How Can Both Be True? (Corinthians 4) | Pastor Keith Pittman

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Second Corinthians chapter 4.

2 Corinthians 4 · chapter mention

We're going to look at three verses.

And in fact, I would love for us, though you're turning to it in your Bible, I would love for us to read it all together.

It's going to be up on the screen in just a moment.

But I believe this is a word that can hopefully be some encouragement for us.

So we're going to count down from three, and we're just going to read these verses together in community.

Three, two, one.

We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed.

Perplexed, but not driven to despair.

Persecuted but not forsaken.

Struck down but not destroyed.

Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our bodies.

How do you hold it all together when it seems as if everything is falling apart?

I believe that there are moments that our lives and we see in scripture that these things seem to be happening at the same time.

And so today I want to just create some space to explore this.

And if you're taking notes, I want you to write down this message titled Walking Contradiction.

Let's let's pray and let's see what it is the Lord wants to speak to us today.

God, we thank you so much for your faithfulness.

We thank you for the truth that is found in your word that we that we move and live and have our being in your presence.

And God, we also acknowledge our struggle, our disappointments, the things that we are working through and walking through.

Lord, I pray for our community, those who are online, those who are in this room, those who are joining us in our family lounge.

Um, that God, you meet us where we are, in a space where we're experiencing our own contradiction, the space where we're trying to hold it all together while also knowing that things are also falling apart.

So, Holy Spirit, we ask for you to move and have complete freedom in this space.

This is your church, these are your people.

Have your way.

Spirit, we ask that you just confront us, encourage us, challenge us, but ultimately draw us closer to you.

So, God, I ask that you give us open eyes to see you, open ears to hear your truth, and open hearts to receive everything you have for us.

It's in Jesus' name that we pray.

Amen, amen, and amen.

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Let's get focused.

You know, I I think about this this message, and it really is birthed out of my own reality.

The concept in the word contradiction, it's pulled from Latin, it's a combination of two words, but ultimately what a contradiction is, it's it's two statements standing in the room at the same time that are opposite of one another.

That's a contradiction.

Basically, just two statements that seem to be opposed with one another, but ultimately presenting themselves as truth.

That's different than hypocrisy.

A lot of times we can use them interchangeably, but hypocrisy is a little bit different.

A hypocrite is actually just an actor when you look at it in its original Greek translation.

Um it's a it's a man behind a mask.

So ultimately, what hypocrisy is, is I'm I'm covering up the truth by displaying something completely different.

But a contradiction is something completely unique in and of itself.

It's two truths that are fighting to be prominent at the same time.

About eight weeks ago, I believe it was, I received a phone call that that that no that no grandfather wants to receive.

Um I still remember it.

I believe it was on a Monday, if I'm not mistaken, but I remember getting a phone call from my son Keith Jr., who's uh stationed in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

And and when he called me, he I could just hear it in his voice.

It was early in the morning, and he typically doesn't call that early, and I just heard him say with this almost whisper that Cayenne is gone.

Kyan's the name of my grandson, um, who was five months at the time.

He just says that he he passed away.

And and I remember it seemed as if the the world had come to a complete standstill.

Because there was no explanation that I could wrap my mind around.

He just simply went to sleep and just didn't wake up that night before.

And I remember when we dropped everything we had, cleared our schedules, hopped in the car, drove up.

I I recall walking into his home.

Now, Keith Jr., he's a he's a mountain of a man.

He's six foot two, he's just a just a body of muscle.

He he definitely got my good looks, but I don't know where he got his height, and and and that's all I can give credit for.

And he got my name.

But I walked into the room and he just collapsed into my arms.

And I remember holding him up, and I just remember the grief that was in that room at that moment.

It was something that I knew in that instance that this is something that's going to be with us.

Fast forward maybe four days later, from that exact moment, um I'm standing right over here in this room with my hands lifted up, singing about the goodness of God, while in the back of my mind wondering why my grandson isn't here.

Contradiction.

I got on this stage and I preached about God's faithfulness and how he fulfills his promises while also struggling with grief that goes beyond my vocabulary.

I've learned in this life that it's possible to be honest with where you are, but to still have your feet planted somewhere else.

What we see with the Apostle Paul is that he is a man who is well versed in understanding the nuances and the conflicts and the contradictions that exist within the life of the believer.

Paul says these words that are so powerful that stand out to me when he says that we are persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed.

Paul didn't get this in the quiet time in the comfort of his home.

Paul experienced this in his real life.

Paul was not a theoretical Christian.

Every word he wrote was emanating from things that he did experience, struck down, but not destroyed.

The book of Acts, chapter 14, gives us one of those instances where the words of Paul are also a reflection of his reality.

Acts 14 · chapter mention

The Bible says in verse number 19, it says, But the Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

For context, Paul was declaring the name of Jesus.

Paul was helping people get delivered.

He was literally transforming the communities he went through as a result of him declaring the name of Jesus.

And it disrupted the system so much that the Jews had came down and they began to kind of sow discord and turn the crowd against Paul to the point that they tried to kill him.

They thought he was dead.

The stoning process in biblical terms was brutal.

They would first push you off of an eight-foot ledge, they would drop a boulder on your chest, and then they would just hurl rocks at you until you appeared to be dead.

Paul lost consciousness, they dragged him outside of the city and left him there.

And the Bible says that God was not done with him yet.

I'm not sure who needs to hear this.

Because maybe right now you feel like you're going through the most public abuse you've ever experienced, the most visible disappointment, the most, the most obvious struggle.

But the Bible speaks of Paul and says that they supposed he was dead.

That means that the enemy has thrown some things at you and he's supposing that there's no path forward.

But but I'm here to encourage somebody and let you know that the devil is a liar because you still draw breath in your lungs and God is not done with you yet.

The text says that the people of faith surrounded Paul and he got back up and went right back into the city that just stoned him, bleeding, limping, but still declaring the name of Jesus.

Seems like a little bit of a contradiction.

The goodness of God while dealing with the flaws within our humanity.

So how do we how do we manage the contradictions that invade our lives?

Those moments when there's something worth celebrating, but there's also this grief that seems to keep us from truly being in the moment.

I believe this text in the life of Paul can give us some principles that can be encouraging for us if you're feeling if you're in a season of contradiction.

Somebody say contradiction.

The first thing that you need to do is you need to name the pressure.

We need to identify exactly what the point of pressure is.

Paul opens up and says that we're afflicted in every way.

He says these words.

He says we're afflicted in every single way.

He says that we are we are perplexed.

He says we're persecuted.

We're carrying these things with us.

Paul is naming the pressure.

He could have opened up with anything.

He could have navigated around anything, but he starts off with the pressure that he was experiencing.

When you do a little bit of a word study into that word, it's it actually means to be compressed.

It means to be squeezed tight.

And it says that it was happening on every side.

I'm not sure if you've ever been in a space where you felt like everything was happening everywhere all at once.

Moments where you just felt like the pressure was upon you.

Pressure at work, pressure at home, pressure at your church, pressure amongst your community, pressure in your finances, just surrounded by things that seem to be compressing you to the point where it seems as if you don't have forward mobility.

Paul says it even more clearly at 2 Corinthians chapter 1, verse number 8.

2 Corinthians 1 · chapter mention

And he says these words, he says, Hey, I don't want you to be unaware, brothers, of the afflictions that we experienced in Asia.

For we were utterly burdened beyond our strength, that we despaired life itself.

Paul did not mince his words with the honesty of what he was going through.

You got to understand that for the Apostle Paul, especially talking to the church in Corinth, which he had a very unique relationship with.

He planted that church, he established the leadership of that church, but because he was the father of that church, he offered correction to that church.

So there were moments where they questioned his authority.

There would be other traveling preachers that would come in that were better preachers and better communicators.

So it started working through the congregation that they were beginning to question Paul's authority.

They questioned his leadership, they questioned his voice, they questioned his influence, they were challenging him.

So you would imagine that a man who knows he's being challenged by the congregation would have covered up any of the flaws in his life.

I need to be stoic.

I need to be strong.

I need to make sure that I don't show any form of weakness.

But Paul, being a man of transparency, he says, Listen, brothers, I want to make sure that you guys are not left in the dark.

That this walk that we are in, there's going to be some challenges that we face.

And I've been through it.

I've been whipped, I've been shipwrecked, I've gone through some things in my life, and I want to make sure that you're aware of what these struggles can look like.

Paul was being very specific about the things that he was experiencing the pressure in.

The Bible tells us about a man named Bartimaeus in the Gospel of Mark, chapter number 10.

And what it says about him is it says that this was a man who was blind, and he would stand outside of the city gates of Jericho and he would say, Could someone have some kindness to a man who is limited in his ability to see?

The text tells us that he heard that Jesus was in the vicinity and he began to lift his voice up.

Son of man, have mercy on me.

He heard rumors about who Jesus was.

The people said that he was a distraction, and if he tried to silence a man, you're too loud, you're gonna distract the teacher.

And then he began to raise his voice even more.

Son of man, please have mercy on me.

Even Jesus' disciples came to him and said, Listen, man, you're you're being a distraction.

You need to silence yourself.

Let me go down this rabbit trail for a moment.

There are gonna be some times that we're gonna come into church services and people are not gonna understand the reason why you're praising the way that you do.

There are gonna be some people that don't understand why you're worshiping the way that you do.

There's gonna be some moments where people don't understand why you have your hands lifted the way that you do.

But the truth of the matter is the worship isn't for them, it's for God.

I think there's a moment where we come into here that we gotta recognize that I don't care who's standing with me, but I'm gonna worship God even if I have to do it on my own, because my breakthrough can be on the other side of my praise.

Son of man, have mercy on me.

And the Bible says that Jesus turns to him and says, What will you have me to do?

That seems like such an unnecessary question.

Because the man's sight was clearly not there.

We clearly know what was wrong with him, but Jesus was asking, Are you willing to be specific about the area of your life that you want me to move in?

Don't keep it so vague.

As a man who sits with people for a living, one of the things that's often a challenge for me is trying to really get to the root issue when I'm sitting across from people.

I hear words like, man, I am so frustrated.

I get it.

About what?

Man, I am so angry.

I understand.

About what?

I'm so, so disappointed.

I feel you.

About what?

What I've learned is that the enemy, he thrives off of ambiguity.

And if we can't be specific about the things that we're struggling with, that vague statement of, I'm just struggling in my marriage, will mean that we'll continue to struggle in our marriage until we can say, My marriage is struggling with communication.

Now we know exactly what the issue is, and now we can begin to invite the presence of God and a strategy into it.

We have to be specific.

I know for Megan and I that because of just the way that our lives are intertwined together, it's possible for us to not even realize when we're under spiritual attack.

Because we're just around each other, we're hanging out, we work together, we drive together, everything is together.

And then one moment, you're like, like, are we in the middle of a fight right now?

Like, how how do we get here?

And interestingly enough, that happens when you're dealing with two humans.

But there's another moment when you begin to recognize, no, this is, I feel like we're under spiritual attack.

We can't agree on anything.

This is not just a matter of who left the forks out, but we're arguing about everything.

So what we'll often do in those moments is we'll pause and we'll recognize that we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but we begin to call out exactly the thing that we're sensing.

Lord, I feel a spirit of depression that's in this home and we call it out in the name of Jesus.

Lord, I feel that sphere is somehow in this household, and we call that out in the name of Jesus.

This is why when Jesus showed up on the scene, demonic spirits were always afraid because the discernment of spirits means you know exactly who the enemy is and what he is up to.

Don't be so vague when you're beginning to recognize the activity of the enemy in your life.

If you're dealing with issues in your life, call it out by name.

Legion, for we are many.

I call that out in the name of Jesus.

I plead the blood over this situation in my life.

But if we keep it vague, it allows the enemy to continue to operate in the shadows.

Paul was very specific when he would be addressing the things that were happening in his life.

We have to name the points of pressure.

But Paul doesn't stop there because there's another thing that I believe God's inviting us to do, and the next thing we have to do is we have to find the butt in our situation.

Find the but.

Let's go back and look at this text from a different perspective.

We are afflicted, that's the pressure in every way, but not crushed.

Find a but.

We are perplexed, that's the pressure, but not driven to despair, that's the but.

We are persecuted, that's the pressure, but not forsaken, that's the but.

We are struck down, that's the pressure, but not destroyed, that's the butt.

God is inviting us to be people that can look at our situations and acknowledge the pressure, but also find the but God moment that is still in our midst.

The enemy loves to keep us fixated on the first part of the sentence.

But God is wondering if we can fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, and recognize that while I am still dealing with some things, but God is still faithful, but God is still with me, but God is not done with me yet.

But it requires us to change our perspective.

A few months ago, Magdalene and I we we hosted um some of the elders at our house.

We had a gathering at the house, and um you guys know I love I love to cook, and so I was making my my famous brisket.

By famous, I mean I like it, so it's famous.

I was making my I was making my brisket and it was gonna be an overnight cook.

I put it on the smoker at 11 o'clock, and it was gonna cook all through the night, and it was gonna be ready, and I was gonna let it rest.

It was gonna be amazing.

And so I had it all set up.

Um, and then I was gonna wake up around five o'clock in the morning, take it out, wrap it, do the whole thing.

But I I woke up around three.

I just didn't feel rested.

There was a little bit of angst there because I wanted to make sure I put on a good impression for the elders that were coming by.

And I walk outside and my grill is off.

It's cold, and I'm like devastated.

Like I'm, I am, I am distraught.

I walk up to it and I begin to troubleshoot.

I'm seeing that it had been off for for hours.

So in my head, I already know that it's not gonna be done in the time that I want it to be done in.

But now I'm actually concerned because my grill is broken.

You guys may not know this, but I have like my wife, my kids, and my grill.

Like my grill and my kids are neck and neck.

Like it's a it's it's a any given day on who's gonna be the one that's the most important in my life.

And so, but my wife is always first.

You hear that baby?

You're always number one.

Always.

Boom, points.

Okay, so so I'm I'm I'm I'm looking at my grill and I'm thinking, like, there's no way.

This is my baby.

Like, I've I've we've been through so much.

We've been in two different homes together.

My heart is broken, and I'm beginning to troubleshoot.

I'm looking at different things.

I'm I got my I got my flashlight on.

It's four o'clock in the morning.

I'm outside yelling, I'm surprised my neighbors didn't call the cops on me.

Like it was a lot of activity that was happening, but then something prompted me and said, Hey, did you check?

Did you check your breaker?

Go out to the garage, and wouldn't you have it?

The breaker had tripped.

So now I'm looking at this situation.

I go back outside and my grill comes back on.

So watch this.

Even though it was dark, it did not mean that I lost power.

Even though I was in a situation where the front part of the sentence was, my brisket wasn't done when I wanted to be done, and I was lamenting over my broken grill, but the power was still available and my grill actually wasn't broken.

Let me say it another way.

I believe there is many of us in this room right now that we have been so fixated in believing that because we're in a season where we don't have visibility, that also means that we somehow don't have power.

But but I'm here to encourage and let you know that the power of God is still available, but we have to be willing to find the butt in our situation.

Yes, I understand that it may not be done when you want it to be done, but God is still faithful, but God is still present, but the power of God is still flowing through that situation.

God has been interrupting sentences since the book of Genesis.

You know the story?

The Bible tells us about Joseph, who was sold into slavery, betrayed by his brothers, and then while he was in captivity, he was done wrong.

He was manipulated, he was overlooked.

And the Bible tells us that as he's been on this journey, there's a moment where God used it and continued to elevate him.

Somehow, Even in his suffering, because of the posture of his heart, God was still able to bless him.

I don't know who needs to hear that because maybe you're in a space right now where you feel like the bosses don't appreciate you.

But if you have the right posture, God is going to bless you because blessing comes from the Lord and not from anyone else.

But because he had an excellent spirit like Daniel, he continued to steward the faithfulness of God.

He eventually gets promoted.

And then the Bible said there's a moment when he's standing face to face with the very same brothers who betrayed him.

And he has this powerful statement.

This is a bar if I ever heard it.

He said, What you meant for evil, God used it for good.

There's a but God moment in this situation when I can recognize, yes, I've been mishandled.

Yes, I've been overlooked.

Yes, I've been manipulated, but God is not done with me yet.

And but God showed up in the midst of my situation, but God is still faithful, but God is still breaking chains, but God is still bringing deliverance, but God is still bringing freedom, that God is still bringing healing, but God.

And I get the sense that there's some of us in this room that we're we're so fixated on the first part of the sentence that we're missing the conjunction of what God is saying.

There's a but God in your mix, but you have to be willing to change your perspective.

The third and final thing I want to encourage us with is that now that we have to name the pressure, identify specifically what our burden is, recognize God's faithfulness even in our disappointment, but we also now have to learn how to carry both.

We have to be able to carry the persecution and the blessing at the same time.

Paul says it this way in 2 Corinthians 4, verse number 10.

Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies.

I'm carrying the death of Jesus and the life of Jesus so that it can be made manifest in my body.

Death and life, I'm carrying them.

It seems like such an extreme contradiction.

The fascinating thing about this text is that we see it in real time.

Because for the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians chapter 1, he actually says something a little bit different.

2 Corinthians 1 · chapter mention

Here he said that, yeah, we're perplexed, but we're not driven to despair.

That's that's chapter 4.

But if we back up the chapter 1, he actually says that we were in such despair of our lives that we lost hope.

That appears like that's an extreme contradiction.

But I believe Paul was being honest about his reality and saying that it's possible to be honest with where you are, but also have your feet planted somewhere else.

I feel like I am utter despair, but my feet are planted in the faithfulness of God.

I'm dealing with the disappointment, honest about that, but my feet are planted in what God's word says about my situation.

He's carrying both.

There hasn't been a Sunday that I don't find myself standing in the same spot that I was eight weeks ago, where there's not a moment where I'm not overwhelmed by the goodness of God, where I'm singing with my hands lifted up, and there's another moment where my other hand grabs my heart, recognizing the emptiness that has been left with the loss of my grandson.

I carry both.

I carry the goodness of God and the aches in the soul at the same time.

I believe that all of us have things that seem contrary to one another that God is calling us to carry, to carry grief and to carry joy, to carry love, but to also carry frustration, to carry appreciation for a job, but also wanting to get out of that toxic environment.

God has called us to carry both, to be people that can carry both.

I can carry the goodness of God and I can carry the grief of my soul.

I'm called to carry both.

What I think often happens with us is because we don't feel comfortable with one and the other, we feel like we have to make a choice.

So I'm gonna put down my pain, I'm just gonna carry the goodness of God.

God is so good, God is so faithful, God is so just, and these things are true.

But it comes at the expense of us ignoring ourselves to the reality of what we're currently feeling.

Or we put down the things of God and we pick up our burdens and we exalt the suffering and the frustrations and the pain and the disappointment.

And that comes at the expense of us completely missing that God has preserved us through it all.

But when we carry both, it actually gives us balance.

I don't know if I'm the only one in the house of faith today that feels this way, but I know that for me, I count it as a personal challenge that when I come home from the grocery store, that I bring all my groceries in on one trip.

If if you have to do two trips, you failed.

Let me just say it that way.

There are times I'll be out in my garage for eight minutes arranging the bags so I can make one trip when I could have just got it done in two minutes if I did two.

But there's something to be said about the male ego that says, no, I can do this in one trip.

But what I learned about doing it in one trip, it's important that you have to balance it.

So I have some things, 38 bags in this arm, I have the water in this arm, and as long as I have the appropriate weight in each arm, it keeps me from walking crooked.

But if I put one thing down, then I lose my balance.

I believe that God has called us to be people who carry both.

He wants you to carry his goodness, but he also wants you to know that you can carry your grief.

He wants you to carry his favor and his faithfulness, but he also knows that you can carry those questions.

We're called to carry both.

We're literally called to be walking contradictions with being aware of where we are, but having our eyes fixed on something so much bigger.

That is what God's commissioning us to do.

Paul says a statement that's so profound, he says, I am not forsaken.

That exact same word that Jesus says in Matthew 27 when he says, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

And it occurs to me that many of us in this room may feel forsaken.

You may feel forgotten, you may feel overlooked.

And if there's only one thing that you get from today's message, I believe is to encourage you to let you know that God sees you exactly where you are.

You are not forsaken, and maybe we just need to do a better job at carrying both, of being seen but also walking in a burden at the same time.

The text tells us that Jesus goes to the cross and he was forsaken so that we don't have to be.

He restored our relationship with God so that we can now enjoy unbroken fellowship with our Creator, not based off of our performance, but because of what Christ did on our behalf.

We're gonna go back into a moment of worship in just a moment.

But before we do, I would love to pray with and for us.

So let's just get into a moment of reflection.

Let's just close our eyes and bow our heads, not because it's a secret, but it's an opportunity for us to enter into our own moment of solitude with God and invite Him to examine our minds and our hearts.

And the question that I want us to ponder is twofold.

One, am I away from God right now?

Maybe there's some distance.

Maybe you've never surrendered your life to Christ, maybe you've done it at some point, but right now you know there's distance between you and God.

I believe that today is the day of salvation, and we can pray and begin that journey of you walking in alignment with what God has for you.

I also want you to ponder for a moment.

Maybe there is areas of your life where you feel the pressure, the burdens, the struggle, and you you haven't been able to find the butt in your situation.

In just a moment, we're gonna pray that you recognize God's faithfulness even in the midst of your disappointment, and we're gonna believe that God's gonna allow you to walk with both.

So if you're here and you're ready to commit or recommit your life to Christ, I would love for you to signify it by slipping a hand up on a count of three so we can pray with you and celebrate with you.

One, two, three.

Hands up.

Amen.

Amen.

God bless you, amen.

Amen.

If you're joining us online, we want you to participate in this moment as well.

And if you're in our family lounge, let one of our members know so we can serve you appropriately.

You can put and put those hands down.

I want to invite us to stand on our feet.

And and the first thing I want to do is I want to pray for those who are saying yes to Jesus for the first time, possibly.

And I want us all to do this together.

So let's repeat these words after me.

Say, Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins.

I believe you died on the cross and that you rose from the dead, and today I am saved.

Fill me with your spirit and order my steps.

In Jesus' name.

Amen.

Church, can we celebrate with all of those who have said yes to the gospel of Jesus?

As we prepare to go into worship, I do want to encourage us.

I had a conversation with my friend just a couple of weeks ago as we were talking about the journey that me and my family are walking through, and I shared with him, I said, Hey man, I said, you know, I just realized that this is my Jacob moment, the moment when he wrestled with God and he walked with a limp.

And that limp was with him for the rest of his life.

It was just a part of him.

And I believe some of us have been hit with things that are just a part of our lives.

It's not going to go away, but the grace and power of God is with us.

I said, it's a part of my walk.

And he said, Yes, Keith, it's a it's a part of your walk.

He said, it's going to change the way you walk around relationships, it's going to change the way you walk around disappointment, it's going to change the way that you walk around love, it's going to change the way that you walk around frustration.

You've experienced something that's going to change the way that you walk.

But that doesn't mean that God's not with you.

My encouragement for us is that maybe you're walking with a limp, but the beautiful thing is that God is right there with you, holding you up.

Let's lift our hands to heaven, Lord.

We thank you so much for your faithfulness.

We thank you, God, that you allow us to have this unique dichotomy.

We're able to walk in peace and pain at the same time.

Joy and grief at the same time.

So, Father, I just pray over our community.

For those who are grieving, for those who are struggling, that your grace and your peace is sufficient and that you strengthen them.

For those who are growing weary, God, I pray that you come alongside them and keep their hands lifted up.

Father, for those who are disappointed, Father, that they can pinpoint where it's coming from and invite your grace and peace to come alongside them.

Father, we recognize that you've graced us to carry both, forever carrying the death of Christ, but also the resurrection of Christ in our same bodies, Father.

So Lord, I just pray healing.

I pray freedom.

I pray for chains to be broken because we recognize that God, you are a provider and you give us everything we need.

So, Lord, provide peace, provide strength, provide stability, provide freedom, provide joy, provide love, provide foundation in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Amen.

Family.

Come on, let's worship together.

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