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Walking The Way | Silence and Solitude | Week 1 | May 12th, 2024Teacher: Adam Barnett
/> www.redeemertulsa.org/walkingtheway
/> “The way of Jesus.”/> Before we learn and follow the practices of Jesus, we must seek and know the Person of Jesus.
“Do not let your hearts be troubled.You believein God;believe also in me.My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going thereto prepare a place for you?And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come backand take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.You know the way to the place where I am going.” Thomassaid to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered,“I amthe wayand the truthand the life.No one comes to the Father except through me.– John 14:1-6“The realm where God’s way is done is the ‘kingdom of God.’ It is from everlasting to everlasting. What changed with the birth of Jesus was God’s gift of a way in. To those who receive Christ as king, he gives the power to become powerless—to give up supreme rulership of our own little kingdoms and become like children. Children of the King, happy to follow in the Father’s footsteps and ready to trust him with our lives.” - Grace Pouch
/> Being like Jesus is the result of being with Jesus.
/> Pay attention to what you are paying attention to.
/> Focus on where you see the gracious and active presence of God in the story of your life.
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Because of Love | Partnership in Mission | Week 4 | May 5th, 2024Teacher: Dave Brown
/> On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with[a] water, but in a few days you will be baptized with[b] the Holy Spirit.” Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
— Acts 1:4-9
/> Power because we’re going to need it.
/> What does it mean to be a witness?
/> We have over spiritualized our salvation as well as the mission of God.
Millions of Christians in many parts of the world still think the cross means “Jesus died for my sins so that I can go to heaven.” The “mission” of the church, then, becomes a matter of explaining to more and more people that he dies for them too and urging them to believe this, so that they too can go to heaven…That way of looking at the gospel and mission both shrinks and distorts what the Bible actually teaches.
—N.T. Wright
Can we seriously believe that God would establish a plan for us that essentially bypasses the awesome needs of present human life and leaves human character untouched? Would he leave us even temporarily marooned with no help in our kind of world, with our kind of problems: psychological, emotional, social, and global? Can we believe that the essence of Christian faith and salvation covers nothing but death and after? Can we believe that being saved really has nothing whatever to do with the kinds of persons we are?—Dallas Willard
/> “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”—Luke 4:18-19
/> Our mission is to be with Jesus, to become like Jesus, and to do as Jesus did.
The people who are rescued by the cross and the love it reveals will then be shaped by the cross and the love it will reveal through them to the world…This is how we learn not only to tell the story of Jesus, but also to live the story of Jesus.
— N.T. Wright
/> Jesus did not simply die to save us from our sins. Jesus also lived to save us from our sins.
/> When the prophets Daniel and John envision the empires as vicious beasts, what they’re saying is, Beneath all the wealth, power, and excess of these dazzling empires lie grotesque monsters, trampling everyone and everything in their path. And when they depict God as tolerating, then restraining, and finally destroying these monsters, what they’re saying is, The story isn’t over; even the greatest empires are no match for goodness, righteousness, and virtue.
—Rachel Held Evans
/> The Bible is a collection of resistance stories because all of it anticipates or announces the Kingdom of God and the rule and reign of Jesus Christ.
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Because of Love | The Church | Week 5 | April 28, 2024Teacher: Adam Barnett
/> 18 And I tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my church,and the gates of Hadeswill not overcome it. – Matthew 16:18
“… like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” – 1 Peter 2:5
Εκκλησιά– an assembly of people meeting for a common purpose.
/> 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teachingand to fellowship, to the breaking of breadand to prayer.43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles.44 All the believers were together and had everything in common.45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts.They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people.And the Lord added to their numberdaily those who were being saved. - Acts 2:42-47
/> 1. Worship.
Therefore, I urge you,brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice,holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.– Romans 12:1
To be a living sacrifice isn’t just getting on the altar, but choosing to stay there.
/> 2. Truth.
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearingand his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebukeand encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. – 2 Timothy 4:1
We accept the Holy Scriptures, the Old and New Testaments, as the word of God and the only perfect rule for faith, doctrine, and conduct.
We are INVITED to BE disciples of Jesus, and EXPECTED to MAKE disciples for Jesus.
Disciples make disciple-makers.
/> 3. Community.
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Because of Love | Spiritual Gifts | Week 4 | April 21, 2024Teacher: Dave Brown
/> Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
/> There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
—1 Corinthians 12:1-7
/> No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
— 1 Corinthians 12:3b
/> 1. The first Spiritual Gift Paul mentions is accepting Jesus as Lord.
Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
— 1 Corinthians 12:7
/> 2. Everyone is given a gift from the Holy Spirit.
/> 3. These gifts are meant to be used in community.
/> 4. Paul is calling us into unity
And yet I will show you the most excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
— 1 Corinthians 13:1-3
/> 5. The Greatest Gift of All is Love
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails…
—1 Corinthians 13:4-8a
But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
—1 Corinthians 13:8b-10
Paul’s description of the attributes of love in verses 4-7 offers a picture of habitual actions and dispositions. One cannot merely decide in a day’s time to start doing these things. They are learned patterns of behavior that must be cultivated over time in the context of a community that models and supports such behavior…far too little attention had been given in our communities to this character-forming task of the church. We must deliberate carefully about how to reform the church so that we can more fully devote our energies to learning how to love.
—Richard Hays
/> The gift of love is the only gift that lasts for all eternity. Here, Paul is inviting us to participate in eternity today.
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Because of Love | Grace | Week 3 | April 14, 2024Teacher: Adam Barnett
The grace of God is undeniably and entirely a gift.
/> “Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable… Grace has everything to do with the lover, not the beloved. It has nothing to do with weights and measures. It has nothing to do with my intrinsic qualities or so-called ‘gifts,’ whatever they may be. It reflects a decision on the part of the giver, the one who loves, in relation to the receiver, the one who is loved, that negates any qualifications the receiver may personally hold. Grace is one-way love.” - Paul Zahl
/> For you know the grace of out Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor so that you through his poverty might become rich.
2 Corinthians 8:9
/> "Grace is free, nut it is not cheap"
/> So what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving? I should hope not! If we've left the country where sin is sovereign, how can we still live in our old house there? Or didn't you realize we packed up and left there for good?That is what happened in baptism. When we went under the water, we left the old country of sin behind; when we came up out of the water, we entered into a new country of grace - a new life in a new land!
Romans 6:1-3 (MSG)
/> My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.
2 Corinthians 12:9
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Because of Love | The Holy Spirit | Week 2 | April 7, 2024Teacher: Adam Barnett
/> 1. Rejoice in the Resurrection.
/> 2. Remember your Baptism.
/> 3. Return to Habits of Spiritual Formation.
/> 4. Reflect on the Gift of the Church.
5. Renew your Commitment to Mission.
/> “If you love me, keep my commands.And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocateto help you and be with you forever—the Spirit of truth.The world cannot accept him,because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will bein you. – John 14:15-17
/> But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocatewill not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. – John 16:7
/> Acts 2:1-4 - When the day of Pentecostcame, they were all togetherin one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.All of them were filled with the Holy Spiritand began to speak in other tonguesas the Spirit enabled them.
/> We affirm a conscious dependence on the Holy Spirit.
/> 1. Pray:“Father, Son, Holy Spirit.”
/> 2. Light a candle.
/> 3. The Holy Spirit is a Person.
/> 4. Practice routine prayers.
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"Resurrection" | Easter Sunday | March 31, 2024Teacher: Adam Barnett
/> HEAVEN JUST STARTED COUNTING TO THREE.
/> Matthew 28:1-10-1 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4 The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.
5 The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.”8 So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. 9 Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him.10 Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”
/> 1) Salvation.
Romans 6:23 –For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
/> 2) Status.
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.– John 1:12
/> 3) Security./> Romans 8:1 –Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
/> Jesus, I believe in you. You are the resurrection and the life. I believe you died on the cross for me. I believe in your resurrection. Will you make me a new creation today? I am sorry for my sins. Please forgive me. I ask you to live in my heart and to fill me with your Holy Spirit. I want to live this life, and the life to come, with you. Through the name of Jesus, my Lord and Savior, I pray … Amen!
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Palm Sunday"Hosanna in the Highest" • March 24, 2024
Teacher: Adam Barnett--
/> Luke 9:51 "As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem"
/> Luke 19:28-34 "After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.As he approached Bethphage and Bethanyat the hill called the Mount of Olives,he sent two of his disciples, saying to them“Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here.If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it.’”Those who were sent ahead went and found it just as he had told them.As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, “Why are you untying the colt?”They replied, “The Lord needs it”
/> Zechariah 9:9 "Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey"
/> Luke 19:35-38 "They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it.As he went along, people spread their cloakson the road.When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:“Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!”“Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
/> John 12:12-13 "The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!”
/> Hosanna (English) ---> ὡσαννά (Greek) ---> hoshiya na (Hebrew)
/> Psalm 118:25 "LORD, save us! LORD, grant us success!"
/> Psalm 118:26 "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord"
/> "Darkness fell, His friends scattered, hope seemed lost… but heaven just started counting to three."
— Bob Goff
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Final Words
"Into Your hands I commit My spirit." • March 17, 2024
Teacher: Dave Brown--
/> 1. Here is your son. Here is your mother.
2. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
3. I thirst.
4. It is finished
5. Into your hands I commit my spirit.
/> Of all the Evangelists, Luke is the most intentional, and the most skillful, in narrating the story of Jesus in a way that joins it seamlessly to Israel’s story…Luke is seeking to write the continuation of biblical history.
—Richard Hays
/> It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last. The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, “Surely this was a righteous man.” When all the people who had gathered to witness this sight saw what took place, they beat their breasts and went away. But all those who knew him, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.
—Luke 23:44-49
>/ In you, Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness. Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me. Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me. Keep me free from the trap that is set for me, for you are my refuge. Into your hands I commit my spirit; deliver me, Lord, my faithful God. I hate those who cling to worthless idols; as for me, I trust in the Lord. I will be glad and rejoice in your love, for you saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul. You have not given me into the hands of the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place.Praise be to the Lord, for he showed me the wonders of his love when I was in a city under siege. In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from your sight!” Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help. Love the Lord, all his faithful people! The Lord preserves those who are true to him, but the proud he pays back in full. Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.—Psalm 31:1-8, 21-24
/> In Jesus’ mind, his horrible and humiliating condition in no way jeopardizes his relationship with God, whom he thus continues to address with the characteristic appellation, “Father.”— Joel B. Green
/> This prayer from the cross is particularly difficult to keep in its crucifixion context and still pray it. A childlike relaxation into the arms of Jesus when everything is going well and we are surrounded by those we love and trust, yes. But a deliberate, trusting committal into the hands of the Father when we have been blindsided on a Golgotha intersection and out life has been totaled? Lovely as Jesus’ prayer is, it is not likely to come spontaneously from our lips in such circumstances.—Eugene Peterson
/> What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.—Romans 8:31-39
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Final Words
"I thirst." & "It is finished." • March 10, 2024
Teacher: Leanne Benton--
/> John 19:28-30:
Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.”
/> ‘My mouth is dried up like a potsherd and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; You lay me in the dust of death.” Psalm 22:15
/> Hebrews 2:17:
“For this reason he had to be made fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.”
/> A Testimony of His…Suffering, Submission, Sureness
/> “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:13-14
/> “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?” Psalm 42:1-2
/> “After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said “I thirst!” John 19:28
/> Completeness Triumph Satisfaction Confidence
/> “I have brought you glory by finishing the work you gave me to do.”
John 17:4
/>“No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.” John 10:18
/>“Death has lost the battle! Where is its victory? Where is its sting? Sin is what gives death its sting, and the Law is the power behind sin. But thank God for letting our Lord Jesus Christ give us the victory!” 1 Corinthians 15:55-57
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Final Words
"Eli, Eli lama sabachthani?" • March 3, 2024
Teacher: Adam Barnett--
/> 25 It was nine in the morning when they crucified him. 26 The written notice of the charge against him read: the king of the Jews. 27 They crucified two rebels with him, one on his right and one on his left. 29 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, 30 come down from the cross and save yourself!” 31 In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! 32 Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him. – Mark 15:25-32
/> 33 At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. - Mark 15:33
/> 34 And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). - Mark 15:34
/> 1. To be forsaken did not change God’s identity.
/> 2. To be forsaken did not change the Father’s love.
/> 3. To be forsaken was not a sin of despair.
/> Psalm 23: The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
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Final Words
Father, forgive them. • February 25, 2024
Teacher: Dave Brown--
/> Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.
/> Today you will be with me in paradise.
/> Here is your son. Here is your mother.
/> My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
/> I thirst.
/> It is finished
/> Into your hands I commit my spirit.
/> The first three phrases display Jesus’ character.
/> 1. Love your enemies
/> 1. Father forgive them
/> 2. My yoke is easy and my burden is light
/> 2. Today, you will be with me in paradise.
/> 3. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
/> 3. Here is your son. Here is your mother.
/> Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection has a two-fold meaning for us.
/> It offers us mercy and grace
/> It is the example of what it means to be truly human.
/> Our lives are lived well only when they are lived on the terms of their creation, with God loving and us being loved, with God making and us being made, with God revealing and us understanding, with God commanding and us responding.
—Eugene Peterson
/> Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face…
—Mike Tyson
/> Who are we when following Jesus gets hard?
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Final Words
Father, forgive them. • February 18, 2024
Teacher: Adam Barnett--
/> 1. A time of repentance.
/> 2. A time of renewal.
/> 3. A time of self-denial.
/> Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed. When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up his clothes by casting lots. - Luke 23:32-34
/> “The crucifixion is not a spectator sport. I cannot simply watch it on the sidelines. Something bursts within me—revulsion, hatred, disappointment—but I am not left untouched. The cross, acknowledged or not, leaves its own kind of wound in us. It sets us voyaging within ourselves.” — Alan Jones
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Living the Way
Blessed at the peacemakers... • February 11, 2024
Teacher: Otis Garrison--
/> BLESSED ARE THE PERSECUTED
/> Matthew 5:10, “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” NKJV
I. KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
/> What does Jesus mean - For theirs is the kingdom of heaven?
/> Many of Jesus’ parables focus on the kingdom of heaven
/> The kingdom of heaven is established in and through us as we are poor in spirit and live righteous before the Father.
II. PERSECUTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE
/> The first 7 Beatitudes happen because we make a choice to do what Jesus is saying.
/> With this last Beatitude - “persecuted for righteousness sake” it is a choice someone else or some outside force makes for us.
/> In the case of this beatitude - persecution happens because of loyalty to righteousness,
/> Matt 5:11, “Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.” NKJV
/> Revile - means to use scornful or abusive language. To treat or regard with contempt or disdain; to reject or to mock…
/> Question - what does it mean if we are never persecuted?
/> Acts 4:29, “And now, O Lord, hear their threats, and give us, your servants, great boldness in preaching your word.” NLT
/> Jesus, Himself, was reviled and mocked - Leaving us an example to follow…
/> 1 Peter 2:21-23, “For God called you to do good, even if it means suffering, just as Christ suffered for you. He is your example, and you must follow in his steps. He never sinned, nor ever deceived anyone. He did not retaliate when he was insulted, nor threaten revenge when he suffered. He left his case in the hands of God, who always judges fairly.” NLT
Matt 5:11, “Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.” NKJV
Matt 5:12, “Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” NKJV
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Living the Way
Blessed at the peacemakers... • February 5, 2024
Teacher: Adam Barnett--
/> Matthew 5:9 – Blessed are the peacemakers, for the will be called children of God.
/> You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. Romans 5:6-11
/> Reconciliation is not only of God, but from God, and to God.
/> All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. - 2 Corinthians 5:18-21
/> “The word of the beatitudes penetrates us with the power of the Holy Spirit in order to break up our interior soil.” - Jonathan Pennington
/>“The word of the beatitudes penetrates you with the power of the Holy Spirit in order to break up your interior soil.”
/> “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. - Matthew 5:43-45
/> 1. Pray for your enemies.
/> 2. Pray for peace.
/> 3. Do all you can.
/> Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
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Living the Way
Blessed at the pure in heart... • January 28, 2024
Teacher: Adam Barnett--
MESSAGE NOTESLiving the Way
Blessed at the pure in heart... • January 28, 2024
Teacher: Adam Barnett--
/> Μακάριος: happy, supremely blessed, fortunate; to be envied.
/> The Beatitudes are not only instructions on how to live, but directions to where God can be found.
/> Living the way of the kingdom is admitting that God’s way is better than our own.
/> Matthew 5:8 – Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
/> I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. – Galatians 2:20
/> 2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come. The old has gone, the new is here.
/> Proverbs 4:23 – Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
/> Our hearts are vulnerable when we get distracted.
/> 1 John 2:15-16 - Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
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Living the Way
Blessed are the merciful... • January 21, 2024
Teacher: Adam Barnett/> ### MESSAGE NOTES
Living the Way
Blessed at the merciful... • January 21, 2024
Teacher: Adam Barnett--
/> Matthew 5:7
"Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy."
Mercy – the compassionate disposition to forgive someone or to offer aid, assistance, or help to someone in need.
The conduct God demands of us includes a continuous nature of showing mercy to others.
/> Matthew 18:21-22
"Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times? Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times."
/> Matthew 18:23-26
“Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold was brought to him. Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.“ At this the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.'
/> Matthew 18:27
"The servant’s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go."
/> Matthew 18:28-30
“But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins. He grabbed him and began to choke him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he demanded. “His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.’ “But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt."
/> Matthew 18:31-35
"When the other servants saw what had happened, they were outraged and went and told their master everything that had happened. “Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’ In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.“ This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”
When I am unmerciful, it shows I lack gratitude and true acknowledgement of God’s mercy for me.
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Living the Way
Blessed are those that hunger for righteousness... • January 14, 2024
Teacher: Adam Barnett/> Μακάριος (blessed) – happy, supremely blessed, fortunate
/> Μακάριος (blessed) – happy, supremely blessed, fortunate; to be envied.
/> “We can compare the work of the beatitudes to that of a plow in the fields. Drawn along with determination, it drives the sharp edge of the plowshare into the earth and carves out a deep wound; a broad channel. In the same way, the word of the beatitudes penetrates us with the power of the Holy Spirit in order to break up our interior soil. It cuts through us with the sharp edge of trials and with the struggles it provokes. It overturns our ideas, reverses the obvious, thwarts our desires, and bewilders us, leaving us poor and naked before God. All this, in order to prepare a place within us for the seed of new life.” — Jonathan Pennington
/> Read the Beatitudes not only as instructions on how to live, but directions to where God can be found.
\_Matthew 5:6_\
/> "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled."
/> Do I hunger and thirst for the wrong things?
\_Jeremiah 2:12-13_\
/> “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”
\_Isaiah 55:1-2_\
/> "Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare. Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live."
\_Matthew 5:20_\
"For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven."
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." – C.S. Lewis
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Living the Way
Blessed are the poor in spirit... • January 7, 2024
Teacher: Adam Barnett\_Matthew 7:28-29_\
> "When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law."
> “The realm where God’s way is done is the ‘kingdom of God.’ It is from everlasting to everlasting. What changed with the birth of Jesus was God’s gift of a way in. To those who receive Christ as king, he gives the power to become powerless—to give up supreme rulership of our own little kingdoms and become like children. Children of the King, happy to follow in the Father’s footsteps and ready to trust him with our lives.” - Grace Pouch
> To serve, or not to serve?
> “The Sermon on the Mount is the most complete description anywhere in the N.T. of the Christian counterculture. Here is a Christian value-system, ethical standard, religious devotion, attitude to money, ambition, lifestyle, and network of relationships — all of which totally oppose those in the non-Christian world. And this Christian counterculture is the life of the kingdom of God, a fully human life indeed, but lived out under the divine rule.” - John Stott
\_Matthew 5:1-3_\
> "Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them. He said: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
> Living the way of the kingdom is admitting that God's way is better than our own.
> Living the way of the kingdom of God involves a present responsibility and a future privilege.
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The Kingdom of God
Christmas Eve • December 31, 2023
Teacher: Dave Brown - Laat meer zien
