God can, and does, heal those who are sick and hurting. But although He can heal us, we must never presume that He must. There are times when he chooses to heal and when he doesn’t? Regardless of if he chooses to or not, one truth remains the same. He is more concerned with our soul.

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Miraculous Faith

Not everything bad that happens in life is because of the devil, but there are evil forces in this world seeking to destroy you and everything about your life. Yes, there is an enemy. But Jesus already conquered sin and darkness, and through a relationship with him, you have miraculous authority over darkness.

Miraculous Authority

Sex is not just a physical thing. It’s a soul thing. When we take sex outside of God’s design, we damage our soul. If we’re honest with ourselves, none of us would choose that. But let’s get more honest, we naturally want to step outside of God’s design. What’s the issue? The real issue for all of us when it comes to sex is surrender. Surrender what? Everything.

The Issue is Surrender

How do you relate to those who are living in sexual immorality? Do you relate to them with more grace or more truth? Some approach with mostly grace, while avoiding truth. Others ensure only truth is spoken, not leaving room for much grace. But which is better to lead with? The reality is, neither is best to put forward more than the other. As Jesus both taught and lived, we must walk in the fullness of both grace and truth.

Grace & Truth

God is the creator of humanity, and stamps both male and female with a divine imprint, in His image. The difference between male and female is woven into the fabric of creation, and it is beautiful. But sin distorted who we are and who God created us to be. Sin distorted sex, which in turn distorts us. So what do we do?

Designer Sex

There’s truly nothing else in the world like sex. Because of that, there’s also nothing else in the world that impacts us like sex. It connects people, drives people, destroys people, and divides people. Culture convinces us, and sometimes we convince ourselves, that sex is only physical. But if that is true, why is the pain of sexual sin so deep? It’s because sex is not just a physical thing. It’s a soul thing.

What's the Big Deal With Sex?

The greatest influence we can have in the world is mentoring someone else.

Mentor One

You may not be able to change the world, but you can change one person’s world.

Reach One

Everything rises and falls on leadership. Your school, your church, your family, your marriage; it all rises and falls on leadership. And leadership is influence.

What Everything Rises & Falls On

Young people are not the future church; they are the church now. The greatest influence we can have is on young people. But the only way to be a church that influences young people is by being a young church. And we are a young church when young people are operating as the body of Christ.

Young Guns

Jesus established his church to be His agent of hope, to be His body, to carry on His mission, and ultimately, to positively influence the world for God’s glory. But we cannot do this by ourselves. It requires every single one of us living and operating as the body of Christ.

The Influence of WE

Jesus said in order to follow him, we must pick up our cross daily and never look back. But in order to do so, we have to turn away from living by our flesh. We have to literally die to ourselves so that we can live for Him and what he wants to do in us and through us. Jesus demands sacrifice. Jesus never hid that cost. To follow Jesus means to follow him wherever, whenever, in whatever.

The Every Day Death

In a world where everything revolves around self (protect yourself, promote yourself, preserve yourself, entertain yourself, comfort yourself, take care of yourself, love yourself, serve yourself), Jesus said that whoever is going to follow him totally must deny himself.

The Surrender

Going all inwith Jesus can make us uneasy, anxious and fearful. When you decide to become a disciple of Jesus yougive control of your life to Him. You go where He goes, do what He says and allow Him to lead you. We can be reassured in His leading, because He doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

The Invitation

Pain and hardship will certainly cause us to pray; sometimes even more than our needs and wants. But why do we continue finding ourselves in hard places, difficult places, even addicted places? We experience pain and hardship because we live in a broken world, and in an unseen war where there is an “evil one” against us. What do we do? The fourth way Jesus told us to pray is found in Matthew 6:13, and that is to “lead not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”

Protection

Weekly sermons from Relevant Community Church in Elkhorn, NE. Relevant exists to transform people, so we live as a transforming church, that is part of transforming the world. We break faith down in practical ways you can apply to your life. Learn more at relevantcommunity.org.

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