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Message Notes:

1 And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland[a] country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. 2 And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” 3 And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John's baptism.” 4 And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.” 5 On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying. 7 There were about twelve men in all. – Acts 19v1-7 (ESV)

As the world gets more like the empire of Rome, the church has to get more like the book of Acts 

Three Things in the book of Acts

1 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power— 1 Corinthians 2v1-5 (ESV)

about the Holy Spirit…

1. The Holy Spirit comes in you to save you, and He comes on you to use you

1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; 3 to grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified. – Isaiah 61v1-3 (ESV)

2. The Holy Spirit has moods, but He’s not moody

The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. — ‭‭John‬ ‭3‬:‭8‬ (‭NIV‬‬)

What matters is not the different ways He comes, but that He knows how YOU need Him to come. 

3. The Holy Spirit is an untapped relationship for many

4. The Holy Spirit needs to be honored

And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. — Joel 2v28 (NIV)

And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying. — Acts 19v6 (ESV)

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Message Notes:

1. RESTORE HOW YOU LISTEN

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. - Romans 10:17 ESV

2.) Security: There is always gonna be fish

3.) Practical: It is  a respectable career

What does this show about the Character of Jesus?

-He doesn’t want you possessions (150 Fish)

-He doesn’t need your works (Called back out of the boat)

-He will never shame you for missing the mark (moving off of their own logical thinking)

3. RESTORE HOW YOU RESPOND

Phileo was viewed as a brotherly type of love. It is a kind of affection that says “I like you”. Among the common uses of the word today are: Philadelphia – City of Brotherly 

Agape was defined as a divine love which is expressed by the words “I commit to you.” This is the love of Christ. Love that is sacrificially committed.

“Your heart posture towards Jesus will always determine how you respond to him”

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Message Notes:

1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah. 2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done. 3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them. 4 He brought in the priests and the Levites and assembled them in the square on the east 5 and said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place. – 2 Chronicles 29v1-5 (ESV)

How to declutter 

1. Open the Doors 

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them. – 2 Chronicles 29v3 (ESV)

The levites are worshippers by blood, not by occupation

and said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place. – 2 Chronicles 29v5 (ESV)

your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, – 1 Corinthians 6v19 (ESV)

Ahaz - “to grasp, to seize”

Hezekiah - “Jehovah is my strength”

My sons, do not now be negligent, for the Lord has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him and to be his ministers and make offerings to him.” – 2 Chronicles 29v11 (ESV)

Hezekiah is a son who cleanses the temple… 

Jesus is the Son who cleans the world...

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Message Notes:

1 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” 3 So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. 4 Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. — John 20v1-5 (ESV)

Common Objections to Christianity?

1. The exclusivity of Christ 

“Aren’t all religions leading to the same place?”

Christianity is 1 of 4 religions based after a personality, but 1 of 1 religions that claim a verified bodily resurrection.

2. The criteria for heaven

“I’m a good person, why must I follow Jesus?”

3. The call to a new life and ethic 

“Why should I let God decide how I live my life?”

Three people see Jesus 

In case you missed it… 

1. The gospel does not entice us, it invites us 

Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb – John 20v1 (ESV)

It seemed to them like idle tales… and they did not believe – Luke 24v10-12 (ESV)

Lordship - supreme power or rule 

6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, 7 and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself. 8 Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; – John 20v6-8 (ESV)

blepo - to notice 

And stooping to look in, he BLEPO the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. — John 20v5 (ESV)

theoro - to study closely 

Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He THEORO the linen cloths lying there,  — John 20v7 (ESV)

eidon - to see with understanding

Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he EIDON and believed; – John 20v8 (ESV)

11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. 12 And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. 13 They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” 14 Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). – John 20v11-16 (ESV)

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Message Notes:

1 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 3 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.’” 4 They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway. As they untied it, 5 some people standing there asked, “What are you doing, untying that colt?” 6 They answered as Jesus had told them to, and the people let them go. 7 When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. 8 Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields. 9 Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted, “Hosanna!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” — Mark 11v1-9 (ESV)

The Bible - God is good, we are bad, we need God’s help to be formed into His image.

The Culture - We are good, some things with God are bad, we need to help God be formed into our image. 

Three ways to look at repentance:  

Be perfect (telios - complete, mature, whole) therefore as your Heavenly Father is perfect. — Matthew 5v48 (ESV)

Repentance isn’t about perfection… but a desire to be perfected. 

Lessons from a donkey.

1. The colt was in a certain place 

1 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden — Mark 11v1-2 (ESV)

1 I waited patiently for the Lord to help me, and he turned to me and heard my cry. 2 He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along. — Psalm 40v1-2 (NLT)

2. The colt needed to be loosed 

4 They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway. As they untied it, 5 some people standing there asked, “What are you doing, untying that colt?” 6 They answered as Jesus had told them to, and the people let them go. — Mark 11v4-6 (ESV)

Revelation 2v19-22 (ESV)

3. The colt is brought to Jesus 

When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. — Mark 11v7 (ESV)

Mark 11v15-17 (ESV)

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Message Notes:

1 I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me. 2 When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands, and I would not be comforted. 3 I remembered you, God, and I groaned; I meditated, and my spirit grew faint.[b] 4 You kept my eyes from closing; I was too troubled to speak. 5 I thought about the former days, the years of long ago; 6 I remembered my songs in the night. My heart meditated and my spirit asked: 7 “Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never show his favor again? 8 Has his unfailing love vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all time? 9 Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?”  - Psalm 77:1-9 NKJV

“Days of trouble MUST be days of prayer.”

I WILL REMEMBER - Spirit

But I will remember the years of the right hand (strength) of the Most High. - Psalm 77:10b

1. The WONDERS (power) 

11 I will remember the deeds of the Lord;  yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago. - Psalm 77:11

12 I will consider all your works and meditate on all your mighty deeds.” - Psalm 77:12

13 Your ways, God, are holy. What god is as great as our God? - Psalm 77:13

This God is a contrast on all of the other gods, what strength is like His

I WILL REMEMBER

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Message Notes:

3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. 9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. — Psalm 51v3-12 (ESV)

It’s one thing to be saved, it’s another thing to be free

The Church:  

27 Can a man scoop a flame into his lap and not have his clothes catch on fire? 28 Can he walk on hot coals and not blister his feet? 29 So it is with the man who sleeps with another man’s wife. He who embraces her will not go unpunished. 30 Excuses might be found for a thief who steals because he is starving. 31 But if he is caught, he must pay back seven times what he stole, even if he has to sell everything in his house. 32 But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys himself. – Proverbs 6v27-32 (ESV)

1 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. 2 It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 3 And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” 4 So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house. 5 And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.” – 2 Samuel 11v1-5 (ESV)

26 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband. 27 And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord. – 2 Samuel 11v26-27 (ESV)

Steps to a changed life:

Repentance is painful, but God doesn’t convict people of sin to destroy them, but in order to heal them, restore them and bring them to Himself.

Word count in the Bible 

HOW TO TRY AGAIN. 

1. Start at the right place 

Psalm 51v6-7 (ESV)

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Message Notes:

1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? 2 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. 3 Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. 4 In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. 5 To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. — Psalm 22v1-5 (ESV)

It’s impossible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature.

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. — 3 John 2 (ESV)

Stories of suffering:

10 I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. - Philippians 3v10-11 (NIV)

You’re in good company

1. Jesus was mocked

7 All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads; 8 “He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!” – Psalm 22v7-8 (ESV)

28 And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, 29 and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 30 And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head. – Matthew 27v28-30 (ESV)

2. Jesus was rejected

22 The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.[23 This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. 24 This is the day that the Lord has made;let us rejoice and be glad in it. – Psalm 118v22-24 (ESV)

REJECTION SHOULD LEAD TO REJOICING

18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.  – John 15v18-19 (ESV)

3. Jesus was betrayed

Matthew 26v14-16 (NIV)

When you’ve been betrayed

Matthew 26v14-16 (ESV)

4. Jesus was forsaken

Galatians 3v13 (ESV)

Psalm 22v1 (ESV)

Matthew 27v46 (ESV)

Psalm 23v1-2 (ESV)

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Message Notes:

3 My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O Lord—how long? 4 Turn, O Lord, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love. 5 For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise? 6 I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping. 7 My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes. 8 Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping. 9 The Lord has heard my plea; the Lord accepts my prayer. 10 All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled; they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment. — Psalm 6v3-10 (ESV)

It’s impossible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature.

How long Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me. — Psalm 13v1-2 (ESV)

It’s one thing to be saved, it’s another thing to be free

My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O Lord—how long? — Psalm 6v3 (ESV)

Troubled - disturbed, hurried, anxious

4 Turn, O Lord, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love. 5 For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise? — Psalm 6v4-5 (ESV)

My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. — Psalm 139v15 (ESV)

Intricate Components

My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. — Psalm 73v26 (ESV)

I’m getting unhealthy when

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. — 1 Peter 5v10 (ESV)

Restoring my inner life.

1. NAME WHERE YOU’RE AT

Genesis 3v8-9 (ESV)

HOW WE THINK INFLUENCES HOW WE FEEL

Colossians 3v2-3 (ESV)

2. BRING YOUR BROKENESS

Psalm 51v17 (NLT)

2 Samuel 22v21-25 (MSG)

3. FIGHT YOUR FEELINGS

Every thought in your mind needs to be filtered. If you are going to survive this war, you need to be a domineering, controlling, micro-managing tyrant when it comes to your thought life. Any and all thoughts outside of God’s Word, you take captive, shut up, and expel. You give those thoughts no time. No mental real estate. No free pass. You throw those thoughts into prison. No, better yet, you send them straight to solitary confinement. And when you’re done, you throw away the keys. — John Mark Comer

4. REFRESH YOUR REVELATION

Romans 12v1 (ESV)

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Message Notes:

1 When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. 2 Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon. 3 And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place. 4 But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the Lord, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off on the threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon was left to him. 5 This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day. — 1 Samuel 5v1-5 (ESV)

IDOLATRY - FINDING ETERNAL SECURITY IN SOMETHING OR SOMEONE OTHER THAN GOD

34 And this that shall come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day. 35 And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever. – 1 Samuel 2v34-45 (ESV)

Dagon in the culture…

1. A culture that tries to limit the concept of God

Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon. – 1 Samuel 5v2 (ESV)

RESPONSE: A CHURCH THAT’S THE SPIRIT-LED AND OPEN TO A MOVE OF GOD

38 John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name,[f] and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” 39 But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. 40 For the one who is not against us is for us. – Mark 9v38-40 (ESV)

2. A culture that goes deeper into false belief

4 But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the Lord, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off on the threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon was left to him. 5 This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day. – 1 Samuel 5v4-5 (ESV)

HEADS - wisdom

HANDS - power

The prudent understand where they are going, but fools deceive themselves. –Proverbs 14v8 (NLT)

RESPONSE: A CHURCH THAT GOES DEEPER INTO THEOLOGY AND APOLOGETICS

Psalm 14v1 (ESV)

Modern Day Narratives:

3. A culture that places blame and shifts problems

1 Samuel 5v6-8 (ESV)

RESPONSE: A CHURCH THAT TAKES RESPONSIBILITY

Galatians 6v2-5 (ESV)

4. A culture that sacrifices purpose for the sake of discomfort