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[Seed #4 Purpose]This means that things like

chanting, meditation and yoga

seem to some of us to be pretty dry

compared with connecting with

a deeply personal God and to waking up

to a sense of authentic purpose.

The God of the Bible really does liberate

usfrom a life without purpose

in a way that is profound,

and can feel very

thrilling to many of us.

Has there been a time in your life when you

felt particularly close to God?

If youre drawn to

the idea of God being intensely personal,

or even if youre just curious, wed love

for you to visit us at our church!

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[Seed #4 Purpose]In factthe Bible calls for

a complete redesign of our loyalties;

Jesus told His top disciples,

"As the Father has loved me,

so have I loved you.

Now remain in my love.

If you obey my commands, you will remain in

my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's

commands and remain in his love.

You are my friends if you do what I command.

I no longer call you servants,

because a servant does not know

his master's business.

Instead, I have called you friends,

for everything that I learned from my Father

I have made known to you. "

(John 15:9-10, 14-16)

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[Welcome]Jesus of Nazareth compared the afterlife

to a king

sending his servants

to invite people

to a dinner event.

The servants went into the highways

and gathered all whom they

foundboth bad and good.

(Matthew 22:10)

Some of us like the idea that both

the badand the good

get invited

to the afterlife.

And it also sounds

like an open invitation:

that agnostics & skeptics are

welcome to hear out his message

and judge for themselves.

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[Seed #1 Curse]But His alarming message

is that He became a curse for humanity.

Jesus of Nazareth became a curse

to liberate those who are cursed.

Obviouslythings that sound strange

at first hearing

can turn out to be painfully accurate.

Like,were all made up of particles

that are in motion! And

the God of the Heavens isperfectly flawless

morally & spiritually.

And we are not flawless!

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[Seed #3 Love]That 3 Person existence suggests

God was then and remains

infinitely personal & relational.

But most people are unaware of the strong

evidence from science that God is not an

impersonal force but a personal God.

So loyalty and love

preceded the material world;

the beginning of time followed

pre-existing love and loyalty.

And that is whatfrees some

of us from life without purpose

making our own attempts

at loyalty and love.

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[Seed #3 Love] Jesus made several outrageous claims.

He not only claimed that God sent Him

to bear the weight of our curse

to restore our compatibility with God

He further claimed that whoever desires

His restoration can receive it by faith in Him.

But it poses a question.

assuming its true, what motivates

Gods strange generosity?

One of the reasons

behind Gods expressive generosity,

is that even before He made the world,

He existed as 1 God in 3 Persons.

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[Seed #1 Curse]Despite our moral & spiritual efforts,

to be flawless is to be perfect.

Theres a terrible incompatibility

between the flawless God of the Heavens

and usin effect, acting as a curse.

And Jesus not only affirmed

a judgment in the afterlife

where our lack of flawlessness

will have become permanent

He claimed He

would be its Judge.

[So clearly ]

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[Seed #2 Life]Its important to put together

what Jesus was claiming, so you can

gauge whether its persuasive.

Bottom line:

He became a curse

when He was hung on a tree.

But He personally demolished the curse

with His resurrection.

He now claims to be the One who can be

trustedto transfer us out of danger

with His own personal immortality.

The gift of eternal life

is Jesus resurrection somehow given as a gift.

And its the ultimate in true spiritual

inclusiveness and evenhandedness

because it is never earned

but always freely given.

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[Seed #2 Life]By pouring His resurrectionlife

into our hearts Jesus protects us

from an unseen threat.

He said,

Whoever drinks of the water that

I shall give him will never thirst.

But the water that I shall give him

will become in him a fountain of water

springing up into everlasting life.

(John 4:14)

Whoever hears my word

and believes him who sent me

has eternal life and will not be judged

but has crossed over from death to life.

(John 5:24)

For this is the will of my Father,

that everyone who looks on the Son and

believes in Him should have eternal life,

and I will raise him up on the last day.

(John 6:40)

So clearly

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