SIGNAL CHURCH CAPE TOWN
Hannah Brown:- Jesus: The Personal Touch pt.31
So guys, it's so good to be here with you. I'm really excited to be up there. And I'm very grateful to have some friends who have been here as well. Thank you. So in the hand, I'm happy to be here in it. I echo my comments, good to be up to that. Okay, before we start, I want to invite you to take a look at this little girl. Not that one. (audience laughing) (audience mumbling) You're looking at probably one of the most famous sopropical things of all time. I began a girl by C. McCurray in 1995 and was on site at the National Geographic. Words are quite useless and extremely important. Why is so bad this is hard for you, right? It's your face. And without words, we know that behind this face lies not just an intellectual concept of person, but a soul and life, a story, something very sensitive. That's a human face of those words, isn't it? Now, I think that today is a personal touch of Jesus. And that's quite interesting because I am turning up here looking at about 200 faces. Which is a little bit daunting, because 200 faces need to remember the stories. Stories that are not there. Just as we've never heard of the full story and show back through the African girl, I don't know how we're putting it into this face today. I'm going to set it next little while exploring a personal touch of Jesus. I feel like it would be much more fitting if you need to set this down and have a ton of conversations with each of you rather than to say on this side of the world, as one to the middle. And I think it will be well, honestly, I believe in guitar to take a dialogue with Jesus' ability to touch lives personally. His ability to not simply disseminate God through to the crowd, but to meet a singular person, based face, to see them, to know them, for them to be, see, be, know. So if you're talking with us before you're coming again after a while, you join us today in the middle of a murder series that we started back in January, where we're taking a deep dive into the person of Jesus, one of the most controversial and influential figures in all of history. And for many of us today, one who has touched our eyes personally. You see, alongside the physical reality of our sitting here in this room on a few streets this morning, and the emotional reality of how that feels to each verse, there's a spiritual reality going on here as well. We're not just body and soul, we're body, soul and spirits. And the spiritual reality is that there is a God who can speak to each of our spirits personally today. That's what I'm praying for. I just want to just pray that very good for Jesus' sake. We welcome you, we invite your touch first. We do touch us personally, as only you know now. I just encourage you to be open to that as we dive into this subject. We have a privilege to check forward on our business nights, and to be present intentionally to God, to each other and to ourselves in this moment. It's not something we get space to do in the rest of the week. And that's why I thought we could judge. That's why you said, I didn't probably say that. I couldn't say that, I couldn't say that, I couldn't say that. And I'm glad I'm there, I'm glad I'm here today. Okay, let's dive in. And I want you to speak of senses where we go. We're basically going to do a bit of a fire through Jesus' life. And I'm assuming in on some of the certain encounters, and another time I'm assuming I have to get a bigger sense of the whole, all in the view of this castle. And our first stop is Nate. Nate, I'm very happy that you're done there. My name is Hannah Francis, driven by my playing panel on the old Christmas riches. I'm part of this family here. And I'm going to grace and Francis means real. Grace, real. I love my name, and it's been a part of my story. Some of it I want to learn later. But first stop on our fire is 95th, by the fourth conception of Jesus' giving, not one, but two, nays. One, it's giving the nays and it's God, saves. It's giving the nays and it's God saves. It's giving the nays and it's God saves. Name two, all there's a place to fulfill what the Lord has said through the proper, the spiritual needs, try not to give birth to a son. And we'll call him in manly love, but he's God with us. God saves God with us. And Nate is straight away at both arms and sections of a God who is distant, in a personal and judgmental. And he says, no, this is God who is personal and close. God who is with, and God who lives out that existence in 33 years, as a human on earth. God saves God with us. Not God judges, I can go far from the head and go on close. Last bullet, 20 years, and our next stop, which is supposed to be a bit like the 18th of an Instagram by a bit. We've got a limited number of characters that express the world, essence of who you are and what you're about. Don't let our teacher in here think they're right. (audience laughs) Nice two shots of when Microsoft's read and pick the energy. (audience laughs) I can try to know those things. I did spend quite a long time thinking if they were self-affirming biased. He thought, I'm over the power, I'm over peeking, held similar, I'm over the plate in the light. (audience laughs) But Jesus fits the ground once allotted. And he said they have his first public speaking experience, launching his topic in history with a band. It's recorded in the week, chapter two. And this is what it says. Jesus went up to NASA, where did he have been brought up? And on the Sabbath day, he went into the synagogue as was his captain, and he stood up to read. Now he's going to try and implement many of us, but I want you to imagine for a moment that you're innocent about. You're listening to someone reading the Torah as happens normally, and the following are the thoughts. The skull of the puppet, as I was answering it, unrolling it in the fireplace where it is written. The spirit of the sovereign law is on me, because he has anointed me to speak good names to the people. He has said it to the claim of freedom for the prisoners and the recovery of sight from the bonnet, to release the express and proclaim the air that the gods are here. He then rolled up his throne, gave it to day to day and sat down, that I have sought everyone in the synagogue with a false new kingdom. And he began by saying, today, this scripture is so filled in the dark, amen. Like an instrument by who gives us that headline of what he's about, God is breaking into human history for very ancient promises of the Old Testament and bringing radical transformation and freedom to our humanity trapped in safety, lives, sickness, and darkness. - Yeah. - It's a bold bio. And if you don't be on personal journey of healing, transformation, or healing, like he's talking about, you'll know that that journey is a key thing is, hard growth, painful, yes, beautiful, but very deep and very personal. See to anyone who has wrestled the challenge of addiction, relationship breakdown, chronic pain, forgiveness, you may get the germinity and the germin is tassel. It's like Jesus declares, we're going deep, guys. Those things that are very deep, we're going deep, hallelu, freedom of life is something. - Yeah. - One and a hundred of God saves, God with. Let's stop two. And we've done two, I'm going to put this in stock, but now I'm going to do much more about sweeping fly-in. And he's made these promises that he's going to bring the freedom and transformation that the proof has to be in the pit. Now, I know that's not a very good decision, I said that, but I'm going to show the proof has to be in the pit. And what I need to say is, there's an actual, he reaches, there's a historian, Paul Johnson, he answers that question like this. Jesus' life was a series of public meetings concentrated by casual countries which turns into significant events. Jesus not only encourages countless, but treasure them, these episodes are often read from the human core of the New Testament and provide a unique satisfaction to the media. There is nothing like them in the entire literature and the information as well. Safe break, I'm so glad. And he's not wrong, what we see in Jesus' life is a series of encounters with the most diverse type of individuals. You can imagine touching every corner of society. In fact, there are between 50 and 60 different accounts of having a positive individual, depending on how you pronounce it. And there's a few these people in this that we need to be interested in right now. So Chappelle, we're going to do a social software of who those people are. So first up, we've got Mary, this mother, a teenage girl from a small noir town. We have a pair of newlyweds, and a legged man who failed his one job. Tyler, a sick L.E. mother, who is an infant eater, touch, touch, fruit, and look at things. Some of you who have a late day in summers of thunder, I mean, go for it. John about this is as wild as spirit filled with Jewish puppets, but a bit of the red contagion in the mountain, and we've got a man who can see out past the society's comfy, highly effective disease. And we meet in demons, a high status, spiritually curious, Jewish religious edict, I've followed that open by the Samaritan women and well, displaced by my life decisions, and their series of five husbands, and a race. Welcome to both these two characters later. Then we meet Simon and Giles and a number of other Pharisees, and they're members of the Jewish and the religious elite. They meet Levi's, he has various other tax collectors who are corrupt, really, traitors of the Jewish people who work for the Romans. We meet a full dose of people with physical disabilities, supply of the carot or meat, play, and death. Next up, we meet in Romans, a curious, a pinnacle of fitness, in that civilization and the civic media, fruits and children, forests, and a cynical constitution to the dealiness of s, a woman with the eating conditions that rented her son very unclean. And then his friends, Mary and Arthur, muffle with a bit of a work on this as popular. He said, "Is as easy as to crush and fickle "right-hand man, judious, friend, "and follow up the turn of betrayal?" Then his life is so cold. "Do I know you've done it in another area? "A group of financially savvy, well-reasoned, "who funded a dysentistry from their own pockets? "A rich young ruler, wealthy leader in this society, "bore in the destitute, widows. "High-level of the Roman government thinks guilty "of a crime, where in another position." I think the diversity of that must cease for itself. But if we were to attempt to contextualize what that spread might look like today, I wonder if it might look something like this. That open is that it's a question in your work way, and you've really been up to the associated way. That friend had a moral existential and spiritual crisis. Manual labor, the time it's seen as still in those straits and habits along with young rulers, male, picked out, and other civic leaders in our society. Between the young children, we've got upstairs in your family, your children to schools, along with a wealthy, high-five corporate elites. We're talking about a person you had in a place when we left their thousands hits, along with our respected cultural leaders of our day, whoever they may be in your relationship to the circles. We're talking about today outside the normal circumstances of society who can learn the ones who you feel about homes, as well as our politicians engaged in same culture. We're talking a spirit-filled, passionate faith leaders along with prostitutes. People with physical disabilities, sickness, illness, whether they're visible or invisible, and you're a great leader of what happens and for those who are mutually astute. And when I first sat down and made this mess of the scope of people whom Jesus touches, I quickly realized I would actually be just someone who wanted to live. Forgive me this, I'm not aware, I can't stop. I would be just negative serious. So keep coming along, let over next. Why I want to do some of them, we have a lot. But you see, I wanted to add a personal touch. Jesus consistently sorted in the individual, in the crowd, established intimacy with them, met the ministering with them because he wanted something from them, only because he wanted something more there. And the things that we take advantage of today like intrinsic power in the human life regard us as gender, race, age, or background. All religious and secular historians alike who couldn't do this. And we're putting him in Jack Derrida, who if you know of him, it's one of the most famous secular sources of the 20th century. He said this, "There will be no such thing as day." It's included this understanding of the human body and the human mind, with today that opportunity for the next and medical heritage. Before the family of Jesus agreed well for you most of the entirely on conviction that there exists a natural hierarchy. Some men have wanted to mount on this survey. But in direct conflict in Christianity could use the notion that people would recall the dignity. An unprecedented idea at the time and one to which the unwell of those is entirely unfair to the motives. And the few most influential press models have lost this of the 10th century. And think back to that next survey just a little through. Can we hear a little like this? You're going even on a road consciously at animal factions, and I think that's how we start to use the language of their straightforward way, creating the subtle dimensions of my practice and not my practice. As Tara said in the last week's email newsletter you can sign up for our website and you can see those. These tips are easily into talking about people in the language of them and us. When we take this zoomed out, we need to ask who are the Jesus types? This concept of the Father is supposed to be blown down in the water. In the story of the Kingdom of God that list that I just read is not a list of others, it is a list of us this. - Yeah. - And also people, these 200 faces in heaven this morning, ask each person's story in Jesus' type of view. So are you tempted to read animal symbolism? He wants you to read. Are you oppressed by sickness and ill health? He wants to restore. Are you imprisoned by your own failure? He wants you out. Are you insane by the God of Satan who sucks? He wants you to release. Do you feel like the last, the least, and the lost? He wants you in. - Yeah. - Yes, sure, Jesus has some bold things to say about himself and about the recipe for human version that he certainly does not have a title. Rich, poor, morally up high, morally dubious, healthy, sick, greedy, destitute. He is into the Lord of us. So whatever your story, Jesus wants to touch. And personally, how it saves God with... And for the last bit of our time together, I want to just dive into two specific personal councils with Jesus that happen almost like that in John and Mary and John and God, to the demons and the Samaritan woman. In first sight, the demons, this is in John chapter three. From a meeting in the demons we get, it is a parasy. It's a member of the San Adrian, church's ruling household. That means he is the funniest of the lot when it comes to about understanding the church scriptures and living it out. In the religious talk of framework of personal Judaism, the killing was made, he was in, he had knowledge, he had power, he had status, he had security. And so you would think, this is very interesting that I'll just say as well around peace, and this is very early, you would think he had peace for the Lord. And yet, where does he find himself under the cover of darkness, one night, introduces him, knocking on Jesus' door? Now we don't know exactly what he wants to do, but it is not unreasonable to assume that seeking Jesus out would not do too well for his status amongst his hits. And if then, murder was responses to Jesus later on, and to go by, then it seems as fair assumption. And the killing of sons not came one night, he's curious and confused. And the way he needs to solve him out of them is interaction. Learn the Lord, keep the Lord, learn the Lord, keep the Lord, do better than anyone else. But this guy, Jesus, is shaping up like he needs a second squared. So he can't afford you for this, I promise. And the person he says, he asks Jesus, then he just alerts, "Rabbi, we know you're a teacher, "who is something God, for no one could perform "the miraculous signs you're doing. "It's God, we're not with him." You know if you just blow your mind at someone and you're like, "Okay, I'm a pixie, thanks." It's such a pleasure, please. It's like, "I don't know what to do." It's like, "I don't know what to do." You just want to bring Jesus out. Jesus, you do not get in my grip for faithless and success. And how to do this with heart. In the fight, Jesus said, "I'll tell you in truth, "no one can see the kingdom of God unless it's all again." So he said, "The kingdom of God unless it's all again." So if the kingdom is fixed, very confused, like, "I don't know why you're doing this. "I don't know what you're doing. "How's that going to work?" He's operating in the literal realm. And so Jesus elaborates, "I tell you in truth, "no one can enter the kingdom of God unless it's all "of water and the spirits. "Let's do so for flesh, but the spirit gives birth to spirit. "The wind blows wherever it pleases. "You hear it sound, but you cannot tell "where it comes from or where it is going. "So it is everyone aboard of the spirit." It's actually He says in the English, "The way you're coming at this problem, "while it needs our whole overhaul. "Be a spiritual type, not being an intellectual understanding. "Be a spiritual reserve. "And you know what? "It is not something you can reach "by the strength of your own mind or rule to claim. "It's something that happens by the spirit "that glows like the wind." (laughing) No, no Italian. I am a recovering with deans. We all live in a house, and then I just like the wind. (laughing) But you know what, I don't like, I'm kind of windy, but Jesus talks about it here. This is like a deans. I just quite like to make my own need and success. Thank you very much. I'm confident that people have access to resources, and so to build my own need is no risk, higher or worse, safe, and achievable. I'm like this weird, a place where I wear pieces. Do you know what, I'm not alone pretty well, but I don't like the time of making my own need. I don't realize I'm going to deep down underneath. The question of who I was, if I was as good at everything I did, was the one that I didn't actually have an answer to. And now my friend says how Jesus is touched, and I like the way he says to me. The age 19, when I get early burnout, 'cause I was exhausted of feeling the good girl at school, at home, and at church, and I couldn't do it anymore, I didn't know who I was without my sins. Things that I thought were my safe hands, my success, were actually my prison and my captivity. But God saves, and God is with. And as I face the emptiness of that abyss, emptiness in this mind, another Jesus wants you from the slavery of perfectionism and the boys. And I experience my Jesus' guide to the forgiveness of sin. At nine in my successes, or my failure is to find my work or talk the weight of my new year. And I have worn it a family of God, not by my efforts, achievements, or intellectual ability, but by a complete spiritual rebirth, by the power of every sin. That's the place of all, the Christians, which is referred to as bliss. I'll just have a minute. Great. Like epidemics, we all exist in various cultural codes of the longing and success. But epidemics, it was strict religious tactics. For you, making it a kind of Christian or religious success in the armies of others. In seeing both of us, it's what makes it seem, it's so well reflected. Making it about career and financial success. Making it about wellness, climate-conscious, keen at it. Making it a middle class family, dreamy, married, kids, master of holidays. Making it about the career of the life of a digital moment to go wherever the world is. No, I'm not having these things, but they're not designed to hold the weights of our unit. When they start to, when the rules of the palace of success, it's like to look more like a prison. We start to monitor and say something new. And the answer is yes, the offer of complete spiritual rebirth by the power of the Holy Spirit and the personal touch of Jesus. Maybe you've changed it up and forth. Well, the good news is the offer is still there. It's all again. It's always there. And promise of Jesus makes a lot of money for your promise. Our last stop is another zoon in the book. At the very next test of Jesus's offer, like the demons, which is not a mortal thing. My little demons wasn't there yet in terms of the cultural rules of status and belonging. This was then a lesson. Firstly, she's a woman. Now, that is not a moral failure in her heart. But at that time, the women who are considered a false citizen of this. Second issue, the Samaritan. Now, due to a complex history, either Jesus's Samaritans is worth going to right now. That meant she would be considered a like quote, a half read by the Jews. Jesus's Samaritans were not famous. In fact, when traveling from a Galilee to Judaism area was in between the two, Jewish people would take it short all the way around. So it's a boy who's traveling through America. And so I'm trying to mute about bias and a notch. However, Jesus in chapter four, as normal, does something different. Traveling from Jerusalem when he went into the demons back together, he passes directly through the scenario. And he returned to the area called Cyprus. This is really enough for John chapter four. Jacob's well was there. And Jesus died as he was in the journey sat down by the light. It was about you. And Samaritans were going to change, you know, try to. Now, our first cue is something unusual is going on there is the time of day. If this is a living place, it's my day. When you live in the Middle East, you do not throw water in the middle of the day. That's an intentionally physical task. And you're like, what do you use? You throw a person in the morning, and you don't use the money, you do it with the other women in the community. So when a Samaritan woman came to draw water and it's new, we're already thinking, what is going on here? Jesus said that, won't you take me, I don't use it. This is sometimes a time of five years. Not an ugly number of us, I might get it. But for those of us not accustomed, this is what I said to you Jewish torture, during rabbis would not interact publicly with women. And here we are, a rabbi, an woman in conversation, and a Samaritan woman, no less. Not content with sewing and social pop, just a little bit. Jesus had asked the woman for a drink. Happy to share it and say a drinking vessel. Talk about God, which, now, immediately asked a Samaritan woman, knows how far of peace this encounter has gone. The Samaritan woman said to them, you are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink? Would you do not associate with Samaritans? Or quite your key, the translation of that phrase is, do not use dishes Samaritans have used. Now Jesus responds, interestingly, very similar to as he did to Nicodemus, with a slightly obscure statement by the first one, he's not entirely gathered at it. Jesus answered her, if he knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you were about to tell it. And he would have given you living of water. Now, the woman is very confused, like an activist. They can give you a simple gift, ask something physical. She says, so you have nothing to talk about with, and the weather's, when can you get there to living water? And I believe in Nicodemus, Jesus, and operates. Jesus says, if you are a drink, this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water, I give them will never burst. And if the water I give them will melt up, come and then let's bring a good turn, when it happens to eternal life. Now we don't have time to go to the rest of the story, but what transpires as the conversation continues is that the reason this woman is coming to tell the whole world to join us in the middle of the day is because her life has been marked by a relational failure and training. She has been married five times and has now been living with a man who is not her husband. And thanks, Jesus, I am never going to love the day. Whether she is a student herself or has been a student, she lives her life of shame and isolation. Well, Nicodemus had every social life where you would want this woman to have none. When Nicodemus was crying, she would hang up and resign herself to her life on the margarice. Now, unlike Nicodemus who saw Jesus out of himself, Jesus seeks this woman out. Her soul tended her. Jesus sees her, knows her, moves towards her, showing the cycle and goals and offering her hopes, God saves God with. And when Jesus turned into a demon's cry, a striving with his offer of spiritual rebirth, to this woman in compassion and sin that has been sinned. You know that don't hold this side of you, like you've given up trying to spell. What if there's a hidden voice here that will quench that person's side of you and let her love die? And we don't have time to die into the diminution of this encounter and it's just our final stop on our Jesus sign ever. But the last thing I want to draw you to the issue is this. Notice the shame that is limited from her prior to this encounter. Previously, the details of her life story have been precise reason for her social exclusion. Having met Jesus, touched by his tenderness and provoked by his promise of living water to point check in at first, what did he do? He runs like a town, up to three of the witness to carry, come, see him out, and he told me everything I ever did. "Pose this be the last, and this is the king who serves." So in honor of this promise of living water and in line and by the personal act of Jesus, that the shame of my situation literally falls away and the very moment that you find for a student, the cause of that shame has now become a testimony of God's goodness. - Yeah. - And that's where my dearness and her, actually, is differently with each other as we want to think. Because the pride of her dearness and the shame of this imagine woman of two sciences is very common. Christ says, "Give to my heart, son of success, "all the work underneath, "at how much he's still shaking." Shame and build or walk. And says, "No one can know what I've done, "who I have, almost really no love inside." Shame, I think that. So just like the walls of success go higher and higher, the walls of shame go up as well. Jesus says to both, "Can't we be spiritually reborn? "Be free. "If anyone is thirsty, let them come to me and drink. "Free them for the captives, "sight for the blind. "Good news for the poor, release for thee. "Apress, God says, God with." And in my own story, that's why I found great joy in the freedom part of my name. And in Francis, grace, freedom. Because when you live in grace, you get to live in glory or freedom. And because there is nothing that can shock or drive our Jesus away from us when we are living in the safety of His love. We see a demonstration so beautifully in our own response. "I can't see a man, he can't be everything I've ever lived. "I don't eat a man anymore. "This is me, mess and all, and he loves me." Grace, freedom. God saves, God with personal church on Jesus. And that's what I want to say to God. I'm not going to buy the balance on others. We're going to have some time to respond now. If you're comfortable, I'd like the right to start to think when I'm processing it in the world, I'm going to be better. I'm just going to read those words that Jesus spoke. Jesus' Instagram bio of the Lord. Tell us what His heart is about. What He's there to do? What His heart is for you. The spirit of the sovereign Lord is on you. The blessing has anointed me to the good news to prepare. He has said me to prepare freedom for the presence and the comfort of sight for the blind, to release the advice and the fame and humor of the Lord's weather. I'm going to say that to today, this scripture is fulfilled in your living. Now, the blessing of our current age is a way of hungry for the real deal. We're sick and tired of this service. We want the real thing. What makes the person touch Jesus really good news? Whether you're spiritually seeing Him or you're already in. What's what I want to say is real. It's not just a thing you would like to hear. You know you're still reading. I don't know it, but Jesus wants to touch your mind personally. So I'd encourage you to use this time to do business with yourself and with God. Let's sex, let's agree. Sex, dance, pray, cry, sing, listen. Welcome to come forward if you feel like prayer or something. It's a space area on the left. Maybe you just want to worship and glorify and honor Jesus over the ends of this special touch. Go all that after that. Take peace and start. Maybe you just need to sit and repent. In prayer and sex, we'll take a moment to fight it. Let me just replant at the ways that you have missed as well touch of Jesus. And you divide the people into us at the end. Rather than us. Maybe you felt out, but you're one of the thens. And this morning you're being welcomed in by the best of all touch of Jesus. Maybe you're in a new business. But the water that passes this are starting to look like a prison. And you're hungry, the spirits will be both. Maybe you're a Samaritan woman. Be invited into prayer from shame, to drink the living water and to dance in the sea. And if you feel the color of Jesus begins, maybe you'll just plain this from this personal touch. Because it's been a long time since you've won this. How will you claim from the world that you've won? It's true. (gentle music) (gentle music) [MUSIC PLAYING]
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