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The Insanity of Killing God
Jan Vezikov Jan Vezikov

The Insanity of Killing God

How does this appear in our lives, in our world? Well, it's when people start looking at reality and think, "I'm going to decide how reality is. I get to decide what truth is. I'm going to live my truth. I am in authority of the definition. These are the values that I've chosen for myself, the reality that I've created. It's my body, therefore my sexuality, therefore my moral code. I decide. I'm a master of my own fate, the captain of my own soul." And here, what Jesus is doing is exposing the sinfulness in our rebellious hearts, this desire to claim ownership. But to claim ownership of yourself, to live as if you are your own, you're usurping the owner.

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Newsletter: The Insanity of Killing God
Jan Vezikov Jan Vezikov

Newsletter: The Insanity of Killing God

As we meditate upon Holy Week, the most important week in History, we are given a front row seat to what happened when God became one of us. There was a popular song a few years ago, “What if God was one of us?” Well, He was. And we killed him. Just imagine the insanity of doing this. It's insane because it's impossible. We can't kill God. He's eternal.

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Deeply Rooted
Tyler Burns Tyler Burns

Deeply Rooted

It's the kind of change that at the time would've seemed completely inconceivable beyond even a thought. How could a man love this nation so much that he would seek to bring about that kind of change? And that's the story we're going to be looking at today. We're going to be seeing a story in the Gospel of Mark of inconceivable change, change that no one could even think would ever happen.

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The King Comes For His Worship
Jan Vezikov Jan Vezikov

The King Comes For His Worship

This whole city that was so enthusiastic to receive Jesus Christ as a Messiah, a few days later, that enthusiasm will turn into savage bloodlust. Why? Because these people hadn't given the Lord their worship. And this was really the issue that the people of God stopped making God first, the people of God stopped making the word of God first. The people of God had lost the primacy of worshiping God. With the whole city before his eyes.

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Newsletter: The King Comes for His Worship
Jan Vezikov Jan Vezikov

Newsletter: The King Comes for His Worship

How does Jesus begin the most important week of his life? With a parade, basically. For Himself. It’s surprising, because to-date, we see Jesus withdrawing Himself from wide publicity. How often has he healed someone miraculously and commanded them not to tell anyone? Here, we see another side of Jesus. He appears to drop his private character, and through His own orchestration, calls public attention to Himself. He deliberately makes a public entry into Jerusalem, at the head of His disciples and followers. He voluntarily rides into the holy city, surrounded by a vast multitude, crying, Hosanna, like king David returning to his palace in triumph (2 Sam. 19:40). Why? Because the King has come for His Worship. The King comes to Jerusalem. The King comes to the Temple. What was the purpose of the Temple? It served as the place where people gathered to worship God. Make sacrifices to God. Pray to God. Learn about God. Learn about His Law. Ask for His grace.

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What Do You Want?
Jan Vezikov Jan Vezikov

What Do You Want?

What did Jesus want? What did the Son of God want? What did Jesus desire? Did Jesus desire betrayal? Did he desire being condemned to death? Did he desire to be mocked and spat at? Did Jesus desire to be flogged? Did he desire to be scorched, crucified? Did he desire to drink this cup of God's wrath down to the dregs? No, he did not…It was the father's will for the son to die. And why was it the father's will? Well, it was the only way to save us from our sins. It was the only way to save us from desiring our will more than the father's will. The son puts down his will and takes up the father's to save us from desiring our own will more than the fathers.

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Newsletter: What Do You Want
Jan Vezikov Jan Vezikov

Newsletter: What Do You Want

Twice in our text for this Sunday, Jesus asks, "What do you want me to do for you?" If Jesus asked you the same question, how would you respond?The first time, Jesus asks the question of James and John, who requested: "Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory."How does Jesus respond to this request? He says, "You do not know what you are asking." 

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Shocked and Searched by the King
Andy Hoot Andy Hoot

Shocked and Searched by the King

Today, our text tells us a tragic story. This is a story about the greatest of natural non-believing men. We have a good man, the rich young ruler, the best of his time, the best of Boston just engaging with Jesus Christ. The result, the start is amazing, the ending of the narrative, ultra depressing. We see that this kingdom of God, it's upside down, it's inside out. It just destroys, bursts our expectations.

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Covenantal Love
Jan Vezikov Jan Vezikov

Covenantal Love

And the question is about marriage. So we're not dealing with a ceremonial ordinance, but with the moral law. And Jesus already warned not to think that He had come to destroy the law or nullify it. He has come to teach it and fulfill it.

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Newsletter: Covenantal Love
Jan Vezikov Jan Vezikov

Newsletter: Covenantal Love

In my prayers for the church and over the sermon this week, the Lord brought to mind Nehemiah chapter 8. Nehemiah had been sent by God to rebuild Jerusalem's physical infrastructure. As he worked to rebuild physical Jerusalem, he enlisted the help of Ezra the priest to rebuild Jerusalem's spiritual infrastructure by teaching the people the Book of the Law of Moses. To truly rebuild the city, the Word of God had to rebuild the people of the city. Ezra got up in the city square, gathered the people around him, and read the Word of God from early morning until midday. The people listened attentively. After reading the Word of God, Ezra enlisted trusted men to help people understand the Law, and "They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading" (Nehemiah 8:8).

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