Good News in the Morning

Saturday, 7 December 2019

'BETTER THAN KHARMA'

Rev. Canon George Sinclair

by Rev. Canon George Sinclair

Pastor of the Church of the Messiah, Ottawa, ON.
www.messiahchurch.ca

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Podcast of CFRA broadcast on Sunday,

December 8^th, 2019

http://accm.ncf.ca/images/19.12.08.mp3

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This week's broadcast is the sermon I gave at Church of the Messiah.

The sermon was called "Better than Kharma"

It is part of my series, "The Story of Jonah"

"Better than Kharma"

Today’s Reading: Jonah 1 (ESV)

Jonah Flees the Presence of the Lord

1 Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, ²“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil^[a] has come up before me.” ³But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.

⁴But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up. ⁵Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep. ⁶So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”

Jonah Is Thrown into the Sea

⁷And they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. ⁸Then they said to him, “Tell us on whose account this evil has come upon us. What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?” ⁹And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.” ¹⁰Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, “What is this that you have done!” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.
¹¹Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?” For the sea grew more and more tempestuous. ¹²He said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.” ¹³Nevertheless, the men rowed hard^[b] to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them. ¹⁴Therefore they called out to the Lord, “O Lord, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not on us innocent blood, for you, O Lord, have done as it pleased you.” ¹⁵So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging. ¹⁶Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.

A Great Fish Swallows Jonah

¹⁷^[c] And the Lord appointed^[d] a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Footnotes:

Jonah 1:2 The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jonah
Jonah 1:13 Hebrew the men dug in [their oars]
Jonah 1:17 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
Jonah 1:17 Or had appointed

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NOTES:

No Other: The Story of Jonah
Better Than Karma
Jonah 1

Because the Lord is God and there is no other god, then there is no other, when it comes to people.
Karma is pure justice without mercy and grace. With The LORD, there is pure justice, at peace with pure mercy and grace.

George Sinclair George is the Lead Pastor at Church of the Messiah.
More about George Sinclair

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To listen to the above broadcast, click on the following link:

http://accm.ncf.ca/images/19.12.08.mp3

Sunday, 1 December 2019

'FOREVER BEING REFORMED'

Rev. Brian Wilkie

By Rev. Brian Wilkie

Pastor of St. Andrew's Christian Community

Rockland, Ontario

http://www.rocklandchurch.ca/

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Rebroadcast from Sunday, October 28^th, 2012:

http://proxy.autopod.ca/podcasts/chum/6/9280/good_news_024_oct28.mp3
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Broadcast Notes:

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‘Forever Being Reformed’

Today’s topic is taken from: 1 Corinthians 12:12-28 (ESVUK):

One Body with Many Members

¹²For just as ^(A)the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, ^(B)so it is with Christ. ¹³For ^(C)in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—^(D)Jews or Greeks, slaves^[a] or free—and ^(E)all were made to drink of one Spirit.

¹⁴For the body does not consist of one member but of many. ¹⁵If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body”, that would not make it any less a part of the body. ¹⁶And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body”, that would not make it any less a part of the body. ¹⁷If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? ¹⁸But as it is, ^(F)God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, ^(G)as he chose. ¹⁹If all were a single member, where would the body be? ²⁰As it is, there are many parts,^[b] yet one body.

²¹The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”, nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” ²²On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, ²³and on those parts of the body that we think less honourable we bestow the greater honour, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, ²⁴which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honour to the part that lacked it, ²⁵that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. ²⁶If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honoured, ^(H)all rejoice together.

²⁷Now ^(I)you are the body of Christ and individually ^(J)members of it. ²⁸And ^(K)God has appointed in the church first ^(L)apostles, second ^(M)prophets, third teachers, then ^(N)miracles, then ^(O)gifts of healing, ^(P)helping, ^(Q)administrating, and ^(R)various kinds of tongues.