1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:04,120 Welcome to Heaven Earth Church. 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,040 My name is Ross Stackhouse. 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,040 I'm the founding pastor of Heaven Earth Church. 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:13,280 From the beginning, our heart was to be a church for people who 5 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,040 don't fit neatly into church. 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:19,200 Our heart is to meet people where they are, to learn their stories, 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:20,720 to honor their stories. 8 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,840 Because in every human story is God's story. 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,840 In this podcast, you'll hear more about the people who now call 10 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:29,400 Heaven Earth Church home. 11 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:33,420 Their stories, in many cases of misfits who are discovering or 12 00:00:33,420 --> 00:00:34,700 rediscovering faith. 13 00:00:34,860 --> 00:00:38,140 If you want to know more about us, you can go to heavenorthchurch.org 14 00:00:38,620 --> 00:00:41,660 Otherwise, we invite you now into the story. 15 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:43,180 Hello, good people. 16 00:00:43,180 --> 00:00:47,900 Brad Miller here, the producer of the Heaven Earth Church podcast. 17 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:51,940 One of the main benefits of being a part of the Heaven Earth 18 00:00:51,940 --> 00:00:57,980 Church community is our Sunday morning conversations taught by founding 19 00:00:57,980 --> 00:01:00,100 pastor Ross Stackhound. 20 00:01:00,180 --> 00:01:04,900 You can watch and participate in the Sunday morning conversation 21 00:01:05,460 --> 00:01:13,940 this Sunday morning, 9:30am Eastern time at YouTube.com heavenerthchurch. 22 00:01:14,980 --> 00:01:19,860 The audio version of the Sunday morning conversation is available 23 00:01:19,860 --> 00:01:24,500 here on the podcast, which you can find at Apple Podcasts, Spotify 24 00:01:25,210 --> 00:01:32,810 and on the website, which is heavenarthchurch.org now here is 25 00:01:32,810 --> 00:01:37,610 Heaven Earth Church Pastor Ross Stackhouse with the message 26 00:01:38,250 --> 00:01:38,930 you've heard. 27 00:01:38,930 --> 00:01:39,690 It was said. 28 00:01:42,330 --> 00:01:44,970 Be our vision, Lord, awaken us. 29 00:01:45,450 --> 00:01:48,010 Revive us in the name of Jesus. 30 00:01:49,370 --> 00:01:50,010 Amen. 31 00:01:50,660 --> 00:01:52,900 In a minute, I'm going to set the stage for what we're going to 32 00:01:52,900 --> 00:01:55,100 talk about for the next really couple of months. 33 00:01:55,100 --> 00:01:56,740 We have two series coming up. 34 00:01:56,820 --> 00:01:59,580 That is not a picture that I took in Banff, though. 35 00:01:59,580 --> 00:02:00,740 It looks wonderful. 36 00:02:02,900 --> 00:02:06,180 So where I'm going to get to some pictures from where I was. 37 00:02:06,180 --> 00:02:07,260 But I want to ask. 38 00:02:07,260 --> 00:02:08,340 I'm going to make a statement. 39 00:02:08,340 --> 00:02:10,420 I want to see if you agree with me or not. 40 00:02:11,620 --> 00:02:15,860 As human beings, we tend to give what we receive. 41 00:02:16,550 --> 00:02:17,150 We end up. 42 00:02:17,150 --> 00:02:17,710 We tend. 43 00:02:17,710 --> 00:02:23,670 We have a tendency or we end up giving in life what we have received. 44 00:02:24,710 --> 00:02:25,750 Do you agree with that? 45 00:02:28,150 --> 00:02:28,710 Okay. 46 00:02:30,150 --> 00:02:31,190 Anybody disagree? 47 00:02:32,390 --> 00:02:33,470 Ellie disagrees. 48 00:02:33,470 --> 00:02:33,870 I like it. 49 00:02:33,870 --> 00:02:34,790 Ellie, let's hear it. 50 00:02:38,150 --> 00:02:40,510 Oh, you don't have to if you're like, no, no, I just disagree. 51 00:02:40,510 --> 00:02:40,870 Ross. 52 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,000 Okay, Kara. 53 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:53,840 Okay, sure. 54 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:56,480 Yeah. 55 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,040 Okay, let me clarify. 56 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:03,840 Yes, Kara. 57 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,000 What I mean in this case is. 58 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:11,860 And then I'll ask you if you agree or disagree, if we have received 59 00:03:13,220 --> 00:03:15,540 a lot of anger in our lives. 60 00:03:16,260 --> 00:03:19,020 So we've been in an environment where we received a lot 61 00:03:19,020 --> 00:03:22,820 of anger in a system where there was a lot of anger, and then 62 00:03:22,820 --> 00:03:25,380 that's untreated, we will give out anger. 63 00:03:27,060 --> 00:03:31,340 If we were in a system where we experience a lot of trauma and 64 00:03:31,340 --> 00:03:35,180 it goes unhealed and untreated, we will tend to give out 65 00:03:35,180 --> 00:03:38,220 trauma if we were in an environment of neglect. 66 00:03:38,460 --> 00:03:44,140 And it goes untreated, unhealed, unprocessed. 67 00:03:44,460 --> 00:03:48,220 Mm, mm, mm. 68 00:03:49,660 --> 00:03:52,940 Simply in recovery, in the recovery rooms, they say we cannot 69 00:03:52,940 --> 00:03:54,540 give away what we have not yet received. 70 00:03:55,020 --> 00:03:55,900 That's what I mean. 71 00:03:56,060 --> 00:03:58,380 Now, do you agree or disagree, Katie? 72 00:04:02,900 --> 00:04:08,020 Yeah, yeah, so that's a good point. 73 00:04:08,020 --> 00:04:10,980 Like road rage is a great example, a simple one. 74 00:04:11,140 --> 00:04:15,620 If somebody raises a hand up to you and they tend to put down 75 00:04:15,620 --> 00:04:22,580 four fingers and leave up one, you may have the tendency to offer 76 00:04:22,580 --> 00:04:24,180 them the same gesture in return. 77 00:04:26,500 --> 00:04:27,140 I'm not. 78 00:04:27,140 --> 00:04:30,100 I know none of you sweet Christian people have done that. 79 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:35,840 I know someone very well who. 80 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:39,640 I've lived very closely with them. 81 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:40,000 Who. 82 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:45,920 Anyways, did you have something to say, Angela? 83 00:04:47,039 --> 00:04:48,240 You had your hand up. 84 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:52,720 Oh, yes. 85 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:53,920 Yep. 86 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,360 Yes, yes. 87 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:57,920 So, for example, if you. 88 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,560 Angela said, for those of you online, sometimes, actually we will 89 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,020 give, perhaps we will open, overcompensate, perhaps, and give 90 00:05:05,260 --> 00:05:07,460 in some ways the. 91 00:05:07,460 --> 00:05:09,100 The inverse of what we receive. 92 00:05:09,100 --> 00:05:11,660 So if we were in an environment with a lot of neglect, 93 00:05:11,980 --> 00:05:14,940 we may become people pleasers in a way. 94 00:05:15,420 --> 00:05:18,940 We are giving what we have received in a way still. 95 00:05:19,180 --> 00:05:24,780 But, yes, other folks, you can. 96 00:05:25,740 --> 00:05:29,740 In order to practice true humility, I have to give freely without 97 00:05:29,900 --> 00:05:32,060 sort of having parameters on it. 98 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:50,600 Yeah, yeah, Yep, sure. 99 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:51,600 Yeah. 100 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,880 So my dad talked about his upbringing, and then someone he knows, 101 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,160 their upbringing, how that produced different results. 102 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,000 Here's what I'm going to. 103 00:06:01,250 --> 00:06:02,970 We have a goal for the next really? 104 00:06:02,970 --> 00:06:03,730 Couple of weeks. 105 00:06:04,210 --> 00:06:04,930 Couple of weeks. 106 00:06:05,090 --> 00:06:05,890 Couple of months. 107 00:06:06,370 --> 00:06:09,250 I have a desire in my heart. 108 00:06:09,250 --> 00:06:11,330 I have an agenda the next couple months. 109 00:06:12,370 --> 00:06:16,250 I want to create a space for you to receive this wondrous love 110 00:06:16,250 --> 00:06:17,010 of God again. 111 00:06:17,410 --> 00:06:21,170 Or perhaps for the first time, there is a love that we have not 112 00:06:21,170 --> 00:06:26,290 known yet, that I really want to create a space for you to receive, 113 00:06:27,370 --> 00:06:34,570 to create a space for maybe grieving, healing, to open a door, 114 00:06:34,570 --> 00:06:36,970 to receive this love again. 115 00:06:38,970 --> 00:06:45,930 Because we are certainly enveloped and covered by this love. 116 00:06:46,330 --> 00:06:47,930 There is no doubt about it. 117 00:06:48,970 --> 00:06:50,410 This love has been given. 118 00:06:51,370 --> 00:06:52,410 It is being given. 119 00:06:52,900 --> 00:06:56,100 It will continue to be given, and we can receive it. 120 00:06:58,100 --> 00:06:59,380 So that's my agenda. 121 00:06:59,780 --> 00:07:01,540 Will you come with me to Canada? 122 00:07:06,260 --> 00:07:11,500 Now, listen, I know this is somewhat unfair because part of this 123 00:07:11,500 --> 00:07:14,300 is like, hey, Ross, tell us your privilege without telling us 124 00:07:14,300 --> 00:07:14,860 your privilege. 125 00:07:14,860 --> 00:07:15,780 Well, there it is. 126 00:07:17,220 --> 00:07:20,340 Well, part of this is a product of my sister Joanna. 127 00:07:20,340 --> 00:07:20,980 You've seen her. 128 00:07:20,980 --> 00:07:23,300 My sister Joanna is an evangelist. 129 00:07:24,260 --> 00:07:24,660 Okay. 130 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:28,820 I am more like, if you go apostle, prophet, evangelist, shepherd, 131 00:07:28,820 --> 00:07:30,700 teaching, giftings from Ephesians 4. 132 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:32,820 If you're like, ross, did you speak a foreign language? 133 00:07:32,820 --> 00:07:33,860 Don't worry about it. 134 00:07:34,660 --> 00:07:36,180 We'll explain it another day. 135 00:07:37,060 --> 00:07:40,700 I'm more the apostle type, which I like to just go out to the 136 00:07:40,700 --> 00:07:42,180 frontier and see what will happen. 137 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:46,700 Joanna is an evangelist, so she was organizing this bucket list 138 00:07:46,700 --> 00:07:48,900 trip for my dad to Banff National Park. 139 00:07:49,990 --> 00:07:51,670 And I was like, I don't have time to go. 140 00:07:52,070 --> 00:07:53,430 I don't have space to go. 141 00:07:53,510 --> 00:07:55,950 And then Joanna would show back up, like, hey. 142 00:07:55,950 --> 00:08:00,430 So I was just thinking, what if you came for this part and did. 143 00:08:00,430 --> 00:08:00,910 I can't. 144 00:08:00,910 --> 00:08:01,590 I don't have time. 145 00:08:01,590 --> 00:08:04,710 And then like a week later, she'd be like, hey, I was thinking. 146 00:08:08,950 --> 00:08:12,550 And that's why you need a multitude of gifts around you. 147 00:08:12,550 --> 00:08:14,870 You need a multitude of gifts in community. 148 00:08:15,110 --> 00:08:19,210 Because if it were not for her, I would never have seen this, 149 00:08:19,770 --> 00:08:21,050 perhaps not in my life. 150 00:08:22,250 --> 00:08:23,210 And yet I did. 151 00:08:23,610 --> 00:08:25,130 This is Brewster Creek. 152 00:08:25,130 --> 00:08:25,930 It's some just. 153 00:08:26,570 --> 00:08:27,570 I was just driving around. 154 00:08:27,570 --> 00:08:32,050 I had a day to myself and stopped by this creek and just stayed 155 00:08:32,050 --> 00:08:37,250 for an hour, put my hands in the brisk water, just enveloped by 156 00:08:37,250 --> 00:08:38,570 the Canadian Rockies. 157 00:08:40,650 --> 00:08:42,170 And my soul needed it. 158 00:08:42,250 --> 00:08:43,530 Like, it's not a joke. 159 00:08:43,690 --> 00:08:45,610 I wasn't just saying, in theory, this series. 160 00:08:45,610 --> 00:08:48,330 We were just in, like, ruthlessly eliminating hurry. 161 00:08:49,770 --> 00:08:51,130 I just was still here. 162 00:08:51,690 --> 00:08:55,770 And Psalm 42 just rose up out of my soul. 163 00:08:55,770 --> 00:09:00,090 It just talks about like a deer to the pool, like a deer craving 164 00:09:00,090 --> 00:09:00,970 streams of water. 165 00:09:01,050 --> 00:09:03,050 So my soul cries out for you. 166 00:09:03,530 --> 00:09:07,090 But then it goes on to say, like, why is my soul so disquieted 167 00:09:07,090 --> 00:09:10,890 within, like, hope again in God, for I will yet give praise? 168 00:09:10,890 --> 00:09:12,330 It sounds something like that. 169 00:09:15,060 --> 00:09:16,180 And things like this. 170 00:09:16,740 --> 00:09:18,180 That's a real picture. 171 00:09:18,420 --> 00:09:19,460 Can you believe it? 172 00:09:20,580 --> 00:09:23,420 That peak on the left is called Mount Rundle, named after 173 00:09:23,420 --> 00:09:26,420 a Methodist missionary who was there in the 1800s. 174 00:09:26,900 --> 00:09:30,540 So this probably isn't true, but it was kind of like God was like 175 00:09:30,540 --> 00:09:33,140 saying, see, I wanted you to be here. 176 00:09:33,300 --> 00:09:35,620 Oh, and I forgot the picture as I flew in. 177 00:09:35,620 --> 00:09:38,020 I have a phobia with flying, no joke. 178 00:09:38,900 --> 00:09:42,550 As I flew in, the pilot says, look out your window. 179 00:09:42,790 --> 00:09:49,070 And the northern lights were just covering the sky like an idiot. 180 00:09:49,070 --> 00:09:50,470 I didn't put that picture up. 181 00:09:51,350 --> 00:09:51,910 Yeah. 182 00:09:53,270 --> 00:09:55,310 Let me see if I can do this from afar. 183 00:09:55,310 --> 00:09:56,070 I doubt it. 184 00:09:56,710 --> 00:09:58,070 It's so worth it that. 185 00:09:58,070 --> 00:09:58,750 You know what? 186 00:09:58,750 --> 00:10:00,710 Just sit tight for this awkward moment. 187 00:10:00,710 --> 00:10:02,070 We'll see if we can make it happen. 188 00:10:02,630 --> 00:10:04,070 Will it do it from afar? 189 00:10:04,310 --> 00:10:09,690 It'll send it to Kara Baker Right now, but not that Mac Studio. 190 00:10:09,690 --> 00:10:10,610 We'll get it later. 191 00:10:13,090 --> 00:10:14,210 How are you gonna get it? 192 00:10:15,410 --> 00:10:16,050 Okay. 193 00:10:16,530 --> 00:10:18,170 Did I. Oh, that's right. 194 00:10:18,170 --> 00:10:18,890 I sent it to you. 195 00:10:18,890 --> 00:10:19,330 Emily. 196 00:10:19,730 --> 00:10:20,610 Praise God. 197 00:10:24,290 --> 00:10:26,290 These are the Vermillion Lakes. 198 00:10:26,290 --> 00:10:29,570 There was this picture about how this was formed one time. 199 00:10:29,570 --> 00:10:30,250 One time. 200 00:10:30,250 --> 00:10:31,410 This was flat land. 201 00:10:31,970 --> 00:10:35,880 You would look at this and it would all be flat millions of years 202 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:36,160 ago. 203 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:40,040 Then slowly, these tectonic plates pushed up these rocks. 204 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:42,600 Look what God can do. 205 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:45,800 And this was my trail one day. 206 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:48,240 And then. 207 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,880 This is no sound on this, but these are called the Takaka Falls. 208 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:54,920 I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly. 209 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:56,760 This is a real place on earth. 210 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,280 Highest falls in Canada. 211 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:01,440 Here's what I want to bring to us. 212 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:03,440 What I felt called to bring back to you. 213 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,130 As I walked through the woods by myself. 214 00:11:06,210 --> 00:11:07,410 I like to do that. 215 00:11:08,130 --> 00:11:10,290 It's a little bit scary because it's like there could be 216 00:11:10,290 --> 00:11:12,130 a grizzly right around the corner. 217 00:11:12,450 --> 00:11:16,530 But I'm okay with that because it's worth it. 218 00:11:16,530 --> 00:11:18,050 Because slowly there was this. 219 00:11:18,050 --> 00:11:23,730 There was a slow burn, a slow burn of an awakening that we are 220 00:11:24,690 --> 00:11:26,370 enveloped by this love. 221 00:11:26,690 --> 00:11:30,170 Like as these Douglas firs just towered over me and, like, kind 222 00:11:30,170 --> 00:11:32,450 of watched over me as I walked the trail. 223 00:11:33,370 --> 00:11:37,530 And the fragrance of the woods filled, like, my nostrils. 224 00:11:37,850 --> 00:11:42,010 It's like my body was humming along with the grace of the mountains, 225 00:11:42,810 --> 00:11:48,890 whispering to me, ross, have you forgotten how loved you are? 226 00:11:50,570 --> 00:11:53,770 And the answer was yes. 227 00:11:54,810 --> 00:11:56,650 And so I asked, what about you? 228 00:11:59,140 --> 00:12:01,060 We tend to give out what we receive. 229 00:12:02,020 --> 00:12:05,780 Have you received this love from God? 230 00:12:06,020 --> 00:12:09,460 This impossible, wonderful, astounding love? 231 00:12:09,460 --> 00:12:11,140 I mean, there's the northern lights. 232 00:12:11,220 --> 00:12:12,180 Thank you, Emily. 233 00:12:13,460 --> 00:12:15,860 It's like I started to come into Calgary. 234 00:12:16,900 --> 00:12:19,580 I'm on the plane, white knuckling it for four hours. 235 00:12:19,580 --> 00:12:21,300 Every bump, I'm like, oh, we're going down. 236 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:21,940 This is it. 237 00:12:26,060 --> 00:12:27,740 And I don't know if it's true, guys. 238 00:12:28,060 --> 00:12:29,060 Was it my mind? 239 00:12:29,060 --> 00:12:30,740 Was it the Holy Spirit in my mind? 240 00:12:30,740 --> 00:12:31,380 I don't know. 241 00:12:31,380 --> 00:12:33,420 That's how I feel most of the time when I pray. 242 00:12:33,420 --> 00:12:36,700 But when I saw that, it was like God saying, I haven't brought 243 00:12:36,700 --> 00:12:37,580 you here to die. 244 00:12:37,580 --> 00:12:38,780 I brought you here to live. 245 00:12:39,420 --> 00:12:43,740 I brought you here to receive this love that you just keep forgetting. 246 00:12:45,820 --> 00:12:46,700 Remember it. 247 00:12:48,300 --> 00:12:49,180 Receive it. 248 00:12:50,790 --> 00:12:52,070 Have you received this? 249 00:12:53,270 --> 00:12:53,910 Have you? 250 00:12:54,630 --> 00:12:56,310 I'll ask you this at the end. 251 00:12:57,270 --> 00:12:58,510 Have you received it? 252 00:12:58,510 --> 00:12:59,750 Are you receiving it? 253 00:13:00,870 --> 00:13:02,070 Have you lost it? 254 00:13:02,230 --> 00:13:03,030 Was it taken? 255 00:13:04,070 --> 00:13:05,070 Let me say this now. 256 00:13:05,070 --> 00:13:07,030 I said I want to create a space for healing. 257 00:13:07,030 --> 00:13:10,630 If it was taken from you by some Traumatic experience, some church 258 00:13:10,630 --> 00:13:11,110 hurt. 259 00:13:11,830 --> 00:13:12,710 I'm sorry. 260 00:13:13,030 --> 00:13:14,630 It shouldn't have happened that way. 261 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:17,080 If you've lost it, just. 262 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:18,320 I hope you'll believe me. 263 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:19,440 It can be found. 264 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:21,840 It shall be found again. 265 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:24,240 Jesus even says a parable. 266 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:27,120 He said, the kingdom of the heavens is like a treasure hidden 267 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:27,680 in a field. 268 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:33,160 A guy stumbled upon it, found it, sold everything he had and bought 269 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:33,680 the field. 270 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:36,480 All of Jesus. 271 00:13:36,560 --> 00:13:39,520 So many of Jesus parables are about finding something. 272 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:43,120 I pray in the next weeks, you come to find it again. 273 00:13:43,910 --> 00:13:47,230 And then part two of this series, it's like two volumes of 274 00:13:47,230 --> 00:13:47,670 a book. 275 00:13:47,830 --> 00:13:50,870 We're gonna have a series about, like, what we can then go 276 00:13:50,870 --> 00:13:54,590 give because of it, what we have the opportunity to give with 277 00:13:54,590 --> 00:13:55,190 our work. 278 00:13:55,830 --> 00:13:58,030 This series is called because of this Love. 279 00:13:58,030 --> 00:14:00,070 The next one is called Work and Rest. 280 00:14:00,790 --> 00:14:02,790 So that's what we're doing for the next two months. 281 00:14:04,950 --> 00:14:08,310 But first, what do I mean by this love? 282 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:14,800 Well, I want to give you a little preview of this love. 283 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:17,360 I'm stealing from this verse. 284 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,040 This is Ephesians 1:3:6. 285 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,640 We're going to be hanging out in mostly two verses or passages 286 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:26,960 for this series. 287 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:28,640 One is from Ephesians. 288 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:30,400 This is the introduction of the letter. 289 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:33,400 A guy by the name of Paul wrote to a group of people living 290 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:37,410 in Ephesus who are trying to follow Jesus in a time when it was 291 00:14:37,410 --> 00:14:38,690 hostile to do so. 292 00:14:39,570 --> 00:14:42,330 He says, bless the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 293 00:14:42,330 --> 00:14:46,570 He has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing that 294 00:14:46,570 --> 00:14:47,290 comes from heaven. 295 00:14:47,290 --> 00:14:48,210 Let me say it again. 296 00:14:48,370 --> 00:14:50,450 He has blessed us in Christ with. 297 00:14:51,650 --> 00:14:53,170 He has blessed us in Christ. 298 00:14:53,330 --> 00:14:55,050 Just say the next word when I stop. 299 00:14:55,050 --> 00:14:59,090 He has blessed us in Christ with every. 300 00:14:59,250 --> 00:15:00,450 It was just the next word. 301 00:15:00,450 --> 00:15:01,090 It's okay. 302 00:15:03,490 --> 00:15:04,770 Just the next word this time. 303 00:15:04,770 --> 00:15:06,610 Okay, Just one more word from you. 304 00:15:06,610 --> 00:15:08,450 He has blessed us in Christ with. 305 00:15:09,330 --> 00:15:10,130 There we go. 306 00:15:11,570 --> 00:15:11,970 Every. 307 00:15:14,130 --> 00:15:14,530 Every. 308 00:15:17,250 --> 00:15:17,890 Right here. 309 00:15:18,050 --> 00:15:18,970 It's a picture of. 310 00:15:18,970 --> 00:15:20,490 It's repeated throughout the Bible. 311 00:15:20,490 --> 00:15:27,970 This God who is wild about sharing power, glory and love. 312 00:15:28,610 --> 00:15:32,610 From the core of God's being is a desire to share. 313 00:15:33,170 --> 00:15:36,770 Psalm 8 says, like, look at all these things you have made. 314 00:15:38,210 --> 00:15:39,330 We sang a song. 315 00:15:39,330 --> 00:15:40,730 How majestic is your name. 316 00:15:40,730 --> 00:15:41,930 Is that the song we sang? 317 00:15:41,930 --> 00:15:42,330 Isn't it? 318 00:15:42,330 --> 00:15:42,610 Yes. 319 00:15:42,610 --> 00:15:43,170 Thank you. 320 00:15:44,290 --> 00:15:47,370 And then it's like all these wonders you've made in the earth, 321 00:15:47,370 --> 00:15:48,690 but then there's this one. 322 00:15:49,010 --> 00:15:49,850 Human beings. 323 00:15:49,850 --> 00:15:50,650 You created them. 324 00:15:50,650 --> 00:15:55,010 You crowned them with glory and grandeur, such that they're like 325 00:15:55,010 --> 00:15:56,530 almost like angels. 326 00:15:58,230 --> 00:16:02,470 From the core of God's heart is to share power and glory and love, 327 00:16:02,550 --> 00:16:06,670 so that we walk in it all of our days, God chose us in Christ 328 00:16:06,670 --> 00:16:09,030 to be holy and blameless in God's presence. 329 00:16:09,030 --> 00:16:12,310 Before the creation of the world, before God got to the Big 330 00:16:12,310 --> 00:16:16,830 Bang or anything, God had this plan to do something mysterious and 331 00:16:16,830 --> 00:16:18,230 wonderful with each of us. 332 00:16:18,550 --> 00:16:19,910 But this is it right here. 333 00:16:19,910 --> 00:16:24,310 God destined us to be adopted children through Jesus Christ. 334 00:16:24,630 --> 00:16:26,310 Can you just say the next phrase? 335 00:16:26,310 --> 00:16:27,030 Go to the period. 336 00:16:27,270 --> 00:16:30,290 God destined us to be adopted children through Jesus Christ. 337 00:16:32,610 --> 00:16:33,450 One more time. 338 00:16:33,450 --> 00:16:36,290 God destined us to be adopted children through Jesus Christ. 339 00:16:41,250 --> 00:16:45,010 The reason this series is called because of this love is because 340 00:16:45,010 --> 00:16:45,570 of that. 341 00:16:47,090 --> 00:16:51,250 What if all this exists because of his love? 342 00:16:53,090 --> 00:16:54,210 Because of this love. 343 00:16:55,500 --> 00:16:57,660 This was according to his goodwill and plan. 344 00:16:58,620 --> 00:17:01,580 And to honor his glorious grace. 345 00:17:02,220 --> 00:17:04,580 To honor his glorious grace. 346 00:17:04,580 --> 00:17:06,540 There's a video from the Bible Project. 347 00:17:06,540 --> 00:17:07,420 Go look it up. 348 00:17:07,740 --> 00:17:09,740 We watched it in Discovery 2. 349 00:17:10,780 --> 00:17:13,140 Just go to Bibleproject and search Grace. 350 00:17:13,140 --> 00:17:16,020 You'll find this video that talks about how grace throughout 351 00:17:16,020 --> 00:17:20,540 the Bible is defined this way that God grants favor out of delight. 352 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:23,640 The way I described it. 353 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:26,640 Is this so much in our culture, we think of earning stuff. 354 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:30,240 It is in our bones every minute of every day. 355 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,680 We're scripted in what some call a meritocracy. 356 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:34,960 You get what you earn. 357 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:39,440 And we just can't help but think of God and God's love and everything 358 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:40,640 through that lens. 359 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:44,640 But when I think about what I do with my daughter or my son or 360 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:50,010 my little Juni when I give them things, I don't stop and think 361 00:17:50,010 --> 00:17:52,330 to myself, did she earn it or not? 362 00:17:52,570 --> 00:17:54,490 I do it because I delight in them. 363 00:17:56,650 --> 00:18:03,890 To honor his glorious grace, to honor his own heart that he delights 364 00:18:03,890 --> 00:18:08,250 in you and wants to give you favor based on delight he has given 365 00:18:08,250 --> 00:18:13,050 to us freely through the Son whom He loves. 366 00:18:13,990 --> 00:18:14,710 Praise God. 367 00:18:16,550 --> 00:18:18,390 I want to help you receive that again. 368 00:18:22,070 --> 00:18:25,030 We have a whole belief statement that our church has. 369 00:18:25,030 --> 00:18:26,350 You can go find it on our website. 370 00:18:26,350 --> 00:18:27,550 It's on the about page. 371 00:18:27,550 --> 00:18:29,670 At the end of the day, it's quite simple. 372 00:18:29,910 --> 00:18:33,270 Just like the earliest church, we believe here that Jesus is Lord. 373 00:18:33,270 --> 00:18:37,190 He is the Son of God and is through Him, God has given us every 374 00:18:37,270 --> 00:18:42,870 grace, every love that we need to be whole again to be saved. 375 00:18:45,750 --> 00:18:47,830 I want to help you receive this love again. 376 00:18:47,830 --> 00:18:52,990 If it was taken from you or lost or you've forgotten it, I want 377 00:18:52,990 --> 00:18:54,710 to help you be enveloped by it again. 378 00:18:55,750 --> 00:19:01,790 Here's the other verse that I want to illustrate this love with. 379 00:19:01,790 --> 00:19:04,150 Okay, actually, let's go here. 380 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:09,320 I want to show you a phrase that shows up one time in the entire 381 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:10,200 New Testament. 382 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:11,400 Are you with me still? 383 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:14,600 Yeah, okay, I already said that. 384 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:16,600 We already said that. 385 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,680 From the very beginning, God creates out of a core of love and 386 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:21,799 desire to share glory and power with us. 387 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:26,200 This is First Peter, another letter in the New Testament. 388 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,920 Most of the New Testament is just letters, people writing other 389 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:34,570 people to help them stay the course with Jesus because they lived 390 00:19:34,570 --> 00:19:38,290 in a world where this love tends to get taken from you. 391 00:19:38,450 --> 00:19:40,250 You forget it, you lose it. 392 00:19:40,250 --> 00:19:43,170 And so they wrote all these letters to help people remember it, 393 00:19:43,250 --> 00:19:45,170 reclaim it, live by it. 394 00:19:45,730 --> 00:19:49,250 And so in first Peter 4, 8, in the common English version, it says, 395 00:19:49,250 --> 00:19:54,050 above all, show sincere love to each other, because love brings 396 00:19:54,050 --> 00:19:56,130 about the forgiveness of many sins. 397 00:19:56,610 --> 00:20:02,680 There's one version above all, show sincere love. 398 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,560 That's the phrase that gets used one time, that. 399 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:07,520 Not the love word. 400 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:09,240 The word there for love is agape. 401 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:10,240 Maybe you've heard of it. 402 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:12,200 It's a certain kind of love for another day. 403 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:13,160 We'll talk about it. 404 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:19,240 It's the adjective before it shows up one time in the entire New 405 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:19,880 Testament. 406 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,160 And everybody's like, what do we do with this phrase? 407 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:25,920 Here's the new international version. 408 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:27,840 Above all, love each other deeply. 409 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,000 That's what they do with it deeply. 410 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,720 Because love covers a multitude of sins. 411 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:36,880 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly. 412 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:39,839 Since love covers a multitude of sins. 413 00:20:39,839 --> 00:20:42,360 And this is the message most of all. 414 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:43,440 Eugene says. 415 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:45,240 Eugene Peterson wrote this. 416 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:46,000 Paraphrase it. 417 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:46,800 He's awesome. 418 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:48,280 Was awesome. 419 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:49,040 Rest in peace. 420 00:20:50,010 --> 00:20:52,570 Love each other as if your life depended on it. 421 00:20:54,250 --> 00:20:56,330 Love makes up for practically everything. 422 00:20:58,730 --> 00:20:59,890 When we're talking about. 423 00:20:59,890 --> 00:21:05,489 When I'm talking about this love, this Peter guy writes to. 424 00:21:05,489 --> 00:21:08,410 He says, basically the word in the Greek means something like an 425 00:21:08,410 --> 00:21:13,130 intense love, an earnest love, a fierce love. 426 00:21:14,570 --> 00:21:18,070 That adjective shows up one time in the New Testament. 427 00:21:18,070 --> 00:21:20,710 Yes, but there's a verb that sounds a lot like it. 428 00:21:21,190 --> 00:21:24,230 I'll read you some of what those instances mean. 429 00:21:25,990 --> 00:21:27,990 Are you with me still or have I lost you? 430 00:21:28,310 --> 00:21:31,950 Because we have worse attention span than a goldfish. 431 00:21:31,950 --> 00:21:33,269 Remember that from the last series. 432 00:21:33,269 --> 00:21:34,550 Do I still got your attention? 433 00:21:35,190 --> 00:21:37,950 I think you want to hear this, because I want you to remember this. 434 00:21:37,950 --> 00:21:38,310 Love. 435 00:21:41,910 --> 00:21:44,600 The verb, it sounds. 436 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,840 It's the same root, means to stretch out. 437 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,880 So here's what it sounds like in the verb form. 438 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,720 Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him. 439 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:55,640 Matthew 8:3, Matthew 12:13. 440 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,360 Then he said to the man, stretch out your hand. 441 00:21:58,360 --> 00:22:00,440 And the man stretched it out, and it was restored. 442 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:01,560 Sound like the other. 443 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:04,040 Matthew 12:49. 444 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,000 And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, look, 445 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:08,680 here are my mothers and brothers. 446 00:22:09,420 --> 00:22:13,540 Immediately, Jesus reached out Matthew 14, he reached out his hand, 447 00:22:13,540 --> 00:22:16,420 took hold of him and said, oh, you of little faith, why did you 448 00:22:16,420 --> 00:22:16,860 doubt? 449 00:22:17,660 --> 00:22:19,260 Matthew 26:51. 450 00:22:19,260 --> 00:22:22,220 But one of those, with Jesus stretched out his hand, drew his 451 00:22:22,220 --> 00:22:25,219 sword and struck the slave of a high priest. 452 00:22:25,219 --> 00:22:28,940 And then right after that, Jesus said, whoa, whoa, no, we don't 453 00:22:28,940 --> 00:22:29,980 stretch out like that. 454 00:22:32,620 --> 00:22:33,660 We don't do that. 455 00:22:34,550 --> 00:22:36,310 If you live by the sword, you die by it. 456 00:22:36,470 --> 00:22:38,550 When we stretch out, we heal. 457 00:22:39,510 --> 00:22:40,710 We don't do violence. 458 00:22:42,390 --> 00:22:43,830 When we stretch out, we heal. 459 00:22:44,230 --> 00:22:49,430 So this love is about a God who stretches out to heal. 460 00:22:51,030 --> 00:22:52,150 This love is a. 461 00:22:53,990 --> 00:22:58,470 It's a desire to see others be free and flourish, to stretch out 462 00:22:58,470 --> 00:22:59,110 to do that. 463 00:22:59,750 --> 00:23:04,030 It's a willingness, even earnest, earnestness to eagerness, 464 00:23:04,030 --> 00:23:07,710 to give generously to others so that they shine with the same 465 00:23:07,710 --> 00:23:09,670 brilliance that makes God shine. 466 00:23:10,710 --> 00:23:13,390 It's an earnest hope to crown someone else. 467 00:23:13,390 --> 00:23:14,910 We talked about that in a series. 468 00:23:14,910 --> 00:23:19,150 In the fall, we wore Burger King crowns, if you remember. 469 00:23:19,150 --> 00:23:20,350 You're like, I do remember that. 470 00:23:20,350 --> 00:23:22,870 I do not remember, for the love of God, what you talked about, 471 00:23:22,870 --> 00:23:25,190 Ross, but I remember wearing a Burger King crown. 472 00:23:26,230 --> 00:23:30,470 Because Paul described people in Philippians as his joy and crown. 473 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:38,320 Paul stretched out to the Philippians to show them this intense, 474 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,000 fierce love that's rooted at the core of God's heart. 475 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,880 It's a love that's expressed in a willingness to empty yourself 476 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,320 and make great sacrifices to raise someone. 477 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,320 You go down, you stretch down to make them higher. 478 00:23:56,650 --> 00:24:00,010 All the good news about our lives, all the good news of Jesus, 479 00:24:00,170 --> 00:24:02,570 is because of that love. 480 00:24:05,930 --> 00:24:07,210 He emptied himself. 481 00:24:07,850 --> 00:24:11,290 Though he was divine, he did not consider it something to be exploited. 482 00:24:11,530 --> 00:24:12,810 He emptied himself. 483 00:24:13,850 --> 00:24:15,130 He became obedient. 484 00:24:15,930 --> 00:24:17,530 Obedient to the point of death. 485 00:24:17,770 --> 00:24:21,570 Death on a cross such that at his name every knee will bow and 486 00:24:21,570 --> 00:24:23,210 tongue confess that he is Lord. 487 00:24:23,950 --> 00:24:27,870 Through him, every blessing has come to us. 488 00:24:30,030 --> 00:24:36,510 So I ask you again, this is basically where we start today with 489 00:24:36,510 --> 00:24:37,150 this series. 490 00:24:39,229 --> 00:24:39,870 That love. 491 00:24:40,270 --> 00:24:41,470 Have you received it? 492 00:24:41,870 --> 00:24:44,270 Did you receive it once, maybe, and lose it? 493 00:24:44,590 --> 00:24:46,910 Did you receive it and maybe it was taken? 494 00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:53,080 God's desire is that you would see that it covers everything. 495 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,080 This love covers everything. 496 00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:58,400 Let's see. 497 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:03,320 There, right there, that word above all, keep loving one another 498 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,000 fiercely intensely. 499 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,840 Keep this intense love amongst you. 500 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,640 Is more what it says, since love. 501 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:11,000 Can you say the next word? 502 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:13,720 Since love. 503 00:25:15,650 --> 00:25:19,290 So just like me walking through the woods, and slowly, like 504 00:25:19,290 --> 00:25:24,050 a slow burn, I remembered this. 505 00:25:24,050 --> 00:25:25,170 Love covers everything. 506 00:25:26,290 --> 00:25:30,170 Every created thing has the DNA of its creator in it, this DNA 507 00:25:30,170 --> 00:25:30,690 of love. 508 00:25:31,490 --> 00:25:34,290 So I ask you today to close, we're just getting this started. 509 00:25:34,450 --> 00:25:35,890 It's just an introduction. 510 00:25:38,210 --> 00:25:42,370 What do you need to receive this love of Christ deeply in your 511 00:25:42,370 --> 00:25:42,610 heart? 512 00:25:42,610 --> 00:25:48,070 The same love out of which all things were made, the same love through 513 00:25:48,070 --> 00:25:49,910 which everything will be saved? 514 00:25:50,710 --> 00:25:53,350 What do you need to receive it again fully? 515 00:25:57,030 --> 00:25:57,910 What do you need? 516 00:25:59,510 --> 00:26:00,630 Do you need healing? 517 00:26:02,790 --> 00:26:03,910 Do you need guidance? 518 00:26:04,630 --> 00:26:09,710 I don't know what you need, but as I close today, I ask you to 519 00:26:09,710 --> 00:26:12,830 offer that prayer up to God in silence. 520 00:26:15,630 --> 00:26:17,150 Go ahead and pray that now. 521 00:26:17,230 --> 00:26:22,030 Pray to God and ask that he would give you whatever you need 522 00:26:22,030 --> 00:26:23,630 to receive this love. 523 00:26:24,590 --> 00:26:29,950 This intense, fierce, stretching out to heal kind of love 524 00:26:30,430 --> 00:26:33,430 through which all things were made and through which all things 525 00:26:33,430 --> 00:26:34,270 will be saved. 526 00:26:34,670 --> 00:26:36,350 Offer that up to God now. 527 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:46,680 God, thank you for the sound of children in the back. 528 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,320 Help us to remember that we are your children. 529 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,000 Help us to experience again that your name is holy. 530 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:54,840 Your name means life. 531 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,880 The same power that runs heaven, the same power that rules 532 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,320 heaven is coming here. 533 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:04,520 Let it be. 534 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,560 Hear our prayers for what we need. 535 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:09,680 Give us what we need. 536 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:16,040 God have mercy on us and forgive us as we forgive others. 537 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,280 Help us to be people of mercy, not a vengeance. 538 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,560 Help us when we're in the midst of trials and deliver us from 539 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:25,800 the snares of evil. 540 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:28,920 In the powerful name of Jesus. 541 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:30,360 Amen. 542 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:36,160 Thank you for participating in the conversation happening at Heaven 543 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:37,240 Earth Church. 544 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:43,080 Your next opportunity to do so live is this Sunday morning, 9:30am 545 00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:48,640 Eastern time either at the main campus at 309 East Main in Whiteland, 546 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,600 Indiana or online at YouTube Live. 547 00:27:53,000 --> 00:28:03,010 That's@YouTube.com the audio podcast is always available at Apple 548 00:28:03,170 --> 00:28:06,050 Podcast and on Spotify. 549 00:28:06,530 --> 00:28:10,770 You can help others find out about the Heaven Earth Church podcast 550 00:28:11,170 --> 00:28:15,930 by going to Apple Podcast and or Spotify and leaving a five star 551 00:28:15,930 --> 00:28:17,570 rating and your review. 552 00:28:18,290 --> 00:28:22,340 Instructions on how to do just that and links are in the show notes. 553 00:28:23,380 --> 00:28:28,980 You can always find out more by going to the church website heavenearthchurch.org 554 00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:30,780 we. 555 00:28:30,780 --> 00:28:32,980 Want to thank you for spending time with us today. 556 00:28:33,140 --> 00:28:36,500 My name is Ross Stackhouse, the pastor to Heaven Earth Church 557 00:28:36,979 --> 00:28:40,220 and you may think out there that your story is over, but in fact 558 00:28:40,220 --> 00:28:43,300 your faith story may just be beginning. 559 00:28:43,620 --> 00:28:46,460 If you want more information about our church or you're interested 560 00:28:46,460 --> 00:28:50,510 in the next step, you can go to heavenorthchurch.org otherwise 561 00:28:50,510 --> 00:28:53,670 we look forward to being with you next time at the Heaven Earth 562 00:28:53,670 --> 00:28:54,670 Church Podcast.