The foun\u00adda\u00adti\u00adon in our Chris\u00adti\u00adan life is the deep know\u00adledge of God\u2019s love. This being loved is the bree\u00adding ground for a clo\u00adse and deep rela\u00adti\u00adonship with God. This rela\u00adti\u00adonship chan\u00adges us, brings growth and enables us to pass on this love.<\/p>\n
It was a cool, fog\u00adgy Sep\u00adtem\u00adber mor\u00adning in 1963. The seats on the pla\u00adne were all fil\u00adled with expec\u00adtant, exci\u00adted tra\u00advel\u00adlers who had been loo\u00adking for\u00adward to this day for a long time. Then, final\u00adly, at 7:13 a.m., the two tur\u00adbi\u00adnes how\u00adled and lifted the 80 pas\u00adsen\u00adgers into the air. Many were exci\u00adted, ner\u00advous, thril\u00adled and at the same time over\u00adjoy\u00aded, it was going to be the best day of their lives. But this joy las\u00adted only a short eight minu\u00adtes. After they were able to take off despi\u00adte the fog, the pilot rea\u00adli\u00adsed short\u00adly after\u00adwards that they were in enorm\u00adous trou\u00adble and spo\u00adke into the micro\u00adpho\u00adne of the radio: \u00abSwis\u00adsair 306, may\u00adday, may\u00adday, no more, no more.\u00bb \twhen we sing praise Bible ver\u00adse about the love of God What trig\u00adgers a tra\u00adge\u00addy in you? <\/p>\n Do Chris\u00adti\u00adans need to sup\u00adpress pain, doubt and disappointment? <\/p>\n Have you ever doub\u00adted God\u2019s love?<\/p>\n How have you expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced God\u2019s love? <\/p>\n Do you give free rein to nega\u00adti\u00adve thoughts or medi\u00adta\u00adte on how much God loves you? <\/p>\n The foun\u00adda\u00adti\u00adon of our Chris\u00adti\u00adan life is the deep know\u00adledge of God\u2019s love. What do you think about this statement? <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The foun\u00adda\u00adti\u00adon in our Chris\u00adti\u00adan life is the deep know\u00adledge of God\u2019s love. This being loved is the bree\u00adding ground for a clo\u00adse and deep rela\u00adti\u00adonship with God. This rela\u00adti\u00adonship chan\u00adges us, brings growth and enables us to pass on this love. It was a cool, fog\u00adgy Sep\u00adtem\u00adber mor\u00adning in 1963. The seats on the pla\u00adne were all\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","wpfc_preacher":[73],"wpfc_sermon_series":[72],"wpfc_sermon_topics":[],"wpfc_bible_book":[],"wpfc_service_type":[12],"class_list":["wpfc_preacher-daniel-bieri","wpfc_sermon_series-metamorphose","wpfc-sermon-single","post-3562","wpfc_sermon","type-wpfc_sermon","status-publish","hentry","wpfc_service_type-gottesdienst"],"acf":[],"sermons_blog_filters_topics":"\t\t\t\t
\nTho\u00adse were the captain\u2019s last words, no more, no more, trans\u00adla\u00adted into Ger\u00adman means \u00abden Flug gibt\u2019s nicht mehr\u00bb. A few seconds later, the air\u00adcraft dril\u00adled eight met\u00adres deep into a field on the out\u00adskirts of the vil\u00adla\u00adge of D\u00fcr\u00adre\u00adn\u00e4sch at high speed. An enorm\u00adous tra\u00adge\u00addy began. In the pro\u00adcess, 43 peo\u00adp\u00adle from the small vil\u00adla\u00adge of Hum\u00adli\u00adkon with its 220 inha\u00adbi\u00adtants lost their lives. This was 1<\/sup>\u20445<\/sub> of the popu\u00adla\u00adti\u00adon who lost their lives. Left behind were 40 orphans and 8 half-orphans. In one fell swoop, 20 farms out of 25 had no owners. The pain of the trau\u00adma\u00adtis\u00aded child\u00adren of each fami\u00adly was unimaginable.
\nThe who\u00adle vil\u00adla\u00adge was in shock. The other day we wat\u00adched the docu\u00admen\u00adta\u00adry film on this event at home. One inter\u00adview in par\u00adti\u00adcu\u00adlar caught my atten\u00adti\u00adon. A woman, she was still a child at the time, said: \u00abBefo\u00adre the depar\u00adtu\u00adre, the who\u00adle vil\u00adla\u00adge was in a sta\u00adte of exci\u00adte\u00adment. The who\u00adle week and also the evening befo\u00adre the flight they had all pray\u00aded that ever\u00ady\u00adthing would go well and then this hor\u00adri\u00adble crash.\u00bb She con\u00adtin\u00adued, \u00abSin\u00adce that moment, I haven\u2019t pray\u00aded once.\u00bb Wow, what an unfa\u00adthomable tra\u00adge\u00addy this must have been for this woman. It is hard to com\u00adpre\u00adhend what she had gone through as a child at that time. I will go into more detail about this sto\u00adry later.
\nThe Para\u00adble of the Sower
\nToday I would like to pick up whe\u00adre I left off last time in the Bible, name\u00adly with the uni\u00adque para\u00adble of the sower. This tells not only of divi\u00adne truth, but of the who\u00adle pro\u00adcess full of divi\u00adne wis\u00addom. It descri\u00adbes the human meta\u00admor\u00adpho\u00adsis. Last time I pre\u00ada\u00adched about the seed that falls on the path. Today I would like to look more clo\u00adse\u00adly with you at the next ver\u00adse. It is in the Gos\u00adpel of Matthew chap\u00adter 13, ver\u00adse 20: \u00abAno\u00adther part of the seed falls on rocky ground. This means that someone hears the word and imme\u00addia\u00adte\u00adly recei\u00adves it with joy, but he is a fick\u00adle per\u00adson, a plant wit\u00adhout roots. As soon as he is distres\u00adsed or even per\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adted becau\u00adse of the word, he turns away from it again\u00bb (Matthew 13:20\u201321 NG\u00dc<\/span>).
\nJesus makes a com\u00adpa\u00adri\u00adson. Some peo\u00adp\u00adle are like a plant that has weak roots and can\u00adnot sur\u00advi\u00adve. Usual\u00adly we don\u2019t see the roots. But I think that each of you has seen a fir tree that was blown down by a storm, along with its roots. This shows that its roots were not strong enough. Three months ago I recei\u00adved such a tree as a gift, it was stan\u00adding in the midd\u00adle of the forest and was uproo\u00adted by a storm. In the mean\u00adti\u00adme I have cut it up and made fire\u00adwood out of it. In our lives, too, we can be blown over along with our roots.
\nI would like to come back to the girl who lost her earth\u00adly par\u00adents in the crash. At the same time, she lost her rela\u00adti\u00adonship with her hea\u00adven\u00adly Father, her Saviour Jesus and the hel\u00adping Holy Spi\u00adrit. Her young faith, sym\u00adbo\u00adlic of her gro\u00adwing ten\u00adder roots, could not with\u00adstand such a vio\u00adlent storm. Not only this girl, no, we all expe\u00adri\u00adence smal\u00adler and big\u00adger storms. We all strugg\u00adle with our expec\u00adta\u00adti\u00adons and dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00adments. May\u00adbe you have lost a loved one, had a serious acci\u00addent or expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced a bad ill\u00adness, lost a job or did\u00adn\u2019t get one. You may have pray\u00aded for years for a mar\u00adria\u00adge and it still fell apart. It may be that becau\u00adse of your ina\u00adde\u00adquacy someone else has suf\u00adfe\u00adr\u00aded a serious loss. The\u00adre are many events in life that are so powerful that the\u00adre is a dan\u00adger that they could cut us off from our faith.
\nIt is important to reco\u00adg\u00adni\u00adse this dan\u00adger and to beco\u00adme awa\u00adre that we have strong roots in God. This does not always seem to come easi\u00adly to us. To remind us of this, the Apost\u00adle Paul wro\u00adte down the fol\u00adlo\u00adwing pray\u00ader. \u00abThe\u00adr\u00ade\u00adfo\u00adre I bow my kne\u00ades befo\u00adre the Father, from whom every father\u00adhood in the hea\u00advens and on earth is named: Accor\u00adding to the riches of his glo\u00adry, grant that you may be streng\u00adthe\u00adned with power through his Spi\u00adrit in the inner man; that the Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and that you may be roo\u00adted and groun\u00added in love, so that you may be able ful\u00adly to com\u00adpre\u00adhend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of the Christ that sur\u00adpas\u00adses know\u00adledge, that you may be fil\u00adled to all the full\u00adness of God\u00bb (Ephe\u00adsi\u00adans 3:14\u201319 ELB<\/span>). Paul pray\u00aded that we might know some\u00adthing that sur\u00adpas\u00adses our know\u00adledge. In other words, he pray\u00aded that we might under\u00adstand what is incom\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsi\u00adble, the love of God. We strugg\u00adle to grasp the infi\u00adni\u00adte height and depth of this love.
\nReco\u00adg\u00adnis\u00ading God\u2019s love is of utmost importance, only then can we ful\u00adly enga\u00adge with Him, only then will deep roots grow. The\u00adse are the roots that make deep clo\u00adse rela\u00adti\u00adonships pos\u00adsi\u00adble in the first place and from which we can draw strength. It is cru\u00adcial that we can see and expe\u00adri\u00adence this love again and again and be gra\u00adteful for it. That is why we always turn our eyes to Jesus. \u00abTur\u00adning our eyes to Jesus, the forerun\u00adner of faith, who has gone ahead of us to the goal. Becau\u00adse Jesus knew the joy that awai\u00adted him, he took death on the cross upon hims\u00adelf, and even the shame that came with it could not deter him\u00bb (Hebrews 12:2 NG\u00dc<\/span>).
\nJesus could have acted sel\u00adfi\u00adsh\u00adly and avo\u00adided the cross. He did not seek the com\u00adfor\u00adta\u00adble way, but endu\u00adred ever\u00ady\u00adthing with digni\u00adty. Becau\u00adse he had a visi\u00adon of what was wai\u00adting for him behind the cross. He took all the pain and ridi\u00adcu\u00adle upon hims\u00adelf becau\u00adse he saw you and me, all of us, behind the cross. His love is so infi\u00adni\u00adte\u00adly gre\u00adat. The apost\u00adle John descri\u00adbes it as fol\u00adlows: \u00abNo one loves his fri\u00adends more than he who lays down his life for them\u00bb (John 15:13 NG\u00dc<\/span>).
\nWe may all ori\u00adent our\u00adsel\u00adves to Jesus\u00bb love again and again. This is the basis for a deep love rela\u00adti\u00adonship. We do not get stuck in tra\u00adge\u00addies or the cross, but we look at what can come or ari\u00adse now. It is the love of God that enables us to feel car\u00adri\u00aded and held even in unp\u00adlea\u00adsant, dif\u00adfi\u00adcult situa\u00adtions. It is pre\u00adcis\u00ade\u00adly this love that stands by us in stor\u00admy times, when we find our\u00adsel\u00adves in the midd\u00adle of a tra\u00adge\u00addy. We do not repress the pain, becau\u00adse it is important to pro\u00adcess a cri\u00adsis in order to lea\u00adve it behind. Deep\u00adly roo\u00adted in faith, we trust that God is always with us, no mat\u00adter what has just hap\u00adpen\u00aded. We can always bring God\u2019s love befo\u00adre our eyes. We have many dif\u00adfe\u00adrent ways to do this. I would like to give you some examples:<\/p>\n
\n\tWhen we give or lis\u00adten to tes\u00adti\u00admo\u00adnies of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit
\n\twhen we keep a dia\u00adry of our dia\u00adlo\u00adgue with God.
\n\tor when we learn a Bible ver\u00adse about the love of God by heart. Memo\u00adri\u00adsing a Bible ver\u00adse is curr\u00adent\u00adly expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adcing a renais\u00adsance. The\u00adse ver\u00adses radia\u00adte so much strength and hope that we should joyful\u00adly use this opportunity.<\/p>\n
\nI sug\u00adgest today that each of you choo\u00adse a Bible ver\u00adse about the love of God and learn it by heart. In this way, they will accept the gift of the enorm\u00adous power that is within them. I would like to share with you my favou\u00adri\u00adte ver\u00adse about God\u2019s love: \u00abLook how the Father has show\u00ade\u00adred us with his love. His love is so gre\u00adat that He calls us His child\u00adren \u2013 and we tru\u00adly are\u00bb (1 John 3:1 Free Trans\u00adla\u00adti\u00adon). I would be deligh\u00adted if ever\u00adyo\u00adne could share their favou\u00adri\u00adte Bible ver\u00adse after the ser\u00advice. I am sure we will come up with some won\u00adderful ver\u00adses. If you like to go online, you can also just goog\u00adle a ver\u00adse, or choo\u00adse one from the Bible in the old fashio\u00adned way. And remem\u00adber \u00aba thousand mile jour\u00adney starts with the first step.\u00bb I\u2019m alre\u00ada\u00addy ima\u00adgi\u00adning someone from see\u00adtal chi\u00adle memo\u00adri\u00adsing a ver\u00adse on the way to work. Or now it\u2019s holi\u00adday time, how about taking this gre\u00adat oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty tog\u00ade\u00adther as a family?
\nThe most important con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adti\u00adon we have every day is the self-talk. We all do it. Sci\u00aden\u00adtists think that we have bet\u00adween 3,000 and 5,000 con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adti\u00adons with our\u00adsel\u00adves. And that brings up the ques\u00adti\u00adon: What record or CD<\/span> is con\u00adstant\u00adly spin\u00adning in our heads? In the words of Pas\u00adtor Mat\u00adthi\u00adas: Are we lis\u00adtening and dancing to the music of hea\u00adven? I cer\u00adtain\u00adly hope so. And for tho\u00adse who want more of this hea\u00adven\u00adly music in their head: how about a Bible ver\u00adse about the love of God?
\nIn summary
\nThe foun\u00adda\u00adti\u00adon in our Chris\u00adti\u00adan life is the deep know\u00adledge of God\u2019s love. In a bel\u00adoved heart grows the roots of the plant that bears fruit. Inte\u00adres\u00adt\u00ading to know that this seed, which is or will be plan\u00adted in our heart, has a new DNA<\/span> with new gene\u00adtic mate\u00adri\u00adal. This grows and brings divi\u00adne life. When we speak its words they bring life, what we touch brings bles\u00adsing and what we think brings heal\u00ading to us and to this world. Through this new DNA<\/span> in our hearts, we can live divi\u00adne love and bring it out into the world. We Chris\u00adti\u00adans should be known for all the won\u00adderful things Jesus does through us. From this divi\u00adne love rela\u00adti\u00adonship in our heart comes bles\u00adsed life.
\nJesus came so that we might live. In John\u2019s Gos\u00adpel we read: \u00abThe thief comes to ste\u00adal, slaugh\u00adter (kill) and des\u00adtroy. But I bring life \u2013 and this in abun\u00addance\u00bb (John 10:10 HFA<\/span>).
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\nPos\u00adsi\u00adble ques\u00adti\u00adons for the small groups
\nRead the Bible text: Ephe\u00adsi\u00adans 3:19<\/p>\n