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Episode 51: Special Edition - Relationships · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  We welcome you. We welcome you once again to a special edition podcasts in
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  Time Revival Ministries USA. I'm your host, Pastor al Zacharan. Today,
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  I just want to share a few thoughts as it pertains to relationships, relationships
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  in this fallen world. The finger pointing and the blame that began in the
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  Garden of Eden continues perpetually with the human race, with all of us.
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  And the premiere problem is the sin that is in us, which produces brokenness
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  in us, and that brokenness in us permeates everything that we touch, everything
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  that we come in contact with. And to understand the brokenness that is in
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  our world, that is in us, we need look no further than the
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  sore lacking of mankind's relationship to God, our Father, our creator, our
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  King and Lord. You see, the moment that we send against his harmonious
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  relationship that he established with us was the very moment we also fractured relationships with
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  each other. If you recall, if you do not know, if you're
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  not familiar with it, certainly I admonish you to read it in Genesis chapter
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  number three. Immediately when Adam was questioned about what he had done, he
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  blamed God for messing up things with the woman that God gave him to be
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  his wife. In other words, Lord, I was just fine until the
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  woman. It was the woman that you gave me, the woman that God
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  gave him to be his wife, to be his help meet, to be
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  his life companion. She was the blame, and God was the blame also
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  for producing her, for creating her. And then the woman went on to
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  blame the serpent for deceiving her, as neither party was willing to take ownership
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  responsibility for their own free will decision that they had made. It is this
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  same lack of remorse, contrition, repentance that has our fallen world amen continuously
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  in brokenness in all of our relationships, beginning first and foremost with the God
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  who created us, as we continue to point the finger of blame back to
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  God. And this blame game also continues in the destruction as we can see
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  so clearly in our homes and every other communal relationship that we are all intertwined
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  with as fellow human beings, and and of course we are all just seeking
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  to survive and to coexist peacefully hopefully in this world. But you see the
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  power of sin and rebellion in our hearts is self evident, but yet so
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  deceptive that we fail to come to grips with our own self centered behavior that
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  is really at the root of our rottenness. This is what the apostle Paul
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  was talking about in Romans chapter seven, and he concluded, old wretched man
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  that I am, who can, who shall deliver me from the body of
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  this death? When I know to do good, I don't do it.
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  When I ought to do what it's right, I don't do it. It's
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  me. The problem, Paul concluded, is me. That is I know,
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  he says, within me, that is in my flesh dwells no good
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  thing. I know what I ought to do again, because we have the
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  knowledge of good and evil, and until we come to grips again with our
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  own self centered, selfishness and realize that it is at the root of our
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  rottenness, our brokenness, we can never have good, healthy, proper relationships
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  with one another. The old whelming power of sin in our hearts, and
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  you couple that with the spirit of pride and rebellion that is in our dna
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  boy, and that is what makes us unwittingly, perhaps destructive in every relationship
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  that we engage in and we see it over and over again, spouse,
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  children, siblings, parents, teachers, leaders, co workers, neighbors,
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  nations. And we're talking about in the moral ram, the ethical ram,
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  the political ram, the religious whatever, all of them, all of them,
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  all of them, all of them broken, all of them dysfunctional.
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  Why because of our brokenness with God, there is no relationship that goes unscathed,
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  and even unhinged, it will become unhinged. Every relationship will become unhinged
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  eventually, the further we self indulge and the more we continue in our rebellion
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  against the relationship that is in dire need of repair. And that relationship,
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  of course, is again our creator. But the bad news, the bad
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  news, if all of this is not bad enough, the bad news is
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  that we do not have within us the ability nor even the desire to repair
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  our relationship with God. And the distance and the darkness between God and man
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  makes it impossible for us furthermore to be the reconciling party, because we are
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  running away from God while we are groping in the darkness without grasping the reality
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  of this darkness that we are hopelessly engrossed in. And this is exactly why
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  God, in his compassion, the God of creation, the God who made
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  us in his image and his likeness, This is exactly why he intervened.
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  He chose to intervene. He didn't have to, but he did. He
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  chose to intervene to save us, to bring in restoration. And it begins
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  with the close of this great chasm, repairing the breach that is between God
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  and man. And since we could not go to him, and we would
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  not go to him, we would not turn to him in repentance, we
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  would not even acknowledge our our decision making because we will not do it.
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  God did the unimaginable in becoming one of us in the incarnation, in Jesus
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  Christ, in the Redeemer, the Kinsman Redeemer, in order to repair the
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  breach and open wide the access to the altar of reconciliation of the relationship that
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  is prerequisite. In other words, our relationship with him is first. It
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  must be first. That's why Jesus came when we come to him in repentance,
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  and only when we come to him in repentance to repair that relationship first.
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  Can we only begin to a man be in healthy relationships with others in
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  this fallen and broken world, Ladies and gentlemen. The solution to our having
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  harmonious and peaceful relationships with each other in this world, it's predicated upon our
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  acceptance of God's sacrificial intervention that he did to repair and to restore that which
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  was lost in our disobedience, in our rebellion against him. There will otherwise
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  be no lasting peaceful relationships of any kind. The more we rebel against the
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  healing that He has brought down to us, May we bow our knees,
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  May we come running to him? May we answer the call he's calling.
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  The invitation is there, Come unto me, all you who are laboring and
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  heavy laden. Jesus says, I will give you rest. You will find
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  rest for your souls, and it is only in Him,