I tell you, He will promptly carry out justice on their behalf. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?”I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?I say unto you, that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
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… she wear me out. The Lord said, hear what the unjust judge said, and shall God not avenge his own elect who cry out to him day and night, though he bears long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man returns, will he really find faith on the earth. This is interesting because we have, on one hand, the picture is of a widow that just keeps banging on the door of the judge. And then Jesus uses this illustration for repeated day and night prayer. And then God says, I'm going to answer speedily. He obviously thinks of speedily different than I do. He says, I'm going to answer speedily. And I'm thinking, man, I've been banging on this door for 15 days. You know, when is this thing going to open? He says, I'm going to answer speedily. and he does there's a tipping point tipping point in prayer in which the answer is released and the answer always comes quickly but to get to that place where things shift sometimes takes persistence Prayerlessness actually allows circumstances to be... …
… then the Lord said hear what the unjust judge said and shall not God avenge his own elect to cry out day and night to him though he bears long with them and I tell you that he will avenge them speedily nevertheless when the son of man comes will he really find faith on the earth I know that this is a pretty well-known story and it ought to be because it's one of the times the Lord talked to people about prayer if you look at all the things the disciples could have asked Jesus to teach them the only thing I remember was they asked him to teach them how to pray. It has to be the result of them watching him engage with the Father and coming and capable, able to display heaven on earth is a term I'll use. They break through in this disease, that disease. We find him retreating, if you will, sending the crowds away, going up on a mountain to pray. …
… Will he be slow to answer them? I tell you, he will see to it that justice is done for them speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord. Please should have a seat. so back in 1977, a movie came out, and I know, I'm reaching back to 1977, but this movie was great. This movie actually won three Academy Awards, that they said, out of all of the movies in 1977, this was the best picture. It also was the best director, and also best editing, then you can, whether that's, I'm sure that's important, I don't know, but best picture, it was the best picture, and best director. The movie, the movie's called Rocky and it's awesome they were right to say it's the best picture quick show of hands how many people here have seen the movie Rocky the original oh praise the lord that's good parenting I am tonight call your mom and dad thank them for raising you right but for those of you who have not seen Rocky I apologize but I'm gonna ruin it for you so the whole story is this the whole story it's 50 years old I'm not ruining too much whole story is this there's uh the champ The champ's Apollo Creed. …
I tell you, God will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? This is the word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God. What a fall series we've had, friends. We have been taking seriously this challenge to imagine a new creation through the stories told by Jesus. We've been taking it seriously by inviting a clown into worship who juggled swords and showed our senior pastor how to twirl a plate on his head. We've been taking it seriously by passing out red clown noses. We've dropped confetti from the ceiling. We've even had a whole flock of these miniature plastic sheep running wild through the sanctuary and the sanctuaries of each home in our online campus. It's been fun, right? Yeah, okay, reluctantly fun, all right. Maybe that hesitation is because it feels like a precarious time to be investing so many sermons on a jester, on silliness. Is it frivolous in times like these? …