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Your God Is Too Successful Rich Nathan October 10-11, 2015 Your God Is Too…Series 2 Kings 5.1-15 Your God is Too Successful Rich Nathan October 10-11, 2015 Your God Is Too…Series 2 Kings 5.1-15 How many of you are familiar with this man? Photo of Donald Trump (please don’t identify the photo) Of course, that is Donald Trump, who has promised to take the United States’ brand and make it great again. Donald Trump is known for naming his companies after him, so there Trump Airlines Trump Vodka Trump Casinos Trump: The Game Trump Magazine Trump Steaks Go Trump.com Trump University Trump Mortgage Trump Search Engine All of those companies went out of business or went bankrupt. And then there are his successful companies: Trump Towers Trump Place The Apprentice The Trump International Tower in Chicago How many of you are familiar with this man? Photo of Norman Borlaug (please don’t identify the photos) This is Norman Borlaug, who is the Father of the Green Revolution and is called the man who saved a billion lives. Norman Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of 1 © 2015 Rich Nathan | VineyardColumbus.org Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. What made Norman Borlaug so great is that as a plant pathologist and geneticist, Borlaug introduced high-yielding varieties of wheat and other grains to Mexico to Pakistan to India to South America and to Africa. He turned nations like India and Pakistan, who had regularly experience famine in the past, into exporters of grain. The Green Revolution that he fathered has been said to have saved a billion people from starvation. How many of us would recognize his name or contribution to the world much less his photo? How many of you recognize this man? Photo of John Kennedy (please don’t identify the photo) He was the young, handsome President who was tragically assassinated on November 22, 1963. Hundreds of millions of people around the world watched his funeral on TV. On the same day that President Kennedy was assassinated another man died. How many of you recognize this man? Photo of CS Lewis (please don’t identify the photo) CS Lewis was one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century and arguably one of the 2-3 most influential Christians of the past 100 years. He was a brilliant author who wrote in almost every literary genre imaginable. He wrote fantasies, science fiction, philosophy, essays, poems, literary criticism, and autobiographies. His Narnia Chronicles alone have sold over 100 million copies. He was hugely popular as a teacher. He taught at Oxford and his lectures on medieval and renaissance literature were standing room only. Students were sitting in the window sills to listen to Lewis. At his funeral there were maybe a couple dozen folks present including his stepsons, Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and a few other friends. Lewis’ brother was home drunk and in bed. Let me show you one other pair of people. Do you know who this young woman is? Photo of Kylie Jenner (please don’t identify the photo) It is Kylie Jenner, who is one of the Kardashians. Kylie recently turned 18 and the gossip columns said that her sisters attended her party showing as much skin as possible. But she showed them up and arrived in a platinum blonde wig, wearing a slinky dress. But the topper of the evening was her boyfriend, Tyga, who gave her a $320,000 white Ferrari as a birthday gift for Kylie’s 18th birthday. Photo of Kylie Jenner’s White Ferrari At the same time that Kylie Jenner was celebrating her 18th birthday, there was another young woman who also turned 18. Do you know who this is? 2 © 2015 Rich Nathan | VineyardColumbus.org Photo of Malala Yousafzai (please don’t identify this photo) You may have heard of Malala Yousafzai. She is the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in history. She survived a gunshot to her face by the Taliban who tried to murder her on her school bus when she was just 14 because she was advocating for girls getting an education in Pakistan. To mark her 18th birthday, she did not get a white Ferrari from her boyfriend named Tyga. Malala opened a girls’ school in Lebanon near the Syrian Border. Photo of Girls’ School in Lebanon near the Syrian Border Is it not the case that we often trade the significant for the spectacular? We overlook the lasting for the latest and the loudest. We miss the substantial and, instead, opt for the self-promoting and the successful. And in our media, marketing, sound-bite culture we do the same thing regarding God. Who is the biggest Christian celebrity? How many followers does the Pope have on his Twitter account? What’s the fastest growing church? Who has smoke machines and a light show? I’ve been doing a series titled Your God is Too… I’ve talked about all the distorted, reduced views that we have of God that keep us from really experiencing God. These reduced and distorted views of God that keep us from enjoying God, loving God and worshipping God. We’re going to find in the Biblical story that we are looking at today that even when we know our need is God, we relate to God the way we relate to everyone and everything else in the world. We look for the glitz and the glamour, the great and the grand. How might you connect with God? How might you experience God, if you really wanted to? I’ve titled today’s talk, Your God is Too Successful. Let’s pray. 2 Kings 5:1–15 (NIV) 5 Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy. 2 Now bands of raiders from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife. 3 She said to her mistress, “If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.” 4 Naaman went to his master and told him what the girl from Israel had said. 5 “By all means, go,” the king of Aram replied. “I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman left, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold and ten sets of clothing. 6 The letter that he took to the king of Israel read: “With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman to you so that you may cure him of his leprosy.” 7 As soon as the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his robes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life? Why does this fellow send someone to me to be cured of his leprosy? See how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me!” 3 © 2015 Rich Nathan | VineyardColumbus.org 8 When Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his robes, he sent him this message: “Why have you torn your robes? Have the man come to me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.” 9 So Naaman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha’s house. 10 Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.” 11 But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage. 13 Naaman’s servants went to him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’!” 14 So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy. 15 Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.” We need to understand the background to the story and how much hatred and enmity there was between ancient Syria and Israel. Not much has changed over the last 2800 years. But Naaman was from Syria. The nation of Syria was called Aram in those days. And the notion of a Syrian General going to Israel for medical treatment would be like the Iranian Ayatollah going to Benjamin Netanyahu for help. What is it that brought Naaman to Israel? As a foreigner he is trying to connect with Israel’s God. Naaman was someone who was far away from God, who may not have given the God of Israel a second thought in his life until he experienced a need. Who is Naaman? Naaman is a great man.
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