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I love this text because, we always think of Christianity as being about life after death.
And yes it is for sure but Jesus makes it clear it is also about life before death.
And that is what this series has been about.
God wants, Jesus wants, we want Life-Joy and Beauty.
The human desire for LIFE-JOY-BEAUTY is the very proof for God.
The hope for life-joy and beauty does not spring up from the death, sickness and sorrow all around us.
Rather it springs up from within us.
In dreams, prophecy, art, poetry.
It is like Heaven is calling out and saying there is more.
When we surrender to Jesus as Lord and surrender to the Word of God the natural response will be to surrender to the way of Jesus.
Or in other words surrendering to His way of living.
We started this series off with White flag life-White flag joy and today we end with White flag beauty.
Life comes by surrendering to Jesus, Joy comes by surrendering to the Word of God, today we deal with Surrendering to find beauty.
When we surrender to Jesus as Lord and surrender to the Word of God the natural response will be to surrender to the way of Jesus.
Or in other words surrendering to His way of living.
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As a kid my favorite super hero was Superman.
I loved that he could fly, he had lasers that came out of his eyes, he was strong enough to move a planet out of its orbit, and of course pretty girls really liked him.
All of these were reasons enough for an 8-year-old to want to be Superman.
But I had another reason.
Superman made the bad go away.
He made the world right.
He made the ugly beautiful.
Another favorite hero of mine was Robbin Hood.
Now don’t tell anyone but when I was a kid my dad would make me a Robbin Hood hat out of green construction paper and he would place a feather from our back yard in it.
And my mother would let me wear her panty-hose.
I would run around the house with a green shirt, green hat and women’s panty hose and my Walmart kids bow and arrow.
(Arrows with suction cups.)
I would take money from my mom and dad and give it to my poor stuffed animals.
I loved Robbin Hood because he was all about making the world right.
He wanted the poor to have what they needed and he wanted the injustice to stop.
We love Super Heroes because they give us hope, and they give us an ideal picture of what we want to be and how we want the world to be.
Today I want to show you that while you will never be Superman you are called to be a Super hero side kick.
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God has called us to partner with him in making the world beautiful.
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We are Ambassadors who have been empowered and commissioned to participate with Him in making the world beautiful.
An ambassador is a representative of a government and it’s rule of law in another nation.
That means you rep the Kingdom of God here on earth.
And you have been empowered by God’s Spirit to bring the Kingdom of God to earth.
You are to be a sacred space, a space where heaven and earth have already touched.
You are the moving Tabernacle of God on earth.
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We are Ambassadors who have been empowered and commissioned.
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How do we partner with God in making the world beautiful?
– Good news to the poor, release from captivity, blind will see, oppressed are free.
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Good news to the poor, release from captivity, blind will see, oppressed are free.
– Destroy the works of the devil.
(Death, destruction).
By surrendering to the ways of Jesus we make our world beautiful.
– Destroy the works of the devil.
(Death, destruction).
Matt 7:24
How do we partner with God in making the world beautiful?
Too often Christians use Jesus as a get out of hell card but refuse to follow his way of living.
They may get out of hell in the future but they often are living in it now.
The way of Life Jesus taught is the way of His Kingdom - It is the way of beauty.
As ambassadors of the Kingdom of God, His teachings are what we are to bring into this world.
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Seven ways we make the world beautiful by surrendering to the way of Jesus.
When we raise our White Flag to the way of Jesus-
We bring healing to the sick.
-Miracles, calling of doctors and nurses, helping provide medication for the poor
(Miracles, calling of doctors and nurses, helping provide medication for the poor)
We bring peace to the war torn.
We bring generosity to the needy.
We bring forgiveness to the depressed and despised.
We bring reconciliation to the broken.
We bring forgiveness to the depressed and despised.
We bring reconciliation to the broken.
-When there is a fight seek reconciliation instead of joining a side.
We bring love to our enemies.
-Perfection is seen as love to our enemies.
-”Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends” Abraham Lincoln
Imagine the beauty if we were all peace makers.
We bring freedom to the oppressed and enslaved.
Mark 16:17-18
(Demonic, emotional, hurts, habits, hangups) – Bill Chambers – I had him begin to announce “I am free”.
The work was already done, it was just getting him to accept and receive it.
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Parable about 14 year old peasant girl given a vocation by an angel to translate the Word of God into the common language.
Always Leave people
better than you found them.
Hug the hurting.
Kiss the broken.
Befriend the lost.
Love the lonely .
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Call to action: Surrender to the ways of Jesus.
Become a red-letter Christian (Become so familiar with the words of Jesus that you can then interpret all of Scripture through the lens of his words.).
Let the Sermon on the Mount give you super powers ().
(Eat it like Popeye ate spinach).
Do not stop reading it until His teachings become your habits.
Live empowered by God’s Spirit (and not your sin nature.)
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You have been saved, called, commissioned and empowered.
You have been called to participate with God in making this world beautiful.
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