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“Hear What Jesus Says To You, His Church!” Pt2
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Scripture: Revelation 1-3
Summary:
In Part 2 of his sermon series, Pastor Timothy Brassell continues his heartfelt exhortation for the Church to actively listen, obey, and respond to the living voice of Jesus Christ. Preaching from Revelation chapters 1–3, Pastor Tim proclaims that Jesus is not only Savior, but Judge, Lord, and Living Head of His Church. Through the lens of each of the seven churches addressed in Revelation, he emphasizes Jesus’ loving discipline, the necessity of repentance, and the call to faithful endurance amid tribulation. Using both Scripture and the insights of theologian T.F. Torrance, he reveals that the Church is God’s chosen instrument in history — called to suffer, witness, and reign with Christ, embodying His redeeming presence on earth.
“The Church is the instrument and medium on earth through which God Almighty is at work. It is around this Church that the love of God and the whole history now revolves.”
— T.F. Torrance“The Church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God’s kingship.”
— Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, 1989, p. 232
Key Points and Highlights:
👑 Jesus is Lord, Judge, and Present Among His Church
• Jesus walks among His Church, not as a distant God, but as a present Lord and Judge.
Reflective Question: Do I recognize Jesus as my judge and leader, not just my comforter?
#ChristIsLord #JesusJudges
🕯️ The Church Must Listen, Obey, and Repent
• Hearing Jesus means obeying Him. Obedience is the mark of true listening in Scripture.
Reflective Question: In what areas am I hearing God’s word but resisting His call to action?
#HearAndObey #SpiritLedLife
🔥 Judgment Begins With the Church
• God’s judgment begins in His own house, before the Church judges the world, it must examine itself.
Reflective Question: Am I more concerned with judging the world than being purified by Christ myself?
#SelfExamination #HouseOfGod
🛑 Jesus’ Rebuke Is Love in Action
• Christ’s rebuke and discipline are signs of His deep love, not rejection.
Reflective Question: Am I receiving correction as a gift of grace or resisting it in pride?
#GodCorrectsInLove #DisciplineIsGrace
🌍 The Church Is God’s Instrument in History
• The Church is where God exerts His redeeming power, not politics or culture.
Reflective Question: Do I see the Church as central to what God is doing in the world?
#ChurchOnMission #KingdomPurpose
🌊 Tribulation Is Normal for the Faithful
• Suffering and opposition confirm our union with Christ and purify our witness.
Reflective Question: Am I shrinking back from difficulty or stepping into Christ’s refining fire?
#FaithUnderFire #RefinedInChrist
💡 Return to Your First Love
• Like the church in Ephesus, we must not let ministry or routine replace love for Christ.
Reflective Question: What does loving Jesus first look like in my everyday life right now?
#FirstLove #SpiritualRenewal
🕊️ Repentance Is Ongoing and Necessary
• Each church is called to specific repentance — and so are we.
Reflective Question: What is Jesus specifically calling me (or our church) to repent of today?
#DailyRepentance #ChurchRenewal
✝️ Victory Comes Through the Cross
• The Church overcomes not by strength, but by the blood of the Lamb and faithful testimony.
Reflective Question: How can I more boldly live and speak as a witness to Christ today?
#VictoryInJesus #CrossPower
🔭 Urgency, Endurance, and Expectation
• The Church must live with urgent expectation, holding fast until Christ returns.
Reflective Question: Am I living as if Jesus could return today, or have I grown complacent?
#LiveReady #JesusIsComing
Context & Reflective Moment:
This message challenges the Church to embrace the full identity Christ offers: a beloved but disciplined people, a kingdom of priests, a body called to suffer with Jesus in order to reign with Him. Drawing from the piercing truths of Revelation 1–3 and the historic insights of T.F. Torrance, Pastor Tim reminds us that the Church is not peripheral, it is central to God’s redemptive plan in the world. His warning is clear: judgment starts with us, and Christ walks among His people today. His invitation is just as clear: listen, obey, repent, and reign.
🕯️ Jesus is knocking. Will we answer?
📖 Revelation 3:20 – “Behold, I stand at the door and knock…”
“Jesus Christ’s Ministry of Worship and Witness!”
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Scripture: Acts 1
Summary:
This sermon by Pastor Timothy Brassell introduces a series on the Book of Acts, focusing on the theme of “Acting with Our Father’s Son and Holy Spirit.” Pastor Tim emphasizes the relational nature of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and how believers are called to participate in this divine relationship. By exploring the foundational teachings of Acts and related scriptures, the message highlights the church’s role in embodying Christ’s love, living in unity, and witnessing to the world.
Key Points and Highlights
🌟 God’s Relational Nature
• God is revealed as a triune being—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—living in perfect unity and calling believers to share in this relationship.
🛡️ Participating in God’s Acts
• The Book of Acts is portrayed as the acts of the Holy Spirit, showing God initiating and guiding His mission through His people.
📖 Scriptural Foundation in Acts
• Acts 1:1–14 serves as the starting point, focusing on Jesus’ ascension, the promise of the Holy Spirit, and the call to witness.
🌱 Living as God’s Temple
• Believers are described as God’s temple, where the Holy Spirit dwells, empowering them for ministry and mission.
🔄 Transformation Through the Spirit
• The sermon highlights the transformative power of the Holy Spirit, enabling believers to live Christ-centered lives.
🌍 The Church’s Mission
• The church is called to act as Christ’s body, spreading the gospel, and embodying love, unity, and service to others.
❤️ Forgiveness and Reconciliation
• Forgiveness in Christ is presented as the removal of sin and the restoration of relationship with God.
🕊️ Call to Witness
• Believers are encouraged to be witnesses of Christ’s work, empowered by the Holy Spirit to share the good news.
🔑 Understanding God’s Sovereignty
• Pastor Tim emphasizes that even trials and challenges are part of God’s sovereign plan to glorify Christ through His church.
🌟 Preparation for Future Revelation
• The message concludes with a call to engage deeply with scripture, especially the books of Acts and Revelation, as a foundation for understanding God’s plan.
Context:
This sermon marks the beginning of a series exploring the Book of Acts, focusing on the relational life of believers with the triune God. Pastor Tim emphasizes the church’s mission to reflect God’s love and participate in His ongoing work in the world. The sermon serves as a reminder of the transformative power of the Holy Spirit, the importance of living as God’s temple, and the call to witness in faith and unity. Through this series, the church is encouraged to deepen its understanding of scripture and its role in God’s mission.
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“A Rich Welcome Into The Eternal Kingdom!”
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“And you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 1:11 (NIVUK)
Would you like to receive a rich welcome into God’s eternal kingdom? That is what has been promised to all believers. The welcoming party will be the Father, the Son, the Spirit, and the holy angels. The life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ guarantees a rich welcome to all who believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. It requires the gift of faith to believe that Jesus is the Christ, God’s own Son. The same faith that the apostle Peter demonstrated. (Matthew 16:16–17). Once we know that we have received the gift of faith, we are then instructed to make every effort to confirm our calling and election. “Add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.” (2 Peter 1:5-7). For if we do these things, we will never stumble. All these attributes are also gifts from God our Father. “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” (James 1:17).
It is clearly God’s will that we exercise these gifts, adding them to the faith that we have already received. If we think that we lack any of these precious gifts, we must then ask in believing prayer. “This is the confidence which we have before him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from him.” (1 John 5:14-15). A rich welcome into God’s eternal kingdom awaits all who believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. And who put their trust in him to answer the above prayer for these additional gifts which are synonymous with the fruit of the Spirit mentioned in Galatians 5: 22-23. These gifts, including faith, are more precious than gold or silver which perishes over time and more valuable than money which can lose its value at any time! It is God’s good pleasure to give us the kingdom. Can you just imagine what a rich welcome into that kingdom will be like: the fanfare; the music; the glory; the joy.
Prayer
Father in heaven, I thank you for the amazing future that you have prepared for those who have received the gift of faith. Please add to my faith the fruit of the Spirit. In Jesus’ s name I pray.
Amen
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“Christ The Image Of God!”
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Scripture: Colossians 1: 15
Summary:
In this sermon, Michael Reeves explores Jesus Christ as the image of God. He delves into biblical texts to explain how Jesus embodies the nature and character of God. The sermon emphasizes the significance of understanding Jesus’ divine identity and its implications for believers’ faith and lives.
Key Points and Highlights:
🌟 Jesus as the Image of God
- Jesus is described as the visible image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15).
- Jesus’ life and actions reflect God’s nature and character.
🛡️ Theological Implications
- Understanding Jesus’ divinity strengthens core Christian beliefs.
- The sermon explores how this shapes Christian theology and practice.
🌱 Impact on Believers
- Encourages believers to deepen their faith and trust in Jesus.
- Calls for living a life that mirrors Jesus’ teachings and example.
Context:
This sermon aims to deepen the congregation’s understanding of Jesus as the image of God, reinforcing essential Christian doctrines and encouraging a more profound spiritual journey.
“In Jesus Christ there is no isolation of man from God or of God from man. Rather, in Him we encounter the history, the dialogue, in which God and man meet together and are together, the reality of the covenant MUTUALLY contracted, preserved, and fulfilled by them. Jesus Christ is in His one Person, as true GOD, MAN’S loyal partner, and as true MAN, GOD’S. He is the Lord humbled for communion with man and likewise the Servant exalted to communion with God.”
― Karl Barth, The Humanity of God
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“Is Knowing God As Trinity Important?”
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You might ask whether knowing that God is a Trinity is important. The answer is ABSOLUTELY YES! God reveals Himself in a three-fold way. The Father sends the Son to become human and bring about reconciliation. The Son perfectly accomplishes His mission and ascends back to heaven to send the Holy Spirit in His name. The Holy Spirit comes in the name of Jesus, bringing people to repentance and uniting them to the perfect humanity of Jesus. This is how God shows His love.
All three Persons (prosopons) of God work together to establish a right relationship between God and humanity, through the Person and humanity of Jesus. Removing any Person of the Godhead removes us from the redemptive work that God has done. God is not three interchangeable parts or three modes of being that simply change roles. There is a true distinction among them (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). The Father is never begotten and never proceeds. The Son is the only begotten and never proceeds. The Holy Spirit is never begotten and is the only one who proceeds.
The three Persons of the one God do not merely coexist; they subsist with one another. They have their being in relationship. The Father is not the Father apart from His relationship with the Son and in the Spirit. The Son is not the Son apart from being the Son of this Father and in the fellowship of this Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not the Holy Spirit apart from being the Holy Spirit of the Father and the Son.
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Can you see The Father-Son-Holy-Spirit (Three-fold-God) through these scriptures?
Matt 28:18-20 / 2 Cor 13:14 / Rom 11:36 / 1 Cor 8:4-7a
“The doctrine of the Trinity means that relationship, that fellowship, that togetherness and sharing, that self-giving and other-centeredness are not afterthoughts with God, but the deepest truth about the being of God. The Father is not consumed with Himself; He loves the Son and the Spirit. And the Son is not riddled with narcissism; he loves his Father and the Spirit. And the Spirit is not preoccupied with himself and his own glory; the Spirit loves the Father and the Son. Giving, not taking; other-centeredness, not self-centeredness; sharing, not hoarding are what fire the rockets of God and lie at the very center of God’s existence as Father, Son, and Spirit.” — Baxter Kruger
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Becoming An Ethically Responsible Christian Disciple! Part 2 (Our Christian/ Biblical Worldview)
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Bible Verses: Colossians (various scriptures)
Introduction:
Because Jesus Himself is our Ethic (our humanity living properly among his neighbors and glorifying the Father), ethics is the free gift of God given to us in Jesus Christ. Christian ethics are not a way to earn God’s love or a way to earn salvation through human works and achievements. It is the gift of participating with Jesus in his human life by Grace! Jesus is God’s Grace to us! Ethics is what it means to participate with Jesus in living his life in this world by the Spirit!
Theological Theme:
You begin life as a child but only so you can grow up into an adult. Similarly, through your union and participation with Jesus, by the Spirit, you are in the state of growing up and becoming a little Christ who glorifies the Father.
Christ Connection:
Jesus is the One Who stands in our human place and lives life in this world with our human nature and on our behalf in a renewing way that brings and gives us revitalized human life, destroying sin completely. He Himself, then, is our Ethic. He is the way we are called to live! Jesus is our proper human response to God and our neighbor! He is the only true Learner of God, and the only human fully obedient to the Father, AND he was and is this so that we might participate with him, glorifying the Father!
Missional Application:
As members of Christ and as people in this world, Christians have a dual citizenship. We have a complex responsibility – the response-ability of Christ, by the Spirit, to be equipped for the works of Christ’s service in the spheres of the Church, the Kingdom, and the State. The goal and mandate is to prioritize our relationship with God, and then, at his direction and under his authority over all, to love everyone, pointing them, through his mission, to him that they too may be in union and participation with him.
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Once “Works FOR God”, Now “Fruit FROM God!” (And by ‘God’ we mean The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – God)
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Bible Verses: Galatians 3: 27-29, Galatians 5: 16-26
Introduction:
It’s possible to coerce or even force someone to do something, but for an action to be meaningful and fulfilling, it must be done because the person wanted to. This is the key difference between behavior modification and heart change, changing our actions versus changing our motivations underneath our actions. In the letter to the Galatians, especially concerning the fruit of the Spirit in chapter 5, Paul taught on GRACE, WORKS, and PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION in the light of the gospel. What we do certainly matters, but WHY we do what we do matters even more.
If you’re a Christian, you will obey because you want to obey, not because you have to. The Spirit of God living inside of us ensures it. We will bear good fruit. This doesn’t make us sinless, but it does make us sure of spiritual growth and it does make us more conscious and convicted of our sin. This Gospel-driven way of living means that we ourselves are a Gospel project, always being developed and shaped by the Gospel – Jesus! And it means that we are always acknowledging that the changes in us have not come primarily through our own efforts but through the Spirit of Christ working in us. We don’t get the glory. The Father does.
Theological Theme:
The fact that the gospel begins and ends with Jesus Christ, means that the gospel is PRIMARILY about the Father’s commitment to YOU! The Father receiving/ including YOU (our human nature) PERSONALLY into His love and life through Jesus and by the Spirit. The Father’s Faith and repentance on YOUR behalf in Christ. Secondarily it is about you being committed to Him and your faith and repentance towards Him.
Christians crucify the flesh and walk by the Spirit who, too, is God of GOD [ Father -Son and Holy Spirit]. The Spirit is the one poured out on Jesus Christ without limit, and the one who Jesus pours out on us human beings so that we might participate with Him in who He is and what He is doing. By the Spirit we participate with Jesus in His worship of The Father and in His witness to this world that His Kingdom is already in our midst, and that his rule and reign are yet coming in full!
Christ Connection:
In contrasting the works of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit, Paul showed the Galatian church what it looks like to belong to Christ Jesus. To be crucified with Christ means to put away our fleshly passions and desires and to follow the Spirit.
Walking after Christ – with Christ, by the Spirit, means Christ leads and by the Spirit we follow Him and move in that same direction that He indicates. When we walk by The Spirit we go where He goes, we live how He lives and how He directs us to live. Walking by the Spirit can be frustrating but it doesn’t have to be that way because we have been gifted by God through Jesus and in the Spirit, to be able to see through the eyes of FAITH. If you are to walk by the Spirit you will need to spend more time with the Spirit, reading and studying and meditating on Jesus Christ through scripture by the Spirit. The Spirit mediates Jesus and Jesus will meet you in and through scripture by His grace.
“We are not to challenge and envy one another. We are to get down from our high chairs and start walking in the Spirit. The Christian life is not a balloon ascension with some great overpowering experience of soaring to the heights. Rather it is a daily walk; it is a matter of putting one foot ahead of the other, in dependence upon the Holy Spirit.” –J. Vernon McGee
Missional Application:
God calls us to follow the Spirit in humility as we develop Christian character that sets us apart from the world.
As the Holy Spirit produces the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control within us, we will also see that our external actions will change too. A person who is loving will act in love with others. A person who is joyful will act joyfully before others. Being leads to doing. And in this case, when we are changed to be more like God on the inside, we will live more like Him on the outside.
“It is in the midst of difficulties and hardships that we especially need the fruit of the Spirit, and it is in such times that God may especially work through us to touch other people for Christ. As we bear the fruit of the Spirit in our lives, others will see in us ‘the family likeness of his Son’ (Rom. 8:29, Phillips) and be attracted to the Saviour.” –Billy Graham
Conclusion:
The power of our obedience and the source of our holiness is not our own efforts but the effort of the Holy Spirit applying to our lives the finished work of Jesus Christ. It’s God who works in you to will and to work for His good pleasure! Your participation with Christ in his good works were ordained beforehand. The same gospel that empowers our conversion empowers our sanctification. It is Jesus who both authors and perfects our faith. It is God alone who is faithful both to start the work in us and to complete it. Jesus Himself is our Sanctification!
Of course, it’s not that we don’t expend any energy. We have to remember that “grace is not opposed to effort, but is opposed to earning.” Instead, it is simply that the energy we use to obey from our hearts for the pleasure of God comes from God’s Spirit. Here is how Paul explained the source of righteousness in Galatians 5:22-26: “22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.”
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It’s Time For Jesus To Renew Your Mind!
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Bible Verse: Romans 12: 1-2
Introduction:
“There is no point in playing down the staggering significance of the incarnation and resurrection. God the Creator of the universe, transcendent over all time and space, has himself become a creature within time and space, the man Jesus Christ… within the measures and limits’ of our human historical existence, he is at work in immeasurable love defeating the forces of darkness, irrationality and evil within creaturely being where they are…entrenched. The eternal Word-and-Reason of God has become human flesh, personally penetrating into and participating in…our existence!!” – T.F. Torrance, “Space, Time and Resurrection”
It is better to think of this Christian life mainly as something that God will pull off by grace and not something that you will pull off by works. The Father, through The Son, by The Spirit, meets us in the world in which we live right now. In the middle of the mess. The Father and The Son have broken into our chaos, along with The Holy Spirit and every BREAK-IN by Jesus is a BREAK-WITH the something else that was creating the chaos and holding us hostage.
Theological Theme:
Father, Son and Spirit God IN GRACE has given HIMSELF AS GRACE to be among us and to lead us from wherever he is right now. You are the beloved child of God in Jesus Christ. The beloved child the Father always wanted. This is not possible to believe and receive part from receiving the Hoy Spirit and having Spiritual union with Jesus Christ. Our Father is not discouraged that you, personally, have not yet fully received this truth about yourself but, encouragingly, He has made provision in His Son, Jesus Christ, to receive all those things on your behalf and in your place, so that you can trust him and grow up into Him, increasingly, by His grace!
Christ Connection:
We are being called by Jesus to have our minds renewed. “We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the Champion who initiates and perfects our faith. This is possible because he has gone before us and “Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne.” – Hebrews 12:2, and he sends us the holy Spirit.
There is not a year on this earth or a political situation anywhere where Jesus is not human now and king of the universe. There is not a minute of pandemic and panic-filled life that Jesus is not the Savior of the whole world. Jesus meets us first as The Word, as The ONE who speaks to us, who lovingly comes to us and embraces us, who speaks a word of grace and love and goodness and gospel to us about Who he is and also who we are in him.
Missional Application:
We have the Person of the Holy Spirit of God. The very Spirit of the Father and Son. The Holy Spirit is the way that God is. He is God’s exact characteristics being God of God himself. He shares with us the characteristics of Jesus The Son who is always giving Himself in self-sacrificing, self-giving love for the other for the sake of the Father. The Spirit is the answer to the questions: “What has Jesus done for us and done on our behalf?” “What is He doing for us now? “How will that reach us?” “How will we participate with Jesus and what He is doing to glorify His Father, to honor Him?”
The answer is: He is poured out on the human race and from Whom we are given grace and power from Jesus to receive him. All people everywhere are continually encouraged to turn from their sin, turn to Jesus and relate with him in the communion of the Holy Spirit, becoming the saved and adopted children of God.
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Toward Obedience To His Word!
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Bible Verse: 1 Timothy 4: 11-16 2 Timothy 4:1-8 Titus 2:11-14
Introduction:
There is an entire world crying out for an encounter with God. To know he is real. Are we willing to yield ourselves to Him? – [Father –Son and Spirit God] – and enjoy the adventure of Christ that HE has for us in THIS WORLD that RIGHT NOW NEEDS LOVE!
Theological Theme:
God [Father-Son-Holy-Spirit] has made YOU and US as carriers of His presence, His glory, His fire. This is true even if you are not called to the office of an apostle, a prophet, a pastor, a teacher or an evangelist in the church. You are a kingdom entrepreneur. God desires to use you MIGHTILY in the marketplace to bring his transforming peace.
As carriers of God’s presence:
(1) We have to remind ourselves of the importance of OBEDIENCE to God’s word in His service to His people and for His people. If we are obedient to God’s word then the fruit of The Spirit should flow from us (Being an example outwardly). What feeds our INWARD so that our OUTWARD can express HIS LOVE and JOY?
(2) If you proclaim The WORD then you are proclaiming The TRUTH!
(3) God calls us to NOT neglect His spiritual Gifts. We have been gifted in service to Jesus Christ.
(4) Continue to grow as a believer to encounter God through PRAYER, READING, FASTING, MEDITATION, FELLOWSHIP, with each other!
Christ Connection:
Christians serve God’s people by preaching The Truth even it is costly. We have been called to preach The Word passionately so others can see and know who God is, and persist in sharing The Word whether it is convenient or not. You are a NEW CREATION in JESUS CHRIST! We have been redeemed and cleansed. We can be eager to do good works in Him for Him where we are now, regardless of the circumstances because Jesus Christ has made it possible for us.
Missional Application:
As Christ’s followers, we are carriers for God’s presence. As such, obedience to God’s word by The Spirit is what sustains us in our work with Jesus, and produces the eagerness to do His work. The Spirit will produce the eagerness we need to do His work…never us. It is The Spirit that sustains us in our work with Jesus.
Conclusion:
“The question is not, nor has it ever been, whether God is willing to move in the hearts of His people; the issue is whether we are willing to surrender in full obedience to Him so that we may begin to enjoy the enormous blessings He invites us to enjoy by living in His presence.”
― Ronnie W. Floyd, The Power Of Prayer And Fasting
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Jesus Says To You, “You Know The Way Church!”
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Bible Verses: 1 Cor 8: 1 Luke 18: 9-14 Luke 12: 8 Acts 2:42-47
Theological Theme:
Jesus continues to share through His earthly Body – the Church – what he said in John 14: 1“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in Me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? 3 If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also. 4 You know the way to where I am going.”5 “Lord,” Thomas said, “we don’t know where you’re going. How can we know the way?”6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you know me, you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Christ Connection:
“While there were contenders, pretenders and usurpers who had no power nor will to create or give life, Jesus has overcome, has vanquished, all enemies who refused his reign. As the incarnate agent of the Father in the power of the Spirit, this Son opposes all that opposes his good creation and God’s good purposes for all creation. The strength of his opposition to all that would maim and destroy his good creation and deviate from his glorious ends is proportional to his love for his good creation. Were he not to oppose that which would undo his creation, he would not be its loving Lord. This Jesus with his heavenly Father and Holy Spirit is implacably opposed to all evil that distorts, twists and destroys life and loving relationships in fellowship first with him and in turn with each other and creation. To bring about his original ultimate purposes, all opposition to his rule and right must submit in repentance or be undone. Evil has no future in the kingdom of God.” – Gary Deddo
Missional Application:
Oh how relevant this message of Jesus is to the people of all times and our own times. A time in which the Holy Spirit is still being poured out upon men, women and children right in the middle of a wicked and corrupt generation! And Jesus’ disciples are still encouraged to call all of his brothers and sisters to repent because of the forgiveness of their sins in Him, a call to receive the Holy Spirit! And not only a call to be saved from their sins but to be saved FOR God and also saved for love toward their neighbor! [But who will believe our report and to whom will the arm of the Lord be revealed? John 12:38] = Those who will receive the great abundance of the Lord’s forgiveness!!!
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