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A ChristmasIntervention
Pastor Mark Schwarzbauer PhDFamily Worship Center
Galatians 4:4&5 “4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.”
Part One:
Intervention
InterventionAn “Intervention” is when family and or friends setup a surprise meeting to
confront a person about a serious issue such as drug abuse, alcoholism
or other addiction that is ruining their life. They meet together to lovingly
but firmly confront the person with a united front to motivate the person
into accepting help.
An Intervention• Right Timing• Right People Present• Readiness to Save and NOT Enable• Right Heart Attitude• The Choice exclusively by the person• The Consequences Positive and
Negative
Part Two:God’s
Intervention
Problem of man
hopelessly lost in sin-
Romans 3:23.
Right Timing- Galatians 4:4&5 “4 But
when the fullness of the time had come,
God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born
under the law, 5 to redeem those who
were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.”
Right People Present – God the Father sent His Son because He cared
enough to confront and give us another chance at life- John 3:16… “For God so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him
should not perish but have everlasting life.”
Readiness to Save and not Enable.
God is always ready to save the sinner. He doesn’t enable the
person to continue their destruction; He offers His power to overcome
it. He calls for true repentance not
accommodation.
God’s Heart Attitude is the deepest love
with the truest commitment to your salvation.
Consequences and follow through…
God Positively reinforces with His blessings for
faithfulness and ultimately heaven itself.
God Negatively reinforces
NOT by withholding but by allowing the
person to choose hell instead of heaven.
Part Three:The End of
Intervention
The End of Intervention• Sometimes people will accept help
and they end up saved from destruction.• Sometimes they reject it and keep
trying to manipulate people into enabling them.
The End of Intervention• Sometimes they just pretend to go
along with the rehab to get out from under the pressure or just long enough to escape the scrutiny of those who care.• Try to blame and make others
responsible to manipulate them and excuse the destructive behavior.
The End of Intervention• Blaming Manipulation…
“You can either love me or force me into rehab,
but you can’t do both.”• Blaming Manipulation to Escape
Responsibility… “God can either love me
or send me to hell… but not both.”
The End of InterventionThe real question is notwhy a loving God would
send a person to hell but why would a person
choose hell over a loving God.