Risen Church

#LiveLikeItsTrue

“So if it's true, it changes everything right now, not later. Now, not in that next place, not in that next season, not when life slows down right now. It changes how we live. It changes how we pray. It changes how we treat people. It rearranges our priorities to the point that the watching world will probably say, you're out of your mind because you're living like the resurrection is true.”

#FlipTheScript

“So what Paul does is he goes, wait a minute. I don't even need to defend myself against the riots because my accusers aren't even here. But who is here? Ananias, the high priest. And what is he accusing me of? Nothing that happened in that room with him. Because if you go back to chapter 22, you see they got into a discussion about the resurrection. And Paul says, the resurrection is here in Christ Jesus. It's not just on someday when we die. The resurrection and the life and the truth in Christ is here now. So on trial, Paul flips the script from defending himself to present the gospel to Felix and the high priest and everybody who was listening to this public forum.”

#GodsUnfailingLove

“But the good news is that even when Paul's own struggles come out, God's with him through it all, and we're gonna see a man navigate this extreme difficulty, even his own challenges, not necessarily perfectly, but as one who is perfectly loved and not forsaken, which is exactly what gives him the security and the humility to actually regroup when needed and follow Jesus all the way through. We're gonna see this. So we're gonna walk through Acts 23, and as we do,”

#GospelOfJesus

“This is the gospel that god became a man and he lived the life we couldn't live and he died the death we deserved to die. And he conquered death in the grave. And the only one with enough glory to pay for what we owed, paid it and paid it in full, and he canceled the curse of sin and death. He broke open the grave, and he paved the way to eternal life with God the Father that doesn't just start one day when we die, but it's an eternal life that starts the moment we place our faith and our hope and what Christ did for us at the cross. And he fills us with his Holy Spirit, and he transforms us from the inside out. And he gives us new affections, new desires, new purpose, and new identity. And it's not the end, it's just the beginning.”

#PeaceOfGod

“The peace of God will guard you. The very thing that we're called to do with the deposit is the very thing his peace does for us. Because that's the difference between morimnah and shalom, guys. Anxiety says, I've been entrusted with real responsibility, and it's all up to me. And that begs the question, do I have what it takes? And it's always just your recipe for pride or shame or the symptom that that's the seesaw you're on. Right? But shalom. The peace of god, the of God, it says, I've been entrusted with real responsibility, and the one who gave it is still the one carrying it as he carries me.”

#PerfectlyLoved

“And he sets you apart and says, this one's mine. And he doesn't say this one's perfect. He says, this one's perfectly loved, and I'm perfecting them in my love by my grace as I envelop them into my very heart, Not only for themselves, but for those around them. This is the gospel. It's not just a side hobby for Sundays, guys. It's the priority and privilege of eternity.”

#TempleWithin

“Maybe that will change how you approach your own sin, being a walking tent of heavenly majesty, thinking about that we, as Christ followers, have the spirit of God in us. And we are his temple. And we're representing him everywhere we go. But also the spirit is talking to us inside us. So there's a right and responsibility there. But there's also this peace and comfort that we are in the family of God.”

#RestoredToFeed

“So whatever fire exposed you, whatever boat you've climbed back into or are hiding in, the risen Christ is standing on the shore of your life this morning. And he's not just asking, how could you? He's asking, do you love me? And if the answer, however grieved, however shaky, is, lord, you know that I love you, Then hear his voice. rest. You're restored. Now feed my sheep. That's restoration. That's a heart redirected in love. Let's pray.”

#MercyAndJusticeMeet

“That's the answer. Around eight hundred years later, after Jonah sat outside the city waiting for the justice of God to fall on his enemies, Jesus Christ hung on a cross outside the walls of another city. And the wrath of Jonah, the wrath that Jonah was waiting for and even deserved, fell on Christ. So please see this. You need to see this. Like the booth of our bitterness and the cross of Christ both stand outside the city. But one was designed to watch God's wrath fall, while the other was raised to take it. And so at the cross, God doesn't choose between justice and mercy. Instead, he satisfies both. That's where god's mercy and justice meet, at the cross of Christ. That's grace.”

#BeholdBeHeld

“Guys, God's not looking for people to associate with him. He's not looking for people to manage him. He's calling us to behold him and be held by him. That's what repentance is. It's being overthrown by the grace of God and upended from the inside out over and over and over again. Not just because you're afraid of the storms out there, but because you know that you need the only one who can calm the storms raging in here.”

#ConvictionLeadsHome

“``Guys, when the holy spirit convicts you of sin, that's not God being irritated with you. That's not him being ashamed of you. That's that condemnation talk. Condemnation will drive you away from him. Conviction, though, is different. Conviction is love saying, this, that, that lifestyle, those ways, those are beneath who I made you to be. So come home. Conviction leads you to Jesus. And I honestly think, guys, that the reason most of us minimize our own sin with that whole, like, it's no big deal mentality isn't that we think it's a small thing. It's that deep down, we sense how heavy it really is, and we can't handle it. Like, the only place that we can actually come to grips with the depth of our own sin is inside the grace of a god who's already paid for it And said that's not who you are. I've covered that. Come home. That's grace.”

#JesusIsTheBetterJonah

“``See, any honest reading of this story means we're gonna see ourselves in Jonah on some some level. But the good news of the gospel is that everywhere Jonah failed, Jesus fulfills. Jonah ran from the presence of God. Jesus carried the presence of God to us. Jonah wanted his enemies destroyed. Jesus wants his enemies forgiven. Jonah swept in the storm out of non rebellion. Jesus would one day sleep in a storm out of perfect trust and stand up and say, cease quiet because he's the only one with enough glory and authority to speak to it. Jonah was hurled into the sea for his own sin. Jesus was willingly hurled into the sea of God's wrath for our sin.”

#AlreadyNotYet

“``Right now, we're kind of in the picture of, at Easter, we we come together and we have a worship service on Friday night, Good Friday, and we talk about Jesus' crucifixion. And it's solemn and it's quiet. And then Sunday morning, we come together, we celebrate the resurrection. That's why we worship on Sundays. But there's a day in between. Some traditions celebrate that as holy Saturday, and they talk about what is happening there in this time. The scripture's unclear, but Jesus has died. He doesn't raise again till Sunday. So what happens in the middle? That's where we're sitting right now. It's the already not yet. And God is saying through Peter, just trust me. Trust me because I have an imperishable inheritance of your salvation waiting for you. Sunday is coming even when you're in the darkness of your trials and tribulation.”

#BornAgainLivingHope

“``Is there something in your life you're like, I really hope I get this? I hope I get this job. I hope I get this person to go out with me. I hope I get this really cool thing. I hope I get this deal so I can be secure and make some money. You may have had that hope before? Did it happen every time? No. That's worldly hope. That is that is a, sometimes an empty and vain wish. That's not what Peter's talking about here. He says, we are born again to a living hope, a hope that is foundational in God's promises. It's based on God's faithfulness from eternity past pointing to the eternity forward into the future. In Romans chapter five, he says this is the hope that will not disappoint because God's faithfulness not to not based on us, but what God's faithfuls faithfulness it is. So we're born again to a living hope, but for what? Verse four tells us. We're born again to a living hope, to an inheritance.”

#BlessedLifeInChrist

“``Like, the blessed life, hear me, is the life that has Jesus. The blessed life is the life that knows at a heart level the light of the glory of God shining in full strength in the face of Christ. Like, church planting's taught me anything, it's that success in this life is not the blessing. Even success in ministry and the great commission, success is not the blessing. It's not. The blessing is the grace of God. The blessing is the gospel. The blessing is knowing Jesus. Full stop.”

#SinIsTyrant

“``It it it wants to make you obey. Like, most people think that sin's a sign of their freedom. Right? Like, people are like, I do what I want. You can't tell me what to do. That's how they treat church and religion and all this other stuff. They're like, ah, whatever. I do what I want to do. And it's like, really? Because it's actually the other way around. Sin is not a symptom of your freedom, guys. Sin is a sign that you're still enslaved. It's actually the other way around, which leads to the first point. Sin is a tyrant.”

#GodEveryHour

“What about when all that you placed your hope in him for fails? What about when you're like, man, I'm praying. I know God always comes through in the end. But listen. He's not just the God who builds our faith for the final moment or the buzzer beater. He's not just the god of rescue from disaster. He's the god not only of the eleventh hour, but of the twelfth and the thirteenth hour. He's not just the god of the seventh day. He's the god of the eighth day.”

#HistoricalResurrection

“Guys, Luke emphasizes evidence. Right? He's a physician. He cares about these things. Jesus suffered. Jesus died. Jesus rose. Jesus appeared. Jesus taught for forty days. The risen Christ is now appearing to his followers proving, and I repeat proving that the resurrection was not a myth. It was not a legend. It was not just some wishful thinking. Paul tells us in first Corinthians 15 that Jesus presented himself alive to over 500 brothers at once. What that means is that Christianity is not built on religious inspiration. Christianity is not built on religious inspiration. It is built on a historical resurrection.”

#StayAlertJesusReturn

“So so don't listen to anybody telling you they know when Jesus is gonna return. They don't. Okay? So, like, if anyone tells you that certain things must happen first, the temple's gotta be rebuilt or some ceremony needs to be performed. Nope. He could come back. He could return even before I finish this. You hear a trumpet? Verse 33, be on guard. Keep awake for you do not know when the times will come. It's like a man going on a journey when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake. Therefore, stay awake for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening or at midnight or when the rooster crows or in the morning, lest he come suddenly and find you asleep.”

#EternalLifeNow

“He died for you, took your place in judgment so that we would have eternal life. John Allen, our pastor, says it says it every week, that eternal life starts now, not just one way one day when you die. Jesus said, I've come to you had may have life and have it more abundantly because I want you to be on mission with me. I need you to tend this garden and develop this vineyard for me so you can share the fruit of it with other people. Jesus is obedient to death, but he didn't stay there for he rose again for you. God wrapped in the flesh now sits at the right hand of the owner of that vineyard. And he says, they're mine. Those are my bond servants. The question is, who are you in the story?”

#ChildlikeFaith

“Childlike faith isn't childish. It's the posture of true confidence and growth in Christ. Like, you you need to understand, true confidence is not childish. True confidence comes from faith in Christ. Like, even the word confidence comes from the Latin root confide, faith. But if your faith is in yourself, you're just childish. That's why childish people are constantly crying and insecure because they're focused on their ability or inability.”

#FinishedAtTheCross

“Guys, this is the gospel, that God became a man and he lived the life we couldn't live, and he died the death that we deserve to die because of sin. He took the eternal condemnation upon himself, and he only wants enough glory to pay for what we owed, paid for it, and paid for it in full, and he finished it. He accomplished it at the cross. It is finished. And he broke the curse of sin and death, and he paved the way through the resurrection to eternal life, and it's an eternal life with God the father. It doesn't just start one day when we die. It starts the moment you place your faith and your hope and what Christ did for you at the cross, and he fills you, overshadows you even with his holy spirit now.”

#BewareBothLeavens

“Both leavens are dangerous, but they look different. The leaven of the Pharisees makes you hard, makes you proud, makes you judgmental. The leaven of Herod makes you soft, compromising, and distracted. But both will quietly corrupt our hearts and our homes if we let them. So how do we avoid it without just reacting? Again, how do we navigate without getting entrenched in one ditch or the other? This is the heartbeat heartbeat behind this deconstruction movement.”

#MissionFirst

“But what's interesting in this passage is that Jesus doesn't pander. He doesn't wring his hands and worry like, oh, how am I gonna save my hometown and and camp out there for a little bit? He moves on. Like, he says, I've got I've got other things to do. I've got bigger fish to fry. We can't we're not gonna stick around here. We're we're going. The mission is too important. We can't slow down here. We're we're moving on.”

#FearOfGodFeedsFaith

“The holy fear of God doesn't torment, guys. It delivers us from all other fears like chaos and the enemy and even death because of what Christ has done on our behalf. When your faith is in him and not in yourself, it casts out all other fears. Like the holy fear of God, hear this, it feeds our faiths. It perfects us in love, and it draws us toward him, not pushing us away from him. The only reason it pushes you away from him is because your faith isn't in him, it's in you. And you realize you don't have what it takes. Good. Cry out to him. He loves you.”

#JesusMeetsYou

“Guys, nobody's more disgusted by sin than Jesus. You can bet your bottom dollar, and yet nobody's too far gone for the grace of Christ to transform. And Jesus doesn't just pass us by. He didn't pass Levi by. He didn't shun him. He didn't ignore him. And praise God, he hasn't passed you by either. Praise God he didn't pass me by. Jesus meets Levi right where he is, right in his shameful identity and he looks him right in the eye and in the midst of the shame, he says, follow me.”

#JesusIsBigger

“Jesus is bigger than your plans. He's bigger than your struggle. He's bigger than your ambition. He's the king of the universe. Like, notice Peter doesn't suddenly follow Jesus because now he knows Jesus can help him get more fish. A lot of people treat Christianity like that. A lot of people treat Christ as if he's now a means to make their earthly world better.”

#LoveOneAnotherCommission

“This is a calling and a commission to get in the eternal game to respond to your name and receive your commission. A new commandment I give to you that you love one another just as I have loved you. You are to love one another. This is how they will know you're my disciples is by your love for one another. You can't do that in your little corner in your listen. People are always like, I don't have to go to church to be saved. And I'm like, you have completely missed the point.”

#CrownOrCrucify

“Essentially, he's saying to everyone, I love how Tim Keller puts it. He says that Jesus was saying, crown me or kill me, but I will not simply be liked. Meaning, there's no room for anyone to just admire him or think he's like an interesting person. He's a good teacher. He is. But there's no neutral ground here. He's either lord of all or not at all. He is the one who spits the lukewarm out of his mouth. Like, those are the stakes, guys. Jesus cried into Jerusalem declaring, crown me or crucifying me or or crown me or crucify me, but you will not ignore me. You cannot.”

#InsideOutResurrection

“This is a truth the world doesn't understand, and it's one of the big reasons people don't want to even come to church or hear the gospel, because they think I don't have what it takes. Here's the truth. They don't, and neither do you, and neither do I. But here's the good news. Jesus does. This is the major point of the book of Nehemiah, this Old Testament book. The main point is this. We don't just need an outside in resolution. We need an inside out resurrection.”

#GodIsGoodAllTheTime

“Because God is good. All the time. And all the time. God is good. Even when you don't feel like it. Even when you're not. He is. He's faithful, and he's worthy. He's worthy to be praised. And this is what sets us free. And this is their prayer. Look at verse six. You are the Lord, you alone. Not me. I'm not worthy. I'm not glorious. You are.”

#HisPurchasePower

“Y'all the power for change does not come from your pledges. It comes from his purchase. Do you all see that? What you and I want to do, we want to find ourselves caught in the act and then make a bunch of promises of how we'll be different. That's what we do. But the power source shifts onto you and your pledges. You you with me? But the power to be the fallow ground breaking up isn't about your fallow breaking up plan, though you should have it. Are you with me? The power comes from his purchase. The power comes from him, from the Hosea, from Jesus, from what he does for you.”

#FollowTheShepherd

“While the enemy drives us through fear, the good shepherd transcends that fear, and he calls us to himself in love. He doesn't drive us, he leads us. He says, follow me, stay close to me. That's how good shepherd lead a flock of sheep. They don't drive them. They say, come near, come close, trust in me, follow me. I know you don't understand it. I know your circumstances make you feel like you gotta compromise. I understand the panic. Trust me.”

#RansomedByHisBlood

“And he conquered death in the grave and the curse that sin brings and by doing so, he ransomed us from the kingdom of darkness, purchased you by his blood and paved the way through the resurrection to eternal life with God the father and it's an eternal life that doesn't just start one day when you die, it starts the moment you place your faith and your hope and what Christ for you at the cross. And then he fills you with his spirit and he empowers you for a greater mission as he identifies you as his beloved children.”

#NehemiahForeshadowsChrist

“And then in a this prophetic foreshadowing of Jesus Christ himself, follow this, Nehemiah enters the destruction and ruin of God's people. Commissioned by the high king, he enters into the destruction and ruin of God's people. It was a city that was destroyed by sin. It was a people who had turned from God, broke covenant with him, and now lay in ruin. This is what Nehemiah entered into. Chapter two paints a picture of Nehemiah entering just like Christ would four hundred and fifty plus years after him. He entered into the depths of sin's consequence, even as one of the people, but one with authority.”

#RallyToTheCornerstone

“``But as we're gonna see, the story isn't just about Nehemiah. In fact, his story is about the greater invitation extended to all of us to rally and unify under a greater authority for a greater purpose, even a purpose that connects directly to Nehemiah's so many years ago. And so as we do, we are called to look to the same one, even the one that Nehemiah's story is blatantly pointing to, and I'm gonna show you that. I'm gonna show you that this story is just screaming. It is blatantly pointing to the author and finisher, the cornerstone of our faith, Jesus Christ.”

#PaidInFullAtTheCross

“``That's what we see in the scriptures. This is the gospel. That God became a man, and he lived the life we couldn't live, and he died the death that we deserve to die because of the curse of sin. And it's an eternal damnation, and the only one with enough glory to pay for what we owed paid it and paid it in full at the cross.”

#VisionFromGod

“``Guys, the gospel has always advanced through a unified people, beholding Christ together and crying out for what he desires even more than we do, to tap into his heart. And that's exactly what Nehemiah chapter one is about. It's prayer that grasps the heart of God, prayer that apprehends the vision of his kingdom through real Holy Spirit revelation.”

#BelieveInJesus

“Friends, this is the good news of the gospel that Jesus, the eternal son of god, he became a man and he lived the perfect life that none of us could ever live and he died the death that we deserve on the cross for our sins and he rose again on the third day. Now, and now, if we say yes to him, if we say, hey, I believe that. I put my faith and my trust in the work of Jesus on the cross.”

#GiftOfGrace

“True peace isn't just about the wrath you've been delivered from. It's about the delight you've been delivered unto. Now hear me, wrath is real. And it is deserved. But God's grace is real. God's grace, his mercy is steadfast. His grace unto us is a gift. It is not earned. It is a gift. And it is something he has given us to delight in.”

#BuildAndBePresent

“Alright, so I'm here standing in the middle of what is to be our worship center here on Dean Drive and as you can see there's still a lot to be done there's a lot to renovate and a lot to build God has done incredible things this year and yet there's still a lot to do and so here just past Christmas and before the new year it's easy to get caught up in what has been or what's coming and miss what's right in front of us right in the here and now”

#joyBeyondCircumstance

“True joy, guys, is different from happiness. Again, happiness depends on what happens to you and around you. But joy transcends your circumstance. True joy produces strength and hope, even in the difficulty, like light in the darkness. Guys, this is what Christmas is about. True joy allows you to face trouble and trial and sadness and pain with hope. Because this isn't all there is. And Jesus is with you in and through it all. He is Emmanuel, which means God with us. That's a joy that can never be taken. That is everlasting joy. And it doesn't just begin one day when you die. It begins now, like light in the dark.”

#LightInTheDark

“Guys, this is what Christmas is. It's light in the dark. The circumstance through which the sovereign king of the universe chose to enter our condition and light it up from the inside out is that of deep uncertainty, chaos, and confusion. Darkness into which light was born. This is the gospel. God became a man. He lived the life that we couldn't live, and he died the death we all deserve to die. He took the curse of sin and death upon himself, and the only one with enough glory to pay for what we owed through even the smallest of sins was God in the flesh, Jesus Christ.”

#HeIsRisen

“``Because our hope doesn't just announce his coming guys our hope declares he already has come we're not rising we're risen because he is risen indeed that's what's different guys this is the gospel that God became a man and he lived the life that we couldn't live and he died the death that we deserve to die and he paid the price that sin demands he broke the curse of death eternal and condemnation he broke it by paying the price that we could not pay.”

#GodsBanquetInvitation

“If God is putting on a banquet and he's putting it on for you, then honestly, nothing else matters. Right? Like what on earth do you have that's more important than a banquet that God has provided for you? Like if you knew that God was preparing a banquet and you had been invited, then it should consume your attention and your attentiveness. It's that edge of the seat. Like here, when is it ready? I can't wait. Can you believe we've even been invited? This is amazing.”

#CalledToCommunity

“Oftentimes, we live in a world that's so individualistic that we only think about how it pertains to us as individuals. And while God loves you as an individual and is intimately acquainted with absolutely everything going on in your individual life and your individual heart, he also wants to remind you that this life is not all about you or only about you, that you have been called and are a part of something bigger and greater than just yourself.”

#HeartConditionMatters

“The gospel harvest we yield is shaped by the condition of our hearts. All right, so here's the question. How's your heart? How's your heart?”

#FaithfulStewardship

“All we have is from God and for God's glory. And then number two, faithful stewardship flows from hearts that trust in their faithful God. So here's what I want you to get this morning. If you get nothing else, this is what I want you to get. Good stewardship requires trusting the one who's entrusted you. You with all you have.”

#FaithInSmallActs

“The fact that he commends Joseph's faith for something as seemingly minor as his instructions about his bones, rather than the more dramatic aspects of his life, serve as a powerful reminder. It's a reminder not to overlook the small, seemingly insignificant acts of faith in our own lives. Often, the things that we might consider trivial or valueless are those that God may see as profoundly significant.”

#DeepRootsWideMission

“Grow deeper in the love of God. Wider for the mission of God. All for the glory of God. Not just because it's something we're trying to earn and obtain. It's because we're responding. It's because our roots are deep in his love, in his salvation. And then what comes as a result? Fruitfulness, lives for his glory, his kingdom, like a tree with his hands stretched out in worship.”

#FaithfulProvision

“But his first move isn't to store up. It's not to ration. His first move isn't to hoard and hold. His first move is a declaration and an offering of thanksgiving. Like he offers even his first and his best. He declares, God, you're my security, you're my provider. This was a blatant renunciation of any tendency that he had to rely on himself or on his own resources. He was saying, God, you brought us through and you'll bring us through. You were faithful then, you'll be faithful now. In God. God we trust.”

#HeartOverAchievements

“But hear this, he did bring you this far to teach you to trust in him. Because again, hear this, God wants to establish a heritage of faith in you. So often, we're all, we tend to get so task -oriented, so me -oriented, my accomplishments, my accolades, my achievements in life, that we think that's what God's about. But the reality is, God is way more about your heart than what you can do to prove yourself.”

#SalvationThroughTheStorm

“But even God’s salvation isn’t a salvation that necessarily rescues us from the storm of judgment—hear this, guys—it’s a salvation that rescues us through it, right through the storm. So many times we want even to develop a theology that says God’s not gonna make me deal with that. That’s not how the Bible talks. That’s not what it’s saying. Clearly, he says, through the storm, through the storm.”

#HopeBeyondThisWorld

“But when we become disillusioned with this broken world, guys, it doesn't mean that God is distant. It shouldn't lead us to fall into hopelessness and despair and detachment. It just means that we were reminded that our hope is not in this world. Like, our hope is hopeless if it's in this world, because this world's passing away, guys. But when our hope is in Christ, our hope is alive.”

#SinBeginsInTheHeart

“Sin starts in the heart. They saw, they lusted, they took. Now, hear me. If it's given by God, it's not lust. It's just God's good gifts, right? But God's good gifts need to be received according to God's good design and God's ways. Because when God's ways get ignored for our ways, God's gifts then become curses rather than blessings because we elevate the gift over the giver and it becomes a place of pain and sorrow rather than joy and relationship. And that always results in catastrophe. Because God's called us ultimately to himself. And when we want something more than we want God, that's called idolatry. Anything you want more than you want God is the definition of an idol.”

#StepOutInFaith

“He's using some very specific imagery from the Old Testament to show that he is God wrapped in the flesh. He is the ever-present, all-knowing, all-powerful God who controls the wind and the waves.”

#BaptismDeclaresSalvation

“Baptism is not the means of your salvation. Okay? It's not the means of your salvation. But it is a powerful declaration of it before heaven and earth. And it does matter.”

#JesusInMyPlace

“``Grace, unmerited favor, this gift from God, the good news of Jesus in my place. That's the gospel in four words. Jesus in my place. And Paul says, you cannot move past this. This good news that yes, you and I, we were sinners. We had committed, as R .C. Sproul says, cosmic treason against a good God of heaven. We said, I don't want you to be king. I want to be king. I want to define my world. I want to define what's right for me, but yet Jesus, in light of our sin and our infinite sin debt that we have against God, Jesus came and he lived the perfect sinless life that we can't. He died the death that we deserve on the cross, all to pay our sin debt back to God the Father in full. And we know he did because three days later, he walked out of the grave.”

#FreedomThroughFaith

“I believe that God wants to say something to every single one of us today, but for some of us that are carrying around some of these kinds of things, I believe that God wants us to walk out of here free from these things today, that he wants to do a gospel work in our lives, that when we walk out of here we leave some of these things behind for good.”

#HospitalityReflectsGod

“Don't neglect the stranger because when you were a stranger God did not neglect you and he promises never to forsake you so we show hospitality to others because God has shown hospitality to us this theme is all over the Bible.”