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Let’s just tune our hearts to the word this morning as Pastor Bill comes and leads us Amen

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Well I didn’t think this one through very good because the ushers are still busy and won’t be back for a little while But I just want to take some time to just thank everybody who has been part of the relaunch team Really thank Mel for heading it up and he is the official welcome team coordinator

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I also wanted to honor Dwayne but he’s actually busy serving because Dwayne has stepped up and he’s going to be in charge of the ushers It’s really yeah definitely

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you know appreciation and thank him when you see him

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it really is exciting and we’ll talk about it towards the end of the message But it is exciting to see what God is doing here and it is really important

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because it’s actually turning a major corner and I can see that the Lord is about to move powerfully So it’s just a wonderful thing

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Let’s begin with prayer Lord We just there’s no way we can appreciate you enough There’s no way we can thank you enough and there’s no way we can say how grateful we are for your presence and for your grace Lord you gave your life for us and we just want our lives to be a living sacrifice to you We just invite you Jesus to come and rule and reign over us in your name We pray

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Amen

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The title of today’s message is restoring the ruins of society

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I want to begin by bringing a mention of something that was in CS Lewis’s space trilogy And it actually really just has to do with the title of the first book out of The Silent Planet

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That’s such an interesting title Isn’t it Out Of The Silent Planet

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What does that even mean

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And uh OK I will admit it was a long time ago since I’ve read it like many decades ago So I I believe I’m gonna be getting it correct because it burned a memory inside of me

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that has never left

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And it’s amazing because you know as a preacher you think well what do you say that will be remembered Well there was an imagery there that was remembered because it was so interesting

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and so surprising that it stuck with me and that imagery was an astronaut was being sent out into space and the his whole life he kind of had this picture that space is this emptiness that space is just darkness that space is just dead

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But when he got into space all of a sudden he found it was more things were more alive than he ever experienced ever in life He experienced this incredible vibrancy of life as soon as he left planet Earth and as kind of the story unfolds he gets this picture that is called The Silent Planet because all of creation is caught up in a song of praise and worship to King Jesus

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But the ruler of planet Earth had fallen out

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from that divine song

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of praise and worship

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Isn’t that an incredible image

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And the goal of redemption is to bring it back into that divine song

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rebuilding the ruins of society

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I chose that term on purpose And for many Christians it sounds almost like you’re focusing on the wrong things

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because a lot of what we have been trained to believe as Christians is that the whole purpose is to get people to heaven when they die

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It’s not about reconciling all things to the father

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right It’s not about redeeming all things and proclaiming the lordship of Jesus over all that everything would come into that divine song into that divine pattern of life giving praise to Jesus Christ

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society

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And even that word for many people has become almost like a tainted word

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but society simply means community in a way it means relationships There is a there is a divine society in eternity before creation was

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that was a mouthful right

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But some of these images and truths of scripture are so amazing When we say that God’s primary characteristic is love not like the world defines it but as God’s word defines it love cannot be self centered

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There has to always be an object of love

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And so in God himself there is a community there’s a society

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and that’s all it’s about It’s restored relationships according to the way God designed things to be

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restoring the ruins of society

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But I thought it would be worth thinking about this a little bit because God so loved us when he created us He was so excited about creating us We were not just an afterthought We were not a cosmic accident We were not just arbitrary product of chance but God in his incredible love That is his very character and nature Out of that overflow is creativity

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the image of God imagination and creation creativity

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And he wants to out of the abundance of His goodness and being He wants to create and he created man

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and put them in the garden of paradise

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And he gave us a world that was good Behold it is good

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and it is perfect

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but he didn’t create us robots

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and man fell and the world fell into darkness

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The man saw that he was that he had sinned and he was naked and ashamed and he hid from God

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They used to have fellowship and communion They used to walk with God and know God But now they were hiding from him and he had to go and seek them out Adam where are you

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The fall What was lost The world is broken It’s in ruins

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Well how do you what do you mean It’s in ruins It’s not that bad No there’s still a shadow

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of that memory

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before the fall

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That image of God still cannot be crushed quenched

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But it’s still just a shadow

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of the glorious finality of redemption That’s in Jesus Christ

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But God promised

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from the very moment of the fall I will restore the ruins of society I will restore the ruins of humanity I will bring you home I will come after you I will seek you out and I will bring you home I will not let my purposes for your life be frustrated I will not let what I created you for be frustrated

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But when he saw that there was no man

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there was no one that could bring us home He became a man

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and died for our sins

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and reconciled us to the father

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so that we could come home

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There’s really two sides When we study scripture

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the fall in redemption

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in a sense I mean I’m making it very simplistic there’s redemption or restoration

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and we need to focus on both But I also wanted to take us down to the flood for a moment because I want to go back and revisit what I read a week ago

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But sin has such a corrupting power

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that it destroys everything

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The ruins of society can all be traced back to sin

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Sin is dangerous Sin is destructive sin ruins relationships It ruins everything It’s not something to be played with It’s not something to be indulged in It is deadly It’s absolutely deadly

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and it causes pain and it causes sorrow and it causes suffering and it causes misery

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And the world had gotten so bad that the that God washed the world clean again

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because that’s what judgment is People are always like judgment judgment What is it washing the world clean again

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You know they talked today about the great reset Well if God was to give us a great reset it would wash the world clean again

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That’s pretty exciting isn’t it

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It could be scary But it’s also exciting because there’s two ways

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there’s two ways we can see the difference between Herod and saul

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the same spirit the same presence He said I destroyed the world once with water Next time Next time I’m going to destroy the wicked world with fire

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And in one sense the Holy Spirit is the fire from heaven that is destroying the wicked world through the gospel of Jesus Christ And the best way to cleanse this world of unrighteousness to cleanse this world of evil The best way to cleanse this world of sin is through repentance and faith and through the baptism of the Holy Spirit

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I love interactive preaching That was all the response to hearing things from the congregation praise the Lord

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A lot of times people look so much at the things of darkness and the things of failure and the things of sin in the world Does that make sense

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We do it today

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we tune into the news We look at what’s happening in society and it’s easy to take your eyes off of reality

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Even when

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the world had fallen into darkness and God had to cleanse it with water

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He was always at work

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There was never and there never will be a time where God is not at work restoring all things until it is complete

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And so there was this faith in the promise that I will bring you home that was carried down through the line of Seth

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And that was a line that brought forth Noah eventually brought forth Abraham and brought forth eventually Jesus Christ

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isn’t that awesome

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So no matter how dark it is no matter how bad things look it’s not that bad right now in America than it has been in other places in history throughout the world

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I’m not justifying our sin It’s bad in the sense The worst part in America is not how bad our sin stinks The worst part in America is how

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poor a lot of our Christianity is

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Does that make sense Your sin has never changed The devil has never changed The world has never changed and Jesus is triumphant over it

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And the church in power with the holy ghost storms the gates of hell and prevails

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So Lord bring revival bring revival in your church Lord God send holy ghost fire and start with me bring transformation and start with me Lord God restore the inheritance of the saints restore the inheritance of the church Start with me Lord start with us Lord God Lord we want more of you We need more of you Lord God we are going to be bold and love you and worship you and let your love so possess our hearts Lord God that we would just

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shine like a light in the darkness and many would see

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He is good

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and we can surrender our lives to him

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So continuing from last week I’m going to read rabbi sacks again because it really that message is so important for the time that we’re living in because people often focus on the darkness and they think God’s going to send his judgment and we just need to get far away from Him when what we need to do is get back to the gospel mandate

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restoring the ruins of society through the gospel of Jesus Christ That’s how it happens The only thing that has powerful is powerful enough to deal with the problems facing the world today is Jesus Christ through the Gospel through faith in Him through repentance and faith and the power of the holy ghost

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Rabbi Sacks wrote an example from Noah Abraham God does not deal despotically with his creatures If he sought no more than mindless submission to the divine will he would have created robots machines or genetically programmed people who responded automatically

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commands as dogs to Pavlov’s Bell God wants us to be mature deliberative to do his will because we understand or because we trust him when we do not understand he seeks from us something other and greater than obedience

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namely responsibility Noah’s end drunk disheveled an embarrassment to his Children eloquently tells us that if you save yourself while doing nothing to save the world you do not even save yourself When it comes to rebuilding the ruins of catastrophe you do not wait for permission You take the risk and walk ahead Faith is more than obedience It is the courage to create

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I thought that was worth reading again because that image is such an important image that we need to get into our hearts And I really love how that image came about because the rabbis were deeply disturbed about Noah Noah was obedient Noah obeyed everything God said But look at his end and and and they asked the right questions of scripture because that’s what we’re supposed to do when we read scripture where it’s meant to to teach us how to walk with God

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It’s meant to be for our instruction giving us reproof and inspiration to give us a guide for our lives And so they’re reading through that story of Noah and Noah is this great looming hero of faith That is the only one who has saved out of a wicked world He’s righteous He is a hero of faith and no one will ever rob him of that

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But his end was not that good was it

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It’s almost like his whole world was wrapped up in just obeying God and being delivered from an evil world But once he was delivered from the evil world he didn’t know where to go from there

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My whole purpose in life I don’t know what to do anymore I was excited to be delivered from the world of darkness but I never got that responsibility that creativity that passion to go and rebuild to remember what it was like back in the garden to remember when it was no longer a silent planet to bring the world back into that song of pray

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praise and worship to Jesus Christ Where is the passion for that Where is the creativity for that Where is the responsibility for that Where is the courage Where is the boldness to to go And with boldness we are going to bring things as ministers of reconciliation

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reconciled to that divine song

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through the gospel of Jesus Christ through that blood that was shed It’s not us that does it but Christ in us but he is in us He is among us He’s working through us and we are able and capable to go

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He said go and make disciples go The gates of hell will not prevail

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You have been received power from on high

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But like the slaves in Egypt

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they did not realize who they were

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They didn’t realize what they possess And it’s so hard for us so many times to realize who we are and what we possess because we know that we are just jars of clay We know our weaknesses We know our failures We know our mistakes We know how far short we fall of the glory of God sometimes

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But then

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we remember it is written

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it is written you’re a new creation The old is gone and the new has come And we remember that Christ died for us and he is worthy to be proclaimed He is worthy to be followed He is worthy to be lived for He is worthy of our lives

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taking responsibility

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to restore the ruins of society It is such an honor and a privilege that we get time on this earth to be part of that work of God

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in history

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that we we get to play a role that we get to play a part in rebuilding or restoring the ruins of society through the gospel of Jesus Christ

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I see Chuck reading the Bible

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and now I see him smiling at me

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And the other day yesterday we were getting ready for the relaunch and I think it was Chuck that told me the story about the rabbi Right

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Yes And he can’t remember where it came from Maybe Alan maybe Mel maybe something he watched on a podcast That’s how things are But he was talking about a rabbi that got so into God’s word reading God’s Word and just he wandered up to a Roman garrison and when he got there the soldier was like what are you doing I think it was a Centurion but it doesn’t matter It could be you know that phone game where it keeps changing every time it’s told But the idea is is correct What are you doing

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He said who are you And why are you here

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And the and the rabbi looks up at him and he says how much do you make

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That’s a weird question But I make it Dana a day I’ll pay you twice that if you come to my house every morning and ask me the same questions

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And then we were kind of joking Probably this is what I love about humor Like yeah could you that those questions really are so important How would visitors feel if the first thing we asked them when we came in our door Who are you And why are you here Ok Maybe that’s the wrong interpretation of that right

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But that is actually a great question Who are you And why are you here I’m a child of God redeemed by the blood of Jesus And why are you here as an ambassador of Jesus Christ engaging in the Ministry of Reconciliation There’s nothing more important in our lives than that period

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And apart from that who are we

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And why are we here

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So this idea of rebuilding the ruins of society Nehemiah I couldn’t stop I had to think about Nehemiah Nehemiah you know he was a cup bearer to the king He had such a good position in society right up there at the very top level of society I mean even when he went to Judea he could have taken the governor’s provisions but he didn’t I mean he was a successful influential comfortable person

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But then he heard a report about how things were in Israel and everything changed

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The words of Nehemiah It came to pass in the month of Chile in the 20th year as I was in Susan the citadel that Han and I one of my brethren came with men from Judah And I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped who had survived the captivity and concerning Jerusalem

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And they said to me the survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach The wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates are burned with fire So it was when I heard these words that I sat down and wept and mourned for many days and I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven

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I love that Nehemiah did not allow himself to be comfortable in his own station in life because God blesses his people abundantly And it’s easy to just be comfortable in that And and so it was a good thing that he was blessed in that way Do you understand what I’m saying But at the same time he kept his heart soft to God

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He cared about the things of the kingdom He cared about the glory and honor of Christ He cared about the world so much that when he heard the state of the captives in Jerusalem and of the wall

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and even of the temple because that was still part of it If it wasn’t mentioned it was in ruins He wept and he mourned and he fasted

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But so many people today when they look at the ruins of society

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they weep and they mourn and maybe even fast because fasting really was just a form of mourning But you’re so much you’re so miserable You can’t eat food

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But he wasn’t just weeping and mourning and fasting that in itself wouldn’t have cut it He

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mourn to let his heart feel deeply about the plight of humanity and the cause of God on the earth and the cause of suffering in the earth that the light is being turned out

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But he also started praying and fasting because he had an idea

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because we see it in the story His idea is I’m going to go to the to our deer and I’m going to ask for permission to go back and rebuild

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And even before he went in he said he prayed to the God of heaven give me favor with our desert And if you have eyes to see

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the audacity

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of one man who dares to believe

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he was in one sense he was just a man

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He hadn’t built out politically in that region

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He was a cup bearer to the king but he still wasn’t that he wasn’t a governor in a sense He hadn’t built up any political capital or military capital but he had kingdom capital because he was a man of prayer a man who took God’s calling and purpose seriously

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And so this man by himself actually dares to dream that he could go back and rebuild that he could go back and restore Think about the audacity of this man

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This was not calculated by any human calculation It was calculated by a heart on fire and a bold faith in the power of God

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And then God gave him a strategy and he went and we just see him go and do the work and we see the troubles and the trials and the battles and the spiritual warfare the whole time And we see God leading him and guiding him that whole time because he would not let go of that calling

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and he persevered in faith

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Isn’t that awesome And he changed the world the world looked different after Nehemiah showed up in Jerusalem

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and everybody could see the Lord did it

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We have to understand that God can do that through any one of us

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if we dare to let our hearts feel deeply the things of the kingdom like Nehemiah did and we dare to awaken faith and look to him and he gives us strategy and he gives us favor Any one of us could tap into that same grace or even greater grace because Christ has risen

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We just have to dare to believe and wake up out of our slumber and our sleep and our apathy Nehemiah could have been like many of most Christians I believe are like who am I And what can I do

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They can’t ask answer that question Who am I Why am I here

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Who am I I am a child of the most high God whose prayers are being answered and why am I here I’m going to go rebuild the wall

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I’m going to go and make a difference I’m going to make an impact There were heroes of faith there were giants in the land there were people who did exploits It’s the fight of faith

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and what we’re talking about here

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restoring the ruins of society a while back we were we were referring to it as the worldwide liberation movement

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because that’s what the gospel of Jesus Christ is It’s a worldwide liberation movement setting the world free from the power of sin and the devil from the power of darkness to the power of light

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And that’s what we are a part of In recent weeks we’ve been talking about the type of cursing the world needs

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and I’m still continuing that trajectory because the type of the Christians the world needs are the ones who will rebuild the ruins of society The ones who are able to bring the Silent Planet back into the Song of God

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And so today I just wanted to talk about the type of Christians the world needs are those that have found the treasure

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Matthew 13 44 Again the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field which a man found and hidden for joy over it He goes and sells all that he has and buys the field And again the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls who when he had found one pearl of great price he went and sold all that he had and bought it

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I really had this scripture in my heart because you know part of the relaunch is to see people come to Christ to come and visit our church But what do we want them What is the thing that we want the most for every person who comes

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we want them to find this treasure

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We want them to find this pearl of great price and for people to find that treasure and to find that pearl they need to see it in us

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When we’re really thinking about what do we want for our Children What do we want for our friends I want them to know him I want them to be born again and to know him and to walk with him because they’ve tasted and seen that the Lord is good

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There’s no there’s no treasure greater than in this world than knowing Christ Jesus

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Nothing He truly is the only one who can satisfy the deepest longings in our soul And without him we go It’s Vanity Christ the preacher vanity It’s a grasping after the wind

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And whenever we’re feeling discontent we are truly thirsting Once again when we are feeling empty and sorrowful and selfish and alone and abandoned what’s wrong is that we have started to look away

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But if we will come to him he will satisfy every human being where they are at He will satisfy you in the midst of every trial and tribulation that you will ever face He will satisfy you and just bring light and glory into every celebration

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and he’ll bring you comfort in every sorrow

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but he is good and he is real and we are called to know him

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not just know about him to taste and see And when a person finds that treasure hidden in a field they sell all

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What does it take to become a Christian I died to my old life I died to the things of this world I died to everything else in this world But we’ll get there because I really believe a lot of what we’re called to do is to paint pictures

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in different ways that spark our imagination so that our vision carries us down a road of following Jesus And we really we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses that can help us So I want to read some of the martyrdom of Poly Carp what a man looks like who has found that treasure

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three days before Poly Carp was arrested while he was praying he had a vision of the pillow under his head in flames

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He said prophetically to those who are with him I will be burnt to life

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The first thing he heard from God

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and this is the normal Christian life

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normal Christian life we pray because to say that we have a relationship but we never talk is not a very good relationship

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And so Christians throughout the ages have been people of prayer not like the pagans but a real relationship with their father in heaven

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And God actually talks back

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he actually talks to us his sheep hear his voice So while Paul and he can he can speak it many in various ways but he often speaks in visions and dreams And so Poly Carb had a vision and he knew what it meant I’m going to be burned alive

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which actually didn’t technically happen

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He did go into the fire but he didn’t burn alive But that’s well we may talk about that but

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basically he was there in the house for three days He could have escaped but he understood that God was calling him to this

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And so he didn’t escape And when they came to get him at the door when the soldiers came to get him he welcomed him in He asked that they put food in front of these soldiers when food was put in front of these soldiers And he said please could I have some time to pray and he prayed for two more hours and then he went with them and I believe that those soldiers even converted

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And then when he was on his way you know way there um you know as he got to some of the

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Romans they they were saying hey you know please consider your age consider what what is the real problem of just you know offering a little worship to Caesar and proclaiming Caesar as Lord

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Poly Carb wouldn’t do it

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But I love this as Poly Carp was coming to that point of laying down his life and says as Poly Carp was being taken into the arena

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a voice came to him from heaven The strong poly carbon play the man

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in that moment of need God was strengthening him

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I mean that’s what I’m saying This treasure hid in the field The beauty of this is so deep and that power that he needed strength that strength came

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the beauty of it It’s not the power of the human will It’s the power of a life that is walked with God and that knows Him

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It’s the grace and communion of his spirit

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No one saw who had spoken but our brothers who were there heard the voice When the crowd heard that Poly Carb had been captured there was an uproar

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The pre consul asked him whether he was Poly Carp and hearing that he was he tried to persuade him to apostate saying have respect for your old age swear by the fortune of Caesar swear urge the pre consul reproach Christ and I will set you free

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His response is so beautiful 86 years I have served him

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and he has done me no wrong How can I blaspheme my king and savior

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That’s a picture of somebody who has found that pearl of great price

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the beauty of it of a transformed life of having walked with God And we say Lord we want to be able to say 86 years have I walked with him And he has been nothing but good to me

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He is faithful

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He is wonderful

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and to live without knowing him is the worst life that you could live To live life without him is a life Walk in darkness

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But to walk with him is to walk in the light It’s not legalism it’s life

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it’s beauty It is grace it is a treasure it is glorious it is wonderful and it’s what our hearts should love that every person in this world should know it should break our heart with godly sorrow that people are walking in darkness you know will break our hearts that they’re going to hell No break our hearts that they don’t know Him

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break our hearts that they don’t know his goodness and his grace and his love and his presence and his forgiveness

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Paul talks about the treasure

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Philippians three

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but whatever was a profit to me I now consider loss for Christ

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What is more I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord

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there’s that treasure I count everything as a loss for knowing Christ Jesus not just knowing about Him I would trade everything in this world to know Him

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He goes on

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for whose sake I have lost all things I consider them rubbish that I may gain Christ and be found in Him not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law but that which is through faith in Christ the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith

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in this sentence I want to know Christ

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I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection

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and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings

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This is the heart of a man of God who has tasted and seen the Lord is good I want to know Him who are

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in the power of his resurrection hura

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and the fellowship of sharing and his suffering So wait a minute

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But this is a person that is God obsessed because he’s tasted and seen

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becoming like him in his death

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I want to become like him in his death

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OK Paul you lost me two clauses ago right

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And so somehow attained to the resurrection from the dead

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This is a God intoxicated man

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I mean there’s no other way to say it when he says that I count all things for as loss for the excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord

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And he said I would I would I would consider it my highest honor and privilege to share in the fellowship of his sufferings and to be conformed to his death

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We never hear that kind of Christianity do we

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But that’s

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the language of somebody who has really tasted and seen that the Lord is good This is not the zeal of human flesh this is not just human courage this is a person that has become so in love with what Christ has done for them

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That knows how much that they’ve been forgiven

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and has experienced the deepest communion with God

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that they could have such a bold perspective

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It’s pretty amazing isn’t it But that’s the possibilities of grace in our life

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And it’s possible for everyone

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There is no super Christian

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there is no super apostle The grace of God is not just for pastors and teachers and evangel and apostles The grace of God is available to all the power to be conformed into his image is available to all the calling to be conformed into his image is the destiny of us all

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That’s pretty awesome isn’t it

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It’s awesome

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Lord Let us be a people that taste

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and see that the Lord is good

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The type of church the world needs is a church that raises up Sons of God

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reproducing Jesus

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I thought since this is we’re celebrating we’re calling it a relaunch But really what it is is a reactivation

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It’s really exciting what God is doing here And so there’s for some years we’ve been talking about these things but they’re very much a part of the essence of what we are as a church and what we hope to accomplish and what we dream What is the dream Not just to get people into heaven when they die but to reproduce Sons of God on the earth

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to reproduce the life of Christ and one another to strengthen and build up the life of Christ The devil couldn’t handle Jesus one alone on this earth He could never he really could never handle the life of Christ being reproduced in multitudes

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That’s one of the goals Number two a the type of church the world needs a church church that runs from the work of the devil No that storms the gates of hell Yes

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The whole idea of the church is that we are to go and liberate the world We are part of the allied forces going and liberating the world from the power of the enemy And if the allied forces don’t go the people will stay in bondage they’ll stay in darkness And if we even just try to take that other approach that so many people are taking flee from it what will happen is it will grow

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We are we are abdicating and we are handing the world back to the devil

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When we fail to recognize we’ve been called to go

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to dare to believe like Nehemiah to take responsibility to be creative to be like David rather than the army of Saul Before Goliath Come on I mean read the Bible It’s everywhere you can’t run from it

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We’re called to storm the gates of hell We’re called to bring the world into the obedience of the faith You see the more we limit the purpose of the gospel the more we have no ability to storm the gates of hell We believe it’s all about you Have you received Jesus as your personal Lord and savior Great Here’s your free ticket to heaven

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It’s about if if it’s about reproducing the life of Christ then the whole thing becomes something different doesn’t it

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If it’s also about bringing the world back into that song of the Lord that it’s no longer the Silent Planet bringing everything back into harmony with God bringing everything back into unity with God Reconciling all things to Father Then it has to do with every area of life on planet earth

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Now everybody’s calling and ministry becomes active Now everybody plays a role Now everybody knows how they can join the dance how they can join the song It’s pretty exciting But when we have a restricted view of what redemption and restoration is about then many people think well I’m not a

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or I’m not a preacher or I’m not an evangel So it doesn’t belong to me But when we when we actually see that we are all called to be conformed into his image We’re all called to reproduce Sons of God And we are all called to bring everything into the obedience of Christ And we’re called to do it all together as a team

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Now the church becomes something very different on the earth

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just by having those different ideas in our head It’s pretty cool isn’t it

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The type of church The world needs a church that is full of faith and the Holy Spirit So many people’s hearts are failing them because of fear So many are just like Saul’s army that I talked about in the face of Goliath It’s impossible It’s impossible It’s impossible We’re headed for hell It’s all going to hell in a hand basket But praise the Lord we’ll be out of here

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where we have other people But then you have a David come along and said it’s not that bad It’s just go liath his heads coming off full of faith full of faith and full of the Holy Spirit going And nobody told me that we could not win them to Christ Nobody told me we couldn’t storm the gates of hell Nobody told me that God could deliver through the hands of few rather than the hands of many

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I mean the things that God has wrought by faith you read them in scripture and you will find he has used the most unusual obscure impotent powerless written off

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people

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who is who is eligible to be used by God to turn the world upside down Any one of us

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any one of us can be knocking putting a 95 thesis on the church door in Wittenburg and a fire breaks out I mean it’s any one of us great revivals have broken out Whole nations have been transformed Whitefield Wesley Edwards Luther Calvin I mean the world can be turned upside down and suddenly

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I mean we’re not just talking about our own little families Yes What is it to the Lord to save a person or a family or a nation or the world

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What is impossible with God What are the limits on his power What are the limits of his strength What is the limits of the power that lives in us The spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead What limit do you think is on that grace and that power If we would have that kind of faith and be full of the Holy Spirit that’s the kind of church the world needs

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We need genuine life

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He says even if I give my body to be burned and I have not love it Profits mean nothing What I want all the gifts of the spirit We want to do mighty things for God Why Because we have to care Lord let your love be shed abroad into my heart Let me love like you love If I have not love it profits mean nothing Even if I give my body to be burned Lord let me love others as you have loved me let me forgive others as you have forgiven me

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make love Your aim

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can seek the spiritual gifts

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If you ever make love not your aim you already are missing the mark Does that make sense

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The type of church the world needs we want we want to raise people that are dependent on Jesus Christ who are mature and strong not dependent on us

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I believe God uses us He uses us to build people up He uses us to nurture babes in Christ but somebody should not be a babe in Christ after two years of being a Christian

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If people remain babes in Christ then there’s something wrong with us in a sense Do you see what I’m saying We’re not calling people to the genuine discipleship We are not giving them the good word of God We are somewhere something is broken If people remain immature in Christ if they have to depend on us forever then we’ve created dependency and they are easily knocked off by the enemy

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Does that make sense So we need to keep aiming for maturity and strength expecting people to be strong expecting them to be mighty in God expecting them to be successful in Jesus Christ to be full blown followers Isn’t that awesome

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Hm

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I want to say the relaunch is a major activation It’s not a small thing that has happened You know the Bible says don’t despise the days of small beginnings But what has happened is a bunch of people in our church have become active and rolled up their sleeves and said we’re going to build this church

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Isn’t that awesome

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And so what you’re going to see is continual changes constantly

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because people have become active participants rather than Spectators

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We’ve become a team

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working together

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to restore the ruins of society Isn’t that awesome We become a team committed to reconciling the nations into the obedience of Christ to bringing the Silent Planet back

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It’s awesome isn’t it It’s like Elijah when he saw the cloud on the horizon prepare for rain

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because as every member does their part It causes the growth of the body

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And so everybody doing a little God blesses it abundantly

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Isn’t that awesome

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You know what’s fun too When I was thinking about life Springs Church it’s the challenge of an independent church

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Many people go to church because they’ve come from generations of Baptists or Lutherans or Methodists or Catholics Right

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So you know why do you go to that church Well I come from a long line I was raised in the Baptist church I was raised in the Lutheran Church Well why do you go to Life Springs we don’t have any of that heritage

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to rely upon to depend upon

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So our identity has to be in something else It has to be in life in the spirit of God life in Jesus Christ committed to the kinds of things that I’m talking about And if we ever lose the genuineness of it then we cease to exist because we can’t depend upon

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another kind of system But we have to keep it genuine real authentic and alive in the spirit of God or we have no existence

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Isn’t that interesting

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The glory of an independent church We have to reply we have to rely on God and keep it the same thing Again we have to keep ourselves genuine and authentic and full of faith and full of the Holy Spirit and really make it all about people knowing Him and walking with him

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because that’s the heritage of this church It’s how it was born

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out of the Jesus movement in a sense from Buddy Hicks seeing God at work in this world people throwing out their drug paraphernalia the Jesus people real authenticity You know when he was ready to throw in the towel David Wilkerson says no God’s called you here

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You know God birthed it for a reason It has a purpose and as a calling it has a destiny God did not birth it or create it for no reason Just like every human being it’s not an accident

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But Lord our life and our life and our destiny is tied up in you and nowhere else and apart from you we die

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But with you we flourish

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Lord you have given us prophetic words and you have called us into being for a purpose Now Lord God caused those things to be manifested But Lord if love isn’t the aim if it’s not bringing people into a genuine relationship with you if they’re not growing mature if we’re not reproducing Christ then we shouldn’t exist

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But actually I think that’s true of the whole church

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I think that’s true of all Christianity If we are not reproducing sons of God if we are not bringing people into a real relationship with them if we’re not growing people mature and if love is not our primary motivation then we probably don’t need to exist as a church

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more about every church

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be real

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let every church be faithful Let our hearts desire is and let us be the best Our heart heart’s desire has to be Lord Let revival happen in every church in America Let maturity happen in every church in America Let there be a great awakening among all the nations Lord God let the life of Christ that is in the people of God rise up and throw off the grave clothes throw off the garments of being an invalid Let us rise up Lord let us rise up Let us

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for today is the day Let us a rise and awake and shine like a light in the world and be what you’ve called us to be of reproducing the sons of God Let us storm the gates of hell Let us set at liberty the captives let us be able to say the spirit of the Lord is upon us for he has anointed us to preach good news to set at liberty the captive to give sight to the blind to cause the DEA to hear to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord

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we need to rebuild

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the ruins of society

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and we can

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if we are full of the holy spirit of God

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in faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ

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restore the ruins of humanity Restore Lord God break through Lord bring healing bring deliverance cause the darkness to break and cause a glorious light to shine Let Christ be lifted up in multitudes drawn to you Lord God set at liberty the captives Lord in the midst of everything that’s happening in this world Lord God we want

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to rediscover the apostolic gospel that turns the world upside down We want to rediscover normal Christianity that says these men have turned the world upside down Lord we pray that you would just restore the power and the presence and the glory of the church of Jesus Christ In this hour

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Lord God that you would show that Lord you are alive and you are lord of your church and you are not a God who is blind and you’re not a God who is deaf You’re not a God who is inactive but Lord God you are the God who is moving You’re the God who has sent the power of your holy spirit to your church

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and you’re preparing a brit

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And lord we say here we are use us Lord anoint us Lord have your way with us Lord and let us engage in restoring

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the ruins of society

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in Jesus name