From Saul to Paul: Scripture, Passion, Humility, Community

And so the best the the the best the only chance they have to really experience who Jesus is, get in conversation with what he's like, to get a little bit of scripture into their life is through you being out there in your everyday life and everyday relationships. And what I love with the stories that we're covering in acts, like the most of you sitting here like, I I can't do that. That's not me. It is. It's as simple as getting into these scriptures of God for yourself and let the overflow happen from there. [00:32:07] (34 seconds)  #LiveScriptureDaily

And any of you who are passionate about Jesus and knowing who he is through the scriptures, you have to have that perspective of feeling smaller every time you read the bible. K? Because I know sometimes, like, our passion, like, we wanna read it, we get the right answers. And it's like now I stand over the scriptures because I've collected all the right answers for it. And when you read your bible, it's like, I read this one before, and I know what the lesson is gonna be. I know what the story is and how it ends, and I know the point that God has in my life. [00:56:30] (28 seconds)  #HumbleReading

The opposite is true. I have God's approval through faith in Christ. This is the approval that comes from God, and it's based in faith that knows Christ. Faith knows. Faith knows. Faith knows Christ and the power that his coming back to life gives and what it means to share in his suffering. In this way, I'm becoming like him in his death with the confidence that I'll come back from life back to life from the dead. It's not that I've already reached the goal or I've completed the course, but I run to win that which Christ has already won for me. [01:04:20] (41 seconds)  #FaithThatKnowsChrist

That's communion in a nutshell there. Christ already won. Christ already did this. Christ already already went to the cross with everything I've gotten wrong, and he was raised to a new life for everything I needed to get right. And in a moment of faith here, I just remember that Jesus did that all for me with his life, death, and resurrection. This is my faith. So if you choose to participate in communion, know that you're expressing that faith. [01:05:01] (25 seconds)  #CommunionOfFaith

And God gets a hold of him and redirects him, and it changes his interpretation of scripture who so he becomes the greatest builder of community in the name of Jesus that we've ever known. He was incredibly sincere the whole time. He was doing what he was doing because he thought it was right. He's like, all these scriptures point to where God's going, and this guy named Jesus keeps getting in the way of the Jewish faith and what God wanted to do with people. But he was sincerely wrong because all the scripture pointed to the fulfillment of the Jewish faith in the Messiah who was Jesus. [00:46:47] (39 seconds)  #GodTransformsLeaders

This is why God loved Saul. Saul was Saul was a dog for Jesus' scriptures. Like, just get me into it and get me going somewhere, and let me get passionate about it. And, yeah, like, you and your daily 20, if you get in and you get passionate about God, you might go some wrong directions. You might, I'm a take you to obedience school on this. Or, no, I'm gonna have to put my leash leash on you so you quit running off and biting neighbor kids and hurting people and things like that. But get into it and go somewhere with it because I can redirect you along the way. That's the story that God gives us with Saul. [00:49:22] (33 seconds)  #PassionRedirectedByGod

So sometimes you, like, you got the truth. You you think you have the truth and you don't, and you and you make a mess of the community around you. Sometimes you do have the truth and you're right, but you apply it the wrong way, and it messes up the community around you. And sometimes you in the sense of a community, you're just flopping around with what truth is and how do we get to arrive at it on the same page that it creates a mess. And so, like, I'm I'm worried some of us in the room say, like, to try to get some truth out of the scriptures, why bother? [00:37:37] (29 seconds)  #TruthNeedsWiseApplication

Alright? Like, what with the Pharisees, Pharisees were the necessary pendulum swing post exile. Like, after God was done with that time of discipline, the Pharisees got so into scriptures and said, you know what? We're never gonna get wrong ever again. We're never gonna get into idols again, and they didn't. We're never gonna break the Sabbath again, and they didn't. They they didn't get around to the third. But two out of three wasn't bad. They made sure people took seriously the way that God seriously disciplined them, and it stuck in in a nation. [00:51:19] (32 seconds)  #DisciplineAndDangers