I want to talk with you this week on the topic that we just don't talk about.
We don't touch it. It's a taboo subject.
We don't talk about suicide until it's too late.
Then we keep talking about it and talking about it.
There's a lot of hurt,
a lot of misunderstanding,
a lot of unknown that is out there in suicide
which is the only fully preventable way that someone can die.
There's three reasons why I'm gonna talk on this this week:
to give you knowledge, to give you understanding,
to help you through the hurt that could be there
if you're a survivor of a loved one who committed suicide.
To prepare for these video devotions, I preached on suicide at my church this last week.
And afterwards, a lady came out to me, fighting back tears,
shook my hand and said, "Thank you, Pastor Jon.
Thank you for talking about this.
For 33 years my heart has been hurting because my loved one committed suicide.
I didn't know where to get answers.
Finally, I've got some peace. I have some understanding."
Another reason why I want to talk to you about this is
it affects so many people and so many different ages.
According to the CDC, the Center for Disease Control,
every 13 minutes inside the U.S. someone is successful in committing suicide.
With permission from my wife to share this with you,
her uncle committed suicide in his fifties.
My wife's neighbor committed suicide in his 70s.
Very recently an eight-year-old boy in Ohio, being bullied and knocked unconscious,
when he came to he committed suicide.
When I preached in my church, a lady came through and said,
"Thank you for talking on this.
This morning I woke up
and thought, 'My life is not worth living.'"
She's not even a member of our church.
She just visited our church.
God drew her in to hear this message
of peace.
And the final reason?
There's a big show that's out there right now in Netflix called "13 Reasons Why."
And in the show there is a woman,
a high school student, named Hannah Baker.
Horrible, I mean horrible things happen to her inside of her high school.
And she thinks the only way through the pain that she is feeling
is by committing suicide.
But before she does,
she records 13 reasons why.
13 half side of cassette tapes
targeting different people and how they failed her
and how she blamed them for her committing suicide.
And before she did, she ended up mailing those tapes out
to the first person on the list.
Watch all the tapes to see who else failed me
and send it to the next person,
the next person, the next person,
and then she committed suicide.
Hannah Baker thinks the only way out is through suicide
and she's seen as the hero of this show;
that she got her message finally heard.
Friends, suicide is never the answer.
Your life,
it's precious,
incredibly precious to all your loved ones around.
Even if you think that they don't care about you,
they don't love you anymore,
you are wrong.
They care. They deeply care about you and so does God.
The Lord above
cares about you. He values you.
We hear this in Matthew chapter 6,
God says you are valuable.
He loves you. He cares for you.
If he cares for the birds so much,
and when do you ever see a starving bird dead on the side of the road?
God gives them what they need.
And if God's going to do that for the birds,
how much more does he provide for you?
And this is where he shows you his full value,
his love for you.
In Romans 8,
Everything that you need for peace in your heart and in your life
is found in Christ.
It's not found in suicide.
It will never hurt.
It will only help.
So go to Jesus.
Go to Christ.
Reach out to others. Get help
and God will give it.
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