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[00:00:59] Speaker B: Good morning. Good morning.
I'm Kristen. I'm so excited to be here. Today I get to kick off our brand new series, you will never guess what it's called.
Acts.
And keeping on theme with things that maybe are a little more in your face than they need to be. This week, I'll also be teaching a class on how to bedazzle your jeans.
So, you know, see me after service if you're interested in that. Okay. They're my personality pants, guys, is what they are. I don't know if it's a personality I have or the one that I'm trying to make myself have, but. Okay, we've addressed the elephant in the room now. All right. I was actually told in the lobby that if I stood still with the lights and I just, like, slowly spun in a circle, they'd be like a disco ball.
And now I'm never taking them off. That's perfect. Great. Great, great, great. Now I am here to start our series on acts. And so for the next number of weeks, we're gonna go through the book of Acts a couple chapters at a time to figure out what their story was about and the story that God is still writing, as the video said, and what our part is in it. Because have you ever noticed the power of stories? Like, the power of really good storytelling? Whether it's a narrator in a movie or a coworker, somebody else that, you know, maybe it's a podcaster or someone that you follow online. But if they're a very good storyteller, it almost doesn't matter what the story is that they're telling. Right? Cause you find yourself just, like, leaning in and you have to Know what happens next. Okay. An example of this for me is my two favorite podcasters are Jamie golden and Knox McCoy, and they have three podcasts. And I listen to all three of them. Not because I'm actually interested in the topic of all three of their podcasts, but because they are such good storytellers that every time I'm just like, but I just want to know what you have to say about this. Like, I just want to know they make it worth listening to.
And so the truth is, you know, we are not just listening to stories, we're actually living these stories. We are living these stories right now in our day to day lives. And some of you might know, you're like, I'm living a classic storyline. I'm living a rom com.
Maybe you're living a buddy comedy.
Some of you, unfortunately, might be in a drama. Okay, hopefully we're not in a horror movie. That would have you a problem.
But I think a lot of us are actually questioning and going, like, what story am I in? What is my part to play here? And am I actually going to like the ending?
And when it comes to our faith, these things actually matter. It matters that we know what role we're playing, because that's gonna determine if we get stuck in an old narrative or if we're gonna be part of writing a story that is actually worth telling a story that's worth paying attention to. And so ACTS is going to help us with that because it's about people whose story changed on them right in the middle of them living it.
Now, before we jump in, is anybody familiar with Wicked, the musical Wicked? Okay, if you are not, Wicked is the musical adaptation of the wizard of Oz. If you did not know Wicked, do you know the wizard of Oz story?
Classic, right? Okay, so Wicked has been on Broadway for like 20 something years, but it wasn't until, I think about two years ago, it came to the movie scene. Okay, it was in the movie theaters. And I was shocked at the number of people who went in to see Wicked and got to the end and it's this like epic scene. And then it ended. And they did not know that it was only the first half, so they had to wait. Those people who had not seen the. The Broadway version of Wicked had to wait an entire year for Wicked for good to come out so that they could know the second half of the story so that they could know exactly what was going on. All right, so just like we needed both Wicked and Wicked for good to know what happened with Elphaba and Glinda and Fiero. That's how I want you to think about the Book of Acts. All right? The Book of Acts was written by a guy named Luke who also wrote the Gospel of Luke. And so Luke was his first part of his story. And the Gospel of an Acts is actually the second part of his story.
And fun fact, my musical analogy actually sticks here because the Gospel of Luke has more songs in it than any of the other gospels.
Check it out. Mary's Magnificat is a bop, actually. Okay, we should read that more than just at Christmas.
All right, so in Luke, I'm gonna take you back just a little bit. In Luke, we see Jesus be born, begin his ministry. Be. We see him die, and we see him come back to life. But then Jesus ascends, which basically is the churchy word that means he got sucked back up into the sky to go be with God the Father right there in front of the disciples.
And what that meant for the disciples was that the way they had always followed Jesus was no longer going to be an option.
They were going to have to come up with some other way. And so the Gospel of Luke ends like this. With this verse, Jesus ascends, and it says, and they spent all of their time in the temple praising God.
Fade to black.
Now what? Like, we know the next part of the story, right? Most of us understand and have probably some idea of what happens next. But that was the first part of Luke's story, and it just ended. So can you imagine if they didn't know what was gonna happen? They're like, and then what? They just stayed in the temple forever and ever? Like, that's where they live now.
Like, they just stayed there all day praising God. And so we finish Luke, we jump over John, and then we get to Acts. And so what happens is Luke starts in Acts and he's like, hey, remember all that stuff that I told you about Jesus? And he does this quick little recap. Then he's like, get this in verse four. He's like, once when he was eating with them, he commanded them, do not leave Jerusalem.
What's that next word?
Until.
Do not leave until the Father sends you the gift he promised. As I told you before, John baptized with water. But in just a few days, you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
And remember this next part in verse eight. Cause we're gonna need to come back to this. Says, you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me and everywhere in Jerusalem throughout Judea in Samaria.
And where?
To the ends of the earth. To the ends of the earth. Which really was just a literary way of saying, like, beyond the boundaries that you already know.
To the ends of the earth. And so I think we picture the disciples like, yes, Lord.
Right? Yes, Lord. Whatever you say, Lord. But truly, they would have not been able to fully understand what Jesus was actually saying. They would not have been able to comprehend it, because God's spirit at the time would come down and would come on people from time to time. But it was usually leaders and prophets and kings. And when it happened, they had to be, you know, kind of secluded, away from everyone else. It was for a very specific purpose. And it only lasted as long as whatever that thing, until that thing needed to be done. It was for a limited amount of time.
So God's spirit would have been something that they had language for, but that they had never personally experienced themselves. They would have heard about it, but they would not have experienced it themselves. And to be honest, they didn't really need it.
Because when you're following Jesus around and he tells you, like, go here, do this. I'm gonna do the things you watch. Like, they don't necessarily need it right when Jesus is right there leading them, but here, now he's extending them an invitation into something new where they're going to be led by a supernatural power. And because of that supernatural power that is going to come upon them, they will then be able to take over teaching Jesus message to all people all over the world.
And I think God is actually offering us that same invitation today.
He's offering us that same invitation today, not just to believe something different.
Not to take what we used to believe and just replace it with something else, but to actually live in a different way. Not just to believe differently, but to live differently.
And I think for a lot of us, probably this supernatural part of faith is a little bit tricky, right? It's a little bit tricky where maybe we know about the Holy Spirit.
Like, we might know that it's part of the main three, right? We're like God, Jesus, Holy Spirit. Okay, got that. Somehow, maybe we believe even in the supernatural power of God. We believe that miracles happen and that God's power can still do things. But I think a lot of us have not actually experienced it because we don't know what to do with it. We're like, okay, you can live over here, Holy Spirit. I'm afraid to step into this because I don't actually know what. What it means or what it Looks like the problem with that is when we kind of keep the Holy Spirit removed because we don't understand it, we end up just sticking with what we've already known, and we end up sticking with all the things that we've always done, even when they're not exactly working anymore.
And if that's you, if you're like, yeah, I don't really get the Holy Spirit, it's totally okay. I think depending on how you grew up or what denomination you'd been a part of, there's a good chance that you were not even taught about the Holy Spirit. We didn't even say Holy Spirit when I was growing up in the Methodist church. We said Holy Ghost, and that was terrifying. So I didn't want to know about that. Anyway.
I'm like, you can keep that to yourself. God, thank you so much.
Okay. It really wasn't until I was in my, like, 30s that I feel like I fully was able to experience the Holy Spirit for the first time. But the good news is that you don't have to be able to understand it or explain it to receive it. We just have to trust God and say, hey, thank you for offering this to me. I'm going to trust you enough to receive it.
Pilots use this rule in flight navigation. It's called the one in 60 rule. And basically the idea is that when they are taking off towards their destination, if they are off by one degree, then for every 60 miles they fly, they will land one mile off of their intended destination.
So obviously, the farther that you go without being corrected, the further and further off of your intended destination you become.
And I think that this is a good picture of what can happen to us when we rely on our own strength to do things, and when we rely on our own spiritual practices and all of the religious rituals and things that we do. And when we try to do faith on our own instead of letting the Holy Spirit fill us and lead us.
And so what happens is we think we're going straight, but we're one degree off. And so we just start to go through the motions and we don't really notice, and there's nobody there to help us. And so we can't pay attention. It's not like we just up and, like, turn left all of a sudden.
We just slowly drift over time. Maybe we show up to church on Sunday and we pray when we need something, and we do what we've always done, and we hope that we're becoming the people that.
And we hope that we're gonna land in our intended destination.
But the problem is that if we don't ever catch it, by the time we realize that we have gotten off course, it's because we have become people that we never intended to become. And we are living lives that we never wanted to live with the Holy Spirit within us. That is the way that we can come back, swing back that one degree, by letting its spirit lead. Letting the Spirit lead us.
And so I think if your life, if something just feels off, like, you can't even maybe explain it, but you're like, something is just off, you might need a spiritual reset. And it doesn't mean you have to go all the way back to the beginning and try to, like, do the journey again.
It just means letting the Holy Spirit in so that you can realign with it. You can realign your life with God's spirit by accepting that invitation to let him fill you and to let it lead you.
So about 10 days after Jesus ascends, then it happens for the disciples. And we see this in Acts 2. It says, on the day of Pentecost, all the believers were meeting together in one place.
Suddenly there was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a mighty windstorm, and it filled the house where they were sitting.
Then what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them.
And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability.
So just as Jesus promised, just as Jesus had said, God's Spirit came down and settled on all of the people. It was no longer just reserved for specific people, but it was available to anyone who was willing to listen to what Jesus said and then was able to wait patiently or maybe impatiently, but at least wait for the fulfillment of what was said.
Can you imagine the FOMO that they would have had? The fear of missing out that they would have had if they got tired of waiting? And they were like, you know what? We watched Jesus do this a hundred times. We can do it on our own. And they just went out and started doing ministry like they'd always done it.
Can you imagine if they had missed it because they got tired of waiting? Cause they did not know how long it was going to take.
See, I think the temptation is always going to be there for us to go back to what's comfortable. The temptation's always going to be there for us to just keep doing what we've done before.
But being a good witness for Jesus is not about trying harder or getting better at the same things that We've always done.
It's actually learning to trade what we've always done, to rely on something supernatural, to rely on something that maybe doesn't quite make a whole lot of sense so that we can do things we have never been able to do on our own.
And do you remember why Jesus said that they were going to receive that power?
So that they could tell people about him?
Where?
To the ends of the earth.
Not right there in their little city, not in their own, like, religious, you know, group. To the ends of the earth.
Keep that in mind and let's pick it back up. In verse five, it says, that time there were devout Jews from every nation.
Huh, look at that. Every nation living in Jerusalem. When they heard the loud noise, everyone came running and they were bewildered to hear their own languages being spoken by the believers. So all of a sudden, now, with the Holy Spirit upon them, they are doing things that they have never done before, not because they got a new download of information, but because that they experienced transformation from the inside out. This is not about knowledge.
This was about being willing to accept God's spirit. And when they did that, other people took notice.
All of the other people around who were already right there in that room came running. And so what Jesus had said began to be fulfilled, where people from every nation, from one end of the earth to the other, all of a sudden started hearing about what God had done in a way that they could understand, in a way that they could understand all at the same time.
Now, unfortunately, as is often the case when something changes within you or you start to live a little bit differently, not everyone will understand.
And not everyone thinks it's cool that you make these change.
And so we see in verse 13 a heckler, and he shouts out, says. But others in the crowd ridiculed them, saying, they're just drunk, that's all.
And Peter, who might be known for being, like, a little reactive, is like, okay, listen up. Let me tell you about this.
And so it says, then Peter stepped up with the 11 other apostles and shouted to the crowd, listen carefully, all of you fellow Jews and residents of Jerusalem. Make no mistake about this.
These people are not drunk, as some of you are assuming. 9 o' clock in the morning is much too early for that.
It's like brunch hasn't even opened yet. Guys, come on, get it together.
But he does. He goes on, and he goes on to remind them, hey, you're not new here.
Like, he's talking to the people in the crowd. He's like, you're not new here.
You've been here. You've seen this.
Jesus did these miracles right in front of you. You saw it happen.
And then even though you saw it happen and you heard his teachings for yourself, you are part of making sure that he was killed. And then you saw him come back from the dead and start walking around again.
He was like, God did all of this in front of you so that you would believe that the things that Jesus said were true.
You are not new. You have seen all of these things. Peter's like, this is just another example. In verse 33, he says, now he jesus is exalted to the place of highest honor in heaven at God's right hand. And the Father, as he had promised, gave him the Holy Spirit to pour out upon us.
Just as you see and hear today. Peter's like, look around. This is it. It is happening.
And I just feel like he has this sense of wanting to grab them by the shoulders and just be like, what is it gonna take for this to become personal for you?
What is it going to take?
See, I think it's easy to be a heckler, right? To point out and stand on the outside and look in and, like, point out all of the things that are wrong. And it's easier to avoid the things that are weird or that are hard to explain.
But we have to move from just seeing and hearing the way that they were to being, being about God's spirit and allowing ourselves to internalize it, to make it personal, to receive God's spirit ourselves. Not just hear and see about other people experiencing it, but to be willing to receive it ourselves. Because that's when it changes us.
And that's what we see. In verse 37, it says, Peter's words pierced their hearts. Pierced their hearts.
And they said to him and the other apostles, brothers, what should we do?
As in, like, what change should we make?
It says, those who believed what Peter said were baptized and added to the church that day. About 3,000 in all.
That is a good sermon. 3,000 people, okay? This is a turning point moment for so many of them, for the people who are willing to be vulnerable and choose dependence. For the people who said, I'm gonna stop watching God's spirit move in other people and step into that power myself so that I can be part of the movement.
I'm gonna stop watching it move and be an active participant in the movement of spreading the message of Jesus.
And so you might be facing a similar turning point moment where you know that you need a change. You Know that you need something new. And it could be in your faith, it could be in your identity, it could be in relationships, or just some area of your life where you're like, you know, I just feel like I need another chance to try this again, to start over.
How has God been trying to get your attention?
What has God been doing that is piercing your heart?
I just wonder if maybe today that desire for you to change is actually God's spirit stirring within you. And it's God's spirit stirring to say, hey, I've done all these things for you.
I've protected you and I've rescued you, and I've provided for you, and I've comforted you, and I've sustained you, and I've been here for all of the things and have never left. And I have done this so that you will know that I love you and that I am real and that every single thing you've heard that I can do, I can do and I will do for you.
And maybe, just maybe, God is asking some of us, what is it gonna take for this to be personal for you?
What is this gonna take for you to make it real?
And what that actually looks like is that we stop walking with God and we start living from his spirit.
And it might look really the same on the outside, right when we're walking with God, like next to us, or we're living from God's spirit. From the outside, it might not look a whole lot different, but on the inside, it feels very, very different.
And remember, it might just be that one degree of change. It doesn't have to be anything super dramatic.
Maybe what it looks like for you is that instead of making decisions and then telling God to come with you when you make those decisions, that instead that we pause and you ask him to lead you and you're willing to be redirected even when it's inconvenient.
Maybe the shift for you is that instead of carrying the weight of your anxiety and your stress and all of the things going on in the world, and then asking God to help you manage all of that, instead you ask God to carry it for you so that you can show up in the world from a place of peace instead of a place of panic and chaos.
Maybe instead of feeling bad about some things that you probably shouldn't be doing and then asking God for forgiveness only to find yourself still kind of doing those things, maybe what it looks like instead is paying attention to those convictions and those little nudges in so that it actually chains you to start leaving a different life and living differently.
Maybe instead of going to church on Sunday to hear from God, it means that you start to see his presence in every single thing on all the days of the week, so that you actually notice the way that he's trying to communicate to you. And his guidance can change and truly change the way that you live.
See, all of this is hard to do on our own, right? Even though there are small changes, it can be really hard to do on our own, which is why it's supernatural, because it's not natural for us to do these things. That's why we need the power of God's spirit within us. I think that's also why the momentum of the early church happened in a group of people.
Pick it back up in verse 42, and it tells us what the people did, says all the believers devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to fellowship and to sharing in meals and to prayer. And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had. They sold their property and possessions and shared the money with those in need.
They worshiped together at the temple each day, met in homes for the Lord's Supper, and shared their meals with great joy and generosity, all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people.
And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who are being saved.
Now, this is the historical account of, like, the birth of the early church. And there's some pretty. It's a pretty good model, right? These are things that the church should be doing and that hopefully we're seeing in the church to provide for people's needs and to be generous and to care for each other.
But did you notice where a lot of this took place?
It was after the church service. It was outside of the temples. It was happening in people's homes all throughout the week.
See, there are a lot of opportunities for you to find community here at Mosaic. And that's because even more than we want you to like us, we actually want you to like each other and to connect with each other and to know each other.
Because we truly believe that it is imperative for followers of Jesus to be in spiritual community with other people who are going in the same direction that they are. It's imperative that you are connected to other people.
And I know that you have community and that you have friends outside of this place. Right? There's the gym and run club and mahjong and, like, all the things. And that's so great.
Okay, we love that for you. We want you to keep doing that.
But also that spiritual transformation only happens in the context of relationships with people who are headed in the same direction.
You have to be in spiritual community with people who believe the things that you believe so that they can help you navigate and help you to see if you start to go off course.
This past Wednesday, about 30 of us got together for the Table, which is a monthly gathering that we do here where we come together around tables and we have dinner together and we dive into scripture or different topics and concepts that we see in the Bible.
And this week we were talking about spiritual warfare, because if you're going to read stories about demon possessed people, you might as well do it over a plate of nachos. Okay, so that's what we did. Shout out to Jim for bringing his own hot sauce. I will never touch that stuff again. That was insane.
Okay, so as we're talking around the room, we're sharing nachos, we're having dinner, sharing all these stories. My favorite thing, not just about this week, although that's when I realized it.
Every single month, even if it's the same people, you're kind of sitting at a table with different people. So the conversations are always a little bit different. But what I consistently see, which is my favorite thing, is those moments when somebody goes, what?
I never thought about it like that.
I had never considered this before because when you're sitting around a table talking to other people, all of a sudden their perspectives or their lived experiences bring up something in the story that you have never considered on your own.
Somebody else's question or somebody else's thought might get you thinking on your own. And so what happens as we're having these conversations is it's just like brain fireworks. It's like, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. Of just people going like, crazy, crazy. I hadn't thought of this. I hadn't considered this. And no one is going, hey, here's the exact right answer, right, Kathy?
We don't do that. They actually get mad at us sometimes. They're like, but what is the exact right answer? We're like, what do you think it is? Let's talk about it. But it's great.
It's great to be able to do that and learn from other people and let these stories and the things that we've heard maybe 100 times or become really familiar with come to life in a brand new way.
So we're seeing people have these revelations and we're seeing people's faith grow in real time as they're having these new thoughts. And considerations.
See, spiritual community is not just about finding new friends. Obviously, we hope that that happens. We would love for that to happen.
But that's where you get to ask questions, and you get to wrestle with the complexities of things in Scripture that are hard to understand.
It's where you get to see from new perspectives and think about things that you would have never considered on your own.
It's where we get to practice all of the different ways that we can rely on the Holy Spirit by listening for God's voice and then discerning it from other voices. Where we get to practice tapping into that power within us, where we can begin to know things that we should have or could not have otherwise known, as we start praying for each other and learning about the really important details and things in each other's lives.
And so if you feel like something is just a little bit off, like you're doing everything right, but your faith just feels like maybe it's lost its shine a little bit, like you're doing all the things that should make it work, but it feels a little flat or a little bit dull, I would ask you, who are you allowing to influence your faith? Who is speaking into your spiritual growth?
And if you're not sure what the answer to that is, I would encourage you to pull out your Mosaic app and go to the small groups and contact any of the people, the leaders on that list. Or you can join us, obviously, next month at the table.
Or for some of you, I know that you've got your mahjong friends and the people that we talked about earlier, and you're like, I actually just want them to come to Mosaic. I want them to be here. But for whatever reason, you can't seem to get them in the building on a Sunday morning.
I wonder what would happen if you opened up your home and invited them in and invited some other people in, and you created a space where they could come in and just ask questions and talk and explore what potentially their faith could look like.
And you know how sometimes when you hear a sermon, you start thinking about other people that need to hear it? It's not just me, right?
You're like, oh, this is good, but I know it. But I need so and so to hear this, right?
I just wonder maybe if God is intentionally putting those people on your mind. Cause he's like, hey, those are the ones.
Those are the ones that I want you to invite in. Those are the ones that I want you. Not necessarily. Maybe they won't come here on a Sunday morning. But I bet they would come to your house, give them nachos, okay? They'll talk about whatever. Truly the best.
Maybe, just maybe, if you created a space where they could come in, they would be willing to accept that invitation. And then they would be willing and able to find and have a place where they can talk about their faith and just kind of take baby steps into getting back into a church community.
And I will say this because I hear from a lot of people that it's very intimidating to lead a group, right? Like, I don't know what to do. I don't know the Bible that good. I don't know the answers to all the questions, and it's really intimidating.
So I will just ask you this also.
Was it having all the answers to all of your questions that led you to be a follower of Jesus?
Probably not.
Was it perfect Christians that led you to find Mosaic?
Definitely not.
Okay, you can laugh at that. That's very much a joke. Okay. Definitely not. Definitely not.
But for whatever reason, think about what you love about following Jesus. Think about what you love about showing up here and being in a spiritual community. And then provide that, Right? Provide a place where people can be who they are and they can be comfortable, and they can show up and vulnerably say, like, I literally don't know anything about anything. And they don't feel bad because they want to learn.
You can create that space for those people.
You have the power of the Holy Spirit within you.
You have the same power that rose Jesus from the grave available to you, inside of you. And the more that you trust it and begin to tap into that power, the more that you are going to be able to do things that you never thought you could do, even leading a small group.
So what is your next step?
The invitation has already been extended to you. It's available to you. And you don't have to figure out what the next new thing is. Cause God is already doing the new thing.
We're gonna learn more about it as we go through this series. God is already doing the new thing. Are you going to accept his invitation? For some of you, that's all you need to do, is just say, hey, God, I actually am ready to grow in my faith, and I would love for you to fill me with your Holy Spirit.
For others of you, maybe you've done that, but it's been a little while. And so you just need to let it move you so that you can start living from what you've already been given.
For others of you, you might need to stop doing your faith on your own, stop doing life on your own, and risk being vulnerable with other people so that you can experience the fullness of what God has for you.
Not only what God can do through you when you are in a spiritual community, but also so God can show you what he has for you.
Next week, we're going to dive even deeper into what the power of God's Holy Spirit could actually do.
But for today, I would love to pray for you that you will experience him in a fresh, new way.
God, we thank you for who you are.
God, we thank you for the invitation that you have offered us, God, that when Jesus came to earth, Lord, you sent him here so that you could have relationship with us, God, so that you could restore what had been broken.
And so, God, I pray for the people right now, Lord, who have never accepted that invitation to be in relationship with you through Jesus.
God, I pray that they would be able to acknowledge, Lord, your power and the reality of what they feel, God, the things that maybe they can't explain, God, that they would be courageous enough to say, God, I want to have a life with you, and I want to have a relationship with Jesus. And I want to allow your spirit to lead me.
So I pray for those people that even now, God, even as they breathe in this room, God, that they would be able to feel something tangibly different, Lord, something that they can't explain but they know can only be your presence.
And, God, for those of us who maybe have been filled with your spirit for a while, God, I pray that you would open our eyes and show us the places where we're trying to rely on our own strength or do things on our own, God. And help us to be vulnerable. Help us to take those risks, God. To rely on you even when it means that we are taking steps where we don't know where the next one leads, that we don't know what the ending is or we don't know what the answers are.
God, thank you that we can trust you.
Because no matter where you lead us, you are always going to be with us, God. And I, I pray for just this community. God, I thank you for what you are doing here at Mosaic, Lord. We thank you for the people, people that you are bringing, God, we thank you for the life transformation that we see happening here week in and week out. So, God, I just pray that you would bless all of the volunteers and the small group leaders, God, and the people who make this happen, God. And I pray for more and more connections, Lord. Not so that we can grow attendance and fill seats, God, but so that the people who need you will find you.
It's in Jesus name pray.
Amen.
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