Welcome to OUTGOING. What does it mean to be priestly? Reflections on 1 Peter What does a life of...
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- Welcome to OUTGOING
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- What does it mean to be priestly? Reflections on 1 Peter What
does a life of priestliness look like in 1 Peter?
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- And can it be that I should gain An interest in the Saviors
blood? Died He for me, who caused His pain For me, who Him to death
pursued? Amazing love! How can it be, That Thou, my God, shouldst
die for me?
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- Tis mystery all: thImmortal dies: Who can explore His strange
design? In vain the firstborn seraph tries To sound the depths of
love divine. Tis mercy all! Let earth adore, Let angel minds
inquire no more.
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- He left His Fathers throne above So free, so infinite His grace
Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adams helpless race:
Tis mercy all, immense and free, For O my God, it found out
me!
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- Tis mercy all, immense and free, For O my God, it found out me!
Long my imprisoned spirit lay, Fast bound in sin and natures night;
Thine eye diffused a quickening ray I woke, the dungeon flamed with
light; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth,
and followed Thee.
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- No condemnation now I dread; Jesus, and all in Him, is mine;
Alive in Him, my living Head, And clothed in righteousness divine,
Bold I approach theternal throne, And claim the crown, through
Christ my own.
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- Who would you rather evangelise? Theo The Theist Alan The
Atheist
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- When you picture God, what do you imagine? When you picture
Jesus, what do you imagine? When God pictures you, what does He
imagine? What are your gut reactions...
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- 15 Christ is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over
all creation. 16 For by him all things were created: things in
heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or
powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and
for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold
together. Colossians 1
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- 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the
beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in
everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to
have all his fulness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile
to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven,
by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. Colossians
1
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- 21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your
minds because of your evil behaviour. 22 But now he has reconciled
you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in
his sight, without blemish and free from accusation 23 if you
continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the
hope held out in the gospel. Colossians 1
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- When you picture God, what do you imagine?
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- the invisible God
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- When you picture God, what do you imagine? John 1:18 No-one has
ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's
side, has made him known. the invisible God
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- When you picture God, what do you imagine? 21 Once you were
alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your
evil behaviour. the invisible God
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- When you picture God, what do you imagine? 21 Once you were
alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your
evil behaviour. Christ 15 Christ is the image of the invisible
God
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- When you picture God, what do you imagine? GOD Known
Unknown
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- When you picture God, what do you imagine? Known God
Unknown
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- When you picture God, what do you imagine? Known John 14
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- When you picture God, what do you imagine? Known John 14 6
Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one
comes to the Father except through me.
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- When you picture God, what do you imagine? Known John 14 7 If
you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on,
you do know him and have seen him.
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- When you picture God, what do you imagine? Known John 14 8
Philip said, Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for
us.
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- When you picture God, what do you imagine? Known John 14 9
Jesus answered: Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been
among you such a long time?
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- When you picture God, what do you imagine? Known John 14 Anyone
who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the
Father'?
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- When you picture God, what do you imagine? Known John 14 10
Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is
in me?
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- When you picture God, what do you imagine?
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- God is Jesus-Shaped
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- When you picture Jesus, what do you imagine? 15 Christ is the
image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For
by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth,
visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or
authorities; all things were created by him and for him. 17 He is
before all things, and in him all things hold together.
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- When you picture Jesus, what do you imagine? 18 And he is the
head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn
from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the
supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fulness dwell in
him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether
things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his
blood, shed on the cross.
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- When you picture Jesus, what do you imagine? Jesus is
God-Sized
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- God is Jesus-Shaped
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- When God pictures you, what does He imagine?
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- 21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your
minds because of your evil behaviour.
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- When God pictures you, what does He imagine? 22 But now he has
reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present
you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from
accusation
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- When God pictures you, what does He imagine? 22 But now he has
reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present
you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation 23
if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from
the hope held out in the gospel.
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- Jesus is God-Sized God is Jesus-Shaped
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- Coffee Time
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- Philippians 2 5 Have this mind among ourselves, which is yours
in Christ Jesus, 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider
equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but made himself
nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human
likeness.
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- Philippians 2 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he
humbled himself and became obedient to death even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the
name that is above every name,
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- Philippians 2 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should
bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every
tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father.
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- Isaiah 45:22 Before me every knee will bow and every tongue
confess.
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- 1 Corinthians 1 17 For Christ did not send me to baptise, but
to preach the gospel not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross
of Christ be emptied of its power. 18 For the message of the cross
is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being
saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written: I will destroy
the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will
frustrate.
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- 1 Corinthians 1 20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar?
Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the
wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world
through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the
foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22 Jews
demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom,
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- 1 Corinthians 1 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a
stumbling-block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to
those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power
of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is
wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than
man's strength.
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- What does this tell us about... Divinity? Gods heart towards
us? Us and our evangelism?
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- Divine beings created humanity in order for us to mine gold and
other precious materials for them. God created us to test us, to
see if good would triumph over evil. God created us so that we
could give him glory. TAKERS
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- Who is this God? 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor,
so that you through his poverty might become rich. 2 Corinthians
8:9 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though
he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through
his poverty might become rich. 2 Corinthians 8:9
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- What is glory?
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- If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom
you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me. John 8:54
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- 23 Jesus replied, The hour has come for the Son of Man to be
glorified. 24 I tell you the truth, unless a grain of wheat falls
to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it
dies, it produces many seeds. John 12:23-24
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- 31 When Judas was gone, Jesus said, Now is the Son of Man
glorified and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in
him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at
once. John 13:31
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- John 17:1-5 1 After Jesus said this, he looked towards heaven
and prayed: Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your
Son may glorify you. 2 For you granted him authority over all
people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given
him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only
true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4 I have brought
you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5 And
now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with
you before the world began. John 17:1-5
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- 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may
be one as we are one. 24 Father, I want those you have given me to
be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have
given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
John 17:22,24
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- What is glory?
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- Lordship
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- Majesty
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- Strength
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- Wisdom
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- Holiness
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- Jesus shows us God is Giver Therefore, repent and believe the
good news!
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- I dont believe there is a god and Im not sure I want one!
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- Thou who wast rich beyond all splendour, All for loves sake
becamest poor; Thrones for a manger didst surrender, Sapphire-paved
courts for stable floor. Thou who wast rich beyond all splendour,
All for loves sake becamest poor.
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- Thou who art God beyond all praising, All for loves sake
becamest man; Stooping so low, but sinners raising Heavenward by
thine eternal plan. Thou who art God beyond all praising, All for
loves sake becamest man.
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- Thou who art love beyond all telling, Saviour and King, we
worship thee. Emmanuel, within us dwelling, Make us what thou
wouldst have us be. Thou who art love beyond all telling, Saviour
and King, we worship thee.
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- Recommended Reading:Colossians How does Jesus shape: our view
of God our view of ourselves our view of ministry our view of the
world around us
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- NEXT WEEK... The Surprising God Jesus is not the God of the pub
discussion or the philosophy department. Exploiting the shock value
of Jesus in evangelism!