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Good morning, again, welcome to those of you who are visiting us today.

You are joining us at 32 weeks into the sermon series.

We started in September with telling the entire story of the Bible.

From beginning to end.

We started with Genesis the beginning of September.

And today, we have caught up to the resurrection, which I'm very excited to talk about and then we'll continue on through acts in May and end with Revelation.

So if you're interested in what you've missed, you can find our sermons online or you can listen to the podcast.

But more importantly, if you want to see how the whole story and you can come back with us to the rest of the series.

But before we get to the resurrection, I have to get us all on the same page where we've been so far.

I'm going to try and do it officially cuz we've covered a lot of what we've been saying throughout the sermon series.

Is that the Bible is the story of God's plan, to establish a Place full of people who live out their purpose in his presence.

Those are the four things.

You remember, you can tell cuz they all start with the same letter.

Place people purpose presents.

The parts of God's plan song.

God made the world and he put human beings in in the Bible says he made us for a particular function that he designed us to rule over this world on his behalf.

That's what we are made for each came down to live with us on the seventh day.

And that was the goal.

That was the design that God wanted all along for us.

The problem is that human beings messed it up.

We aren't actually very good at obeying God's as I know, we will be good at it if we wanted to be, but we don't want to follow God.

We want to build our own kingdoms and self.

The first she was messed it up in their kids, messed it up and their kids mess it up, and it just kept getting worse and worse.

Until God launched a plan to restore Humanity, back to his design, and that plan involves using one particular group of people the Israelites.

I'm giving them one particular place to live the land of Israel, and he came down to live with them in the temple.

And he gave them a purpose.

And their purpose was to live in God's presence in a way that would show the world who God is and what he wants for his people until God gave them strict rule.

They are our extensive rule 613 guidelines of how to live out his nature hit, how to show the world who he is in their culture.

And we call that the law of Moses is it this was the whole point that Israel would be a light to the world.

Would be a nation of pre-soak, the whole world could look at Israel and see who got it is and what he wants for his people.

Unfortunately, the Israelites weren't any better at following God than the rest of us.

And so they rebelled against God and rebelled against God and rebelled against God and it got so bad that at one point.

She said the only way I can reveal who I am and what I want a for Humanity through this kingdom is to say not that whoever I am whatever I want.

It's whatever I want the it's not what is happening in Israel until that point.

He declared the Covenant broken and he sent the people into exile to demonstrate to the world.

This is not what I want.

I want something greater than this.

So the 20 to Exile Some of them got to come back about seventy years later.

They built a new Temple.

But the exiled an end because God didn't return to that Temple.

They didn't get the rest of the Jews.

Didn't return to the promised land.

They didn't get to rule over the promised land.

Didn't get to enforce almost none of the important parts of the plant got reestablished.

And so the juice that to work on trying to get every get everything on track again by their own efforts.

So what they did was they said.

All right, the problem obviously is the Gentiles, they messed it up for us.

So no Gentiles.

The Gentiles are going to help us build the temple.

They're certainly not going to be allowed in the temple.

Will kick them out of Jerusalem, and we will not have any dealings with Gentiles are lawbreakers.

We're just going to cuddle in here by ourselves and keep the law as meticulously as we can to make sure that Nobody messes it up and we'll just keep everybody in an arm's length.

Witches.

You may recognize is the opposite of the plan, which was for them to be a light to the Nations, until they try this way of building God's Kingdom for about five hundred years, and it doesn't work.

And then suddenly a man appears on the scene named Jesus.

We find out that God has sent Jesus to call Israel, back to the plan to call Israel, back to God's design for Humanity.

And that's the story that we've been telling you for the last 6 weeks or so, as we get ready for the portion of the story that were in today.

I'm going to help you get your bearings in the store each week.

We look at these four kind of coordinate to help you understand where you are in a Bible story.

If you're reading it with a plan in mind you look for who is the story about?

Where is their home?

How can they meet with God and what did God tell them to do? Normally, we have a special passes that we read for this, but I'm just going to catch you up on what we've been saying about Jesus.

Okay.

So at this point in the story, the story of the Bible is about Jesus and the juice, it is still about the Jews because the Jews are still gots people.

And God is committed to saving the world through the juice, who's going to save them through the Jews or not at all, because God keeps his word and he has sent Jesus to leave them and 2 to return the Jews to God's plan.

So that threw them, he can save the world.

So, Jesus is designated by God as their leader as the one who's going to restore the plan through Israel.

Where is their home?

Their home right now is called Galilee and Judea.

Those are two Roman provinces.

And that reminds us that the Israelites are not in charge right now.

They have been conquered by the Romans and the Romans can carve their territory up.

However, they want and fairly arbitrarily.

They've carved it into Judea and Galilee and there's a a king over Galilee and there's a Roman Governor over Judea, but that isn't the presence of Roland's in the promised land is an ever-present reminder that the people are in Exile.

A very important question of all, the Jews would have been asking if this time is, how can they meet with God? Their understanding.

Is that the place you meet with God is the temple?

And most of them are aware.

They've been talking about the fact that God hasn't returned to this new Temple.

The prophets talk about that but they're waiting for a day when God will return and they know that the place that will return his to his Temple.

Unfortunately, most of the missed the fact that God's presence actually returned to Earth in Jesus.

There's a moment when Jesus was baptized and the Holy Spirit descended on him and God Spirit visibly tangibly, return to Earth until actually, if you want to meet God, the place where you'll meet God now, is in Jesus.

Which is a part of the tragic.

Irony of the fact that the Jews are going to execute Jesus in order to protect what they think, is the real Temple.

And that leads us to the purpose.

What did God tell Jesus to do? Jesus mission is to restore the kingdom of God to Earth, which that is the way that Jesus free.

When he says the repent for the kingdom of God is near, that's his way of saying that God is ready to restore the plan to The World.

God is going to become king again.

And so the God is ready to end the Exile and to move things forward to Israel, better get on board.

Because he has realized the Jews have been going the wrong way.

And that's why Jesus says repent.

He's not just talking to individual people and he says that he's talking to a whole nation that has been on the wrong path of following God and he said, you need to get off this path because it leads to destruction.

We should all to mately did forty years later, the Romans destroyed them because they're on this path of constantly fighting against the Romans to protect their lot.

He said instead of to avoid destruction need to follow my way and anyone around forgiving people and killing people and restoring people into the community of God and created this family of people who are committed to living out the mission of Israel.

According to Jesus's teachings for you.

What Jesus said was the right way to obey God and to live out his plan.

And after three years of this, Jesus went to Jerusalem to force the Jews to make a choice.

Do we go seats ride into the city on a donkey, declaring himself to be the Messiah, and he goes to the temple.

And he says, this whole thing is wrong, this whole system, you built is wrong.

This is not what God calls us to do.

We are called to love our neighbors.