Pew2You
The Pain of the PIT
March 25, 2018
Pastor Phil Vance
Highlights:
Don’t miss out on the move of God in your life due to wrong expectations. He is always moving, Sometimes He parts the water, sometimes He wants us to swim, and sometimes He wants us to stay.
The children cried out the Truth that the Pharisees missed! Jesus did not deny the praises, instead He confirmed the simplicity of the truth that He was worthy of them by referring to the affirmation as the praise of little children.
Jesus went to the pit so we would know that He understand what it feels like when we are there.
Discussion Questions:
The chief priests and religious leaders missed Jesus because they had wrong expectations. When have your expectations kept you from seeing God’s plans for you?
Pastor Phil asked, “Jesus shakes things up wherever He goes, Do You?” In what way is the world being stirred because of your influence for Christ in it?
Jesus drank the cup His Father POURED for Him. He asks us, “will you drink of this same cup?” What does this mean to you?
Key Scriptures, Quotes and Definitions:
-Matthew 21:1-17 Now when they drew near Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose them and bring them to Me. And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, “The Lord has need of them,” ……..”
-Hosanna: “Save us!” from Psalm 118:25
-Luke 19:41-44 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you had know, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.”……
-Moved: from the greek -seismos “forcible, “convulsed” or “stirred” as by an earthquake or by a violent wind.”
-Forty percent of the gospels refers to the last week of Jesus’ life.
-Psalm 88 “ Lord, you are the God who saves me; day and night I cry out to you. 2 May my prayer come before you; turn your ear to my cry. 3 I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life draws near to death. 4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like one without strength. 5 I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care. 6 You have put me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths. 7 Your wrath lies heavily on me; you have overwhelmed me with all your waves. 8 You have taken from me my closest friends and have made me repulsive to them. I am confined and cannot escape; 9 my eyes are dim with grief. I call to you, Lord, every day; I spread out my hands to you. 10 Do you show your wonders to the dead? Do their spirits rise up and praise you? 11 Is your love declared in the grave, your faithfulness in Destruction[e]. 12 Are your wonders known in the place of darkness, or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion? 13 But I cry to you for help, Lord; in the morning my prayer comes before you. 14 Why, Lord, do you reject me and hide your face from me? 15 From my youth I have suffered and been close to death; I have borne your terrors and am in despair. 16 Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me. 17 All day long they surround me like a flood; they have completely engulfed me. 18 You have taken from me friend and neighbor—darkness is my closest friend.
-”God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains. C.S, Lewis.