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Introduction
Series Introduction
We are in the middle of an important sermon series for our church where we are unveiling the vision that God has given us for who we are to be and what we are to do as a church.
Review Mission
At the beginning of this series we took a look at what the mission of the church is as we unveiled our new mission statement: to invite all people to life under a better King.
The reason that WSBC exists is to see more and more come underneath the rule of King Jesus and experience how much better life is with him.
Review Values
We then turned to examine the values that we want to shape our culture as a church.
These are somewhat of an aspiration, but I believe that at least a spark of each of these values exists.
We hope to pour gas on that spark and see each of these values turn in to a wildfire that shapes our church’s culture.
The first of those values is A Better Message.
We believe that the good news that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and rose from the dead should be the foundation of everything that we do together as a church.
The second of our values is A Better Family.
We believe that Jesus saved us to be a part of his forever family and that we are better together.
So biblical community will be the context for our ministry as a church.
The third value is A Better Job.
We believe that every member of our church is an official representative of King Jesus and his agenda in the world.
We want to commit to equip our members for the most important job in the universe.
This now brings us to our fourth and final value that will shape how our church does ministry.
A Better Party.
A Better Party
When we say that we value a better party, we are saying that one of our core values as a church is celebration.
In other words, we know how to have a good time and are overflowing with joy as we live under King Jesus’ gracious rule.
I want to turn to several passages this morning that show us why celebration ought to characterize our life together as WSBC.
Let’s turn first to Romans 5.
We celebrate God’s work for us
Up to this point in the book of Romans, Paul has been unpacking the gospel for the Roman Christians.
In Chapter 4 he reminded the church of Abraham as the model for a person who is justified, or made right with God, by faith, not works.
In chapter 5 we see Paul reflecting on the peace that we now have with God as a result of our faith in his work through his Son Jesus.
As we shall see, according to Paul, we have more reason to celebrate than anyone else on the planet.
We party because we know what God’s gonna do
As Paul reflects on the peace we now have with God through Jesus, he points Christians to our future hope.
Then he says that reflecting on that future hope leads us to rejoice.
What is that future hope?
Romans 5.1-
Jesus is coming back.
He will right every wrong.
He will abolish pain and death and sin and fear and suffering.
His rule will be realized across the universe.
We will be resurrected and receive renewed, perfected bodies, unstained by sin and its effects.
No more sickness, no more weakness, no more death and decay.
Church we have reason to celebrate because our future is exceedingly bright!
We party because we know what God’s doing
Not only do we rejoice for what is to come.
We can rejoice in what God is doing today.
Paul says that, as Christians, we can rejoice in our present suffering, because we know that God is doing something amazing for us and in us through our present pain.
Romans 5.3-
Paul says that one of the things that happens in our pain as Christians, is that the Holy Spirit pours God’s love into our hearts.
What he means is that we are reminded of God’s love for us in our pain.
He is not done with us.
He is working in us.
And the Spirit reminds us.
God is so concerned with you that he is actively at work in your life right now, church.
So rejoice!
Celebrate!
We party because we know what God has done
Romans 5.6
Romans 5.9-
Romans 5.1
We rejoice over our future.
We rejoice over our present.
We also rejoice over our past.
We were wretches.
We were fallen.
We were sinful.
We were deserving of God’s wrath.
AND CHRIST DIED FOR US! What amazing love this is.
God saves his enemies.
God reconciled us to himself through his Son Jesus.
And we are to rejoice.
Church, even your past mistakes are mean to erupt in celebration over what God has done for you.
We have more reason to celebrate than anyone else on the planet.
It is fitting then that such celebration should characterize all we do as a church.
Even more than that, our celebration is a reflection of a partying God.
Turn to Luke 15.
We celebrate with God for others
We want to celebrate because we serve a God who likes to party.
While Jesus was hanging out with sinners, some of the religious elite were critical of him.
So Jesus told them these parables about God’s heart for sinners.
Heaven parties when the lost are found
Luke 15.4-
A shepherd who loses a sheep will leave those safe and secure to go find the wandering sheep.
Once he finds it, he is thrilled and carries it back home.
He tells his friends and celebrates with them that he has found a missing member of his flock.
Luke 15.1-
Jesus says that heaven parties like that when even one sinner turns from their sin to Jesus.
No eye rolling.
No I told you so.
Just joy.
Just a party.
Angels party when the lost are found
Again, Jesus tells another lost and found story.
This time a woman who has lost a precious coin turns her house upside down to find it.
When she finally finds it she calls up her friends to rejoice that she found it.
Luke 15.8-
Again, the angels in heaven rejoice in similar fashion.
They party when one sinner turns to Jesus.
Then we come to the most famous parable of them all.
The Father parties when the lost are found
Luke 15.14
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