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PRAY
Thousands of people have gathered to hear
of people have gathered to hear
the disciples (of the crucified Jesus)
shouting and preaching in the street.
For the first time in multi-cultural Jerusalem
every person is being preached to in his own tongue, his own language.
The confusions first brought about at the tower of Babel
where God stopped mankind's sinful greed for power
by confusing them by introducing new languages,
has in some ways been reversed.
Every language is being invited back to God!
Are these men drunk, how can they know these foreign languages.
How is this possible!
And so Peter,
a disciple of Jesus,
announces the full story.
He shows how Jesus fulfils the OT promises
that the Jewish leaders would have known only too well as they listened.
He shows how even this confusing scene before them was predicted by the prophet Joel,
hundreds of years before.
and he ends with the verse we begin with
And the crowd is stunned.
The long awaited Messiah,
the one who would make humanity right again with God!
the Lord of all the Universe,
Jesus really was the the one from God,
the one we have waited hundreds of generations for, it really was Jesus!
This is amazing, incredible, wonderful, joy.....wait.
We killed him!
Friends here today,
this is our common ground.
These are the steps that each of us has trodden.
This is the journey that every Jesus Follower in this room has taken.
We have been cut to the heart when we have realised
we too have brought about the murder of Jesus on the cross,
the Messiah, the Lord,
becasue we too have turned out backs on God in so many ways.
What shall we do?
Well we know don’t we, if we are Following Jesus:
How extraordinary that we walk the same path as every Jesus Follower in History,
we repent, we say sorry, we strive to turn from our rebellion against God.
We receive freely the forgiveness we don’t deserve
becasue Jesus died in our place.
We are baptised in order to represent the Lord’s death and resurrection in our place.
(And if you haven’t been baptised, then please chat to me or an elder afterwards)
We receive the Holy Spirit,
the guarantee,
He lives in us,
working in us to make us more and more loving towards God and towards each other.
Forgiven for things we don’t want anyone to know about, forgiven for our rejection of God.
Look around this room,
Indwelt by God himself by His HS!
these are your band of Brothers and Sisters,
We are blood related - in Jesus,
we share the same DNA - by the HS.
We have the same Father in God.
We are ‘Following Jesus Together’
We are ‘Following Jesus Together’
The Bible knows nothing of a Lone Ranger Christian - it’s not an option!
The only example I can think of in the OT is Elijah,
who basically tries to kill himself
becasue he’s so miserable without a spiritual family!
Following Jesus Together.
You see our vision as Grace Church is not just Following Jesus,
with a few ‘Power Words’ after it to make some points!
No, it is ‘Following Jesus Together’
I’m sure people here have annoyed you,
I’m sure some of you have been hurt,
insulted,
overlooked,
ignored,
unfairly treated.
But we are:
But do you know what, we are family.
Not the family that fights and that stops talking too each other.
A family united under the common understanding that we have all hurt Jesus
far more than we have ever hurt each other.
A family that despite that hurt we’ve caused Jesus,
are forgiven and loved unconditionally by Him!
A family that unites together under the magnificence of Jesus whom we Follow!
A family that loves out enemies let alone our family
A family who keep short accounts becasue
Jesus keeps no accounts for his followers.
A family who are slow to angre,
becasue Jesus has only Love for his followers.
A Family who says yes easily
and hears no understandably - Because Jesus
We are a family that prioritises:
Following Jesus Together.
Just like that first church in Acts.
And so, that is our Vision as a church.
Following Jesus Together - Just like that first church in Acts.
So What does this ‘Following Jesus together’ look like?
Following Jesus means listening to him,
learning from the bible - the apostles teaching,
it means spending time and effort with other believers, fellowship,
and it means remembering the death and resurrection,
the forgiveness and life we receive all through Jesus - breaking the bread,
and it means speaking to God often, prayer.
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