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    Rock Band

    Many of you play Guitar Hero.  Or Rock Band. 

    Rocks are everywhere.

    8th graders experienced climbing rocks and sleeping on them.
    Other students experienced rocks on outdoor ed trails.
    Sometimes it's fun to "skip stones" on a lake or reservoir.

    At other times, we've built with rocks.  Sometimes we've thrown rocks... and those rocks have had people as targets.  Sometimes the rocks miss-but not very often.

    The Bible has some rocky examples for us.

    The name "Peter" translates to English as "Rocky"-the truth Peter told about Jesus being the Son of God, the Savior of the world, is the truth Christian faith is built upon.

    Rocks were used to remember events-Jacob remembered his ladder dream with a rock. (Genesis 28:16-18).  God told Joshua to get 12 rocks out of the Jordan to remember crossing into the land He gave them (Joshua 3 & 4).

    Rocks made altars-places to make sacrifices.  One example is Elijah and the prophets of Baal-which is a great account of just how useless other gods are (1 Kings 18:20-39).  Observe the power of God-he sends fire that CONSUMES the rocks and everything else!  No wonder the people there (who weren't believers in the true God) said "The Lord, HE is God!"

    Most often though, we pick up rocks like the Pharisees in John 8. It's so easy to condemn others for mistakes.  The woman in Jn. 8: 1-3 had made a huge mistake.  She "deserved" the rocks being thrown at her.  The law of Moses said it to be so.  The Pharisees made that aboundantly clear to Jesus.  It was a test.  "Well, Jesus, whatcha gonna do????"
    "The LAW is on our side".
    But just as Aslan tells the children in Narnia--a greater law is at work here.

    Jesus tells them that the first rock thrower needs to be without sin.

    Rocks fall from hands.  They leave.  They know they are not perfect.
    I know I'm not perfect.  I can't throw that first rock, either.

    We all throw rocks-telling others about their flaws, their imperfections, their failures. 
    And NONE of us of us are qualified to throw that first stone.  Every rock we throw makes our own pile of mistakes larger.

    Good thing for us that Jesus tore down those walls.  When He died-the earth quaked.  The foot-thick curtain of the temple was torn from top to bottom.  Our mistakes were paid for.  We can be forgiven.
    We can forgive others.  We can learn from Jesus to be gentle in our correction.  He puts His Spirit into us so we can be "Christians"--literally "little Christs".

    When we live like that-in His grace and forgiveness, we can be a ROCK BAND!

    Want to know how?

    The way we live with Jesus inside us gives Him praise-really loud praise-too loud for just words and music.
    Check this out from the Palm Sunday story in Luke 19:36-40

    As he rode along, the crowds spread out their garments on the road ahead of him.  When he reached the place where the road started down the Mount of Olives, all of his followers began to shout and sing as they walked along, praising God for all the wonderful miracles they had seen.

      “Blessings on the King who comes in the name of the Lord!
          Peace in heaven, and glory in highest heaven!”

    But some of the Pharisees among the crowd said, “Teacher, rebuke your followers for saying things like that!”

    He replied, “If they kept quiet, the stones along the road would burst into cheers!”

    Are you ready to be a ROCK BAND?   Is the attitude of your heart and the focus of your mind ready to be one that doesn't throw rocks, but seeks to praise God?  Do you know how great things would be if we took Jesus at His word and agreed with Peter-that Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior of the world?

    All the hard work has been done at the cross.  Just relax.  Believe.  Trust God is who He says He is.  Let Him be Lord and Savior.  He will make your life a rock band of "Living Stones" (Ephesians 2:20-21)

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