New Series: Biggest Loser

Series: biggest loser
Message: get the junk out of your trunk
1/3/09

Intro
Happy New Year
New Year’s party, watching the ball fall on Dick Clark’s Rockin Eve
Ex: Jennifer Lopez, looked like a tree trunk tucked into a tight sock
Junk in your trunk
Obj
Lose the junk that Jesus hates, and invest into our spiritual life in ways that are congruent to lifestyle that promotes spiritual health.
Premise
Isaiah 56:7
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
Matthew 21:13-14 (King James Version)
13And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
14And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.
We love baby Jesus
• Manger scene is only scene of Jesus that some people ever see
• Take him where you want, cute cuddly, easy to carry
• Definitely Holy night, but not silent night
• Lays down his sweet head?, no crying he makes.
• Bloody, in a barn, to a teenager that told everybody that it was God’s baby.
We have baby Jesus mentality, like good luck charm
But so many other scenes of Jesus
So many of us delete the other scenes of Jesus in our lives, and concoct our own image of God.
Live like Hell, but still have Jesus in our heart.
 One of the scenes of Jesus…
 John the Baptist said look Behold the Lamb of God that takes the sin of the world
 Time for you to see Jesus for who He is…
 Jn 1:14 the Word became flesh and we beheld His Glory.
 We must see Him, his glory, his direction
But what about the Jesus that can’t stand the religious tradition?
What about the Jesus that turns over the tables of greed, creates cords and whips and drives out the tradition of man.
Jesus walks in temple and sees religious leaders taking advantage of the people
John 2:13-16, 23-25 KJV
People would travel for days and weeks to come offer their sacrifices, so they would have to leave their animals at home for sacrifice and buy and animal at the going rate at the temple so they didn’t have to care for an animal on their journey
So some opportunists came along and started gouging the people financially at the cost of their sacrifice that they had to have, and therefore turned the temple into a den of thieves
It made Jesus angry
And he didn’t pray for them, but flipped over tables and makes a whip out of cords and started violently driving these hypocrites out of the temple.
Out of his Father’s house
 Jesus resembles the terminator in this scene more than Mr. Rodgers
 We think Jesus is always brushing the hair of the lamb, with a nice haircut and highlights singing kum-by-yah
 And frolicking thru fields with children
This Jesus is cleaning house
 The incarnate son of God became infuriated by the injustice that He saw
 He is the same Jesus today infuriated by injustice
 And He will set all things right when He comes to establish His Kingdom
 Jesus absolutely cannot tolerate our religious hypocrisy
 When we make the house of God something it’s not suppose to be.
If you’re here this morning and you say that you hate hypocrisy and you hate how some Christians say that they love God, but don’t live a life that reflects their love for God than you are among good company
Jesus feels the same way
Have you seen that Jesus, the Jesus that refuses to allow the purposes of God to be perverted
Hypocrisy happens when you use God to achieve your own religious ambition
Have you scene that Jesus?
What about the cute cuddly Jesus. We want that one back, the one where we can put a na-na, (pacifier) in His mouth and snuff out the cries of the Son of God.
Repent for Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
We have religious junk to lose
1. How we think it should be
2. Sins
3. The sin of not being a God-seeker- James 4:6-10 (KJV) draw near

The challenge this morning is to do nothing
If a tornado comes and knocks your house down, you don’t just clean up, but you rebuild at the rate you clean up.
Meaning the faster you clean the mess up, the sooner you can order new product to rebuild the house.
B90X Slide of B90X
Intense Bible Reading Plan for 90 days to transform the scriptures from intro to nitro, you won’t believe the results!!!
In order to be the healthier you, you must ingest this over a 90 day period and the results are limitless.

Prayer of repentance for the things that we have made the house of God.
Like John the Baptist said
John 3:30
He must increase, but I must decrease.