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God’s Voice and presence in History
Garden: Ubiquitous
East of Eden: Sparse
Abraham, Noah, Moses: Like a spare narrator, just to move the story along
Tabernacle, first temple: Sporadic
Exile: All the time
2nd Temple: Almost none
Pentecost/Kingdom Age: Everywhere
Priests;Mediate: God to men and Men to God
two weeks ago we talked about how we pray with authority and power because we are priests with the spirit’s presence.
It was not only priests who heard God’s voice and spoke before the people…there were lay prophets who were not priests: Amos, Elisha, Daniel,
And prophets who were priests: Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Samuel, Zephaniah,
and the prophets who were priests (more often than not)....it was their vocation, this made then pay attention....
My father in law and road hazards
My dad and houses
Me and design
Malia and hearing issues
We notice what we pay attention to.
This is why we are talking about our vocation as priests, our primary calling and identity vocationally is this role....be God’s people who mediate between God and creation.
Today we’re talking about the priestly role of prophet, one who hears GOd’s voice in what is called an oracle and speaks it to the people.....make sure that everyone heard it.
WEEK 2 RECAP:
Illustrate with story of town herald....good or bad news, people just have to know.
Prophet didn’t just hear…but they did 3 things with it:
Interpreted it:
Lived it out as a prophetic example: Hosea marries a prostitute to make a point, John the Baptist—sackcloth, locusts, honey, wild man
Proclaimed what God said: Jonah in Ninevah…preach God’s warning
God’s warning is about his grace.
Capricious father gives no warning.
Loving father gives lots of warning
This was a bit about the passage we read from Joel today.
-this radical renewal through repentance that brings an outpouring of God’s spirit.
-God’s Voice, people change, and God’s Spirit is poured out on his people
-This is a telling of the beginning of the kingdom age.
-Acts 2 14-21
Peter is seeing this fulfilled in Pentecost:
Good News proclaimed out loud
In the language of the people.
This is the new reality of the age of God’s kingdom
Primary Message: Kingdom has come in Jesus’s reign over death
Supernaturally normal
Available to all sons and daughters of the king
Priestly prophets
We see in the NT epistles lots and lots of God revealing himself more completely as the Spirit brings revelation: Paul in Ephesians, the Apostles, Words of knowledge, prophecy, Visions (Paul and Macedonian)
This is what it should look like as we live as priests in the kingdom age,
We hear from God, and do and say what he says.
We are learning the way of Jesus, as a community to be a blessing to our city.
But we can’t learn things we don’t know.
take a second, think through your blind spots.
jk
We can’t grow without others
-different perspectives
-new content
-application
We can’t learn the way of Jesus without following Jesus and knowing what He did.
Jesus heard the Father and did what the Father said.
How?
So?
What does it sound like?
-not about a special word, but rather ordinary words
It’s about obedience....staying deeply connected with the Father
Hearing and doing.
What does God’s voice sound like?
-we have to be quiet to hear it
-we have to be open to hear it
-we have to be obedient if we want to hear more
-blockage from Sin
-confession/repentance
-Repent and believe
what is not God’s voice?
Need to be trained to hear it: I know my kids cries, my kids know my voice
-scripture
-kind of message
-Jesus is the true north
Good father vs the evil one.
-encouraging, loving, conviction without shame
-like Jesus (everything that is true of Jesus is true of the Father)
-no condemnation
-no accusation
-no name calling
-alignment with scripture
-serves others
-identity
-strict dad protecting his kids
Never sanding or abusive
For us
Particular
Not about our greatness
Directions
Appropot
Timely
Evangelism
Warning
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Warnings:
Delusions of Grandeur
judgment for your enemies or rivals
Things that are evil
Lead to destruction
Truth is found in Spiritual Community (Reflection and Discusion)
“IN the days of the Kingdom, God's Spirit is poured out generously on all who desire God.
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