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Good morning, welcome to episode 35 of the plan.

This is the second to last episode.

We're going to finish acts today, and then next week, we're going to do Revelation and we're going to be done.

And so I'm really excited about this week.

I was excited every week, but this week it's because this story is going to end with a...

And lead into the part that we play in the story.

And then next week.

We're going to pick up and find out what the Bible says about.

How the whole what we can expect during that time and how this whole story will end.

But this is this is going to lead us into the stage part.

We play in the plant before we get there.

I try to always do a recap and as we go farther in the series, The recap gets longer and I had to recap more and more in a way the recap and can be the most important part of the sermon.

Because part of what I want to do with this series is to train you to help you to remember the story and every time you listen to me recap or learning how to tell the story of the Bible self.

Here's the overall theme of the Bible.

It is a story of God's plan to establish a Place full of people who live out their purpose in his presence.

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So God made the world, he put people in it and he gave them the mission of ruling over the Earth on his behalf.

And then he came down to live with them.

And that's what God wants for the world and I thought I'd spice things up a little bit.

This week is I recap the story.

I'm going to give you an not an analogy.

I can think of it.

What's the Pilgrims Progress?

What kind of story is that?

Allegory, this is basically an allegory.

Okay, and it involves my kids because even before we had kids, I told the story this way, I talked about this moment.

I was looking forward to when I would get when I would take my Lego collection and give them to my children and tell them these are my Legos and now, you can play with it.

Not case.

You know, I actually made the best purchase of our parenting careers, which was a Lego table and here are James and Charlie playing at the Lego table.

Just just, this is nothing to the sermon to.

Let me focus in on this face.

She is so focused on figuring out how those Legos weren't just just intent on figuring out how that works.

But James, and Charlie love to play The Lego table in.

This is kind of my business.

What I think it means like, as I enjoy them playing the table.

I think this is God's design for his relationship with us.

He made the world.

He made the Lego table and he gave us the Legos and says, let's play.

Let's play together and build things and enjoy each other and just play with this world that I Build and develop it.

The problem is in the Bible story and in my home is it the kids are always play well together.

They don't follow the rule, you know, they start to get selfish with their, my Legos.

Actually, James likes to call them his Legos, but they're actually still mine.

And so James will take Legos from Charlie and then Charlie will go on a rampage and just destroy things on the table and they don't play well together and that's what human beings do.

We don't follow God's instructions.

We don't play well with each other.

We take things from each other.

We destroy things.

We make a general mess of the Lego table.

So God initiated this plan to restore his design to the table by choosing one kid.

The nation of Israel and giving them one corner of the Lego table.

It's an r and giving them instructions for how he wants them to build on the table.

Not, if not, like a blueprint that they have to put just general the principles of how you build and then God came down to that corner of the Lego table and started building with Israel.

So that the rest of the table, all the other kids with the table.

Cuz look at the awesome things that were happening in Israel's corner of the table and understand that, that's what they should be doing.

And that's what God wants for the children at his Lego table.

The problem is that the kid got picked for that quarter for that project?

Wasn't any better behaved than the rest of them.

And so that is real kids, started started, disobeying God's rules started, taking things from other kids and going on, Rampages, and destroying things.

And in the end, his corner of the table.

Didn't look any different from the rest of the table.

And so, are you ready for this guy?

Sent me the time out?

That's the Exile, right?

God has to show the other kids.

This is, this was not what I intended.

This is not what I want and so he goes into Exile, but then God allows him to come back from time out.

But in Exile Israel decided they figured out what the problem was that it got them sent into Exile.

It was all those other kids at the table.

It was the Gentiles that were the problem.

We got two mixed up with a gentile.

So they came back to the table and they started covering it up and building meticulously become obsessed with the rules in the straight lines in the color organization, but they wouldn't let anybody see what they were doing.

And it tried to keep all the kids away.

Right?

The Gentiles can't be a part of what we're doing.

We don't want to see it.

We don't we ever go to jealously guard, our corner of the table and keep away from everybody else, which is a problem because the whole point of God giving them that quarter was.

So the rest of the kids could see what was happening there.

And understand that, this is how God wants us to play at the table.

So God sent Jesus, and Jesus called Israel to to rejoin.

God's place of God is ready to restore you to King of God is coming, but you have to learn how to play, right?

You can't be doing this hoarding, the corner for yourself and keeping everybody way.

You're supposed to be a light to the nation.

You're supposed to be loving others.

You're supposed to be playing well with the others and helping them to see what this is supposed to look like.

So he called them to make a choice.

He came to Jerusalem.

He stood in the temple and called his real, to make a choice and they rejected him and they rejected his way of playing Legos.

And he was killed Easter.

We celebrated the fact that God raised Jesus from the dead and what that proves.

First of all, is that Jesus is right about how you're supposed to play with the Lego table.

Proves that he really is the Messiah and the leader of God's people.

And it proves that somehow through what he did to his death on the cross.

And his resurrection.

God has dealt with all of the ways.

We messed up the Lego table in the past and has given us a way to be restored and be able to play Legos again.

Then, two weeks ago.

We looked at the founding of the church as Jesus, ascends, the Holy Spirit, descends on the church.

And they are marked out as the true people of God.

These Jewish followers of Jesus, and they start building the church in their corner of the Lego table, and they do a great job.

It is this amazing community of people who love each other and share and play well together and all of Jerusalem concede that this is what it's supposed to look like, but the people who controls Jerusalem, don't like, the fact that it wasn't their idea.