1. The resurrection of Jesus is the gospel (vs 3-7)

2. The resurrection of Jesus the engine that drives our witness

3. The resurrection of Jesus Saves Us

4. The resurrection of Jesus is the Basis for a Living Hope

5. The resurrection of Jesus fuels our Holiness

What happens after we die

1. Theories

Purgatory/Scriptures used by Catholics

1 Corithians3:11-15

Matthew 5:24-25

Matthew 12:32

Jewish Ideas Hades or Sheol

1Peter 3:19-20

Soul Sleep

Mark 5:21-42

John 11:11-14

1 Thessalonians 4:13-14

Paradise

Luke 23:43

What happens after we die is temporary

The Bible Speaks of Everlasting Life as a Resurrection and Restoration of the World

Implications:

1. As integrated beings, What we do with our bodies we do with our spirits

2. The lord is your Witness in this life, not the dead.

3. Everlasting life in a renewed world is highly desirable.

Paradise

1. Be Ready

2. Be Faithful

3. Be Relieved

4. Be Encouraged

5. Be Humble

Who is Judged?

1. The Devil and Company

2. All Creation

3. All the Dead

4. Death and Hades

How are they Judged?

1. Judgement seat of Christ for believers: 2 Corinthians 5:10

1. What we've done

2. Our motives

3. Rewards

2. Judgement and sentencing of the demand.

1. Anyone who's name not found in the book of life

2. Into the lake of fire.

a. Burned Forever

b. Annihilation (Death and Hades included) but this meant it can no longer kill.

The Revelation Account

1. As an antidote to hypocrisy

2. In order to put persecution and suffering in perspective.

3. As a prescription against greed and covetousness.

4. To illustrate how judgement is self-chosen

5. To expose the illusion of personal control.

6. To show us the heart and power of God.

What will Eternal Reward be like?

Shared Reward

Individual Reward

Important Assignments

Eternal Reward is not Eternal Retirement

What will our eternal Home be like?

New

Heavens

Earth

Jerusalem

Eden

Healed

Bodies

Psyches

Spirits

Nations

2. Serving always elevates the others.

3. Serving seeks the will of others.

4. Serving is the pathway to glory.

1. He Gave/He Sent his son

2. He gave his best

3. He gave us Life

4. He Forgave

5. He Stayed

* Why did they Worship?

* How did they Worship?

Why Tithe?

1. Precedence: A Grateful Heart

2. Obecience & Duty

3. Blessings of Tithing

1. A Faith Focused on Jesus

2. A Faith Focused on the Power of Jesus

3. A Faith in the Identity of Jesus

4. A Faith in the Character of Jesus

1. They submitted to God first.

2. They fought FROM victory, not FOR victory

3. They Practice of Obedience to God's Commands

4. They Worshiped before their circumstances changed

*Prayer is Relationship with Christ

*Pray Until Something Happens

*Hope + Action = Breakthrough

1. Came because of pain and trouble

2. Was realized through practiced praise

3. Resulted in other people's salvation

4. Culminated in the expansion of God's Kingdom

Values:

1. Exuberant Obedience (John 14:23)

2. Ambitious Service (Matthew 20: 25-27)

3. Evident Love (John 15: 12-17)

4. Joyful Generosity (1 Cor 9:7

5. Constant Abiding (John 15: 4-5)

6. Voracious Learning (Matthew 11: 28-29)

7. Bold teaching (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 2:29)

8. Fearless Faith (Hebrews 11:6)

1. Make love the GOAL.

2. Take ACTION

3. Never QUIT

Get Connected

Join a Life Group

Join Foundations

Join IGNITE

A Disciplined Church

*Has a higher desire

*Remembers their purpose

*Is willing to sacrifice

1. Compromised of players who proclaim Jesus is Lord. (vs 2, 3)

2. Energized by God at work. (vs 4)

3. Unified by design. (vs 18)

4. Activated by participation. (vs 5, 7, 27)

1. It repays provocation with meekness.

2. It counters hostility with generosity.

3. It returns oppressions with service.

4. IT replaces hate with love.

5. It trades persecution with prayer.

1. (Realize) He pursued you first.

2. Be Relentless! (In the pursuit of the Lord)

*Undeterred by silence

*Not discouraged by his followers

*Wont take no for an answer

*Un-offendable

3. Make it Personal

*Is Fault Forward

*Fixates on Human Perception Instead of God's Reception.

. *Focuses on Self Rather than Others.

2. The Mechanics of Behaviors:

*Emanate from the Heart.

*Are Evidence of who you really are.

*Cannot be Modified Externally.

3. The Cultivation of True Goodness:

*Requires Renewal of the Heart

*Is a Planting of God.

*Can be Offensive to Culture.

*Flourishes with Good Sourcing

1. The presence of trouble is not a sign of the lord's absence

2. Fruitfulness often follows long seasons of faithfulness.

3. Courage comes with God's presence. "Take courage it is I"

4. Faith grows with focus.

The conflict: A hungry humanity

1. Jesus is trying to get some alone time.

2. The people are hungry.

The solution:

- They do not need to go away.

- You give them something to eat.

- Bring them here to me.

1. Explains the cosmic spiritual conflict.

2. Defines the current state of the world.

3. Foretells the future.

4. Prescribes an Allegiance.

1. Requires some effort.

2. Expands by grace.

3. Transforms the host.

How to Get the Kingdom

1. You have to find it.

2. You have to identify its worth.

3. You have to trade everything.

1. The lesson of the parable is to Hear well.

2. The purpose of the Parable is to Expose the Condition of the Heart.

3. The Warning of the Parable is to cultivate a Receptive Heart.

*Beware of a hard heart.

*Beware of a shallow heart.

*Beware of a divided heart.

4. The Encouragement of the parable is to find lasting Life in God's Kingdom.

1. The call for a sign.

How to hear God's will for your life:

Pray

Learn to recognize Jesus' voice

Read the Scriptures

Exercise Wisdom

Start to pursue a direction...that seems best

2. The sign of Jonah

Questions:

Am I seeking God's will or my own will?

Is Jesus' death and resurrection enough for me?

3. The sign of orthodoxy.

Orthodoxy: a fancy word the means, "right belief" or s"straight teaching"

Question: are my best practices aligned with God's story?

4. The sign of true goodness.

The sign of real approval is seen in doing what God wants

Question: Am I searching for innocence or obedience?

1. The totality of Jesus' Power (vs 22)

2. Discerning between good and evil powers (25-29; 33-35)

3. The consequences of opposing the Spirit of God (vs 30-32; 36-37)

4. The forgiveness of Jesus (31, 32)

2. With much light comes much expectation.

3. Condemnation is a choice.

4. The proud and wordly-wise close their eyes.

5. Accepted people experience rest under Jesus gentle yoke.

From Confusion to Clarity

From Conformity to Truth

From Passivity to Passion

From Earning to Grace

2. To PRAY as Jesus prays.

3. To GO as Jesus goes.

Jesus is the Master who sees and calls.

Jesus is the Soul Physician who heals the socially and morally broken.

Jesus is the Bridegroom who brings new life.

A Deeper Forgivness

A Deeper Authority

A Deeper Healing

1. Battling the will (The flesh).

2. Rebuking the fear that swamps our faith (Battling the world).

3. Involves deliverance from evil

1.The Lost Causes (Matt 8:2-3)

2.The Humble Enemy (Matt 8:5-3)

3. The Faith-Filled (Matt 8:8-10)

-Why Jesus Heals:

1. Because he is the Kind of Lord he is (Matt 8:3)

2.To Give Greater Purpose (Matt 8:14-15)

-How Jesus Heals

1. Jesus Heals Holistically

2. Globally

3. Substitutionally

1. Jesus Ministry Setting

2. Jesus Ministry Audience

3. Jesus Ministry Method

4. Jesus Ministry Message

Pastor Jake speaks to three points to temptation:

1. Satans Temptations are Gods Preparations

2. Jesus suffered our same temptations.

3. Jesus defeated the devil through resistance and trust.

Key Points:

*God uses unlikely people

*God uses unlikely places

*God uses and unlikely message

*There is an undeniable sense of God's Presence

It always drives people to Jesus

Following Jesus as a way of self-actualization or self-expression or self-anything...

The message in this sermon helps to create a new vision of what it means to follow Jesus, and helps formulate a pathway to take steps of following Jesus.

In this message Jake redefines in peoples heads and hearts that discipleship is a whole hearted trust in and devotion and obedience to Jesus Christ.

The message deconstructs following Jesus as a way of self-actualization or self-expression or self-anything.

This message helps create a new vision of what it means to follow Jesus, and apply a pathway to take steps in following Jesus.

Jake speaks about the calling and the vision, and movement in reaching the Youth in the Klamath Basin.

He Orchestrates all this

He Commands Worship

He Conquers our Hearts

1. KCC will be a church built on the Lordship of Jesus.

2. KCC will be a going church.

3. To be a growing church.

4. To be a loving church.

5. To be a praying church.

6. KCC will be a generous church.

1. It's going to take faith

2. It's going to take intention

3. It's going to take discernment

4. It's going to take obedience

5. It's going to take practice

1. See life from the lens of God's care.

2. See life from what you do have...Not from what you don't have.

3.Seek God's kingdom first.

4.Seek Life for today.

1. Choice between two treasures

2. Choice between two visions

3. Choice between two masters

1 - Pray tour Father (pray intimately and privately)

2 - Pray Simply

3 - Pray God's Will

4 - Pray with Vulnerability

We are reminded in this sermon that the Devil is real and that we should be aware of this. Praying the Lord's Prayer supports us in being mindful of the reality of temptation and the support for God's will.

1. Do it (giving, prayer, worship, service, fasting, etc.).

2. Be careful to do it for God, not men.

3. Practice secrecy.

1. Recognizes that God's Kingdom extends everywhere.

2. Recognizes our limited control.

3. Does not manipulate to get our way.

-Knowing what Jesus taught.

-Knowing what Jesus meant.

-Obeying his teachings.

Pastor Jake focuses on 4 elements that support the understanding of what it means to be citizens of Gods Kingdom

*You will SUFFER for the Kingdom

*You will be a BLESSING to the World...of the covenant

*You are to NOT DISMISS the Old Covenant.... the Word.

*You will live a RIGHTEOUSNESS BEYOND that of the Pharisees and Teachers of the law.

1. Practice and obey the word of God

2. Go beyond the external adherence to God's word

He gave us 4 teachings from this sermon

1. Jesus affirms God's design and boundries on human sexuality

Matthew 5:18-20 & 19: 4-9

2. Jesus relocates sexual sin to the hear Matthew vs 28

3. Jesus speaks to the power of the sexual union (vs 29-30)

4. Jesus confronts abuses of God's design for marriage in culture (vs 31-32)