Multiplication renewal: Watch your dirt
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Multiplication renewal: Watch your dirt

God’s word is the seed of God’s life; his word is capable of fulfilling God’s plans. Living in a fallen world creates challenges for God’s blessing to flourish and for life to multiply. Whether is predators, inhospitable conditions, or competition from aggressive life forms, life in a fallen world has become a struggle. Nevertheless, there are still places where life finds conditions to grow and multiply. In the end, our response to God’s word will determine the kind of life we live and multiply.

Multiplication in a fallen world: Eating from the wrong tree
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Multiplication in a fallen world: Eating from the wrong tree

God’s original plan for humanity was fruitfulness. Ironically, in Genesis 3 it is eating from the wrong fruit that causes humanity to plunge into sin. It is fruit that reveals the fullness of God’s blessing and fruit that caused us to fall into the emptiness of death. True fruitfulness is the result of life-giving faithfulness. Conversely, consuming the fruit of faithlessness results in death. In this chapter, we will explore the reality of sin as unbelief and rebellion against God’s revealed word resulting in our inability to attain God’s blessing of fruitfulness apart from his grace.

Multiply: God’s life-giving blessing
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Multiply: God’s life-giving blessing

Life multiplication is the DNA of God’s blessing. We were made in God’s image to multiply his image. Because of sin, the image of God was defaced. Through Jesus Christ, the image of God is restored in humanity and God’s blessing renewed. Discipleship multiplication is and has always been God’s life-giving plan.

The Fundamentals: it’s all or nothing!
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The Fundamentals: it’s all or nothing!

"What are the non-negotiables for a happy life?

God has established the fundamentals on which our relationship with Him must be based. In a world drowning in its own self-sufficiency, surrendering your life, time, talents, hopes, dreams, and treasures is anything but intuitive. Can you see how it is all related to our natural state of corruption? The deeper we dive into humanism, the farther we get from the true state of joy we can only find in the One True God.

God is inviting you to recognize His greatness and to love Him with all your heart, soul, and might. Are you willing to give Him your all?"

The Word: God from whom all blessings flow
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The Word: God from whom all blessings flow

Grace and truth are two ends of the tension that God has had to navigate to bring us into relationship with him. Because of our sin the gospel proclaims that we deserve to die. This is truth. But because of God’s love God does not want us to die. So in his grace God provided a way for us not to have to. Jesus’ incarnation is God’s way. The gospel proclaims the God who satisfied his truth through his love and grace. Jesus’ incarnation proclaims the God who gives himself to give to those who have nothing on their own.

The Word: Seeker of the lost
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The Word: Seeker of the lost

In a world overwhelmed by darkness, God speaks his light. God spoke in many ways to the father’s through the prophets but in these last days he has spoken through the Son (Heb. 1:1-2). The Word came to the world to seek and save the lost. God’s light enters into the realm of darkness to shine life upon those who dwell in the valley of the shadow of death. Jesus’ incarnation means that we may be found, even when we feel most lost.

The Word: Builder of new beginnings
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The Word: Builder of new beginnings

Jesus is God’s Living Word upholding the universe together. In a world of chaos and confusion, Jesus is God’s Word offering us new beginnings. Jesus is the master craftsman builder (tekton Matthew 13:55) able to rebuild our lives. Jesus’ incarnation means that we may begin again.

Faithful to the end!
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Faithful to the end!

The race may be long but his grace is enough. In this final section, Paul encourages the Thessalonians to stay faithful to the end holding fast to their faith, hope, and love trusting in the power of God’s grace to fully sanctify their lives.

A hope beyond this world
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A hope beyond this world

This world tells us that death is the end of all things. Not so for believers in Jesus Christ. In these verses, Paul tells us the gospel is the good news proclaiming that death itself will one day be undone. This hope, bound to the return of Jesus Christ is the essence of the promise of the resurrection. Encouragement, not despair, is what waits Christians for their future. In a world that is hopeless and dark, the gospel is the light that paves our way home.

God’s will for our lives
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God’s will for our lives

What is God’s will for my life? Every believer has to wrestle with this question in the course of life. In this passage, Paul answers this question unequivocally by saying that God’s will for our lives is sanctification. Sanctification is the process by which we are set apart to live lives that are pleasing to God and are lived according to his revealed word. Several areas will be addressed here (sexuality, marriage, community, employment) all of which are important to be the kind of people that can turn the world upside down.