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Extraordinarily Ordinary
Our daily lives are filled w/ ordinary routines.
Get up.
Quite time.
Go to work ( I may be the only one)
Lunch
Work
Dinner/supper
Monday I disciple a friend
Tuesday auxiliary
Wednesday men’s BS/PU the bread
Thursday BS
Friday date w/ Sara day, bills, etc.
Saturday evening service
Sunday
Next week: Repeat
In the midst of the ordinary there are punctuated times of the extraordinary.
Rare, but real.
Saved at 17, dramatic life change.
Purpose.
Shy no more.
Healed when I was in college
Not a major thing but it made a major impact on me.
Each time we moved we saw God’s involvement.
1 year w/out a job was disconcerting.
But God was clearly preparing us for each other.
Nobody sinned so bad.
Nobody made a mistake or poor choice.
I don’t regret at all not getting any of those other jobs.
I didn’t know it at the time, but none were as good a fit as this one.
God saved us for each other.
1 year to the day.
Then, another year to the day until our LR house sold.
Coincidence?
Once maybe.
God was telling us He is trustworthy.
I can trust Him when things get hard.
There are a couple of problems we run into regarding God’s extraordinary work in our ordinary lives.
We become so used to the ordinary we stop looking for the extraordinary.
Satisfied.
Content w/ managing our own life in our own power.
We can become addicted to the extraordinary and fail to see God involvement in the ordinary.
So, when nothing extraordinary happens for a while we become discouraged and we feel like God doesn’t care about us.
We’re on our own now.
Both situations lead to us feeling like we need to manage our own lives instead of deepening our dependence upon Him.
Then, we encounter something hard and we don’t know how to handle it.
We’ve wandered away and been on our own for a while.
Nothing extraordinarily good has happened in a long time so in this extraordinarily hard storm we can’t see Jesus so we wonder, Is He really here?
We lost touch w/ Jesus in the ordinary.
And, we have such short memories b/c we have forgotten the times when Jesus did something extraordinary in the midst of our ordinary.
Jesus will do enough extraordinarily good in our lives so we can be sure we can trust Him when things get extraordinarily bad.
How do we know?
Miracle #26
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Peter has confessed that he believes that Jesus is the One.
Jesus is the Messiah.
The only One who can save us.
Jesus told them He was going to build His church on the foundation of faith just like that.
Conceived in this moment; birthed at Pentecost.
This international, multi-cultural, supernatural, dynamic living organization that we are a part of today.
Ecclesia, not a building, but an association of people w/ a common purpose.
Established and built on faith like Peter’s.
Peter and the Apostles will have a major role to play.
But, he struggled w/ the idea that Jesus had to die to fulfill His calling as Messiah and Church-Builder.
In Peter’s mind, dead is gone forever.
“I’m not going to let that happen.”
His faith was correct, just incomplete, underdeveloped.
Jesus had to prove to him that dead is not gone, but still alive.
Transfiguration.
Moses and Elijah, dead hundreds of years, but clearly alive.
So, dead isn’t the end.
Dead is just different.
The objective is going to become not to evade death on earth, but to achieve life in the kingdom.
Peter bets his eternal life on Jesus’ claim sets his earthly life on promoting this objective.
At Pentecost when the small group of believers come out of the upper room speaking in different languages it’s Peter who steps up and explains what is happening.
Jesus has just been executed by some of the people in the crowd who’d gathered to see this extraordinary spectacle.
Jesus is the Messiah, this is the Church.
Believe and join us.
He became the unofficial apostle to the Jews.
He wrote 2 letters included in our NT.
He was persecuted, tortured, imprisoned and eventually martyred; crucified upside down.
If he was going to go thru all this, stick to the objective and the message to death, then he had to be sure it was true.
Who would die for something they didn’t believe in?!
Jesus isn’t the Messiah.
Or, one of many ways to get to heaven.
He was there for all of Jesus’ messages and miracles.
He walked on water.
He messed up bad and personally experienced Jesus gracious reconciliation.
But, he also had the benefit of this private experience w/ Jesus which helped ensure his belief that this is all true.
Ordinary but Unnecessary
Ordinary tax
When Moses led Israel out of Egypt, they were so eager for Israel to leave after the plagues, Egyptians gave Israel all their wealth.
Israel plundered Egypt w/out a war.
They walked out w/ everything.
Wealthy.
God instructed Moses to build a portable temple.
They were wandering thru the wilderness.
Tent of meeting.
Very specific instructions for an altar.
Very costly.
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