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Gospel Movement | The Power | Colin Provart · The Salt Company Denver

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_01: You guys can go ahead and take a seat.
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  SPEAKER_01: How are we doing tonight?
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  SPEAKER_01: Come on, it's good to be here.
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  SPEAKER_01: How are we doing tonight?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a Tuesday.
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  SPEAKER_01: Come on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey, if I don't know you, my name's Colin.
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  SPEAKER_01: I get to be on staff here at Salt Company, which I think is so fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love my job.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love uh you guys, and I love that you're in the room tonight.
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  SPEAKER_01: If it's your first time here at Salt Company, we're glad that you're here.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we don't just want you to be uh a person in a seat or a face in a crowd, but we want to know you, we want to know your story.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so if it is your first time here, when we head out, head out these doors straight ahead.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: There's a little welcome area.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have a gift for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh we'd love to get to know your name and your story a little bit and help you get connected here into the life of Salt Company.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if it is your first time here, it's a great week for it to be your first time here because we're starting a new series called Gospel Movement.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm stoked about this series.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so uh we're gonna open up the Bible as we do every week at Salt Company.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you have a Bible, Acts one is where we're gonna be.
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  SPEAKER_01: Acts one, uh, if you're new to your Bible, as we all once were, Acts is about 80, 85% of the way through your Bible.
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  SPEAKER_01: Acts one is where we're gonna be.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as you turn there, I have a question for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: How many of you are fans of sequels?
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  SPEAKER_01: We like sequels?
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I want to play a little like yay or nay game.
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  SPEAKER_01: A little yay or nay game with you guys tonight.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you think the sequel that I name is better, give me a thumbs up.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you think the sequel that I name is worse than the original, give me a thumbs down, hold them high so you guys can see each other in debate after.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, first one.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_01: Shrek two.
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  SPEAKER_01: Much bet much better.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some of you haven't seen it, okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Star Wars The Last Jedi.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_01: Toy Story Two.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_01: Better, nice.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna come back to that later.
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  SPEAKER_01: Frozen two.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, all right, I might.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_01: This is we're gonna start having some fun here.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_01: Top Gun Maverick.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think anyone born ten years before you would like go to their grave disagreeing with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cars two.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some debates.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's good, that's good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dune two.
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  SPEAKER_01: Another debate.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright, and this one should be the least debated one of all time.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_01: The Dark Knight.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is a better movie than Batman Begins.
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  SPEAKER_01: Batman Begins is like not that good of a movie, actually.
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  SPEAKER_01: He goes, it's still good.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, it's okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh hey, tonight, as we look as we open the book of Acts, we're gonna we're gonna look at a sequel tonight.
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  SPEAKER_01: Acts is a sequel in a two-part series, and later tonight we're gonna talk about another sequel.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I want this idea of sequel to be in your head.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, is what comes next as good as what has happened before?
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  SPEAKER_01: And what I want to convince you of is that, yes, the sequel is part of the same story, and that we're gonna look at a sequel tonight, and that there's a sequel to that sequel that you get to be a part of tonight.
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  SPEAKER_01: Acts one is where we're gonna be, and I'm just gonna start reading from verse one.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna give you a lot of Bible tonight.
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  SPEAKER_01: So have your Bible open to Acts.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna jump in.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so this is what Acts 1 says.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: It says, I wrote the first narrative, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So Acts is a sequel, it's a second part of a two-part series.
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  SPEAKER_01: The first book was the gospel of Luke, the good news according to Luke.
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  SPEAKER_01: Luke writes the book of Acts as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not an afterthought, but it's a continuation of what he's written in the first book.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so he says, I wrote the first narrative, Theophilus.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he's addressing it to a specific person.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's helpful to know, just like a good Bible reading tip is Acts is not written to you in 2026, but it's written to Theophilus in the first century.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was not written to you, but it is written for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's written to a real person.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what you need to know about Theophilus is Theophilus is likely a pretty wealthy and well-regarded individual.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what some historians believe is that Theophilus is like, what is going on in the first century?
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  SPEAKER_01: What is shaking up this first century world?
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  SPEAKER_01: I need to figure it out.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I'm gonna I'm gonna hire Luke and I'm gonna say, Luke, you go figure out for me what's happening in the first century.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Luke reports back in a two-part series, the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts as an investigative, like investigative journalism of what has happened and what he's found, what is shaking up this first century world.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he says this I wrote the first narrative, Theophilus, about all Jesus began to do and teach.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is part one.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's the life and ministry of Jesus, it's the good news according to Luke.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then he goes on to say in verse 2 until the day he was taken up, after he'd given instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen, after he had suffered, he also presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs.
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  SPEAKER_01: So here's just a side note, this is this is free.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh some of you are like, is Jesus real?
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  SPEAKER_01: And Luke in the first century knew you'd be asking that question.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he's like, There's tons of convincing proofs.
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  SPEAKER_01: What I want you to know is if you're questioning whether Jesus was real, Jesus is who he says he was, do some historical research, because what I what I will tell you is that history is on the Bible's side when it comes to if Jesus was real and what Jesus did.
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  SPEAKER_01: History is on the Bible's side.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's proof of what Jesus has done.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's he's appeared to people, hundreds of people, over 40 days, and speaking about the kingdom of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And while he was with them, he commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for the Father's promise, which he said, you have heard me speak about.
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  SPEAKER_01: For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit in a few days.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, what you need to know if, like, Acts is the second part, is the sequel to the series that Luke is writing, he's telling his first century audience something that should not be new information.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right?
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  SPEAKER_01: He's saying, What the Father has promised.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've told you that John was baptizing with water, but I'm gonna baptize with something that's better, the Holy Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this has been a primary component of the ministry of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let me show you this in two places.
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  SPEAKER_01: Luke 3 says this, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is the first part of the narrative.
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  SPEAKER_01: It says, Jesus answered them, I baptize with water, but one, or this is John, sorry, John answered them, I baptize you with water, but one who is more powerful than I am is coming.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals.
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  SPEAKER_01: He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: So even before Jesus enters the picture, John's out there saying, There's one coming after me, he's gonna baptize you with the Holy Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or how about John 16?
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: John 16 says this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nevertheless, I'm telling you the truth, it is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don't go away, the counselor will not come to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: If I go, I will send him to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when he comes, he will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment, about sin because they do not believe in me, about righteousness, because I'm going to the Father, and you will no longer see me, and about judgment, because the ruler of the world has been judged.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am going to send you a counselor.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not new information.
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  SPEAKER_01: They should know this information.
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  SPEAKER_01: His first century listeners should know that Jesus has been talking about this for years, for years that they've been with him.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is what Jesus has been talking about.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so then verse 6.
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  SPEAKER_01: When they'd come together, they asked him, Lord, are you restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time?
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  SPEAKER_01: So you need to know context.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Acts is the second part of Luke.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've talked about that, it's the sequel.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they're talking to Jesus after his resurrection, after his life, his burial.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're talking to a man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know a lot of you have grown up in church.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hear me.
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  SPEAKER_01: They are talking to a man who walked out of the grave.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's uh it's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: But like, I need you to like just think about use your biblical imagination.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're talking to someone who, like, in the last few weeks was dead in a grave.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, dead, dead.
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  SPEAKER_01: All the way dead.
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  SPEAKER_01: So dead.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now you're talking to him, and he's standing up and like having a conversation with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, now is the real work.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are you kidding me?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, walking out of the grave was cool, but you know it would be cooler.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are you restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time?
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  SPEAKER_01: So, what they thought about the Messiah or the Christ, the anointed one, that had been promised throughout the Old Testament.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_01: What they thought that the Messiah or Christ was gonna come to do is that the Christ was gonna come to overthrow their greatest enemy, at least in their mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: Their greatest enemy, Rome.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_01: So, context here is helpful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is that the nation of Israel at one point was a world power.
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  SPEAKER_01: They they had a really high economy, they had a lot of military power, they had wealth, they had success, they had recognition, and then at one point they go into exile, and from exile they they then are released, but then when they're released, they come under Roman rule, and things are never what they used to be.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: Like in Jerusalem, kind of the epicenter of the is of the Israelite community, they had some independence, but not ultimate autonomy, because they're under the tyranny of Rome and they live under Roman rule.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_01: This is real history, you guys can research this stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so then throughout the Old Testament, this is what I was saying: that they the Christ was promised.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then when they read passages like Psalm 110, what they assume is gonna happen is that the Christ or anointed one, the one that's been promised, the son of David, the son of Abraham, is gonna come and he's gonna sit on a Roman throne and say, enough Rome.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they read things like Psalm 110, 5 through 7, which says, The Lord is at your right hand.
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  SPEAKER_01: He will crush kings on the day of his anger, he will judge the nations, heaping up corpses, he will crush leaders over the entire world, he will drink from the brook by the road, therefore he will lift up his head.
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  SPEAKER_01: What Jesus has really come to do is he's come to establish a political kingdom in Jerusalem to reignite Israel as a world superpower.
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  SPEAKER_01: So again, back up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus is alive and talking to them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And a few weeks ago was in the grave, all the way dead.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they're like, yo, Jesus, when's the real work gonna start?
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's like the spiritual matters here, Jesus, but the political is more important.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_01: They downplay the power God promised for the pleasure of a political kingdom that they wanted.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here's what the people of Israel do.
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  SPEAKER_01: They want Jesus to do something that he never promised to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want pleasure, we want Rome, we want their heads on a stick.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_01: They want Jesus to do something he never promised to do, and in some ways we do the same thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, we see Jesus do an amazing work in our lives or in the lives of our friends, or we see Jesus like start to do some significant spiritual work.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_01: We see people get baptized, and we're like, yeah, Jesus, that's cool, but can you start doing the real work here?
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  SPEAKER_01: Of like getting me a job or a relationship?
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_01: Like, geez, you're starting to like transform my heart, and I used to sin, but now I don't sin.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_01: But like, I'd really like you to start making my life a little bit more comfortable.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: That'd be nice for me.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, in some ways, it's it's almost like they they missed it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like sanctification is fine, but I want a relationship.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_01: Here's how you might fall into uh the belief of believing Jesus has come to do something that he never promised to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: That you walk in, hear me, Jesus wants you to pray for your test, okay?
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: Pray for your test.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you are more prone to walk into a test you didn't study for and ask Jesus to bless your test taking.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're more prone to do that than you are to walk into a room full of hundreds of lost people and pray for Jesus to transform their lives.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like, Jesus, you come to do some work, but man, I'd really like you to do some like some work that you never promised to do and neglect the work he said he actually would do through his people.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I just think we can be we can be prone to do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can be prone to ask God to do work that he never promised to do because when we do that, we're actually neglecting the work that he's already done.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: So uh there are these articles, if you read them, like conspiracy theorists would say, uh, that the power is gonna go out for like weeks on end and everyone should become a doomsday prepper.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_01: Are you guys seeing these things?
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, like everyone should uh should start stocking up.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_01: Like you should get a generator and you should be like totally autonomous on your power, you should get solar, you should get batteries and backup batteries for your batteries.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: And so I just want you to uh uh to imagine uh you don't prepare, which would be me.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: And you like have a great neighbor, and so the neighbor's like, yo, you want to tap into my generator and my battery?
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: And you're like, absolutely.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_01: And so you're you have great neighbors, your neighbors let you tap into like their generator and their battery, and the lights flick on and the furnace flicks on and the AC flicks on, and like you got what you need, you got what you need, and then you go to your neighbor and you're like, I would really like a cappuccino from your coffee maker.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, what are you talking about?
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: It's like the power was fine, but the cappuccino would be better.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_01: And I I'm intentionally using an absolutely outrageous example to say, like, how quick do we do that?
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like, geez, the work you did was pretty cool.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_01: Like, my life is utterly transformed.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: But what I'd really like you to do is completely overthrow Rome because that would make my life a little bit better.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: You see, they forget what God has done in the resurrection, utterly conquering Satan's sin and death.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so my question for you is are you neglecting the work that God has done?
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  SPEAKER_01: Or a different way to ask that would be: where are you asking God to work where he's never promised to work?
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  SPEAKER_01: A test you never studied for.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, oh man, the sanctification's fine, but a relationship would be nice.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like seeing my friends get baptized is cool, but like I need some economic security here, Jesus.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: And like probably more than just security, like abundance would be nice.
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  SPEAKER_01: And here's here's what I think we can begin to think when I say that is you think, man, maybe following Jesus is actually smaller than I thought.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I thought Jesus transformed everything, and maybe it's like a smaller thing than I thought it would be.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe the disciples actually think that.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_01: Like, man, actually, maybe the kingdom isn't as big as we thought it was gonna be.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, we thought it was gonna overthrow Rome.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe it's just smaller than that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, maybe this isn't what we expected.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: And I think what the apostles are gonna hear and what you're gonna find is not that your version of Christianity or your version of the kingdom of God is too big for Jesus, but that it's actually far too small for him.
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  unknown: Right?
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like, here's what he says in verse 7.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he said to them, It's not for you to know the times or periods that my father has set by his own authority.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he's actually saying, You're right in some ways, that God really is, we're gonna come back to this in a in a sec, but God really is gonna establish a physical kingdom someday.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_01: God is gonna establish a physical kingdom where he's gonna reign and rule.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_01: But the way that kingdom is gonna come is not by not through a throne in Jerusalem or a throne over Rome, but through a cross over Satan.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's not gonna come through a throne in Rome, but a cross over Satan.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's not gonna come through soldiers, but through a spirit, through the spirit, through the spirit of God breathing upon his people.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: Look at what verse 8 says.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, we need to stop here.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: We need to again be reminded of the promise of Jesus from the Old Testament.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_01: We need to be blown away, astonished.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: Here's why.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: Because we're like, man, it would be really like imagine if Jesus was sitting in this empty seat right here.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: That would be awesome.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: Anyone else think that'd be pretty cool?
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: You'd be like, why is he sitting in the seat and not on the stage?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: Loser, you know?
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: Boo, we want Jesus.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: I would be saying the same thing too.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: But like, imagine Jesus is here.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Let's just say, I'm there and Jesus is here.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: That'd be pretty cool.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, I'm gonna go, actually.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'm out.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm gonna send you my spirit.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: And it's not just gonna fall upon you, like a single one of you.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna fall upon y'all.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_01: Like, like when you place your faith in Jesus, the spirit of God is going to fall upon you.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: So, okay, you guys don't get this.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's okay.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's okay.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_01: Let me explain it to you.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's what I'm here for, right?
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: So let me tell you the story of the Bible.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_01: Because I think you're missing what's happening here.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_01: The story of the Bible is God with his people.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: God with his people.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: And so you read Genesis 1 and 2, and what is Genesis 1 and 2 marked by?
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's Eden, it's lovely, it's beautiful, but what makes it so beautiful is that God is with his people.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: God is walking in the cool of the day with his people.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: And then his people say, Yeah, God, it's cool to walk with you, but I actually want to know more.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: I actually want to be like you.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_01: I actually want to know what evil is like.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: And so they turn from God.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: And when they turn from God, they're now separated from God.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: God's presence is no longer intimately with his people, but God promises, I am gonna send my presence to you.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_01: And so he goes to a man named Abram and he sets him apart, and he's gonna say, he said, You are, I'm gonna create a nation through you, and you are going to be my people.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: So he starts a people called the people of Israel, and then a crazy story.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: They end up going to Egypt to get food, but then they're enslaved in Egypt, and then he frees them called the Exodus out of slavery.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like God is like so faithful to his people.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, I am gonna be with you.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_01: You are going to be my people.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: And so he sets them free from slavery, and then they start wandering.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: But he said, I don't want you to wander alone.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: I want you to build this super special tent called the tabernacle, where God's presence is gonna be with his people.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: So we're all camping, and in the middle of our camp is gonna be this really special tent that's really beautiful and ornate, and in that tent is gonna be the very presence of God.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_01: And then we're gonna go into the land that you promised, and we're gonna overthrow the people in the land, and like this is our home.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: This is what we this is like all of what you've promised, and that's where King David comes into the picture, and King David is like, God, I'm gonna build you a house.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, You're not gonna build me a house, but your son's gonna build me a house.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_01: And so Solomon builds probably one of the most beautiful buildings in all of human history.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's the temple, and it's the place where God's presence is.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's God's presence with his people.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: You this is history.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: You guys can read about this stuff.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: So God's presence is with his people, but it doesn't last long.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: Eventually, then the nation of Israel splits, it goes into the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_01: The northern nation is overthrown by Assyria.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: And then Babylon overthrows the southern nation in like 586 BC.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: And when Babylon conquers the southern nation, they utterly destroy the temple.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: Where is the Spirit of God now?
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: The place where God's Spirit dwells is no longer with his people because the temple, the home of the Spirit, has been utterly destroyed.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_01: It's rubble.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_01: So then there's a hundred years, and there are these guys, Ezra and Nehemiah, they're in your Bible and they're like, we're gonna leave Babylon.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: They get permission, they're gonna leave Babylon and they're gonna rebuild the wall around Jerusalem, and they're gonna rebuild the temple.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_01: But in one of I find to be the most sad verses in the Bible, they rebuild the temple.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: But the Spirit of God never falls.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: Spirit of God is not there.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: And then everything goes silent for 400 years.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: And then Matthew 1 opens.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: And they say, the one that is born is Emmanuel.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: Which means God is with us.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: God's with his people again.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: God's with his people again.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_01: But now he's saying, I'm gonna leave.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: What do you mean?
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: We've done the 400 years of silence thing.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't work out so well.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_01: He leaves.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_01: But now God's Spirit is sent to his people.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: 1 Corinthians 3.16.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: Don't you know that you are God's temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: Have you ever thought where heaven and earth meet?
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like, where does the divine meet meet like our lives, our human lives, our natural world that we live in?
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: Where do those things happen?
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I think we live in an incredibly spiritual world, but where does God's presence meet earth?
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: You.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: Like when you believe in Jesus, God's spirit dwells in you.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's crazy.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: Y'all need to get fired up about that.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: That's amazing.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: Like for thousands of years, the question has been: will God dwell again with his people?
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: And now he's saying, I won't dwell with you from afar.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm actually gonna make you the home of my spirit.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_01: How will I know who God's people are?
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_01: God's people are marked by his spirit.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: You don't need to go to a specific place, you don't need to be of a specific nation of origin.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_01: You need to repent and believe, and God's spirit falls upon you, and you are now marked as God's people.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_01: And what does Acts say?
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: Acts 1.8, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: The Holy Spirit is now your home.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_01: You're the place where God dwells by his spirit.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: So I just have to say it again.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_01: What marks the people of God?
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: Throughout all of history, God's people are marked by God's presence.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_01: And now God's presence dwells within his people.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: So the Holy Spirit is the primary marker of your life.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like you're, you're, if you're a Christian, the primary marker, the primary way you're identified is as a home, a dwelling place, a temple of the Holy Spirit.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: So my question is, how often do you think about that?
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like in Acts 1.8, the Spirit is one of power.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: Do you see your life as one of power?
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't mean power to do whatever you want.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: I mean power to live the way God actually has made you to live.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_01: Like to be obedient.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_01: If you're here, we're a part of a local church.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_01: We're a part of Storyline Church, like the building you're in.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_01: This isn't just a building we meet in.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_01: We're like a part of storyline.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_01: And Pastor JT preached on Sunday about sanctification, that you now, when the Holy Spirit dwells in you, have the power to like get rid of your sin, to live differently.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like say, sin, that's not who I am anymore.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: I can actually, I can actually pursue a life of sanctification, of holiness.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have to grasp for strength in myself.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_01: I can look to the one who's promised to give me strength.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_01: So my question for you, what do you want to mark your life?
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_01: Your life will be marked by something.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: What do you want it to be?
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like there's gonna be some emblem or badge or name that marks your life.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_01: What do you want it to be?
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_01: Do you want it to be the Spirit of God?
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: Uh all right.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna do this.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_01: I'm probably gonna regret it, but it's fine.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_01: I want you at one time to shout out what you were for Halloween.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I'm gonna three, two, one, you're gonna just gonna say what you dressed up as for Halloween, okay?
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: Three, two, one.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: I have no idea what anyone said.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't dress up, but my kids dressed up.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_01: Anyone want to see my kids dressed up?
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_01: So cute, okay.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: Q photo.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_01: Are you kidding me?
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_01: He's the man.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_01: He is like literally the man.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_01: That's my son Kyler.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_01: He's a little over two.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: He's awesome.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_01: What is he?
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: Woody, obviously.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_01: Toy Story, come on.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, Toy Story Two, I said I'd come back to it.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome film.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome film.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: So here's what happens in Toy Story 2.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_01: Andy, taken by a toy collector.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_01: The toy collector's like, I'm gonna put Woody, sorry, sorry, sorry.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_01: Everyone chill out, okay?
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_01: I have a two-year-old son and a seven-month-old.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_01: I don't sleep all the time.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_01: So uh Woody taken by Toy Collector.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_01: Toy Collector's like, I'm gonna make Woody in pristine condition.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_01: What does Woody do, or the toy collector do to Woody?
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_01: He looks at the bottom of his shoe that says Andy and he paints over it.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_01: And Woody's like, maybe I actually am a collector's item after all.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_01: And then at one point in the movie, Woody like scuffs the bottom of his foot and he looks down and he sees that the bottom of his foot is marked by Andy, his owner, that he's meant to be a toy to Andy, not a collector's item in a museum.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_01: When he remembers what name marks him, he remembers the purpose that he has.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_01: The spirit of God.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_01: Not of like a God that has some power in some areas of the world, but like Yahweh, the creator God, the one who spoke and things are, the one who's reigning and ruling sovereignly over the earth.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_01: You guys are like, this dude's getting fired up.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, you're marked by the Spirit of God.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_01: So has the Holy Spirit marked your life?
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: And your life, I'm less concerned, to take the illustration a step further.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm less concerned if you have a tattoo that says marked by the spirit, and I'm more concerned if you live your life marked by the spirit.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_01: I don't need to see if you're wearing a cross or have a Jesus loves me t-shirt.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_01: What I want to see is a life utterly transformed by the power of God's Spirit working in you.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_01: A life where you say, I'm not a collector's item.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_01: I belong to God.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_01: I'm his.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_01: That sin I said I never run back to.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_01: I've run back to again.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: Colin, I don't know.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe I'm not even a Christian.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_01: Like maybe the spirit hasn't actually marked my life because I don't know if I can keep it together.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't know if I can keep going like this.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_01: And here's something that's encouraged me before.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's this quote.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not who I want to be.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not who I ought to be.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_01: But praise God, I'm not who I used to be.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_01: Like that's the story of my life.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not who I want to be.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not who I ought to be.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not the child of God, the son of God I want to be.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not the husband I want to be.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not the dad I want to be.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not the salt company leader I want to be.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not the employee of storyline I want to be.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not the friend to a lot of you that I want to be.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not who I ought to be.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like God does call me to something higher.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_01: But praise God, I'm not who I used to be.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_01: I'm glad you guys know me now and not ten years ago when I was in your seats.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_01: Like, let my life be a testimony that the Spirit of God can do a radical and transformative work from where you are in your seats.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_01: Like, give it five years, and I think you'll be an utterly different person if you live your life marked by Him.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta keep going.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_01: But you will be my you will receive power, verse 8, when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_01: What is the purpose for the power?
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_01: It's absolutely to overthrow sin in your life personally.
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's absolutely a personal power, but it's more than a personal power.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's a purposeful power, it's an impactful power.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's power over your sin, but the Holy Spirit is not just in me for me, myself, and I, but there's a purpose of consecration, setting you apart for holy use.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_01: Like God has a unique and holy purpose for your life when the Spirit of God fills you.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_01: That the God of the universe has filled you not just to rid you of sin, though that's absolutely true, but to use you as a vessel to utterly change the world.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like, man, I don't know.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if he can use me like that.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, that's what he said.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_01: He said, You'll be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria until the ends of the earth.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_01: So the movement of God starts in Jerusalem.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_01: Jerusalem is the place where Jesus was crucified and then buried.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_01: It's a terrible place to start a spiritual movement about a resurrected man who's still in a tomb.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_01: So perhaps the movement of God starting in Jerusalem is evidence that the man is not in the tomb.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like, if you're gonna start a movement, like, hey, you know the guy Jesus?
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: He like died, but he walked out of the grave.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_01: And the tomb's right there, I'd be like, uh.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_01: But they're like, hey, I believe in a man who walked out of a tomb, and they're like, really, where's the tomb?
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_01: And they're like, empty, utterly transformed, empty.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_01: God, now in heaven, in Jesus Christ, sent spirit to me.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_01: I look different.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_01: And then he says, You're gonna witness to me.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_01: Jerusalem, Judea to the ends of the earth.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_01: So it's gonna start in Jerusalem, but it's not gonna be contained in Jerusalem, it's just gonna go out and out and out because it's the spirit of power.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's like throwing a rock in the middle of a lake, you know, and then the ripples go out.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_01: But instead of the ripples quickly fading, it's like a tidal wave starts starting to grow.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's like you it's like the Spirit of God, Jerusalem, and then the tidal wave begins to grow of the work that God's gonna do.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_01: And it's gonna start in Jerusalem, then it's gonna go to Judea, and then it's gonna go to Samaria, and then what they would say is that the Rome ruled the world.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_01: And so then it's gonna go to all of Rome one day.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_01: And it actually didn't take that long until Rome came out and said, We're a Christian nation.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_01: Like, dude called his shot.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, baby Ruth, yo, I'm gonna hit the I'm gonna, I got it.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_01: And then he did it.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's a spirit of power.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, and then it gets crazy.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, we gotta go here.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_01: After, this is verse 9.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_01: After he said this, he was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so Jesus floats into heaven.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so Jesus, right?
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_01: The story of the Bible is God's separate, like God's presence, separated from his people.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_01: How do we get his presence back?
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_01: There needs to be a price for sin.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_01: And so God enters the story through Jesus Christ and said, I actually don't sin.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_01: I don't struggle, like Jesus doesn't struggle with sin, he doesn't commit sin, but he goes to a cross as a punishment for sin.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_01: So now all who are sinners, myself included, myself at the top of the list, my like all who are sinners who place our faith in Jesus, our sin is now placed on Jesus.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_01: And he takes the consequence and penalty for our sin.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_01: And then he walks out of the grave saying, Satan, sin, death, no longer have the final word.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's done.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_01: It's have you ever thought if you've placed your faith in Jesus, your sin is now in a tomb in Jerusalem and left there.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_01: Done.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_01: You're now a new person, and then he sends you his spirit.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_01: And so, so, okay, so he hasn't sent the spirit yet.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta, I'm backing up.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm getting ahead of myself.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_01: He hasn't sent the spirit yet, right?
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_01: He he's he's saying, I'm like, I'm gonna go.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_01: And he like floats up into heaven.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_01: They're like, whoa.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_01: There he goes.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_01: And that's the most forgotten part of the gospel.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's actually good news that Jesus ascended.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's not bad news that Jesus ascended.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus ascended to sit at the right hand of God where he is reigning and ruling.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_01: You want to know why you pray?
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_01: Because you have a you have one that you know that you can enter into his throne room who is sovereign over the entire planet.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_01: There are no maverick molecules in the world.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_01: Have you thought about that?
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_01: Like Jesus is utterly sovereign because he's ascended to the right hand where he now sends his spirit.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_01: And verse 9, he says, after he'd said this, he was taken up and they were watching, and a cloud take him out of their sight.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_01: So Jesus was taken up out of a cloud, in a in a cloud.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_01: Verse 10, while he was going, they were gazing into heaven, obviously.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_01: And suddenly two men in white clothes stood by them and said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven?
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm just kind of like, I have an idea.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_01: Like, have you utterly missed what's happened?
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus, death, alive, cloud, ascend, just woo, gone.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_01: What do you mean?
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_01: Why are we looking in heaven, right?
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_01: The same Jesus who's been taken from you into heaven will come in the same way that you've seen him go into heaven, that Jesus will one day establish his kingdom finally.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_01: So let me summarize what we mean by the gospel.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_01: Let me summarize what we mean by the gospel.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_01: That in Christ, when you believe in him, you are freed from sin's penalty.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_01: You deserve the wrath of God, and when you believe in Jesus, you know you are now freed from sin's penalty.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_01: By the Spirit dwelling in you, you are being saved from sin's power.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_01: And one day Jesus is going to come and establish his kingdom forever, where you will ultimately be freed from sin's presence.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_01: So why are you looking into heaven?
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_01: You've seen him go.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_01: This is the gospel.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_01: Like, what do you mean?
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_01: This is what the spirit's come to do.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_01: They said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven?
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_01: The same Jesus who's been taken from you in heaven will come back in the same way.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_01: You've seen him go into heaven.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_01: So the heart of Jesus isn't just that we'd wait for him looking into the sky, when one day he will free us from sin's presence, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you'll be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_01: That's back to verse eight.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_01: You've been given power for a specific purpose.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_01: And so what's the purpose?
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it goes on in Acts 2.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's this crazy story where the Holy Spirit falls on a specific group of people.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_01: And that specific group of people begins to speak in a common language, and then everyone thinks they're crazy, and then Peter, the leader of the church, gets up and he preaches a sermon.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_01: And you know where he preaches from?
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_01: He preaches from Joel and he preaches from Psalm 110.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_01: The verses everyone thought were pointing to Jesus overthrowing Rome.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_01: He says they're pointing to Jesus, who's on a throne.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's just not a small throne in Jerusalem, it's a cosmic throne in heaven.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't rule over the Roman Empire, he rules over the world.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_01: So he preaches 3,000 people repent and believe and are baptized.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_01: They're saying, I don't want to be who I used to be.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_01: I now belong to God and am marked by his spirit, and I'm going to seal that through the waters of baptism.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe some of you should get baptized.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_01: That's a side note.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have time to go on that tangent, but you should.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's amazing.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_01: And you're going to be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea, and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_01: They are quite literally Jesus' witnesses to the ends of the known world at the time.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_01: It takes about a generation for the gospel of Jesus Christ to get to the end of the known world.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_01: And what happens then?
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_01: See, tonight we started with a sequel.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_01: And the book of Acts ends in Acts 28.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_01: But there's a sequel to the book of Acts.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_01: And it's those who are marked by the Spirit of God.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_01: Because we're not like the Bible times aren't those things 2,000 years ago.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_01: You're living in Bible times because you're living in times where people are marked by God's Spirit and where God still does a miraculous work.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_01: And so I want to tell you the story of a man.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_01: This is, yeah, this is fun.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so uh there's a revival preacher, and he is in Dundee, Scotland.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_01: Um, oh, it's not in my notes.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_01: I literally can't remember the guy's name.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_01: I'll think of it in a second.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um and he he begins preaching.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_01: He begins preaching, and God begins to do a miraculous work, like God begins to save people, and he's just like praying that God's spirit would do a mighty work in his life.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, Robert Murray McShane.
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know why I couldn't think of that.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_01: Robert Murray McShane.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_01: So Robert Murray McShane prays that God would do a miraculous work in his life.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_01: He ends up needing to leave Dundee, Indy, Dundee, uh, not Indiana, Dundee, Scotland, uh, and he ends up leaving in order to go preach in another place.
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_01: He's asked to preach, guests preach, he leaves, and he guest preaches, and he comes back, and revival has like utterly broken out in Dundee, Scotland.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_01: Uh later, a reporter would be sent, much like Luke on behalf of Theophilus.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_01: A reporter would be sent to say what has happened in Dundee, Indiana.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_01: Or Dundee, Indiana.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_01: Freaking Dundee, Scotland.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_01: Goodness gracious, I'm I'm on a different planet right now.
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_01: What would happen in Dundee, Scotland?
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_01: And so they end up looking around and they're looking for anyone who can tell them what has happened in Dundee and what did Robert Murray McShane do in order to see gospel revival happen like this.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_01: And finally, this reporter, this investigative reporter walks into a school, and in that school is a janitor, and he's just like, Man, you probably won't know, but what did Robert Murray McShane do in order to see revival happen in Scotland?
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_01: And he the janitor's like, I actually do know.
• 41:57
  SPEAKER_01: Let me show you something.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_01: And he walks, this uh investigative reporter into a closet, and he opens the closet, and the reporter looks on the ground.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_01: And on the ground, there were two places on the ground that were utterly worn out from Robert Murray McShane getting on his knees and begging that the Spirit of God would blow and the Spirit of God would utterly change souls in Dundee, Indiana.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_01: You are living in a sequel of the book of Acts.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like you're living in a place where God is still working by his spirit through his people to mark his people.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_01: God is still working in an amazing way.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_01: And so here's what we're here's why we're doing this series called Gospel Movement.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_01: Because I think God doesn't just stop working in Acts and He doesn't just stop working in Dundee and He doesn't just stop working here, but He actually wants to take the Spirit of God and utterly change the world.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_01: And he might want to use you to do it.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_01: And so, there are actually two big things that are coming.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_01: You guys know Ben and Gabe?
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my goodness, guys.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_01: Guys, Ben and Gabe believe that the Spirit of God still works, and the Spirit of God might want to use them to do something radical.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_01: And that God's doing something here.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_01: What if God did something like this in a new place with a new college campus with more students that are in desperate need of the gospel?
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_01: And they're saying yes to leaving family, to leaving friends, to leaving a place they've called home for years, in order to move to Columbia, South Carolina, to say, God, would your spirit blow again on another university campus?
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_01: And would you help us start a church called Citizens Church?
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_01: We're not in 10 years that we'd be celebrated, but we're in 200 years.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_01: There would be students at the University of South Carolina that worship Jesus as the King, enthroned in heaven and filled with the Spirit of God.
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_01: Guys, we're a part of a network of churches.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_01: The salt network.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_01: And every one of those dots, Max is a salt company with a church.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_01: And what I want to do is give my life to covering that map with more dots.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_01: But I can't plant 400 churches, but this room can.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like I can't move my family continually 400 times.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_01: I can't run salt company 400 Thursdays all at one time in 400 different places.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_01: But you can say yes to saying, God, would you use me to take the gospel to be a spirit-empowered person in a new place?
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_01: And so in 2027, there's going to be a salt company started in Columbia, South Carolina.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_01: And I think some of you will be there in six months to say, God, I don't know what I can contribute, but I'm going to be an engineer for the glory of God in Columbia, South Carolina, and you're going to fill me with your spirit and use me to reach students who are far from you.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_01: And there's going to be one at DU.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_01: And some of you are going to say, I'm going to graduate and I'm going to intentionally get a job in South Denver, and I'm going to intentionally go to a church that's less comfortable so I can be a part of reaching DU students with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_01: Because I might not be that impressive, I might not be that great, but I am, I do have power, but it is not your power.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_01: It is the power of the Spirit of God.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_01: I just want to give my life to being around world changers.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_01: And so I guess my question for you is do you want to be a world changer?
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_01: Like, do you want to change the world?
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_01: I've kind of been fired up.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_01: Can I just keep going for like two minutes?
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_01: Why would you settle for getting a comfortable job in a comfortable place and never taking a risk and betting your life on the grace of God?
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_01: Like if I'm gonna cross the tape at the end of my life, I don't need to be successful, I don't need a big bank account, but I want to get before the throne of heaven and be like, I at least risked it knowing that you were king and you were Lord and you were sovereign, and I gave every ounce of my effort to depend on your spirit because what you've promised in your word is to be a spirit of power.
• 46:23
  SPEAKER_01: And so if power is the goal, then my own personal weakness is an advantage.
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_01: Like if experiencing the power of God is the goal of my life, then personal weakness is an advantage because that's a place where I need to rely on God's power.
• 46:46
  SPEAKER_01: What if you just sent it?
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like, what if you're just like, I'm gonna go?
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, maybe I'm gonna be crazy.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_01: What if you transferred?
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_01: Like, no, that would that would be stupid.
• 46:59
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, yeah, it'd be stupid.
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_01: In earthly standards, and I would bet there would be a crown in heaven that would be gigantic for you.
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_01: One more thing, and then I'll be done.
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_01: Because you guys are like, this dude's going pretty hard.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_01: Why are you living for a 40-year career when you could be living for a 40 billion year kingdom?
• 47:27
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm just like, let's go! Like, you guys are some of the smartest people.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_01: You guys are smart and influential and leaders.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_01: And what if you said it's actually not for me, it's not for my bank account, it's not for my kingdom, it's not for my family, it's for the family of God.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna give everything I can for 40 years for a 40 billion year kingdom.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_01: Like, and I'm just gonna give it up and I'm gonna go.
• 47:53
  SPEAKER_01: Here's why I say this.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_01: I don't say it so you feel bad, I don't say it for any other reason other than you walking out those doors and believing that if no one else has ever believed this about you, I do that you can walk out those doors and change the world.
• 48:06
  SPEAKER_01: And you need to acknowledge your weakness and your sin and acknowledge that the Spirit of God saves people like that.
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_01: Let me pray.
• 48:14
  SPEAKER_01: God, I pray you do a mighty work in this room.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_01: That you would raise up laborers to go to Columbia, South Carolina.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_01: To go to South Denver to reach DU students, to go to Santa Barbara to reach students at UCSB, to go to Riverside to reach students at UC Riverside.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_01: God, I pray you'd raise up laborers for the harvest, because you know the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_01: God, would you raise up world changers marked by the Spirit of God?
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_01: We pray this in Jesus' name.
• 48:46
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.