcy.

1. If you want what normal people have, do what normal people do.

2. If you want what few people, do what few people do.
(Get weird)

Weird People
Weird people don't like normal people.
1. Don't think like normal people think.

Romans 12:2 NlrV
Romans 12:2 MSG

Paul says to let your way of thinking be completely changed.
Don't go into a vegetative whereby you become your culture and don't think.

Weird teaches you to think differently about:
1. Time
2. Money
3. Relationships
4. Sex
5. Values

2. Don't live like normal people live.
Everybody is doing it so it must be ok :D.....

1 Peter 2:11-12

Don't copy other people's weird because God will give you your own weird.

HOW IS GOD LEADING YOU AWAY FROM NORMAL INTO THE GOD-KIND OF WEIRD?

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