“Were we always this lonely and embittered?” – The Atlantic
Title: Misery Loves Company
Matthew 8:23-27
They didn’t reach out for Jesus’ authority; the disciples just wanted His company.
Misery loves company but needs authority.
Matthew 8:28-34
“The point of this story, then, is that the Jesus who has authority to teach people, as he was doing in the Sermon on the Mount, also has authority over disease both close at hand and at a distance; over the lives of people who want to follow him; and over the winds and waves on the lake, and over the shadowy forces of evil, however we think about them or describe them.” – N.T. Wright
They’d rather stay in their loneliness so they can stick to their lawlessness.
Misery loves company but needs community.
“Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Matthew 9:1-8
Your woundedness and wickedness keep you from full deliverance.
Misery loves company but needs forgiveness.
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