Apostles Creed - pt. 7

Matthew chapter 28. Were still in the Apostles

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Creed. And in particular today, we're

looking at he ascended to heaven and is seated at the right hand

of God the Father Almighty. So, last week, he descended.

So we looked at. He descended to Hell.

The third day. He rose again from the dead and

then he ascended to Heaven. Of course.

He didn't Ascend to heaven, right away.

He stayed on Earth for 40 days, appearing to over 500 people.

During that time period, David and then he ascended in front of

their eyes. They watched him Ascend up into

heaven. We've talked a lot about the

need for the Apostles Creed and why it's been such a valuable

resource to the body of Christ for thousands of years now, and

part of that we said is because it brings Clarity to the most

essential doctrines instead of. Well, what do you want to tell

somebody about God? Well, he loves you and he has a

wonderful plan for your life. Well, those are true statements,

and yet, there's more to it. That should be communicated.

Even at a fundamental level and the Apostles Creed helps us to

say, what matters, most what does a Christian need to

believe? What is it?

What do all Christians need to have Harmony and unity around in

the Apostles? Creed says, these are essential.

There's lots of Freedom Beyond these, but you can't but you

can't remove any of these. We have boiled it down in the

Apostles Creed to say, this is the essential essence.

You can't remove anything from this and still have

Christianity. So we've got Clarity and the

purpose of this was because there was so much false doctrine

that there Early church leaders were saying, you know what?

There's a lot of misinformation. There's a lot about teaching.

Let's put, let's put something together that can serve the

church. They can educate new Believers,

and disciple them and say, hey, I follow Jesus.

Oh, did you know, are you filled with the Holy Spirit?

We didn't even know there was a holy spirit, so there's all

kinds of things that the, the early church fathers, I was

combining the book of Acts of the Apostles Creed.

They're not connected. The Creed comes hundreds of

years after the apostles, but the point is not that the

apostles wrote the Creed. The point is that the Screed is

called the Apostles Creed because it confirms the teaching

of the Apostles. It confirms what the apostles

taught. But one of the big big needs of

the Creed was to correct. False doctrines decide to say

yes to one thing is to say no to something else to say, yes, to

your spouse is to say no to billions of other people.

Like, I choose you. That means, I say, no.

You're so, you're rejecting all of us.

Well, yeah, like that's the thing.

That's what makes this thing special is because I rejected

everything else. So, to say yes to these truths

of the doctrine in the Apostles Creed is to say no to all other

kinds of nonsense, I saw in. I don't know if you caught the

news anymore. I saw online this week, that

there was some heretical church with some heretical Minister who

led their congregation in reciting, what they called the

sparkle Creed and it was it was an Abomination.

And and I won't I thought I was like, maybe I should show it to

him is like, no, we're not going.

Desecrate, the Lord's service with that kind of nonsense, but

it was, it was just completely false Doctrine.

It was, it was gross. It was the promotion of

homosexuality, and in the glorification of it and false

Doctrine about Christ and so on. But they but they had taken the

framework of the Apostles Creed, and they had swapped it out and

they said, I believe in, and then it and then the apostasy

gets really bad. So, why do we have the Apostles

Creed again, to say what is true?

I believe that most Christians could have heard what they

called the sparkle Creed and said that ain't right.

But can those same Christians, also say, what is can those same

Christians? Also say, well, I know that's

wrong and no, that's wrong. I know, that's what, but can you

say, what is good? Can you say what is true?

Can you say? What is beautiful?

Can you say, what's accurate? Well, the Apostles Creed gives

us a place where we can joyfully declare what we believe because

it's what is true and that's how the Creed starts.

I believe I believe we talked about how believing in something

will change the way that you live.

It's different from just knowing something.

I know I ought to eat better. Are you going to do it?

Nah, but I know I order you know, I know a lot of things

that don't change the silly way I live.

Do you believe in something though?

We've said changes the way that you live.

I believe that then it'll show up there will be fruit they'll

be evidence that will be proof of it.

So let's start by reading the Apostles Creed together, stand

to your feet, one more time. As we not just recite the Creed,

but we declare we're declaring together.

Here we go. I believe in God, the Father

Almighty creator of Heaven and Earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, his only son our Lord who was

conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.

He suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified died and was

buried. He descended to Hell the third

day. He rose again from the dead.

He ascended to heaven and seated at the right hand of God, the

Father Almighty from there. He will come to judge the living

and the dead, I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic

Church. The communion of saints, the

Forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the

life Everlasting, amen. You may be seated.

We join with the Saints throughout history.

As we say, those things is what Saints have said and all

languages and all time periods. To say this is what's true.

We're joyfully saying it, why? Because we're not ashamed of the

Gospel. It is the power of God unto

salvation, for those who believe.

So we've also said that the Creed is useful for you to even

be able to minister the gospel you go.

I don't know what to say to people.

If you know the Apostles Creed, you've got a great framework,

you've got a clear understanding, I mean, think

about this, if You have this in your mind, you can teach

somebody that there who is god. Well there's God the Father

Almighty, he's the creator of Heaven and Earth.

That's simple. That's foundational.

But that's important just like Hudson shared his testimony a

few weeks back on the playground.

He heard some kids. Playing the Holy Spirit, led

him, and he went over there and say, hey God is our creator.

Did you know this? He starts to share the gospel

with them and he actually used the framework of the Apostles

Creed. What else do we believe?

As you minister to somebody? You can tell them.

Jesus Christ is God's only son. He's our Lord.

He was conceived by the Holy Spirit.

He was born of a virgin and we've talked about why all these

things matter. God didn't make, Jesus, born of

a virgin, just to say poof, look what I can do, I can do

anything. Of course, he can do anything,

but Jesus had to be born of a virgin and we explain why in

that sermon. He suffered under Pontius

Pilate. He was crucified died and was

buried. Why for our sins, the punishment

that brought us peace was upon him.

The chastisement that brought us.

Peace was upon him and it pleased, the father to punish

and Crush cry. Just so that we could be set

free. He descended to hell, we

clarified and explained that he didn't suffer in Flames but the

word hell represented the place of the dead.

He was with that Thief that day, in paradise, he was in the place

also known as Abraham's bosom, where Abraham and all the Old

Testament Saints would have been, and he opens up the way to

heaven, the third day. He rose again from the dead.

He ascended into heaven. What are you doing?

You're sharing with somebody, you're you're telling them the

story. The the truth of God, it is

historical. It's not just, you need to feel

certain feelings. You need to think, certain

thoughts like, hey, no, no, you your belief.

Yes, it's by faith but it's also anchored in logic.

This happened. This literally happened across

that water and Israel in Jerusalem.

Like it happened. There's like a hill that Jesus

died on. There's a tomb where the stone

that rock is still on the earth. I don't know which one and I'm

sure they'll tell you, they know which one because they want

those tourists to come. And look at the correct Rock.

But regardless it's all, it's all there.

It's all happened, and Jesus really ascended, his feet left,

the mountain, and he ascended into heaven.

He was there and this happened. This is the will of God.

So you're able to share with somebody all these things are

historically accurate. All these things took place and

now he's seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.

What's next? That person that you're

discipling. May be wondering from there,

he's coming to judge. He's coming back, he will judge

the living and the dead. Oh, by the way, there's also the

holy spirit. So there's one God In three.

Look at the Creed I believe in God the Father Almighty next

section. I believe in Jesus Christ, his

only son our Lord final section. I believe in the Holy Spirit, we

see the Trinity represented here, I believe in the Holy

Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, not the denomination as

you and I would think of it. But it just means the universal

Body of Christ is what we put that a strict there.

The Holy Catholic Church. The communion of saints, the

Forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body.

We're also going to be Resurrected.

And the life Everlasting. This is a useful tool, a

powerful tool for you to be able to communicate what to be able

to communicate the word of God. That's all we're after

communicating the word of God, and the Apostles Creed gives us

a framework to be able to do that.

Today, we're in Matthew chapter. 28.

Once again, you're there and I'm not Matthew chapter 28, is we

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look at how he ascended into heaven and is seated at the

right hand of God, the Father Almighty.

Matthew 28 verse 16. Now, the eleven disciples went

Matthew 28:16

to Galilee to the mountain to, which Jesus had directed them,

and when they saw him, they worshiped him, but some doubted.

And Jesus came and said to them, all authority in heaven and on

Earth, has been given to me go, therefore, and Make Disciples of

all Nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, and of

the son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all

that. I have commanded you and behold.

I Am With You Always to the End of the Age.

God, we thank you for your word, for your promise, and for your

power. Bring us Revelation.

Bring us hope and fill us with faith.

You make it all to grow and we thank you for maturing Us in

Jesus name. Amen.

Here we have Jesus last words before he ascends, we know this,

right? We know this intuitively.

Your last words are your most important words whenever you

especially when you get to choose them deliberately, like,

I'm dying everyone. Here's what I have to say.

That's the important thing. It's the thing that I maybe I

was always too afraid to say, it's the thing that I regret,

but that you're about to get my best, you might be impressed,

you might not, but you're still gonna get My best.

My best effort. Well Jesus of course he's not

dying. He died.

He was raised and now he's been alive for 40 days and since then

he's been alive for 2,000 years and he'll be Alive forevermore

but he's sharing with them. His last words.

So we pay attention, we think about his last words and we go,

this is significant, this is the thing, he's leaving them with.

He could say anything in this moment, but what does he say?

What does he emphasized? Well, he says all authority has

been given unto me. All authority in heaven on

Earth. What's he pointing out?

I am the king. I am.

The king all authority in heaven has been given to me and some

Authority on Earth. Is that the way he put it?

No, it's not all authority everywhere belongs to Jesus.

Well, I don't think so. And so sees it that way, all

authority, everywhere belongs to Jesus.

Jesus is King. Jesus is in charge.

Everyone should constantly be submitting to Jesus.

So, he's, he's waiting himself, and he's showing his disciples.

Hey, all authority in Heaven and Earth belongs to me.

Okay, therefore, go I command you, I'm the king.

I'm the one who's accomplished everything, I deserve all the

Glory and now, I'm giving you a command understand who I am

before. I say what I'm about to say,

don't receive this from a friend.

Don't receive this as a suggestion.

Don't think I'm saying. Hey guys, what do you think

about this? Isn't a democracy.

I'm the king. And when the king speaks

everybody obeys, so I need to clarify and remind you.

I'm the king and because I'm the king.

Now, here's what I expect you to do all authority in Heaven and

Earth belongs to me, go and make disciples of all Nations.

Baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son, and

of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that.

I have commanded you and behold. I Am With You Always even unto

the end of the age. So what does Jesus not say?

He doesn't say some Authority in heaven and on Earth has been

given to me, therefore, you know, mind your own business and

just do your own thing because because your faith is a personal

thing. You know, faith is deeply.

Personal also known as like secretive.

So, don't bother anybody with it.

You can't teach anybody to obey. You can't baptize the nation's.

Like you can't you can't like force Christianity on the world

because like they might not like that very much but instead Jesus

says go teach everybody to what? To do what I've commanded.

Teach everybody to obey. What are you some kind of

Christian nationalist? Let me clarify something for

you. I'm a Christian everything.

So if you can put Christian on it, I'm all about it.

So I'm not a Christian nationalist.

I'm a Christian Universalist because the one who Reigns over

the universe is Christ. So, am I Christian nationalist?

I guess that's supposed to be an insult, by the way, to

Christians nowadays, But so was the name Christian when it was

first formed. It was used as an insult to mock

the church to call them. Oh, look at those little

Christ's, that was how they wanted to insult them.

And now, the newest message to get Christians to shut up about

advancing, the gospel of the kingdom in the, in the, in the

nation that you live in because we're not supposed to America,

we're not supposed to christianize America.

Apparently, we're only supposed to christianize like third world

Nations. But if you try and christianize

America, they're trying to demonize that with, are you some

kind of Christian nationalist? I'm a When everything, let all

the internet here on the podcast and everywhere else, I hope that

Jesus would find me is faithful as the world Finds Me guilty.

But the point is, we're joyfully telling everybody Jesus is King.

Jesus is Lord. This is good news to you world,

this is good news, I haven't given you one ounce of bad news.

Jesus is a good King. He Loves You.

Jesus isn't the king who killed his enemies.

Jesus is the one who died for his enemies.

So now bow, the knee, kiss the Sun and glorify his name because

he's worthy because he loves you.

What does Jesus want his church to do?

He wants us to invade the world with the good news of the

Gospel, the world is broken. The world has lost the world is

hurting, so he says go into the world.

But that when he said this and other gospels, bring this out as

well in the gospel of Mark, when he says, go into all the world,

he's not just talking about every country, he's not just

talking geographically. Talking about every system.

Every single system is where God wants his kingdom Advance, which

is why Jesus taught us to pray, because Jesus is, my kingdom is

not of this world, right? But he wants it to be, which is

why he says in, that's it, which is why we pray, your will be

done. Your kingdom.

Come your will be done. Where on Earth?

No. No guys.

What are you doing? What are you?

Christian nationalist. Calm down.

Christian, globalist like everywhere.

Mars needs to be Christian you know, like every Brock was to be

the first man on Mars. So he's going to take communion.

He's going to plan a Christian flag.

Maybe like you didn't put the American fight like, no, I snuck

another one up here, Mars belongs to Jesus, too.

Everything is his. He invented it.

He made it, he holds it together.

He is preeminent. We said over everything and

everybody, so he wants us to invade every system.

Political, educational entertainment, the workplace,

all the world with. What?

What are you guys trying to get in here?

Well, you guessed it. We do have a plot.

It's it involves love joy. Peace, patience, kindness

goodness, faithfulness gentleness and self-control you

caught us. Are we under arrest?

Well, yes, actually, it's some point.

It's likely even for those of us in the west, that's okay.

Because we know that this world is broken and upside down and

the Lord's kingdom is right side up.

So we're still going to come and bring the good news of the

Gospel. No matter how much we hated

were. The students are not above the

teacher, right? If he was hated, what it, what

should we expect, he was better than us, right?

We have not fully become like the master.

And if the master suffered We will as well.

But look at the promise that he makes this is the great comfort.

It gives to us that I find kind of funny.

It's kind of funny last words, right before you fly up into the

air. I'm with you always to the End

of the Age. Goodbye.

Wait, which is it? I'm with you always.

And as he leaves like Jesus, we want you to stay.

We don't want you to go. I'm with you.

What do you mean by this? But he leaves, but he doesn't

leave. That's the point.

He doesn't leave. He actually fills the hearts of

his people. He hasn't left them.

He hasn't left his church. He hasn't left you.

He does this through the power of the Holy Spirit and Jesus

feels everything in every way. What's the point here?

What are you getting at? I thought were supposed to talk

about the Ascension of Jesus ascending into heaven.

My point. Is this the Ascension of Jesus

was not abandonment. It was empowerment.

The whole point was for the church to disciple.

The nation's, the whole point of Jesus ascending, he says, it's

good for me to leave because if I leave them, there's going to

be another who comes, who's just like me.

And I'm going to send you out the training session has ended

and the disciples are released. And now the disciples are to

make disciples who make disciples and from those 11, we

all sit here today. They turned the world upside

down, and from those 11. It's a pretty cool thought to

think that the Lord could you? And I couldn't at this point,

but you could trace your Christianity back to one of

those eleven Apostles of the Lamb.

Somebody LED somebody to the Lord who led somebody to the

Lord, who eventually came all the way down to you eventually.

We'll get to see that spiritual tree of life.

I came through Thomas, you know, that's crazy, that's so cool

because him to him, to him, to him, to him, to her, to her, to

her, to them. It's a beautiful thing to be a

part of the family of God. But the Ascension is not Jesus

as abandonment of the church. The Ascension is Jesus is

empowerment to the church to say, I've got you and you've got

this, I'm entrusting my mission to my church.

Jesus is building his church, he hasn't left us alone, but Jesus

sat down. You sit down when the job is

done. When you've accomplished your

work. He says, I've accomplished my

work and now I have have empowered my church to go out

and make disciples to glorify my name.

Turn to Acts chapter 1. It's wild that he isn't trusted

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so much to us. It's wild to me that he and that

he's entrusted all of this to go.

Y'all got the sounds like you would think that my thought is

you would think he would want to still be here and to which he

would reply, I am I am. That's the thing that you don't

get. Whenever I have that train of

thought it and I'm reminded but I am, I am the holy spirit's

going? Excuse me.

I am I am here. I am present.

I'm present in my people and through my people to empower my

people to make everybody my people.

Acts chapter 1. So you know who wrote Matthew,

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you know who wrote Mark and you know who wrote Luke and you know

who wrote John, do you know who wrote Acts?

Now his name was Act. Was a guy named act actually

very good, Brock? Yes, it was Luke.

So he's writing to his friend Theophilus and he's sharing the

gospel with him. He says in my first book oh

Theophilus I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach

until the day when he was taken up after he had given commands

through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen, he

presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many

proofs appearing to them, forty days and speaking about the

kingdom of God, and while staying with them, he ordered

them not to depart from Jerusalem.

Mmm, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which he said you

heard from me for, John baptized with water, but you will be

baptized with the Holy Spirit, not many days from now.

So when they had come together they asked him Lord.

Will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?

Again, they're still thinking about power.

We want that political power. We want the Messiah to just

crush the Romans and we can rule as Israelites again.

He said to them, it's not for you to know the times or the

seasons that the father has fixed by his own authority, but

you guys want Power. You will receive power.

When the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you will be my

Witnesses in Jerusalem and in Judea and in Samaria to the ends

of the Earth. And when he had said these

things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up and a cloud,

took him out of their sight. When it says he was lifted up,

literally he leaves the ground, the ground he had been standing

on with human feet. The he had been eating, he had

been drinking with them. He is lifted up and a cloud

comes and takes him out of their sight.

And while they were gazing into heaven, as he went behold, two

men stood by them in white. Robes to angels and said men of

Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven?

I like the questions that the Angels asked people.

They like, why are you looking for the living?

Among the dead? They're like so sarcastic about

everything. Like hey guys it's going to be

just like he said, you know. Hey why are you guys staring up

in the sky? Why do you stand looking into

heaven? This Jesus, who is taken up from

you into heaven, will come and the same way as you saw.

Him. Go into heaven, praise God.

What do we see going on here? Lots of things.

Everybody wants power. We want power, and we need power

and God doesn't say how dare you.

That's not his response. He says, I will give you power

power to what power to be my Witnesses power to be my

ambassadors power to be my representatives in the Earth.

This is why. We need the Holy Spirit.

I look forward to preaching on the holy spirit in a couple

weeks, but everybody wants Power and Jesus promises power power

to be an ambassador for his kingdom.

And that's how he started his ministry with them.

Three years earlier. Remember, he hasn't changed

anything from the very first moment of his invitation to the

very back and look at the bookends of his of his

invitation, and then his command come follow me, why?

I'll make you Fishers of Men. I'm leaving Go Make Disciples of

the nation's, he wasn't inconsistent.

There's a lot that happened in the middle, all relevant, ol

important, but all connected to the two.

Bookends here, there was no bait and switch.

There was, no, I've got a great plan, follow me and six years

down the road or be like, hey, have you thought about sharing

your faith? That was never his angle.

That was never his approach. Its come follow me.

We're going to disciple the whole world to obey me.

Hey, disciple, the whole world to obey me.

I'm singing the Holy Spirit. I'll fill you with power, you

who are cowards, and who deny me right now, who scatter?

When I'm arrested. I'm going to fill you with

power. You'll be different people.

You'll be different men. It won't be you.

I'll send the Holy Spirit, he's just like me.

He's going to glorify me. He's going to glorify the father

and you'll have power not power to glorify yourself or your own

name, but there will be a supernatural power.

A boldness, a Clarity, a wisdom tooth.

Actually carry out my mission. That's how he started.

And that's how he finishes I'll make you Fishers of Men.

Now go and John 14, you don't have to turn there.

Verses 12 through 14 is where he talks about anybody who follows

and obeys me. It's going to actually do

Greater Works than I do. Why?

Because I go to the father, I go to the father, so those who

follow me and obey me or now going to do Greater Works than

I've done. There's a lot that's been said

and lots of has been debated about what these Greater Works.

Are you look at the context? I don't think it's too hard to

figure out that Expects his church to do, the massive works

that he did to do the supernatural works that he did.

I have to work hard to get out of those conclusions and I

choose not to because I want to take the text as I understand

it, simply. And honestly, but Jesus saying,

it's because I go to the father that the church is going to do

these Greater Works again. The Ascension is not

abandonment, the Ascension is Empowerment Church, you're

empowered. You are overqualified to make

disciples. The holy spirit is with you.

And to be filled with the Holy Spirit is the ideal.

Feel that God calls it for obedience to in the book of Acts

as they continue because he says don't go anywhere until you've

received power. Don't go anywhere until you've

received the power that comes from on high.

These men are born again at this point.

Is multiple multiple places where it's likely that, that it

already would have happened. I think my suspicion is this,

when Jesus breathed on them, he breathed on them and said

receive the Holy Spirit, but now he leaves.

And now ten days go by You mean to tell me that the 10 days go

by and these people aren't these, people aren't born again,

they have experienced the new creation.

I don't think what happens on the day of Pentecost.

Pentecost is a new creation. I think it's very obvious.

It's a second and separate event from salvation and we see that

throughout the Book of Acts. Hey, you guys, are you guys felt

the Holy Spirit? We didn't know there was a holy

spirit, but we love and follow Jesus.

Okay. Well then, let's also see that

you're filled with the Holy Spirit, why?

Because you need the power that comes from on high.

It's good that I go to the father because I will fill you

with the power that comes from on high.

What else do we see going on here in acts as there staring up

into the sky? We see that we're not supposed

to just be staring up into the sky, we're supposed to be

working in the field. Why are you staring up in the

sky? Get to work.

You heard the king, didn't you? The work is right here in front

of you down here in the fields. This is where the work is.

We're not supposed to just stare at the sky, we look forward to

his return but we should not be distracted by it.

We look forward to his return but we should not be distracted

by it. There have been churches.

There have been whole Ministries that said we have.

Got like, we wrote a book on like, these are the 97 reasons

we know that Jesus is God or 88 reasons, we know Jesus is coming

back in 1988. That was a real thing. in case

you're worried, he didn't come back in 1988 but Did they?

They really did. Okay.

And did they write a new one after that 419?

Wow, yeah. So these are very likely our

brothers and sisters who love the Lord, but staring at the

sky, and instead of the work there, there are others who

pulled all their money together and and their resources and work

themselves to broke because they had predicted the day that he

would return. They knew for sure.

He's coming back on this day. So, we don't need any money past

that day. And then a day came, can you

imagine the discouragement and despair?

That's sad, that's heartbreaking.

Yeah, the world laughs at the mocks them but I'm sure there

are brothers and sisters. So we love them and have

compassion for them. And yet be about the business,

be about the work, this is the work.

Let's let's disciple the nation's when they're not going

to do nothing. They're not.

If we don't tell them, they're not if we don't teach them to

obey, they need us to be the salt.

They need us to be the light, it's dark, it's flavorless, it's

bland in its rotting. So the salt and the light or the

Gift that we can give. It's the way that we can walk in

obedience Jesus said no one knows the day or the hour of the

Masters return. No one knows the day or the

hour, the Master has returned. And he tells a parable about a

servant who behaves poorly because the master is gone.

And then the master comes back and he says well, the master bi

please do the master will cut him into pieces.

The point of that, Parable was not, hey, do a better job

looking out for the Masters return so that you can hustle up

at the last minute Bob and I, when we were kids, whenever we

had chores for the day and Mom, and Dad weren't home, we

wouldn't do them all day. But when Mom's car would pull in

the driveway and you'd be amazed at what you can accomplish in,

like 60 seconds, thankfully mom is slow.

So Mom pulls in the driveway and you I mean you might have a

minute and a half. They get why she's like this

person, this drink and these keys and this stuff and you know

this backpack or whatever else you know, whatever else she was

coming in with, but we hear the car TV off.

You know, we had like three channels of course, back then

three 10 and 13. We're like watching Ricky Lake

after school. You know, anybody remember,

these just trashy afternoon talk shows but you can get a lot

done. In 45 60 seconds to make it look

like, you've done something at least, and Mom's probably come

in and not pay attention, or maybe she saw right through it.

I don't know, we didn't get beat for it.

We got beat for everything else, but not for that, just every

day, all we did was get beatings.

But Jesus is point is not hey learn to do a better job looking

for the master so you can hustle up at the last minute.

No, he's coming back now. Get to work.

Are the nation's disciple? No.

All right. Then we've got something to do.

Does your neighbor know the Lord to your friends and family know

the Lord. Are you praying for that person

of Peace. Have you started that Bible

study in your living room? Yeah but I really think the

Lord's coming back if you really believed if you really believed

then you'd be working in the field because you would want him

to find baskets and baskets and baskets of heart.

Just to go, look, look, we the Harvest is ready.

He says, the laborers are few. Let's fill the field with

laborers. We go into the field and harvest

and we say, hey welcomed into the kingdom of God.

God loves you. Here's who you are.

Here's what who the Lord has made you to be all these

important doctrines and also, it's your mission.

It's your duty, it's your responsibility.

And it's your command from King Jesus to make disciples.

I'll help you. But now you are a disciple

maker. You are now overqualified You're

ready and able to make disciples for the glory of God.

Well, don't I need to be a Christian for like 97 years.

First know where did you get that nonsensical idea?

Are you kidding me? No.

You must, you must be an American.

No. Actually we need to get right to

work right away. Should there be any kind of

oversight will sure? There can be Brotherhood and

partnership. That's why you're going to be in

the local church. You love Jesus.

You'll obviously loved his church.

You can't have one without the other so of course we'll do

this. In Fellowship will do this

together, but we will do this. We will do this Christians live.

A lot Christians often times. I think live boring lives

because they're not on the mission of God.

Christians live boring lives because they're just

navel-gazing and they're only looking to the other side.

It's an important part of our faith to look ahead.

It's an important part of our faith to look forward to all

that Jesus has accomplished and all that.

He has promised, but many Christians are bored.

Many Christians are neurotic. Many Christians are anxious.

Many Those are all caught up in themselves because they're not

caring and thinking about the mission of God.

They think that's like Navy SEAL Christianity.

That's like that's you Pastor J. Mm.

No, you're wrong. This is ABC kindergarten

Christianity. It hasn't been taught that way

and I'm sorry, but this is why we're emphasizing it.

This is the DNA of salt Church. Like it's, I refuse to be a part

of a local body where the Saints aren't considering themselves as

disciple makers, but where the Saints just go?

You gotta come here. Bob preach man.

You gotta Here. Bob no, you got to lead them

into the kingdom. You've got to.

Well, can they come here Bob pre-shoot?

Sure of course they're welcome to come here.

Bob breach like that's important and good but most people don't

care about Bob preaching. They don't know.

Bob you love Bob and you care about Bob but they don't know.

He's just some dude he's your preacher, he's probably weird.

He's probably not normally probably the know how real life

works. That's how they think about Bob

so they don't love Bob the way you do.

But they know you and they know your normal right.

You know, they know you're cool. So your living room is an

opportunity. Go.

Hey, you want to come look at the scriptures with me.

Hey, you know what? I want to write you a letter.

That's what Luke did. Write a letter to a friend,

write an email to a friend Jeff. Susie, I've been praying for you

lately. I want to share some things with

you that I've never really made plain, you got multiple

opportunities. You can send it in a snap, you

can tweet it Adam. You can write a letter, you can

put it in the mail. If you want to, you can send an

email, you can send a text message, you can send a voice

memo. Like we're not limited on tools,

on on means here. Are we limited on boldness?

Are we limited on power? Well, the holy spirit is eager

to fill his people. But to be a disciple of Jesus,

is to make disciples of Jesus. So I love my master and I

Rejoice at his voice and I look forward to when he breaks open,

the sky with the shout of an archangel.

But if I love him, I will obey his command to bring in the

Harvest. Jesus ascended.

And he says go for it and the disciples felt that way like

It's on us now. Yeah, that's the point.

It pleases the Lord, it pleases. The Lord just like it did with,

for him with Adam in the garden. It pleased, the Lord to say

Adam, it's yours. I give it to you.

That's what a father. Does it pleases me to give my

son stuff? They go.

How do I do this? How to do that?

Go work on it. Let me see.

And I'm watching, I'm present with them, I'm not abandoning

them, but I'm not saying I'm not giving them every single tiny

instruction, why? Because they're mine and I

already know they're capable. The same way with the Lord.

He doesn't say Adam. Here's how here's where you have

to plant the strawberries because it's your guard, it's

yours. Fill the Earth and subdue it.

Make it yours, make it obey, you, it pleases me to give my

son that opportunity. And Jesus said it.

Pleases me to give authority to my church.

It pleases me to empower and elevate.

My church to say, go go. Should we do it this way?

The Lord will guide us wony. The Holy Spirit Will direct us.

He is our senior partner. He's not abandoning us and

saying, Figure it out. He empowers his church.

He guides his church but that's the point.

He didn't abandon us. He empowered us and said go.

My answer is yes my power is with you.

My presence is with you. I'm with you till the end of the

age. That means always that means

forever. We will never not be together

and we'll close with this. Scripture says any the the Creed

says, and he sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty,

go to Hebrews. Chapter 10.

Hebrews 10 · chapter mention

We've been Hebrews a lot. I feel like we've been coming to

Hebrews more than anything else for the past couple months even

Hebrews chapter 10. Verse 11.

Hebrews 10 · chapter mention

Remember, Hebrews has probably a sermon, I think it's my theory.

I think Hebrews was a sermon and every priest stands daily at his

service, talking about the high priest in the temple and the

priests who would work in the temple, all the work.

That's got to be done. All the sacrifice for all of us

in Hebrews 10 11 and every priest stands daily at his

service offering repeatedly, the same sacrifices, which can never

take away sins, talk about exhausting, but when Christ had

offered, For all time, a single sacrifice for sins.

He sat down. At the right hand of God waiting

from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for

his feet. So not only does our King sit

down. All the other priests priests

got to work priest, gotta work. He's got to work.

This priest comes and says, I finished the work.

Nobody else could finish the work.

Why? Because bulls?

And goats their blood, it could never actually take away the

sins of human humans. It was a temporary sacrifice

that the Lord allowed until the Lamb of God would come.

And when he comes, he says, what does he say on the Is, it is

finished and he meant it mission accomplished Jesus did it.

Jesus, Paid It all. He says, now I'm going to sit

down, but not only am I going to sit down.

I'd like to prop my feet up. How shall I prop up my feet?

Oh, on my enemies. So, until his enemies be made

his footstool, why don't want to be his footstool and don't be as

enemy. Well how do I not be as enemy

respond by faith to the grace? That he's so freely.

Given God loves you. He doesn't want anybody to be

his enemies. But there Comes a Day, there

comes a time where we'll get to where he will come to judge the

living and the dead, the spiritually alive and the

spiritually dead, the physically dead and the physically alive,

everyone will be settled and sorted by the king and at that

moment you become footstool or you're a child in the father's

house. We're already secure by our

faith. In the grace of God.

His grace through faith is what saved us?

So, we don't, we don't we're not stacking up our winds.

Jesus stacked up the winds, we receive them.

They're credited it unto us as righteousness because of our

faith, but the old priests, they stood because the work was never

done. Jesus sits down because the work

is finished. And the right hand symbol

symbolizes. Why is he seated at the right

hand of God the Father Almighty, it symbolizes power.

The right hand symbolizes authority, Jesus is not just

alive but he is reigning over his church and because of it we

rejoice and we don't add to it, we add nothing to his kingship,

he's already complete. He's already finished.

Like we said, the Ascension is not abandonment, it is

empowerment. Jesus sits on his throne because

the work was accomplished on the cross and he is now established

his church to carry out his mission.

Last verse Ephesians Ephesians chapter 1.

Ephesians 1 · chapter mention

Verse 20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from

the dead and seated him at his own, right hand in Heavenly

places, the father seated Jesus at his right hand in Heavenly

places verse 21, far above all Rule and authority and power and

dominion. And every name that is named not

only in this age but also in the one to come and he put all

things under his feet. And gave him as head over all

things to the church, which is his body.

The fullness of him who fills all in all Jesus is reigning

over his church. He's raining over death.

He reigns over Hill. He reigns over the grave.

This is why you and I should do something about it.

I told you before we started to, seriously, how's the apartment

house? The Apostles Creed?

Is it going to be practical? Or is it just going to be like,

I now know more stuff? I have better Doctrine.

Well, congratulations. And yes, it's practical to

believe that Jesus ascended to believe that Jesus is seated at

the right hand of God the Father Almighty.

It's not just a knowing. Yeah, I know.

That's a fact. Does your life look like it?

If you really believe Jesus is reigning, if you really believe

Jesus, is at the right hand, then you're going to go do

something with it. This is why you and I should

tell everyone, it's good news. We do that with all kinds of

news, right? When you see stuff in the news,

I did. You see, I did you see where

they? Hey, did you see where Elon Musk

and Mark Zuckerberg? I'm going to fight in the

Octagon. Like that's fun.

That's good news. Like I'm excited about that.

That's probably going to be the highest grossing fight.

In the history of the world. Like it's it's going to be super

fun to watch these two guys, just I hope it's a good fight.

But you see what we do. You see something?

You see some good news. You see something you're excited

about. You tell somebody, we do the

same thing with Jesus. Hey, hey.

Did you see how did you know that Jesus is Lord?

Yeah, yeah, I know that. No, no.

Did you know that? He came to the Earth actually?

Yeah, I know that but did. Yeah.

But did you see that? He's actually ascended.

Did you see the he's seated at the right hand of God the Father

Almighty? Did you see that?

He's coming back to judge the living and the dead?

Yeah, no no. But did you?

If you're excited, if you believe in something you'll talk

about it. When you're filled with the Holy

Spirit, the holy spirit is always going to glorify Jesus

Through you. He will overflow out of you,

rivers of Living Water. You can't contain a river.

You can't hold it back. Holy Spirit won't possess us as

a, whereas a demon would like you to throw someone into the

fire and try and harm them always fear.

It won't turn you into a puppet and yet, When you invite the

Holy Spirit to fill you, you will find a.

He joyfully fills you with power and your love.

For Jesus is swells even more. And now man.

You mean I don't have to White Knuckle this whole mission

thing? No, he provides everything.

He provides the fuel, he provides the desire, he provides

the love, he provides it all. Hey, did you see the news?

Did you see the Jesus saved us from our sins?

Chris Kayla. Could you please prepare the

Miss Forrest. We're going to receive

communion. Did you see did you believe have

you responded? Whenever we come across somebody

who doesn't respond to the gospel, if they're resistant to

it? That's okay.

We don't stop. We don't get discouraged.

We're going to well, I tried that one time saying there's a

whole world who needs the gospel.

There's a whole world who needs to walk in deeper faithfulness.

They're believers who are living as orphans right now.

Not connected into the body of Christ Living in isolation they

need restoration they need to be brought back into the father's

house as a product. Eagles.

So that we can put the robe on them and the ring on their hand

and sandals on their feet, and celebrate them with the Feast of

God. And this is the table that we're

getting ready to eat from the blood of Jesus in the body of

Jesus. So, let's prepare our hearts as

Chris and Kayla service the elements.

Now, as we go prayerfully into communion, Eagles.

So that we can put the robe on them and the ring on their hand

and sandals on their feet, and celebrate them with the Feast of

God. And this is the table that we're

getting ready to eat from the blood of Jesus in the body of

Jesus. So, let's prepare our hearts as

Chris and Kayla service the elements.

Now, as we go prayerfully into communion,