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Campion Seventh Day Adventist Church

Micheal Goetz

The Return of the Aeons

Lord, we would ask that you speak and speak to our hearts.

We can't imagine how you can change us, as hard-hearted as we are, but you have a thousand ways to do things that we don't know anything of.

And so we say, do your thing in the name of Jesus.

I want to introduce the conversation, the study today with, with pointing back, some of us it's been a few years, some of us maybe just a few months, lot of heartbreak, the further, I'll tell you this, the further you get away from this experience, the more you can laugh about it.

But I understand, I want to be sensitive, that it may be very, very raw for some of us today.

I want to tell you about some breakup stories.

You know, having gone through the dating experience myself I Always wondered in modern society why we cannot be more scientifically honed on how this dating experience is supposed to It seems like you could just kind of, some gadget would just scientifically tell you who you're supposed to date, who's right for you and who you're right for.

Some test that you could take where you match up.

Hey, I take the test, you take the test, we match up.

I know exactly, it seems like with all the science we have available.

Come on scientists Get us something to fix the dating scene.

I am very convinced that Arranged marriages are biblical I'm done with this dating scene.

I'm not putting any of my kids through that thing.

No, I'll tell you who you ought to marry because I could pick them a mile away.

Some of these jokers, they're not coming over here asking to date my daughter.

Anyway, So I've got a few opinions about the subject, as you might guess, but there's a few stories that just kind of introduce the subject.

1 man, 1 man says, I was over visiting my girlfriend, and She said, hey, can you take the trash out?

She locked the door behind me and wouldn't answer the door.

1 man said how he was dating another woman in his office, the same company.

1 day the boss called him in, said, "'Hey, I gotta talk to you, Jim.

Listen, Susan wants to see other people.'" What are you gonna say to the boss?

Another young chap said his girlfriend had a dream 1 night that she was mugged.

She was mugged in her dream, and in the dream, he was there but didn't do anything about to protect her.

And so she woke up and called him on the phone, told him adios, just because he didn't do the right thing in the dream.

Another young woman said her boyfriend broke up with her because she told him how she liked pineapple on her pizza.

He said, well, we're not fit to be together then.

Another woman says how she was in college dating a boy.

She doesn't say how long, but in her story, it seems like it's been months, or even a year, she said, I was dating this guy for a while, and another guy that I had just met offered him a dollar to break up with me.

It wasn't but a day or 2 later that the guy who paid the dollar asked me out on a date and we have been married ever since.

Good riddance to bad rubbish as far as that other dude.

If he takes a dollar, he's not good for anybody.

There is a certain pain that happens, a certain discomfort, even if you know it's the right thing to do, if the break, there's something about breaking up or severing friendships that are painful.

You think of relationships you've lost in your life, friendships that have been lost, sometimes over unfortunate circumstances, sometimes over trivial things.

But every relationship lost has a certain pain, a certain loss to it.

I believe it's because we were created for relationships that were not ever meant to end.

The creator God, when he bent over us and formed us out of the dust of the ground and breathed into our life the breath of life, and we became living souls.

We became living souls for relationships that were never supposed to end.

And that's like a fish out of water for us.

But that's not how it was in the beginning in the first couple of chapters of Genesis.

This God creator, this deity of Scripture bends over and creates with the intention that that is the...

The Bible begins with in the beginning, but it does not end with in the end.

The Bible says in the beginning, but it doesn't speak of an end.

It speaks of an end of evil, you can argue, of course.

It was supposed to be an eternity of relationships And so every relationship broke every friendship ended is A reminder that it was we were made for relationships that were not meant to end.

We celebrate the people that said, yeah, my first girlfriend became my wife, we've been married ever since.

If somebody were to say that, you'd almost not believe them.

Because we've become accustomed to swimming as a fish in water, swimming in a pond of broken relationships and ended friendships.

The very beginning, we were created for a forever friendship, a forever relationship, ultimately with God and with each other.

It was in the beginning that this God gave his very best in creating us and creating us for relationship That was the best he had he said I want to make something beautiful and I will give you relationship friendship But then his rival showed up crazed with selfishness sought to destroy that eternal relationship That's where we're gonna go We're gonna talk about that eternity in the context of relationship.

There's 2 verses that I wish you would underline in your Bible, and that's why it's worth bringing your Bible.

I know that the verses are on the screen so much, but 2 verses, 2 verses that every Bible should have underlined.

Psalm chapter 90, the 90th Psalm and verse 2.

This is 1 of the most cogent declarations of God, who God is.

Before the mountains were born, before the mountains were born, and before you brought forth the whole world from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

This is 1 of the grandest declarations of the deity of scripture, from everlasting to everlasting.

And that blows our mind to think of something that doesn't have a beginning.

But somewhere in that eternity, He paused to create a new start for this planet, but it was then to merge into that highway of eternity, and while it would have a beginning, it would have no end.

You know, this idea of forever, eternity, is not unique to Christianity.

Oftentimes, it's kind of relegated to that.

Well, you know, if you talk about eternity, you must be kind of 1 of those saved people, 1 of those Christians.

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