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And we pray

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So the title of today’s message is a command

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Create a better world

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It’s a call to create a better world

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And that may seem kind of like a strange thing to say I remember meeting with somebody that had gone off to college and we’re talking in the nineties had gone off to college and they came back with some strange ideas and their strange ideas or her strange idea was we create our own reality

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That’s not what I’m talking about We actually have a shared reality We all live together on this planet

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But the world that we live in is part what we experience is part of culture and culture is created by people

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Just like every family can have a culture Every community can have a culture Every city can have a culture every nation can have a culture every generation can have a culture

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We want to create a better world by transforming culture

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We need to have the courage to face reality head on

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and the wisdom to understand the trajectory relationships are heading

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Oh Good good I got a

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and I did that on purpose because I I’m trying to connect dots because if we can connect dots in the church it actually opens up the power and potency of God’s word to us The trajectory relationships are on

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because I could say the trajectory culture is on But just as I was explaining earlier we all have our own little family cultures our little community cultures right We have a national culture

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But fundamentally it’s about relationships How do we relate to one another How do we interact with one another And when you realize that an organization or even a community is kind of also just like a person

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then when we are speaking about big things or we are speaking about small things

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it’s all the same

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Can Jesus heal a human being Yes he can Can he deliver Can he set free Can he transform Yes he can Can he do it for a family For a marriage Yes he can Can he do it for a church Can he do it for a city Can he do it for a nation Can he do it for a generation

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What is what’s the difference to the Lord

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He can heal and set free and deliver and transform

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whether it’s an individual life or it’s a whole generation

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But we know God’s word says that he’s looking for a generation that will call on the name of the Lord that will seek his face And we want to we want to be that generation Amen

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So we can blame Stephanie for part of this message today This is a joke She also said that I’m allowed to tell her age any time I want we can thank Irvin for that I thought I was being funny and I say how would you like me to do I don’t care Well that ruined all my fun but such as life

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But she showed me a video called what are we doing to White people by Charlie Chen

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And when I told her this I love also telling people little things that I’m going to talk about and then they get all nervous Are you going to handle it Ok And they said well usually I handle it Ok But you can’t expect everybody to bat 100% So I can’t promise anything

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Well oh yeah that’s right There you go

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So anyway in this video he shows the current conviction that societal evil is the fault of white people

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and that discrimination against white people is not possible because you have to have the power to oppress in order for it to be discrimination

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He shows Tik Tok videos that this is a very significant issue This is not just something on the fringes This is a very real

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cultural reality that we are facing today

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They even called some of the people he showed call for genocide

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for white people

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One of his fundamental arguments is that laws and policies being made proves that there is power to oppress

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and that we could argue is actual systemic racism

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He warns that this is leading to a culture of violence and oppression

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scriptural principle evil is producing evil And you notice that I put the notes in the bulletin every week whenever I’m preaching And so I actually gave a link to his video if you want to see it

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when I came back from Belfast after being away for five years and I came back to the same community that I was a part of before The first thing that really struck me is that I that I saw racial tensions had really significantly increased

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and I took notice that people had a chip on their shoulder and no longer were we just human beings and color blind I did like the video because he actually mentioned that that in the past we talked about being color blind and now we’re starting to promote a whole different value system

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And so these are this is a very real problem that we’re facing in our culture but it’s only one of many isn’t it

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We could sit here and tell you one problem after another after another after another And then we could actually make a ton of money and create a news channel

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because there’s a lot of money to be made by by pushing fear right But when I when I shared shared with you that the kind of fundamental message that that video was talking about how does it make you feel

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How does it make you feel about the world we live in How does it make you feel about our culture How does it make you feel about the trajectory of our nation

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Because that is the important question that we need to ask if we’re going to be a transformational church in the world today

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and to think that everybody doesn’t live in a culture of fear mongering

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driven by money

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then we’re actually not really aware are we Because the messages that say be afraid are constantly around us and it can lead to despair It can lead to hopelessness it can lead to discouragement It can lead to a retreat mentality

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And what it does is it stops the people that can make a difference from making a difference

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It’s really a question of whether we’re going to be led by fear or by faith

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or if I was more accurate fear or faith hope and love

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I think Christ would ask us do we have hope or faith for our future for the future of our culture for the future of the nation for the future of our relationships

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Because faith is what activates

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the grace of God in all that Christ has done in redemption

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and applies it to the situation or the relationships

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and brings forth healing and deliverance

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without his grace everything falls apart with his grace Everything can be changed and transformed and renewed

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We are creating the world that we live in

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We are creating a culture We are creating a future for our Children and our children’s Children

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And by not engaging by not participating by being silent by giving into hope by giving into discouragement We are handing this world over to darkness

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but we don’t have to

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because Jesus Christ came

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to bring life and healing and deliverance and salvation for all relationships

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at every level

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And that’s the good news of the gospel of the Kingdom of God And it is good news Indeed

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here is a scripture that challenges us

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when confronting some of these issues that we’re talking about Ephesians 2 11 through 13 Therefore remember that you were once gentiles in the flesh

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In other words

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another word for that today that would it’s not exactly but captures the idea You were once pagans

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and we were once pagans most of my ancestors and then the gospel of Jesus Christ came and changed that

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you were once gentiles on the flesh who are called on circumcision by what is called the circumcision made by the flesh by hands that at that time you were without Christ being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise

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having no hope and without God in the world

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But now in Jesus Christ you who were once far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ

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So the image of the picture here that I really wanted to draw out is that we were once foreigners and strangers to the covenant promises of God We were without God and without hope

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Because if we’re being honest everything in this world cries there is no hope

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Human beings have had to deal with the reality of sin and tyranny and oppression and darkness and things that are just broken

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Ever since the fall in humanity is known it’s not right but they have not ever found a way of salvation

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But God brought forth promises from the very fall of man in Genesis 3 15 right on through all of scripture There’s always been a people in the earth that were heirs of a promise of redemption of deliverance of salvation of transformation that we are not without hope in the world

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Messiah will come Messiah will come and he will break the yokes of oppression He will set at liberty to the captives He will break every bondage and bring light and justice and truth and freedom and healing And the list goes on there is hope for the world through the promises of God

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But then that promise became flesh

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and dwelt among us

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and he died for our sins and he rose again and he is seated on the throne and he has sent his holy spirit to actually break the bonds

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of iniquity of sin of injustice of oppression of everything that’s wrong in the world

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the blood of Jesus Christ

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has broken all the power of sin and death

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and that’s the truth It’s exciting isn’t it

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Having hope

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in some of the scriptures that I’ll share with that I’m planning on sharing with us this morning I believe will set could set the world on a trajectory for a better future

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for a better reality

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Because when people don’t have hope and don’t have the promises of God then by default they defer from engaging And when we do not engage we hand things over by default and it’s time to quit handing things over by default

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right

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But before I get into all of those scriptures there’s a few things that I would just kind of want to lay the foundation with first landmines

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I was talking with somebody last week and trying to explain to them because they knew that there were land mines in their marriage

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and I found them right after they blew up one

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right

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And I said here’s the thing

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when the land mine is going off it’s not the time to deal with it right It’s the time to not fall into the trap of landing into the next one and then the next one and having it be like the fourth of July Boo boo

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boo boo boo boo It’s like having a living room full of land mines right And you all know that they’re there

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But hey you know when the land mines aren’t going off everything is good So we’re just like we don’t actually do the work necessary to dig them up and get rid of them

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You see what I mean It’s during the times of peace that we want to get rid of those land mines Once the land mines start blowing up that’s the wrong time to try to dig them out because you’re going boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo and everything is getting worse

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And it’s actually really encouraging to also know that hey by the way we’ve been sealed by the Holy Spirit and we are not yet perfect So don’t be surprised when we step on land mines from time to time right It’s ok I think I said to that person listen if people are being honest we all fall on land mines at many in various times in our life and there’s nothing to be I mean

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it’s just the way it is but God’s grace is sufficient there’s forgiveness there’s mercy there’s grace there’s hope

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It doesn’t mean it has to be the end of everything right But it’s the same thing in our culture There are land mines everywhere and we all know it But if we don’t do the work to dig them up

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then eventually we’ll start going boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boom Right

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And we dig up those land mice by going and making disciples

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That’s it How do you get rid of the land mines go and make disciples

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because the people who love God and love one another who forgive who show mercy who show grace

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the land mines get diffused

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it beats the swords into plow shares

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It causes those who walk in anger and hatred and frustration to show mercy and grace and compassion and love And when they mess up to repent

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and to seek reconciliation

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right

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Number two the importance of world view And a lot of times people say we hate these words we’re tired of hearing them but you know what they are really important And I believe that the Lord is actually doing a work in our generation with the whole idea of world view

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And one of the major problems is that the world is listening to all the wrong stories

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and therefore it has developed all the wrong values

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stories It sounds interesting when I put it that way I hope But it’s like when Homer was the primary story that people read it created a certain culture right Does that make sense

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And so the stories that we read and the stories that we feed on are the stories that shape our value and explain how we see reality and what we expect for the future and the world we think is worth building It tells us who we are and where we came from and where we’re going Does that make sense

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And so a lot of these problems that I just discussed came from people telling the wrong stories They were telling stories where they reduce things to a form of indoctrination

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to sow bitterness anger resentment in people

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to divide and conquer and to destroy us But really the root of it wasn’t people didn’t wake up one day and just said I think I’m going to hate my brother

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I think I’m going to just be mean and angry and want to see their destruction No it begins begins by focusing on

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true things sometimes

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in a fashion that is unhealthy

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Does that make sense There’s no human being that you cannot find fault with them

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And if all you do is find all the faults with them and that’s all you see your relationship is going to be destroyed

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Does that make sense There’s no organization there’s no community If you start to become a fault finder you are joining the ministry of accusation the ministry of the devil

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and he’s the one who’s behind this And and and so when you know the kind of world through scripture that God wants to bring then you can evaluate or discern

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the values or the spirit of what is being sown Will it create something that glorifies God Or is it going to create something that reflects health

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Is it going to create a world that reflects heaven or is it going to create a world that reflects hell And when you are sowing bitterness anger frustration resentment in people you’re creating a world that reflects he

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But then when we go and feed on all these stories of what people are saying and doing and where they’re coming from and we become angry and bitter and frustrated and saying they’re ruining our world Then we become just as much a part of the problem

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We need to have that discernment to

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understand

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we can use the truth There’s that agenda there’s that agenda there’s those people that are teaching that white genocide is something even worthy pursuing Oh my God you see how you could easily if you don’t keep yourself in the love of God become just as much a part of the problem

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of creating a world contrary to the world

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that is possible through Jesus Christ

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challenging stuff isn’t it And I know a lot of well meaning Christians have fallen into that land mine

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if we’re being honest because they’ve fed on all the kind of stories

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that

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create that kind of resentment in them and frustration in them

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We’ve listened to all the wrong stories

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and we need to get back to the story of the Lord

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because it’s the right stories that will drive the world we create and leave for our Children and future generations

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And in light of some of these things I’m saying I just couldn’t help but throwing Romans 12 21 in there we need to also remember do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good

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because that’s really what we’re talking about isn’t it We’ve got to overcome evil with good

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Now scriptures are the source of the stories that create a better world because they not only tell the story but they bring empowerment

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to change the world

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Scripture is feeding on scripture

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makes us partners with God in the drama of redemption

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Think about it

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We we feed ourselves on his story

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and then we start to find ourselves in his story

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right

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And really that really comes into history too doesn’t it I mean

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when there was an intentional agenda to destroy western civilization

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two of the places in academia that they went after is the history department and the literature department

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Why Because they are the stories that shape how we see the world our world view They tell us who we are and where we came from And if we can make the story if we can tell stories that make you ashamed of who we are where we where we came from then you feel the only form of atonement is to die

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I mean it really is a world of guilt

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because a world without the atonement is doomed to destruction

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But thank God that Christ has died Christ has risen and Christ will come again Thank God that there is forgiveness that that blood that was shed at the cross speaks a better word than the blood of Abel I I was just praying it this morning before church I said there is a voice that cries out from that shed blood of Jesus

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Christ that is heard louder than all the voice of the devil and all the voice of the news and all the voice of sin and all the sound of evil in the earth There’s a voice that’s crying out in heaven from that shed blood of Calvary that says father forgive them

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for they know not what they do

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It’s the most beautiful sound I think in heaven is that voice that Saint Stephen was was privileged to be able to give his voice to that Many of the believers throughout the ages have followed in the same footsteps and said Father forgive them for they know not what they do for There is the Father’s heart there is the love of God There is a cry that says oh God have mercy on a generation that is being led like sheep to a slaughter

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It’s not just a story

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it’s true

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and it’s real and there is power to heal and to deliver and to set free And there is hope

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through faith in Jesus Christ

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to create a better world

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Mhm

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So stories I love stories and and and really the whole idea is to let these stories so permeate our perspective

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that it gives us boldness and faith and hope in the world in a world that so desperately needs it

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after these things The lord appointed 70 others also and he sent them two by two before his face into every city and place that he himself was about to go I love this Jesus was planning to go to these cities and he sent out 70 disciples out before him to start sowing into the communities

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Messiah is coming Jesus is coming and he has power to heal and he has power to set free and he has power to deliver and he has words of life

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and he said just and and if that’s not enough I give you power go and heal He actually gives them commandments but we’ll read there But

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what a privilege

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that we as disciples have because that is what this is It wasn’t that 70

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It’s all of us are being called to go prepare the way of the Lord to prepare the people for an encounter with Jesus

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And the keyword that I wanted to draw out is go

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because if they don’t go

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by default

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we handed over

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He said whatever city you enter and they receive you eat such things as they set before you In other words have fellowship with them Don’t say if you’re a Jew oh my gosh they’re serving a bacon cheeseburger

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You can eat the bacon

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Do you understand what I’m saying Because the eating was a sign of fellowship and relationship and connecting Don’t turn your nose out about them and say look it’s not good I don’t even want to see you

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We don’t want to hang out with the Samaritans We don’t want to hang out with these people We don’t like you No he says go and eat whatever they put in front of you have fellowship build relationship connect with them and not only that but heal the sick

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Jonah heal the sick No destroy the city God No heal the sick

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and say to them the Kingdom of God is at hand The Kingdom of God is here The Kingdom of God is near you

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to share the exciting news that the Kingdom of God is at hand

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in whatever city you enter and they do not receive you go out into its streets and say the very dust of your city which clings to us we wipe off against you

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That seems a little harsh doesn’t it But it doesn’t because it’s a testimony and I’ll talk about it a little bit

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nevertheless know this that the Kingdom of God has come near you But I say to you that it will be more tolerable in that day for sodom than for that city

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Wow Right But because what we’re really seeing is that God did not send his son into the world to bring condemnation but that through Him they might be saved the whole world is already condemned It’s a dilapidated building that’s falling apart and people are suffering

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and it it’s decaying even more and more and more and without a power that can stop and change the trajectory it will become darker and darker and darker and more evil

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Does that make sense

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And so what the disciples are doing is they’re going in the city and saying the Kingdom of God is at hand Well where is it It’s in Jesus Christ becoming his disciple following him surrendering your life to him and letting his love and his grace transform you from the inside out

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And they said he says yeah no we won’t hear you He said go wipe the dust off that city off your feet as a testimony to them Why Because you’re telling them God wants to heal and set free and deliver you

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But your own sin is creating a world of hell and we’ve just given you the only way out

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Does that make sense

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You’re already self destructing you’re already stepping on land mine after land mine And every time you step on a land mine you plant 20 other ones

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Does that make sense And culture is degenerating to a point that God will eventually bring judgment to clean it out

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not just in eternity but in real time in history That’s why America’s founding father said I tremble when I consider that God only judges nations in history

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right God brings there’s a point where God says I’ve given you enough time to repent I’ve given you enough witnesses I’ve shown you that you you were self destructing in a condemned building through sin And I’ve shown you the only way out is through surrendering your life to Jesus Christ and you didn’t do it And now you’re becoming more and more self destructive for one another

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Evil tyrannical oppressive mean nasty whatever you want to say because we get all bent out of shape about the words But the reality is sin causes people to act in ways towards one another that makes life hell on earth

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And there’s a point where God says ok it’s gotten too dark I’ve got to clean it out

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And that’s why you do that as a testimony because he’s shown you the way out He’s given you the way out But if you reject it

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you’re self destructing

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you self destructing

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And then so after Jesus sends them out here’s what happens Then the 70 returned with joy saying Lord even the demons are subject to us in your name They’re like holy moly We’re literally casting out demons and it was awesome That’s what it says They came back with joy Amazed that wow we were casting out devils And he said to them I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven

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Behold I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all of the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you

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nevertheless do not rejoice in this that the spirits are subject to you

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but rather rejoice that your names are written in heaven

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I mean I really think human beings are so fun and hilarious

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I mean I get it 100% how cool we went out like you said Jesus And it didn’t even talk about healing the sick It said we were casting out devils and even the devils were subject to us in your name

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But you’re missing the point

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The point is these people were oppressed and you were setting them free and showing them the love of God and the salvation that there is in Jesus Christ See the difference But I get it because it’s fun right When God uses you to heal a person it’s easy to go Wow that was really cool God could you do that again Matter of fact could I do that every day of my life

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God says no no I know how to make it just perfect for building your character and holiness as well as I don’t want to let you puff up too big with pride right You know I mean I’m just joking and being silly But one of the

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things that I love about this passage is when these disciples went I give you authority go there’s authority to go into the world authority to go into the cities There’s authority to heal there’s authority to break every yoke of the devil

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That authority is ours in Jesus Christ If we dare to believe it and act on it and go

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But then he says I saw Satan fall like lightning

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That imagery is so interesting because Satan never ruled over heaven

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He fell from his throne over earth

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his authority over earth was being broken through Jesus Christ

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to see the see see what this is significant We’ll bring it out later But it it really is an important point to bring out Satan

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will fall like lightning when the church goes in the power of the Holy ghost

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and make disciples

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And therefore the gospel is what has the power to change the trajectory of the world If I give you the commandment create a better world Great Yeah let’s create a better world So you know I’ve heard many Christians come and tell me they’re sick of going to churches that say I’m living my best life now

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I’m so tired of hearing live your best life now And so one said you said say create a better world can sound like another one of those live your best life now No create a better world We can create a world that reflects heaven rather than hell How through the gospel of Jesus Christ Without that second part we have no answer

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We have groundless hope

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Matthew 28 18 to 20 And Jesus came and spoke to them just like we had just heard of the 70 All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth

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there’s all authority not some authority Jesus is not lord of the church and not lord of government and lord of community and and main street and Wall Street He’s lord over all

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he all authority in heaven and earth has been given to him Now go and manifest it in the flesh Go I am calling you to take this little mustard seed and cause it to transform the whole earth

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because he’s chosen to use us to that end Isn’t that awesome

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Go there And this is his answer how you do it

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all authority in heaven and earth is mine Now go and make heaven and earth reflect each other rather than hell on earth reflect each other How make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the father son and the Holy Spirit teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you

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all that he has commanded us because he is Lord and behold I am with you always even to the end of the age

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Is this exciting

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Teach them to observe all that I’ve commanded you and heaven and earth will reflect each other when we step outside of the way he designed things to be When we step out of the things that plug us into the power of his grace

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we fail miserably

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But when we plug into his grace that’s the best way to describe it his grace his presence his holy spirit then we find power to forgive one another To love one another to show mercy for one another We find hope and it just changes everything That’s why that little word in there behold I am with you always

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is so important because it’s only through a real relationship with Jesus Christ

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and being filled with the Holy Spirit that we can have this hope of going into the world and making disciples You want to create a better world make disciples and I’ll give you another important element

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We will not overcome

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the gates of hell

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until we build the church

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Jesus said upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it

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So if people really want to understand how do we create a better world how do we give an inheritance to our Children We do it by making disciples and disciples live in the church of Jesus Christ by building up the church of Jesus Christ So much of Christianity has lost that key element that it’s like I’m going to go out and get people to say a sinner’s prayer or say that they believe in Jesus No he’s called us to become disciples lifelong followers of Jesus Christ

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wanting to become like him wanting to know him more wanting to

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just love each other more And that context is the church If we don’t intentionally rebuild the value of church in society

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then he wins

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There is no hope we can’t create a better world revive the church and transform the world

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We we we always talk about how is your personal relationship with Jesus If he instituted his church we’ve got to be connected to his church The church is his bride the church is his body We need to once again build up the value of the church So many people in America today are are broken hearted over how far away we’ve gotten from our founding fathers and our founding fathers were just the fruit of 200 years of the Puritan tradition in America

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and a greater Western tradition that went back to that day at Calvary when Jesus breathed his last and said it is finished and the gospel started to transform the whole world The only reason why there was any light in liberty in this nation or Alexis de to came here and said that America is exceptional because of the impact of the gospel is because they valued Christian community a K A church

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And that’s why there’s so much of a battle against church today I’m not religious I’m not religious It’s about a relationship Fine You want to use those words fine but a relationship with Jesus Christ outside of his brighter body

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I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it Hey the Nazis are coming I’m going out with my rifle And what army

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the church militant will become the church triumphant not the believer militant I shouldn’t use that word with being recorded because people don’t understand the heritage We don’t mean militant in the sense of like let’s take up arms We meet oh God God have mercy and all the Christians that have gone down that foolish path The church militant is father forgive them for they know not

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what they do The world can’t handle that radical forgiveness The world can’t handle that radical grace The world can’t handle that radical faith that love that self sacrifice that he is greatest and his least and servant of all that no greater love is than this That a man shall lay down his life or his friends I mean when the when the

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great beast of Rome tried to snuff out the church of Jesus Christ and persecuted it relentlessly All the church did was grow

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because people saw God is with them There’s a grace in them

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that I see something beautiful I see something wonderful And sometimes in those very moments the very executioners gave their lives to Jesus Christ and died as martyrs on the very spot because they saw the grace and the love They saw a better world and a better life They saw Jesus

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church militant There is our battle forgive

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We are sent with authority and we need to understand that authority

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Ephesians two through four

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says this but God who is rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us Even when we were dead and trespasses made us alive together with Christ by grace you have grace you have been saved and he raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Jesus Christ

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That passage says that we are seated with Christ in heavenly places

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He seated on his throne So where has he seated us in a position of authority

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I’m sure this is something that’s an interesting thought

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The devil operates

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by sowing fear and usurping our authority

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Adam and Eve God is trying to withhold something from you Here

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The rabbis understood the fall of man as an inversion of creation a whole overturning of authority from God man creation

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to creation Man God

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does that make sense We hear people talk about that Adam handed over Dominion of the earth to the devil How did the devil become king The devil showed Jesus all the kingdoms of this earth and said all these are mine

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Well how did he get them Because they were first given to man man gave over his authority to the devil Jesus Christ became a man and took that authority back

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descended into heaven sat down on the throne

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and now we’re seated with him in heavenly places He’s restored man true humanity

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So the devil knows this So what does he want you to do He wants to usurp authority by having us believe a lie

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There is no hope for the future

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There’s no hope for this generation There’s no hope for your marriage There’s no hope for your life

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What you’re actually doing once you believe those lies is you’re activating your faith towards his usurped agenda

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See that

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by believing that there is no hope for the future by believing

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in the inevitability

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of everything falling we are activating our faith towards the devil’s end

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That’s because he knows that he knows what Christ has done and he knows that we as believers have been seated with him in heavenly places So the church needs to repent of hopelessness and discouragement

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even fear to fear to even talk about these things fear of death fear of what people will say of

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sticking our head in the sand

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There’s nothing that we need to be afraid of but we have to believe and proclaim there is a full salvation in Jesus Christ for every human being for every family and up to the very generation itself

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And we need to awaken that faith Jesus When he walked on the earth he had power to heal but only those who believed received it They had to agree with him

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for it to become manifested

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And we need to agree with him as well for it to be manifested today But when we don’t believe there’s any hope when we believe in the impossibility we stop all of the going

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Does that make sense

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We are called to you know I’m going to skip this No I am going to read this one I’m going to skip a couple of others for time but we’ll get to them later because they’re very essential But John 15 16 through 17 you did not choose me but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit I wanted to point out that word go is in the middle of this We bear fruit as we go we don’t bear fruit as we sit around and do nothing

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The more your eyes open up to see these things We need to go and proclaim the kingdom of God We need to go and make disciples We need to go and storm the gates of hell We bear fruit in the going I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should

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remain in whatever you ask the father in my name he will give you We do the asking because we don’t just go in our own strength We ask God because prayer makes that going empowered by the Holy Spirit and the word of God to go and make a difference And these things I command you that you love one another

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So it’s it’s go ask it’s not ask go it’s go and ask as you’re going because as you engage in the mission that God has given us that’s when we start to get a burden we really start to pray and it’s not just ritual formal prayers It’s a desperate need for God to show up because we’re going and doing what he’s called us to do Does that make sense

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And then ask But then love Because if we ever forget that the point is to see the love of God and because that’s all the law is to see love Rule love reign What is that His law his ways Him

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If we forget that love is the aim we have lost it all Does that make sense

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And then OK um skip it

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trying Now

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I’m excited because some of these good things I wanted to read Charles Hodge but we’re going to skip that in some other first time But we’re going to just talk about a church of disciples making disciples That’s what we need to be We had a nice talk about this at our life group didn’t we

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It’s about making disciples A lot of times people we get ideas in our head that strip us from having fruit So when we like even an idea like everybody has to feel really guilty for their sins and then realize they’re such a horrible wretched sinner so that they can repent This is the only way that somebody can become a disciple

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Then we hear people saying and I hear it all the time There’s no hope for America because there’s no more knowledge of right and wrong or of the 10 commandments And I said but

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Rome didn’t know the 10 commandments and missionaries throughout all the ages have gone into cannibalistic tribes or some of the most pagan areas They never even heard there was a 10 commandments They never had any of that but they were able to go because their focus wasn’t on they have to become a disciple this way it was I’m going to make disciples

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Then what happens is as you as you become a disciple you start to have the experiences of a normal disciple of God’s mercy of His grace his forgiveness He was forgiven much loves much But you don’t have to start there You start very simply I believe Jesus you are the Christ the son of the living God that you died for my sins and I commit my life to following you forever

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I’m a disciple

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go and make disciples Get that commitment to a life of being a disciple That’s how we go and change the world That’s how we create a better future And you don’t have to think when we limit the ways that that can happen

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we’re limiting God and we’re limiting our fruitfulness Does that make sense

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Um

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We need a I’d love to see a culture of love and growth here One of the reasons why I’ve enjoyed working at Christian schools is because there’s lots of people and lots of problems

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I love that

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because that’s the that’s the context that we become more like Jesus by forgiving each other showing grace for one another Figuring out how to bring reconciliation and restoration figuring out how to get ourselves back on track

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It’s it’s absolutely wonderful Instead of people like these things shouldn’t happen in a church or these things shouldn’t happen blah blah blah blah or Christians should never do this No it’s about getting people working together to follow Jesus

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We’re a bunch of people following Jesus and if that the greatest voice cried out father forgive them then what a privilege to be able to cry out with him father forgive them

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but they know not what they do

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You see what I’m saying And so one of the things I like the most is like when human community throws all the curveballs

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you know you can’t be a Christian and wear a mask You can’t be a Christian and not wear a mask Are we still going to be serving the Lord together and making disciples together when this is over Does that make sense I mean I mean a little tongue in cheek but the goal is if we major our minors we’re going to lose

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right But Christian community and the hilarity of Christian community are long for the day when we are so engaged in mission at Life Springs Church And there are so many things happening and there are so many people here that we actually have all kinds of human conflicts

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because if these human conflicts are the opportunity to become more like Jesus to love one another and forgive one another It’s easy to love somebody that I don’t have to live with

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It’s easy to love somebody when they’re far away or on the other side of the world it’s hard to love them when they I mean I literally have heard recently of somebody saying hey

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you hear my seat buddy move

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and I know it’s cliche but I heard of it actually happening recently and it made me laugh

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It’s wonderful It’s not wonderful but it is wonderful because the opportunity for grace to prevail and to show that we are Christians by our love

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because that’s the context for real transformation Christian community challenges us

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and it’s how we become more like Jesus a culture of grace and forgiveness grace and relationships because I really believe as the church goes So goes the world I mean you know like to love people

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that are broken because these people that I talked about at the beginning they’re broken

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and you know like you can say I love them when they’re not in my face

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But can I love them when they’re on my face

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Can I love them when they’re spitting on me and slapping me in the cheek and disrespecting us

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are actually harming us Can can we be committed to overcome all things Because we have this great cloud of witnesses that have went before us

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mean these are just challenging ideas right But how a church grows I just want I’m gonna wrap this up quickly The church grows when we go and invite people It’s that simple

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We go and make disciples We call we have to value Christian community value the church value the importance of it This is how we create a better world But we don’t we can’t let the fear of what the enemy is doing The sins doing be what motivates us It must be the broken heart of God the love of God for a fallen world that wants to heal and reconcile and wants the best for people

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wants the best for everyone wants Hitler to become saved Oh I’m at the Apostle Paul

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because he committed genocide

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Do you see what I’m saying God wants to forgive and heal and set free and deliver and he wants us to go and love as Christ has loved us and show the world his love

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It’s talking about an entrepreneur group as a part of you could write the best book in the world But if you don’t tell people that it has value nobody will ever read it

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You might have awesome Christians here have real authentic Christianity here But if we don’t go tell people what God is doing here in the value of this church it will never grow

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Pastor Mike called it this morning It’s the best kept secret

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Well that’s the problem It’s being kept a secret

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right Does that make sense

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Because this church is full of real Christians that love the Lord love Jesus Christ are committed to following him of authentic disciples

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But it will remain a secret unless we go and tell the story

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We need to tell the story of Christ and of his kingdom and of his bride We need to tell the story

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of the importance of the church of Jesus Christ as a pillar and institution in the world Today we need to tell the story of life Church

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We need to go

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we need to create a better world for our Children and future

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generations

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by building up the church

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bringing people to Christ by making disciples

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But I will leave you with one last idea

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The title of the message was create a better world

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I hope that we show that we create a better world by making disciples

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believe that we see that making disciples is building up the church and not just generally our church specifically

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but the last question or the last thing that I want to just implant in our soul forever

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is can the trajectory of this nation be changed

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Can the trajectory of this generation be changed Can the trajectory of the whole world be changed

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It already was

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Jesus when he died

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and shed his blood

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and credit is finished

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He changed the whole trajectory of planet earth forever

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Jesus Christ changed the whole trajectory of history forever The history of the world was a condemned building decrane decaying

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and falling apart and looking more and more like hell on earth

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There were promises of a day coming when that trajectory would be turned around

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and then we heard it was finished

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and resurrection life started to happen

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Been available ever since the weight of the holy of holy has been available his grace his power his redemption his salvation has always been available if we will

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and receive it

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But the trajectory has been turned forever as promised

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towards heaven and earth shall be one

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The wedding feast of the lamb will come

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all sorrow all suffering all pain everything of darkness all the power sin and death overcome

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the trajectory has already been changed

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What we need to do is figure out how to get our generation to be a generation that seeks the Lord

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Amen