TheBridgeWynne Podcast

Continuing in the book of John and our Who is Jesus? series, Pastor Dustin Clegg leads us through John 17:1-19 and emphasizes an overarching observation: God is best understood and known by surrendering to, knowing, and following the Biblical Jesus. Then he leads us through 3 awkward questions from tense statements in this part of the prayer of Jesus that may help us surrender, know and follow Him better:
1) How can Jesus say the Disciples kept His Word?
2) Why does Jesus say that He doesn't want the father to remove them from the world?
3) How can Jesus say the Disciples bring glory to Him? 
Keep the Word of the Father by laying down the monastic mindset and letting Jesus do whatever He wants with whoever He wants in our individual lives and the life of this Body for their sake, our sake, and His glory.

Pastor Dustin Clegg explores verses 1-5 of the prayer of Jesus in John 17 as we continue with the series, Who is Jesus?, and has three observations from the text.
(1) The life of Jesus was always leading to the death of Jesus which opened the door for all people to have the opportunity to know Him.
(2) Jesus has the power to deliver absolutely anyone from absolutely anything.
(3) Eternal life is more about quality than quantity. 

Do you believe the Father answered the prayer of the Son?

Pastor Dustin Clegg picks up the Who is Jesus? series, and as we look at the first verse of John 17 we see that the posture of prayer is important. Dustin encouraged us to (1) change our physical posture when we pray and to (2) "be you when you pray". 

James Langston opens the Word today, covering several passages about the Holy Spirit and sharing 4 steps to swapping being full of ourselves to being full of the Holy Spirit.
Surrender
Wait
Avoid Sin
Push

Today Pastor Dustin Clegg walks us through Psalm 136 and we see that His faithful loves endures forever. 
1) Love Jesus for who He is.
2) Love Jesus for what He has done in creation.
3) Love Jesus for His deliverance.
4) Love Jesus for His sovereign protection and provision.
5) Love Jesus for His redemption.

Pastor Dustin Clegg poses 3 questions to guide our thoughts as we walk through Psalm 98:
1) Where do we find joy?
2) How is joy expressed?
3) What is the response to joy?

Applications:
1) Remember His salvation.
2) Draw near to Jesus.
3) Deny yourself & obey Him.

Today we look at Psalm 51 and Brother Dustin Clegg offers 4 observations from the text.
1) The peace of Jesus begins with honest confession. (Psalm 51:1-5)
2) We can have peace trusting that Jesus cleans us completely. (Psalm 51:6-12)
3) Allegiance to Jesus brought by His Spirit brings us peace. (Psalm 51:13-16)
4) Genuine worship flows from a peaceful tension of our own complete brokenness and our Savior's complete redemption. (Psalm 51:17)
Applications
1) Get real with the brokenness, ugly, hard, personal, and congregational sinners that we are.
2) Have peace in the truth that we are not rejected by Him when we are aware of the brokenness.

Pastor Dustin Clegg begins a new series today as we look at Psalm 130.

Finishing up the series, Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done, we look at Daniel 6 and Pastor Dustin Clegg offers 3 observations and a couple of applications for us today.
(1) Envy and jealousy (which is rooted in pride) is extremely destructive in nature, especially in the Kingdom of God.
(2) When persecution comes nothing should change about who we are in Jesus.
(3) We must study passages like these observing principles instead of patterns.
How do we apply these observations?
(1) Kill jealousy quickly.
(2) Cry out to Jesus - - desperately begging for His Spirit to fill you in such a way that it is observable to others and only He gets credit.