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Message notes by Cole Beshore, June 13 2021

EXODUS | CONTEST OF GODS

1) GOD WILL BE KNOWN

EXODUS 5:1-2

After this presentation to Israel’s leaders, Moses and Aaron went and spoke to Pharaoh. They told him, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Let my people go so they may hold a festival in my honor in the wilderness.” “Is that so?” retorted Pharaoh. “And who is the Lord? Why should I listen to him and let Israel go? I don’t know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.”

EXODUS 7:14-18

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn,* and he still refuses to let the people go. So go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes down to the river. Stand on the bank of the Nile and meet him there. Be sure to take along the staff that turned into a snake. Then announce to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you, “Let my people go, so they can worship me in the wilderness.” Until now, you have refused to listen to him. So this is what the Lord says: “I will show you that I am the Lord.” Look! I will strike the water of the Nile with this staff in my hand, and the river will turn to blood. The fish in it will die, and the river will stink. The Egyptians will not be able to drink any water from the Nile.’ ”

2) THE GODS OF THE LAND

NUMBERS 33:4

The Lord had defeated the gods of Egypt that night with great acts of judgment!

EGYPT

SOUTHERN CA

3) THE DANGER OF HARD HEARTS

EXODUS 9:27-30

Then Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he confessed. “The Lord is the righteous one, and my people and I are wrong. Please beg the Lord to end this terrifying thunder and hail. We’ve had enough. I will let you go; you don’t need to stay any longer.” “All right,” Moses replied. “As soon as I leave the city, I will lift my hands and pray to the Lord. Then the thunder and hail will stop, and you will know that the earth belongs to the Lord. But I know that you and your officials still do not fear the Lord God.”

EXODUS 10:1-2, 7

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Return to Pharaoh and make your demands again. I have made him and his officials stubborn so I can display my miraculous signs among them. I’ve also done it so you can tell your children and grandchildren about how I made a mockery of the Egyptians and about the signs I displayed among them—and so you will know that I am the Lord.”

Pharaoh’s officials now came to Pharaoh and appealed to him. “How long will you let this man hold us hostage? Let the men go to worship the Lord their God! Don’t you realize that Egypt lies in ruins?”

OUR ADVENTURE:

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Message notes by Cole Beshore, June 6 2021

EXODUS | INVITATION TO ADVENTURE

1) DO I WANT AN ADVENTURE?

EXODUS 3:1-4

One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement. Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn’t burn up. “This is amazing,” Moses said to himself. “Why isn’t that bush burning up? I must go see it.” When the Lord saw Moses coming to take a closer look, God called to him from the middle of the bush, “Moses! Moses!” “Here I am!” Moses replied.

2) WILL GOD RESCUE?

EXODUS 3:7-12

The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”

- GOD SEES

- GOD HEARS

- GOD CARES

- GOD HAS COME NEAR

3) WHERE DO I FIND STRENGTH?

4) HOW DO WE JOIN THE ADVENTURE?

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Message notes by Kenton Beshore, May 30 2021

SUNDAY EXPERIENCE | STORE UP TREASURES IN HEAVEN

LAURIE’S INVITATION: WHAT DO YOU WANT?

MY CHOICE

MY LIFESTYLE

JESUS’ INVITATION: WHAT DO YOU WANT?

Matthew 6:19-24

EARTHLY OR HEAVENLY TREASURE?

“Don’t store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:19-21

EARTHLY: DOESN’T LAST, NOT SAFE, DOESN’T SATISFY

HEAVENLY: LASTS, IS SAFE, SATISFIES

“Our treasure determines our heart.”

WHERE DO YOU LOOK?

“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness, how deep is that darkness!’’ Matthew 6:22-23

HEALTHY EYE: FULL OF LIGHT, FIXED ON GOD

BAD EYE: FULL OF DARKNESS

“We look at what we value and love and it determines our destination.”

WHAT WILL I TRUST?

“No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” Matthew 6:24

MONEY, POSSESSIONS, MATERIAL RESOURCES

GOD

“What we trust in we serve.”

LET’S BE HONEST…OUR GREATEST THREAT!

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. 1 Timothy 6:10

“…the worries of this age and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.” Matthew 13:22

I increased my achievements. I built houses and planted vineyards…gardens and parks… I constructed reservoirs….I also owned…silver and gold…the treasure of kings…I did not refuse myself any pleasure…When I considered all that I had accomplished and what I had labored to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind... Ecclesiastes 2:4-8,10,11

JESUS’ INVITATION: LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE

MY CHOICE: GOD AS MY TREASURE

“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.” Matthew 6:33

MY LIFESTYLE

GOD FIRST…FOLLOW JESUS…REPENTANCE

“No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” Matthew 6:24

SERVE GOD AND STEWARD MONEY

GENEROSITY: AIM YOUR TREASURE…CHANGE YOUR HEART

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:21

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Message notes by Cole Beshore, May 23 2021

BROKEN SIGNPOSTS | POWER

JOHN 18:36-38

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom. If it were, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But my Kingdom is not of this world.” Pilate said, “So you are a king?” Jesus responded, “You say I am a king. Actually, I was born and came into the world to testify to the truth. All who love the truth recognize that what I say is true.” “What is truth?”

JOHN 19:7-12

The Jewish leaders replied, “By our law he ought to die because he called himself the Son of God.” When Pilate heard this, he was more frightened than ever. 9 He took Jesus back into the headquarters* again and asked him, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave no answer. “Why don’t you talk to me?” Pilate demanded. “Don’t you realize that I have the power to release you or crucify you?” Then Jesus said, “You would have no power over me at all unless it were given to you from above. So the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.” Then Pilate tried to release him, but the Jewish leaders shouted, “If you release this man, you are no ‘friend of Caesar.’ Anyone who declares himself a king is a rebel against Caesar.”

JOHN19:15

What? Crucify your king?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” the leading priests shouted back.

1) WHERE DOES POWER COME FROM?

GENESIS 1:26

Then God said, “Let us make human beings* in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”

2) DANGERS OF POWER

3) EXERCISING POWER

- CHOOSE

- REMEMBER

- PRACTICE BLESSING

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Message notes by Cole Beshore, May 16 2021

BROKEN SIGNPOSTS | THE MOST TRUTH

1) WHAT IS TRUTH?

John 18:33-38

Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?” “Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?” Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.” “You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him.

2) WHERE IS TRUTH?

3) WHAT KEEPS US FROM TRUTH?

4) TELLING TRUTH IN OUR WORLD.

- FIND MYSELF IN THE STORY

- TELL THE STORY

- LIVE THE STORY

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Message notes by Cole Beshore, May 9 2021

BROKEN SIGNPOSTS | THE FREEDOM WE LEARN FROM OUR MOTHERS

1. WE FIND FREEDOM IN BEING LOVED

2. ONLY IN JESUS DO WE KNOW AND EXPERIENCE A FULLNESS OF LOVE THAT LEADS TO FREEDOM

JOHN 8:31-36

Jesus said to the people who believed in him, “You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” “But we are descendants of Abraham,” they said. “We have never been slaves to anyone. What do you mean, ‘You will be set free’?” Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave of sin. A slave is not a permanent member of the family, but a son is part of the family forever. So if the Son sets you free, you are truly free.

3. THANKSGIVING BRINGS US BACK INTO THE PRESENCE OF JESUS

AFFIRM A MOM TODAY!

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Message notes by Cole Beshore, May 2 2021

BROKEN SIGNPOSTS | BEAUTY

1) BEAUTY POINTS TO GOD

- NOT EASILY EXPLAINED AWAY

- POINTS TO THE TRANSCENDENT

2) BEAUTY POINTS TO HOPE

JOHN 11:17-44

When Jesus arrived at Bethany, he was told that Lazarus had already been in his grave for four days. Bethany was only a few miles* down the road from Jerusalem, and many of the people had come to console Martha and Mary in their loss. When Martha got word that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask.” Jesus told her, “Your brother will rise again.” “Yes,” Martha said, “he will rise when everyone else rises, at the last day.” Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?”

“Yes, Lord,” she told him. “I have always believed you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who has come into the world from God.” Then she returned to Mary. She called Mary aside from the mourners and told her, “The Teacher is here and wants to see you.” So Mary immediately went to him. Jesus had stayed outside the village, at the place where Martha met him. When the people who were at the house consoling Mary saw her leave so hastily, they assumed she was going to Lazarus’s grave to weep. So they followed her there. When Mary arrived and saw Jesus, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping and saw the other people wailing with her, a deep anger welled up within him,* and he was deeply troubled. “Where have you put him?” he asked them. They told him, “Lord, come and see.” Then Jesus wept. The people who were standing nearby said, “See how much he loved him!” But some said, “This man healed a blind man. Couldn’t he have kept Lazarus from dying?”

Jesus was still angry as he arrived at the tomb, a cave with a stone rolled across its entrance. “Roll the stone aside,” Jesus told them. But Martha, the dead man’s sister, protested, “Lord, he has been dead for four days. The smell will be terrible.” Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s glory if you believe?” So they rolled the stone aside. Then Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, thank you for hearing me. You always hear me, but I said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they will believe you sent me.” Then Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!” And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound in grave clothes, his face wrapped in a head cloth. Jesus told them, “Unwrap him and let him go!”

3) BEAUTY AS ADVENTURE

- POINT TO BEAUTY

- CREATE BEAUTY

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Message notes by Cole Beshore, April 18 2021

'BROKEN SIGNPOSTS | IN SEARCH OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE.

1. WHAT IS THE SPIRITUAL LIFE?

JOHN 4:4-9

He had to go through Samaria on the way. Eventually he came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime. Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.” He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food. The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans. She said to Jesus, “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?”

JOHN 4:10-14

Jesus replied, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.” “But sir, you don’t have a rope or a bucket,” she said, “and this well is very deep. Where would you get this living water? And besides, do you think you’re greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well? How can you offer better water than he and his sons and his animals enjoyed?”

Jesus replied, “Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”

JOHN 4:15-20

“Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me this water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again, and I won’t have to come here to get water.” “Go and get your husband,” Jesus told her. “I don’t have a husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said, “You’re right! You don’t have a husband— for you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now. You certainly spoke the truth!” “Sir,” the woman said, “you must be a prophet. So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while we Samaritans claim it is here at Mount Gerizim, where our ancestors worshiped?”

JOHN 4:21-26

Jesus replied, “Believe me, dear woman, the time is coming when it will no longer matter whether you worship the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. You Samaritans know very little about the one you worship, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes through the Jews. But the time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way. For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.” The woman said, “I know the Messiah is coming—the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” Then Jesus told her, “I Am the Messiah!”

2) WHAT THE WORLD SAYS IS THE SPIRITUAL LIFE.

WHAT I SAY = LIFE

VS

WHAT GOD SAYS = LIFE

3) THE SECRET TO LIVING A TRULY SPIRITUAL LIFE.

LIVE IN GRACE

REMAIN IN HIM

JOHN 15:5

“Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.

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Message notes by Cole Beshore, April 18 2021

'BROKEN SIGNPOSTS | WHATS LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?

1. SIGN POSTS

2. THE LOVE WE ALL NEED

LOVE THAT IS ACTIVE

1 JOHN 4:10

This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us…

JOHN 2:19-22

Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the Scriptures: “Passion for God’s house will consume me.” But the Jewish leaders demanded, “What are you doing? If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign to prove it.” “All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” “What!” they exclaimed. “It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple, and you can rebuild it in three days?” But when Jesus said “this temple,” he meant his own body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this, and they believed both the Scriptures and what Jesus had said.

LOVE THAT IS CLOSE

EXODUS 25:8

“Have the people of Israel build me a holy sanctuary so I can live among them”

EXODUS 40:34-35

Then the cloud covered the Tabernacle, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle. Moses could no longer enter the Tabernacle because the cloud had settled down over it, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle.

1 KINGS 8:10-11

When the priests came out of the Holy Place, a thick cloud filled the Temple of the Lord. The priests could not continue their service because of the cloud, for the glorious presence of the Lord filled the Temple of the Lord.

JOHN 1:14

So the Word became human and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son.

3. TRUE LOVE IS LIVED

SERVICE

SACRIFICE

CLOSENESS

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Message notes by Josiah Schwartz, April 11 2021

'BROKEN SIGNPOSTS | JUSTICE'

“WE ALL CRAVE JUSTICE, YET STRUGGLE TO BELIEVE IF THINGS CAN BE MADE RIGHT.”

JOHN 3:16-21

“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.

“There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son. And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.”

GOD OF JUSTICE

- JESUS CAME TO SAVE, NOT JUDGE.

- THE JUSTICE OF GOD IS THE MANIFESTATION OF GOD’S LOVE.

JOHN 8:1-11

Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd. “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”

They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.

When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?” “No, Lord,” she said. And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”

ROMANS 8:33-34

Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.

THE ACCUSED

- IN SPITE OF CLEAR GUILT, JESUS CHOOSES TO GIVE MERCY.

- JESUS CHOOSES NOT TO BE THE ACCUSER OF THE WOMAN; NOR DOES HE CHOOSE TO ACCUSE YOU.

MICAH 6:8

No, O people, the Lord has told you what is good, and this is what he requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.

JUSTICE BRINGERS

- WE ARE CALLED TO POINT TO THE LIFE GIVING JUSTICE JESUS GIVES.

- JUSTICE THAT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH WHAT HE DID, NOT ME.