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Jesus is THAT GUY (North OC)

Marcel Hall takes us through a study of the book of Colossians to remind us that Jesus is THAT GUY due to His role in creation and the redemption of mankind. Comparisons are drawn between Jesus and various contemporary 'influential' figures, highlighting Jesus's unmatched status. The sermon concludes with a call to action for listeners to honor Jesus in their lives.

00:00 Aging and Slang: The Generational Gap

00:43 Navigating the NBA Playoffs and Political Climate

01:24 Introducing Jesus: The Ultimate 'That Guy'

02:38 Exploring the Book of Colossians: Jesus' Supremacy

06:22 Jesus vs. Modern-Day Icons: A Comparative Look

08:11 The Fullness of Jesus: Breaking Down Colossians 1

20:53 Jesus in Our Lives: The Ultimate Focus

27:02 Honoring Jesus: Our Response to His Greatness

30:47 Communion: Reflecting on Jesus' Sacrifice

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Transcript
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Um, I'm getting a little older.

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I appreciate you saying no.

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But from a distance, you

can't see the gray hair.

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But once you get up close, you like,

Oh, this brother's getting old.

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You know what I'm saying?

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And as you get older, you start to

realize that slum up some of the slang

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terms you use are no longer in fashion.

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Did you ever notice that?

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You say things and people are like,

I don't know what you're talking

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about, you know, or you hear things

and you're like, what does that mean?

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And so I reached that, that,

that status in my life now.

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And that's pretty humbling for me

because I want to be in the know.

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Uh, but, but I do try to stay in the

know with my kids there and even drop

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some lines on them that they don't know.

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I'm like, Oh, you didn't

know that one, did you?

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And so anyhow, I've been watching the NBA

playoffs and uh, you know, we obviously

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have some political stuff going on.

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There's a lot going on in the world.

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But there's a lot vying for

positions to be, you know, back

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in the day, we would say the man.

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And like, yo, he's the man.

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That dude's a beast.

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He's a savage.

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You guys get what I'm saying?

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I'm seeing some people nod their heads.

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You know what I'm talking about.

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Okay.

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But things change and, you know,

there's some new terminology,

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uh, that's taking place.

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Like, he's him.

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See the young people got that.

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The old folks, y'all didn't get that.

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You're like, what'd he say?

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Or, uh, you know, that's, he's that

guy or she's that girl and, uh,

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meaning that they're the man or

the woman, you get what I'm saying?

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And so as I've been, you know, hearing

these things and thinking about these

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things, it made me start thinking

about Jesus, how Jesus really is him.

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He's the himothy.

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He's that guy.

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And so that's actually the title for

our sermon today is Jesus is that guy.

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And for my old folks, I help you out here.

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Jesus is the man.

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Okay.

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All right, just so that you

know what we're talking about.

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Okay.

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All right.

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So Jesus is that guy.

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Can we go to the father in prayer?

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Let's go father.

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We are so grateful for who you are

the fact that Jesus reveals you to us

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the fact that we get a chance to call

you father Abba daddy because of our

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relationship with you through your son.

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Father, I've been excited.

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I've been inspired over the last

couple of days and especially just

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delving more into this, uh, topic of

your son, Jesus, and seeing who he

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is and being able to appreciate again

all that he is and all that he does.

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Father, I pray right now that you

will allow us to be in awe of you.

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You allow us to be inspired and come

away with stronger convictions about who

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you are, how much you love us and our

response to all of that in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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We're going to study out a little

bit of the book of Colossians.

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And so, uh, the apostle Paul wrote

a letter that To the church that met

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in the city of Colossae and, uh, he

really is trying to, uh, refute and

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deal with some false doctrine that's

starting to take place in the church.

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And really this doctrine, we don't

know the particulars of it, but we

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do understand that basically what's

taking place is, you know, they need

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to correct that, that somehow Jesus

was being lowered in their view.

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And so Colossians is really trying to

help the church there, uh, uh, get away

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from this false doctrine and remember

who Jesus is in our response to Jesus.

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And so we're going to take it

up in Colossians chapter 1.

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Church, are you with me?

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Colossians chapter 1, it reads, Paul,

an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the

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will of God, and Timothy, our brother,

to God's holy people in Colossae, the

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faithful brothers and sisters in Christ.

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Grace and peace to you

from God, our Father.

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We always thank God, the Father of our

Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you.

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Because we have heard of

your faith in Christ Jesus.

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And of the love you have

for all God's people.

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The faith and love that spring from

the hope stored up for you in heaven.

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And about which you have already heard.

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The faith of Jesus Christ.

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And love that spring from

the hope, uh, well, that's

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something happened there, right?

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Okay.

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All right.

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Uh, the whole sort of for you in heaven

about what you have already heard in

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the true message of the gospel that

has come to you in the same way.

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The gospel is bearing fruit and

growing throughout the whole world.

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Just that is has been doing

among you since the day you

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heard it and truly understood.

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God's grace.

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You learned it from Epaphras, our

dear fellow servant, who is a faithful

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minister of Christ on our behalf.

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And who has also told us of

your love in the spirits.

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We'll stop right there.

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Then he goes on in verses nine

through 14 and talks about the

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prayer that he has for the church.

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And then we take it up in verse 15.

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He says, the son is the image

of the invisible God, the

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firstborn of all creation.

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For in Him, all things were created.

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Things in heaven and on earth.

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Visible and invisible.

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Whether thrones or powers or

rulers or authority, all things

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have been created through Him.

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And for him he is before all things and

in him all things hold together And he

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is the head of the body the church He

is the beginning and the firstborn from

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among the dead so that in everything

he might have the supremacy For god was

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pleased to have all his fullness dwell

In him and through him to reconcile to

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himself all things whether things on

earth or things in heaven By making peace

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through his blood shed on the cross Once

you were alienated from god and were

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enemies in your minds because of your evil

behavior But now he has reconciled you

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by christ's physical body through death

to present you holy in his sight without

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blemish and free from accusation If you

continue in your faith established and

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firm and do not move from the hope held

out in the gospel this is the gospel that

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you heard and that has been proclaimed

to every creature under heaven and of

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which I Paul have become a Servant we'll

stop right there G right now Paul really

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breaks down and he really highlights this

point that Jesus is that guy That Jesus

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is the man a few years ago back in LA.

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I preached a sermon called

Jesus El Presidente You're not

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there was around political time.

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He like Jesus is the president.

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He's the man He's the God and we see

this in the scriptures laid out But

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makes me think who are the people

today that we think are that guy

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who are some of those individuals?

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Maybe it's the Wayne the rock Johnson

He, you know, he swole, he got those

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big muscles, you know what I mean?

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Man, we think it's, uh, I don't know,

Ryan Gosling or Ryan Reynolds and,

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and the actors there or Michael B.

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Jordan.

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Uh, Tom, uh, Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes.

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Lionel Messi, uh, LeBron

James, uh, James Bezos, right?

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Mark Zuckerberg, all these guys, Bill

Gates, all these guys, we can think,

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man, they're that guy, they're the man.

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You know, I personally can

think of, uh, Gabe Strobel.

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I think of Chris Lewis,

you know what I'm saying?

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Chris Kitty Barber, right?

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I can think of those guys.

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I think of Charles Lennox,

you know, like mine.

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They're the guy, you know what I'm saying?

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That's that dude right there, you

know, but usually when we think

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of this, what are the reasons?

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Why?

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Usually what they maybe have money power.

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They're very intelligent.

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People we think are, are

charismatic, uh, best in their

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field, or just flat out cool.

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Right?

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These are the people, the traits

that we think of when we think

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of people being that guy, that,

that, that, that guy or that girl.

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But this passage reveals that Jesus

is more than all of them together.

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That Jesus is far superior than any

man who's ever walked the earth.

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Than any woman who's

ever walked the earth.

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Jesus is all in it all

because Jesus is everything.

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And we see this in the scripture and

we see this and I want us to break down

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this Colossians one Passage and so we

see several things that the Apostle

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Paul mentioned He says an Apostle of

Christ Jesus brothers and sisters in

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Christ faith in Christ Jesus and a

minister of Christ you see for Paul

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he was bringing back the church to

remember that Everything is about Jesus.

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It's all about him.

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And so he refers to everything

in accordance into their

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relationship to Jesus.

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You know, oftentimes we can

think of Paul's spirituality.

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We're like, man, Paul is so cool.

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But we forget him.

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Paul would probably rebuke all of us.

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It's not about me.

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It's about him.

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It's about Jesus.

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You know, the term Christian, many of us

know here in the room, the term Christian

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actually came from non Christians.

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In the first century, the brothers and

sisters, they kept going around and kept

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talking about Jesus being the Christ.

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And they were talking about the Christ

came the anointing when the Messiah came

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and they kept talking about it And they

were trying to bring people to the faith

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to know the Christ And so these non

christians they actually started making

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fun of these people and they were like hey

Those are those people that keep talking

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about the Christ those little Christ.

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Those are those Christians And you

say, well, why did that happen?

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Because they, that their

life was about Jesus.

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They kept talking about Christ.

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There's a man named Pliny, the younger,

he's now credited as a Roman historian.

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And he wrote a letter in the year

one 10 AD to the Roman emperor.

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And he says, as he mentioned

that the follower of Christ.

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Gathered early in the morning.

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Hallelujah.

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I don't know if this is early

in the morning, but we're

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gathering in the morning.

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He says they gathered early in the morning

to chant a song to Christ as if to a God.

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And so he's taking observation because

the church is springing up is spreading.

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The gospel is moving.

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And he writes this letter and he's like,

hey, they keep talking about this Christ.

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And in fact, they get together in

the morning and they chant songs

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to Christ as if he was a God.

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Yeah.

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Again, this is observation because the

church it was all about the Christ.

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It was all about Jesus and as we go and

we continue we can see why it has to

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always be about Jesus the Christ look

over in Colossians chapter 1 in verse

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15 here We're gonna break this down

some it says the Sun is the image of

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the Invisible God did you catch that?

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Man, it always makes me pause

every time I read that passage.

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I'm like, Whoa, the sun is the

image of the invisible God.

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You see God in the flesh in Jesus.

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That's incredible.

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I mean, just imagine if you were

in the first century and you

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were able to touch Jesus hand.

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You wouldn't even realize, but you

were touching the creator of life.

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To be able to get a hug, to

be able to see into the eyes.

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You're like, well, I'm looking

into the creator of all.

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I mean, that's just, that just blows

my mind to think about that, that he

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is the image of the invisible God.

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And it says he is the first

born over all creation.

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And, and this can have a duality in

its meaning there in, in, in time,

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but really the first born was really

talking about his rank and status.

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really his supremacy as the

firstborn over all creation.

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We go to verse 16 and it says for

in him, all things were created.

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All things have been created

through him and through him.

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For him he created the heavens and

earth what's visible the tangible

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and the invisible The things that we

cannot see thrones and powers rulers

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and authorities He created all of

these and then it says for him Wow

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That's incredible Then we go on and it

says here that in him all things hold

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together You know, we can be impressed

when people are able to balance their

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checkbook, their schedule and get good

grades or do well at their job, right?

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But here we have Jesus.

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He has all these things

and he holds them together.

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He is the creator.

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He is the sustainer of life.

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Jesus is the beginning of creation,

the end of creation, and the

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goal for the end of the world.

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He has the power and he has the

power to hold creation together.

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Jesus.

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Is that guy we continue, it says,

and he is the head of the body in

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everything he might have the supremacy.

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Jesus is the head of it all.

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He's the man in charge.

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He's the boss.

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He is Lord of all.

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He's the shot caller.

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He's our president.

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He's the man.

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He's the boss.

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Says he is the head, the leader,

the head honcho of it all.

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And then it goes on and it says,

for God was pleased to have all.

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Not some, not most, not much, but

all his fullness dwell in Christ.

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All the fullness.

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Is embodied in Jesus.

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When you look at the

sun, you see the father.

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And we want to know what would

God be like as a human being?

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How would he maneuver?

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How would he think?

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How would he behave?

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How would he interact?

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We have that answer in the son, Jesus.

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And we go, wow, Jesus's love,

his patience, his strength,

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his power, his conviction, his

warning, all of that is God.

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And so the fullness of God,

the fullness, how do you have

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the fullness of God captured?

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We can't really, but

it's captured in Jesus.

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So as he walked on earth, we're talking

about God's holy presence touching

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the floor and touching the ground.

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That's His words are the

words of eternal life.

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All the fullness of God.

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Dwells in Jesus we continue it says

through him talking about Jesus to

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reconcile all Things whether things on

the earth or things in heaven by making

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peace through his blood Jesus is one who

reconciles all things there was animosity

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there was tension There was a separation,

but Jesus brings it together Not just

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what's on earth, but what's in heaven,

man, that's a whole theology right there.

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We don't have time to get into,

but all you can say is wow to

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that is that he reconciles it.

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How through his blood, his

precious, his pure, untainted

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blood that was shed up on

the cross for you and for me.

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And the incredible thing

is only he could do that.

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No other saint, no other, uh, patriarch,

no other matriarch, nobody on the

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face of the earth from the beginning

of time from Adam until now could

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actually make peace for you and me

with God because they have sinned.

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So therefore they no longer qualify as a

righteous atonement and sacrifice for God.

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But there's Jesus.

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He's the only one who can and did.

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And then we continue and it says he

reconciled you by Christ's physical

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body through death to present you holy

without blemish and free from accusation.

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Jesus makes you holy, sacred,

separated, and set apart for God.

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He's made you pure and righteous.

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Like man, I don't know if i've ever

had one righteous day in my life, but

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because of christ you are righteous in

god's sight Without blemish you go man.

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I got that perfect figure.

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Well, I don't know about that, but you

got the perfect spiritual figure Without

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blemish and free from accusation we can

accuse ourselves can't we And we can

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definitely have others accuse us But

jesus says before the throne of god you

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stand without accusation That's incredible

Jesus is that God, you know in Hebrews

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and in Acts chapter 3, it says that he's

the author of life the originator and the

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perfecter of our faith Jesus is Lord of

all because of his role in creation and

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because of his role in the redemption of

mankind Jesus is Lord Means he's master.

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He's ruler.

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He's divine.

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He is Lord of all And you know, we

have the election coming up and uh,

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we're not going to talk politics

I know some of you went there your

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blood pressure already started going

up You want to get on your soapbox?

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This is not the time and please

don't do it on social media.

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Okay.

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All right And so here's the thing here.

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It made me start thinking You

know There's many titles and

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roles and authority for the u.

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s.

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Presidents You The U.

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S.

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President is called,

uh, the head of state.

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Uh, some, some other things, the head of

government, the leader of the free world.

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Man, that's, that's a

huge title right there.

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The commander in chief.

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But then when we think about Jesus and

we compare and contrast his titles,

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here are some that we find in scripture.

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He's the wonderful counselor, mighty

God, everlasting father, prince

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of peace, the holy one of God.

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Bright Morning Star, The Lion, The

Lamb, The Beginning and End, The First

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and Last, The Alpha and Omega, Lord

and Savior, Son of Man and Son of God.

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Those are some lofty titles

right there, aren't they?

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Leader of the Free World, Leader

of the Creation and Universe.

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Hmm.

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Jesus is that guy.

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I think the roles and authority

for our presidents, they're the

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executive, the leader of the

executive branch of our government.

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They sign and veto bills, they lead the

armed forces, they appoint judges, uh,

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uh, uh, cabinet members, ambassadors.

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And then we go back to Jesus and we get

reminded of his authority and we go back

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to Colossians one in verse 18, and he

is the head of the body, the church.

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That's the universal church.

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He is the beginning and firstborn

from among the dead so that in

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everything he might have the supremacy.

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For God was pleased to have all his

fullness dwell in him and through him to

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reconcile to himself all things whether

things on earth or things in heaven.

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And so we think if we compare we contrast

Jesus's authority his role and we see

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he's the ruler of heaven and earth.

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He's the head of the executive branch

of the kingdom of heaven His word is the

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law of life We're judged by his word.

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It doesn't just provide it but

that's the standard by which we are

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judged He appoints angels and he can

direct nature wind Fire storms wind

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with sun all that he has control

over that and the power of life and

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death And the forgiveness of sins.

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Jesus is that guy.

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He's the man.

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He's El Presidente.

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Jesus is something else.

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He's someone in which we should

be in all of when we get a

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chance to reflect on who he is.

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And that's really why I'm

talking about this today.

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Because I believe it's so vital.

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For our souls, our faith that we remember

who it is that we serve and follow.

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We need a time where we take a step back

and we reflect and we get a chance to

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appreciate which I believe leads to all

which leads to inspiration and leads to

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more depth in our relationship with him.

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Because we can tend to drift or

easily forget and lose hearts

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when we don't remember, can't we?

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I know for me, you guys, a

lot of you guys have this.

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Uh, you have smartphones and you

have the opportunity with your

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photos to take a picture and it

can blur out like the background.

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You guys know what I'm talking about?

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Some of you have iPhones, you don't

know what I'm talking about, right?

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You can't do that feature, right?

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You can't, Oh, I went there.

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All right.

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I'm sorry.

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You know, I always got to play

with my iPhone people, right?

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All right.

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So, but on phones, right?

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On pictures, right?

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You can, you can have focus, right?

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And what does it do?

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It blurs the background, right?

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And so you see something more clearly,

but it blurs the background, highlighting

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the picture, making it really cool.

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You know, I can do that spiritually

where I start to blur Jesus and

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everyone focused on other things.

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Can you relate and a lot of times

these things are really good.

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They're not bad things But they become

my focus and Jesus starts to fade to

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the background and gets a little blurry

He's there, but he's not in focus.

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You get what I'm saying?

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And so that can affect my faith and

then it affects my demeanor my response

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to life The way I start to think the

way I interact and I see it and and

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honestly then I start to I start to

lose some of the inspiration for what

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I do and I focus in on the frustration

and the challenges and start like,

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man, why am I doing this again?

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Why am I enduring this?

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And really it's because Jesus

went from the focus to the blur.

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And so we need time to reverse that

so that Jesus becomes our focus.

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And other things fade to the background.

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You get what I'm saying, church.

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And so I believe it's so vital that

we get a chance to remember who

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it is that we serve and follow.

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That's what Paul was trying to get.

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Hey, you, you, you got some things going.

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It's getting twisted.

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It's going to wreck, it's going to

shipwreck your faith eventually.

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So let me get you back to him who

is the image of the invisible God.

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The one who's redeemed and reconciled you

through his death and resurrection And so

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us we too need to fix our eyes on jesus.

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That's what it says in hebrews chapter

12 It says fixing our eyes on jesus

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The pioneer and again in the nasb it

says the originator And perfecter of

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our faith for the joy set before him

endured the cross scorned in his shame

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and sat down at the right hand of the

throne of god consider him Who endured

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such opposition from centers so that

you will not grow weary and lose hearts.

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Remembering Jesus helps us to hold on.

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We all have challenges.

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Phone call bills, whatever the case

may be, medical issues, relational

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challenges, doubt in our faith.

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But when we get a chance to fix our eyes

on Jesus, to consider him, it helps us.

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To hold on to remain faithful and

to see his promises fulfilled in the

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present, but also in the age to come,

you know, a chance we get a chance

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now to remember that Jesus is our why.

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A lot of times we want to,

that's the phrase, right?

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Hey, what's your why?

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You got to go back to your

why our why is a person.

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It is Jesus.

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Jesus is our why he's the

reason for everything.

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You know what Jesus is Christianity

We can make Christianity the whole

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lot of things but guess what?

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It's all about him He is Christianity,

there's no Christianity without Christ.

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Try that.

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It's entity Some of y'all

got that He is our hope.

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He is our example.

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He's our faith.

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He's our friend.

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He's our support.

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He's our rock.

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He's our Redeemer.

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He's all that and more.

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It's all about Jesus.

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And so it makes me think

wow, that's incredible.

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Man, the Jesus I serve.

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He's cool.

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The rock might have some muscles,

but he don't have Jesus's muscles.

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Jeff Bezos might have some

money, but he doesn't have the

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treasure of the kingdom of heaven.

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The way Jesus does Ryan Reynolds

might have some cool movies, but

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nobody has the story like Jesus.

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Nessie and LeBron might be great

athletes, but nobody inspires like Jesus.

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This makes me at all.

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It makes me humbled.

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Wow.

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I get a chance to follow.

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I get a chance to be called friend.

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You know, it says that we're

called brothers with Christ.

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What in the world?

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I'm a part of his kingdom.

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I'm saved.

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I'm without blemish free from accusation.

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Hallelujah.

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Praise God the most high.

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Thank you, Lord Jesus.

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You get what I'm saying?

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It leads to all appreciation it leads to

worship and it leads to inspiration to

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do something in response And I believe

one of Or maybe this captures all of it.

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The response is this to honor

jesus Jesus is that guy And as we

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remember that we reflect upon that.

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What should we do?

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Well, we should honor jesus We should

give him our very best We should give

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him the very best, not secondary, not

leftovers, but we give him our lives.

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We come to appreciate him,

be in awe of him, wanting to

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share the good news about him.

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But we fall more and more in love

in our worship and in our following.

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Look what he says, Paul, to the

church in Colossians as he goes on.

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He gets to the therefore he gets to

how should we respond to this Jesus?

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He says so then just as you receive Christ

Jesus says Lord continue to live your

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lives in him rooted and built up in him

Strengthened in the faith as you were

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taught and overflowing with Thanksgiving

in chapter 3 he says and whatever you

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do Whether in word or deed, do it all

in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving

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thanks to God the Father through Him.

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To honor, to worship, to obey Jesus,

not with just most, not with just

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much, but with all that I have.

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And when I remember, I reflect.

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When I'm struggling, I'll get

focused and I'll be inspired to

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do it again for the right reasons.

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You know, realizing Jesus, who

he is, we become in awe of him.

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So this means man, just practically,

all right, I need to read his word.

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I need to become more familiar

with who he is and learn more from

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him and learn more from his word,

building a relationship with him.

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That's intimate, you know,

like trending topics online.

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You go online, right?

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You see what's trending online, whether

social media, Google, whatever, you know,

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Jesus needs to be trending in our souls.

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The number one topic in our minds, in

our conversations, in our thoughts,

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in our goals, in our dreams, in

our actions and in our deeds.

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When we get a chance to focus in

and remember him and honor him.

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When we honor Jesus, we grow in our faith.

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We grow in Christ.

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We stay connected to him.

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We please God because that's the

proper response to the love that God

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has shown us by sending this son.

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But it satisfies our souls, you know

when we're struggling we can remember

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the purpose of everything We could

put Christ back into Christianity

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He could be our why and then it

starts to make sense again and we go.

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Wow, you know what it's worth it And

oftentimes because you know what?

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It's actually fun, too When we put Christ

back into it, we go, man, it's worth it.

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Yes, this is why I'm enduring.

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And you know what?

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When I have that proper

perspective, I have joy that's

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inexplicable to the common man.

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And so as we come to a close, I pray that

we too can gain the proper recognition

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or, or reputation and not doing this

for reputation, but it's all about who

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Jesus the Christ, that he's our savior.

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He's our goal.

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He's our reason.

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He's our ending.

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He's our everything.

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He is our support, our

strength, our friend.

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He's our loyal and faithful leader.

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He is our Lord.

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And so we recognize and acknowledge

that he's a guy and we respond

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by honoring him right now.

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We're going to take communion and it's

time where we remember and reflect

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and recognize Jesus's sacrifice on

the cross for us for our salvation.

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And we take the emblems the bread and

the juice will represent his body and his

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blood that was sacrificed for us And I

want us to close out here in Colossians

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chapter 1 and verse 19 and read this

again it says for God was pleased to

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have all his fullness dwell in him and

Through him to reconcile to himself all

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things whether things on earth or things

in heaven by making peace by Through his

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blood shed on the cross once you yes You

and me were alienated from God and we're

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enemies in our minds because of our evil

behavior But now he has reconciled us By

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Christ's physical body through death to

present us wholly in his sight without

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blemish and free from accusation Let's go

Father, we thank you so much for Jesus.

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God, I'm inspired.

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I'm in awe.

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I just appreciate your plan.

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I appreciate who you are.

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I appreciate that we see you in

the fullness in your son, Jesus.

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Thank you that your son, Jesus,

sent us the Holy Spirit with whom

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we have and dwells within us.

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Hey God, we thank you for Jesus's

blood upon the cross, the pure blood

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that now covers over our sins, washes

and cleanses us, allowing us to have a

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relationship with you with no hindrance,

no stumbling block, nothing in the way,

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but we have eternal fellowship with you.

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We thank you for Jesus, his

titles, his roles in the story

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and for his place in our lives.

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God, we offer this time to you.

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We offer our lives to your response.

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We pray that we can honor you

and grow in Christ in his name.

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