Seeking the True Jesus: A Call to Authentic Faith
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Some of us are not seeking. We're not seeking Jesus as the Christ. We're not seeking Jesus, the Christ. Now I'll just quickly say there's, there might be a category of people who you're here because you're here. Somebody invited you. You don't want to be here. You're not interested. You've heard about Jesus. You're like, can we get this over with? Okay. And for you, I just want to say, man, I hope your heart gets open to the reality of him. But if you are so shut down that you're like, I am refusing to listen to truth and fact and history and theology, then, then man, I hope God wakes you up somehow because he, he, he is the hope of the world. He is historically relevant, but not just for something in the past for present because he's the eternal God." [56:04]
2. "There's a big difference between showing up and showing up. And actually seeking the help in which reorients your life to what is given. There's a big difference. And I see it in marriages all the time. It's like, oh, I went to that thing and I look at the heart and I go, that wasn't a heart of actually seeking. You just, you're going through the motions. And so for us in the church context, maybe this is you, maybe you think you're seeking, but really the reality is that you're not seeking. You're not seeking. You're not seeking. Church is just a tradition, but you're not really seeking the Christ." [59:05]
3. "You don't have to have all the questions answered, but your response to this one question determines everything. Okay, there's one question and your response to it determines everything. It determines how you will process your interaction with God. With Jesus again, whether you're not a Christian or you are a Christian, it will determine how you interact with the Christ, the anointed one, this historical figure that claimed to be God, the Christians believe died on the cross for our sins and rose from the dead, that we have reason to believe that there is a lot of questions that, that I have that you will still have. That's okay. But there's one question that your answer and your reaction and your interaction will determine everything. And it's this, it's the question that Jesus asks, what are you seeking?" [52:03]
4. "Some of us is the get out of hell free Jesus. This is the Jesus we love. In other words, I've prayed the prayer, but I don't follow him. I know that at some point in time, somebody told me to believe. Remember what John says about believing. Believing is a life orienting step. It's a verb. And we go, I've said a statement. Therefore, when I get to heaven, I can be like, Hey, I just didn't want to go to hell." [01:02:24]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Seek Jesus, the Christ, the son of God. Let me just kind of put together what he said over the last few verses. Jesus, the Christ, the son of God is the anointed prophet, priest, king, lamb of God. If you don't understand what I'm saying there, go and listen to last week's, who calls us to take up our cross and follow him, which means to die to self and live for him. This is the Jesus we should be seeking. In other words, we've put it this way, to submit all areas, all areas, all areas, all areas of our lives to him because of what he has done and who he is. We say this is to live Jesus greater than everything." [01:08:53]
2. "How you respond to Jesus and share him with others will expose the answer to what you're seeking. Here's, here's what I want you to know. In, in both accounts, when the disciple learned Andrew and Nathaniel, when they learn who this Jesus is, their reaction is, you got to see this. Come along. You got to see this. And so for some of us, we go, I'm seeking Jesus, the Christ. I'm seeking Jesus, the Christ, the son of God. Let me just remind you how you respond to Jesus and share him with others. We'll expose the answer to what you're actually seeking. If we're keeping him to ourselves, if it's not transforming our lives to share with others, we might be seeking the wrong Jesus, or we might be making Jesus the wrong thing and not holding him to who he actually is." [01:10:30]
3. "Some of us are seeking the Jesus of my will, his blessing, Jesus. This means life in the Bible is processed through my experience and what I want to get from it. I ignore the things that I disagree with in the Bible or that would require anything of me. Like this, this book here is just, let me, let me go to those Instagrammable out of context versus and say, Oh, look, Oh, what blessings from the Lord. And I seek those blessings that aren't actually his blessings because his blessing is coming under his authority and kingship. But we go, no, no, no, no, no. Anything that would ask anything of me. Oh, that's not the Jesus that I've Googled." [01:02:24]
4. "Some of us, and this is inherent in our culture today is we have and follow the unbounded affirmation. Jesus unbounded, no restrictions. In other words, I live the way that I want, however I want. And I'm convinced and have convinced myself that God is just there to cheer me on. Be yourself, be your authentic self, be your true you. You know, you got, do you hear that around us all the time? Do you know what our, our authentic self is? Sinners separated from Christ who are going to live selfishly for ourselves and say, forget the rest of the world. But there's a, there's a created self that is found in the affirmation of the image of Christ that we need to say, I need to, by the power of God, I need to accept the salvation and him sanctify us." [01:03:58]
5. "Yes, we are to do good work. Yes, we are to be salt and light, but what is, what is salt without the gospel? It's just white flakes of nothing. It's the gospel that we need to speak. How about advice giver, moral teacher, Jesus? Definitely we should mostly live by what he says. We definitely should mostly live the way Jesus says. It will make the world a better place, but dying to self is more general advice and not a true calling. My helper, Jesus, I've got issues that I want him to assist me with. In other words, it's about me with Jesus by my side, not me following Jesus." [01:05:31]
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1. "Some of us are not seeking. We're not seeking Jesus as the Christ. We're not seeking Jesus, the Christ. Now I'll just quickly say there's, there might be a category of people who you're here because you're here. Somebody invited you. You don't want to be here. You're not interested. You've heard about Jesus. You're like, can we get this over with? Okay. And for you, I just want to say, man, I hope your heart gets open to the reality of him. But if you are so shut down that you're like, I am refusing to listen to truth and fact and history and theology, then, then man, I hope God wakes you up somehow because he, he, he is the hope of the world. He is historically relevant, but not just for something in the past for present because he's the eternal God." [56:04]
2. "There's a big difference between showing up and showing up. And actually seeking the help in which reorients your life to what is given. There's a big difference. And I see it in marriages all the time. It's like, oh, I went to that thing and I look at the heart and I go, that wasn't a heart of actually seeking. You just, you're going through the motions. And so for us in the church context, maybe this is you, maybe you think you're seeking, but really the reality is that you're not seeking. You're not seeking. You're not seeking. Church is just a tradition, but you're not really seeking the Christ." [59:05]
3. "You don't have to have all the questions answered, but your response to this one question determines everything. Okay, there's one question and your response to it determines everything. It determines how you will process your interaction with God. With Jesus again, whether you're not a Christian or you are a Christian, it will determine how you interact with the Christ, the anointed one, this historical figure that claimed to be God, the Christians believe died on the cross for our sins and rose from the dead, that we have reason to believe that there is a lot of questions that, that I have that you will still have. That's okay. But there's one question that your answer and your reaction and your interaction will determine everything. And it's this, it's the question that Jesus asks, what are you seeking?" [52:03]
4. "Some of us is the get out of hell free Jesus. This is the Jesus we love. In other words, I've prayed the prayer, but I don't follow him. I know that at some point in time, somebody told me to believe. Remember what John says about believing. Believing is a life orienting step. It's a verb. And we go, I've said a statement. Therefore, when I get to heaven, I can be like, Hey, I just didn't want to go to hell." [01:02:24]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Seek Jesus, the Christ, the son of God. Let me just kind of put together what he said over the last few verses. Jesus, the Christ, the son of God is the anointed prophet, priest, king, lamb of God. If you don't understand what I'm saying there, go and listen to last week's, who calls us to take up our cross and follow him, which means to die to self and live for him. This is the Jesus we should be seeking. In other words, we've put it this way, to submit all areas, all areas, all areas, all areas of our lives to him because of what he has done and who he is. We say this is to live Jesus greater than everything." [01:08:53]
2. "How you respond to Jesus and share him with others will expose the answer to what you're seeking. Here's, here's what I want you to know. In, in both accounts, when the disciple learned Andrew and Nathaniel, when they learn who this Jesus is, their reaction is, you got to see this. Come along. You got to see this. And so for some of us, we go, I'm seeking Jesus, the Christ. I'm seeking Jesus, the Christ, the son of God. Let me just remind you how you respond to Jesus and share him with others. We'll expose the answer to what you're actually seeking. If we're keeping him to ourselves, if it's not transforming our lives to share with others, we might be seeking the wrong Jesus, or we might be making Jesus the wrong thing and not holding him to who he actually is." [01:10:30]
3. "Some of us are seeking the Jesus of my will, his blessing, Jesus. This means life in the Bible is processed through my experience and what I want to get from it. I ignore the things that I disagree with in the Bible or that would require anything of me. Like this, this book here is just, let me, let me go to those Instagrammable out of context versus and say, Oh, look, Oh, what blessings from the Lord. And I seek those blessings that aren't actually his blessings because his blessing is coming under his authority and kingship. But we go, no, no, no, no, no. Anything that would ask anything of me. Oh, that's not the Jesus that I've Googled." [01:02:24]
4. "Some of us, and this is inherent in our culture today is we have and follow the unbounded affirmation. Jesus unbounded, no restrictions. In other words, I live the way that I want, however I want. And I'm convinced and have convinced myself that God is just there to cheer me on. Be yourself, be your authentic self, be your true you. You know, you got, do you hear that around us all the time? Do you know what our, our authentic self is? Sinners separated from Christ who are going to live selfishly for ourselves and say, forget the rest of the world. But there's a, there's a created self that is found in the affirmation of the image of Christ that we need to say, I need to, by the power of God, I need to accept the salvation and him sanctify us." [01:03:58]
5. "Yes, we are to do good work. Yes, we are to be salt and light, but what is, what is salt without the gospel? It's just white flakes of nothing. It's the gospel that we need to speak. How about advice giver, moral teacher, Jesus? Definitely we should mostly live by what he says. We definitely should mostly live the way Jesus says. It will make the world a better place, but dying to self is more general advice and not a true calling. My helper, Jesus, I've got issues that I want him to assist me with. In other words, it's about me with Jesus by my side, not me following Jesus." [01:05:31]
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