UNCOVER, UNLOCK, UNLEASH
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We are working on a new members class. I will be preparing it over the next few weeks. We want to start calling people to a higher standard. We want you to know what it means to be a part of this body. What will be expected from you and what to expect from us. In this class you will understand the DNA of Relevant Church. What are mission is.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
We want to help people Uncover, Unlock, and Unleash
We want to help people Uncover, Unlock, and Unleash
1. Uncover your true Identity in Christ. The devil’s desire is to deceive and destroy. He does that through lies, guilt and shame. But God’s desire is to discover the person He has always meant for you to be.
The devil’s desire is to deceive and destroy. He does HIS BEST WORK THROUGH lies, guilt, and shame. Today we have a crisis on our hands. Billions of people have become victims of identity theft. Satan has robbed them of their true identity and as a result they suffer and are enslaved to an orphan mentality. An orphan mentality is someone that has been abandoned. Many people inside of churches feel abandoned by God, abandoned by people. Orphans have a survival mentality. They have to fend for themselves, they have to depend on their selves. Which if you know anything about human psychology, when a person is in survival mode, they may be alive, but they are not living abundantly. A person that is just trying to survive lives from day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute.
Jesus took it another step…
Jesus took it another step…
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
He said you don’t even have life
He said you don’t even have life
He said that He came that we may have life and have life abundantly. Jesus is not saying that you are just robbing yourself of abundant life if you’re not living in covenant with Him.
2. Unlock…. Your heart. That part of you that has been hardened, dead, and deceived. We want you to be free, that is the essence of unlocking something. We want you to feel again, love again, and experience the sweet intimacy of God Almighty.
7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
3. Unleash- There is something that the Born- Again Believer has that the rest of the World does not have and that is power. God’s desire for everyone in this room this morning to be unleashed. My wife read a quote to me out of a book she is reading, and the author said, that many Christians believe that the only reason God gives them His Holy Spirit is so they can overcome sin, to be holy. But that is not the only reason, its not even the main reason. Some think that it is ok to sit peacefully at their home, make sure they go to work, pay their bills and be honest with the IRS. He has not called you to a Holy Huddle
The main reason God has given us His Spirit is so that we can change the world
The main reason God has given us His Spirit is so that we can change the world
… You say well that sounds exaggerated… Well it may only sound exaggerated if you are Luke Warm in your walk with the Lord
26 And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. 27 He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. 28 The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29 But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”