WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.080 We hope that you enjoy this teaching from Christ Church. 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:09.500 This material is copyrighted and no unauthorized duplication, 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:15.280 redistribution, or any other use of any part is permitted without prior consent from Christ Church. 00:00:15.700 --> 00:00:22.620 Please consider donating to this work in the San Francisco Bay Area online at ChristChurchEastBay.org. 00:00:28.620 --> 00:00:29.620 Good morning. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:31.539 My name is Vaughn Woodson. 00:00:33.060 --> 00:00:38.820 Today's reading is from the book of Acts, chapter 3, verses 1 to 26, as printed in the liturgy. 00:00:39.820 --> 00:00:45.039 One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer at 3 in the afternoon. 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:49.939 Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, 00:00:50.340 --> 00:00:54.100 where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. 00:00:54.900 --> 00:00:57.760 When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:00.339 Peter looked straight at him, as did John. 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:02.559 Then Peter said, Look at us. 00:01:03.059 --> 00:01:07.140 So the man gave him his attention, expecting to get something from them. 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:11.519 Then Peter said, Silver or gold, I do not have. 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:14.259 But what I do have, I give you. 00:01:14.260 --> 00:01:18.240 In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk. 00:01:19.160 --> 00:01:23.560 Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man's feet and ankles became strong. 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:25.859 He jumped to his feet and began to walk. 00:01:26.620 --> 00:01:30.780 Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping and praising God. 00:01:30.780 --> 00:01:38.439 When all the people saw him walking and praising God, they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called Beautiful. 00:01:38.960 --> 00:01:42.599 And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. 00:01:43.340 --> 00:01:48.900 While the man held on to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and came running to them in the place called Solomon's Colonnade. 00:01:49.659 --> 00:01:53.219 When Peter saw this, he said to them, Fellow Israelites, why does this surprise you? 00:01:53.219 --> 00:01:58.980 Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:04.739 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:13.180 You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go. 00:02:13.819 --> 00:02:18.520 You disowned the holy and righteous one and asked that a murderer be released to you. 00:02:18.939 --> 00:02:22.780 You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. 00:02:22.780 --> 00:02:24.020 We are witnesses of this. 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:29.979 By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. 00:02:30.099 --> 00:02:36.439 It is Jesus' name and the faith that comes through him that has completely healed him, as you can all see. 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:40.939 Now, fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders, 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:47.280 but this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Messiah would suffer. 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:51.599 Repent, then, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out. 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:52.840 Repent, then, and turn to God so that he may be wiped out. 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:59.519 That times of refreshing may come from the Lord, and that he may send the Messiah, who has been appointed for you, even Jesus. 00:03:00.139 --> 00:03:07.180 Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets. 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:13.280 For Moses said, the Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people. 00:03:13.819 --> 00:03:15.859 You must listen to everything he tells you. 00:03:15.860 --> 00:03:20.280 Anyone who does not listen to him will be completely cut off from their people. 00:03:21.320 --> 00:03:25.620 Indeed, beginning with Samuel, all the prophets who have spoken have foretold these days, 00:03:25.900 --> 00:03:29.820 and you are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers. 00:03:30.420 --> 00:03:34.840 He said to Abraham, through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed. 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:42.740 When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways. 00:03:42.740 --> 00:03:42.860 Amen. 00:03:47.420 --> 00:03:48.659 This is the word of the Lord. 00:03:49.260 --> 00:03:50.320 Thanks be to God. 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:51.060 You can be seated. 00:03:56.379 --> 00:03:57.600 Thank you for that, Vaughn. 00:03:57.700 --> 00:03:58.620 Good morning, Christ Church. 00:03:58.700 --> 00:03:59.460 My name is Andrew. 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:07.080 I'm the director of pastoral care, and it's good to be with so many of you this morning in worship, in our in-person worship. 00:04:07.219 --> 00:04:09.140 It's good to be with you online. 00:04:09.139 --> 00:04:14.799 Why don't we go to God in prayer as we come to hear what he has to say to us in his word. 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:23.539 Father, we are here to come before you as the everlasting God, 00:04:24.219 --> 00:04:32.000 and to hear a word from you as we wait on you for the salvation that our hearts so long for, 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:37.219 that we've experienced in part, but that we know is still a long way coming. 00:04:37.220 --> 00:04:41.600 We ask that you would grant us faith as we hear your word this morning. 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:43.760 So be honored in the preaching of your word. 00:04:43.840 --> 00:04:46.780 Be honored in the listening to your word. 00:04:47.300 --> 00:04:49.460 And we pray these things in the strong name of Jesus. 00:04:50.080 --> 00:04:50.500 Amen. 00:04:51.440 --> 00:04:52.940 Again, happy Lord's Day, everyone. 00:04:53.060 --> 00:04:54.040 Happy Mother's Day. 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:56.620 Not the same thing, but very important things. 00:04:57.420 --> 00:05:01.220 We're going to continue our series in the Book of Acts now. 00:05:01.220 --> 00:05:07.700 Now, we're continuing the series, and Jonathan and I, we've been praying that this series would really, 00:05:07.820 --> 00:05:14.580 really inspire our church family as we seek and figure out what it means to be Christ Church East Bay again. 00:05:14.580 --> 00:05:20.660 Especially after, you know, all the volatility that our church family has experienced over the past two years. 00:05:20.660 --> 00:05:29.040 Jonathan and I, our staff, our elders, our deacons, we've been praying that this same spirit that supercharged the first century church 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:35.020 as passionate and powerful witnesses of the kingdom of God and of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth, 00:05:35.080 --> 00:05:38.060 that this same spirit would do the same amongst us. 00:05:38.420 --> 00:05:43.760 That we would not waste the catastrophes that God has written into the story of Christ Church, 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:49.980 but that we'd emerge from this season of really intense pruning with an abundance of fruitfulness. 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:55.659 What we're looking at in the Book of Acts, I mean, look at what happens in the early church. 00:05:56.259 --> 00:05:58.339 This early church had this spirit, right? 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:02.819 And they saw the Lord add to their numbers in one city 5,000 people. 00:06:02.899 --> 00:06:08.659 5,000 people embracing the unbelievable good news of the crucified and yet risen Christ. 00:06:08.740 --> 00:06:13.019 And my question for us today is, Christ Church, why not also here? 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:16.420 Why not also in Berkeley, Oakland, the East Bay? 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:18.159 Why not also here? 00:06:18.259 --> 00:06:22.560 What are we expecting from God in this season and in the season to come? 00:06:22.620 --> 00:06:29.480 What do we really believe that the Spirit of God is able and willing to do here? 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:32.899 Day in and day out amongst us. 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:41.120 You know, and if we really do believe the Spirit is able and desiring to do immeasurably more than we could ever imagine, 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:44.819 and my question for us then is, don't you want to be a part of that? 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:47.199 Don't we all want to be a part of that? 00:06:47.259 --> 00:06:50.860 Christ Church, what if we, filled with the same Spirit as the early church, 00:06:50.980 --> 00:06:58.360 believed and lived as though our good and loving Father was able and willing to ordinarily do the extraordinary 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:02.899 amongst us by His Spirit and in the name of His Son? 00:07:02.899 --> 00:07:10.039 I mean, even if you have trouble believing this, can I just ask, don't you want this to be true? 00:07:10.779 --> 00:07:12.179 Don't you want this to be true? 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:13.699 Don't you want this for the world? 00:07:14.019 --> 00:07:20.699 Resurrection power that makes the lame to leap, that turns beggars into brothers, 00:07:21.299 --> 00:07:26.000 a world in which the extraordinary is ordinary in the name of Jesus Christ. 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:29.879 Now, last week we left off with a snapshot, right? 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:33.399 A snapshot of a basic day in the life of the early church. 00:07:33.500 --> 00:07:37.639 They had these predictable up, in and out patterns in the early church, 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:41.500 every day devoted to the Word of God and to prayer and to fellowship with one another 00:07:41.500 --> 00:07:45.620 and to serving each other and their community with signs and wonders and generosity. 00:07:45.779 --> 00:07:49.779 And people were just like flocking to this vibrant and joyful community 00:07:49.779 --> 00:07:54.420 that was simply living out of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ's Spirit. 00:07:54.420 --> 00:07:58.240 Every day, all they were doing was just being the Spirit-filled church. 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:01.540 And so I love how our text starts today in verse 1. 00:08:01.620 --> 00:08:05.360 It says, one day, like the extraordinary was so ordinary to them, 00:08:05.520 --> 00:08:10.819 like, oh yeah, that man who was lame and sat outside the temple for over 40 years, 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:13.460 that guy, oh yeah, he was able to walk one day. 00:08:13.840 --> 00:08:15.560 He was able to leap for joy one day. 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:18.200 And all of a sudden, after 40 years of being outside the temple, 00:08:18.200 --> 00:08:22.700 he was inside the temple praising God and hanging out with Peter and John and everyone else. 00:08:22.699 --> 00:08:27.959 Oh yeah, really just another day in the life of the Spirit-filled church. 00:08:28.899 --> 00:08:33.480 Now yes, there was a special quality to the apostolic age 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:36.639 when God laid down some very unique foundations for the church, 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:38.600 but we must not assume, Christ's church, 00:08:38.980 --> 00:08:45.600 that the apostles were any less dependent upon the Spirit's power and guidance than the rest of us. 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:52.399 Sure, the apostles knew Jesus' command to be his witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:56.240 and to the ends of the earth, but they didn't know the exact plan for that. 00:08:57.019 --> 00:09:03.539 They were living day in and day out, up in and out, with their God, with each other, doing simple things. 00:09:04.179 --> 00:09:05.639 They were simply doing what they knew. 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:13.399 They were being the church, again, up in and out, drawing people to God by their simple lives of faithfulness. 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:18.600 Just seeing God draw more and more people to himself through their simple living. 00:09:19.620 --> 00:09:24.039 And I wonder if this is a word for many of us in the season that we are in, 00:09:24.139 --> 00:09:30.019 many of us who are constantly feeling paralyzed, without a plan, without clear direction, 00:09:30.199 --> 00:09:34.379 particularly in our cultural moment of intense activism. 00:09:34.379 --> 00:09:39.200 For those of us who want so much for this world, right? 00:09:39.700 --> 00:09:43.480 And we feel so responsible, and yet also like we don't know where to start. 00:09:44.460 --> 00:09:48.700 And then in our paralysis, we just end up neglecting to maintain the basics. 00:09:48.939 --> 00:09:55.919 Walking with God, walking with his people, bearing witness to Christ, to our neighbors in simple but not insignificant ways. 00:09:56.620 --> 00:09:59.679 In a sense, the apostles, they were keeping it real simple. 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:05.219 Again, up, in and out, predictable patterns in their church family, and they just let God do the rest. 00:10:05.319 --> 00:10:10.939 He would open doors, and then he would close doors, and they would be prayerful and sensitive to the Spirit's leading, 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:16.559 and then they would just walk through the doors that he opened, and not try to force open the ones that he closed. 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:19.079 And the doors that he did open, though, they were incredible. 00:10:19.719 --> 00:10:22.839 And I think that's what's happening here in Acts chapter 3. 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:24.659 And I want us to picture this scene, okay? 00:10:24.659 --> 00:10:26.579 Picture this scene in Acts chapter 3. 00:10:26.580 --> 00:10:29.860 Peter and John were up to their same spiritual rhythms. 00:10:30.020 --> 00:10:33.460 They're on their way to the temple, 3 in the afternoon, to pray, right? 00:10:33.740 --> 00:10:39.480 With hundreds of faithful Jewish people, Jewish worshipers, all also walking to the temple gate. 00:10:40.139 --> 00:10:44.500 And there at this temple gate, it was called the Beautiful Gate, right? 00:10:44.540 --> 00:10:48.580 The Beautiful Gate of the Temple of God sat a lame beggar. 00:10:49.460 --> 00:10:51.780 Now, just picture this contradiction, right? 00:10:51.779 --> 00:10:55.759 Maybe even this indictment of God and God's people. 00:10:56.500 --> 00:11:05.039 At the beautiful gate of the Almighty's dwelling place is a lame beggar who had been sitting there for over 40 years, 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:11.579 living off meager alms, the meager alms of an oppressed Jewish community in Jerusalem. 00:11:12.439 --> 00:11:17.500 Imagine this ironic picture, this indictment of the power and presence of God, 00:11:17.500 --> 00:11:20.639 a contradiction that the people probably all just got used to, right? 00:11:21.100 --> 00:11:26.100 After 40 plus years of a lame beggar sitting at the gate of the Temple of Yahweh, 00:11:26.620 --> 00:11:28.799 this gate that was supposed to be called Beautiful. 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:36.899 For most of the visiting worshipers, for even this lame beggar, it's just another day living in this irony. 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:38.679 Just another day living in this irony. 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:44.479 But for Peter and John, who are filled with God's Spirit, what to everybody else is just another day, 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:51.819 while everybody else had become calloused to the contradiction of a lame beggar at the beautiful gate of the Almighty Yahweh, 00:11:52.359 --> 00:11:56.620 for Spirit-filled followers of Jesus Christ, this became an occasion. 00:11:57.099 --> 00:12:01.739 An occasion to bear witness to the truly beautiful and strong name of Jesus. 00:12:02.659 --> 00:12:05.779 So verse 3 says that the lame beggar, he saw Peter and John. 00:12:05.779 --> 00:12:10.279 He saw him among the hundreds of others walking in, and this lame beggar, he just does his due diligence. 00:12:10.439 --> 00:12:14.179 You know, he got to make that ass to everyone who passes him, trying to make a penny. 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:18.059 He asked them for some money, probably with little to no expectation, 00:12:18.199 --> 00:12:21.439 just like those unsheltered people we drive past all the time, 00:12:21.659 --> 00:12:29.379 who see, you know, 99 out of 100 cars drive past them every day without anyone even recognizing their dignity as human beings. 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:34.799 This lame beggar probably expects more of the same from these two disciples of Jesus. 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:40.639 A penny, if anything, probably nothing at all, and certainly not health, and certainly not salvation. 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:45.159 And yet, verse 4 says, Peter looked straight at him. 00:12:45.620 --> 00:12:49.679 He looked straight at him, and I love that, because that's what Spirit-filled people do. 00:12:49.899 --> 00:12:50.819 He looks straight at him. 00:12:51.059 --> 00:12:57.479 Peter sees his humanity, and he invites him to look back, and they share this personal eye contact, 00:12:57.579 --> 00:13:03.379 so much more than the mechanical drop of a penny in the can that this lame beggar is used to, right? 00:13:03.379 --> 00:13:11.539 This guy has probably never seen someone look at him at this gate like Peter looked at him this day after 40-plus years of begging. 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:13.500 He's never seen anything like this. 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:20.399 Someone who really saw him and his humanity and his worth and his dignity and even his dreams and his hopes. 00:13:20.740 --> 00:13:23.139 Someone who really saw in him a bright future. 00:13:23.139 --> 00:13:33.100 And as their eyes locked in this special way, the lame beggar who was finally seen by another human being was filled with a tiny bit of hope. 00:13:33.659 --> 00:13:37.220 And he thinks, verse 5, that maybe he'll get two pennies instead of one. 00:13:37.659 --> 00:13:39.759 A gold coin instead of a silver. 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:41.500 But Peter has neither. 00:13:41.980 --> 00:13:43.679 And yet, he has everything. 00:13:44.199 --> 00:13:46.340 He has everything that this man needs. 00:13:46.580 --> 00:13:48.559 No silver, no gold, and yet everything. 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:50.599 And Peter says in verse 6, 00:13:50.819 --> 00:13:52.539 Silver or gold, I do not have. 00:13:53.099 --> 00:13:54.979 But what I do have, I give you. 00:13:55.239 --> 00:14:01.119 And it turns out that what Peter has is way better than what this lame beggar ever could have imagined. 00:14:01.699 --> 00:14:04.799 Something even more powerful than the gauntlet of Thanos. 00:14:04.979 --> 00:14:07.759 Something more valuable than gold or silver. 00:14:07.899 --> 00:14:09.339 What I do have, I give to you. 00:14:09.439 --> 00:14:12.599 In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk. 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:14.800 And verse 7 says, 00:14:15.139 --> 00:14:17.399 Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up. 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:21.320 And instantly the man's feet and ankles became strong. 00:14:22.060 --> 00:14:24.960 And he jumped to his feet and he began to walk. 00:14:25.639 --> 00:14:31.300 Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping and praising God. 00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:35.420 What Peter had, he gave to this formerly lame beggar. 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:36.340 And what did he have? 00:14:37.060 --> 00:14:38.240 Christ church, he had the gospel. 00:14:39.040 --> 00:14:41.920 He had the power of God unto salvation for all who believe. 00:14:42.199 --> 00:14:44.459 Peter's good news to this lame beggar was, 00:14:44.719 --> 00:14:47.299 In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk. 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:48.379 In other words, he was saying, 00:14:48.620 --> 00:14:50.519 You shall walk by faith. 00:14:50.899 --> 00:14:53.199 Faith in the strong and powerful name of Jesus. 00:14:53.779 --> 00:14:54.839 And this man, he did so. 00:14:54.899 --> 00:14:57.039 He walked by faith in the name of Jesus. 00:14:57.120 --> 00:14:59.419 As Peter explains in verse 16, this was by faith. 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:01.179 It wasn't a magic trick, guys. 00:15:01.939 --> 00:15:03.219 Verse 16, Peter says, 00:15:03.219 --> 00:15:04.779 By faith in the name of Jesus, 00:15:05.339 --> 00:15:07.740 This man whom you see and know was made strong. 00:15:08.019 --> 00:15:11.120 It is Jesus' name and the faith that comes through him 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:13.480 That has completely healed him. 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:16.159 It's so important to notice this. 00:15:16.659 --> 00:15:18.000 Peter doesn't just give him a law. 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:19.700 He doesn't just give him a command. 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:20.620 Walk. 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:23.039 No, he gives him the gospel. 00:15:24.100 --> 00:15:27.080 In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. 00:15:27.659 --> 00:15:28.500 Walk, he said. 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:30.860 Because in his name, in Jesus' name, 00:15:30.899 --> 00:15:34.179 And only in Jesus' name shall anyone ever be healed. 00:15:34.179 --> 00:15:36.519 And this is what Peter had to give. 00:15:36.599 --> 00:15:37.739 Again, not a magic trick. 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:38.979 The gospel. 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:40.719 The gospel of salvation. 00:15:40.919 --> 00:15:42.859 For there is no other name under heaven 00:15:42.859 --> 00:15:44.639 By which we are saved. 00:15:45.539 --> 00:15:46.659 And when I say salvation, 00:15:46.819 --> 00:15:48.919 I want to be very, very clear. 00:15:49.199 --> 00:15:50.899 Because this word salvation 00:15:50.899 --> 00:15:53.159 Can easily become a kind of, you know, 00:15:53.259 --> 00:15:54.739 Christianese, right? 00:15:55.019 --> 00:15:57.779 And sounds so esoteric and irrelevant. 00:15:58.019 --> 00:16:00.500 Like, it's just about, you know, avoiding hell. 00:16:00.500 --> 00:16:04.139 But no, this man experienced what I like to call 00:16:04.139 --> 00:16:06.200 A holistic salvation. 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:08.639 A salvation of his whole self, 00:16:08.740 --> 00:16:09.840 His whole being. 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:11.159 Walking and leaping. 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:13.580 He experienced a physical salvation. 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:16.740 Able-bodied and probably now able to work, 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:19.240 He experienced economic salvation. 00:16:20.460 --> 00:16:22.840 Look, he was walking into the temple 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:25.080 With Peter and John 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:26.860 And all these faithful Jewish worshippers 00:16:26.860 --> 00:16:28.399 Who had previously just walked by him, 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:31.199 He had received social salvation. 00:16:32.259 --> 00:16:33.559 And yet, most importantly, 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:36.360 After 40 years of sitting outside that temple, 00:16:36.620 --> 00:16:38.620 Hoping only in the scraps and crumbs 00:16:38.620 --> 00:16:40.259 Of countless worshippers of God, 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:42.819 This man became a worshipper of God. 00:16:43.980 --> 00:16:46.019 He became what he was always meant to be. 00:16:46.100 --> 00:16:47.779 This is what salvation was about. 00:16:47.899 --> 00:16:49.620 He was walking and leaping 00:16:49.620 --> 00:16:51.860 And praising God, it says. 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:54.419 A fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy. 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:56.240 The prophecy of new creation 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:57.419 In Isaiah chapter 35, 00:16:57.620 --> 00:16:59.220 Where it says that the lame would leap 00:16:59.220 --> 00:17:00.019 Like a deer 00:17:00.019 --> 00:17:02.220 And enter Zion with singing, 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:03.740 With everlasting joy, 00:17:03.860 --> 00:17:04.700 Crowning their heads, 00:17:04.819 --> 00:17:06.480 Gladness and joy overtaking them, 00:17:06.740 --> 00:17:07.920 And sorrow and sighing, 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:08.960 Fleeing away. 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:11.620 You see, this is what Peter had to give. 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:13.240 This is what Peter had to give. 00:17:13.980 --> 00:17:16.279 And so much more than a miraculous healing, 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:17.220 It was the gospel. 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:19.319 Through his gospel declaration, 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:21.299 In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, 00:17:21.460 --> 00:17:21.779 Walk, 00:17:21.779 --> 00:17:23.299 He was inviting this man 00:17:23.299 --> 00:17:24.759 To get a foretaste 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:26.440 And to become a sign 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:28.500 Of new creation itself 00:17:28.500 --> 00:17:30.399 By faith in Jesus. 00:17:31.059 --> 00:17:32.660 See, this is what the Holy Spirit does, 00:17:32.740 --> 00:17:33.319 Christ's church. 00:17:33.700 --> 00:17:34.660 This is what the Holy Spirit does. 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:35.259 The Holy Spirit, 00:17:35.379 --> 00:17:36.339 It reaches, 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:38.059 He reaches into the future. 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:39.960 He reaches into new creation. 00:17:40.299 --> 00:17:43.339 And He pours it into this present age. 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:45.220 This present age. 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:46.460 As a sign. 00:17:46.839 --> 00:17:47.940 And He gives us a taste 00:17:47.940 --> 00:17:49.339 Of this new creation reality 00:17:49.339 --> 00:17:50.639 That was inaugurated 00:17:50.639 --> 00:17:52.319 By the risen Christ 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:53.539 Who is ascended and seated 00:17:53.539 --> 00:17:54.559 At the right hand of God 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:56.720 And is still yet coming 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:58.480 At the very same time. 00:17:59.000 --> 00:17:59.659 It's a reality 00:17:59.659 --> 00:18:02.639 Only seen and experienced by faith. 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:04.619 Remember what Apostle Paul says 00:18:04.619 --> 00:18:06.919 In 2 Corinthians 5, verse 17. 00:18:07.059 --> 00:18:07.339 He says, 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:08.819 If anyone is in Christ, 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:10.919 This is new creation. 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:13.740 New creation is here. 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:15.579 That's what the Spirit does. 00:18:15.579 --> 00:18:17.359 It pours new creation 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:18.439 Into our experience 00:18:18.439 --> 00:18:19.859 Of this present age. 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:20.779 As Christians, 00:18:20.919 --> 00:18:22.199 We have to understand 00:18:22.199 --> 00:18:23.579 This tremendous reality 00:18:24.179 --> 00:18:25.220 That we possess 00:18:25.220 --> 00:18:26.240 In Christ 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:27.299 By His Spirit. 00:18:28.279 --> 00:18:29.240 And so I want to challenge us 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:30.419 To really consider the question, 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:32.319 What do we have to give? 00:18:32.879 --> 00:18:34.359 What do we have to give? 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:35.419 And yes, 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:36.539 Some of us do have 00:18:36.539 --> 00:18:37.720 That silver and gold 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:39.000 And I hope that we do give it. 00:18:39.619 --> 00:18:40.699 But if we are in Christ, 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:41.720 We must be convinced 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:43.019 That at the very least, 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:44.819 We have the very most. 00:18:45.419 --> 00:18:46.079 In Christ, 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:47.079 At the very least, 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:48.299 We have the very most. 00:18:48.379 --> 00:18:49.139 For at the very least, 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:50.220 What we do have to give 00:18:50.220 --> 00:18:51.379 Is the good news 00:18:51.379 --> 00:18:52.899 Of the resurrected Christ. 00:18:53.019 --> 00:18:53.720 The good news 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:54.359 Of the Spirit 00:18:54.359 --> 00:18:55.339 Of resurrection power. 00:18:55.439 --> 00:18:56.019 The good news 00:18:56.019 --> 00:18:56.960 Of new creation 00:18:56.960 --> 00:18:57.659 For a broken 00:18:57.659 --> 00:18:59.079 And battered world. 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:00.740 And I guess 00:19:00.740 --> 00:19:01.679 That what I'm trying to say 00:19:01.679 --> 00:19:02.079 Is that 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:03.759 We have to believe. 00:19:04.299 --> 00:19:05.659 We have to live out 00:19:05.659 --> 00:19:06.339 This truth, 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:07.079 Christ's church. 00:19:07.439 --> 00:19:08.319 That the gospel 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:09.339 Is enough. 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:11.500 That Jesus is Lord. 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:12.460 That there is power 00:19:12.460 --> 00:19:13.519 In the name of Jesus. 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:14.960 To break every chain 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:16.059 And to heal every disease. 00:19:16.200 --> 00:19:17.400 To right every wrong. 00:19:17.579 --> 00:19:19.039 And to even raise us 00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:19.720 From the dead. 00:19:20.619 --> 00:19:21.200 And therefore, 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:22.339 What this also means 00:19:22.339 --> 00:19:23.660 Is that his beloved church, 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:24.200 His bride, 00:19:24.259 --> 00:19:24.740 His body, 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:25.759 Which he is tasked 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:26.879 With bearing witness 00:19:26.879 --> 00:19:27.539 To the world 00:19:27.539 --> 00:19:28.259 Of this super, 00:19:28.420 --> 00:19:29.240 Super good, 00:19:29.319 --> 00:19:30.039 Good message. 00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:32.000 That it's worth 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:33.240 Investing in this church. 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:34.680 With our time. 00:19:35.160 --> 00:19:35.960 And with our talent. 00:19:36.099 --> 00:19:37.039 And with our treasure. 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:38.359 And not by managing 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:39.240 Our scarcity 00:19:39.240 --> 00:19:40.799 By imagining 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:42.479 What God wants to do 00:19:42.479 --> 00:19:43.839 With his own abundance. 00:19:44.879 --> 00:19:45.399 This week, 00:19:45.439 --> 00:19:46.799 I was able to sit in 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:47.879 On a Project Peace 00:19:47.879 --> 00:19:49.259 Speaker series. 00:19:49.339 --> 00:19:50.139 It's a three-part series. 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:51.059 I encourage you to go 00:19:51.059 --> 00:19:52.279 Watch the next two. 00:19:52.339 --> 00:19:53.379 I'm looking forward to those. 00:19:53.799 --> 00:19:54.879 And the title of this 00:19:54.879 --> 00:19:55.979 Speaker series is called 00:19:55.979 --> 00:19:57.919 Abundance Versus Scarcity. 00:19:58.659 --> 00:19:58.979 And again, 00:19:59.019 --> 00:19:59.619 I want to invite you 00:19:59.619 --> 00:20:00.899 To tune in this coming Wednesday 00:20:00.899 --> 00:20:01.779 Because it's so important 00:20:01.779 --> 00:20:03.539 For us as Christians 00:20:03.539 --> 00:20:04.599 To internalize this. 00:20:04.679 --> 00:20:05.819 That we Christians, 00:20:05.819 --> 00:20:07.319 We worship a God 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:08.859 Of creative abundance. 00:20:09.679 --> 00:20:10.119 The pandemic 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:11.220 Is nothing to him. 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:12.279 Even as he grieves with us, 00:20:12.299 --> 00:20:12.879 It is nothing 00:20:12.879 --> 00:20:14.559 To a God of abundance. 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:16.899 And as theology professor 00:20:16.899 --> 00:20:17.700 At St. Mary's, 00:20:17.740 --> 00:20:18.519 Dr. Michael Barham 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:19.399 Was saying in this 00:20:19.399 --> 00:20:20.500 Speaker series, 00:20:20.919 --> 00:20:22.119 He said that abundance, 00:20:22.339 --> 00:20:23.759 It's not about optimism. 00:20:24.119 --> 00:20:25.099 It's not about optimism. 00:20:25.299 --> 00:20:26.679 It's about resurrection hope. 00:20:27.099 --> 00:20:27.919 It's not mere 00:20:27.919 --> 00:20:29.159 Wishful thinking, 00:20:29.299 --> 00:20:29.960 But it's rooted 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:31.960 In what God has done. 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:33.339 And what he is doing. 00:20:33.339 --> 00:20:34.779 And what he's going to do 00:20:34.779 --> 00:20:35.759 In this world. 00:20:36.539 --> 00:20:37.759 And so I want to ask us again, 00:20:38.179 --> 00:20:38.679 Don't you want to be 00:20:38.679 --> 00:20:39.359 A part of this? 00:20:40.019 --> 00:20:41.319 Imagine this, 00:20:41.439 --> 00:20:41.839 Christ Church. 00:20:41.939 --> 00:20:42.720 Imagine with me, 00:20:42.939 --> 00:20:43.619 What if we, 00:20:43.980 --> 00:20:44.519 As a church, 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:45.740 Here in the East Bay, 00:20:46.319 --> 00:20:47.319 What if we actually 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:48.659 Believe Jesus' words 00:20:48.659 --> 00:20:49.259 When he said, 00:20:49.639 --> 00:20:51.240 Very truly I tell you, 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:52.659 Whoever believes in me 00:20:52.659 --> 00:20:53.939 Will do the works 00:20:53.939 --> 00:20:55.039 I have been doing, 00:20:55.460 --> 00:20:56.119 And they will do 00:20:56.119 --> 00:20:57.259 Even greater things 00:20:57.259 --> 00:20:58.000 Than these. 00:20:58.519 --> 00:20:59.659 Because I am going 00:20:59.659 --> 00:21:00.379 To the Father. 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:02.119 Because I am sending you 00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:02.879 The helper, 00:21:03.019 --> 00:21:03.720 My spirit. 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:06.079 Might it be that God 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:07.240 Wants to do a work 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:08.200 In us 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:09.500 So spectacular, 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:11.299 So provocative, 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:13.259 That people run 00:21:13.259 --> 00:21:14.539 To witness it 00:21:14.539 --> 00:21:15.460 Amongst us 00:21:15.460 --> 00:21:16.000 As they did 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:16.660 At this temple. 00:21:17.059 --> 00:21:17.160 Right? 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:18.060 Verses 9 to 11 00:21:18.060 --> 00:21:18.340 Said, 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:19.740 They recognized this man, 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:21.440 This man who for so long 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:22.259 They just accepted 00:21:22.259 --> 00:21:23.480 Would be a living 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:24.660 Contradiction to the 00:21:24.660 --> 00:21:25.360 Beautiful gate 00:21:25.360 --> 00:21:26.040 Of the temple 00:21:26.040 --> 00:21:26.740 Of the Almighty. 00:21:26.740 --> 00:21:28.240 But all of a sudden 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:29.099 In the name of Jesus 00:21:29.099 --> 00:21:30.299 Whom they had crucified 00:21:30.299 --> 00:21:31.400 Something beautiful 00:21:31.400 --> 00:21:32.720 Had actually happened 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:34.059 At the beautiful gate. 00:21:35.099 --> 00:21:36.620 Are we becoming 00:21:36.620 --> 00:21:37.319 Too comfortable 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:38.079 With the irony? 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:38.799 Too comfortable 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:40.259 With the contradiction? 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:41.900 Or do we want 00:21:41.900 --> 00:21:42.700 To believe 00:21:42.700 --> 00:21:44.220 And see the spirit 00:21:44.220 --> 00:21:46.059 Make beautiful things 00:21:46.059 --> 00:21:46.599 Beautiful 00:21:46.599 --> 00:21:47.680 In the name 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:48.519 Of Jesus? 00:21:49.660 --> 00:21:50.500 Might it be 00:21:50.500 --> 00:21:51.480 That God wants 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:51.940 To do 00:21:51.940 --> 00:21:53.160 That God wants 00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:53.859 In the words 00:21:53.859 --> 00:21:54.539 Of our deacon 00:21:54.539 --> 00:21:55.199 Beth Todd 00:21:55.199 --> 00:21:56.240 That God wants 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:57.000 To do a thing 00:21:57.000 --> 00:21:58.059 That God wants 00:21:58.059 --> 00:21:58.659 To do a thing 00:21:58.659 --> 00:21:59.240 Here and now 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:00.500 To rest us 00:22:00.500 --> 00:22:01.139 And our neighbors 00:22:01.139 --> 00:22:02.500 From our complacency 00:22:02.500 --> 00:22:03.619 And our growing 00:22:03.619 --> 00:22:04.139 Comfortable 00:22:04.139 --> 00:22:05.179 With our broken 00:22:05.179 --> 00:22:06.199 Status quo. 00:22:07.199 --> 00:22:07.699 Could it be 00:22:07.699 --> 00:22:08.519 That God desires 00:22:08.519 --> 00:22:09.199 To use us 00:22:09.199 --> 00:22:10.119 Just like he used 00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:11.219 Peter and John 00:22:11.219 --> 00:22:12.000 And the early church 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:13.099 To call people 00:22:13.099 --> 00:22:13.819 To faith 00:22:13.819 --> 00:22:14.599 In the name of Jesus 00:22:14.599 --> 00:22:16.079 For their good 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:17.339 That they might be 00:22:17.339 --> 00:22:17.859 Healed 00:22:17.859 --> 00:22:18.759 Body and soul 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:19.919 Inside and out. 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:20.879 Remember this wasn't 00:22:20.879 --> 00:22:21.979 Just Peter's 00:22:21.979 --> 00:22:22.959 Apostolic gift 00:22:22.959 --> 00:22:23.479 To give 00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:24.299 Every follower 00:22:24.299 --> 00:22:24.880 Of Jesus 00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:25.779 Also has 00:22:25.779 --> 00:22:26.519 The gospel 00:22:26.519 --> 00:22:27.299 To give 00:22:27.299 --> 00:22:27.940 We all have 00:22:27.940 --> 00:22:28.500 The spirit 00:22:28.500 --> 00:22:29.620 Dwelling within us 00:22:29.620 --> 00:22:30.620 Desiring to use us 00:22:30.620 --> 00:22:31.640 To bear witness 00:22:31.640 --> 00:22:32.680 To a new creation 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:33.779 In Christ 00:22:33.779 --> 00:22:35.519 Male and female 00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:36.460 Young and old 00:22:36.460 --> 00:22:37.680 Strong and weak 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:38.319 It doesn't matter 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:40.079 Because it's not about us 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:41.660 And this is the gospel 00:22:41.660 --> 00:22:42.000 Right? 00:22:42.259 --> 00:22:42.980 This is the gospel 00:22:42.980 --> 00:22:43.740 That salvation 00:22:43.740 --> 00:22:45.000 And the realization 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:46.140 Of new creation 00:22:46.140 --> 00:22:48.240 Does not rely on us 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:48.980 Or our power 00:22:48.980 --> 00:22:50.079 Or our godliness 00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:51.319 But only on the 00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:52.420 Strong name of Christ 00:22:52.420 --> 00:22:54.060 Peter says here 00:22:54.060 --> 00:22:54.640 In verse 12 00:22:54.640 --> 00:22:55.779 Fellow Israelites 00:22:55.779 --> 00:22:57.340 People who confessed 00:22:57.340 --> 00:22:58.200 And worshipped 00:22:58.200 --> 00:22:58.960 A God who 00:22:58.960 --> 00:22:59.980 Delivered their people 00:22:59.980 --> 00:23:00.560 From Egypt 00:23:00.560 --> 00:23:01.300 You know 00:23:01.300 --> 00:23:02.160 Saved Noah 00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:02.880 From the flood 00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:03.400 And brought them 00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:04.220 Back to Jerusalem 00:23:04.220 --> 00:23:05.140 Out of exile 00:23:05.140 --> 00:23:05.580 He says 00:23:05.580 --> 00:23:05.600 He says 00:23:05.600 --> 00:23:06.340 Why does this 00:23:06.340 --> 00:23:07.120 Surprise you? 00:23:07.900 --> 00:23:08.500 Why does this 00:23:08.500 --> 00:23:09.440 Healing of this 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:10.380 Lame beggar 00:23:10.380 --> 00:23:11.240 Surprise you? 00:23:11.900 --> 00:23:12.580 Why do you stare 00:23:12.580 --> 00:23:13.259 At us 00:23:13.259 --> 00:23:14.660 As if by our own 00:23:14.660 --> 00:23:15.980 Power or godliness 00:23:15.980 --> 00:23:17.400 We had made 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:18.180 This man walk? 00:23:19.040 --> 00:23:19.700 He was saying 00:23:19.700 --> 00:23:20.759 This wasn't me 00:23:20.759 --> 00:23:21.220 At all 00:23:21.220 --> 00:23:23.180 It was all God 00:23:23.180 --> 00:23:23.920 It was all God 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:24.480 Don't you see 00:23:24.480 --> 00:23:25.600 He says in verse 13 00:23:25.600 --> 00:23:26.680 The God of Abraham 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:27.860 Isaac and Jacob 00:23:27.860 --> 00:23:28.780 The God of our fathers 00:23:28.780 --> 00:23:30.380 Has glorified his servant 00:23:30.380 --> 00:23:31.120 Jesus 00:23:31.119 --> 00:23:32.539 This is all 00:23:32.539 --> 00:23:33.500 God's doing 00:23:33.500 --> 00:23:34.959 In order to bring 00:23:34.959 --> 00:23:36.359 Glory to the risen 00:23:36.359 --> 00:23:36.979 Son 00:23:36.979 --> 00:23:37.519 Jesus 00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:38.239 Because that's 00:23:38.239 --> 00:23:38.959 What it's all about 00:23:38.959 --> 00:23:39.659 And that's what 00:23:39.659 --> 00:23:40.500 God's all about 00:23:40.500 --> 00:23:41.739 To quote Beth Todd 00:23:41.739 --> 00:23:42.000 Again 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:43.339 God is doing a thing 00:23:43.339 --> 00:23:44.979 He wants to do a thing 00:23:44.979 --> 00:23:47.059 He's glorifying his son 00:23:47.059 --> 00:23:48.000 And he's using 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:49.059 The most unexpected 00:23:49.059 --> 00:23:49.859 Unlikely 00:23:49.859 --> 00:23:50.599 Undeserving 00:23:50.599 --> 00:23:51.539 People 00:23:51.539 --> 00:23:52.599 Like you and me 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:53.619 To do it 00:23:53.619 --> 00:23:54.559 As he fills 00:23:54.559 --> 00:23:55.539 And empowers us 00:23:55.539 --> 00:23:56.439 With his spirit 00:23:56.440 --> 00:23:57.940 Now I know 00:23:57.940 --> 00:23:58.640 I've spent a lot 00:23:58.640 --> 00:23:59.360 Of my time today 00:23:59.360 --> 00:23:59.980 Talking about 00:23:59.980 --> 00:24:01.259 Talking to the church 00:24:01.259 --> 00:24:02.519 Talking to Christians 00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:03.240 I mean this is 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:03.900 A Christian sermon 00:24:03.900 --> 00:24:04.539 From the Bible 00:24:04.539 --> 00:24:06.080 But I'm also aware 00:24:06.080 --> 00:24:07.420 And we're super thankful 00:24:07.420 --> 00:24:08.720 That some of us here 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:09.400 Listening in 00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:09.880 Viewing 00:24:09.880 --> 00:24:11.380 Attending here today 00:24:11.380 --> 00:24:12.940 Might be skeptical 00:24:12.940 --> 00:24:14.600 About all of this 00:24:14.600 --> 00:24:15.660 Skeptical about 00:24:15.660 --> 00:24:16.940 The power of God 00:24:16.940 --> 00:24:18.120 Skeptical of God 00:24:18.120 --> 00:24:18.880 Himself really 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:19.580 And thus 00:24:19.580 --> 00:24:21.080 Skeptical of the resurrection 00:24:21.080 --> 00:24:23.240 And of miraculous healings 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:24.779 Maybe you're here today 00:24:24.779 --> 00:24:26.420 And you're mad at God 00:24:26.420 --> 00:24:27.800 Maybe you're mad at God 00:24:27.800 --> 00:24:28.620 Precisely because 00:24:28.620 --> 00:24:29.420 You did believe 00:24:29.420 --> 00:24:30.300 You did ask 00:24:30.300 --> 00:24:31.680 To see his power 00:24:31.680 --> 00:24:33.740 And things didn't turn out 00:24:33.740 --> 00:24:35.120 The way that you wanted 00:24:35.120 --> 00:24:36.960 Your mom's cancer 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:38.360 Didn't go away 00:24:38.360 --> 00:24:39.759 Your grandma 00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:41.360 She didn't get better 00:24:41.360 --> 00:24:43.720 Your children are still not 00:24:43.720 --> 00:24:45.180 Where you want them to be 00:24:45.180 --> 00:24:47.360 You're still lonely 00:24:47.360 --> 00:24:48.800 Your mental health issues 00:24:48.800 --> 00:24:50.039 Are still there 00:24:50.039 --> 00:24:52.140 And even if you believe 00:24:52.140 --> 00:24:53.400 In Jesus with all your heart 00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:54.779 It's hard for you to hear 00:24:54.779 --> 00:24:55.779 This challenge right 00:24:55.779 --> 00:24:56.360 To believe 00:24:56.359 --> 00:24:57.779 In the power of God 00:24:57.779 --> 00:24:59.639 And if I can be honest 00:24:59.639 --> 00:24:59.939 With you 00:24:59.939 --> 00:25:00.439 To be honest 00:25:00.439 --> 00:25:01.139 I don't know 00:25:01.139 --> 00:25:02.119 That I have a personally 00:25:02.119 --> 00:25:04.039 Satisfying answer for you 00:25:04.039 --> 00:25:05.159 An answer to explain 00:25:05.159 --> 00:25:06.699 Why God does what he does 00:25:06.699 --> 00:25:07.859 When he does it 00:25:07.859 --> 00:25:09.539 But something that's been 00:25:09.539 --> 00:25:10.740 Helpful for me to realize 00:25:10.740 --> 00:25:12.519 Is that when Peter said 00:25:12.519 --> 00:25:14.519 To this lame beggar 00:25:14.519 --> 00:25:16.339 In the name of Jesus Christ 00:25:16.339 --> 00:25:16.879 Walk 00:25:16.879 --> 00:25:19.219 This man very well 00:25:19.219 --> 00:25:20.559 Might not have walked 00:25:20.559 --> 00:25:22.159 And yet Peter 00:25:22.159 --> 00:25:23.359 Was speaking the truth 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:26.519 He might not have walked 00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:27.900 And yet everything 00:25:27.900 --> 00:25:28.940 That Peter said to him 00:25:28.940 --> 00:25:29.700 Was true 00:25:29.700 --> 00:25:31.060 In the name of Jesus Christ 00:25:31.060 --> 00:25:31.780 Of Nazareth 00:25:31.780 --> 00:25:32.920 Walk 00:25:32.920 --> 00:25:34.400 Again this wasn't 00:25:34.400 --> 00:25:36.180 A superhero magic trick 00:25:36.180 --> 00:25:37.519 Of Peter the apostle 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:37.920 Right 00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:39.060 Like some comic book 00:25:39.060 --> 00:25:41.500 There were three possible scenarios 00:25:41.500 --> 00:25:43.120 As I understand this 00:25:43.120 --> 00:25:43.380 Okay 00:25:43.380 --> 00:25:44.460 Peter could have preached 00:25:44.460 --> 00:25:45.380 This gospel to him 00:25:45.380 --> 00:25:46.640 In the name of Jesus Christ 00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:47.180 Of Nazareth 00:25:47.180 --> 00:25:48.000 Walk 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:48.980 And the lame beggar 00:25:48.980 --> 00:25:50.100 He could have rejected 00:25:50.100 --> 00:25:50.720 The gospel 00:25:50.720 --> 00:25:52.480 He could have not believed 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:53.519 And he could have met 00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:54.839 This gospel with doubt 00:25:54.839 --> 00:25:55.680 And skepticism 00:25:55.680 --> 00:25:57.700 And therefore not walked 00:25:57.700 --> 00:25:59.759 Or there's scenario two 00:25:59.759 --> 00:26:00.880 Which is what happened 00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:01.620 Scenario two 00:26:01.620 --> 00:26:02.539 Is what we see happen 00:26:02.539 --> 00:26:03.339 He believed 00:26:03.339 --> 00:26:04.600 And he did walk 00:26:04.600 --> 00:26:05.460 Praise God 00:26:05.460 --> 00:26:06.220 Glory to God 00:26:06.220 --> 00:26:07.240 This is new creation 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:08.240 Breaking in 00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:10.680 But there is a scenario three 00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:11.660 And I think it's a scenario 00:26:11.660 --> 00:26:12.640 That we're all 00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:14.980 Very very well acquainted with 00:26:14.980 --> 00:26:15.240 Right 00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:16.360 One I imagine 00:26:16.360 --> 00:26:18.220 That we are very very familiar with 00:26:18.220 --> 00:26:19.819 And we've heard this version 00:26:19.819 --> 00:26:20.919 Of the gospel before 00:26:20.919 --> 00:26:22.339 People have said to us 00:26:22.339 --> 00:26:23.339 They've prayed over us 00:26:23.339 --> 00:26:24.599 In the name of Jesus Christ 00:26:24.599 --> 00:26:25.099 Of Nazareth 00:26:25.099 --> 00:26:25.379 You know 00:26:25.379 --> 00:26:27.279 Be rid of your panic attacks 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:29.159 In the name of Jesus Christ 00:26:29.159 --> 00:26:29.639 Of Nazareth 00:26:29.639 --> 00:26:31.200 Be rid of your addictions 00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:31.899 And your cancer 00:26:31.899 --> 00:26:32.619 And your loneliness 00:26:32.619 --> 00:26:33.399 And your depression 00:26:33.399 --> 00:26:34.779 And your heartbreak 00:26:34.779 --> 00:26:37.179 But here so many of us are 00:26:37.179 --> 00:26:37.480 Right 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:39.139 Truly believing in Jesus 00:26:39.139 --> 00:26:40.819 Truly believing in his power 00:26:40.819 --> 00:26:41.559 And his ability 00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:42.759 To get rid of 00:26:42.759 --> 00:26:43.960 All these afflictions 00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:44.679 In our lives 00:26:44.679 --> 00:26:45.700 What's going on 00:26:45.700 --> 00:26:46.359 Christ Church 00:26:46.359 --> 00:26:47.519 What's going on 00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:48.339 Is God a liar 00:26:48.339 --> 00:26:50.759 Is his power a sham 00:26:50.759 --> 00:26:52.379 No 00:26:52.379 --> 00:26:54.199 No it's not 00:26:54.199 --> 00:26:55.659 And I know that 00:26:55.659 --> 00:26:56.579 Without the eyes of faith 00:26:56.579 --> 00:26:57.439 You'll probably receive 00:26:57.439 --> 00:26:58.279 What I'm about to say 00:26:58.279 --> 00:26:58.879 As a cop out 00:26:58.879 --> 00:26:59.599 But the confession 00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:00.919 Of the Christian faith 00:27:00.919 --> 00:27:02.299 Is that salvation 00:27:02.299 --> 00:27:03.240 And healing 00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:04.619 In the name of Jesus 00:27:04.619 --> 00:27:06.559 Even as some truly do 00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:08.039 Experience it immediately 00:27:08.039 --> 00:27:09.159 By the Spirit's 00:27:09.159 --> 00:27:10.339 Inbreaking of new creation 00:27:10.339 --> 00:27:10.799 Into history 00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:11.959 For many and maybe even 00:27:11.959 --> 00:27:13.079 Most of us 00:27:13.079 --> 00:27:14.419 It's more of a 00:27:14.419 --> 00:27:15.500 Not yet reality 00:27:15.500 --> 00:27:17.220 Than an already one 00:27:17.220 --> 00:27:19.120 New creation 00:27:19.120 --> 00:27:19.819 Was experienced 00:27:19.819 --> 00:27:21.220 Already in a real way 00:27:21.220 --> 00:27:21.960 By this beggar 00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:22.819 Praise God 00:27:22.819 --> 00:27:24.259 And for many people 00:27:24.259 --> 00:27:24.940 Throughout the world 00:27:24.940 --> 00:27:26.539 Who see miraculous things 00:27:26.539 --> 00:27:26.980 Like this 00:27:26.980 --> 00:27:28.000 Praise God 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:29.279 God is very clearly 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:29.900 At work 00:27:29.900 --> 00:27:31.980 But the not yetness 00:27:31.980 --> 00:27:32.839 Of new creation 00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:33.660 Christ Church 00:27:33.660 --> 00:27:35.000 Doesn't make it 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:35.819 Any less real 00:27:35.819 --> 00:27:37.100 It doesn't make 00:27:37.100 --> 00:27:37.660 New creation 00:27:37.660 --> 00:27:38.759 Any less real 00:27:38.759 --> 00:27:39.559 One might argue 00:27:39.559 --> 00:27:40.140 It makes it 00:27:40.140 --> 00:27:40.980 Even sweeter 00:27:40.980 --> 00:27:42.880 The gospel message 00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:43.579 In the name of 00:27:43.579 --> 00:27:44.600 Jesus Christ of Nazareth 00:27:44.600 --> 00:27:45.059 Walk 00:27:45.059 --> 00:27:46.420 Is the truth 00:27:46.420 --> 00:27:48.120 Whether we walk now 00:27:48.120 --> 00:27:49.500 Or whether we will 00:27:49.500 --> 00:27:50.519 Walk later 00:27:50.519 --> 00:27:52.480 And even if it is later 00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:53.160 It is still 00:27:53.160 --> 00:27:54.100 The power of God 00:27:54.100 --> 00:27:54.680 And so 00:27:54.680 --> 00:27:55.900 So relevant 00:27:55.900 --> 00:27:56.640 For us today 00:27:56.640 --> 00:27:57.100 Christ Church 00:27:57.100 --> 00:27:58.220 This is our hope 00:27:58.220 --> 00:27:59.700 This is the hope 00:27:59.700 --> 00:28:00.560 Of the world 00:28:00.560 --> 00:28:02.080 And I know that 00:28:02.080 --> 00:28:03.039 So many of us 00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:03.880 Might still 00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:05.039 Be skeptical 00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:06.120 Of course he's telling me 00:28:06.120 --> 00:28:06.900 It's not here yet 00:28:06.900 --> 00:28:08.160 Of course he's telling me 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:08.440 That 00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:09.860 What good 00:28:09.860 --> 00:28:10.900 Does that do 00:28:10.900 --> 00:28:11.740 For me 00:28:11.740 --> 00:28:13.500 Well I want to 00:28:13.500 --> 00:28:14.240 Challenge us 00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:15.319 I want to challenge us 00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:16.039 As Peter challenged 00:28:16.039 --> 00:28:16.480 The crowds 00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:17.740 To investigate 00:28:17.740 --> 00:28:18.480 This claim 00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:19.920 To really dig 00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:21.220 Into the word of God 00:28:21.220 --> 00:28:22.720 Peter says 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:24.359 Look at what has happened 00:28:24.359 --> 00:28:25.720 Is this not what 00:28:25.720 --> 00:28:26.779 Moses had written about 00:28:26.779 --> 00:28:27.539 Is this not what 00:28:27.539 --> 00:28:28.059 The prophets 00:28:28.059 --> 00:28:28.819 Had written about 00:28:28.819 --> 00:28:30.140 What God had foretold 00:28:30.140 --> 00:28:31.319 For many years 00:28:31.319 --> 00:28:32.779 Have you ever seen 00:28:32.779 --> 00:28:33.980 God not fulfill 00:28:33.980 --> 00:28:34.620 His promises 00:28:34.620 --> 00:28:35.960 Even if you have to wait 00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:37.420 Didn't we just sing today 00:28:37.420 --> 00:28:38.720 He's the everlasting God 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:39.480 His time horizon 00:28:39.480 --> 00:28:40.400 Is wider 00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:41.640 Longer than ours 00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:43.140 We will wait on him 00:28:43.140 --> 00:28:44.080 We're just saying that 00:28:44.080 --> 00:28:44.460 To him 00:28:44.460 --> 00:28:45.820 I will wait on you 00:28:45.820 --> 00:28:47.480 I will wait on you 00:28:47.480 --> 00:28:49.300 As Peter says 00:28:49.300 --> 00:28:50.080 In verse 22 00:28:50.080 --> 00:28:51.040 For Moses said 00:28:51.040 --> 00:28:52.620 The Lord your God 00:28:52.620 --> 00:28:53.740 Will raise up for you 00:28:53.740 --> 00:28:54.740 A prophet like me 00:28:54.740 --> 00:28:55.980 Among your own people 00:28:55.980 --> 00:28:57.360 You must listen 00:28:57.360 --> 00:28:58.740 To everything he tells you 00:28:58.740 --> 00:28:59.960 And this prophet 00:28:59.960 --> 00:29:01.580 Was Jesus Christ 00:29:01.580 --> 00:29:03.580 You think it was hard 00:29:03.580 --> 00:29:04.680 To believe in the prophets 00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:05.480 Of the Old Testament 00:29:05.480 --> 00:29:07.820 Well it shouldn't be hard 00:29:07.820 --> 00:29:09.120 To believe in Jesus Christ 00:29:09.120 --> 00:29:11.259 The one who loved us 00:29:11.259 --> 00:29:13.299 The one who gave himself 00:29:13.299 --> 00:29:13.879 For us 00:29:13.879 --> 00:29:14.779 This is where it all 00:29:14.779 --> 00:29:15.859 Stands or falls 00:29:15.859 --> 00:29:16.640 Will we listen 00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:18.279 To the one God has sent 00:29:18.279 --> 00:29:19.119 The prophet 00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:20.160 Jesus Christ 00:29:20.160 --> 00:29:20.980 And I know this begs 00:29:20.980 --> 00:29:22.299 The question for some of us 00:29:22.299 --> 00:29:23.119 Well why should we 00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:24.599 Why should I trust 00:29:24.599 --> 00:29:26.259 This prophet Jesus Christ 00:29:26.259 --> 00:29:28.319 This supposed son of God 00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:29.000 And this is where I'd like 00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:29.900 To end with two reasons 00:29:29.900 --> 00:29:31.200 From Acts chapter 3 00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:32.700 Why I'd hope you'd consider 00:29:32.700 --> 00:29:34.339 Listening to and trusting 00:29:34.339 --> 00:29:35.259 In Jesus Christ 00:29:35.259 --> 00:29:36.819 This one who we confess 00:29:36.819 --> 00:29:37.579 That God has sent 00:29:37.579 --> 00:29:38.980 Even if you are fed up 00:29:38.980 --> 00:29:40.539 With the not yetness 00:29:40.539 --> 00:29:42.379 Of his new creation promise 00:29:42.379 --> 00:29:43.659 And the first reason is this 00:29:43.659 --> 00:29:45.619 Jesus Christ 00:29:45.619 --> 00:29:46.839 God himself 00:29:46.839 --> 00:29:48.399 The author of life 00:29:48.399 --> 00:29:49.799 Peter calls him 00:29:49.799 --> 00:29:51.039 The author of life here right 00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:53.379 He is not unacquainted 00:29:53.379 --> 00:29:54.859 The author of life himself 00:29:54.859 --> 00:29:55.939 Is not unacquainted 00:29:55.939 --> 00:29:57.699 With the not yetness 00:29:57.699 --> 00:29:58.759 Of new creation 00:29:58.759 --> 00:30:00.119 He is not unfamiliar 00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:01.659 With the brokenness 00:30:01.659 --> 00:30:02.179 Of the world 00:30:02.179 --> 00:30:03.339 He is not unfamiliar 00:30:03.339 --> 00:30:04.720 With the long and hard 00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:05.879 And painful waiting 00:30:05.880 --> 00:30:07.400 That God calls us into 00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:08.920 For those of us 00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:09.980 Who await 00:30:09.980 --> 00:30:11.720 Our not yet new creation 00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:12.540 Reality 00:30:12.540 --> 00:30:14.080 As Peter reminded 00:30:14.080 --> 00:30:14.620 This crowd 00:30:14.620 --> 00:30:15.640 In verses 13 to 18 00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:16.780 Jesus the holy 00:30:16.780 --> 00:30:17.520 And righteous one 00:30:17.520 --> 00:30:18.720 The author of life himself 00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:19.860 He was disowned 00:30:19.860 --> 00:30:20.880 And rejected 00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:21.360 And killed 00:30:21.360 --> 00:30:21.980 And traded in 00:30:21.980 --> 00:30:22.640 For a murder 00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:23.760 A murderer 00:30:23.760 --> 00:30:25.560 But none of this 00:30:25.560 --> 00:30:26.180 Was in vain 00:30:26.180 --> 00:30:27.320 And none of it 00:30:27.320 --> 00:30:28.380 Was without a purpose 00:30:28.380 --> 00:30:29.540 And none of it 00:30:29.540 --> 00:30:30.160 Was outside 00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:30.920 Of the plan of God 00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:31.960 Peter says of Christ's 00:30:31.960 --> 00:30:33.020 Sufferings in verse 18 00:30:33.020 --> 00:30:34.280 But this is how God 00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:36.599 Fulfilled what he had foretold 00:30:36.599 --> 00:30:37.740 Through all the prophets 00:30:37.740 --> 00:30:39.339 Saying that his Messiah 00:30:39.339 --> 00:30:39.879 Would suffer 00:30:39.879 --> 00:30:40.819 Do you understand this? 00:30:41.700 --> 00:30:42.319 Might it be 00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:43.960 That just as God 00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:45.559 Allowed his only begotten son 00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:46.720 To suffer 00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:48.079 And to wait 00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:49.079 For the coming 00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:50.000 Of new creation 00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:50.879 At his resurrection 00:30:50.879 --> 00:30:53.099 Which implied his death 00:30:53.099 --> 00:30:54.759 Might it be 00:30:54.759 --> 00:30:55.859 That he might also have 00:30:55.859 --> 00:30:57.720 A similarly glorious 00:30:57.720 --> 00:30:59.599 Plan for us 00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:02.420 Suffering was not 00:31:02.420 --> 00:31:03.379 Beneath Jesus 00:31:03.380 --> 00:31:04.900 Why is suffering 00:31:04.900 --> 00:31:06.080 Beneath us? 00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:07.860 And if Jesus 00:31:07.860 --> 00:31:08.440 Could wait 00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:08.940 And hope 00:31:08.940 --> 00:31:09.400 And trust 00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:09.960 In resurrection 00:31:09.960 --> 00:31:11.560 Why shouldn't we? 00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:13.300 Why shouldn't we 00:31:13.300 --> 00:31:14.280 Wait and hope 00:31:14.280 --> 00:31:14.820 And trust 00:31:14.820 --> 00:31:15.960 In new creation? 00:31:16.540 --> 00:31:17.300 Why can't we trust 00:31:17.300 --> 00:31:17.940 God's plans 00:31:17.940 --> 00:31:18.540 For our good 00:31:18.540 --> 00:31:19.200 And his glory 00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:20.560 That are yet to be fulfilled 00:31:20.560 --> 00:31:21.760 And unfolded? 00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:23.380 And the last thing 00:31:23.380 --> 00:31:23.940 I want to say 00:31:23.940 --> 00:31:24.580 The last reason 00:31:24.580 --> 00:31:25.440 I'd commend to us 00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:26.660 For why we can 00:31:26.660 --> 00:31:27.540 And should trust 00:31:27.540 --> 00:31:28.620 In Jesus 00:31:28.620 --> 00:31:29.520 This Jesus 00:31:29.520 --> 00:31:30.460 That Peter proclaimed 00:31:30.460 --> 00:31:31.400 Even when salvation 00:31:31.400 --> 00:31:32.140 Seems so 00:31:32.140 --> 00:31:32.900 So distant 00:31:32.900 --> 00:31:33.460 New creation 00:31:33.460 --> 00:31:34.420 So so far 00:31:34.420 --> 00:31:34.980 And irrelevant 00:31:34.980 --> 00:31:35.520 Is this 00:31:35.520 --> 00:31:36.460 I just want to say 00:31:36.460 --> 00:31:36.880 Christchurch 00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:37.620 Look at his heart 00:31:37.620 --> 00:31:39.080 Look at the heart 00:31:39.080 --> 00:31:39.420 Of God 00:31:39.420 --> 00:31:40.080 Look at the heart 00:31:40.080 --> 00:31:41.100 Of Jesus Christ 00:31:41.100 --> 00:31:41.540 Look at the heart 00:31:41.540 --> 00:31:41.820 Of God 00:31:41.820 --> 00:31:42.560 In Acts chapter 3 00:31:42.560 --> 00:31:43.200 Even as Peter 00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:44.520 Is going for the jugular 00:31:44.520 --> 00:31:44.759 Man 00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:45.900 He doesn't hold back 00:31:45.900 --> 00:31:46.360 His punches 00:31:46.360 --> 00:31:46.740 Right? 00:31:47.020 --> 00:31:47.759 He calls these people 00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:48.460 Murderers 00:31:48.460 --> 00:31:49.580 Rejecters 00:31:49.579 --> 00:31:50.199 Of the author 00:31:50.199 --> 00:31:51.039 Of life 00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:51.939 He says 00:31:51.939 --> 00:31:52.779 You need to repent 00:31:52.779 --> 00:31:54.079 Because you are so wicked 00:31:54.079 --> 00:31:55.079 You are so sinful 00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:56.319 That he had to die for you 00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:57.659 To wipe out your sins 00:31:57.659 --> 00:31:59.079 The beauty is that 00:31:59.079 --> 00:31:59.879 He's calling them 00:31:59.879 --> 00:32:01.079 To repentance 00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:02.919 Verse 19 00:32:02.919 --> 00:32:04.259 Repent then 00:32:04.259 --> 00:32:05.199 And turn to God 00:32:05.199 --> 00:32:06.799 So that your sins 00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:07.960 May be wiped out 00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:09.579 That times of refreshing 00:32:09.579 --> 00:32:10.779 May come from the Lord 00:32:10.779 --> 00:32:11.460 This is what God 00:32:11.460 --> 00:32:11.980 Wants for us 00:32:11.980 --> 00:32:12.619 This is his heart 00:32:12.619 --> 00:32:12.939 For us 00:32:12.939 --> 00:32:13.539 For our sins 00:32:13.539 --> 00:32:14.240 To be wiped out 00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:15.059 He wants us 00:32:15.059 --> 00:32:16.700 To be refreshed 00:32:16.700 --> 00:32:18.399 To these murderers 00:32:18.399 --> 00:32:19.139 Of the Lord Jesus 00:32:19.139 --> 00:32:19.879 These murderers 00:32:19.879 --> 00:32:20.599 Of the Son of God 00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:21.299 The heart of God 00:32:21.299 --> 00:32:21.799 For them 00:32:21.799 --> 00:32:22.799 Is for their sins 00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:23.659 To be wiped out 00:32:23.659 --> 00:32:25.119 For their sins 00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:25.779 To be wiped out 00:32:25.779 --> 00:32:26.700 And we know he's done it 00:32:26.700 --> 00:32:28.019 Through his suffering 00:32:28.019 --> 00:32:29.399 At the cross 00:32:29.399 --> 00:32:31.480 At the cross 00:32:31.480 --> 00:32:32.919 By his blood 00:32:32.919 --> 00:32:35.480 This is his word to us 00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:37.139 This is the gospel 00:32:37.139 --> 00:32:38.899 Verse 26 00:32:38.899 --> 00:32:40.399 When God raised up 00:32:40.399 --> 00:32:40.899 His servant 00:32:40.899 --> 00:32:42.099 The author of life 00:32:42.099 --> 00:32:43.119 Whom we all crucified 00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:44.179 And rejected 00:32:44.179 --> 00:32:44.919 And who were all 00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:45.920 Prone to doubt 00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:46.460 Even today 00:32:46.460 --> 00:32:47.320 Even the most faithful 00:32:47.320 --> 00:32:47.580 Of us 00:32:47.580 --> 00:32:48.240 Verse 26 00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:49.120 When God raised up 00:32:49.120 --> 00:32:49.740 His servant 00:32:49.740 --> 00:32:51.400 He sent him first 00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:52.120 To you 00:32:52.120 --> 00:32:53.160 To bless you 00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:54.519 To bless you 00:32:54.519 --> 00:32:55.600 By turning each of you 00:32:55.600 --> 00:32:56.500 From your wicked ways 00:32:56.500 --> 00:32:57.400 And this is the gospel 00:32:57.400 --> 00:32:58.759 Christ has come 00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:00.420 To bless us 00:33:00.420 --> 00:33:02.160 To bless us 00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:03.759 And that's the message 00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:04.360 Of the cross 00:33:04.360 --> 00:33:05.039 That's the message 00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:05.980 Of the scriptures 00:33:05.980 --> 00:33:07.860 That's the heart of God 00:33:07.860 --> 00:33:09.420 The heart of God 00:33:09.420 --> 00:33:10.420 Is desiring 00:33:10.420 --> 00:33:11.880 To bless the wicked 00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:13.840 In the name of Jesus 00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:14.959 Christ Church 00:33:14.959 --> 00:33:15.559 New creation 00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:16.079 Is coming 00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:17.459 And it's breaking in 00:33:17.459 --> 00:33:18.119 Even now 00:33:18.119 --> 00:33:19.539 And even when we don't see it 00:33:19.539 --> 00:33:20.599 As we might want to 00:33:20.599 --> 00:33:21.939 We have a savior 00:33:21.939 --> 00:33:23.939 Who understands that experience 00:33:23.939 --> 00:33:24.980 And not only that 00:33:24.980 --> 00:33:25.819 But his heart 00:33:25.819 --> 00:33:27.659 Is still to bless us 00:33:27.659 --> 00:33:29.379 His heart to bless us 00:33:29.379 --> 00:33:30.199 Will never fail 00:33:30.199 --> 00:33:31.179 It will never fail 00:33:31.179 --> 00:33:31.879 For his people 00:33:31.879 --> 00:33:34.079 This is God's word to us 00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:34.559 This morning 00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:35.199 Let's pray 00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:41.259 Lord God 00:33:41.259 --> 00:33:42.700 We pray that your church 00:33:42.700 --> 00:33:44.600 Would live 00:33:44.600 --> 00:33:46.059 What we sang this morning 00:33:46.059 --> 00:33:47.319 That we will wait on you 00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:50.019 It will dawn on us 00:33:50.019 --> 00:33:52.180 That we are living before 00:33:52.180 --> 00:33:54.200 The everlasting God 00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:55.019 And your time horizon 00:33:55.019 --> 00:33:56.440 Is so much greater than ours 00:33:56.440 --> 00:33:58.039 We thank you 00:33:58.039 --> 00:33:59.860 That you sympathize with us 00:33:59.860 --> 00:34:01.200 In our sorrows 00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:02.840 And we just ask 00:34:02.840 --> 00:34:03.400 That you continue 00:34:03.400 --> 00:34:05.940 To bolster our faith 00:34:05.940 --> 00:34:06.559 Lord God 00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:07.960 Bolster our faith 00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:10.059 That we might trust you 00:34:10.059 --> 00:34:11.480 We might believe 00:34:11.480 --> 00:34:13.280 This new creation promise 00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:14.519 That you've given to us 00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:15.880 The hope of the world 00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:17.420 This is what we have 00:34:17.420 --> 00:34:18.559 This is what you've given us 00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:20.280 And would you make us bold 00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:21.720 To give it to others as well 00:34:21.720 --> 00:34:22.559 We pray these things 00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:23.519 In the name of Jesus 00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:24.920 Amen 00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:25.920 Amen