Not of This World- Part 1

Review

• We learned from The Incredibles movie that we are a of supers, but we learned from The Black Panther movie that we are a family of supers.
• Our big brother is the and has sent us to earth to conduct the business of the State—that is, the Kingdom of God (Hebrews 2:11)
• We are from heaven who represent the Kingdom of God to the earth (2 Corinthians 5:20).
• Specifically, we are to compel people to be to God on Christ’s behalf.
• However, as people from heaven who live on earth, sometimes it is to know how to live.
• When do we focus on our identity and when we focus on our one?
• How do you respond to this world’s needs without violating the principles of your home world?

Notes

You’re not from Here

• You’re not from here. You are from the one who you (John 17:16-18).
• Being sent is another way of saying you are an ambassador.
• Like contemporary ambassadors, the minute you are sent, you lose your to the (John 12:44-45).
• A sent one becomes the of the sender.
• The of the sent one comes from the sender (John 8:18).
• The sender is responsible for letting everyone know that the sent one is an representative of the sender.
• In the Kingdom of God, this validation comes from the .
• God sends His to rest upon and live within anyone who represents Him (John 1:29-34; John 15:26).

Notes

The Great Exchange

• Senders sent ones authority, power and identity.
• Sent ones their personal wills, words and works.

John 6:38

John 7:16

John 12:49

John 14:24

John 4:34

John 10:37

John 9:4

Notes

The Servant is not Greater than the Master

• If Jesus his own will to do the will of His sender, who are we not to do the same? (John 13:16)
• As the Father sent Jesus, Jesus has sent us (John 17:16-18).

Notes

The Love of the World

• Denying ourselves to do the will of our sender would be easy if there were no worldly .
• The promises the life, but as defined by humans.
• Scripture promises , the God life.
• The God life is the life, but as defined by God (John 10:10).
• We find the God life in .
• We follow Him by listening to His (John 10:27).
• Jesus communicates to us through the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit in us and in .
• Hence, the voice of Jesus is in the .
• The voice of the world is in our .
• The world serenades our and causes us to fall in love with it.
• When we fall in love with the world, we put good and bad in the wrong .
• John warns us about this deception (I John 2:15-17).
• The world’s offer is convincing because it on the .
• The world offers the most direct connection to the things that give us pleasure, satisfaction and boosted .
• However, what the world offers is and becomes less satisfying with each .
• The God life is eternal, but also requires you to trust that is a better judge of what is for you than you are.

Notes

Seeing the World Through the Eyes of the Father

• Ironically, we’re called to the world, but with a love that is from outside the world (John 3:16)
• You can’t use the love that comes from the world to it.
• The world can only be saved with love that comes from outside of it, which is the Love of the .
• God expresses His Love through His , but the Spirit feels to the world.
• The same Spirit that cares for followers of Jesus convicts sinners of their wicked ways (John 16: 7-11).
• The Holy Spirit lives in us and helps us express God’s love to sinners.
• God’s message of love to sinners is to be reconciled to God (John 3:16-19, 1 Corinthians 5:20)
• The primary way that we should be relating to the world is to them to be reconciled with God.

John 13:20

John 11:41-42

John 17:20-21

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