To Be Continued

Good morning, LCM!  Today's date is March 23, 2025 and the title of today's message is "To Be Continued". Today is a special day!  This is Carlos Rueda's last service with us in our current context! Our brother has tickets "in hand" and will be traveling tomorrow towards Bergamo, Italy to establish the groundwork for joining Ps. Masi, his family, & Betlemme church.  Shortly thereafter, Patti & his children, accompanied by family, will land in Colombia to work on acquiring their proper visa & immigration standing to make the permanent move to Italy. 

Today marks the end of a glorious, spirit-led and fruitful season the Reuda's have had at LCM and the continuation of even greater works through this family joining in our One Association Europe church in Bergamo, Italy. Carlos Rueda and his family are a gift to LCM and bless each One Association church that they visit. Everything that this family has done here, they will continue & magnify first in the short term in Colombia, then in Italy,

Carlos' heart for the Father and the people of God is rich with loving actions and a deep abiding love for God's word. He has functioned like a pastor in this congregation for many years demonstrating the actions of scriptural counsel to most of you, adding depth and clarity to Foundations teachings, interceding for your souls and strengthening the body through sacrifice. WE see Carlos as a pastor!!  {Move the people to joyful response)

Therefore, immediately after this sermon, the pastors and elders of LCM are going to post a video to the One Association nominating Carlos Reuda for ordination as a One Association pastor to be done by the OAE.

As Psalms 126 describes we feel like we are "those who dream" as God has led us beyond our wildest expectations into such a fruitful season.  Further,  we have to express thankfulness for the very tangible reality that "God has done great things for us".  We truly are living in the greatest expansion of the gospel in our history as a church and we are watching this expansion across the entirety of the One Association as a whole. 

Purpose vs position

With us as a church as we began the proliferation of teams

Home group(s)

Hebron

OAE

Sending Ruedas to join the Masi's, Arezinas, Parsons, Stephens, Arezinas…

Aim of Jerusalem… Hebron tie in

didn’t know family… result of someone else’s ministry...

learned here what it is to be in a family that is devoted to one another… fulfilling God’s purposes & forwarding His Kingdom

LCM is the place the Father chose to make us who we are!

Built us...

One Life...At a time

One Family...

One Nation...

Holiness or Die trying

Thornes & thistles will not prevent the work of your hands

Be fruitful in this house, in this season

Devote yourself to the hardest work…

Call out Peru, Indo, Italy, Romania, Submission, KHC, Remnant, Arising

Call out Homestead...

Psalm 2 ESV

1 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, 3 “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” 4 He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision. 5 Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, 6 “As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.” 7 I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you. 8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession. 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.” 10 Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth. 11 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

Strange Sight…

Exodus 3:1–3 ESV

1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”

Integrity of heart… watched about 5 years ago… went to federal courthouse… watched a man full of integrity…

Trusted in God's Sovereignty…

Romans 15:14–17 ESV

14 I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another. 15 But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God 16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. 17 In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.

Bow process…

Barzillai/Kimham

Ps 139… unformed substance  & days/works written… (Eph 2, )

Levites - called, gifted, purified, glorified

Sovereignty of God

Embody vs engage… Reflecting God's Standard & His heart (actions & emotions)

Kairos/Chronos

Cast vision: Continued in nations, generations

We are LCM… we send our best

We are the OAC… we build the very best; you can see this is in Indonesia, Peru, the Balkans (Romania, Italy)

We are the OAC… our goal is to be bows that launch arrows out into the nations with our sights set on paving the way back to Israel/Jerusalem

We are the OAC… times of Ibzan, greatest expansion with the weapons of old

Our time with Rueda's is To Be Continued…

1 Peter 2:23 (ESV)

23 When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.

2 Peter 3:4 (ESV)

4 They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”

1 John 2:19 (ESV)

19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.

2 Corinthians 3:1–3 (ESV)

You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. 3 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

Philippians 2:14–18 (ESV)

14 Do all things without grumbling or disputing, 15 that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, 16 holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. 17 Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. 18 Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.