Let Jesus Give You Your Life Back w/ Dr. Cherith Fee Nordling S4:12

The Lord’s Table, Part 2

"The enacting of trying to become like Christ, that’s where love happens in the Triune God in this world. We’re just broken and so we can do it so partially, we misread so much of what’s going on, we don’t see with the eyes of Jesus so much of the time, and we don’t speak with the voice of Jesus. And God’s like… 'I know! So come to this table and just be reminded that actually my life is the life I give you.'"

[2:00] Humans are not the agents of grace, God is, and that’s what the table is about.

[3:40] Examination of yourself should not be individualized, but held in relationship with others.

[5:50] We are still growing into the conformity of what it looks like to be truly human. We still have to let go of the things that Jesus just wants to kill. These things are killing you and killing the community, because you’re identity is being formed around stuff that is so transient, so meaningless. 

[8:28] What table are you eating at? If we want to eat and drink the life of the world, which is actually death, it’ll kill you. It will destroy our souls, it will destroy our relationships, it will destroy our lives, to eat and drink of a world that’s broken in Jesus name. 

[11:15] At the table we are taking the stuff of creation and eating a meal that’s also happening in heaven. The Spirit join together Jesus  hosting the meal and the remembrance of a cruciform life.

[14:28] God has already told us that none of us can earn being at this table. God is the righteous one. 

[16:30] Jesus the Bread of Life

[17:25] Psalm 110 - If you don’t have the ascended Jesus in your sightline all the time, you don’t know who you are and you don’t know what God is doing. We can’t get stuck looking backwards at Jesus death and resurrection as some event back then. We must look at the One who is wearing the marks of His wounds from that death into resurrected glory that has literally brought humanity into the life of God. 

[24:00] The Table isn’t about feeling sorry for Jesus and sorry for ourselves. A subtle contract with God can be that as long as we give God brokenness, He’ll give us heaven.

[30:45] You, the Church, are the proclamation of God in the world as you participate in the life of Christ.

[35:15] The very first thing that Jesus wants to give you is the love of the Triune God. The table is a homecoming.

[37:50] How Great Thou Art (Aaron Strumpel)

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee, How great Thou art!

[recorded: March 30, 2023]
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