Something different

Well, I have not really had much time to come up with a story for you guys since I have been on vacation. So instead I will post something far far different!


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Theme: God
Genre: Sermon!
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Ok, so I kinda had worked on this little study I made up for a bit, and now I am gonna present it to you guys, so comments please. I would like to know your thoughts.


God is a restaurateur, and he makes some of the best food you could ever hope to make. I mean this food is phenomenal, it fills you up, makes you feel full and complete and just great! This food I am talking about is His own spirit, the Holy Spirit. Imagine if you will, walking through the door to meet the most genuine host/waiter of your entire life. His name tag says his name is Jesus, and he is gonna be your server. As he sits you down at the table, Jesus begins to tell you a little bit about the chef, God. He tells you that He is a master at his craft, a creator of miracles in the kitchen, and the Jesus gives you something to start before you order. You bite down into your food and you can't, at first, find the right words to explain how you feel. Jesus was right, the food is incredible! Your a little different now, somehow changed, and you start to encourage the others at your table to dig in to the starters.

John 14:26 "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you."

From the words of Jesus himself. The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom God will send in the name of Jesus Christ. To teach us all things about God. What is it that the food you eat, or rather the starters even, at a restaurant does? It gives you some insight on the Chef, so does your server for that matter. Its their job to inform you of the awesome culinary creator behind those doors. A guy that you by no rights can see, but the food and the server both tell you that he is there. Jesus coming to earth was the precursor of the Holy Spirit. Jesus died so that the spirit of God could come to earth and inform us even more about God. Build that relationship even stronger.

John 16:7 "But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; But if I go, I will send him to you."

Your server has to go away so he can bring you the food! This is where exploration comes in! This is where its the foods job to tell you about the chef. This is when the Holy Spirit fills us like a cup and our relationship with God begins. We can't see the chef, but we know he is there. The food tells us he is, and the chef is informed, trust me, on how we feel about the food!

John 16:13-14 "But, when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and disclose it to you."

So now what happens? The food is on our table and we are eating our fill, learning more and more about this awesome chef. What does one normally do when they find a dish they like? They recommend it to others around them! I have an awesome meal, I am gonna tell others to try it out! I might even tell other people at other tables about it!

Isaiah 61:1-3 " The Spirit of God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to prisoners..."

I understand that last part might be a little much for this reference, but lets look at that first sentence. " The Spirit of God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted;"
This is a nice little example of what happens to us when we are filled with the Holy Spirit. When your filled with Gods Spirit, and his love, and grace, and mercy, and all those things that make a relationship with God so worth while, you get to a point where you can't contain that anymore, you gotta spread the word! And that is exactly what God calls us to do.

Matthew 28:18-20 "Then Jesus came to them and said, 'All given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of age.'"

That right there is the great commission. Its God's call for us to further his kingdom, to go out and make disciples of others. Fill ourselves with the chef's food, with God's Holy Spirit, and get out there and tell everyone how great it is. However...we must be careful in this! Because if we are not careful, we can find ourselves being overly zealous about the food, and in our fervor, we can spill the food on someone! Spilling food on someone is rather quite different than having them eat it, isn't it? Instead of actually aiding them in experiencing the food, we dump it all over their laps and suddenly, they aren't all that interested in the food anymore. Sometimes we as Christians have a tendency to just dump the Holy Spirit on someone. We tend to overload them with information, without giving the time to process it, or aid in the learning of it, and people are dumped with something they have no understanding of anymore. And then it becomes very difficult to have that person dine at that restaurant anymore. We all know someone like this I am sure. So we must be careful when we walk around that restaurant so we don't spill that food when we tell people about it!

So now by this time, your so empowered by this food that some of you have gotten up from your tables and have started going around to other tables in the restaurant.

Acts 1:8 "But you will receive the power of when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth."

Along the way, you will no doubt meet what every restaurant has, a food critic. Lets look at just what exactly a food critic is. Often it is the case that a food critic is a failed chef. A person who lacks any form of cooking skill, so rather instead he goes about judging food from everyone else. In the case of our analogy, that person is the devil. The devil rebelled against God in heaven, jealous of God. The devil cannot create, he creates nothing, all he can do is take what God has created and twist it into bitter creatures of loathing and contempt and hate. He will never be able to cook food like God can. So he sits in the restaurant and tries to waylay those who are telling others about the food. Tries to tell them that its not as good as they think it is. It is important more than ever to rely on the chef, to rely on his food. To remember that its the most filling and best tasting food you have ever had, and to encourage others in that as well.

Hebrews 10: 24-25 "Let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, while remembering not to forsake our own assembling together, as is the habit for some, but encouraging each other, and all the more so as we see the day drawing near."

In closing, I would like to read yet another verse that kind of summarizes everything quite nicely.

John 15: 26-27 "When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the spirit of truth who proceeds from the father, He will testify about Me, and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning."

This last verse is a very fine example of everything in action. God sending his son Jesus down to earth to tell everyone about God, making way for the Holy Spirit, God's spirit to come into the hearts of us all and continue that work. To allow for a close and personal relationship with God the Father, thanks to God the Son, and the coming of God's Holy Spirit. Then we ourselves, continuing on with informing others about God because of that. Telling others about God because of our own relationship with Him, knowing more and more about Him each day.