Fully Committed Wk. 3

Kevin Elworth

Fully Committed Wk. 3 • Sermon • Submitted 2 years ago

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From the very words of Christ, we have this mission stated clearly that ours is the opportunity to glorify his name through telling the world around us of the passion we have in Christ. Everyone of us has been challenged and changed through exposure to his name and it now becomes our exquisite opportunity to demonstrate that love, devotion and passion to someone, anyone around us that we have been changed and you too can experience change. I WANT TO CHANGE. I want to experience the difference. It all begins with the question Jesus started with in this dialog- What do people say about me?” Naturally Jesus was walking on a path leading the disciples straight to the heart of the matter (and they were fools if they didn’t see it coming) Who am I to you? Naturally, we’re presented with the same question today in our looking at this passage. Who is this Jesus to me? Question→ What options do we have that he could be to us? Most HIgh God. Creator. Bully. Healer. Distant. Counselor. Friend. Father. Peace. We can’t speak of the change in our hearts and lives until we know exactly who this change is and what it is capable of. Once we take that initial step, we can now take the sequential step of speaking that change to someone else.

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Intro: ??? Embrace the change

Up to speed with the story-

Jesus teaching through the areas, life change after life change.

The elite crowd of disciples who begin to think what they are seeing is all for other people.

SLIDE- Mt 15:29-31 MSG, After Jesus returned, he walked along Lake Galilee and then climbed a mountain and took his place, ready to receive visitors. They came, tons of them, bringing along the paraplegic, the blind, the maimed, the mute—all sorts of people in need—and more or less threw them down at Jesus’ feet to see what he would do with them. He healed them.

SLIDE- When the people saw the mutes speaking, the maimed healthy, the paraplegics walking around, the blind looking around, they were astonished and let everyone know that God was blazingly alive among them. Matthew 15:29-31 MSG

SLIDE - But Jesus wasn’t finished with them. He called his disciples and said, “I hurt for these people. Matthew 15:32 MSG

***MIRACLE*** 4K FED WITH 7 LOAVES AND A “FEW” FISH.

Goes on to do some teaching and then hits them with a huge question-

SLIDE - MT 16:13MSG When Jesus arrived in the villages of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “What are people saying about who the Son of Man is?” Matthew 16:13 MSG

That’s an easy question- Strictly informational. No problems here, not yet at least.

ELIJAH- THE ANCIENT HERO RYDER- BLUE POWER RANGER

JTB- THE MODERN DAY HERO.

JEREMIAH- NOT SURE WHY JEREMIAH.

OR SOME OTHER PROPHET- ANYBODY ELSE

But wait, lets take this up a level-- WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM…

NOW THIS IS PERSONAL.

RECAP A MINUTE- V13- HE ASKED HIS DISCIPLES.

SLIDE - V 14- THEY REPLIED. They replied, “Some think he is John the Baptizer, some say Elijah, some Jeremiah or one of the other prophets.

SLIDE - V15- HE PRESSED THEM. 15 He pressed them, “And how about you? Who do you say I am?”

SLIDE - V16- PETER ANSWERED. 16 Simon Peter said, “You’re the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” YOU ARE JESUS, CHRIST, MESSIAH, SON OF GOD.

ONE OF TWELVE CAME UP WITH AN ANSWER.

AND THAT DRAWS ME TO THE POINT WHERE I BELIEVE WE ARE AT TODAY-

NOT ALL OF US THINK WE NEED THE CHANGE THAT JESUS CAME TO PROVIDE.

I’M NOT SICK LIKE THEY ARE SICK. I’M NOT BROKEN LIKE THEY ARE BROKEN. I’M NOT HOPELESS

SLIDE -“THE DAY I STOP NEEDING THE LIFE CHANGING POWER OF THE CROSS OF CHRIST IS THE DAY I BECOME STAGNANT AND USELESS.”

→ IT’S TIME TO EMBRACE THE CHANGE ←

TADPOLL. Putred, get out.

1 OF Greatest detriments of church is thinking it’s there for someone else.

Transparency moment- Prayer, it’s value and purpose.

Prayer is for us to align our thinking to God’s purpose and plan rather than change his plan for a more personal favorable outcome.

SLIDE - Say this with me→ “God I need you to change me. “

Today is a day of humility, “God Today i need you, Today I need some change in my heart, life, etc”

<< Keys Beginning >>

SLIDE -16 Simon Peter said, “You’re the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” SLIDE -17-18 Jesus came back, “God bless you, Simon, son of Jonah! You didn’t get that answer out of books or from teachers. My Father in heaven, God himself, let you in on this secret of who I really am. SLIDE -And now I’m going to tell you who you are, really are. You are Peter, a rock. This is the rock on which I will put together my church, a church so expansive with energy that not even the gates of hell will be able to keep it out. SLIDE -19 “And that’s not all. You will have complete and free access to God’s kingdom, keys to open any and every door: no more barriers between heaven and earth, earth and heaven. A yes on earth is yes in heaven. A no on earth is no in heaven.” SLIDE -20 He swore the disciples to secrecy. He made them promise they would tell no one that he was the Messiah. Matthew 16:16-20 MSG

Keys- They grant access.

Reluctant to distribute this faith, BC WE’VE never given him acknowledgement of life change

SLIDE -John 1:12 ESV, But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12 ESV

SLIDE -Ephesians 6:19-20 NLT, And pray for me, too. Ask God to give me the right words so I can boldly explain God’s mysterious plan that the Good News is for Jews and Gentiles alike.[h] 20 I am in chains now, still preaching this message as God’s ambassador. So pray that I will keep on

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