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Grace Place Atlanta COGBF
4700 Mitchell Street
Forest Park, GA 30297
Website: atlantacogbf.org
Email: info@atlantacogbf.org
Phone: (404) 241-6781
Wayne D. Mack, Pastor
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Pastor Wayne D. Mack Sermon Notes
December 11, 2022
Graduation: Elevation That Demands Revelation!
Joshua 3: 1-4 NKJV
3 Then Joshua rose early in the morning; and they set out from
Acacia Grove and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of
Israel, and lodged there before they crossed over.
2 So it was, after three days, that the officers went through the
camp;
3 and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of
the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests, the Levites,
bearing it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it.
4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand
cubits by measure.
Do not come near it, that you may know the way
by which you must go, for you have not passed this way before.”
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Today, I am finally making good on a promise that I made months ago
time after time in the early part of the year, during graduation season.
That promise was that we would honor and celebrate our graduates as
we do each year.
But this year proved somewhat challenging for me due
to our piece meal return to in-person worship in the diminishing days of
the pandemic.
Well, this morning, I’m happy that we the occasion to honor our grads –
at long last.
Our known 2022 grads are Ashton Williams, Charity Haynes, Olivia
Payne, and Kelsey Lonon.
I believe we have others, and besides that I
want to be sure that we haven’t missed any graduates that may have
gotten lost in the pandemic shuffle.
We will do our due diligence to
acknowledge every graduate.
I’m so proud of each of you.
Some are here, others tuning in virtually.
In today’s message, I want to encourage our grads through a message
that was revealed to me through the Scripture from the life and
experiences of Joshua.
This morning’s message is one that has
application beyond our present graduates; it has meaning for all who
continue to explore and embark on new ventures.
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But the spotlight of today’s service is on our 2022 graduates.
In a message entitled Graduation: Elevation That Demands
Revelation!, I want to share a nugget of wisdom and encouragement
that will bless graduates to experience the ultimate blessing of their
grand accomplishment.
To be clear, life is full of graduations.
In fact, we never stop graduating.
Believe it or not, we’re always graduating.
Some graduations are formal
and others are just a natural part of life – like job changes, marriage,
divorce, pregnancy, raising a family, moving into new places or new
cities, retirement, or striking it rich.
These things are all graduations of
some sort or other.
But with every graduation, especially high school and college
graduations, there’s a principle and practice from the Word of God that I
want to alert our grads today.
That principle and practice is found in the Book of Joshua, Chapter 3,
verses 1-4 (NKJV).
Listen to how it reads:
3 Then Joshua rose early in the morning; and they set out from
Acacia Grove and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of
Israel, and lodged there before they crossed over.
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2 So it was, after three days, that the officers went through the
camp;
3 and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of
the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests, the Levites,
bearing it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it.
4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand
cubits by measure.
Do not come near it, that you may know the way
by which you must go, for you have not passed this way before.”
I want to make a few points around this passage as it teaches us
something quite special about what is the spice of graduating.
It says to
graduates that your Graduation is an Elevation That Demands
Revelation!
Let’s return to the classroom for a moment and get a few definitions,
then a short lecture from Professor Joshua.
To begin, let’s define two key words in the message title: Elevation and
Revelation.
Elevation or Elevate is defined as . . .
Elevation = the height to which
something is elevated; Elevate is = to raise or lift (something) up to a
higher position; 2: to raise in rank or status; 3: to improve morally,
intellectually, or culturally; 4: to raise the spirits of : ELATE
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Revelation is defined as . . .
Revelation = : an act of revealing or
communicating divine truth.
: something that is revealed by God to
humans.
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