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Sacrament of Sacrifice Pt 4: Stewardship of the Master's Talents

Matthew 25:14-29 1- Your ability starts with how well you carry the commands and character directives of God right now. Stop asking God for more if you cannot carry and steward what's already in your hands. Developing the faith muscles of today is what ensures you have the strength of character to handle the blessings of tomorrow. Do not bury what He has given you, because what you start with is never supposed to be what you finish with. 2- Faithful sacrifice and faithful stewardship is how value is multiplied; there is no other biblical play book for increase. Whatever talent that has been entrusted must be invested in the right source, for it to produce increase. Be careful, God is in the business of confronting your idea of increase with what your character needs to develop. The test of rhythmic stewardship and sacrifice will directly determine the talents your life produces. 3- What the master gives, the master can take away. What the master entrusts the master can retrust to others. How we prepare for the day we see the master again is by producing a life of faith that that the master blesses in order to see others reproduce the life we have lived in Him. You don't get from God to become the God of your life. You get God in order to bring God into others lives.

The Great Commission: Meek & Lowly

John 20:19-22 John 13:1-5, 21-30 Join us as we hear missionary Micah Studer share his heart on the Great Commission and the meek and lowly nature of Jesus.

Sacrament of Sacrifice Pt 3: Righteousness, Justice, and Advocacy

Psalms 89:14 Psalms 97:2 Psalms 103:6 Psalms 33:5 Jeremiah 22:3 Jeremiah 23:5 Isaiah 9:7 Jeremiah 9:24 Isaiah 33:5 Isaiah 16:5 Leviticus 19:9-10 Deuteronomy 24:17-22 Formula of Advocacy: Attention to issues around us + commitment to self awareness of blind spots/false thinking + creating proximity to marginalized or alienated within day to day life + repeat previous steps over and over until... we have changed behavior and thinking to reflect the thought and intent of God towards all creation = Advocacy

Sacrament of Sacrifice Part 2; The Sacrificially Surrendered Life

Luke 10:25-37 The Progression of Surrendered Sacrifice 1- We must see, how Jesus sees. 2- We must have compassion, as Jesus would have compassion. 3- We must seek to bring healing, as Jesus brought healing. 4- We must pay a cost, as Jesus paid a cost. 5- We show mercy, as Jesus redefined mercy.

Sacrament of Sacrifice: "A Missing Detail"

JOHN 13:1-17 1- If you break the bread, and drink the cup... do you also wash feet? To partake in communion and not live out the sacrifice of a life of servanthood for your brothers, sisters, and neighbors is to miss the message of our Messiah. The sacrament is a reminder of sacrifice, invitation to sacrifice, and a promise of blessing that can only be found through sacrifice. We wash, as He washed. 2- Jesus knew what Judas was to do, and washed his feet anyway. The people you think have no right to be washed, actually have every right to be washed... and if that doesn't fit inside your theology, your theology is incorrect. Sacrifice plays no favorites.

Asking That Produces Responding

1 SAMUEL 1:9-20 HOW TO ASK THAT HAS HIGHER CHANCES OF A RESPONSE. 1- God knows where your heart is, not just where your words are. Pouring your soul out to God is an accelerator of promises from God. We don't think he sees and knows and often times it is what he sees and what he knows that is inside of us that is the blockage from what he can release to us. Pouring out takes place before filling up. 2- Most "asking" from God is for less dependence on Him, less faith in Him. This is not what He wants, therefore the response is not what we want. Do we think he responds to requests that lead AWAY from deeper relationships and intimacy with him? Hannah’s ask was to give me a son, then I will give him to YOU ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE... Don't pray for blessings that you don't want god involved in once they arriveâ€¦ those turn into curses. 3- The process of getting a response; know and take in the words of God, repeat them back to God, change my countenance to reflect faith, and wait on His ability. During this process there will be a confronting and releasing my need to control and removing my selfish nature from the asks of Him. It's not about Him not responding as much as it is our character refining to know what an ask of His will is, not ours.

The Recipe of Righteous Living

2 PETER 1:1-11 THE RECIPE OF A RIGHTEOUS LIFE. 1- START WITH DILIGENCE IN FAITH AND DO IT SO MUCH IT PRODUCES MORAL EXCELLENCE… (VERSE 5) 2- AS YOU PURSUE MORAL EXCELLENCE RHYTHMICALLY WATCH AS IT TURNS TO KNOWLEDGE… (VERSE 5) 3- YOUR KNOWLEDGE SHOULD BE PRODUCING GREATER SELF CONTROL.. (VERSE 6) 4- SELF CONTROL LEADS TO DEEPER UNDERSTANDING AND ACTION OF PERSEVERANCE.. (VERSE 6) 5- PERSEVERANCE PRODUCES GODLINESS AS THE TESTS ARE EMBRACED AND NOT RAN FROM.. (VERSE 6) 6- GODLINESS PRODUCES BROTHERLY KINDNESS (VERSE 7) 7- BROTHERLY KINDNESS PRODUCES LOVE…. Love is last!!!! WHAT!!!! (VERSE 7) 8- THE FROSTING— NOTICE THIS PROMISE AT THE END…. IF YOU PRACTICE THESE THINGS YOU WILL NEVER STUMBLE… GAIN ENTRANCE INTO THE ETERNAL KINGDOM… AND JESUS WILL BE ABUNDANTLY SUPPLIED TO YOU.. THATS A MONSTER PROMISE.. (VERSE 10 AND 11)

How Do We Live It? (Bonus Content)

BONUS CONTENT- “How do we live it?” At the conclusion of our practicing the way season of studying the disciplines of an apprentice of Jesus, pastors Micah and Grace gave an overview of how they rhythmically live out a wholistic practice of allowing Jesus into everything they do. Recorded on a Wednesday night formation gathering, this resource is designed as a challenge to the lifestyle of how we live day to day and designed to give people a lifestyle blueprint of what an activated life in the spirit looks like in a hyper practical sense.

Sermon on the Mount Pt. 10: Rockishly-Sandy Conditions

Matthew 7:24-29 Psalms 118:22 Isaiah 28:16 Luke 6:46-48 3 WAYS TO KNOW IF YOUR BUILDING ON THE ROCK OR THE SAND 1- “Hearing" gives the illusion of a cornerstone building, but acting on what you're hearing is the true heavy rock work. You cannot act until you hear, however if you do not act upon what you hear, don't be surprised if you feel the rain, the wind, and slams of the storms of life as it destroys the foundation you tried to build that wasn't based on, and placed on, the cornerstone of Jesus. 2- The enemy will allow you to build on a bad foundation without knowing in order to make the fall "great".... His core aspiration is to discredit, distort, or sow dissension and confusion around great falls of once mighty people of faith in a way that tarnishes the name of Jesus to the world he's trying to save. Building on sand is not just something that will affect you, it will most certainly affect those around you, and how they view god. 3- Authority in Christ is when you have heard, acted, and built a life on Jesus in such a way that your voice now carries an authority that gets the world to notice. Authority is hearing, doing, and building. What got people's attention to the ways of Jesus is how he heard, how he spoke, and what he did (the way in which he built the kingdom).. And it transcended any man made title, accomplishment, and authority.

Sermon on the Mount Pt. 9: Fruit Trees, the Shape of A Gate, and Do We Know Each Other?

Matthew 7:13-23 Three Thoughts on a Life in the Will of the Father: 1- The right gate is tied to my sight for the small, the ability to discern the straight and narrow, and a spirit that never gives up searching for more of God in my day to day life. The gate we enter to the Kingdom of God is through the life and example of Jesus... and there is a reason it says few will find it. What God has concealed, there is a kings reward for those who will search out and find. 2- Fruit remains is the goal of a rooted life in God. Good fruit is the product of right nutrients, sunlight, and pruning. A tree that does not embrace pruning will end up dead. There is a difference between a cutting back to produce, and a cutting down that results from death. Embrace the sun, get the right nutrients so the roots will grow, and embrace the pruning… this is the playbook of a good tree, with godo fruit … and a fruit that remains. 3- We can know His name, but not know Him. We can do miracles by His name, yet not know Him... we can prophesy by His name... and not know Him. Knowing Him is the rhythmic lifestyle of surrender, and being actively formed by the things He did; which merge us into the identity of Him. There is a difference in knowing the name of Jesus, and living the example of Jesus, and living the example of Jesus. He is the gate we enter that leads to life.

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