From Lost to Found: The Power of Grace
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1) "Have you ever felt like your life was kind of heading in that kind of direction? Just no aim, no real purpose about your life? I mean, we use this word lost, like being lost in a fog. I mean, you're making progress. You're moving, but you're not getting anywhere. You know, sometimes we feel like that when we listen to the world. The world says, hey, just there's all these appetites. You can fulfill all your appetites. You can do whatever you want to do. And so we follow that way, and we satisfy all of our appetites, all of our longings, all of our wants. Get to the end of the road and realize that the road wasn't going where we thought. We end up in the destination we were hoping." [03:06] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2) "And some people, they achieve their goal in life, you know, that goal, that great goal that everybody pursues and everybody wants, retirement. And they get there and they go, is this what this is all about? Is this really everything that life has to offer? It's a common condition that we find ourselves in. And I think our physical lostness or our emotional lostness is connected to a deeper sense of lostness. And that is the lostness, the spiritual lostness of being apart from Christ, being away from Christ." [04:00] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3) "God doesn't look at anyone as a lost cause. You might even think of yourself as a lost cause. You know, you hear some people say, well, you know, you invite them to church, they go, if I ever go to church, the ceiling's going to fall in. No. Grace is there waiting for you. Grace is there waiting for you. So Paul, Ananias shows up, shares the gospel with Paul, and Paul's baptized. He's transformed. He believes. He put his hope in Jesus." [15:05] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4) "But God can transform you. God can rescue you. God can save you. That's our hope. And that's the hope that God has for us. Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. See, sin, original sin, inherited sin, turns into actual sin. That's what we get from sin. And then we need salvation. But it says, but, there's the but. You've got some evil behavior over here. You've got a heart that's bent away from God. You have a heart that's bent on destruction. You have a heart that is inherently tied to self -centeredness, ego -centeredness, rebellion against God's goodness. But, but, now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death." [15:51] (57 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5) "Jesus is in the forgiveness business, but also he's in the freedom business, the transformation business, to free us not just from the penalty of sin, but from the power of sin. You know the story of Zacchaeus, right, where Jesus is walking through Jericho, and Zacchaeus is this little guy, he's a tax collector, and that would have made him wealthy, but it would have made him very unpopular with any of his Jewish neighbors, because tax collectors were considered vermin. Many times, most of the time, abused their power. They were hated. Matter of fact, when Jesus would hang out with tax collectors, he would get accused. The religious leader said, well, there's that Jesus guy, he's hanging out with tax collectors and sinners, and Jesus is going, uh, duh, no kidding. I'm coming, you know, I didn't come for those who think they're well. I came for the broken. I came to seek and find that which was lost." [21:49] (59 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
6) "That's not what he said. And Zacchaeus came out of that meal and said, hey, not only am I going to pay back people I've taken advantage of, but I'm going to give them four times what I took advantage of them. I'm going to pay them back that much more. Zacchaeus was a completely transformed person. He was a completely transformed person. That's what Jesus does. He's in the lost and found transformation business. He's in the lost and the found and given freedom business. Just like the woman caught in adultery. They drug her before Jesus. They're trying to catch him. They knew he was into this grace thing, this amazing grace, and they weren't particular fans of it. They said, Jesus, this woman was caught in the midst of adultery. The law says we're supposed to stone her. What do you say we do? He said, okay, that's fine. Whoever is without sin, you go ahead and cast the first stone. The rest of us will join in. And what did they do? He kneels down and starts writing in the mud or in the dirt. So what did they do? They dropped their stones and they turned away." [22:39] (57 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
7) "Jesus stands up. There's the woman by herself. And he says to her, where are your accusers? And then he says, neither do I condemn you. Now, I want you to focus on that. Who was the one in that crowd, in that congregation, who was without sin? Jesus. And according to his own criterion, he would have been justified in casting that first stone. But again, he didn't come to accuse. He doesn't come to condemn. He comes to forgive and to set us free, lost and found. Neither do I condemn you, he said. Go and sin no more. Jesus, he's in the forgiveness and the freedom business. He's in the rescue party. He's on the search and rescue team. Matter of fact, he's the captain of the search and rescue team. And the church is intended, we're intended to join that team and be a part of that team that goes out and, yeah, meets with sinners, gets to know sinners, hangs out with sinners, hangs out with tax collectors, hangs out with what some might consider to be their enemies and share this grace, this amazing grace that only he can give." [24:44] (103 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2) "And some people, they achieve their goal in life, you know, that goal, that great goal that everybody pursues and everybody wants, retirement. And they get there and they go, is this what this is all about? Is this really everything that life has to offer? It's a common condition that we find ourselves in. And I think our physical lostness or our emotional lostness is connected to a deeper sense of lostness. And that is the lostness, the spiritual lostness of being apart from Christ, being away from Christ." [04:00] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3) "God doesn't look at anyone as a lost cause. You might even think of yourself as a lost cause. You know, you hear some people say, well, you know, you invite them to church, they go, if I ever go to church, the ceiling's going to fall in. No. Grace is there waiting for you. Grace is there waiting for you. So Paul, Ananias shows up, shares the gospel with Paul, and Paul's baptized. He's transformed. He believes. He put his hope in Jesus." [15:05] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4) "But God can transform you. God can rescue you. God can save you. That's our hope. And that's the hope that God has for us. Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. See, sin, original sin, inherited sin, turns into actual sin. That's what we get from sin. And then we need salvation. But it says, but, there's the but. You've got some evil behavior over here. You've got a heart that's bent away from God. You have a heart that's bent on destruction. You have a heart that is inherently tied to self -centeredness, ego -centeredness, rebellion against God's goodness. But, but, now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death." [15:51] (57 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5) "Jesus is in the forgiveness business, but also he's in the freedom business, the transformation business, to free us not just from the penalty of sin, but from the power of sin. You know the story of Zacchaeus, right, where Jesus is walking through Jericho, and Zacchaeus is this little guy, he's a tax collector, and that would have made him wealthy, but it would have made him very unpopular with any of his Jewish neighbors, because tax collectors were considered vermin. Many times, most of the time, abused their power. They were hated. Matter of fact, when Jesus would hang out with tax collectors, he would get accused. The religious leader said, well, there's that Jesus guy, he's hanging out with tax collectors and sinners, and Jesus is going, uh, duh, no kidding. I'm coming, you know, I didn't come for those who think they're well. I came for the broken. I came to seek and find that which was lost." [21:49] (59 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
6) "That's not what he said. And Zacchaeus came out of that meal and said, hey, not only am I going to pay back people I've taken advantage of, but I'm going to give them four times what I took advantage of them. I'm going to pay them back that much more. Zacchaeus was a completely transformed person. He was a completely transformed person. That's what Jesus does. He's in the lost and found transformation business. He's in the lost and the found and given freedom business. Just like the woman caught in adultery. They drug her before Jesus. They're trying to catch him. They knew he was into this grace thing, this amazing grace, and they weren't particular fans of it. They said, Jesus, this woman was caught in the midst of adultery. The law says we're supposed to stone her. What do you say we do? He said, okay, that's fine. Whoever is without sin, you go ahead and cast the first stone. The rest of us will join in. And what did they do? He kneels down and starts writing in the mud or in the dirt. So what did they do? They dropped their stones and they turned away." [22:39] (57 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
7) "Jesus stands up. There's the woman by herself. And he says to her, where are your accusers? And then he says, neither do I condemn you. Now, I want you to focus on that. Who was the one in that crowd, in that congregation, who was without sin? Jesus. And according to his own criterion, he would have been justified in casting that first stone. But again, he didn't come to accuse. He doesn't come to condemn. He comes to forgive and to set us free, lost and found. Neither do I condemn you, he said. Go and sin no more. Jesus, he's in the forgiveness and the freedom business. He's in the rescue party. He's on the search and rescue team. Matter of fact, he's the captain of the search and rescue team. And the church is intended, we're intended to join that team and be a part of that team that goes out and, yeah, meets with sinners, gets to know sinners, hangs out with sinners, hangs out with tax collectors, hangs out with what some might consider to be their enemies and share this grace, this amazing grace that only he can give." [24:44] (103 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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