Holy Discontent

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Holy Discontent

• Fueling the fire that
• ignites personal vision

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Popeye, the Sailor Man
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man . (toot toot) I'm
Popeye the Sailor Man! I'm strong to the
finich Cause I ____ ___ __________. I'm Popeye
the Sailor Man! (______ ______!)

• Thats all I can stands,
• and I cant stands no more!
• (Dubious grammar, I know 1 pt deduction)

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What is one aspect of this broken world that when
you see, touch or get near it you just cant
stand?

• What reality is so troubling that is thrusts you
  off the couch and into action?

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What is one aspect of this broken world that when
you see, touch or get near it you just cant
stand?
Dr. Bob Pierce
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What is one aspect of this broken world that when
you see, touch or get near it you just cant
stand?
Dr. Billy Graham
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What is one aspect of this broken world that when
you see, touch or get near it you just cant
stand?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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What is one aspect of this broken world that when
you see, touch or get near it you just cant
stand?
Mother Theresa
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What is one aspect of this broken world that when
you see, touch or get near it you just cant
stand?
Moses
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• Exodus 211 (The Message)
• Time passed. Moses grew up. One day he went
  and saw his brothers, saw all that hard labor.
  Then he saw an Egyptian hit a Hebrewone of his
  relatives!

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• Exodus 212
• He looked this way and then that when he
  realized there was no one in sight, he killed the
  Egyptian and buried him in the sand.

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• Exodus 213
• The next day he went out there again. Two
  Hebrew men were fighting. He spoke to the man who
  started it "Why are you hitting your neighbor?"

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• Exodus 214-16
• The man shot back "Who do you think you are,
  telling us what to do? Are you going to kill me
  the way you killed that Egyptian?"
• Then Moses panicked "Word's gotten
  outpeople know about this."
• 15 Pharaoh heard about it and tried to kill
  Moses, but Moses got away to the land of Midian.

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• Exodus 223-25
• Many years later the king of Egypt died. The
  Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried
  out. Their cries for relief from their hard labor
  ascended to God
• 24 God listened to their groanings.
• God remembered his covenant with Abraham,
  with Isaac, and with Jacob.
• 25 God saw what was going on with Israel.
• God understood.
• (and soon Moses checks out a burning bush)

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• Exodus 37-9
• God said, "I've taken a good, long look at
  the affliction of my people in Egypt. I've heard
  their cries for deliverance from their slave
  masters I know all about their pain. 8 And now
  I have come down to help them, pry them loose
  from the grip of Egypt, get them out of that
  country and bring them to a good land with
  wide-open spaces, a land lush with milk and
  honey, the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite,
  the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the
  Jebusite.
• 9 "The Israelite cry for help has come to
  me, and I've seen for myself how cruelly they're
  being treated by the Egyptians.

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• Exodus 310
• It's time for you to go back
• (Yepyou heard correctly)
• I'm sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people,
  the People of Israel, out of Egypt."

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• What is one aspect of this broken world that when
  you see, touch or get near it you just cant
  stand?

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Rejoice!

• Your discontent will show you WHERE to act
• Your spiritual giftedness and natural talents
  show you HOW to act
• Your circumstances will show you WHEN to act

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• HERE IS ANOTHER PROGRESSION
• Growth is evidence of life
• Absence of growth is evidence of death.
• The by-product of death is STENCH!
• If you arent growingyou ______!
• (sniff yourself and check your growthbut dont
  sniff the person next to you)

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• What is one aspect of this broken world that when
  you see, touch or get near it you just cant
  stand?

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• What is one aspect of this broken world that when
  you see, touch or get near it you just cant
  stand?

I hate seeing people who are stuck ,
spinning their wheels but not getting
anywhere. I hate seeing untapped potential in
unhappy faces. I hate seeing crowded
businesses of empty people surrounded by poor
demonstrations of Gods character by
believers. My Purpose I teach caterpillars to
fly!
Dennis Mixer
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• What is one aspect of this broken world that when
  you see, touch or get near it you just cant
  stand?
• Get help identifying it look around you!
• Feed it get close to it and study it!
• See Gods hand in it do what God is doing!
• Stop when God stops ... or when you STINK

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