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Intro and Tension
Intro and Tension
**Video**
Sin - Hebrew = “Chata” - Translates = “missing the mark” - actually more complicated |
Paul tells us;
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
all missed mark.
problem wiht that; We see sin differently in ourselves, then others.
Tend to do one of 2 things;
We are either harder on ourselves than everyone else = My sin is terrible | How can amazing Christians be so happy, when I struggle... - If I hear you can be healed in Jesus name one more time… struggle with self-un-ritousness.
Or
Harder on everyone else, minimise our own sin = I can’t believe that person is struggling with____Blank.
The problem with this - Both mindsets don’t put Jesus and what He did on cross in proper place | and it always ends up hurting you and minimising Jesus.
Truth is = grace is underserving | free gift - and available to all. And the truth, will set you free.
Title: You’re invited to the party, and so is everyone else
My hope: God will open eyes and hearts to the grace we have received | head to heart knowledge.
**Prayer**
This message | Was going to be huge | 2 parts | Message was going to be later | now’s the time | If you’re here, it could be for you.
Packing Season | As a church, on the move | Your relationship with God | On the move | you’re in Transit | One thing we are trying to take;
A heart that is in tune with God’s
To do that, got rid of; Fear - Packed, Peace and Joy.
This week -look at Grace that saves - Next week, grace that changes
Context
Going through Jonah | His battle with giving the ninevites Grace | Jonah, profit in OT | lived in grace | God asked him to give grace to ninevites | Chose to run in stead | Not aware - Ninevites where crazy bad (expand) | relate?
what does Jonah do? Runs | ship | sleeps, gets thrown overbaord, swallowed by big fish, and Jonah’s repentance starts | Beautiful Psalm, Lord, you pulled me down, and yet you saved me - Just majestic, and then it says;
And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.
Lovely.
Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.”
Sounds Familiar | Word for Word Chapter 1 | Offered NEW Beginning | God didn’t say “I’m done with you” | God said, I sent him to room for 3 days, and here is another chance | God is the God of 2nd chances, 3rd chances, 4th chances - but Notice, God did shape him | Did Prepare him in Private - Grace gives another chance, but the Truth is, He had to go through some stuff.
In Jonah’s Rebelion - God was Gracious
grace = Khen - Hen. God gives him Favour = HEN. Nothing to do with what Jonah did, but Who God is.
God’s Grace has nothing to do with our actions, and everything to do with God’s Goodness.
Jonah walks in | covered in vomit | says;
Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
This is LEAST effort Jonah could have put in | Bare minimum | 8 words - entire message - What a prophet | Didn’t want them to be saved, even after what had happened |
Overthrown = Overturned - turned around - One way or another - God chose to show GRACE to the ninevites.
Problem for Jonah - grace recieved - couldn’t give - Jonah, couldn’t get it | Measuring Sin
Jesus, didn’t discriminate. Better Jonah.
He was different | Expect to overthrow roman government but he was like nope: Love people | He bought the Kingdom of God down -
Go through a parable | Try and understand how Jesus different to Jonah - The grace He gives - and hopefully, open our eyes.
Ok ready? A lot of Bible here. Brace yourself.
And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.” ’ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.’ And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests. “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many are called, but few are chosen.”
WHAT? Sometimes, read bible - be like “What was that?” “Ok, done my 10 minutes, done”.
Anyone got a “When I get to heaven” question?
One of those passages . If miss Context | Miss the message | Let’s walk through it.
King sets a party | Feast is ready | But people got to busy, to distracted for the kingdom - Eyes where not opened | Had their own purpose
Then king said, get everyone, good and bad | Anyone thinks they aren’t worthy - this is for you | God says; Bring them ALL | Notice what he does not say “Make sure they are clean” no = just come
God’s Grace doesn’t discriminate.
Party invite, said smart casual, I just read casual, gosh. so out of place. Anyone else? Sometimes feel like that in kingdom of God.
Standrad in this party | Remember King found someone without a “Wedding Garment” |
Wedding Garments | How did they get them? Back in day | King provide garments | Come as you are | but don’t stay that way.
He would provide EVERYTHING YOU NEED when you GOT INTO HIS PRESENCE.
bring danny up
The truth is, The king is the one that does the cleaning.
What do wedding garments represent?
Standard = Rightousness - Right standing with HIM - How do you get it? Once you REPENT and put your FAITH in JESUS CHRIST, you are COVERED by HIS Rightousness.
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—
He takes you as you are - loves you too much to leave you there | 2nd week - please come back.
When Jesus ate with Sinners | Who where they? | Who did Jesus choose to give GRACE to? The people who where outside the party | all sinners.
Who did Jesus give truth to? To the people who CLAIMED or were IN HIS PRESENCE.
We can’t meet standard for the kingdom | Your good works, will never meet standard rightousness
Good news - Jesus provides it - because we could not. We get access - because of Jesus.
the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
Jesus saw you and knew, you couldn’t provide sacrifice - so he provided the covering.
Question; Do you feel covered? There are still sins that need repenting - it’s not what I’m saying - next week - Do you feel, you are in right standing with God if you believe?
Everything you need, to meet the standard, has been provided.
Once you see this - You move from doing works to make up for stuff - to doing works as a reaction to seeing what God has done for you. Overflow of God’s Love, that He did this.
Jonah, unfortunately, didn’t understand what God had done for him.
So what do we do?
Inspo and Close
Inspo and Close
Jesus tells us;
For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Pharisees = Knew | We have to go beyond knowing - We have to move to seeing.
When I saw what Jesus had done - My life changed - My prayer is that we SEE.
Unless we see condition, that we were in, and what Christ did, the gospel will always just be “Pretty good news” and not “good news”.
How do we move to seeing the grace God gave to us, to ourselves, and to others that God gave us?
We understand that it’s not “THE cross” it’s OUR CROSS - Big shift, with God’s help - We realise that Jesus didn’t die on the cross - died on MY CROSS - Only victim in gospel story =JESUS CHRIST | One innocent person | We are perpertrators, we need help | In a world where no one can be guilty, we have to understand, we were guilty. Isaiah said, all have gone astray.
God was not a passive bystander - God was the instigator that crushed Jesus on the cross - Jesus signed off on it - Gethsemene | Perfect fellowship, for you - When you see that, the eyes are open, it changes everything.
God’s wrath on Jesus, destroyed our Curse - God’s wrath fell on Jesus, it smashed our curse - We now have LIFE- It blots out our Sin - why would he? AGAPE LOVE
Because of that - IT IS FINISHED - DONE AWAY WITH OUR SIN - Not in process of taking away shame - he smashed it -
now he says - no condemnation in Christ. Guilt is OVER.
When you see Jesus was Crushed for you it crushes all “Self” in it’s wake, and that’s how you know.
any effort we do to improve our condition, is powerless - Jesus has the clothes to wear - When our eyes are opened - Any notion that says;
not good enough to be loved by God - gone -
“it’s for everyone else but my stain is too bad” - Gone -
all of it gone
Self-made plan - gone, self made name - gone, self made protection - gone -
Jesus died for YOUR protection | to give you a NEW NAME.
For when I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil because it is FINISHED.
and I recieve it - not going to be instantly perfected - process - but I have seen the lord - any self rightousness, any self un-rightousness should be destroyed.
I am in Party because JESUS | you are invited to the party, we are invited to the party because of JESUS CHRIST.
This is my resting place;
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
If you think you don’t deserve to be in the party - it’s true.
If you think someone else doeesn’t deserve to be in the party - it’s true.
The changing, from our condition happens, when you get to the party
We will be a church - that will be known - For our Grace to the sinners - and our Loving, Life Changing Truth to believers.
but Today I encourage you to accept through FAITH, your invitation to the PARTY, and have EYES WIDE OPENED, for how you got here.
And put on the clothes, that Jesus has prepared for you and THEN, out of that place, seek to be more like him, for your GOOD and HIS GLORY.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
**Prayer**