Wake Up, Look Up

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hello everyone thanks for listening to

wake up lookup a podcast where we

connect events happening in real time to

the Gospel of Jesus Christ I'm Zack

and today's episode we're asking should

Grandma and Grandpa know better we're

taking this from something that happened

recently at Rossmore Senior Living

Facility in Walnut Creek California

Rossmore is a beautiful retirement

community it has golf courses pickle

ball courts botch ball shuffle board

it's a beautiful place with a lot of

great things to do in the latter stages

of life and retirement which is why it's

absolutely bananas it is also the source

of a great deal of political unrest and

infighting Rossmore is a community of

about 10,000 seniors uh many of whom are

turning against each other politically

this includes political demonstrations

uh picketing uh dueling articles in the

local paper it includes Republicans

driving by a Democrat event and flipping

them the bird it it involves Democrats

writing opinion pieces to the local Ross

paper that calls Republicans Nazis it

even involves get this believe it or not

a brawl on the pickle ball court when

one person after president Trump was was

a shot in an assassination attempt dared

anyone else on the pickle ball court to

celebrate that and when someone made a

snide comment an allout melee ensued

Grandma and Grandpa what are we doing

here look this is so important to me for

a couple of reasons number number one uh

in some ways this just shows How Deep

The Divide of our culture is and that it

is not restricted to the younger

generation only even Grandma and Grandpa

can't avoid being nasty to those who

disagree with them politically a group

of people were supposed to rever for

their wisdom and experience and maturity

is displaying the same immaturity and

foolishness that we all are in our

culture as it relates to politics and

for those of us that are Christians

there are two really important teaching

points here number one the Bible

unequivocally teaches that we should

honor those who are older The Book of

Proverbs the Pastoral Epistles time and

time again the Bible is letting us know

that those who are ahead of us in life

are worthy of our respect that's because

for the Bible often times being older is

equated with being wiser and like most

proverbs in general that is true but not

always you see a foolish ignorant

hateful person who gets older is just an

older foolish ignorant hateful person

the reality is that age itself doesn't

mature a person and if you're listening

to this podcast and you are older as a

pastor I want you to hear me say I want

you to be worthy of honor I want you to

be worthy of being listened to of of of

speak speaking into to Future

generations of leaders I want to be

someone you I can listen to as a younger

pastor but you need to earn that you

actually have to become someone who's

listening to the voice of God someone

who's answering the call from The Book

of Proverbs for wisdom who's crying out

in the street asking who will listen to

me you need to become someone who can

control their tongue someone who is in

control of their emotions someone who

sees loving their neighbor as more

important than making a political Point

once again this is an example of how

self-importance has run ack in our

culture with all due respect to the

people at Rossmore in Walnut Creek

California who cares who they're voting

for that is not going to change the

country it's not even going to change

the state of California but these people

are so full of self-importance that they

actually think it's worth fighting over

who they're going to vote for hey

everyone there you can vote for whoever

you want the rest of us don't care get

over yourself and start actually being

an example but here's the second thing

most of the people living in this

community who are acting crazy have

friends and family who have probably

long since let them go into their

craziness listen we must speak into each

other's lives we have to encourage each

other and hold each other accountable

and that includes mom and dad that

includes grandma and Grandpa you got to

stop letting these comments go you got

to stop letting ugliness and immaturity

go simply because it's coming from the

lips of someone who's older than you

call Grandma and Grandpa to a higher

standard tell them that you want to be

you want to listen to them you want to

honor them you want to gain wisdom from

them you just need them to start being

the mature wise person that God has

called them to be it's not too late for

this generation of older folks to make a

real impact on the church and on the

kingdom but it's Jesus's Kingdom they

should be worried about not the kingdom

of their favorite political party

Grandma and Grandpa come on we need more

from you and Jesus wants more from you

be better hey thanks so much for

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