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A baby’s wet diaper                                                                       Acts

20:13-38

This

evening I want to talk to you about comfort and change

Mark Twain once said, “The

only person who likes change is a baby with a wet diaper.”

Comfort

does not allow for change -unless that change enhances our comfort or increases

it.

Getting

out of our comfort, physically, mentally, and spiritually requires change!

In 1927

two brothers in Monroe Michigan gave us a right to be comfortable.

The

introduced the Lazy boy- you have worked so hard all day or all week, grab a

drink, put your legs up, watch tv  and

stay comfortable – and from there it went down hill

Today, our

society is doing everything to make sure that we preserve our comfort

Convenience (comfort) has become our number on desire.Drive through coffee and food Microwaves Tesla – self driving carsAlexa

There is

no issue with these services (I use them) The real issue is that one discipline

translates to another.

When it comes to our spiritual growth, we seek comfort

Comfort

* a state of physical ease and freedom from pain

or constraint.

* the easing or

alleviation of a person's feelings of grief or distress.

Luke 9:23

Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to

come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross [a]daily, and follow Me.

God is asking us to die to self

John

12:24 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the

ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much [a]grain.

How are

we to do this if in every other area of our lives, we are trying to do the bare

minimum

It’s impossible!!!

In the

Bible, we have promises of comfort – but its only after an affliction or when we are about to

go through one.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4   

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the

Father of mercies and God

of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our tribulation,

that we may be able to comfort those who are in any [a]trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Psalms 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of

death,

I will fear no evil; For

You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

Psalms 119:76 Let, I pray, Your merciful kindness be for my comfort, According to Your

word to Your servant.

Psalms 119:50 - This is my comfort in my

affliction, For Your word has given me life.

Matthew 5:4 - Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be

comforted.

No one

is comforted for their own gain. Its all about suffering, serving etc

Isaiah 49:13 - Sing, O heavens! Be joyful, O

earth! And break

out in singing, O mountains! For the Lord has comforted His people,

And will have mercy on His

afflicted.

To get rid of spiritual comfort and welcome Godly change:  we MUST do the following – we learn this from Paul

There MUST be an urgency to do the will of God