Soma Christian Church

#GodKeepsHisPromises

“The good news is this, I think that we can look and see that god is faithful to his promises. That god is faithful to his promises from the time of the prophets to the time before that of David all the way back to Genesis. There is a promise that God made that all things will be made right, that I will send a messiah, that I will send a savior. And I want us to see that in Jesus, God has fulfilled his promise.”

#ResurrectionHope

“Being children of the resurrection means that there is hope for you and I now because we know that even when everything here seems to be hopeless, we can have hope because there will one day be for you and me a resurrection. We will resurrect. We will have new bodies. So when our bodies are broken down and not functioning the way they should because we're all getting old. Right? Glory. There's gonna be new bodies in a resurrection.”

#ChristAboveAll

“But make no mistake, our primary allegiance is to the lord. It's not to government. Listen, it's not to party. It is not to any political or religious leader. It is to Christ. Our primary leads, our highest allegiance is to the lord, and that's what this passage is about. Well, first, we've learned all throughout scripture that we are first and foremost not citizens here or part of a party or whatever it is, but we are citizens of heaven.”

#JesusChrist

“Our main idea this afternoon is this, Jesus is the son of God sent to us. He is the chosen cornerstone. And so will we reject him or we will... Will we believe in him? If you're not yet follower of Jesus Christ, will you believe that he is son of god? Will you believe that he is cornerstone? And will you receive him as savior and lord? That's our heart for you, that you would know him, believe him, and receive him.”

#JesusIsKing

“Father in heaven, we thank you for sending your son to be a savior, but also, lord, for making him king of all. And, god, just the truth that it doesn't matter if people reject because the truth is he is king. Doesn't matter if people oppose him. The truth is he is king. Doesn't matter if we in our hearts kick him off the throne and put ourselves there. He is still king of all. And so, Lord, it behooves us to say, you are king. Be king of my life.”

#GodsTransformingLove

“It's an act of love that God will not leave us in our sin. And the reality that we need to struggle with is there a sin in your life that when called out causes you to respond like the religious leaders? Is there an idol in your life that when threatened, pulls out the evil out of you so that you want to choose destruction? God has so lovingly give us his word, his spirit, and his church to mold and shape us into the temple that we are called to be, and he's consistently seeking to bridge the gap between him and us. And the more we listen to him and follow him, the stronger that that bridge becomes. Let's pray.”

#GospelTransformation

“So the gospel should humble you. But I also want you to know the gospel builds you up in Jesus as well, and that he lay down his life for you. In other words, the gospel, it transforms our identity as as one who was separated from God to one who is now put in right relationship with him. And out of joyful obedience to to what God has done for us through Christ, we can now serve others and and consider them as more important than ourselves. Not out of duty, but out of delight, in humble service, in building each other up.”

#ShareTheGospel

“And you're probably here because someone has shared the gospel with you. Right? Someone stepped out of their comfort zone to tell you the good news. When's the last time you spoke the gospel out loud to someone? I encourage and challenge you this week to tell someone about Jesus. Pray that he gives you the opportunity and then take it. Jesus is coming back and will hold us accountable for how we use the gospel to make disciples.”

#SalvationTransforms

“Friends, Zacchaeus shows us that true salvation, listen, changes our heart, changes our worldview, and it changes our actions. That if we really know Jesus and he lives inside our heart through his holy spirit, if we have been transformed, it will come with a change of heart, a change of perspective and worldview, and a change of our actions.”

#EyesOpenedFollowJesus

“Friends, I wanna say this, like the blind man, when our eyes are opened, when we do get to see, we are to respond by following Jesus and worshiping God. I think this story here towards the end of this journey of Jerusalem is in some ways an encapsulation of everything we've kind of seen already in Luke. The heart of God for someone that the world didn't care about. The desperation of needing Jesus. And ultimately, that our response when God opens our eyes, because we cannot open our own eyes, that when God opens our eyes, that we that we follow him and we worship him.”

#KillTheIdol

“And so I think the lesson for each of us in this passage, whether the idol and the god in our life is money or one of innumerable other things is this, we've already recognized the idols in our heart, now we need to kill the idols in our heart. And that's what Jesus is basically asking this guy to do, kill the idol in your heart. In Colossians three, we're to put to death the things that belong to our earthly nature. Friends, we need to recognize what it is in our lives and then we need to kill it and we do that by repenting and obeying and doing what god has called us to do.”

“The parable makes it clear. It is our repentance that heaven rejoices over. It is not that our repentance saves us. God saves us. He takes the initiative. He finds. He carries us home But there's a responsibility that we have in that of repenting, of turning. Repentance is loving Christ so much that our love for our family and friends appears as hate. Repentance is submitting our lives and the throne of our lives to Christ. That is what repentance is. It is saying not my way, but yours now. That I'm not going to be a sheep that runs off in my own. I wanna be a part of your family. Thank you for bringing me home. It's repentance. It's saying, god, I'm a sinner, and I cannot save myself. I need you. Forgive me. Change me. Transform me. Welcome me. Bring me home.”