Holy Cross Baptist Church Youth Group Skit 5-22-2011
Youth Pastor Marty Hewitt Email:
martyhewitt@hcmbchurch.org
DECEPTION
There is a story told about three men who went into a hotel to stay
for the night.
The hotel owner told them it would be $30. for the night for
the three of them.
They gave him the $30. And went up to the room with the key
provided.
After they were gone, the owner had a change of heart and
decided that he had charged them too much for the room, so he gave
$5. to the bellboy and told him to take it up to the men in the
room.
On the way up to the room the bellboy got to thinking: these
men are going to have a hard time dividing $5. between the three of
them, so he decided to keep $2. for himself and give them just
three.
Now, because they each got back $1., they were only paying
$9. a piece for the room; three times 9 is 27, plus the two dollars
the bellboy kept is $29., so what happened to the other dollar.
It is obvious that we are not seeing the picture clearly from this
little story because we know there really was $30. to begin with.
Something about the way the story was presented isn’t right.
Many times, the way the Gospel of Jesus Christ is presented,
is not quite right either, and then when people read their Bible,
there are things that just don’t add up.
With this story about the three men, we tend to get our mind
fixed on certain things which make it impossible to figure out and
to see it properly.
Concerning the way that the Gospel of Christ is presented
much of the time, people also tend to get their mind fixed on
certain things which make it impossible to see properly all that
Christ has done for us.
In the story of the three men we tend to want to keep our
eyes fixed on the $30. and perhaps the $27., because those things
seem so obviously important.
The Christian tends to want to keep his eyes fixed on self,
feeling it is of obvious importance “what we can do.”
In the story of the three men: if we can place our eyes on
the $25. That they actually paid, then things begin to become a
little more clear.
When the Christian begins to keep his eyes on Christ,
instead of on himself, then, the Bible and all that Jesus
accomplished for us will also begin to become more clear.
You see, the story of the three men actually becomes more
understandable if we work back to the $25. instead of working ahead
to the $30., because the men actually only paid $25. They each
received a dollar back which means they paid $27., but it is not
plus the $2. the bellboy kept is $29., but rather minus the $2. the
bellboy kept equals $25.
It can be worked out to come up to $30., if we realize that
the $2. the bellboy kept is actually part of the $27. they paid and
the three dollars they got back make $30.
Just as this play on numbers can be deceiving and lead us to
a logical but ever so wrong conclusion, so likewise is the Word of
God manipulated much of the time, leading us to a logical but ever
so wrong conclusion.
In the story of the three men, it is important to keep our
eyes on the fact that they only paid $25. In the Gospel, we must
keep our eyes on the fact that Jesus paid it “all.” If we keep our
eyes on Christ and “off from self,” then God is able to give us
Grace to deliver us from every problem and the sin which does so
easily beset. Not that we will not ever have another problem but
God’s Grace will deliver us from whatever the devil throws at us.
And that is the only way to be delivered: by keeping our eyes on Him
and all that He accomplished at Calvary and off from self (This is
why it was necessary for Jesus to deliver us from the curse of the
Law; because law works on the premise of what self can do).
Just as someone trying to figure out the story of the three
men: if he does not get his eyes off from the way the story has been
presented to him; then he can only come out to a wrong conclusion.
And if the Believer can’t get his eyes off from those things
which are many times presented as having something to do with our
salvation or sanctification and place his eyes squarely on Christ
and all that He accomplished on Calvary as the “only” method of
salvation and sanctification then when that believer reads the Word,
he will continually come up with wrong conclusions.
The entirety of the Bible points to Christ. To Who Christ is
and to what He has done or will do and especially for us.
May the Merciful Lord of all Blessings, Bless you Always
Dennis Lackie
www.itsallinchrist.com
A MINISTER'S PRAYER
LISTEN TO MY PRAYER O LORD - HEAR MY HUMBLE PLEA
MY HEART AND MIND ARE WEARY FROM PEOPLE NEEDING ME
I KNOW YOU WANT ME TO BE SUNSHINE IN THE RAIN
BUT JUST WHO CAN I TALK TO WHEN MY HEART IS FILLED WITH
PAIN
PLEASE DON'T GET ME WRONG O LORD - I LONG TO DO YOUR WILL
BUT THERE ARE TIMES I JUST NEED TO LISTEN AND BE STILL
SOMETIMES I NEED TO GO AWAY WHERE NO ONE IS AROUND
A PLACE WHERE ONLY YOU CAN SPEAK LIKE TO MOSES ON HOLY
GROUND
THEN AFTER YOU HAVE SPOKEN AND I'M FEELING TEN FEET TALL
PLEASE GIVE ME STRENGTH TO MINISTER - FOR I KNOW THIS IS
MY CALL
Joye Atkinson
Youth
Pastor Marty Hewitt
Wife April with Cassidy and Chase
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