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I am excited to be with you today.
I am excited to celebrate with those going public through baptism this morning, and for our celebration together after service.
As I prayed for our service today I began to think about areas of my life where my efforts actually made matters worse.
Fixer Upper: How many of have ever watched the show Fixer Upper?
Chip and Joanna Gaines can take a cardboard box and make it amazing.
Candi and I have (not jokingly) talked about how awesome it would be to get them to help us get a house for our always growing family.
I love to watch Chip and his ability to take something that is need of serious renovations (some properties even condemned) and make it beautiful.
And of course they always include a little shiplap or Chiplap as I like to call it.
I could tell countless examples of how my attempts to fix or improve something at our house has done quite the opposite.
I am not proud of this fact, but it is what it is.
That’s not the way I am natural gifted and wired.
I didn’t grow up learning to build and work on cars.
So when we had a leak just above our kitchen I became determined to track it down and figure out how to seal what was all of a sudden leaking.
ELABORATE
Recently, Candi and I looked at a house that had been remodeled beautifully, so beautifully that we almost didn’t realize that there wasn’t a bathroom downstairs.
Or an additional shower at all that wasn’t in a bedroom.
WEIRD, right?
They added texture to the wall so you didn’t know the blemishes of a nearly 100 year old home or the strange way the walls sloped instead of showing level, straight lines.
Sometimes the modifications, the fixes if you will, are no more than putting lipstick on the pig.
It is veneer distract from lack of substance, at times.
House we recently looked at that was remodeled beautifully, so beautifully that we almost didn’t realize that there wasn’t a bathroom downstairs.
Or a additional shower at all that wasn’t in a bedroom.
WEIRD, right?
But when I look at what God wants to do in our lives and what He does do when we welcome Him and allow Him in IS SO MUCH MORE.
DISCLAIMER: While I use the analogy of the show FIXER UPPER and how terrible I am at renovations both in my house and in my life, YOU ARE NOT A PROJECT.
YOU ARE A PERSON.
And when God makes ALL THINGS NEW He isn’t working on a project but unlocking who He created you to be all along.
AMEN!
TRANSITION: I think so many of us, myself included, try to fix ourselves.
I will attempt some modifications and mostly just add some veneer to some really nasty things I don’t know how to change.
We attempt to fix what God wants us to surrender.
And you need to know that this place you are in today (Emmanuel) isn’t a place you come after you get it all figured out.
If that’s the case, then I better be the first to walk out the door.
But what I see when I look at Scripture is a God who isn’t waiting for us to get it all together but to give it all to Him and just walk together.
Let Him be with us.
Let Him take each step with us.
Let Him unfold the path in front of us because that is what He does, that is who He is.
SCRIPTURE: Since the beginning, really right after & the Fall, God has been writing a story where He is redeeming mankind and all of creation.
He has been on the journey of making all things new.
His original design for all of us is seen in those first few chapters of the Bible.
God created us.
Male and female, he made us, in His likeness/image.
He didn’t want us to be ALONE.
So, a help mate was given to us.
All the while, He dwelt among us and had real relationship with us (no fig leaves, who told you that you were naked).
God’s desire is visible again in as He is establishing Covenant with Israel in Leviticus.
He attempts to make covenant with the Israelites, that He might dwell among them, that they make be His people and He their God.
This is the first purpose we see: that they might KNOW GOD.
But they forfeited this because of their waywardness of heart.
The second thing He would do as they began to walk in relationship with God was to group them.
vs. 12 “and you will be my people.”
vs. 13 This is a key part of the Lord bringing freedom to the Israelites.
It was supernatural, something only He could do, but was done in community.
The supernatural and the communal nature of what God was doing couldn't’ be separated; the Israelites were FINDING FREEDOM.
God said, “I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.”
He is still wanting us to FIND FREEDOM and DISCOVER the PURPOSE He created us for.
We fast-forward to the end, to the Book of Revelation, and the same vision and purpose is given.
vs. 3 God’s Word shows us from beginning to the end about His quest to dwell among us again (KNOW GOD), making us His people (GROUPS).
vs. 3-4 Using our relationship with Him and each other as part of the process to bring healing from our past (FIND FREEDOM).
I have a good friend, a fellow pastor and outreach ministry leader in town, named Paul Harris who says this, “It is hard for a child to dream about their future, when they are worried about eating today.”
—Paul Harris, Knoxville Dream Center
Knoxville Dream Center
We could say this is true for just about any area of our life.
It is hard for us to dream about our tomorrow if we haven’t dealt with our yesterday.
Some of us still hold onto hurts that are really only hurting us.
Someone did you wrong.
They might have been a relative, a boss, a person in the church that should have known better…but there you were in the cross-hair of the enemies arrows and you caught one in the back.
You were wounded.
You were wronged.
You were hurt.
I am not saying it wasn’t real or didn’t happen.
But now you can’t figure out your tomorrow, your next step in rhythm with any type of passion or revelation from God because you haven’t deal with that yesterday.
God is wanting to bring you into freedom.
He is wanting to walk with you through the process of forgiveness.
He want you to KNOW HIM/KNOW YOURSELF.
He is wanting to silence the lies of the enemy that have only pushed you toward isolation instead of community with people.
The enemy has told you that you will just get hurt again.
It’s not worth it to trust again, hope again, have relationship again.
But I am here to tell you that is not God’s plan for you.
What happened doesn’t have to cripple you.
What happened in your yesterdays doesn’t have to determine your tomorrows.
Are you ready for FREEDOM!?! I am!
vs. 4 “He will wipe away every tear from your eye.”
Thus the Holy Jerusalem is not only humanity’s eternal home but the city where God will place his own name forever.
God’s presence will blot out the things of the former creation.
In a touching metaphor of motherly love, John says that God “will wipe away every tear from their eyes” (cf.
7:17; cf.
Isa 25:8).
These tears have come from sin’s distortion of God’s purposes for humankind.
They are produced by death and mourning for the dead, by crying and pain.
An enemy has done this to the old order.
Now God has defeated the enemy and liberated his people and his creation.
vs. 5 Then the One sitting on the throne declares that He will make all things new.
It is this One, who after we know Him, are grouped together, that He begins to show us our PURPOSE.
He says, “I am making everything new!”
We begin to discover the reason we are here.
We begin to discover the purpose He has for our lives.
We begin to not only recognize who He is, connect to His people, but walk in the design and purpose He has us here.
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