Pcnp Live Messages

Jesus Christ is King of kings. All glory, honor and praise belong to Him alone.

In this message, we learn seven ways Jehovah in the Old Testament became the banner or flag for Israel.  Then we explore how those same seven ways are powerfully fulfilled in Jesus and filled full of Jesus--to such an extent that Jesus has now become the ultimate flag over our lives everyday.

Jehovah Sabaoth, the God of Angel Armies goes before us making mountains low and valleys raised. There is nothing impossible for the Lord of Hosts as He leads us on the path of His perfect and good will.

The witness of scripture is clear, what God ordains...God will provide for. How will our lives change when we fully rely on God for all of our provisions.

Last week, we learned that Jesus is the Lord of Righteousness. This week we learn that God calls Himself, Jehovah Rapha, I AM Healing and Wholeness. In other words, God is healing and wholeness. Only the LORD can fill that hole in our hearts. Only God can heal anger, hurt, unforgiveness, and so on. And, Jesus does more than heal the woman with the issue of blood. He restores her life.

This week we are diving into Jehovah Tsidkenu—Yahweh is our Righteousness. Join us as we learn what it means to be in right standing with God and how we respond this amazing gift of grace through King Jesus.

Our God is "Shalom" a peace that passes understanding, a peace like we experience when we are home. Shalom has been used as a greeting by God's people for ages. But it is more than a concept, or feeling, it is truly only found in Christ Jesus when we are in Him. As we come into the knowledge of Christ, it is as if he says... "Welcome Home"

YHWY is the name of God. It is translated many ways. Jehovah is one of the ways. Jesus Christ came as Living Torah. He embodied Torah, and in His life, he lived out the Jehovah names of God....such as Jehovah Raah, the Lord is our Shepherd.

In the Book of Acts, Luke says the story he told, ending with the ascension of Jesus into heaven, was the BEGINNING of the teaching ministry of Jesus. It was the BEGINNING of the deeds of Jesus. In other words, even though Jesus has just ascended into heaven and is gone from their sight, His teaching ministry is not done. It is not over. Life may not look the same, but Christ is not done.

Big idea: to consecrate yourself you have to be always watchful to not let anything pull you away from that.

Big idea: What are we consecrated for? To live for God and do the work of God, because of what Christ did as we're in the "already but not yet.

Big idea: Consecration is an exciting thing to do because you're getting yourselves ready for a new work of God.

Big idea: Christ empowers us to live the life He calls us to live. The author’s final exhortations are different callings made to followers of Christ. Apart from Christ, these things would be difficult. But because of Him, we are fully grounded to press on, move forward and know that we will see Him face to face.

Big idea: Christ is the foundation of our faith. We live by faith and not by sight. So many of the heroes of faith did not see what was promised, yet they persevered. Through Christ we have the ability to persevere with the greater hope that we will see what He promised—whether it’s on this side of eternity or with Him.

Big idea: Christ fully committed for us, so we can fully commit to Him, through Him. We have the ability to persevere because Christ persevered all the way to death and resurrected. Perseverance and surrender are the way of the Messiah, and the path He paved for us. It is a challenging road, but one that has eternal impact.

Big idea: Christ’s blood made the way once and for all. The shedding of blood was necessary for the forgiveness of sins—hence the sacrifices of the Old Testament. Through Jesus’s blood, we are fully cleansed and fully covered to enter God’s house—not an earthly tabernacle, but His direct Presence here on earth, and eventually enter our Heavenly home.

Big idea: Because of Jesus, we have access to the new covenant. As we learned in previous weeks, Jesus became our high priest, and in God’s faithfulness to His own word for His people, all who accept Christ now fall under the promise of the new covenant. Jesus has come to make all things new.

Big idea: Because God is fully faithful, we can be fully anchored on Christ. What are we anchored on? Anything that is not Christ will cause us to shift and sway at life’s happenings. But if we are anchored on Christ, we will see that we are anchored on ancient promises that stand the test of time. He is fully faithful, and therefore we can be fully anchored.

Big idea: Jesus is our High Priest because only He is fully holy.Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant. Fulfilling the requirements of every priest that ever existed, Jesus became the high priest (the one who offers the sacrifice), the altar (where the sacrifice is made), and the sacrifice (the actual offering) once and for all, for us. Because of this, we have freedom to approach God’s throne. Because of His holiness, we can be made holy.

Big idea: Christ is our sabbath. One of the laws broken time after time by God’s people was the sabbath. People did not rest as God commanded them and that led to a whole series of problems. We live in a world where we are applauded for working “part-time, full-time and all-the-time,” and we too, break God’s command of keeping the sabbath holy. Christ is our true rest because of the work He accomplished on the cross; what would a life of practicing true rest look like?