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Theme for 2019 - “Living Expectantly”
(Remind people who weren’t here last week to listen to the message that the Lord gave me for the new year.
It’s not part of our series for the year, but it lent itself to it very well.)
You know every year, that I pray and ask the Lord to give me a theme for the year.
The words that I heard for this year, 2019 is “Living Expectantly” In other words living in a way that enables us to experience the excitement of Who Jesus is and what He has done for us.
That we would be a church that meets expectantly
That we would be a church that prays expectantly
That we would be a church that allows our expectations of God to unite us and draw us together as one.
The theme verse that the Lord has given me for this year is found in
We will be taking this verse and studying those things that we should be looking forward to as believers.
We will be talking about how that anticipation and expectancy lead us to the abundant rich life that Jesus enables us to live.
And during this year, my prayer is that God would once again excite our hearts about things that we in the American Church have become so blah about.
I believe that God is going to take His word and use it to wake us up, Rev us up and let us Go
SST
Does anyone remember the SSP Racers?
Picture of SSP Racer Car
They were a car that you would slide this ridged Tstick through a whole in it and when you would rip the Tstick out that car would fly.
I think what God is doing this year in our church is inserting the spiritual Tstick in, and he’s getting ready to pull it hard.
At least, I’m praying that for all of us.
Here is what I’m praying for when I say that.
I am praying that we would begin to see the times that we are living in as God Filled Opportunities!
We are Living in God Filled Opportunities!
we read the first couple chapters of Acts and we get excited.
That’s the way that God meant the church to be
The church was exciting, it was growing
The church was alive.
And I think that we tend to compare ourselves to that and it causes us some problems in our faith.
We tend to think that time is over
We tend to think that the times are so different that couldn’t happen again
It’s as if many people in the church today, tend to think that the good times are behind us.
I want you to know today, that is a lie of satan.
Why are things so dark and evil?
I want you to know that through the history of God having a people - that every God action has had a contrasting demonic action.
We love Acts chapter 2. As I’ve said, we get excited about it.
But when you keep reading, you see that the enemy wasn’t excited about it.
In fact, he hated it and strikes out at it.
In chapter 4 we see that the church is persecuted greatly
Peter and John were arrested, and warned not to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ again.
In chapter 5 - We see satan’s hand moving in corruption - Anannias and Sapphira lie about their giving
More persecution as this time the apostles aren’t just warned, but arrested and beaten
In chapter 6 he rears his ugly demon’s face of division.
The greek widows are being overlooked and now the hebrews and the greeks get ready to draw lines.
In chapter 7, Stephen will be stoned for his faith.
And we know who everyone who is throwing stones leaves their coats with.
The great persecutor named Saul.
Church family, we are living in much the same time as the church that we are to model after.
Because it was the church that Jesus built.....and empowered.
The only difference is that that they were in a pre-christian culture.
We are in a post-Christian culture.
Richard Mayhew writes - Arguably, no time in church history has more closely approximated the first-century beginning of the church than now.
Our ancient brethren faced a pagan pre-christian culture.
Similarly the contemporary church encounters a pagan, post-christian, and postmodern world.
The essential biblical model of ministry of the first century has never been more appropriate than it is today.
Let me read that again....The essential biblical model of ministry of the first century has never been more appropriate than it is today.
That should encourage our hearts today.
It should heighten our expectation in what can be accomplished in our world today.
But we focus on the negatives.
We look at our world and what’s happening in it.
The way people see the church
The hatred for the church
The openess in life for everything else, but the church and Christianity
If you say something, your are old fashioned
If you stand for something, you are irrelevant and outdated
You are a hatemonger and a bigest
And so we quiet ourselves down, because nobody will listen to us anyways, and we don’t want to rock the boat.
Listen church family, wake up and get that boat shaking.
Do you know anything about the Roman Empire?
Because they were in charge when the church of Acts were doing ministry.
The leaders of Rome were blood thirsty
They were sexual deviants
They worshipped all kinds of gods and made themselves gods as well
The christian church was dubbed as contrary to the spiritual atmosphere of the day because they refused to worship all the idols and gods of Rome.
They were despised for their stand against the Roman way of worship
They were labeled as being antisocial because they would not partake in pagan celebrations in their communities
And they were marked as dangerous because of their stand against the norm and their prayers against the wrongs of society.
They were used as torches in Nero’s courts.
They were sewn up in animal skins and thrown into the coliseums with wild animals.
My brothers and sisters, we are living in a time when it is ripe for the ministry of the gospel.
And was the difference?
Verse 2 of
Acts
In the midst of a split that threatened to be the end of the church, the church leaders, the apostles declare with boldness.
That the Word of God would be supreme in their mission and leadership.
That they would not allow the situations and craziness and evil around them to to hinder them in their prayer, study and ministry of the Word.
Why?
Because the understood where their power and authority came from.
They knew and understood what they called to do
And they were smart enough to recognize the attack of the enemy when it came.
And not fall prey to it.
They were ready for tomorrow.
And look what tomorrow held
Acts 6:8-
Acts 7:54-
They choose Stephen to oversee the ministry of the widows and now he is dead, stoned to death.
I think that if they had not made that statement of faith about the ministry and the Word that at this point, the church could have fallen apart.
But these few words, changed everything.
We will give ourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word.
I’m praying for a supernatural grace
We are Living in a Time of Supernatural Grace
Grace - a divine influence which operates in humans to change us through sanctification, to inspire us to do godly things, and to impart strength to us to endure trials and resist temptations.
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