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[1323.78 --> 1328.54] Dutifully, they stand up, start filing out into the field, except for Roy Reggles. |
[1328.54 --> 1333.14] Roy stays exactly where he was, doesn't move an inch, doesn't budge. |
[1333.82 --> 1336.02] Roy, Coach said, didn't you hear me? |
[1337.32 --> 1339.12] Get up, go on back. |
[1339.98 --> 1343.54] Coach, I couldn't go out there to face that crowd to save my life. |
[1345.20 --> 1348.24] Coach walks over to him, puts his hand on his shoulder and says, |
[1348.60 --> 1349.72] Get up, Roy. |
[1350.28 --> 1351.84] Get up and go on back. |
[1352.54 --> 1355.20] The game is only half over. |
[1355.20 --> 1363.90] Tech men to this day will tell you that they have never seen a man play football like they saw Roy Reggles play that second half. |
[1364.70 --> 1366.62] Oh, to be looked at in love. |
[1367.38 --> 1369.16] Oh, to be given a second chance. |
[1369.60 --> 1374.30] Oh, to receive the forgiveness that the God of this universe offers us. |
[1374.44 --> 1376.52] It is a transforming love. |
[1376.52 --> 1382.94] Dear friends, if you know, like I do, that you've blown it at the game of life, |
[1383.02 --> 1388.50] that you're more inclined to fumble than make touchdowns, run in the wrong direction, and play for the wrong team, |
[1388.70 --> 1391.62] you have come to the right place this morning. |
[1392.84 --> 1399.20] The Church of Jesus Christ is not for self-assured superhumans who think they've got it all figured out and mastered. |
[1399.20 --> 1406.38] It's for those of us whose hearts break because we know that we've slapped the God who looks at us in love right in the face. |
[1407.12 --> 1408.58] We've besmirched his glory. |
[1409.40 --> 1411.60] We've begrimed his magnificent creation. |
[1412.26 --> 1414.18] And we have wounded the ones he loves. |
[1415.18 --> 1415.82] Each other. |
[1417.12 --> 1417.68] Ourselves. |
[1418.46 --> 1419.30] His creation. |
[1420.24 --> 1423.50] And supremely his one and only son, Jesus. |
[1423.50 --> 1423.70] Jesus. |
[1424.74 --> 1431.46] The Church of Jesus Christ is for those who go back day after day after day to the foot of the cross, |
[1431.76 --> 1435.48] and they receive again those impossible words that change everything. |
[1436.56 --> 1439.62] And then, having received the forgiveness given to us, |
[1440.50 --> 1448.60] we are called to go by God to become the fragrance the violet has shed on the heels that have crushed us. |
[1448.60 --> 1453.52] How would 2025 look differently? |
[1455.40 --> 1457.78] If you took it to look on other people in love, |
[1458.36 --> 1462.52] not only to forgive them, which is the thrust of our text today, |
[1462.62 --> 1466.66] but also simply to do them some good. |
[1467.84 --> 1470.24] What if this whole room full of people this morning |
[1470.24 --> 1473.80] would seek to look at others in love, |
[1474.50 --> 1476.38] as we have been looked at in love? |
[1476.38 --> 1479.60] Not only are we transformed, |
[1480.40 --> 1482.18] but inch by inch, measure by measure, |
[1483.02 --> 1484.70] this is how it works. |
[1485.70 --> 1488.18] This is how the patient ferment of the gospel, |
[1488.44 --> 1490.34] as the book Dave had once suggested to me, |
[1490.94 --> 1493.60] works itself out into the world as our hearts are changed, |
[1494.12 --> 1495.74] and then we show love and others are changed. |
[1495.86 --> 1497.66] So may God give us the strength to do this |
[1497.66 --> 1499.48] in his mercy and his grace. |
[1499.58 --> 1500.36] Let me pray for us. |
[1500.36 --> 1503.58] Dear Lord God, |
[1503.78 --> 1506.94] it is truly unfathomable |
[1506.94 --> 1510.00] that you would look at us in love. |
[1511.02 --> 1512.76] So often when we are hurt, |
[1512.88 --> 1513.94] we want to hurt back. |
[1516.32 --> 1518.56] Lord, I pray not that we |
[1518.56 --> 1521.62] don't hold others responsible for their actions, |
[1521.86 --> 1523.12] not that we pretend that |
[1523.12 --> 1525.64] things others have done to us don't hurt, |
[1526.34 --> 1527.34] that it wasn't wrong. |
[1527.34 --> 1529.70] This is a betrayal of the truth about forgiveness. |
[1530.66 --> 1531.64] But I pray, Lord, |
[1531.74 --> 1532.82] that we would seek |
[1532.82 --> 1535.30] the restoration of other people, |
[1535.40 --> 1537.34] even as you have sought our restoration. |
[1538.50 --> 1541.24] Change the motivational substructure of our heart |
[1541.24 --> 1544.84] so that we may be motivated by your love, |
[1545.24 --> 1547.00] not by duty so much, |
[1547.08 --> 1549.08] but by the privilege of joining you |
[1549.08 --> 1552.36] in your restoration project for this world. |
[1552.36 --> 1555.26] Thank you for your great love to us, Lord. |
[1555.64 --> 1557.38] I ask that you would make it real to us. |
[1559.52 --> 1560.76] Pray this in Jesus' name. |
• Discussing the gift of memory and its importance in worship |
• Reflecting on the past year and how it has been a year to remember |
• Sharing personal experience of entering ministry and being ordained |
• Explaining how remembering God's faithfulness is an act of worship |
• Reading from Luke 4 about Jesus' adult ministry and his proclamation in Nazareth |
• Discussing the significance of the passage in Luke 4 and its connection to Advent season |
• The coming of Jesus as the Messiah and anointed one of God |
• Jesus' adult ministry and how it fulfills God's plan of redemption |
• Jesus' call to bring the Lord's favor to earth through his life, word, and deed |
• God's redemptive plans for the world, including individuals |
• The empowering role of the Holy Spirit in proclaiming the year of the Lord's favor |
• The importance of living in accordance with God's kingdom and inviting others into it |
• Jesus' message from the book of Isaiah about proclaiming good news to the poor |
• The year of the Lord's favor, or Jubilee, is a time of release and freedom from debt and oppression |
• This concept is rooted in Old Testament prophecy, specifically Isaiah 61 and Leviticus |
• Jesus reads from Isaiah 61 in his ministry, highlighting God's redemptive plans for the world |
• The year of Jubilee symbolizes the completion of God's kingdom on earth and the reversal of sin's curse |
• Jesus' ministry is characterized by preaching about God's kingdom and inviting people to experience its benefits. |
• Importance of living out faith through whole life, not just head knowledge |
• Caden's testimony and word of encouragement for new believers and those struggling with faith |
• Need to "go all in" in one's faith and devotion to God |
• Jesus' sermon about the poor, prisoners, and blind as referring to sinners outside the church |
• Jesus' sermon on proclaiming good news to the poor |
• The meaning of "poor" in a holistic sense, including social and spiritual poverty |
• Who is included in this category: those outside God's people due to social or religious reasons |
• Jesus' invitation to those considered outsiders to be part of his kingdom |
• Personal struggles with sin and addictions despite being a pastor |
• The element of humility in wrestling with one's own struggles and the enemy's temptations |
• God's message of salvation and holiness |
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