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Jesus’s Primary Message
Mark 4:26
26 He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like.
A man scatters seed on the ground.
27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.
28 All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.
29 As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”
When we think about the central figure of Christianity the first thing we should go to is the cross, it’s Jesus.
As we look at Jesus and his ministry and message, his words and his works, there is something that stands out.
Jesus talked about the Kingdom of God more than anything else.
When he taught, he talked about the Kingdom of God, when he performed miracles he said the Kingdom of God is at hand.
Within these 3 words contain a story and a mystery that once unpacked opens a door to the heart of God like never before.
Key to Scripture
With Jesus being the central point, not only what He did but what He said.
Understanding the Kingdom unlocks the Old Testament, that’s what Jesus did.
When we study the Old Testament with the understanding of the Kingdom it expands the New Testament and brings a fuller meaning to what God is saying.
Reading the letters of Paul, James, and John to the Corinthians or Ephesians takes on a new essence.
When we understand and study the Kingdom, we begin to discover a portion of the depth of God’s love, and His mission for the world.
The reason Jesus is the central point
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Embodying the Message
As we move forward, I want to talk about what we do with what we learn.
Head
What is theology?
It’s the study of God.
That’s all it is.
The Bible calls us to theology, to study God.
That’s part of what we’re doing here and going to continue to do.
As we look at the big picture of God, Jesus, the Spirit, and the bible, engage with your mind.
Think about whatever understanding you have and process what needs to shift in our thinking.
Heart
We don’t stop there however.
As we work through the processes and shift in our thinking we need to let that flow downward and begin to examine how what we’re reading, hearing, and thinking affects what we’re feeling.
What’s going on in our heart?
To be able to wrestle with what’s going on, on in the inside, to struggle to reconcile the tension in our hearts, and to allow ourselves to experience the reality of what God is saying.
Action
Finally, what we’re processing through in our head and experiencing in our heart must lead us to action.
We must think and we must experience, but we must also act.
And understand, these steps to embody the message are not a forced set of rules to obtain holiness, rather it’s a call, an invitation to experience and embody a message of hope.
The Bible’s Story
Looking at the bible, we generally break it up into 2 sections.
The Old Testament and the New Testament.
There’s a good reason for that.
The Old Testament otherwise known as the Hebrew Bible has been around a lot longer.
There are other reasons as well, but in this series I want to show you that while we have this divide in books or volumes, they are actually one story.
Everything is linked, it’s one story in 4 chapters.
Often, only 2 or 3 chapters are told and focused on, we want to look at all 4 chapters.
It’s a story that helps us understand why we’re here and what we’re called to do.
It’s a story where we get to see the very heart of God displayed in beauty, compassion, and wonder.
Creation
The story begins, as you would imagine, with creation.
In the bible there are multiple accounts of creation, even beyond Genesis and in Genesis there are 2 accounts.
What we see in both is that this is the main plot of the story, this is God’s original intention, original plan for the world and humanity.
In this 1st account of creation we see a world flourishing, bursting with goodness, with life that has the ability to create more life, more goodness.
There’s an intuition we have that tells us of this goodness.
When you see something broken you want to fix it, because something in you is saying ‘it must be fixed’.
When you see a child in pain, hungry, there’s something in you that says, ‘this should not be.’
What is this intuition, what is it that makes us revolt against marred creation.
It’s an innate understanding that the world is beautiful, that the world is good.
The world isn’t just beautiful, it’s the beautiful gift from a God of love.
This first chapter, creation, is not just the beginning of the story, but it’s the foundation of everything that is revealed to us, even today.
Psalm 65:1-5
5 You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds,
God our Savior,
the hope of all the ends of the earth
and of the farthest seas,
6 who formed the mountains by your power,
having armed yourself with strength,
7 who stilled the roaring of the seas,
the roaring of their waves,
and the turmoil of the nations.
8 The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders;
where morning dawns, where evening fades,
you call forth songs of joy.
9 You care for the land and water it;
you enrich it abundantly.
The streams of God are filled with water
to provide the people with grain,
for so you have ordained it.
10 You drench its furrows and level its ridges;
you soften it with showers and bless its crops.
11 You crown the year with your bounty,
and your carts overflow with abundance.
12 The grasslands of the wilderness overflow;
the hills are clothed with gladness.
13 The meadows are covered with flocks
and the valleys are mantled with grain;
they shout for joy and sing.
In the second account the narrative shifts a bit, we see creation more in regards to humans.
We see an intimacy.
The God of the universe in a loving relationship with man and woman.
This intimacy demonstrates for us not only what was meant to be, but what is now possible between one another and with God.
It’s a relationship where the creator handed everything over to humanity as an inheritance.
[This is yours, take care of it].
We squandered it away (which we’ll get to later).
With this inheritance he gave humans authority (not over each other) over this created goodness, and asks for obedience to maintain that authority.
You see, when I say obedience, that word carries a lot of baggage, because through history it’s been used to abuse, misuse, and destroy people.
When God calls us to obedience as he did in the beginning, it’s because he wants us to do it his way, in order to maintain and multiply the beauty and love He just created.
It’s not demeaning nor controlling.
This obedience creates an authority that is characterized by love, care, and tender affection, not what we tend to see people do, but kind of in the way Jesus used his authority (through his obedience).
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