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Good morning again, everyone.

We have reached the Bittersweet end of my first-ever sermon series that I have.

I have preached through and it, it really has been

Just a wonderful opportunity to put together a sermon series in the priest through it.

And so, just kind of in terms of where we've been right?

This is for the sermon series.

Entitled simply transformed and were talking about just that transformation that.

I think it is simple.

It's complicated in many ways.

Yes, but is also is simple, I think and that's what we've been discussing and you know, I've brought up several times the actual English definition of transformation which is a thorough or dramatic change in the form or appearance of his thorough.

It is dramatic, as a change in inform.

I'm with within us is not just as outwardly.

I'm doing the right things, there's actually a change that happens within us since that's what we've been talking about.

I'm through out the sermon series.

And where we've been week, we start off talking about.

I'm just in this idea of transformation.

How were called to be different from the world.

There is a call for us to be different from the world.

And so we discussed that, that topic in and discussed.

I'm just how we are called to be different from the world is not just about doing the right things, but if we, if we Proclaim to be a follower of Jesus, then we should look a little bit different than those who aren't following Jesus.

And in terms of the slide are we used the chair to describe this idea?

And just to say right, we have a chair right here in that chair, what it signifies is our life Direction.

The decisions we make and we're always kind of sitting back and forth between us being in the chair and God being in the chair until I asked you the question who is in your chair?

That was the first week that the second week, we discuss this idea of of be simply just being with Jesus.

And how is his a way that we can actually pursue after transformation is how I want to be a transformed person in a way that I can do that is simply just to spend time with my God and my Creator.

And so I'm going to do just that And Sophie were discussing in the eyes of of the chair.

That's right before us.

Are you sitting at Jesus's feet?

Are you learning from him?

Are you his disciple?

As he is your Rabbi your teacher?

Are you soaking in everything that he has to offer you?

Are you sitting at his feet?

In the third week, we talked about last week.

We talked about transformation itself.

What it actually looks like to be a transformed person.

What is it that actually look like?

And we use the story of a man who was possessed by many demons.

And how is Jesus comes and hears this man of his demon possession.

There are kind of five images within that story that Linda's to it to see.

This is kind of what it looks like to be a transformed person and I ask you during that sermon, are you then leaning on God's legs?

Are you leaning on him?

There's a lot of things that we can do in this life and sometimes when we try to do it out of our own capabilities, we struggle, it's hard.

We fail.

What if we say I'm and I'm just going to leave this up to God, I'm going to lean on him through this and and kind of lean on and into his power, right?

Amazing.

Amazing things can happen and stop somewhere at last week.

Now, as we move into this fourth and final sermon in the sermon series, we're going to focus on the idea of love.

I love is a word that is thrown around a lot within our, our our our religion within Christianity, Love is kind of, if you've ever heard the term Christian, he's right love.

Can kind of be one of those words.

It's thrown around so much with in scripture with in, you know how we teach each other to live power interacting with each other.

Even when you talking about ice cream, I love ice cream.

I don't, I don't, I don't love mint, chocolate chip ice cream, but I do love fill in the blanks, right?

Fill in the blank.

I like sure, but a lot, right?

And rainbow sherbet.

But that's besides the point.

Thorium talking about love this morning, open up with discussing how our culture, kind of views.

Love a little bit, just a little bit or this could be a really long top.

In fact, I could fill up the rest of the service just talking about how our cultural views love and some of the struggles that we have because of it.

But I want to focus in on kind of one idea, but our first point here is that love is grossly misused and misunderstood is a grossly misused, in misunderstood word in our culture.

It is so misused and misunderstood in our culture and where I'm coming from with, with that specific points, right?

You might already have in your head ideas of how.

Yeah, I see how its misuse and how it's misunderstood right where I'm coming from with that.

Is Fort for me, as a, a single guy.

If you look at our culture, the movies that we watch the TV shows that we watch, what is, what are the headlines in the media.

What is on social media?

Right?

Love is kind of reserved for a romantic relationship between people.

What is reserved for In an example of what I would say with that when I was in high school and even Middle School, right?

If I were to build up a close friendship with another guy and then say, hey man, I love that would be met with jokes.

That would be met with suspicions with doubts, right.

Because in many of our minds based on what we're fed from the media and social media is that love is reserved for a romantic relationship.

Now, us being Christians.

I hope that we realize, it's going to be further from the truth, right?

Love is should be intertwined in every relationship that we have with people but in terms of culture, that's what we're kind of facing in some ways at least that was what I was facing a high school and middle school in even still struggle with today.

The love is a grossly misused and misunderstood word in our culture.

Nonetheless, though.

Love defines our culture even though it is misused and misunderstood

As I was practicing the sermon and thinking through the sermon, I I tried to think of a films and TV shows that don't at least have a side story.

That revolves around a romantic relationship.

A love interest for the main character.

There's very few in that, that at least I can think of, right?

So, the example that I was thinking of, in this way, how many of you are fans of James Bond? Okay.

Now, how many of your fans of Jason Bourne?

Okay, I saw one hand fruit for both of those, so that's awesome.

Right?

But so I, Jason Bourne is one of my favorite movie series of all time.

And one of the reasons for that is because I watch James Bond, and if you're James Bond fan, I apologize.

I'm going to kind of talk a little bit about him, but he's kind of in some ways.

Womanizer.

I'm not a huge fan of that, right?

But was Jason Bourne, it's mostly purely about the action.

Write all that the fight sequences all the things that he can do.

Another reason, I'm not a fan of James Bond is because he needs to have gadgets to be cool.

Jason Bourne is just cool, right?

He can do things with a pen that you wouldn't think of, right?

For newspaper, for instance, it's just cool in my mind, but even within those movies, there actually is a brief love interest.

So then I was like, no.

I was trying to think of a movie that doesn't involve a love interest and I struggle to think of one I really struggle to think of one eye.