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God communicates His love before, during, and after discipline. He is consistent and never leaves us. He chooses mercy and gives us hope.

God’s not pleased with hypocritical ritual. He desires wholistic worship seen in life-transformation.

Where are we tempted to go through the motions just to appease God? Since Jeremiah reminds us, God’s interested in the true state of our heart & life-transformation which comes out in very practical action of care towards others.

We begin this series looking at the overwhelming call of Jeremiah to take God’s word to rebellious people of God, and the nations beyond them. Jeremiah will find that he’s totally inadequate to the task, but that God’s power & presence will enable him! Amen!

Overflow includes all that we are. We were bought with a price, and have become the bondservants of Christ. God has entrusted all that we have to our care, do we regard everything we have and are as His? And what difference does that make in the area of finances for us?

What’s filling for? We explore that question today in the next sermon of the series.

Baptism, an outward symbol of an inward reality. A visual image & statement of our being sealed & washed clean in Christ! Today we celebrate the overflow of Christ in the lives of two of our own!

The Holy Spirit at the top filling us up, overflowing first to family & friends, then to local community, then the nations of the world. Overflow, a natural process of being filled, not forced or awkward, just happens.

We’re centering our thoughts on desiring overflow...Romans 15:13...May the God of hope fill you with all joy & peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

We long to be filled to overflowing, but to be filled, we must desire it. We do nothing without desire. How are we filled? How do we, like David said, taste & see that the Lord is good?

Are we S.A.D.? Do we have Separation Anxiety Disorder. What if we were so secure in Christ that it would transform us totally at the core. That world view would enable us to trust & the God of hope would fill us like a five tiered fountain to overflowing with hope by the power of His Spirit. Joy,