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Changing Expectations

I walked away wondering…

Brene Brown

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We see things as we areNot as they are

Sometimes it's silly…But we accept it as trueAnd act on it as though it were

And that's…dangerous

We expect What we've experienced

Church organ…

We expect What we've experienced

It's time to expect more

We expect What we've experienced

Jesus…saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him

180 Degrees Different

Jesus choseA Tax Collector

You are chosen

That's what adoption is…

And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax

collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus

and his disciples

And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

We expectWhat we've experienced

"God doesn't acceptTax collectors and sinners

He accepts…us!"

"Why would he be doing this?Maybe he's not from God…

Maybe he's a false teacher!"

But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no

need of a physician, but those who are sick

There are none so sickAs those who think they are

Well enough to point out Everyone else's sin

If I get so right with GodThat it causes me to

Look down on others

I've missed God

Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’

For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners”

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings- Hosea 6:6Doing for God can eclipseKnowing God

Only when the things I do out of

Love for God lead me to Love people more

Is it God that I'm serving

Religious Sacrifice= What I do for God

Mercy=What God does through me

For people made in his image

Look at all I'm doing!

Look at all I'm doing!

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries

and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove

mountains, but have not love, I am nothing

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing- 1 Cor. 13:1-3

I desire mercy, and not sacrifice

Nothing I do mattersUnless I love people

Made in God's image

And who is my neighbor?

We expect What we've experienced

And God has no roomIn that box

Why does he hangWith tax collectors and sinners?

Wrong question

"Why don't you love peopleWho are made in God's image?"

Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and

the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”

We've experienced fastingWe expect fasting

Why you not fasting?

And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?...

The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from

them, and then they will fast

Because this is a new move of God in your midst

Don't miss it!

Messiah is hereThe hope and dream of nations

The Consolation of Israel

Messiah is hereThe hope and dream of nations

The Consolation of IsraelAnd you're worried about

Food customs?

Things are changing quickerThan we ever imagined

Things are changing quickerThan we ever imagined

And you're worried aboutWorship style & jeans10 Commandment Statues?

We expect What we've experienced

And God has no roomIn that box

…to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace- Romans 8:6

No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made

This is…NEWI'm not here to patch the old

But to replace it

Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst

and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed

But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved”- Matt. 9:9-17

Wineskin Theologically:Old Covenant

Wineskin Practically:What I'm used to

God is always doing a New thing

Religious people are alwaysBaptizing old things as sacredAnd unchangeable

Peter: Still eating KosherJews: God doesn't accept

Gentiles

Judaizers: Well, they gotta getCircumcised first

When we expect What we've always experienced

We miss what God wants to doIn our lives today

Forms are changeableFunctions are not

When we expect What we've always experienced

We miss what God wants to doIn our lives today

Relationally…

Brene Brown

What if it could be different?

Sorry First Draft

It's time to expect more

We expect What we've experienced

For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war

according to the flesh

For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised

against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive

to obey Christ…

Arguments= logismos- "emphasizes reaching a personal opinion, i.e. what comes out of a personal reckoning"

Lofty opinion= hupsoma-Opinion raised

"My opinion has become my Truth by which I view life"

Destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God

And take every thought captiveto obey Christ…

Thought= noema- personal verdict

- 2 Cor. 10:3-5

How?For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds

If you know Jesus,The power is in you

Right now

To put these things to death

Stay connected:

- Scripture and Prayer- Kill anything that interfereswith my knowing (walking with) Jesus

Focus on Christ

…to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on

the Spirit is life and peace- Romans 8:6

Help me to see themAs you see them

And to love them asI already love myself(Because it's not about me)

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We expectWhat we've experienced

Except…

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come2 Cor. 5:17

If you expectWhat you've experienced

You've forgotten thatYou're not who you were

From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh- vs. 16

"Enemy to marginalize""Friend to get on my side"

About you?Let it go if at all possible

To you? Or you think so…?"Let's talk…"

We expect…New CommunityAnd encourage toward it

Spur one another onto love and good deeds

Does what I expectReflect the New that Christ

Is doing in my life?

In my Faith Community?

Does what I expectReflect the New that ChristLongs to do in my world

Through my life?

SFD

I don't spend much time goingOver those things anymore

End of the day- do what I should

As a churchWe hold the purpose tightly

And hold lightly to the forms

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