I typically don’t overly spiritualize things when I watch a
movie. After all, when I’m watching a movie like “the Muppets” I really don’t
feel like hearing preaching a sermon to me. Picture that, I can almost hear
Kermit’s voice, “It’s time for church, with our very special guest star, Pastor
Curtis King! Yaaaaaayyyyyy!” Anyway, that doesn’t work for me. When I watch a
movie, I expect to be entertained and turn my brain off. This was no exception
when I watched Frozen. Frozen was a fun movie. I absolutely loved it from
beginning to ending. It had characters that you could fall in love with, songs
that were catchy (I still can’t “Love Is An Open Door” out of my head), the
plot was intense; basically, it was a great movie. Bravo, Disney. But there was
one moment in that movie when I thought to myself, “Wow! That’ll preach!” You
may have caught it, you may not have. Let me tell you what it is:
Remember Olaf? He was the goofy snowman who likes warm hugs.
Don’t you just love how he blissfully and ignorantly loves the idea of summer?
In fact, he sang a whole song about summer (another song that I can’t seem to
shake). After the song is ended, Olaf joins Ana and Christof (sp?) on their
quest to get summer back. Ana and Olaf begin to walk away when Olaf yells, “Let’s
go find summer!” The camera goes to Christof, who’s jaw has dropped and he
utters these words, “Somebody’s gotta tell him.”
When I saw this part of the movie, I couldn’t help see the
parallel between them and a saved persons relationship with the unsaved world.
Here is how. Picture Olaf as an unsaved person. Olaf is merrily and ignorantly
living his life, not knowing of the danger that is to lie ahead, just like any
unsaved person. The unsaved person lives their life, they go about their day,
they go to work, they raise their children, they eat, the sleep, they live, but
they do all of that without knowing that danger lies ahead. Hell fire lies
ahead. Their eternity is at stake. It is interesting to me that when Olaf is
singing his cute song about summer, Christof says to Ana,” I’m going to tell
him,” to which Ana slaps him and replies, “Don’t you dare!” Unfortunately, I
know too many Christians who are like Ana. They allow the unsaved to go about
their merry way to their eternal doom. These Christians have the message of the
Gospel, but they don’t tell the unsaved about it. But as Christof points out,
“Somebody’s go to tell them!”
Christian, please listen to me today. We live in a world
that is lost and on its way to Hell. Somebody has to tell them about a Saviour
that loves them and who died on a cross for their sins. That somebody is you. I
once heard a man say, “How can you hate somebody so much that you are not
willing to tell them of a Saviour that died so that they can stay out of Hell?”
Here is our problem today, many of us go to work, we live in a neighborhood, we
have family reunions, and we are constantly around people who do not know Jesus
Christ. We claim that we love them and we claim that we are their friends, but
apparently we don’t love them enough to warn them about the danger that lies
ahead.
Here is my challenge to everyone that reads this: Don’t be
an Ana Christian, be a Christof Christian. Sound the alarm! Send out the
warning! Let the unsaved know that there is fire ahead but there is a way to
avoid it.
Let us all strive to be better witnesses for Jesus Christ.
I am pleased to
announce that I have an e-book on Amazon now; it is called Sermons From the
Book of Haggai! I preached a series of sermons from the book of Haggai at
Calvary Baptist Church in Hartwell, GA. My members received it very well. The
book contains 4 sermons, written out word for word, entitled: Consider Your
Ways, God’s Commitment, Holiness and Repentance, and Encouragement. The book is
only 99 cents and you can find it at http://www.amazon.com/Sermons-Book-Haggai-Curtis-King-ebook/dp/B00JKVC3C8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397244318&sr=8-1&keywords=sermons+haggai
. Happy reading!
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