Message Notes - May 12th, 2024
Message Notes -
May 12th, 2024
Metrics
Metric #1 – Quality vs. Presentation
Acts 19:8–16 (NIV)
8 | Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God.
9 | But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way. So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
10 | This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord.
11 | God did extraordinary miracles through Paul,
12 | so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.
13 | Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, “In the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.”
14 | Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.
15 | One day the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?”
16 | Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.
Matthew 7:22 (NIV)
22 | Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’
Metric #2 – Competition vs Cohesion
Ephesians 4:1-16 (NIV)
1 | As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
2 | Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
3 | Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
4 | There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;
5 | one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
6 | one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
7 | But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.
8 | This is why it says: “When he ascended on high, he took many captives and gave gifts to his people.”
9 | (What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions ?
10 | He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.)
11 | So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers,
12 | to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up
13 | until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
14 | Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.
15 | Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
16 | From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
Metric #3 : Self vs Savior
Proverbs 23:26 (NIV)
26 | My son, give me your heart and let your eyes delight in my ways,
Metrics
Metric #1 – Quality vs. Presentation
Acts 19:8–16 (NIV)
8 | Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God.
9 | But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way. So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
10 | This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord.
11 | God did extraordinary miracles through Paul,
12 | so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.
13 | Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, “In the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.”
14 | Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.
15 | One day the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?”
16 | Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.
Matthew 7:22 (NIV)
22 | Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’
Metric #2 – Competition vs Cohesion
Ephesians 4:1-16 (NIV)
1 | As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
2 | Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
3 | Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
4 | There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;
5 | one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
6 | one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
7 | But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.
8 | This is why it says: “When he ascended on high, he took many captives and gave gifts to his people.”
9 | (What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions ?
10 | He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.)
11 | So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers,
12 | to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up
13 | until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
14 | Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.
15 | Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
16 | From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
Metric #3 : Self vs Savior
Proverbs 23:26 (NIV)
26 | My son, give me your heart and let your eyes delight in my ways,