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James 1:2-18 | Pastor Scott Lackey

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God’s blessing on the man who endures testing! When he has passed the test, he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. - James 1:12

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Nobody being tested should say, “It’s God that’s testing me,” for God cannot be tested by evil, and he himself tests nobody. - James 1:13

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Endure the test of trials

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“My dear family, when you find yourselves tumbling into various trials and tribulations, learn to look at it with total joy…” - James 1:2

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because you know that, when your faith is put to the test, what comes out is patience. What’s more, you must let patience have its complete effect, so that you may be complete and whole, not falling short in anything. - James 1:3-4

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We know, in fact, that God works all things together for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose. - Romans 8:28

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Endure the test of compromise

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If any one of you falls short in wisdom, they should ask God for it, and it will be given them. God, after all, gives generously and ungrudgingly to all people. But they should ask in faith, with no doubts. A person who doubts is like a wave of the sea which the wind blows and tosses about. Someone like that should not suppose they will receive anything from the Lord, since they are double-minded and unstable in everything they do.  - James 1:5-8

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“James does not demand that a believer never question what God gives them, lest their faith prove null and void. Rather, given the context, he maintains that we should not doubt the character of God as one who gives unflinchingly. To doubt his character can also imply that a person is unwilling to trust God with their life or that they do not believe that he is who he claims to be.”- Blomberg and Kamell

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Endure the test of Money

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Brothers and sisters who find themselves impoverished should celebrate the fact that they have risen to this height—and those who are rich, that they are brought down low, since the rich will disappear like a wildflower. You see, the rich will be like the grass: when the sun rises with its scorching heat, it withers the grass so that its flower droops and all its fine appearance comes to nothing. That’s what it will be like when the rich wither away in the midst of their busy lives.  - James 4:9-11

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17 What about people who are rich in this present world? Tell them not to think of themselves too highly, and to set their hopes, not on something so uncertain as riches, but on the God who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. 18 They are to do good, to be rich in good works, generous and eager to share. - 1 Timothy 6:17-18

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Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask for things back when people have taken them. - Luke 6:30

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God’s blessing on the man who endures testing! When he has passed the test, he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. - James 1:12

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Helpful tips for tests #1: Resist Sin

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Rather, each person is tested when they are dragged off and enticed by their own desires.  Then desire, when it has conceived, gives birth to sin; and when sin reaches maturity it gives birth to death.  Don’t be deceived, my dear family. - James 1:14-16

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Helpful tips for tests #2: God is the supplier of all that is good.

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Every good gift, every perfect gift, comes down from above, from the father of lights. His steady light doesn’t vary. It doesn’t change and produce shadows.  He became our father by the word of truth; that was his firm decision, and the result is that we are a kind of first fruits of his creatures. - James 1:17-18

James 1:19-27 | Pastor Scott Lackey

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Why Sabbath? | Pastor Scott Lackey

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Practicing the Way | Pastor Scott Lackey

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We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ. - Colossians 1:28

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Create space to become like Jesus.

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What is practicing the way? 

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Why is it called "the way"? 

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Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord’s disciples, went to the high priest and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way,  either men or women, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem. - Acts 9:1-2

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But I confess this to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors according to the Way (which they call a sect), believing everything that is according to the law and that is written in the prophets. - Acts 24:14

Becoming a Cruciform community | Pastor Scott Lackey

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But when I saw that they weren’t walking straight down the line of gospel truth, I said to Cephas in front of them all: “Look here: you’re a Jew, but you’ve been living like a Gentile. How can you force Gentiles to become Jews?” - Galatians 2:14 (NTFE)

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Create Space to participate in the Cruciform community

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Cruciformity: Participating in the process of death and resurrection with Christ; this participation forms human beings into the likeness of Christ.

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The Cross must shape our Christian community

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15 We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, 16 yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified. - Galatians 2:15-16

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“Justification, then, is about reconciliation with God and membership in God’s covenant community.” - Dr. Michael Gorman

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17 But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not! 18 But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law. - Galatians 2:17-18

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Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.”  - Luke 24:44

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Justification is participation (co-crucifixion)

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19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. - Galatians 2:19-20

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“Paul now tells the story of the Messiah’s death and resurrection as his own story.” - N.T. Wright

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I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing! - Galatians 2:21

Create Space for God | Pastor Scott Lackey

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Creating Space Episode 3: Why are people walking away from Church? - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creating-space/id1730849984?i=1000654300746

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Create

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Thus, if anyone is in the Messiah, there is a new creation! Old things have gone, and look—everything has become new! - 2nd Corinthians 5:17

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Create Space to join God in the New Story he is writing.

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Embrace your part in joining God’s New Story.

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So we are ambassadors, speaking on behalf of the Messiah, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore people on the Messiah’s behalf to be reconciled to God. - 2nd Corinthians 5:20

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Start serving and giving

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34 “Tell me,” said the eunuch to Philip, “who is the prophet talking about? Himself or someone else?” 35 Then Philip took a deep breath and, starting from this biblical passage, told him the good news about Jesus. 36 As they were going along the road, they came to some water. “Look!” said the eunuch. “Here is some water! What’s to stop me from being baptized?” 38 So he gave orders for the chariot to stop, and both of them went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch together, and he baptized him.  - Acts 8:34-38

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Holy | Pastor Scott Lackey

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You are Chosen | Lisa Griffiths

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To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood:
Grace and peace be yours in abundance. 
1 Peter 1:1-2

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For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. Deuteronomy 7:6

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And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great;
And so you shall be a blessing; And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.
Genesis 12:2-3

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Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’
Exodus 19:5-6 

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For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.
1 Peter 1:18-21

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Salvation | Pastor Scott Lackey

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Salvation requires a Savior

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Today your Savior is born in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord. - Luke 2:11

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And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. - 1 John 4:14

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This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, that has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved.” - Acts 4:11-12

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Salvation = Rescue

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Moses said to the people, “Do not fear! Stand firm and see the salvation of the Lord that he will provide for you today; for the Egyptians that you see today you will never, ever see again. - Exodus 14:13

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The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him. - Exodus 15:2

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Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you. - Psalm 51:12 (NLT)

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For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son - Colossians 1:13 (NLT)

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Salvation can be process

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So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence, for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort—for the sake of his good pleasure—is God. - Philippians 2:12-13

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They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Reverential awe came over everyone, and many wonders and miraculous signs came about by the apostles. All who believed were together and held everything in common, and they began selling their property and possessions and distributing the proceeds to everyone, as anyone had need. Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts, praising God and having the good will of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day those who were being saved. - Acts 2:42-47

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For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. - 1 Corinthians 1:18

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For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. - 2nd Corinthians 2:15

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Jesus is the Gospel. Salvation is one of the benefits of the Gospel.

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Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David; such is my gospel - 2nd Timothy 2:8