Speaker 1: I want to talk about the New Creation, and specifically,
Speaker 1: I've got scriptures in there that talk about the ten trees,
Speaker 1: the ten trees of your heart garden. And this is
Speaker 1: kind of a new thing. I put it together for
Speaker 1: Africa when I went over there. And so these are
Speaker 1: scriptures about the ten trees of your heart garden. And the.
Speaker 2: Purpose of these scriptures.
Speaker 1: Is to get you thinking like Jesus, to get you
Speaker 1: processing life more like Jesus and seeing life from his perspective.
Speaker 1: I really wish, I really wish what happened. I wish
Speaker 1: that when we bring you up here to the baptismal tank, right,
Speaker 1: and then we throw you in the baptismal tank. How
Speaker 1: many of you got thrown in the baptismal tank. So
Speaker 1: I really wish, and here you are, and you are
Speaker 1: dead in the baptismal tank. I really wish right after
Speaker 1: that we could take you out to another room and
Speaker 1: hook you up to a IV that would fill your
Speaker 1: heart with the way God sees life. Right, and John
Speaker 1: seventeen right, the Father and I are one. We know
Speaker 1: that Jesus is the Word of God made flesh right.
Speaker 1: So but you know, how does he think? How does
Speaker 1: he process life. What's his perspective, And what we discover
Speaker 1: in scripture is that the more we see the he thinks,
Speaker 1: then the more we become like him by partnering with
Speaker 1: our faith. Everybody say faith. So this is so important,
Speaker 1: and I want to just I want to go back
Speaker 1: to where I left off at the end of the
Speaker 1: at the end of the service two weeks ago, we
Speaker 1: left off with tewod Corinthians ten three through five, and
Speaker 1: we can go there. And here it says, though we
Speaker 1: walk in the flesh, and that is walk in the
Speaker 1: earth suit, walk in the sense realm, welcome the natural.
Speaker 1: We don't war according to the flesh. Now he's alluding
Speaker 1: to this idea that we're we're up against we're up
Speaker 1: against adversity, and adversity is up against us. So and
Speaker 1: for us to be productive in life. And we all
Speaker 1: have a desire to be productive in life. And in
Speaker 1: this booklet of scriptures, I'm giving you the ten Trees
Speaker 1: of Life. We talk about it restored life. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of my focus in this booklet of scriptures, because
Speaker 1: I think every one of us are trying to be productive,
Speaker 1: and our productivity is often focused on these kinds of desires,
Speaker 1: and Father has a way for us to actualize those desires.
Speaker 1: Marriage and family, legacy, influence, vocation and purpose, sexuality. I've
Speaker 1: got ten of these trees listed in there that I
Speaker 1: think are the They're actually what many times we're focused on,
Speaker 1: and when we don't bear fruit in those areas and
Speaker 1: we're not seeing the goodness of God in those areas,
Speaker 1: if we don't know what to do scripturally, then we
Speaker 1: end up going into frustration. If our marriage is falling apart,
Speaker 1: if our finances are falling apart, if our purpose is
Speaker 1: not fulfilled, if we're not building or leaving a legacy,
Speaker 1: just any of those ten. Wherever there's hope deferred Proverbs
Speaker 1: thirteen twelve, hope deferred makes the heart sick. And so
Speaker 1: where there's a defermative hope, many times then as we
Speaker 1: might reflect on that area of our lives, we find
Speaker 1: that we're a little discouraged, maybe depressed, maybe self loathing,
Speaker 1: maybe embarrassed, may be ashamed. And God has given us
Speaker 1: this beautiful thing wherein as.
Speaker 2: We are raised up out of.
Speaker 1: Death to Adam and we come into the new creation life,
Speaker 1: then He partners with us for the fulfillment of the
Speaker 1: very desires he's placed in us. Did you know that
Speaker 1: he placed those desires in you? He placed all these
Speaker 1: the desires that he placed within you, as I've listed
Speaker 1: him here. These desires are not The desire is not unclean.
Speaker 1: The desire is not demonic. The desire is not fleshly
Speaker 1: or carnal. It's what gets attached to that desire. And
Speaker 1: either we attach the methodology and the plans and the
Speaker 1: promises of God, or we attach the methodology of the
Speaker 1: unclean realm. So here we are, and if we could just,
Speaker 1: you know, go back a little bit to our timeline.
Speaker 1: Here we are in Adam, and I'm just going to
Speaker 1: draw Adam here. This is Adam. And Adam has a
Speaker 1: grumbly face because he's in a bad mood because he
Speaker 1: just got kicked out of the garden. And so he's
Speaker 1: got a grumbly face and his hair isn't doing good either.
Speaker 1: His chin is sagging, and yeah, it's just it's a
Speaker 1: bad day for Adam. So but the problem is with
Speaker 1: Adam and grumblely Eve is that you were in his lineage.
Speaker 1: And here you are down here somewhere, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: draw you down here, And here you are with your
Speaker 1: grumbly face. And here you are down here, and you
Speaker 1: were made in his image, you were made in his likeness.
Speaker 1: Johnny forty four says, this is the words of Jesus.
Speaker 1: That's pretty important. He says, you are of your father,
Speaker 1: the devil, and then he goes on to define the
Speaker 1: devil as a liar and a murderer. And then over
Speaker 1: here in Ephesians chapter two, Ephesians Chapter two, verses one
Speaker 1: and two, he says that we were all children deserving
Speaker 1: of the wrath of God because the spirit of disobedience
Speaker 1: was dwelling on the inside of us, moving us and
Speaker 1: motivating us. And so in Adam things were bad. And
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna put this in here so you don't forget.
Speaker 1: This is Adam, okay. And so this was a bad day.
Speaker 1: The fall about him was a bad day because these
Speaker 1: are his breeches. Nobody say bitches. So the Bible says,
Speaker 1: you were in his loins when he fell. That's somewhere
Speaker 1: in his breeches. You were in his loins when he fell.
Speaker 1: And so so Romans five seventeen says that through the
Speaker 1: sin of that one man, we were all given over
Speaker 1: to condemnation and death because we were in him when
Speaker 1: he fell. And so this negative way of thinking, it's
Speaker 1: like we had the IV. We were hooked up to
Speaker 1: the IV of negativity. This negativity was natural for us.
Speaker 1: It was natural. We didn't Profanity was natural. We didn't
Speaker 1: think anything of it, and cheating was natural, and deceiting
Speaker 1: was natural, and lying was natural, and hating was natural.
Speaker 1: And bitterness with our enemies are eukidding me? That was natural.
Speaker 1: We didn't think an We didn't have to have anybody
Speaker 1: train our mind. There was no renewing of the mind.
Speaker 1: We didn't have to learn any of these unclean tactics
Speaker 1: or techniques. We didn't have to learn any of them.
Speaker 1: They were downloaded into our nature sure, as a part
Speaker 1: of us. And the Bible says we were born in iniquity.
Speaker 1: Iniquity means that we were perverted. It means to pervert,
Speaker 1: to twist, to distort, and that's our nature. Our very
Speaker 1: nature was perverted, twisted and distorted from birth, from birth,
Speaker 1: and nobody had to train us the stuff like we
Speaker 1: could get angry when we were How old did you
Speaker 1: were you when you had your first temper tantrum? Right?
Speaker 1: Come on, somebody, you know if you've raised children, you know,
Speaker 1: you watch you watch them having a temper tantrum. Nobody
Speaker 1: had to train them how to have it. They didn't
Speaker 1: have to go to school to learn temper tantrum. There
Speaker 1: was no education with that. There was no special class
Speaker 1: for temper tantrum class. Right, So what because it was
Speaker 1: a part of it's a part of our nature. It's
Speaker 1: just the way we're already wired. So, but what happens
Speaker 1: is we're going to church. Here we are we come here,
Speaker 1: We're going to church as a part of our nature.
Speaker 1: And then we we learn along the way. We learn
Speaker 1: that this behavior has made us a child of wrath,
Speaker 1: the wrath of God is on us, and that we're
Speaker 1: separated from God. And we learn that we could be forgiven.
Speaker 1: And as we learn that this behavior is not of God,
Speaker 1: but it's a partnership with the demonic realm, because over here,
Speaker 1: over here, we told you that a moment ago, the
Speaker 1: Lord over Adam was Satan. So we're going along and
Speaker 1: we find out we can be forgiven. And so as
Speaker 1: we embrace John three three through five, and we're born
Speaker 1: of the spirit. As we embrace that and we're born
Speaker 1: in the spirit, then we discover something. We discover that
Speaker 1: we can have a relationship with God. We have peace
Speaker 1: with God, we have forgiveness, and we have eternal life.
Speaker 1: Shout yes, somebody, So something happens with us. But we
Speaker 1: continue down this trajectory and we continue to act like
Speaker 1: Adam even though we're forgiven. We're acting like Adam even
Speaker 1: though we're forgiven. Anybody ever have that problem, anybody in
Speaker 1: the room. So then we want to get over here
Speaker 1: into the trajectory of Christ, but we don't know how.
Speaker 1: So then we're instructed that way out of Adam is death.
Speaker 1: The only way out of Adam is death. Excuse me.
Speaker 1: Psychology is not the way out about him. Counseling is
Speaker 1: not the way out of aout him. No counseling can help, right.
Speaker 1: Counseling can lead us to death. But we essentially needed death.
Speaker 1: We need a death. I think, I'm okay. We essentially
Speaker 1: need a death. And so this is what the water
Speaker 1: of baptism is all about. We go into the baptismal
Speaker 1: tank and I'm gonna read you some scriptures on this
Speaker 1: in a minute. But in baptism, we embrace death, and
Speaker 1: we embraced the death of Jesus in baptism. So just
Speaker 1: as he came in the likeness of Adam but then
Speaker 1: sacrificed his life on the cross because of his perfection.
Speaker 1: When he did that, he was putting to death. The
Speaker 1: power of Satan over those who are in Adam. If
Speaker 1: those in Adam will join him in death, they have
Speaker 1: to join him. We have to join Jesus in death
Speaker 1: and declare that we are dead to who we were
Speaker 1: in Adam. Sounds crazy, does sound kind of crazy, but
Speaker 1: it works. This is a powerful thing. All of Heaven
Speaker 1: is watching this, The whole spirit realm is watching this.
Speaker 1: Everything in heaven is watching this. Like Baptism is a
Speaker 1: significant event that Satan and all of the demonic forces
Speaker 1: have to honor because we are identifying with the death
Speaker 1: of Christ and we are dying to who we were
Speaker 1: and coming up out of the waters of baptism. We
Speaker 1: are coming up out of the waters of baptism into resurrection.
Speaker 1: And Jesus is the founder, He's the beginner, He's the beginning,
Speaker 1: He's the fountain head of a brand new race of people.
Speaker 1: So you are no longer who you were. But once
Speaker 1: you've encountered death and resurrection, you come into the second atom,
Speaker 1: So Jesus is called the second atom. He's also called
Speaker 1: the last atom by scripture. So up here we have
Speaker 1: to be real careful because religion is telling us you're
Speaker 1: still gonna mess up. You're still gonna have bad thoughts,
Speaker 1: you're still gonna blow it. You're still gonna have timber tantrums.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have a lot of fear that keeps you
Speaker 1: from doing things. You're gonna have worthlessness, you're gonna have anger,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have bitterness, You're gonna have all of that.
Speaker 1: But the focus of religion is forgiveness. And so this
Speaker 1: is what religion is telling you. So as long as
Speaker 1: you memorize First John one nine, you're gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: You just need to memorize First John one nine. Become
Speaker 1: very familiar with First John one nine. Now, first John
Speaker 1: one nine says that if we sin right, we can
Speaker 1: confess our sins, and He is faithful and just to
Speaker 1: forgive us of our sins and the cleanses from all
Speaker 1: in righteousness. So that's a valid picture of the love
Speaker 1: of the Lord over our lives, and it's a valid
Speaker 1: picture of the power of his sacrifice to us and
Speaker 1: over us. But The problem is it's not worth where.
Speaker 1: It's not where we're supposed to camp. Have you ever
Speaker 1: camped at the wrong spot? You camped in a tent
Speaker 1: when you found out there was an RV waiting for you,
Speaker 1: and he had running water and a shallow and a toilet.
Speaker 1: It had a toilet. You didn't have to get up
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night and kind of meander
Speaker 1: to a bush somewhere or the backside of a state park,
Speaker 1: you know, latrine. Hello, somebody, But you camped at the
Speaker 1: wrong spot. And this is what believers are doing. This
Speaker 1: is what religion is leading us to do. To camp
Speaker 1: at forgiveness instead of camp at perfection, to camp at
Speaker 1: forgiveness instead of camp at restoration. And so we're told
Speaker 1: that this is where we camp, and so we continue
Speaker 1: with the mind of Adam. Now I'm talking about people
Speaker 1: to get baptized. We actually get baptized, and we celebrate baptism.
Speaker 1: We actually celebrate baptism and we get baptized. But when
Speaker 1: we spring up into the new life, we don't discover
Speaker 1: who He made us to be. Now that's why I'm
Speaker 1: handing out this stuff today because I want you to
Speaker 1: read this. I want you to read who he made
Speaker 1: you to be. I want you to read what he
Speaker 1: has for you in your marriage, what he has in sexuality,
Speaker 1: what he has in your purpose, what he has in
Speaker 1: your finances, what he has in rest and recreation. You know,
Speaker 1: rest and recreation is one of the things that actually
Speaker 1: you desire to be fulfilled in. And you're probably thinking,
Speaker 1: he doesn't want that for me. Wow, he never wants
Speaker 1: me to rest. What in the world God would celebrate
Speaker 1: my recreation? So let's look at the Bible, Let's look
Speaker 1: at scriptures. Let's find out what the mind of Christ is,
Speaker 1: because really, I can't come into the fullness of my
Speaker 1: restoration over here. And this is supposed to be resurrection life.
Speaker 1: Is it two rs or two s's what is it?
Speaker 1: Don't trust me on that one. So this is supposed
Speaker 1: to be resurrection life, right, I'm supposed to be living
Speaker 1: resurrection life. But if I don't know what that looks like.
Speaker 1: If I don't know, because resurrection life is the Christ life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But because we don't have a renewing of the mind
Speaker 1: iv bag, we don't. We don't. We don't have that room. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe when we build on the church, we'll add that
Speaker 1: in but right now, right now, when you're baptized in
Speaker 1: the waters of baptism, we don't have a room where
Speaker 1: you take We take you in, hook you up to
Speaker 1: an IV of the mind of Christ and then we,
Speaker 1: you know, drain a couple of bags into your heart
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, you've got you walk out
Speaker 1: and you're like, you know yeah, and you're like a
Speaker 1: wonder working word machine. And we just say, how are
Speaker 1: you feeling today? And you say, I am blessed with
Speaker 1: every blessing in heaven. Okay, that's good. Tests number one okay, Uh,
Speaker 1: do you feel like you're sick today? No, I am
Speaker 1: an overcomer of sickness and disease by his stripes, I
Speaker 1: was healed. Okay. Question number two, that's good. Uh, you
Speaker 1: said si. And we ask you about ten of these
Speaker 1: questions you know about your ask you about your finances. Oh,
Speaker 1: my goodness, My God supplies all of my needs by
Speaker 1: his by his riches in Christ Jesus. Right, and you
Speaker 1: just know all these promises, you know, whatever the topic is, right,
Speaker 1: you know the well, we don't have that IV bag
Speaker 1: and that room in operation. So what happens is you
Speaker 1: have to be you have to be the one who
Speaker 1: renews your mind with the word of God, renews your
Speaker 1: mind with the life of Christ, with the essence of
Speaker 1: who he is. Because He is your life, he is
Speaker 1: your identity, He is the last atom. He is the
Speaker 1: fountain head of your new creation. And as I said
Speaker 1: maybe two weeks ago, I say it often if you're
Speaker 1: having a thought that isn't in agreement with God or Christ,
Speaker 1: it's not your thought. Doesn't mean you don't take doesn't
Speaker 1: take it, doesn't mean you don't take responsibility for the thought.
Speaker 1: But if I'm having an inappropriate thought about my money,
Speaker 1: if I'm having a depressing thought about my recreation, if
Speaker 1: I'm having a depressing thought about my sexuality, if I'm
Speaker 1: having a depressing thought about my purpose, if I'm having
Speaker 1: a negative thought, if I'm having a theft thought or
Speaker 1: a fear thought about one of these ten trees that
Speaker 1: God has placed the desires of within me, then it's
Speaker 1: not me having the thought. It's an influence from Adam.
Speaker 1: That is an unclean influence from Adam. And I don't
Speaker 1: need to come into agreement with it. Now.
Speaker 2: I do take responsibility over it. I take it captive.
Speaker 1: I take it captive and then I grab that thought
Speaker 1: and I bring it back into obedience to the fountain
Speaker 1: head of my life. Adam is the fountain head of
Speaker 1: my life. Second Adam, last, Adam, victorious, Adam, overcoming Adam.
Speaker 1: He is the fountain head of my life. Now over here,
Speaker 1: this stuff just was natural. It was just flowing, like
Speaker 1: something flowing in my veins. Right, it was just natural
Speaker 1: for me to have these yucky thoughts. So now that
Speaker 1: I've put those thoughts to death and the power of
Speaker 1: those thoughts, and I'm no longer listening to the demonic
Speaker 1: realm that was orchestrating those thoughts, what am I going
Speaker 1: to think about? What am I going to think about?
Speaker 1: This is why we're exhorted to read the word. This
Speaker 1: is why we're exhorted to look at the word. This
Speaker 1: is why we're exhorted to meditate on the word day
Speaker 1: and night, and do not let anything else come out
Speaker 1: of your mouth. What's what's Joshua one six through eight? Say?
Speaker 1: Meditate on my words day and night. Don't let anything
Speaker 1: else come out of your mouth? Is Joshua one six
Speaker 1: through eight? Then you will make your way prosperous and successful.
Speaker 1: Did you hear that? Oh? No? God's gonna make my
Speaker 1: way prosperous and successful. Yes, he will, in a partnership
Speaker 1: with you. It's a partnership with you. You will make
Speaker 1: your way prosperous and successful because you have come into
Speaker 1: agreement with the resurrected life that is yours. You and
Speaker 1: I have to come into agreement with his resurrected life
Speaker 1: that is ours. Okay, it's almost time to quit. Already,
Speaker 1: time is flying. Let's read some verses Romans chapter six
Speaker 1: eight through eleven. Half we died with Christ. You might
Speaker 1: die with Christ. This is baptism. Okay. If we died
Speaker 1: with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.
Speaker 1: Now it's not talking about heaven. The topic is not heaven.
Speaker 1: Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies
Speaker 1: no more death no longer has dominion over him. For
Speaker 1: the death that he died. He died to sin once
Speaker 1: for all. Sin is the master of Adam. Satan is
Speaker 1: the master of sin in the waters of baptism, that's
Speaker 1: put to death. Yes, he died to sin once for all,
Speaker 1: But the life that he lives, he lives to God. Likewise,
Speaker 1: you also consider reckon believe that you yourselves are dead
Speaker 1: indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus,
Speaker 1: our Lord. So you're not just dead, you're alive. You're
Speaker 1: alive Lord, but you're alive to Christ Jesus. You're alive
Speaker 1: in Christ. Jesus. Yes, Colossians two, verse nine. For in Christ,
Speaker 1: all the fullness of the deity lives in bodily form.
Speaker 1: And in Christ you've been brought into fullness. He is
Speaker 1: the head of every power and authority. In Him, you
Speaker 1: were circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands.
Speaker 1: Your whole self rule by the flesh was put off
Speaker 1: when you were circumcised by Christ, having been buried with
Speaker 1: Him in baptism, in which you were also raised with Him.
Speaker 2: Through your faith, through your what.
Speaker 1: Now, you can't have faith if you don't know the word.
Speaker 1: There's an assumption with Paul. He's assuming that you're learning
Speaker 1: the word. He's assuming you're learning the word. If you're
Speaker 1: not learning the word, you can't have faith. Faith is
Speaker 1: not based on air. Faith is not a thurial. Faith
Speaker 1: is not a cloud somewhere that you grab. Faith is
Speaker 1: not a happy thought. Faith is based on the Word
Speaker 1: of God. Romans ten seventeen. Faith cometh by and hearing
Speaker 1: the word of Christ. The word of Christ. Christ makes
Speaker 1: the word alive, and the word word in Romanston seventeen
Speaker 1: is rama. He makes the rama of the word alive
Speaker 1: to your heart. And you can't have that if you
Speaker 1: don't devour the logos. You have to devour the logos
Speaker 1: that Christ will then buy the Holy Spirit quicken it
Speaker 1: unto rama. You devour the logos, he turns it into rama.
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit turns logos written word into rama. As you
Speaker 1: devour the word, I'm cheating. You came early, she came early,
Speaker 1: Colossing three one. Since then you've been raised with Christ.
Speaker 1: Set your hearts on things above where Christ is seated
Speaker 1: at the right hand of God. Now that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: set your heart on clouds. Set your heart on the
Speaker 1: way he thinks about money, the way he thinks about marriage,
Speaker 1: the way he thinks about recreation, the way he thinks
Speaker 1: about legacy, the way he thinks about influence, the way
Speaker 1: he thinks about ministry, the way he thinks about family.
Speaker 1: Set your mind on the way he thinks about these things.
Speaker 2: For you died, who died? Adam died.
Speaker 1: Your lineage in Adam has died, and your life is
Speaker 1: now hidden with Christ, the last atom in God, who's
Speaker 1: become the fountain head not just of your salvation or forgiveness,
Speaker 1: he's the fountain head of every thought, of every thought,
Speaker 1: of every thought, of every thought. The weapons of our
Speaker 1: warfare are mighty unto God. Taking every thought captive, how
Speaker 1: many thoughts, every thought captive, and bringing those thoughts into
Speaker 1: the obedience of Christ. Why Christ, it's not his last name.
Speaker 1: He's the anointed one, he's the Messiah, he's the Savior,
Speaker 1: he's the Redeemer. But he's also the fountain head of
Speaker 1: your being. He is the last atom, and your life
Speaker 1: now springs up out of the last atom, not the first.
Speaker 1: So we're learning in these scriptures how God thinks. We're
Speaker 1: learning how he thinks we're learning his thoughts over us.
Speaker 1: They're not just promises. But this little thing I handered
Speaker 1: out to you today is filled with promises. But it's
Speaker 1: more than promises. But it's the essence of how He
Speaker 1: thinks about all of these desires that stir you and
Speaker 1: move you, and that really you need. You need a
Speaker 1: word on them. You need a word on those desires.
Speaker 1: You need faith on those desires, and faith comes through
Speaker 1: His word when you partner with His word, that's partnering
Speaker 1: with faith. When you partner with faith, things begin to happen.
Speaker 1: Mountains begin to move, things begin to change, things begin
Speaker 1: to get transformed, and you begin to experience this resurrection
Speaker 1: life that we all desire. Hello, somebody one more if
Speaker 1: he's a four seventeen. So I tell you this and
Speaker 1: insist on it in the Lord that you must no
Speaker 1: longer live as the gentiles do in the futility of
Speaker 1: their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated
Speaker 1: from the life of God because of the ignorance that
Speaker 1: is in them, due to the hardening of their hearts,
Speaker 1: having lost all sensuality or sensitivity. I'm sorry, having lost
Speaker 1: all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so
Speaker 1: as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they're
Speaker 1: full of greed. That, however, is not the way of
Speaker 1: life that you learned when you heard about Christ and
Speaker 1: were taught in Him in accordance with the truth that
Speaker 1: is in Jesus. Wow, this is why we learn. We
Speaker 1: learn because only by learning about Him can we have
Speaker 1: a renewed mind. And only by having a renewed mind
Speaker 1: can we taste of the resurrection life He's ordained for
Speaker 1: us only only only by renewing our mind to the
Speaker 1: word of God and to the thinking of God over us.
Speaker 1: You were taught verse twenty two with regard to the
Speaker 1: fore our way of life, to put off the old self,
Speaker 1: which is being corrupted by deceitful desires, and to be
Speaker 1: made new in the attitude of your minds, and to
Speaker 1: put on the new self, created to be like God
Speaker 1: in true righteousness and holiness. It's a work of faith,
Speaker 1: but the faith has to be activated by the word
Speaker 1: of God. And so we take these scriptures, we study
Speaker 1: these scriptures like I want to go to a ministry
Speaker 1: right now, So turn over to whatever page that is
Speaker 1: we've got. Page one is my health and well being.
Speaker 1: Page two my vocation and Purpose, Page three my sexual fulfillment.
Speaker 1: Page four my ministry and serving. Look at this one.
Speaker 1: Look at this one. This is amazing now that you've
Speaker 1: been recreated in the image of Christ. Did you know
Speaker 1: what You have a ministry. You're called to the ministry.
Speaker 1: You have a ministry. God wants to use you. As
Speaker 1: long as I stay up here, If I stay at
Speaker 1: the pup tent of forgiveness. If I linger at the
Speaker 1: pup tent of forgiveness and I think this is maturity
Speaker 1: for me as a Christian, and I'm running to the
Speaker 1: outhouse and I'm suffering, and I'm coming squirting tears all
Speaker 1: the time because I keep blowing it so much. Then
Speaker 1: I feel unworthy. I don't get involved in ministry. I
Speaker 1: don't see myself as a minister. I don't see that
Speaker 1: I have anything to give. I just see myself as
Speaker 1: I just never get it. I'm just I'm worm. I
Speaker 1: just don't have it. It's because I'm not moving on
Speaker 1: to the recreational vehicle, the RV of resurrection life. When
Speaker 1: I come over here and I realize, oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: I'm going to run after the mind of Christ, the
Speaker 1: thoughts of the Lord. I'm going to get a renewed mind.
Speaker 1: I'm going to soak in the word of God. He's
Speaker 1: called me to resurrection and heaven on earth. When I
Speaker 1: get over here, I realize I'm partnering with Him even
Speaker 1: in ministry. And so here's what the Word says. The
Speaker 1: Word says, I have a unique calling. Romans, Chapter twelve,
Speaker 1: verse four. I have a unique calling. Let's go there.
Speaker 1: On the screens.
Speaker 2: For just as each of us has a body.
Speaker 1: With many members, feet, hands, arms, ears, and those members
Speaker 1: don't have the same function. So in Christ, oh I'm
Speaker 1: in Christ. I'm no longer in Adom. I'm in Christ.
Speaker 1: So in Christ, the many form one big body. We
Speaker 1: all have different members, and the members belong to one another,
Speaker 1: and we have different gifts according to the grace given
Speaker 1: each of us, and so we exercise those gifts. That's
Speaker 1: part of what this is about this morning, is we're saying, hey, Church,
Speaker 1: we got thirty one ministries here in the church, not
Speaker 1: counting small groups, thirty one ministries. And you have a
Speaker 1: place in these, like you have a place serving at
Speaker 1: Nitro or Refine, or serving with Kingdom kids or serving
Speaker 1: with tribe youth. You have a place. You have a
Speaker 1: place in engagement and involvement. And all of these ministries
Speaker 1: need the various different functions of gifting. They all need
Speaker 1: administrative help, they all need prayer help, they all need
Speaker 1: prayer teams, they all need prophetic help. They all need
Speaker 1: serving gifts like help gifts every one of these ministries.
Speaker 1: And so we can find a place in these. And
Speaker 1: here's what we believe in New hoverizon. We believe a
Speaker 1: new horizon that you should serve the Lord with your
Speaker 1: primary calling, but you also should serve someone else in theirs,
Speaker 1: And maybe serving someone else in theirs is actually the
Speaker 1: door to the fulfillment in yours. Look sixteen nine through
Speaker 1: eleven says that if you're faithful with another man's calling, stuff, goods, talents,
Speaker 1: if you're faithful with another man's God will make you
Speaker 1: ruler over your own. So sometimes one of the most
Speaker 1: wonderful things we can do instead of just wondering, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm called to, so I'm not
Speaker 1: going to serve. One of the most wonderful things we
Speaker 1: can do in a house of lively stones like this,
Speaker 1: where God's building us up and strengthening us and making
Speaker 1: us a family together is just get involved somewhere. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to serve somebody else in their vision.
Speaker 1: Let me find another place where I can serve. And
Speaker 1: as I present myself to the Lord in another vision,
Speaker 1: then I know he's gonna activate mine. He's going to
Speaker 1: strengthen me and mine. Would you stand with me this morning,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send the leaders to their tables. We've got
Speaker 1: all the department leaders around the room. I want to
Speaker 1: celebrate even before we dismiss I want to celebrate these
Speaker 1: department leaders. Every department leader is a partaker of grace,
Speaker 1: every partake.
Speaker 2: Every department leader is the partaker of.
Speaker 1: Grace through faith. Every department leader, something's happened with them,
Speaker 1: where there's awakening, where there's strength, where there's grace. And
Speaker 1: so they're partnering together with us as a church to
Speaker 1: care for the flock. Feed the flock, crow the flock,
Speaker 1: encourage the flock, equipped the flocks. This is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: We had a great revival in the nineties up at
Speaker 1: a church in Marysville. It was in the youth ministry.
Speaker 1: Benny Perez was the leader. About eight hundred young people
Speaker 1: were coming every Wednesday night to youth group. You knew
Speaker 1: who the ultra workers were, people with gray hair. You know,
Speaker 1: the greatest harvest is the greatest harvest is eighteen and under.
Speaker 1: And we can all serve. We can all serve that harvest.
Speaker 1: You're thinking, I'm not very hip. I don't have the
Speaker 1: coolest stuff. You got the coolest thing on the planet.
Speaker 1: You have love, You have the love of the Lord.
Speaker 1: You have the love of the Lord. You have a hug,
Speaker 1: you have friendship, you have kindness, you have maturity, you
Speaker 1: have a prophetic word in your mouth. Oh well, you
Speaker 1: could serve in any of these children's ministries. Any of
Speaker 1: these children's ministries needs you because of the love of
Speaker 1: the Lord that's in your life. So we just think
Speaker 1: about all these ministries here. I want you to run
Speaker 1: around and maybe visit three of them as you sign
Speaker 1: up today. You're not signing up under commitment, you're not committing,
Speaker 1: You're just saying I'm interested. And so maybe today there's
Speaker 1: two or three of these you're interested in, and you
Speaker 1: just sign up on the sheet and then let them
Speaker 1: know by doing so, then they'll reach out to you.
Speaker 1: And this is really just our way of getting you
Speaker 1: familiar with our teams, our leaders, our ministries. And it's
Speaker 1: not all thirty one represented here today, but there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of them here today, and we want you to
Speaker 1: say hi out front. Some of the ministries are serving
Speaker 1: you with food this morning while they tell you about
Speaker 1: the menu street. So we just said, you know what,
Speaker 1: what if we could do something fun where we feed
Speaker 1: the flock and make some lunch available and at the
Speaker 1: same time, just tell you about the ministries, so let's
Speaker 1: have fun together. Father, We thank you for this morning.
Speaker 1: We thank you for your grace on us. We thank
Speaker 1: you that you've led us not only to forgiveness in
Speaker 1: the Cross, but you've led us into the new creation.
Speaker 1: You've ordained a resurrected life for us. And we welcome
Speaker 1: right now your word to be imprinted and grafted sewn
Speaker 1: deeply into our hearts so that we can receive the
Speaker 1: renewed mind, so that we can receive the faith of Jesus,
Speaker 1: and so that we can partner with you in heavenizing
Speaker 1: the earth. We give you the thanks for it. We
Speaker 1: shot your blessing over these ministries and over this time
Speaker 1: together in Jesus' name. Amen, any man, Amen,