All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation;
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… church of Jesus Christ, we have a responsibility of racism. That's where 2 Corinthians 5.18, you're going to continue to hear me say it. And all of this is a gift from God who brought us back to himself through Christ. That's the reconciliation that Pastor Tommy was talking about. And God has given us. Who did he give it to? I said, who did he give it to? He has given it to us, believers. He's given us this task. What task? Of reconciling people to him. but you cannot reconcile anybody to him if they first don't touch you so we have to be reconciled to each other so that we can reconcile them to god for god was in christ reconciling the world to himself no longer counting people's skin i mean sin against them and he gave us this powerful wonderful message of reconciliation so we are Christ's ambassadors that's me and you God is making this part jacks me up every time God is making his appeal to the entire world through us through what you say through how you text through how you protest through how you love through who you hate. He is making his appeal through us. We, this is dangerous, we speak for Christ when we plead, come back to God. We also speak for Christ when we say we hate other people. …
This is the word of God for you, the people of God. Thanks be to God. Okay, imagine that you are an archaeologist. You're on a dig. You're sifting through artifacts that belong to an ancient culture. You're trying to understand a society that existed 2,000 years ago. As an archaeologist, you're wondering, what did these people care about? How did they spend their time? What did they worry over? What filled them with joy? What were their greatest triumphs as a civilization? What brought about their downfall? As you picture yourself in a pith helmet, digging through rusted bits and bobs, I want to offer one more piece of information to shape your imaginative journey. The year is 20, no, is 4026. And the culture that you're excavating belonged to a nation whose name appears on some of the coins that you've cleaned off. It called itself the United States of America. Okay, so do you remember the questions? What did these people care about? How did they spend their time? …
… The new is here. All of this is from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. God took all of our old broken patterns all of our old lusts and ways and all of our old issues and said out with the old and in with the new. You are not who you used to be. You have been transformed by the grace of Jesus. You're a new creation in Christ. Last Sunday, I was talking about not getting my real ID yet, not going to get my real ID. I just, I refuse to go to the DMV because I believe it's ran by the devil. I think Satan lives there and he's running that place and lo and behold on Wednesday morning I look on the calendar and at 10 30 there's a DMV appointment I said what is this and so I messaged our team and said is this for real and they said um this is for Julia and I said she would it's disgusting long story short she didn't go because she's sanctified and we still don't have our real IDs. But we're trying to talk about that old life is not who you are now. You have been made new in Christ. Out with the old and in with the new. I got new cravings. I've got new passions. I've got new desires. All of this happened the moment I received the free gift of grace. He took me from my old life into my new life. That's why Jesus said, if you want to inherit my kingdom, you must …