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Notes from Rev. Bocher’s sermon…
This July… 250 yrs… Freedom fm. Eng… King Geo! We don’t want…
Very imp messages P: Gentiles. Free in X
Imp to us: Young: “I can’t wait…” Schools out!… 16… Turning 18!
Worried: For many adults: Fr. = Doing what I want to do. Not having someone tell me…
Don’t tread…
Not against freedom. Grateful that we’ve dev system: balance of powers… Free to express my… religion… Grateful for… Blessed!
My problem is that many people value freedom but not the part that comes w/ it: // responsibility. 2x
Turn to scriptures: Qs. Cain… – 1st qs. of human beings in B: “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Hebrew people: Who am I responsible for? Do I have to care for the foreigners who live in Israel? Widows who… Orphans who…
Indirectly, J answers that question in a story he tells: Good Samaritan.
“ On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” J: How do you read it?
J: “Love G… neighbor”. Yes! Do this and you shall live. “But he wanted to justify himself and so he asked…”
// Who, exactly is my neighbor? Who am I responsible to love & care for? /
Implied in the expert’s qs: “Who am I free NOT to love & care for?” //. So J tells him the story of the good Sam. RECAP
P wrote his letters to… Some in Corinthian ch also thought they were free to… not responsible to others: “12 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial.”
P: We are not our own. We belong to X. J =our role model. Came to: a) Claim his rights (“worship me”). No, X came as a servant. READ Luke 22:24-27
Yes, I am free. / You are free. Free to serve others; free to love others; free to care for others but never/ NEVER free to do what I want at the expense of others./
Let us seek to be people who use our freedom; our resources to care for others.
On this 250th anniversary, we celebrate our nation’s freedom, let us as a nation be free not to do things only to our OWN advantage but may we use our resources and our freedom as a nation to reach out and care for the people who are hurting and get left on the side of the road. Amen.