Remember The Time

Introduction

Illustration: About a week ago, one of my friends from high school put out a poll on the greatest songs from the 80’s/90’s.

I’m bored, I want to be entertained

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Remember The Time- January 14, 1992

Do you remember When we fell in love We were so young and innocent then Do you remember How it all began It just seemed like heaven so why did it end?

Do you remember Back in the fall We'd be together all day long Do you remember Us holding hands In each other's eyes we'd stare (Tell me)

Do you remember the time When we fell in love Do you remember the time When we first met girl Do you remember the time When we fell in love Do you remember the time

Transition To Body

Body

Remember Our Life Before Christ

Ephesians 2:11–12 ESV

11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Realize Our Peace In Christ

Ephesians 2:13–17 ESV

13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.

Peace

Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 22.42 εἰρήνη, ης

a set of favorable circumstances involving peace and tranquility—‘peace, tranquility.

What A Friend We Have In Jesus

What a Friend we have in Jesus,   All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry   Everything to God in prayer! O what peace we often forfeit,   O what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry   Everything to God in prayer!

Reflect Our Coherency In Christ

Ephesians 2:18–22 ESV

18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

Joined together

Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 62.1 συναρμολογέομαι

to fit together in a coherent and compatible manner—‘to fit together, to be joined together

Coherent- Synonyms

analytic (or analytical), consequent, good, logical, rational, reasonable, sensible, sound, valid, well-founded, well-grounded

Illustration: Coherent light of laser vs. incoherent light

In physics, two wave sources are perfectly coherent if their frequency and waveform are identical and their phase difference is constant. Coherence is an ideal property of waves that enables stationary (i.e. temporally and spatially constant) interference. It contains several distinct concepts, which are limiting cases that never quite occur in reality but allow an understanding of the physics of waves, and has become a very important concept in quantum physics. More generally, coherence describes all properties of the correlation between physical quantities of a single wave, or between several waves or wave packets.

Church should radiate coherent light not incoherent light

Coherent Gospel of Jesus Christ for Our Incoherent Times

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Built on the foundation

Being joined together

Being built together

By the Spirit

Through Jesus (v11)

In one Spirit (v11)

To the Father (v11)

In the LORD (v21)

In Jesus (v22)

A dwelling place for God

By the Spirit

Transition to Close

Illustration: In the times which we live, it is important to know your citizenship status. Citizenship is an important issue these days

US Immigration & Custom’s Enforcement- ICE's primary mission is to promote homeland security and public safety through the criminal and civil enforcement of federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration.

Integration In Christ Enforcement (ICE)

Matthew 22:11–14 ESV

11 “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. 12 And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. 13 Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.”

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