Leaders Meeting

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2 Places that I want to go;
End of Romans 7, and start of Romans 8 and Colossians 3.
Read Romans 7:13- 24
Romans 7:13–24 ESV
Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Maybe whiteboard explain what’s happening here!
Romans 8:1–8 ESV
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
There is this recognising by Paul - Old Self vs the New Self. Saved and still not yet there.
Then we turn to Colossians 3 - And everything in Colossians 3 is only done through the power of the Holy Spirit - and Setting your Mind to the Spirit.
We can not do it with out being Led by the Holy Spirit.
The Flesh can not do it. Anything we do in the Flesh, we will fail.
Colossians 3:1 ESV
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Seek = Strive for something Earnestly - Contineous Action
Seek things that are above - Where Christ is.
Question; What are you SEEKING?
From your ministry this year?
In your Family?
In your walk with God?
How does what you’re SEEKING from your Ministry align with the Vision of Church242 and Jesus?
What is above? Blessings that we have been given.
OT is about Blessings below “LAnd, here is crop, kids healthy and strong” - but that’s the OLD COVENANT. We are in the NEW COVENANT.
Ephesians 1:3 ESV
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Matthew 6:19–21 ESV
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
If we focus on this world, it will break us.
Colossians 3:2–3 ESV
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Set your minds - Because we have died to the things of this earth | Our life is now hidden in Christ.
First we have Seek (Striving) - Then we have Set your minds;
This is the idea of Concentrating - Concentrat on things that are eternal.
**Magic Eye Picture**
2 Corinthians 4:18 ESV
as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Fix your minds on the things that are unseen.
Who thought - in a small hall, that God would ALREADY Accomplish so much;
Josh - Elevated from walking in, questioning me about my sermon to now preaching, leading, developing, intern.
Treva - Worship Leading, Singing to Spotify 13 weeks in a row, Really going through the fire, which we all know you have.
Dale and Angie - I still remember you saying “Yes, now what’s the question” - Look at what is being done through Youth.
Danny - From Drugs and Rock and Roll to probably the softest heart for Jesus that I haven’t seen.
Everyone here has a story.
why?
Because we have faith in God that will give ABUNDANTLY MORE THAN WE ASK OR THINK.
We started with 13 people and no leaders - Now we have a team - and I know God is asking us to go deeper. To trust Him More.
I have no doubt of a building - I have no doubt that thousands will flock to Jesus in the South West…but it can’t be through anything in the flesh - It’s gotta be through the Holy Spirit.
Through having Faith in things that WE CAN’T SEE.
Colossians 2:11 ESV
In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
Paul is saying; When we came to Jesus there was a fundamental shift in our identity - it’s already happened when we met Jesus at the Cross. Bring our daily activity into a place of Consistency. Spiritually circumcision.
We must strive consistently for that which is Spiritual!
Let’s finish our passage
Colossians 3:4–17 ESV
When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Above all - Put on Love. Let the peace of CHRIST RULE!!!
Everything we do, we do in the AUTHORITY of JESUS!!! We go through in JOY and PEACE because JESUS IS IN CONTROL.
THIS YEARS THEME.
SET YOUR MIND
STRIVING, CONCENTRATING - Not on things that are below, not on this EARTH, but on things that are ABOVE.
Hebrews 11:6 ESV
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
If we want Jesus to lead us to a place we haven’t been, we have to give up sight, but we also need to concentrate on what GOD HAS GIVEN US and the BLESSINGS HE HAS FOR US. We have to know in our heart of hearts that HE WANTS THIS MISSION TO SUCCEED.
And so the only thing that is stopping us…is our flesh getting in the way.
This year…BIG FAITH. BIG STRIVING BIG CONSISTENCY.
How does this play out Practically;
How this plays out in team - We have to pull each other up - Are we setting our mind on the things that are here, or the things that are above? How does this play out in our values?
Little Worshop Session;
Question; What are you SEEKING?
From your ministry this year?
In your Family?
In your walk with God?
How does what you’re SEEKING from your Ministry align with the Vision of Church242. **workshop this**
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