#A 9-11 Sermon

And was not the one who will have to do to beat this thing and I do not know when and where will finish, but know full-well the forward of way for everything of #prpers now, and is totally sincere. It is to leave the Spirit of Cristo we controls, and so to live love, for perfect love, when we know, distributions out of all fear! (1 John 4:18)
in the morning of September 11, 2001, four passenger jets was hijacked, two duquel finally collided with the enormous sky-scrapers in New York known like the 'Towers of Twin'. In both hours that have followed the collision so buildings somehow blocked entirely, when it has done other buildings, even blocks out. More Significantly, nearly 3000 people have been killed - most of his when being workers of dispatch that have been trapped in call it and blocking buildings, while another have been taken on top of the mayhem to the streets down.
It can have of the very good reasons to be angry in an individual or in a whole nation, but treating out of this cólera in the violence is not the way of God and, in spite of all the appearances on the contrary, has not been never the way of God!
And the SIR relented of the disaster that had spoken to carry in his people. (Exodus 32:9-14)
And have joined in the celebratory Eid almorzar (that it celebrates the end of Ramadan), laughing and joking with the two Muslim Sheikhs there - those that says me that they have had has invited me only to try and convert me and me that says them that of course had accepted only the invitation to convert them!
God see described in the Exodus is, of course, to God see much more fully in our Sir Jesus, the one who like this refuses to achieve taken on top of in any of cycle of violence but that instead, when his enemies persecute and even torture him he begs, "Father, forgives them since they know no what do!" (Luke 23:34)
But himself by odd coincidence or himself by a lot creation very built, here find new years after 9/11in a world that is now polarized between the West Christian' and the Muslim East'. The fact that we the Australians live in the one of the south and is not really a Christian country by any pull of the imagination is totally irrelevant of course. We have taken our support alongside ours Christian brothers and brothers, or pues seems.
People perished tragically while fire-the fighters struggled bravely while so of #prpers surroundings to the world have been aghast, with the open mouths, that ask the one who had happened and that ask the one who would be the aftermath of this tragic event.
Today is September 12th here in Sydney, which means that the USA is September 11th - surroundings to 4.30pm in the afternoon himself alive in the West Coast and 7.30pm yes alive in the East Coast, and somewhere between this time himself alive somewhere go in.
This 'war terror' we has taken then in Afghanistan and in Irak, even although Bucket Laden there has been any connection he at all with Irak, and this has cost the lives of no of miles but quite possibly million human beings, everything of #that seems to be paying the price for which past in 9/11!
And when we have engaged dialogue and respectful debate on desayunar, that corresponds in the context of genuine friendship and mutual respect, was very conscious of the fact this, sadly, has not been the norm, but that of the so many cases the barriers of suspicion, the prejudice and the fear are so big that such mere realities how sharing it of an eat between Christian neighbours and of the Muslims there #be not never place.

But Moses implored the SIR his God and has said, "Or SIR, why does your wrath the hot burn against your people, #that has carried you out of the earth of Egypt with big power and with a mighty hand? Why owe of the Egyptians finger, 'With bad attempt his ameno was, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them of the face of the earth'? Tour Of your cólera burning and relent of this disaster against your people. He remembers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to #that have sworn by your proper self, and has said to them, 'will multiply your offspring like the stars of sky, and all this earth that have promised that will give to your offspring, and will inherit it forever.'"
Era touched deeply. It was a tiny but remember significant that in this increasingly polarized world where East faces of against West, Christian against Muslim, and neighbouring against neighbour, does not have to be in this way!
(Firstly preached Trinity Santa Dulwich Hill, July 2010)
And he everything goes back to 9/11! Such time no in the spirits of the politics that looked for an excuse to invade some of the oil the biggest-producing country of the Middle Is, and such time no in the spirits of any number of Christian and Muslim clerics that looked for ways to increase his proper influence by whipping on top of hostility to an easily identifiable enemy, but for most of we, and for the majority of the Occidental world, the process of alienation and suspicion and the cycle of violence never increasing has begun then, does 9 years.
Which we see here is a God that deeply engages with His people, who being deeply hurt by his mad and destructive actions but that they will not achieve taken on top of in any retaliatory cycle and that refuses to go back violence for violence.
And pues found that they try to extract we of the quagmire of the now devastated country of Irak, when we found that they ask the one who now are doing Afghanistan, when we dread the possibility of the new hostilities that plough on top of against the nation of will Go (the God forbidden) - a conflict that we beg will not happen but that fear, if he , would achieve taken on top of too much.
Ironically Such time, have found some inspiration of our Old Will reading scheduled by today - the reading of Exodus 32, where it God in His cólera prepared to unleash dead and destruction in the whole people of Israel, but where Moses has spoken out of him!
It is a remarkable history when one the bed now hindsight. How has gone It that the world became so quickly convinced that Sadam Hussein there has been something to do with the attack of Towers of the Twin? The connection has not been never explicitly done in an official level of course, but the surveys showed distinctly that most of American in the time has believed it to be true nonetheless. And although we regulated that there were other apparently good reasons carried advance to justify an invasion of Irak, is impossible to imagine that such one invasion could have been staged if 9/11had not happened never.
But appeals of Moses to God. It asks God to consider the one who this will do in His reputation! It tries to awaken nostalgic feeling in God to the plus God-fearing ancestors of these big people, and remembers God of His fiancés to them. And so the God thinks better of His initial answer and decides to give the people another goes.
I am not sure like the politics and the average directed to moved the home of responsibility for the attack of Towers of the Twin of him when being the work of a man and some how many of his extremist colleagues fanatical his when being the responsibility of each Muslim across the globe or in which people of point have begun to accept that, but there is no mistaking the point are now.
And the SIR has said to Moses, "have seen these people, and behold, is a stiff-necked people. Now therefore leave me only, that my wrath can burn hot against them and I can them consume, mandato that I can do a big nation of you."
It is a curious scene described by #prpers in this ancient book - Moses, the servant of God, haggling with God on the destination of His people. God is angry, and justifiably angry, on the wanton disobedience of the people of Israel, and like some everything-powerful President with his armies in support-by and his missiles all ready to shoot, seems to be totally prepared to give the executive order to unleash hell in the hapless Israelites & do them he pays by his misdeeds
And the one who am have supposed to do on him today - us persones Christian, in Sydney, Australia, and elsewhere - the one who recognise that it does not have to be in this way. How He am have supposed to respond, when Christian people, and how am have supposed to convince our Christian brothers and brothers than disposal in war against Islam is not the will of God.
And pues have looked horror the earth cero mosque' controversy this week - a battle that does clear that the attack in the Towers of Twin is seen like an attack by Islam he! That have proposed to build the mosque has tried to suggest of course that it has not been Islam like religion that has done the attack, and that in fact there was a significant number of Muslim people between #this killed in 9/11, but this obvious piece of obvious good sense seems to has totally been lost, when all the Muslims seem to be resisted up for fault - the people, the religion he, and his book!
Who would have thought does new years that we today in Sydney, Australia, would be to live suspicion never increasing of our Muslim neighbours - no only neighbouring Indonesia but inside our proper cities and suburbs!
The still Questions abound new years later on which really happened in this day. There continue be theories of multiple conspiracy on implication of possible and explosive CIA that could have been posed in the buildings, and some of these theories of conspiracy are not easily refused. In fact, one three Americans they still cross there was Federal implication in 9/11, comprising prominent academics, journalists, architects and agents of previous intelligence.
When it wrote this sermon have had a call in my mobile of a number I no recognise. No always answer such calls when I am in the middle to write but am happy have answered is ud. It was a guy of the Islamic Centre that there has been noticed that when it had there been last Friday had been slightly burned by any that carelessly had spilt some hot water of his cup of tea in me. Really had not done me damage very serious and I had tried no to do a fuss, and really have not thought that anyone there #have been noticed. But obviously this guy (the one who no really was) there has been noticed, and was still regarding him more that a day later, and pues there has been tracked down my number (somehow) and has called me for verificar that was ok!
I am sure you remember the events of 9/11 (when it is to become known) well enough, but leave me nonetheless give you a brief summary once again:
If only the Spirit of Cristo had been left to play a function a more significant in the initial answer to the 9/11 tragedy done new years. How many lives could have been saved?
And you will have to me excusar of departing of my normal format of simply centering in one of our readings scheduled by today, when you will have to me forgive to center in the anniversary of an event that there has been place does new years on the other hand of the world-wide and hence, some could suppose, there has been at all to do with #prpers then and even least to do with #prpers now. But the truth is that the attack in the Towers of Twin in New York September 11th 2001, in spite of the fact that has happened a long way was and enough a long time fact, is an event that continues to play one that determines function in the lives (and dead) of million people across the globe, and that has had certainly a direct impact in everything of #prpers here.
And have seated in our Islamic Centre local last morning of Friday and listened to my fellow Sheikh Mansour, speaker lives road Skype linkup of will Go, appealing to Muslims in Sydney no to achieve taken on top of in any of cycle of violence has to this he reserves that #burn corresponds, and no to begin burning Christian Bibles answered, and no to do anything of the kind, but to react with dignity and restriction.
Even so, putting to a side the theories of conspiracy regarding the that really past, what is unambiguous is the one who has happened in the aftermath of the tragedy. Osama Bucket Laden was blamed officially for the attack and alike to be happy to take full credit for him. Bucket Laden was hence public enemy declared no.1 Of the whole civilised world and a war terror' has been declared.
And behind this sinister picture of global military violence and lies of political manipulation the one who I considers to be a reality a more darkness still - namely, one that grows tension that crosses national borders - one that looms war between two of the religions the more grains of the world: Christianity and Islam.
And we inside Sydney, Australia has been totally taken on top of this! Although the Towers of Twin attack gone through another side of the world-wide and that anybody of #prpers was in fact there, we nonetheless has taken this everything very personally, and there is hence had involved in the retaliatory vagos against Irak and Afghanistan, and Australian troops, together with his allies norteamericanos, continues to die in these countries.
And pues have controlled simultaneously with dread the proposed Quran-that burns scheduled by today by Pastor Terry Jones of the (inaptly appointed) 'Dove World-wide Outreach Centre' in Florida, when I have looked like this horror the angry reaction of numerous Muslims in Afghanistan, abrasadoras flags norteamericanas and asking 'dead in all the Christian'.
It is, when dique, a very curious scene, and am not sure how malleable your theology is but personally #find carry to embrace the idea than God there #be precisado Moses to snap He out of his cólera or to remember him of His responsibilities. I prefers to see this how Moses' angle in the conversation, or to see it so the God that tries of Moses such time. Any way even so, the on-all message of the meeting here is clear. Leaving your cólera to control your decisions is not a good idea - same for God!
And pues find where are today. The original wreckage of the Towers of Twin has been a lot of time cleared up and the dead has been buried, still like this the buildings continue to topple and the people #continue die in the 9/11 aftermath, and entes Christian that refuse to achieve taken on top of the never-swelling tide of Islamophobia meeting to be an increasingly isolated minority.
I have written in fact a speech of draft for the President of the the USA shortly after 9/11. My speech grieved the tragic loss of life in the collapse of the Towers of Twin but also recognised that, like Christian man, have known that giving inside to the temptation to respond to violence with more the violence has not been the forward of way. I have delivered my speech proposed to president@whitehouse.gov. has chosen unfortunately use a different ud.
And have listened the pleas of Christians in Gaza who find when being aimed by angry neighbouring Muslim, when more and more the people buy inside in this conflict manufactured and take his sides in each side that grows divides.
Where finishes? I do not know , but I believes that our responsibilities and of the Christian people, is clear. We have to be up for truth. We have to achieve out of love to the fact that are train to be victimised and prejudiced against, and have to be beside them and share his suffering, when Cristo we would have .
It does new years my paranoia was tied still on top of with the ghosts of Communism! How He could have anticipated that inside #a so short space of time the fears and the prejudices of the Occidental world whole would have moved his home of the red threat to a totally new enemy - an enemy that had been apparently lying that it sleeps for all this time (or at least from the Crusades) - an enemy that, in the time, have known almost at all roughly!

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