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- Everyday HeroesGood morning. Welcome. It’s good to be with you. I love being with you guys on Sundays and if you’re joining us online, thanks for joining us. Uh, we’re going to continue in our Philippians series and uh, I think about sunday’s in, you know, today is a normal sunday church and then kind of relax, chill afternoon is what we try to do. Just kind of arrest, take our sabbath and usually on sunday nights we try to do a movie and if there’s a new superhero movie out, that’s kind of on the list, it’s probably we’re going to end up watching a superhero movies. We love it. You know, the world loves a good superhero movie marvel knows that. Which is why they’ve, you know, made $23 billion in the last since 2000 and eight on superhero movies. So right. We we love a good superhero. Well, why is that? Well, I mean there’s always something about write them how they represent the good guys, They represent us against evil and how they how they saved the day at the end and they always got their back against the wall and they come through. So we we love superheroes and not to ruin it for you, but really, that’s the plot of every superhero movie you’re ever gonna see, right? So there’s this evil, there’s this bad guy that rises up and a good guy comes in and tries to battle him and somehow the bad guy gets the upper hand. But the good guy at the very end, he comes through and and against all odds, he wins, right? So I’m probably just ruined every superhero movie you oversee, right? That’s, that’s the premise of pretty much everyone, but we love it, it’s what we like and it entertains us. But there’s also something that we grab onto about rising to the occasion as a superhero. My boys, many of them, I have four boys growing as they’ve grown up right there many times asked for superhero figurines or superhero weapons or whatever it might be and they’re out there playing in their imagination. One is just amazing right there. They’re taking punches there, duck in there, falling to the ground, They’re getting back up what they can act out and what they’re creating in their minds is just unbelievable. It’s amazing. Again, they gravitate towards that, that superhero type of mentality. Now a hero in and of itself, if you just look at the definition would be a person who is admired, idealized for courage or outstanding achievements or noble qualities. So as adults, we kind of shift, we get away from this superhero in tights and capes and these magical powers and we shift it. But we, we kind of shift that to things like somebody who’s wealthy or powerful celebrities, influencers, personalities, all these different types of things and we won’t call them heroes, maybe we won’t call them superheroes at least, but they’re kind of these people we look to and we idealized and we admire and so that’s kind of the adult version really of, of what it is to be that hero, that superhero. And so if I told you, if I told you, well, a lot of those people that publicly might be looked up to in those ways really aren’t much of a hero. I don’t think that would surprise many of you. Right? And and to say that there’s heroes in a sense of the heroes of the faith all around us on an everyday basis. Might not surprise you either, but I sometimes think we we neglect that. We don’t, we don’t view it that way. I know Jesus is our only superhero. He’s our only true hero, the only one that can save us from our sins from the destruction that we that we have and that we’ve brought upon ourselves. Yes, he is our only hero, but yet it’s okay. It’s right to have even heroes of the faith people we look to and admire and want to even mimic and imitate when it comes to the faith first. Corinthians paul tells us right? He says imitate me as I also imitate christ. He’s telling people imitate hi…43 min
- Dependence Day
Good morning. Welcome. It’s good to be with you. I love being with you guys on Sundays and if you’re joining us online, thanks for joining us. Uh, we’re going to continue in our Philippians series and uh, I think about sunday’s in, you know, today is a normal sunday church and then kind of relax, chill afternoon is what we try to do. Just kind of arrest, take our sabbath and usually on sunday nights we try to do a movie and if there’s a new superhero movie out, that’s kind of on the list, it’s probably we’re going to end up watching a superhero movies. We love it. You know, the world loves a good superhero movie marvel knows that. Which is why they’ve, you know, made $23 billion in the last since 2000 and eight on superhero movies. So right. We we love a good superhero. Well, why is that? Well, I mean there’s always something about write them how they represent the good guys, They represent us against evil and how they how they saved the day at the end and they always got their back against the wall and they come through. So we we love superheroes and not to ruin it for you, but really, that’s the plot of every superhero movie you’re ever gonna see, right? So there’s this evil, there’s this bad guy that rises up and a good guy comes in and tries to battle him and somehow the bad guy gets the upper hand. But the good guy at the very end, he comes through and and against all odds, he wins, right? So I’m probably just ruined every superhero movie you oversee, right? That’s, that’s the premise of pretty much everyone, but we love it, it’s what we like and it entertains us. But there’s also something that we grab onto about rising to the occasion as a superhero. My boys, many of them, I have four boys growing as they’ve grown up right there many times asked for superhero figurines or superhero weapons or whatever it might be and they’re out there playing in their imagination. One is just amazing right there. They’re taking punches there, duck in there, falling to the ground, They’re getting back up what they can act out and what they’re creating in their minds is just unbelievable. It’s amazing. Again, they gravitate towards that, that superhero type of mentality. Now a hero in and of itself, if you just look at the definition would be a person who is admired, idealized for courage or outstanding achievements or noble qualities. So as adults, we kind of shift, we get away from this superhero in tights and capes and these magical powers and we shift it. But we, we kind of shift that to things like somebody who’s wealthy or powerful celebrities, influencers, personalities, all these different types of things and we won’t call them heroes, maybe we won’t call them superheroes at least, but they’re kind of these people we look to and we idealized and we admire and so that’s kind of the adult version really of, of what it is to be that hero, that superhero. And so if I told you, if I told you, well, a lot of those people that publicly might be looked up to in those ways really aren’t much of a hero. I don’t think that would surprise many of you. Right? And and to say that there’s heroes in a sense of the heroes of the faith all around us on an everyday basis. Might not surprise you either, but I sometimes think we we neglect that. We don’t, we don’t view it that way. I know Jesus is our only superhero. He’s our only true hero, the only one that can save us from our sins from the destruction that we that we have and that we’ve brought upon ourselves. Yes, he is our only hero, but yet it’s okay. It’s right to have even heroes of the faith people we look to and admire and want to even mimic and imitate when it comes to the faith first. Corinthians paul tells us right? He says imitate me as I also imitate christ. He’s telling people imitate hi…
44 min - Polarization and DivisionWell, good morning and welcome welcome all of you on this beautiful day and welcome those of you who are online. My name is Ben and we’re going through Philippians. The Book of Philippians were in Philippians chapter two verses one through 11 this morning. So turn to that passage with me polarization and division. That is something that we all are experiencing a lot right now. The last year has been very difficult and the pandemic has enhanced some of the division that was already there. It was kind of undercurrent and has made it bubbled to the surface and we are in a divided country. Uh, there’s division with politics. There’s divisions with racism. There’s divisions with the pandemic and approaches. There’s divisions within the church. There’s divisions between freedom and the greater good and people fight and argue over anything and everything it seems, including things that were just like, are you serious? I mean, come on, it’s almost comical. It’s sad, but it’s almost comical. One example that is a little bit more humorous about a month ago. The there was a fight that broke out between two friends about the quarterback named tom brady from the Tampa Bay buccaneers. And I have no idea what it involved, I have no idea why. But um, these guys developed and embroiled in a heated argument over the future Hall of Fame quarterback and it ends up that they exchanged punches in this one guy punched his friend in the face multiple times. It’s like, come on tom brady! Really? I know that tom brady, you can stir up some emotions, you know, especially if he’s playing against your team, but to punch friend face, that’s crazy. Social media doesn’t help right? And uh, it can inflame things even worse. I have a friend who is no longer talking with their relatives because of the political things that were said on, on social media back and forth. And they got into this, this this fight. And we have all kinds of divisions over all kinds of things. And it spills into the church. And it spilled into our church this past year has been difficult. And there are people in this church, in community groups who have hurt one another, who have gotten into arguments who um have said insensitive things when a person of color, I was sitting right in their groups, in sense of things about race. There have been passionate discussions in our church about all kinds of things about masks, about vaccines, about race, about politics. And there’s been intense discussions and some have left and our passage today, Philippians Chapter two versus one through 11. It’s very important because it speaks to us right here in our church. It gives us instructions and commands on unity in the church and how we should act towards one another in our community groups. And I want to focus on that. What we’re not going to try to change the culture out there. What we need to do is address the culture right here in our church. We need to address the unity in our church and to apply these principles and commands in our relationships right here, in our community groups, in our friendships right here. And so this is a serious thing. This is a big deal. And this is an important passage that speaks to us in our church at this time. And so let’s pray and ask God to speak because this is a really big deal. Well, we do pray, we yield ourselves to you Lord. We just surrender ourselves and ask you God to speak to us in whatever way that you desire, We want to make ourselves available to you and to be sensitive to your spirit, to whatever you want to share with us. Make your word alive and living in active in us this morning. Speak to us as a church about being united and help us to apply these things in jesus name. Amen. Okay, so Philippians chapter two vs one and 2 will start their read with …20 min
- Being Perfected by Perfect LoveI told Shane and keeps stealing my thunder. I keep wanting to introduce myself to you as Mike Whitney to all of the, with the visitors here for the first time. Um, but he keeps stealing my thunder. So it’s dan coke passed the Restoration City Church on behalf of Restoration City Church was so thankful, uh, for you guys. For Sword Church. We love you guys. We pray for you guys and we thank you for all that you do for us, um, as well. And I’m happy to be here with you this morning. It is a privilege. It is exciting for me to get another opportunity to share the word with you. I did some time. Was it last fall? May be last winter or so. And I think, um, Mike has determined that he needs at least nine months, you know, separation between when I come back again. You know, I, I guess that’s how difficult it is, um, in our friendship or whatever. So, but I’m going to take this opportunity this morning and with it being Father’s Day, Happy Father’s Day with it being Father’s Day, I want to deliver a message to you um, regarding the heart of our father, our our heavenly father, God, our father towards us, his Children. And there’s something about the heart of the father that we don’t always seem to grasp. And for whatever reason it is, we we tend to only think of God and maybe one of two different ways, but God wants to be revealed to us as father. And that’s the prayer that jesus taught us to pray, to refer to him as our heavenly father and to know him as a father. And sometimes that’s difficult because maybe, um, we haven’t necessarily seen fatherhood go well for us. Uh, maybe as a father, you might be struggling with some, some challenges yourself with trying to be a good father. Uh, maybe there’s some guilt, maybe there’s a sense of there’s some missed opportunities that I didn’t take advantage of as a father. I mean there’s a number of different things that kind of come into our thinking about fatherhood and we can project those onto our heavenly father. And I’m so thankful for the word of God because God comes in through his word and he wants to reset that thinking he wants us to have the proper perspective of who he is as a father and from there learn how to father well. And so that’s so important for us today because we all need that. And when I think of a father, um, I think of the strength of a father and little kids. Sometimes when they’re drawing pictures of their father, they tend to emphasize that what his father do and they also want to think of father as being strong and that’s important because there is a strength that fathers are, ought to exude. But that’s not the only thing we ought to exude. I’m a father. Um and I, my wife is here with three of our little ones. Um we have five total, but a father ought to also show great affection. There ought to be a display of strength and that strength isn’t necessarily, you know, a test of who can push the most weight, but the strength of character, the commitment to principle, the commitment to things that are right to do things well, the commitment to toe the line and not give up when times of heart, that type of strength. But then with the calling to be a father, there ought to be a deep sense of affection, knowing how to affirm to love to speak tenderly um to, to those whom God has entrusted to our care and influence. And that’s what we see, our heavenly father constantly doing. His love for us, being displayed through his strength and through his great affection towards us. And so today we’re going to talk about the love of the father and I’ve entitled this teaching being perfected by perfect love. And I’m going to read to you from 1st John Chapter four, verses 15 through 21. First John Chapter 4: verses 15 through 21. And so this is our main passage for this morning. I may r…36 min
- A Life Worthy of the GospelGood morning. My name is Ben Lander Pastor here. So our church and we have the privilege and the opportunity this morning to continue our series. That Shane started last week in the Book of Philippians. I’m excited. We get to spend part of our summer here going through the Book of Philippians. It’s a fun book. It’s uh it’s only four chapters long. It’s encouraging, challenging. Uh and Shane began talking this last week, kind of about the origins of this letter and how the apostle Paul had done a number of missionary journeys and stopped off in different places, starting churches proclaiming the gospel. And as people responded to the gospel, they formed churches and he would stay with them for a little while, he would teach them and uh and then would go do the same thing in different places. And so, uh Paul mentioned how, you know, you can sense in this letter, Shane mentioned how you can sense the letter pulse, closeness to the people of this church, how they loved each other, how they cared for one another. And and it was really good. Now paul was a man who went from persecuting the church too, being the Minister of the Gospel to the gentiles, which means to non jewish people. And so he was primarily traveling and establishing these churches with gentiles, non jews. And he’s writing to people that he cares about deeply and essentially what this book is is it’s a thank you letter because he was in prison. So, he had gone on these missionary journeys. He’d been proclaiming the gospel. The people really stirred up the and anyway, he got thrown into prison. And so he was in prison and writing these epistles, these letters and what the Philippians had done was they had sent a gift of some money to him. They cared about them, they are concerned about them. So they sent him some money to help support him while he was in prison. And he’s basically saying thank you. And then he’s also encouraging and challenging and trusting them. And so it’s essentially a thank you letter with rich theology and and good instruction for the church, encouragement for the church. So we get to dive into that. And uh, and there’s a number of themes that we will discover over the next coming weeks, Including uh, the theme of joy, the word joy and this concept of joy has talked about at least 16 times in the book. There’s the theme of the importance of living for christ and what it looks like to live a life worthy of the gospel unity is a theme. The book also describes a number of financial uh principles and how to, you know, be a steward of the resources God has given us. And humility is also something that will be talked about this this next week. So uh it’s it’s really good. And uh he begins kind of this first chapter as a prologue and then starting in verse 27 shifts and from then on to the rest of the book, it’s it’s more about living for christ, living in a manner worthy of christ and what that looks like for us. And so we get to discover those things this summer and I’m excited. I’m gonna pray and then we’re gonna dive in starting in verse uh 12. So we’re going to go verse 12 through 30 of chapter one today. Okay, so turn with me to chapter one in your bibles and I’ll pray. Lord thank you for the opportunity to go through this together this summer, We asked you to speak to us this morning. I pray that you would for each one of us, Lord that you challenge us, encourage us, help us strengthen us through your word and through what you have to share to each one of us this morning. In these verses, in jesus name. Amen. Okay, so read with me uh verse chapter one verse 12 through 20. Now I want you to know brothers and sisters that what has happened to me has actually advanced the Gospel so that it has become known throughout the whole Imperial Guard into ever…35 min
- Genuine FriendshipsAll right, good morning. Thanks for joining us. Today. We are starting the Book of Philippians and I’m excited because the Book of Philippians is a very encouraging book. It speaks of the benefit and the beauty and the joy of the body of believers. And it also speaks about the power and influence of the gospel. And so right right into it. Looking at some of the genesis of history here with the flipping is is it really starts in acts 16. So if you look back at 16, there’s this event that’s going on and Paul is traveling around and he he has three or four missionary journeys in his life, depending on how you look at it. He’s got three missionary journeys. Some may consider the fourth where he was taken as a prisoner to Rome as his final missionary journey. But this is on his second missionary journey where he reaches the Philippians. But he’s going through this this portion of Asia, which would be modern day Turkey. And he’s going up and it says that the Holy Spirit as he’s going through Malaysia and ferga, that the Holy Spirit then prevents him from sharing the word sharing the gospel throughout this portion of Asia. So he goes up and he’s at troughs. And then here is where in Acts 16, it says that he was uh he has a vision of a man from Macedonia who is calling out and not just calling out, but he’s pleading with Paul to come help them. And paul right there says, this is a call from God to take the gospel to europe. This is the evangelization of europe. He goes across this is in modern day Greece. He goes to the Philippians along with other churches, but that’s really where it started as God called paul to reach the Philippians. Now, this was written later, like I said on his fourth missionary journey, if you want to call it, as he sits in the prison at Rome. He’s writing back to this church that he went to, that he started and this would be considered most likely the last of his prison epistles where he wrote Ephesians, colossians and Philemon. And so that’s really where this starts. And so we’re gonna look at Philippians one versus one through 11. So if you open your bibles, you can read with me here or it’s up on the screen Verse one, Paul and Timothy Servants of Christ Jesus to all the saints in christ jesus who are in philippi including the overseers and the deacons, Grace to you and peace from God, our father and the Lord jesus christ. I give thanks to my God for every remembrance of you, always praying with joy for all of you in my every prayer because of your partnership in the Gospel. From the first day until now I am sure this that he who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of christ jesus. Indeed, it is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I have you in my heart and you are all partners with me in grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel for God is my witness. How deeply I miss all of you with the affection of christ jesus. I pray this that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment so that you may approve the things that are superior and maybe pure and blameless in the day of christ filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through jesus christ to the glory and praise of God. Mhm. From the get go you see that this is a very similar, familiar greeting that paul would give. But yet sometimes you have to look at not what is just written but what’s not written. And so a lot of times you’ll read where he writes a letter, he’ll address people by saying paul, an apostle of christ, jesus and here he doesn’t he doesn’t use the title that authoritative position, the title of the apostle. And so you see that in Galatians Ephesians, colossians, romans 1st and 2nd Corinthians, this is a very common…36 min
- 2020 LeadershipMorning. Good morning. Welcome everyone. Good to see you all. Um It’s exciting to be able to work through the end of first peter few anyone noticing anything exciting outside anyone noticed anything at all, garage is gone. Baby steps, we’re getting there. You you line up these contractors and then you get booked to get a quote and you have to just wait till they’re available. Everyone is building and destroying and doing a lot of construction projects. So baby Step number two is down step number three is rocking that bad boy. So we’re hoping to rock that lot. The mud grass lot you might have parked in. Um, hopefully this week. Next week and then privacy fence and then, you know, skyscraper and helicopter pad and we’ll keep going, you know, but just baby step one, the shit has gone. So um, welcome. I’m looking forward to. First peter if you all Today’s theme of Chapter five. It really doesn’t relate to anyone at all. It’s about leading through difficult times, leading through challenging times, leading through hardships. So I know this servant is for someone else today and this passage is for someone else today and no one has experienced anything like that in their life ever. But I propose to you all, you all are all leaders, your potential leaders, your current leaders, you lied at your home, your work, this church, your kids softball league, your your sewer thrower league, which isn’t playing today because the Memorial Day, um you’re you’re all leading at some capacity of influence, um ownership of a group of people that look to you, um you lead your family, your business, your church, all sorts of things. I think there’s There’s things in this passage in Chapter five, the first period that really do apply to your life. And so if Peter is in the Bible, he’s one of Jesus 12 disciples, he’s the leader of the 12 disciples, like the executive pastor of the early church, he had this apostle role, we would coach and support churches in other cities. And if you know a thing or two about Peter, Peter has gone through some incredible hardships and trials, there’s peace time leadership in wartime leadership, it seems like Peter’s experienced a ton of wartime leadership, you can read about in your bible um and he’s not perfect, Peter he’s progress, Peter and he’s made all kinds of mistakes. You can get encouragement from what he’s saying, but if Peter is saying talking about leadership and leading through hard times, I think there’s a lot you can learn from as a leader, a spying leader, current leader and also like first peter appreciate second period before a group of pastors through a conference. Second Peter the story gets worse. First peter for those of you just to catch you up as we end out. Peter it’s it’s a very there’s a lot of persecution happening at the early churches in the roman empire. You know, there’s christians being grabbed and burned alive at stakes. Christians, christian church history, just history says that christians were kidnapped and thrown in a gladiator arena to be fought and killed by gladiators and um by soldiers. It’s like remember the movie Gladiator, the people that they were killing in that movie, we’re probably christians if history is correct, christian and secular history, christians are being severely oppressed and persecuted and they scattered and fleet throughout the major cities and then these smaller cities in the area of Turkey and and Peter wrote this letter to them to prepare them for what is coming, there’s persecution, there’s racial unrest, there’s war, there’s there’s pandemics happening at the time, There’s disease, famine. It is not a good time to be a christian. And Peter’s right into that culture in that context and he knows you and I know what happens in second Peter things get worse. Na…39 min
- Armed with a Mindsetwell, good morning and welcome. It’s good to see you all. Also want to give a welcome to those of you who are joining us online. My name is Ben Lander, one of the pastors here And we are in the midst of a series going through the book of 1st Peter today. We’re going to be going through First Peter chapter four and so you can grab your bibles in turn with me to First Peter chapter four, I just want to remind us a little bit of where we’ve come from. The book of First Peter is written by the Apostle Peter to a region of churches, a group of churches throughout Galicia in Greece and they’re going through a lot of hard times. This is written shortly before Peter was arrested. So you know we know that he wasn’t arrested yet which happened between 66 68 A. D. Uh so that was also before Emperor Nero destroyed the temple in 80 70 and all of that. So we know that the persecution and difficulty is happening, christians are getting persecuted, they’re getting arrested, they’re getting killed. It’s a difficult time and he’s riding to these churches to encourage them and to, to encourage people to be living for christ and to know how to suffer. And so you see this kind of re occurring theme about relationships about suffering, about how you should be uh you know, conducting yourself when you are unjustly treated when you’re suffering. And so Shane talked this last week about suffering and undeserved suffering. And the theme continues this week. And so I’m going to pray and then we’re going to begin in Chapter four verse 1. So let’s pray, please pray with me. Lord jesus. We come to you this morning and we asked you to speak to us, We yield ourselves to you Lord. We surrender our lives to once again fill us with your spirit! Open up the eyes of our hearts and our minds to understand your word, To be challenged to be encouraged to be convicted whatever you want to do, Lord. Right now, we give you permission to speak with us. However you want to speak through your word in jesus name. Amen. Read with me in chapter four verses will start with versus one through six. Therefore, since christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same understanding because the one who suffers in the flesh is finished with sin in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will. For there has already been enough time spent doing what the gentiles do, carrying on in unrestrained behavior. Evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, lawless idolatry. They’re surprised that you don’t join them in the same flood of wild living and they slender you they will give an account the one who stands ready to judge the living and the dead. For this reason, the gospel has also preached those who are now dead, so that although they might be judged in the flesh according to human standards, they might live in the spirit according to God’s standards. So, as I mentioned, one of the main themes of this book involves suffering. And this chapter starts with the word therefore, and as Shane talked about this last week, he talked about how christ unjustly suffered and he suffered though willingly once for all, because he gave himself in his life for us and for our sin. And so he starts out and says, because christ after the flesh, because he gave himself for us, arm yourselves with the same understanding, that word understanding is attitude, perspective, mindset, understanding the same understanding the same mindset, the same perspective that christ has is what we should have and apply in the suffering that we experience. And it says the words here, arm yourselves, I think that’s very interesting arming yourself, that’s a military term. And what he’s saying here is we are in a battle and we need to have that same perspective that …33 min
- What is Truly GoodAll right, good morning, go and have a seat. Alright. It’s good to be with you guys. It’s been a while since I’ve been up here for you to join it online. It’s good, good to be with you two were we’re going to continue on in our first Peter series and I was looking at our verses for today and I was kind of thinking about this situation where have you ever had a conversation with somebody and you’re talking with them and you really think you’re laying your conversation out? It’s very plain, very clear, really evident. And then all of a sudden you come to realize that they misunderstood you that you guys cross past somewhere and and are on different roads completely and write what you thought you said and what they understood. We’re just wildly different. Right? That that happens quite often and for somebody who are married you probably. Yeah, that that was the other day. Right? So it’s there are things that we communicate and and it doesn’t always come off the way we thought we we use words all the time and well we have different connotations with different words to and so we we’ve read this book called Love and respect and they have an example in there where a husband and wife are talking, they can say the exact same thing and all of sudden you’re like wait right, The wife might say uh honey, I don’t have any clothes and well they don’t have anything fitting for the occasion or anything new to wear. The husband says honey, I don’t have any clothes. Well they’re all dirty, right? So I mean like it’s the same statement, just two different things. And so we can sometimes miss each other. English can be a difficult language when we think about, okay and now we have first peter written in greek and we’re taking it to english and english alone can be difficult, as we have miscommunication there. And so our goal, even as we read and study the bible is to look through and understand what the original intent of the, of the author was. What is God trying to tell us through the author in its original context, in its original meaning? Right, so the, the study of words is Entomology. And we’re not gonna spend uh all day kind of nerd out on Entomology, but we do want to look at words and what they mean. And and that’s gonna help us to determine what Peter was trying to tell us here in our, in our portion of scripture. So let’s flip if you have a bible or you’ll be up on the screen in your bible will be first peter 3 13 through 22. I’ll read that and then we’ll dive in. says, Now who is there to harm you? If you are zealous for what is good. But even if you should suffer for righteousness sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them nor be troubled. But in your hearts regard christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for the reason of hope that is in you. Yet do it with gentleness and respect. Having a good conscience so that when you are slandered those who are vile your good behavior in christ maybe put the shame for it is better to suffer for doing good in. That should be God’s will than for doing evil. For christ also suffered once for sins. The righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison because they formerly did not obey when God patiently waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, In which a few that is eight persons were brought safely through water baptism, which corresponds to this now saves you not as the removable dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of jesus christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels, authorities and powers having been subjected t…46 min
- Honor at HomeGood morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Come on in. Have a seat. Welcome. Welcome mothers. Thank you for coming. We’re excited. You’re joining us for your Mother’s Day celebration on mike. And when the pastors here at our church, that’s great. We can start your day, week, month of mother honoring festivities at your home with us. Thank you. Um, it’s uh, I regret to inform you with the rain and wind that are blue angel flyover. We had coordinated for the accumulation of this service is not happening. But I also feel like one of those kids whose moms had to clean up your room, all the scaffolding in the lobby and outside a half power washed building, who would have known our building was so dirty until we power washed it. So it’s just just fun to have time if you guys this morning, moms. And so I, I was, I was thinking about parenting. Um, it really feels like a group project and if you’re me on a group project, you’re the dead weight. Um and you really got to be on a strong team to get those season those bees in those days. And so I do feel like in my parenting home, my and, and I have jokingly said like if anyone ever asked us to do a parenting conference, I’m gonna sucker you into it. And I was like, sure, yeah, yeah, that’s a great idea Annie, what do you think? And hand the Mycroft to my wife because she remembers everything and she’s one of the, she’s doing a lot of heavy lifting their for Children. So I’m engaged with some degree. But those moms, they have a big part in people’s hearts. And so I was talking to young dad yesterday. He has a three month old kid and he was new dad nervous talking about, I think he’s dedicating his kid this morning at a church, been Omaha’s also and we’re talking about his new role as a father and I said, well it’s easy. You got a sweet wife who has a big soul for the Lord and loves jesus. A lot of things are gonna work out. You’re on a strong team bro. It’s okay. So mom, thank you for coming. Thank you for joining us. Um, I, uh, I attempt to handle every passage with care, but it feels like today’s passage. You’re joining us is like a land mine field. Um, it is a high stakes sermon. We’re rolling through this morning and that’s fine. Um, but I’m gonna, I’m gonna lovingly smile and not spend things. I’m going to try to smile and explain scripture. A lot of what it means. We’ve, we didn’t plan this out magically perfectly as a pastoral team when he picked first peter. But we’re landing the Mother’s Day plan on the more controversial passages of the bible on genders this morning. And we’re going to talk about all the various landmines you can get hurt on. And so we’ll talk and point out a landmine, explain what it means and keep moving forward. So let’s bow our heads. Let’s pray moving to honor all women in the room and on our moms. But I do believe God’s going to show up like he always does with his word. So God, I thank you for, I thank you for the mothers. Thank you for my mom. Thank you for all these moms in this room. Lord, I thank you for all the women that run the world. Lord, I thank you, jesus for and what you did. Lord. You honored your mother, you cared for your mother. I thank you for how women in the early church and women throughout all scripture. Lord, there’s amazing story of what you’ve created. Both men and women. Uh, they’re the genders are to be honored and cherished. Thank you for what you’ve done Lord all throughout the 66 books of the bible old testament, new testament. You’re a good, good father and you gave us great great mothers. Uh we pray that you just help us to honor the women. Help them to feel comforted Lord from this time, help them feel encouraged and feel loved and cared for from this time and help them in to feel deeply convicted. We pray this in…42 min
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