Resurrection – Personal, Societal – Transformation

• Eph 2:4-6 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,  (5)  even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),  (6)  and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
• Eph 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

 

Church – World’s Most Capitalized Entity

• Church is the world’s most capitalized corporate entity
• Major most investment was Jesus’ life for Church to be instituted
• We are shareholders of the Church’s grand enterprise
• To know Jesus & make Him known
• To birth others into Christ
• To Born again & belong again
• You cannot be indifferent stakeholders

 

Workmanship Miracle

• Eph 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
• We are born with a God script written into us – Godscope – God gives the bonus that helps us overcome liens in parental legacy
• Born again experience is the new creation – a reset overcoming what went wrong in our life BC
• As God works in us, we are the miracle & miracle workers, the world awaits to see

 

How much Room God gets in your life – Is there Room for Christ in your Inn

• Eph 3:19-20 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.  (20)  Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,
• Only limit is how much God’s presence, purpose, plan, program & power is allowed to work in our timewhat takes your time? Temporal or eternal

 

Three Battle Lines

• Eph 2:2-3 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.  (3)  Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
• Course of this world
• Prince of the power of the air
• Lusts of the flesh – self sabotage

 

Contours & Change-makers, Jesus – I will build My Church.

• Mat 16:18-19 “I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.  (19)  “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.
• You are the key – your gift is the key to overpower doors of hades & open cages

 

The Miracle that You Need Most

• “It is not the healthy who need a doctor,” but it’s those who are struggling. It’s those who are sick. He said, “I have not come to call the righteous, but come to call the sinners.
• The Miracle that You Need Most.” Father, help us to be your church, to carry the good news of the love and the grace of Jesus. So that people would experience God, the miracle that they need most. “

 

Four Friends

• Dominant – let’s break the roof
• No can’t do embarrassing things – let’s persuade people to make a way
• Come another day
• Wait till Jesus finishes preaching

Are you preoccupied – don’t see

• The people inside, they were good people, but they were just preoccupied. They were listening to Jesus. And outside the door was the man in need but inadvertently without meaning to, they had their back to the one who was in need. They were preoccupied and they were listening to Jesus teach
• you need to remember with God, there’s always a way.

 

I see your faith

• But faith wasn’t just an internal invisible feeling or belief. It was something internal that was so strong that it showed up in their actions. Here I can see your faith.
• I see your faith, in the way you serve.
• I see your faith in the way you show up.
• I see your faith in the way you give.
• I see your faith in the way you worship.

 

Faith that can be seen

• When you worship and you don’t feel like God’s doing anything, but you continue to give Him praise.
• I see your faith in the way you love those, that are difficult to love.
• I see your faith when you continue to bring people week after week, hoping they’ll find the grace and the forgiveness of Jesus

 

 

• God gives us what we need before He gives us what we want. And that may be where some of you are right now. You’re asking for this, but God’s gonna give you that. Because you want this, but you need that first. And God may give you what you need before He actually gives you what you want.
• You see them in every church.
• You see someone who cares.
• You see someone who’s preoccupied.
• You see someone who’s in need.
• And unfortunately you see someone who’s critical
• Someone ready for change today

 

• Take up your mat, you don’t need it anymore. What does that mean for you? Leave it there. Lay down your drugs. You don’t need them anymore. That’s not your crutch. You got a power greater than anything that does inside your body. Tap into the power of the Holy Spirit. Let go of it, let go! Let go of the grudge. It’s not healing you, it’s hurting you. It’s poisoning you. Leave behind your shame. Let go,

 

• leave that mat behind. Let it go and walk on, go home. You’re forgiven, you’re healed, you’re free. Get out there and have a party. Tell someone else, invite him and tell him who he is and what he does. Leave your mats. Get up and go.

 

 

• Unfortunately you got some who are preoccupied and some of you, if that’s you and it’s been me before, let’s call it what it is. If you’ve come to church every week by yourself for a year, you’re preoccupied.

 

• That that if you’re in Christ, you find freedom. He who the Son sets free is free indeed. There’s life in Christ, there’s life in Christ. And we’re all someone who can be changed. Who do you see in every church? Do you see person after person after person who can be changed by the grace of Jesus?
• Whom you don’t see in Church
• You don’t see all the people who aren’t there It could be the lady who was invited and almost went, but she was so afraid that she might not be welcomed because of some stuff in her life. And she didn’t realize it was full of people who cared.
• Or it might have been the guy that was invited, but he didn’t want to miss the game.
• It might be all the people who used to go, but after Covid hit, they resumed every other normal activity in their life, but they didn’t come back to church

 

• Your bosom friend with whom you share all jokes but not the gospel
• Your workmate with whom you discuss weighty problems daily but not the gospel
• Whom you meet often at the Gym with whom you share latest fitness tips but not the gospel

 

• Who are we? We’re the church. We’re the church. We don’t go to church, we are the church. We’re broken people saved by the grace of Jesus. Loving those who are hurting, in need of healing.
• Because listen, we’re all someone in need. And we all can be someone who cares because by the grace of Jesus, we all can be changed. S