the book of Acts Week 4 | March 9, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, good morning everyone. Welcome to daylight savings time here

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Indie Metro Church. Glad that you all can make it
safely that you're wide awake. My name is Jared, I'm
one of the pastors here. How many of you guys just
by show hands have ever heard of an eggcorn before?
Who's heard of the phrase of eggcorn? Well, an eggcorn
is when you take something that you've heard, like a
common phrase that's been said before, and you mishear it
and then you start repeating it. But what you're repeating

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is different but still has meeting the In fact, the
word eggcorn comes from a mishearing of the word acorn.
So here are some examples. You've heard of the phrase
a moot point before moot moot right, The word moot
literally means not relevant because it's too uncertain. It's like,
this is pointless for us to have this debate because
we will never know for sure. We can go back
and forth forever and would we will never be certain.

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This is a moot point. Well, people, the egg corner.
That is a mute point. That's like saying I feel
like I'm making very very good points here and you're
not listening to a word I'm saying, I might as
well just be completely speech you're not listening. There's a
social leper. It's like someone who's an outcast, someone who's
like that no one wants them around. The egg corn

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of that is a social leopard. That's like the girl
that gets the animal print on. She goes out to
the clubs like she's a life at the party. One
that I'm guilty of is a prima donna. A prima
donna is the primary female singer in an opera. It's
like this kind of like a sarcastic one. Oh you
think you're so good, you're so arrogant. Oh you're the prema,
you're the star. I always used to thought it was

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a prima donna, like, hey, this is an up and comer,
Like keep your eyes on this one. What like she's
gonna be a star. One day, Pastor Jake shared with
me one of his say my piece, p I e
ce It's like, this is my part of the conversation.
I'm just contributing this. He used to used to think
it was same my piece like pe Ace, like I

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gotta get this off my chest. You're not gonna listen
to me. Anyways, but I gotta see my piece. What
about you, Maybe there's an egg corn that you've heard before.
Just take the next thirty seconds at your table, share
with the people that you're sitting with. What's an eggcorn
that you've heard before? Go ahead and do that, all right,

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finish up your conversations. So in our text today, what
we see is kind of an eggcorn. God's people thought
they really understood what his kingdom was all about. They

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read scriptures. They thought they had a really good grasp
on the coming Messiah, who he would be, what he
would do. In essence, they heard the scriptures incorrectly, and
then they were repeating them to each other with a
slightly different meaning than what God was saying all along.
And this very first sermon of the early Church, this
is what Peter's point is. This is what Peter's saying.

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That the Messiah is not who you thought he would be.
You thought the scriptures were saying this about the Messiah
blank but an actuality the scriptures were pointing to Jesus
all along. William Barclay, a theologian, says to the Orthodox
jew the cross made it completely impossible that Jesus could

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be the Messiah. The apostles answers. If you would only
read the scriptures rightly, you would see that all that's
including the cross, was foretold. The big idea for our
time together today is that the story of scripture is
that Jesus is the Misty. If we get nothing else
out of today, maybe we know from Peter's sermon that

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what are you saying is that the story of scripture
is that Jesus is the Messiah. Every point of the
Bible points to Christ. In fact, all of the Apostles,
for the most part, throughout their teachings of the New Testament,
say this. And his letter to the Romans, Paul says,
Jesus is the better Adam. John the Baptist said, behold

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the lamb of God. This is an allusion to the
passover land from the Exodus. The author of Hebrews says,
Jesus is the better priest, the better tabernacle, the better sacrifice,
the better bread of life. Jesus himself says, I am
the better Jonah. The story of scripture is that Jesus
is the Messiah. There are two questions in our text

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today that are asked of the Apostles. Two questions and
this is going to serve sort of as an outline
for our time together today. These two questions does what
does this mean? And what shall we do? So our
text today is an answer to those two questions, what
does this mean? What shall we do? Scriptures about God's

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grace shown through the finished work of Jesus Christ. So
as we're preparing to understand that truth apply it to
our lives, let's first pause and pray together. So, Heavenly Father,
thank you for the finished work of Jesus Christ. Thank
you for the grace of allowing us to know and
follow him. Continue to tune our hearts into the truth

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of the Gospel, and help that affect the way that
we live, the effect the way that we make decisions,
the way that we treat others, our ambitions, our goals,
our plans. So to the best of our ability. Right now, Lord,
we submit to you now just as individuals, but as
a community, as a faith community knows indimetric we submit
to you. Meet with us now, right now, Lord, help
us to know and follow you even better. Send your name,

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I pray Amen. So the first question and they say,
what does this mean? If you remember from last week
the disciples started speaking in all these different languages. Everyone
there could hear the good News of Jesus in their
native time. And they're like, that is a weird thing,
and their question is what does that mean? And to
answer that question, Peter quotes three Old Testament passages, and

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the first one he quotes is from Joel Chapter two.
We read in our text. Fellow Jews and all of
you who live in Jrusalm, let me explain this to you.
This is what was spoken by the prophet Joel and
the last days, God says, I'll pour out my spirit
on all people, your sons and daughters, they'll prophesy. Your
young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
Even all my servants, both men and women. I'll pour

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out my spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.
I'll show wonders in the heavens above, and signs on
the earth below, blood and fire, billows of smoke. The
sun will be turned to darkness, the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and glorious day of
the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of
the Lord will be saved. So essence what Peter's saying,

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like everything that's happening right now, people speaking in the
language that you can understand. All this was foretold. You
knew this ahead of time. The prophet Joel told you
this would happen. And he's saying that this is a
sign that the Day of the Lord has arrived. Peter saying,
you know the scriptures, you should know what this means.

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It means that God's kingdom has come. In fact, you've
already seen signs of this in the recent past. Verse
nineteen ever, text says, I'll show wonders in the heavens
above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire,
billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness
the moon to blood before the coming of the great
and glorious Day of the Lord. Regarding this passage, theologian F. F.
Bruce says, roughly seven weeks ago, the people Drus from

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had indeed seen the darkening of the sun during the
early afternoon of Good Friday. Later in that same afternoon,
the full moon may have risen blood red in the
sky in consequence of the atmospheric gloom of that day.
In other words, some weird stuff happen when Jesus was crucified.
We read about that in the Gospels, and that wasn't
just like a clever detail like if anything, it was saying,

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this is like a signpost, saying the prophets told you
that this would happen. In fact, all the scripts are
pointing to this day, to this day when the Holy
Spirit is being poured out. Zachariah twelve we read, I
will pour out on the house of David the inhabitants
of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will
look on me, the one they have pierced, and they

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will mourn for him as one who mourns for an
only child, and grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves
for a firstborn son. The prophet Ezekiel in chapter eleven says,
I'll give them an undivided heart. I'll put a new
spirit in them. I'll remove from them their heart of
stone and give them a heart of flesh. The prophet
Isaiah chapter forty four says, I will pour water on
thirsty land and streams on dry ground. I will pour

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out my spirit on your offspring and my blessings on
your descendants. Because you're saying the power of God coming
to his people. This was foretold. It's a sign that
the day of the Lord is at hand. These disciples
doing this weird thing, speaking in these languages about the
good news of Jesus is a sign that indeed, Jesus

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is the Messiah. Better then elaborates by highlighting two passages
from Psalm Psalm sixteen and Psalm one ten. It's like
the first half say, hey, the promise Messiah has come,
and then the second half is saying, and let me
show you that Jesus has promised Messiah Verse twenty two.
Fellow Israelites, listen to this. Jesus of Nazareth was a

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man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and
signs which God did among you through him, as you
yourself know. It's like you've already witnessed that there's something
different about this Jesus that you yourselves know with your
own eyes. You've witnessed his he's doing miracles and signs.
You know that the power of God was on him,
this man who's handed over to you by God's deliberate
plan and foreknowledge, and you, with the help of wicked men,

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put him to death by nailing him to the cross.
Peter saying, all of this I need you to understand.
Was it like God's backup plan all of a sudden,
God didn't know what to do, so it's like, oh,
like I know, I'll just I'll have this. Just Jesus
die and then he'll become the Messiah. Like this was
all God's plan all along, and something that we need
to keep in mind. Just because this was God's plan

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doesn't mean that people won't be held accountable for their actions.
But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from
the agony of death because it was impossible for death
to keep a hold of him. It's like Peter saying,
because Jesus is the Messiah, death couldn't hold him in
any more than a pregnant mother could hold a baby in.

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Jesus' resurrection didn't make him the Messiah. He raised from
the dead because he was the Messiah. He is the Messiah.
David said about him, I saw the Lord always before me.
Because he's at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Therefore my heart is, my tongue rejoices. My body also

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will rest in hope because you will not abandon me
to the realm of the dead. You will not let
your Holy One see decay, you may known to me
the path of life. You'll fill me with joy in
your presence. Fellow Israelites, here David quotes Psalm sixteen, and
now he's going to unpack that. Fellow Israelites, I can
tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was
buried his tombs here today. It's like David wasn't talking

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about himself, but he was a prophet. He knew that
God had promised him an oath that he would place
one of his descendants on his throne. Seeing what was
to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah,
that he would not abandon him to the realm of
the dead, nor did his body see decay. God has
raised this Jesus alife, and we are all witnesses of it. Right,

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you have the scriptures as proof that Jesus is the Messiah.
You have the miracles and the signs that he did
that shows you that Jesus Messiah. We are eye witnesses.
That's further proof that Jesus is the Messiah. We have
seen this with our own eyes. That we're testifying to
you what we've seen. Exalted to the right hand of God.

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He has received from the Father of the promised Holy Spirit,
and he has poured out what you now see and hear.
The Holy Spirit's arrival is proof that the Messiah has
ascended to the right hand of power of God. That
Jesus is that Messiah. This is a sign that the
rule and reign of Jesus has begun. These people speaking

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in these languages is a sign that the rule and
the reign of Jesus has begun. For David to not
ascend to heaven, yet he said, the Lord said to
my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make
your enemies a footstool for your feet. Therefore, let all
Israel be assured of this. God has made this Jesus,
whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah. People ask this question,

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what's this me People are talking to these different languages.
We hear the good news of Jesus in our own language.
What does that mean? And the answer is, the Holy
Spirit has arrived, proving that Jesus is a promised Messiah.
That's what this means. All scripture has pointed to this truth.

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The disciples are speaking in different languages because they were
under the rule and reign of Christ. This miraculous sign
is a fruit that the Holy Spirit is present, He's powerful,
that he has arrived, he's active. This is a fruit
of this truth. And here's where I need us to

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see ourselves as followers of Jesus today, to be witnesses
of the goodness of God's kingdom. There must be fruit
coming out of our lives at display that we are
under the rule and reign of Jesus, especially in the
landscape of our country right now, and the division and
the hate. Just like these disciples speaking in different languages,

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we have to be curiously different in our behavior, in
our love and generosity. We need to be speaking a
different language than our culture. Our lives must point people
to the hope of Christ. Doctor Martin Luther King said,
I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives,

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but I will not rejoice in the death of one,
not even an enemy returning hate, for hate multiplies hate,
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
In other words, we cannot build God's kingdom by wielding

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the weapons of this world. Jesus didn't do that. We
can't either. God's Kingdom is built on the sacrificial love
of Jesus Christ, a love that we can play by
the power of the Holy Spirit. And that is true
regardless of where you fall in the political isle. That
is true. To follow Jesus is to submit yourself to

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the rule and reign of Christ, to submit yourself to
the way of our Savior. See. I'm optimistic, probably more
than ever, of the opportunity that we have to be
a witness right now in this season of life. I
don't think in my lifetime there's ever been a more
ripe time like this idea that Jesus says, the harvest

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fields are full, send the workers out. I don't think
that there's a clear time for us ever to be
curiously different than right now. I think someone who is
following the way of Jesus will stand out more now
than ever. That is good news for us, as we
are ambassadors of the hope, ambassadors of the coming kingdom

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of Christ. There's a rift, there's a void in our culture,
and we can be the bridge of that. We can
be an attractive alternative to the way of the world.
As we love the marginalize the lonely, as we pursue
a picture of what God's kingdom is, as we put
our hands to love and justice, we could say this

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is what we imagine God's kingdom to be like when
he comes. The Apostle Paul says in Glatians five twenty
two through twenty three. The Holy Spirit produces this kind
of fruit in our lives. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,

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and self control. Friends, I want to assert to you
when those things are coming out of your lives, when
you surrender yourself over to the power of the Holy Spirit,
you will be just as strange as these disciples speaking
in a different language to people. You'll be just as weird.
People will be just as curious to know what is

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going on? What does this mean? And it's answering those
questions we can say, let me tell you about the
rule and reign of Jesus. Our lives, our behaviors, our goals,
our goals. They should announce Jesus is the Messiah. The

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transformation of the Holy spairs power at work in our lives.
God's power at work in us should be a compelling
proof that Jesus is who he says he is. Friends,
all of scripture points to Jesus being the Messiah. So
should your life? What a fantastic opportunity lay it at

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our feet right now to announce the rule and reign
of Christ by being just a weird alternative. That we
return love for hate, That we offer forgiveness when other
people might hold onto bitterness, when we sacrifice when we'd
rather accumulate, That we go out of our way to

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care about others instead of just ourselves, When we listen
and consider the viewpoints of other people instead of trying
to shut them down. When we recognize that people are
made in God's image, and we fail to dehumanize people.
What if the fantastic alternative that we have set before us,

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What does this mean? Answer that Jesus is the promise Messiah.
That's what this means. That's what Peter's saying. Second question,
what shall we do? Verse thirty seven. When the people
heard this, they were cut to the heart. They said
to Peter and the other apostles brothers, what shall we do?

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Peter replied, repent and be baptized, every one of you,
in the name of Jesus Christ, the forgiveness of your sins,
and you'll receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, the
promises for you, your children, for all who are far off,
for all whom the Lord our God will call. What
shall we do? Peter's answer, And a nut shall submit
yourself to the rule and reign of Christ. Peter's answers,

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We see five characteristics of the life surrendered to the
rule and reign of Jesus. We see that followers of
Christ have a new devotion. They have a new community,
a new freedom, a new power, and a new attitude
towards others. A new devotion, a new community, a new freedom,

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a new power, a new attitude towards others. Let's quickly
zoom in on each one of these. First, those who
know and follow Jesus have a new devotion, Peter replied.
Repent and the original language, this word means to change
your mind, it say, isn't about simply believing something different.
It's not about feeling sorry. It's not about saying the
sinner's prayer. It's about having a complete change of trajectory

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of where you're headed. Monica Johnson, a theologian, says, regret
is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow,
even remorse. It merely wishes things were different, without an
act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance
is an admission of a hatred of and a turning

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away from sin before God. Repentance is about reorienting your
life around Jesus Christ is why people talk about having
a conversion. To repent is to change your mind about
who Jesus is and then allow that change of mind
to influence who you are and what you do. You

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allow Jesus to become the center of who you are.
Your devotion changes away from your own self sinderedness and
onto the kingdom of God. You no longer view everything
through the lens of what I want for myself, and
you view it through the lens of what does God
want from me? You die to yourself, You die to

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your own ambitions, your own prideful belief that you can
earn God's love. To repent is to die to yourself
and become alive to Christ. And in fact, this imagery
is a good transition into the next characteristic to have
a new community. Peter says repent and be baptized, every
one of you in the name of Jesus Christ. Baptism
itself is rich in symbolism. To be baptism is to

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be laid down in the water, to be laid down
in death, and to be resurrected to a new life.
It's this is what baptism is portraying that I'm dying
to an old way of life and I'm raising to
a new one. Baptism is completely passive. You can't baptize yourself.
You have to let someone else baptize you. I have
to trust that Jesus will rescue me the way that

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he will, just the same way I have to trust
that this person putting me under the water isn't gonna
let me drown, the gonna pull me back up. Jesus himself,
although he was perfect and he was out without sin,
he started his ministry by getting baptized. And the reason
that he did that was to identify himself with you.
Jesus was identifying himself with you, with your humanity, saying

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I am there stand in I'm taking all the stuff
that they've done wrong, I'm taking that upon myself. And
so why do we get baptized to identify ourselves with him.
And on top of that, when you get baptized, you're
not just identifying yourself with Jesus, you're identifying yourself with
the universal Church. I've used this analogy a lot, but

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I think it's a good one. High school graduations are
a weird ceremony. They're strange. We wear robes, we have
like a square on top of our head with a tassel.
It's odd, but it's odd on purpose because what you're
doing is you're saying, I'm one of them. You're saying
everyone who's come before me, everyone who comes after me.

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We all kind of do the same thing because we're
saying we're like this, this is what's true about us.
And so when we're getting baptized, we're identifying with the global, universal,
timeless Church, anyone who came before us, anyone who comes
after us. I'm with them, I'm one of them. Baptism

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is an identifier of a truth. I'm embracing a new community.
I'm not getting baptized so I can will my own
salvation into existence. Baptism doesn't save you. We're saved through
the finished work of Jesus Christ and to get baptized
is to identify yourself with that truth. It's through the
finished work of Jesus Christ that I'm saved, and I
want everyone to know that that's true about me. Third,

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to know if all Jesus's discover a new freedom. Peter says,
repent and be baptized, every one of you the name
of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins. Friends,
you don't have to carry around all your short comings,
your sins like you don't have to carry that stuff
around anymore. Through Jesus, you can lay all that down.
You have complete forgiveness. You have your own new exodus

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out of your captivity to sit in death. Jesus has
come and he has rescued you. You're no longer a
slave to sit in death. You're forgiven. You have a
new freedom. For through the finished work of Jesus Christ,
we have a new power. You'll receive the gift of
the Holy Spirit. We spoke about this last week. This
isn't done by your strength, by your wisdom. Jesus doesn't

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wipe your slate clean and say there now keep it clean.
We get the power of the Holy Spirit. That's only
by that power the Holy Spirit that we can hope
to be transformed. It's by the power of the Holy
Spirit that we rescued out of captivity to sin and death,
and it's by the power of the Holy Spirit that
we're transformed more and more into Jesus's likeness. We have

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a role to play, but that role is not to
be the power source of transformation. Is to continually seek
the Lord, to let him guide us. Is to continually repent.
It is to place our hope and trust in Him
every day a daily thing. Lastly, to know and follow Jesus.

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To have a new attitude towards others, the promises for you, your children,
for all who are far far off, for all whom
the Lord, our God will call. So this picture of
those being far off is this picture of the people
that are super removed from your life. Like I'm glad
there's a distance between me and them. People you'd rather

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not be around. People you find it difficult to love,
people you find it difficult to even think about in
a positive light. These people who are far off. There
are people who we find it easy to dehumanize, to hate,
to wish ill of, to mock. Again, just listen to
the discourse that's common in our country right now, this

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dehumanizing language of saying I don't have to respect you
because you're beneath me. To the endwell and gift of
the Holy Spirit Jesus is transforming us into people who
love and respect everyone. You find ways to forgive, you

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find ways to want good things for people. We have
a new attitude towards others, a new mission for our life.
And Second Corinthians Apostle Paul says that we're ministers of reconciliation.
And again, please don't miss underhere, don't misunderstand what I'm saying.
I'm not saying it's our job to come a passive doormat,
to let people do whatever they want to us, to
empower toxicity, to stay in those types of relationships. I'm

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not saying that what I'm saying is regardless of who
someone is, it is it is our our joy, our
responsibility to be like Christ and to offer love, to
pray for them, to forgive them, to find ways, like
what pockets of hate are in my heart right now,
to root those out and say, God, I can't stand

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this person, but I know you made them, and I
know you know them. By name, So God, may your
kingdom come in their life? What shall we do? We
surrender to the rule and reign of Jesus. Easier said

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than done. We allow our hearts to learn a new devotion.
We embrace the norms of a new community. We place
our confidence in a new freedom. We rely entirely on
a new power. We adopt a new attitude towards others.
So what about you? Which one of these things right

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now are sort of encouraging in the most I like, Man, God,
I see your work in my heart right now. I
know that you've been busy redeeming that. Likewise, which one
of these are kind of speaking to you in a
way of Like, God, I know that I've been holding
on to this one. I know that I've not been
allowing you to transform this part of me. Like, what's
the Holy Spirit pointing out to you right now as

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you're listening to these things? What shall we do? We
surrender to the rule and reign of Jesus? My it's
my complete Like, I'm completely assured that everyone in here
right now is like the people here in this like

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that were cut to the heart in some ways. If
people say they were cut to the heart. What about you?
Where are you being cut to the heart? Is it
a new devotion you need to submit yourself to the
way of Christ. Are there strongholds in your life areas
where you are refusing to let God have control? Is
it a new community, like God, I'd rather just do this,
me and you, saying just me and Jesus, Like I'd

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rather not have to be a part of a community.
Is it knowing that God's inviting you listen. I didn't
call you to be a minister of reconciliation by yourself.
You can't be a minister of reconciliation if you're not
living reconciled with people. Is it a new freedom believing
you don't have to carry that around anymore? Is there

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a voice in your head that you keep listening to
that isn't the Holy Spirit that continues to leave you
in a place of just sort of like a self
centered mess of like you don't have to carry it around,
You're forgiven. Is it a new power depending on the
Lord to transform your life. Is it a new attitude
towards others, finding ways of love those who are extremely

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difficult to love. Are there pockets of hate in your heart?
Are there people that you've been murdering in your heart.
As Jesus talked about, how do you let that go? Say?
I know that's not of your kingdom. We surrendered to
the rule and reign of Jesus. Not once every day.

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This is an ongoing thing that we do. But in
a moment, we're gonna celebrate the rule and reign of
Jesus together as we take the sacrament of communion, another
sort of weird thing that we do together. We're gonna
take the bread. We're gonna take the jews that represents
the body broken, the blood shed for us. As we
take these elements, maybe we be reminded that this is

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what we're centered on. The way of Jesus has priority
over your own thoughts. Let's celebrate that good news. The
story of Scripture is that Jesus is a Assiah. May
that be the story coming from our lives as well.
Let's pray so Christ, thank you for who you are

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and what you continue to do for us. I pray
against any feelings of unnecessary guilt or shame right now,
but I don't pray against the conviction for us to grow.
Help us to love you with everything that we have
it send your precious and holy in that we pray. Amen. Family, Father,

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thank you for the unity of your kingdom and the
unity of this room. Help us to continue to prioritize that,
knowing that this is one of the primary ways that
we display to others what your kingdom is like by
living reconciled, unified lives with each other. Continue to point
out to us areas of freedom that you're offering that
we're not taking advantage of. Help us to know that

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the words that you spoke to your son, God, you
speak to us. This is my son, this is my
daughter whom I love and I'm well pleased. Thank you
for giving us that inheritance in your son Jesus, this name.
I pray God. Amen. So if you announce before we
go others some really practical ways that we can embody
what we were just talking about today on March eighteenth,

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and you'll have a message go out to you later
today with all the same information. March eighteenth and Arsenal
Tech High School Elevate is having an event called Guys
Need Love Too. And it's like just hanging out with
male students doing some games with them. They're going to
have a talk and we're going to provide the food
and we're going to be present. I've already reached out

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some other local churches saying, hey, can you just have
some dudes like people, not just dudes like people present
at this event, just to show these teens that you're
loved and you matter to us. So that's from two
thirty to six. But remus who I spoke to. If
you can't get there at two thirty, it's not like
you can't come, So do me a favor. If you

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are interested in doing that or participating one to learn more,
put that on your contact card. Either put it in
the box or give it to me. You can also
just talk to me after church. If you have my
cell phone number, text me all that'd be great. March eighteenth.
I'd love to have lots of people from the church there. Again,
all I'm looking for is people just to be present.
That's what my hope is. Secondly, the day before Easter

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April eight April nineteenth, you remember Carrie Poor from Living
Faith Church. We're partnering with them to do a community
Easter egg hunt. So they have an awesome pocket park
just right around the corner. We're gonna work together to
just do an Easter egg hunt for the community. We're
gonna have doorhanngers made that kind of gives information about
both churches inviting the community to Easter service, inviting them

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to the Easter egg hunt. This would be a great
way for us to be odd in our I think
lots of Easter egg hunts have happened before, but it's
a strange things where two churches are working together to
do that. I think that that's a great picture of
the of God's Kingdom coming together and being manifested in
that way. That'll be from twelve to two, so that
means that we're probably looking for volunteers from like eleven

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to three somewhere in there. If you can't stay for
the whole time, awesome, that's fine. We're gonna do food,
probably like hot dogs. I think we might have like inflatables.
Bethany reeves in the back. She's helping out with some
of the details as well. But if that's something that
you're interested in helping out with again, just put that
on your contact card, text me let me know. Right now,
we're sort of the initial planning stages again. My whole

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hope is that we just have a lot of people
present and that our neighbors are like, oh this, that's weird.
These churches like care about us. Lastly, on your table
as there's a flyer so Lisa Wall, she does the
front and garden out here, and she is trying to
organize how do we best use that just as a
community garden. So there's a sign up for that in

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the hub. Also, there's an art and craft talent show
that she's wanting to put on. Sign up will be
in the hub as well, so you can learn more
about that on your flyer. But another way for us
to just kind of exist with each other. So that
is it. Love, You have an awesome rest of your week.
Start of your week,