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Offering:
Sunrise locations?
Fred Meyer
The blessing of shared joy
Shared with Christ as praise
Shared with another for mutual enjoyment and encouragement
(table, movie, music)
Our lives are to be examples of God’s endless generosity to us.
This morning as we take our offering, thank you for your faithful giving to HCC. but also, pray and allow God to show you in moments large and small opportunities to give.
Jab 1
White Blood Cells
They look exactly like amoebae: amorphous blobs of turgid liquid with darkened nuclei, they roam through the body by extending a finger-like projection and humping along to follow it.
Sometimes they creep along the walls of the veins; sometimes they let go and free-float in the bloodstream.
To navigate the smaller capillaries, bulky white cells must elongate their shapes, while impatient red blood cells jostle in line behind them.
Watching the white cells, one can’t help thinking them sluggish and ineffective at patrolling territory, much less repelling an attack.
Until the attack occurs, that is.
When damage occurs to anything in the blood stream, an alarm seems to sound.
As if they have a sense of smell (we still don’t know how they “sense” danger), nearby white cells abruptly halt their aimless wandering.
Like beagles on the scent of a rabbit, they home in from all directions to the point of attack.
Using their unique shape-changing qualities, they ooze between overlapping cells of capillary walls and hurry through tissue via the most direct route.
When they arrive, the battle begins.
The shapeless white cell, resembling science fiction’s creature “The Blob,” lumbers toward a cluster of luminous green bacterial spheres.
Like a blanket pulled over a corpse, the white blood cell assumes the shape of the bacteria; for awhile the bacteria still glow eerily inside the white cell.
But the white cell contains granules of chemical explosives, and as soon as the bacteria are absorbed the granules detonate, destroying the invaders.
In thirty seconds to a minute only the white cell remains.
Jab 2
Trees
Giant Sequoia: Shallow…no tap root…depends on other sequoias to stay upright.
Oak: deep tap root, able to grow strong in isolation (though can grow together and even merge root systems!
Largest living organism?
An Aspen.
Which you can tell is an Aspen because of the way that it is… growing in a unique way.
Aspen do a remarkable thing.
They don’t just grow roots down…they grow out…and then up again!
A new trunk…and new roots going out again.
In Utah’s Fishlake National Forest, there is an Aspen “colony” named Pando which is recognized as the largest living organism on the planet.
It spans 106 acres.
Jab 3
How much control?
Immunity?
Tree roots?
The life of the minister of the gospel (the disciple).
Doing it in our own strength vs. relying on God’s.
So what can we do?
Transition
Theological truth: Loved, adopted, sealed, a citizen of a new kind of community, brought from death to life.
A whole new identity formed not based on what we have done, but on who created and called us.
Chapter 3 is a transition passage, taking us from theological ideas about our identity into the reality of the ministers of the gospel which this new identity compels us to become.
Last week...
Next week Dave will take us into the realities of what it means to actually live out the life of Christ beginning with a call to unity in equipped service.
(1/2 of M\my ministry philosophy!)
But before Paul jumps into the practical, for the 2nd time in this letter, Paul is going to stop and pray.
He’s going to finish what he intended to begin before his rabbit trail we covered last week.
Specifically, Paul will pray for what we were just discussing: That we would be rooted.
Paul is about to pray for the things which act as our support, our defence, and our power in the life of the disciple/minister.
As we break down this prayer, we will see a few things:’
How we can pray for ourselves and others
The nutrition our “roots” need to provide support
Increased trust in the power of God to do far more than we think
Read:
Pray
Rooted in the Family Name
In my married life, I have moved at least 19 times.
Contrast that to both Monica and I growing up, she lived in one place from a very young age, so did I beginning from Kindergarten.
Since then, all of our parents have moved and our grandparents are gone.
Our physical “roots” have been pulled up.
DNA tests would prove however that our family roots remain intact.
I will never stop being the son of my father.
Rebecca and Joshua are stuck being Shaun’s daughter and son for the rest of their lives.
Paul calls us back to an even deeper root:
Every family gets its beginning in God.
Eph 3:14-
Genesis
Paul prays to God, because God is the source, the original from which all the images were patterned.
What does that mean for us?
How does that root and strengthen us as we prepare for the challenges and trials of the life of the disciple?
It means your value is incalculable.
It means you were made on purpose.
It means you have a call and an ability to see that same value and purpose in others.
Rooted in the Power of the Spirit
The oak has a taproot.
Here’s yours.
Ephesians 3:16
A few weeks ago we discussed that part of our identity is that we have been sealed by the Holy Spirit.
You are also empowered in and by the Spirit.
I grew up in the cassette tape era.
Unique to the cassette tape is the experience of a low battery.
CD player, MP3?
When the batteries go, the music dies.
Not so on a cassette!
With a cassette, as the battery gets weak, the music gets more soulful.
We are more like a cassette than an MP3 in our spiritual lives.
We’ll keep moving.
Maybe we keep serving.
But if we have let our connection to the Spirit grow thin, we will find our joy, energy, and desire waning.
We were never meant to do this on our own.
In Acts, as Jesus was preparing to ascend, he says this to his disciples:
Very similar to the great commission expressed in , but the focus is not on our role as disciple makers, but on the Spirit’s role in empowering those disciples to become his witnesses.
Lack of desire to serve the kingdom?
Fear of sharing your faith?
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