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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> Luke 21:5-19 – </SPAN><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">“The Bed Rock of Faith”</SPAN></STRONG></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 – <STRONG>“Fighting Back Against Falling Back”</STRONG> by Leonard Sweet</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">[Members: Please see Luke 21 the sermon titled "The Bedrock of Faith"] </SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Have you ever tried to make a prediction? Here are some predictions from the past. All from people who were trusted individuals:</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, in 1943 said, "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Popular Mechanics magazine in 1949 made this prediction: "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons."</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">There was an inventor by the name of Lee DeForest. He claimed that "While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility."</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The Decca Recording Co. made a big mistake when they made this prediction: "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." That was their prediction in 1962 concerning a few lads from Liverpool. Their band was called the Beatles.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">As the disciples walked out of the Temple in Jerusalem Jesus paused with his disciples, looked back at the Temple and predicted, "Do you see all these great buildings. Not one stone will be left on another." To the disciples this was bedrock. Nothing could bring down these walls. "Look, teacher! What massive stones! What magnificent buildings!" they said to Jesus.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The smallest stones in the structure weighed 2 to 3 tons. Many of them weighed 50 tons. The largest existing stone is 12 meters in length and 3 meters high, and it weighed hundreds of tons! The stones were so immense that neither mortar nor any other binding material was used between the stones. Their stability was attained by the great weight of the stones. The walls towered over Jerusalem, over 400 feet in one area. Inside the four walls was 45 acres of bedrock mountain shaved flat and during Jesus' day a quarter of a million people could fit comfortably within the structure. No sports structure in America today comes close.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">You can then understand the disciple’s surprise. As they walked down the Kidron Valley and up Mount Olive, Peter James and John wanted to hear more.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Jesus' prediction that a structure so immense would be leveled to the ground seemed implausible. But they pressed Jesus for more information. They wanted to know when. What would be the sign that this was about to take place? In their voice was fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear that their lives were about to change forever. Jesus had not made any predictions like this one. This was different. This, they could understand.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Forty years later Jesus' prediction came true. In 70 AD the Temple was destroyed by Rome. What are we to learn from this prediction and its fulfillment?</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">1. The Bedrock of Faith Is Not in Temples.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">2. The Bedrock of Faith Is Not in Signs.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">3. The Bedrock of Faith Is in Christ.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">[Members: Please see 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 the sermon titled “Fighting Back Against Falling Back” by Leonard Sweet] </SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">You’ve had 7 days to adjust. How you doing . . . fighting back against falling back?</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Spring forward; fall back. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">These past seven days your bio-rhythms have been batty, fighting back after “falling back” or maybe even “falling flat.” </SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Retreating one hour in order to get back to “Standard Time” is supposed to make our mid-winter mornings less dark and dismal. Unfortunately, as anyone who lives above the 45th parallel knows, those brighter “a.m.’s” come attached to distinctly darker and longer “p.m.’s.” And even that extra morning light really only lasts for a couple of weeks, at best.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">It isn’t easy to readjust the “circadian” rhythms of our bodies. Not even by just an hour. And if you are not afflicted with SAD</SPAN>,<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: small"> seasonal affective disorder, </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">where the lack of daylight hours brings on depression, lethargy, and genuine “SADness,” losing the light still brings all of us physical challenges and changes. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">You cannot wake up “bright-eyed and bushy-tailed” to birdsong when all the song birds have flown south and the only feathered friend you see on your morning commute is the occasional owl. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">It is hard to argue with the family dog when the open door for a gloomy, rain-soaked “morning” walk is rejected with horror and he beats a fast-track back to his snuggly-ball doggy bed.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Besides over-priced trips to sunny lands abroad and fried-sun states at home, scientists prescribe doses of specific wave lengths of light, available in special light bulbs, to help our bodies fight off the SAD-slump fall-back. More recently, nutritionists have recommended </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN>we</SPAN> up our intake of Omega-3 oils - </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">those “good” fats found especially in oily fish and English walnuts. Salmon, the fish with the most unchangeable body rhythm of any scaly swimmer, is especially high in these Omega-3 fatty acids. Apparently it takes a crazy, obsessed-by-tides-and-rhythms fish to help our bodies combat the changing tides and rhythms that the turning world has unleashed upon us.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Cold, dark days make us want to hunker down and veg out. The feeling that all there is ahead of us is a cold, dark future can bring on a kind of human “root vegetable” behavior. The just finished political races bombarded us with bad news. Employment numbers are slightly improving but not encouraging. The future of the economy does not look rosy. Getting up every morning, keeping motivated, giving all we have to our family, our church, our community, is not easy under these dark conditions.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The concluding commands made to the Thessalonian community in this week’s epistle text addressed the threat of “idleness” to the life of the faithful…</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">From a recent Hagar the Horrible comic: Hagar is inciting on his troops. "This is the moment we've been waiting for men! The moment we do battle with the enemy! Is everyone here?”</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">They shout: "YES!"</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Hagar continues: "Okay men -- repeat after me. 'I am a Viking Warrior!'"</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">"I AM A VIKING WARRIOR!" they shout.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">"And I will fight to the death for what I believe!"</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">(silence in the next frame)</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">(silence again in a second frame)</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">In the third frame Hagar asks: "Okay, why aren't you repeating after me?!"</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">One meek Viking speaks for them all: "Hagar, the men would like to change that to 'and I will fight hard until it's time for dinner.'"</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Similarly, could you image a poster of Jesus pointing his finger at you (like "Uncle Sam") with "I want you" printed in large letters. Then, in much smaller print:</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">You will be arrested and persecuted.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">You will be handed over to religious and secular authorities.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">You will witness to these authorities about Jesus.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">You will be betrayed by family members.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Some of you will be put to death.</SPAN></div>
<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">You will be hated by all because of me.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Brian Stoffregen, Exegetical Notes</SPAN></div>
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