Moving into the Neighborhood | The Art of Neighboring Week 4
March 24, 2024 / Koinonia ChurchMoving into the Neighborhood | The Art of Neighboring Week 4 | Pastor Andrew Cromwell
Is your neighborhood better because you’re there?
John 13:34-35 NIV: A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Jesus moved into your neighborhood and changed everything.
Is it time for you to move into your own neighborhood?
A Neighbor that Changed Everything
Philippians 2:6-7 NIV: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
- When Jesus moved into the neighborhood, !
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- Jesus said He was God.
- John 8:58: “Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.'”
- John 8:58: “Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.'”
- Jesus said He was God.
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- The disciples said He was God.
- John 1:1: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
- John 1:1: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
- The disciples said He was God.
2. When Jesus moved into the neighborhood, he became like us!
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- The Scripture teaches us that Jesus was human.
- John 1:14: “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
- John 1:14: “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
- The Scripture teaches us that Jesus was human.
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- Jesus had human emotions and limitations.
- Jesus had human emotions and limitations.
Jesus moved into our neighborhood because we needed Him!
Hymn: In Christ Alone
‘Til on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
The Wrath of God refers to God’s intense anger and judgment against sin and evil.
Justice does what is right to the lawbreaker.
Love figures out how to make it right with the lawbreaker.
God’s love compelled Him to find a way to restore sinful humanity back to Him.
Jesus was that way.
Isaiah 53:10 MSG: Still, it’s what GOD had in mind all along, to crush him with pain. The plan was that he give himself as an offering for sin so that he’d see life come from it—life, life, and more life. And GOD’s plan will deeply prosper through him.
What this Means for Us
In Christ, we now have access to the divine nature!
2 Peter 1:3-4 NIV: His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
Is your neighborhood better because you’re there?
How real is your faith if it’s not real to your neighbors?