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511 Relight Your Fire

Somewhere between killing a giant and allowing his men to go to war without him, David lost his desire to bow down and worship God.

It was a slow fade.

It didn’t happen overnight.

And it probably happened with a subtlety that couldn’t be noticed by anyone in human flesh.

And so it happened.

2 Samuel 11 2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her.

“And David sent someone to find out about her” … 

Finding out about a person in the wrong context is a recipe for disaster.  What we need to do is find out about God.  And David knew this.  In his quiet times watching over sheep he was slowly trained by God to take down a Philistine giant.  And he did.  In front of everyone, he stood with the head of a great warrior and sent evil packing.  The Hebrew army absolutely decimated the Philistines in reaction to the actions of one man.

But it slowly decayed to David shifting his worship to something else.

Himself.

And, as all of us find out when we truly look in the mirror, we are short of the ten trillion dollar payment that is necessary to even pay the lawyer’s retainer to defend us before the accuser of the brethren.

2 Samuel 12 1 The Lord sent Nathan to David……” 5 David burned with anger…”As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

David decayed to a place where EVEN DAVID wanted to bring justice to himself.

But isn’t that just it?

Romans 3 verse 23 reminds us that we are ALL GUILTY, that God could not find even one worthy of righteousness.  A colossal failure of all man that requires a Savior.

And so He came.

And He came to destroy all that we had built.

And He did.

So today … remind yourself of this.

Because without Jesus—we have NOTHING.

NOTHING.

And we would do well to remind ourselves of this—every day.

Because without it, we are a victorious king standing on a porch in the wrong place looking at something that we have no business putting our eyes on….

So RELIGHT YOUR FIRE.  Remember who you are in your BC days.

It’s an ugly picture.

RELIGHT YOUR FIRE

As I sat in reflection and worship today, I was reminded of this song.  To cry out to God, and to truly mean it, is our only connection to Him.  To be able to cry out to Jesus and to say “I can’t do this” is not only okay … it is necessary.  He is the only one that can help us.

RELIGHT YOUR FIRE

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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499 FCA Longmont High School April 18 2025

  1.  He Was Driven From The Synagogue To Tell You

Isaiah 61 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me To …

He Is Beyond Your Idea Of Time

When Jesus uttered “today this prophesy has been fulfilled” He was claiming to be God.  But more than that, Jesus was saying, just as it says in John 1, I was with God in the beginning … the Genesis 1 beginning.  SHOCKING!  Read Isaiah 61 and then Luke 4:16-19.

  1.  He Destroyed The Temple Passover To Tell You

John 2 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 

He Cares About Injustice

In the most tyrannical political system that we could imagine, ONE man started a riot.  In John 2 and Isaiah 61, Jesus begins a ministry that sets in motion his road to a brutal execution.  He knows this, yet STAYS THE COURSE.  Read John 2.

  1.  He Touched A Leper To Tell You

Matthew 8 2 A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”

3 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” 

He Is Not Afraid Of Your Mess

How can this Royal Official do this?  This is like the president of the United States climbing, in his suit, down into sewer to hug those covered in their mess.

  1.  He Met A Reject At The Well To Tell You

John 4 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

He’s Not In Your Group

In John 4, Jesus shows that He Cares NOTHING About Your Gender, Political Affiliations, Socio Economic Status, Popularity, or any of it.  When you realize this—you won’t want it anymore either!  Read John 4.

  1.  He Said It Is Finished To Tell You

John 19 30 “It is finished.”

He Is Paying Your ENTIRE Bill

The bottom line:  You owe 50 Billion dollars and He is going to pay it off in one swoop.  Unfathomable!  Take an assessment of your life and decide if you need this Jesus.

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492 Tetelestai

So much of what Jesus taught about referenced money.  It was his way to teach us in a way that we could understand.  And when He walked into the Temple on Passover and cleared it out, He showed everyone how much He cared about money.

It wasn’t just about the money to Him.

It was the idea of people getting ripped off.

And He was to have none of it.

And so He made His cord and sent everyone into backpedal mode.

Fast forward to the end of Jesus ministry.  This action at the temple directly lead to Him being executed.  And in His last moments, He was executed in the most humiliating fashion.

The meaning of the word Tetelestai in the Greek is “it is finished”.  It is the final words of Jesus as recorded in John 19:30.  It makes sense that this was the last thing uttered by Jesus on the cross as He gave up His life.

The interesting part about this is that this is not the only way Tetelestai was used.  The Greek word “tetelestai” was also used in business during Jesus’ time to indicate a debt or bill had been paid in full.  And this changes this entire situation, especially to the seeker.

As I saw this beautiful word on a tattoo yesterday, it brought up an interesting conversation at track practice.  In conversation with a young man who I coach and who I know very well, I asked:  “Why would someone utter ‘IT IS PAID IN FULL’ right before they died?”

There is only one thing that makes sense to me.

Jesus died for me (and you) to pay off a debt that we couldn’t.

He paid debts that we owe, and continue to owe.

But Romans 5 states:

Romans 5 20 The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more 

The trespass?  It is Paid In Full.

I can’t outdo on the evil side what He did on the side of grace…and neither can you.

This is incredible.

And it is my testimony moving forward.

He can forgive.

He can forgive me and He can forgive you.

For God is the ONLY one who can set out in a situation and make it so all of us can win.

Thank You Jesus.

Tetelestai

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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491 Blessed …

So much of the Old Testament is hard to read.  Blessings and Curses … and a lot of rules.  But only if you read it without considering who wrote it.

John 1 says “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.  He was with God from the beginning”

Let me say this again:  He was with God from the beginning.

Yes.  Jesus.  He was with God from the beginning.

So let’s read this through those glasses:

Deuteronomy 28 6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. 

As you move forward in your life, God wants to bless you as you arrive and when you leave.

What a promise!

Now certainly we need to read one small verse and seek to understand it by putting it in context with the entire passage and the entire book.  At the beginning of Deuteronomy 28 it says:

Deuteronomy 28 1 If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.

IF.  IF we fully obey.

Certainly God is not asking us to be perfect.  Noah found favor in his eyes.  So did David.  So did Abraham.  And ALL of them made major mistakes that made them far from perfect.

In reading this in context, I think His point is for us to do each of these items:

  1.   Trading Pride For Repentance

Proverbs 16 18 “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall”

  1.   Trading Religion For Worship/Devotion

1 Samuel 13 14 But now your kingdom will not endure; the Lord has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him ruler of his people, because you have not kept the Lord’s command.”

  1.   Realizing The Magnitude Of Our Forgiveness

1 Timothy 1 15 Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst.

In these three things, we have a chance … to receive the promise of Deuteronomy 28:6.

Deuteronomy 28 6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

So I encourage you this very day to raise your hands to the heavens and cry out the Living God … to thank Him for loving you beyond your sin.  He is worthy of our praises.  He is greater than our sins.  And He is certainly worthy to save.

And that makes you, and me, Blessed …

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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