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Question: Have you ever encountered a tunnel you want nothing to do with?
Illustration: I couldn’t ever get very far into the tunnel in the wash.
Even with my friends, we would chicken out pretty quickly.
We’ve all seen tunnels we don’t want anything to do with!
Here are some tunnels I want nothing to do with:
Illustration: This is Joel Miggler (gross!)
Tension
We use the idea of a tunnel to illustrate a bunch of stuff!
Maybe it’s your struggle in life.
There’s a light at the end of the tunnel.
Maybe it represents a feeling that you’re in the middle of some process, and there are only two ways to go: forward or backward.
Illustration: I stayed up all night building a 3D printer.
Maybe it represents your journey of life.
You’ve got this starting point, and you’re moving along.
Maybe you see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Maybe you don’t.
For just a minute, let’s use a tunnel to imagine your relationship with Jesus.
You have this starting point.
You have a process you’re going through.
You have this light at the end.
And if you were going to think about that, you might be aywhere along that tunnel.
Maybe you’re just at the entrance, thinking about whether or not you want to take the first steps.
Or you could be inside the tunnel somewhere, trying to make some progress, without getting pulled too far back.
Or you could be so far away from this whole Jesus thing, you don’t even see any tunnel.
No matter where you are, in relation to this tunnel, listen up, because the things we’re looking at today, the promises God has made, are available to all of us.
That tunnel could be scary for some of us.
We think about this dark tunnel that we have to go through, but we might feel like we have to brave the dark, scary, probly smelly tunnel all by ourselves.
But, what we see in the Bible tells us something pretty awesome: We don’t have to go it alone!
Last week, we talked about how we need the influence of other people in our lives, if we want to make any headway in our walk with Jesus.
If we want to take steps down the tunnel, we need the help of other Christians.
But, even that isn’t totally enough.
When I was heading down that tunnel with my friends, we still got to some point where we got too scared, and turned back.
We need something more than just other people.
We need someone more.
We need God with us.
Really, that’s what this whole series is all about.
There are areas of our lives, our faith lives, that we can’t do on our own.
We need to ask, invite, God to take part with us.
He tells us that when we take a step, he’ll take a step.
When we draw close to him, he’ll draw close to us.
God promises that if we show up for him, and if we invite him to show up, he’ll meet us where we are.
Today, we’re looking at
Truth/Application
Get your Bibles, open to
Today, we’re looking at that idea.
That God is with us, living with us.
Not just with us, but in us.
This idea goes far back into
God Lives With Us
Today, we’re looking at that idea.
That God is with us, living with us.
Not just with us, but in us.
This idea is so important in the Bible that it’s present in the very beginning.
God was living in the garden with his creation.
With Adam and Eve.
He set up Israel, this country in the middle east, to show the surrounding nations what it looked like to have the presence of God in their midst.
They blew it, over and over again.
God finally said, this isn’t working out.
I’m going to send someone who’s going to make everything right.
That was Jesus.
He was promised to be “Emmanuel,” which means “God with us.”
In Jesus, God stepped into human form, and set up camp here among humanity.
(From his perspective, that’s gotta be like the worst campground ever.)
So, Jesus comes, lives, dies, raises from the dead, and he returns to heaven.
Before he goes, he tells his followers to keep bringing other people into this story.
To keep sharing the message that Jesus brought, and teach the new Jesus followers everything he did and everything he taught.
During early church, Paul’s missionary journeys
First missionary journey; there’s this “Galatian Pattern”
The disciples and other believers were filled with the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is one of those phrases you may have heard, depending on how long you’ve been around churches.
But, it stilll might confuse you a little bit.
Let’s dive into that for a couple minutes.
I love the way The Bible Project put a video together that sums up really well what the Bible tells us about the Holy Spirit.
Video: The Bible Project - Holy Spirit
Illustration: Courtroom picture this word paints for us
The Holy Spirit leads us towards Christ, and away from sin.
The Holy Spirit is God living with us.
Living in us.
We have to ask ourselves: Will we live with God? Live for him?
Or live for ourselves?
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God Frees Us
So, Paul is living with the Holy Spirit, the presence of God, with him.
He teaches the people in Galatia to live the same way.
Then, after a little while, he hears about people spreading these false teachings in the groups of Jesus followers he had just set up.
So, he writes a letter to those groups of Jesus followers.
He’s trying to bring them back to the things he taught them.
In this letter to them, he shows us the results we’ll see, depending on how we answer that question: Will we live with God? We’re all faced with that question, and we have to make a choice about how we respond.
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Freedom From Law
Galatians 5:
We are free from the Law, we don’t have to depend on ourselves to make ourselves right with God.
There are two ways to respond to that: a diving board to selfish, sinfulness; or to serve others through love
These are incompatible ways to respond.
You can’t live your life in a way that focuses on both of those things.
Illustration: Coke/Pepsi; iPhone/Android; etc.
Veggies Of Flesh
Galatians
All these are obvious if you’re living in a self-centered way.
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