The Coming Of The King Series

ILLUST> So hey there, good to see you and welcome to this place called DCC. What a crazy weekend it has been already! We had our backpack bash yesterday which was absolute chaos, but thousands of people were fed, thousands of kids had lots of fun and received free loaded backpacks and the love of Jesus was poured out on our city in an unbelievable way. If you were a part of that effort in anyway, donated a backpack, gave money, or served in anyway during the bash would you please stand? Can we give it up for these great people? Thank you for everything. I know that you didn’t do it for the applause which is exactly why we did it. I love the heart of this place. Let me show you what else you did. We decided to lead the way with our Mayor’s request for church school partnerships and recently partnered up with Doherty HS and completely remodeled their teachers lounge. Here are the before pics. Here are the after. If you were a part of this project in any way would you please stand. Let’s give it up for these people. If you stood up today, you need to know you are a hero. The rescue that takes place inside and outside the walls of this place, the love of Jesus that is being poured out on our city doesn’t happen without you. So thank you so much for allowing me to be a part of this. I have never been more proud to be a part of this place.

So, hey, if you are a new friend here with us for the very first time today we want to give a special shout and welcome to you and to say thanks for taking a chance on us. Hopefully, you’ve already gotten a feel for who we are, and what we are about, and how important the word rescue is to us in this place, but we also want you to know that you are safe here no matter how your story past or present happens to read or what you do or don’t believe. We are people just like you, the struggle is real for us too, and we hope that you have a great experience with us and want to come back and do this all over again with us real soon. (As always, if you are live online right now, wherever you are, you mean alot to us too.)

So, we are in week 5 of a series called Route 66. We are working our way through the larger story that is told through the 66 books of the Bible and I have to be honest with you as we jump back in. I was really looking forward to this week until we actually got to this week. Let me explain. So we have unpacked creation, man’s rebellion, and seen God’s love for people and his heart for rescue over and over again in the thousands of years of history that we have unpacked together over the past 4 weeks. It has been a tall task, but we have covered 1,000 years of history in each of the past two weeks. Which will help you understand why I couldn’t wait to get to this part of the series. Today we are only covering about 3 years. So, if I covered 1,000 years in 38 minutes and stay on track today I have about 7 seconds to this. Actually, I’m already done. Let’s just pray and go home. Best church service ever right? You know me, I can’t even pray in 7 seconds. So, why are we spending an entire day on just 3 years? This is the epicenter. This is what it is really all about. It’s a completely different story without this. In fact, check this out. The 1,000 years we covered last week was contained in parts of 22 books. The 3 years that we are talking about today is so significant that it is unpacked in all of 26 books...26 books that describe the coming of the true king in the story. So, as we jump back in let’s stay with our focus questions. What does what we are reading saying about God and about us? How does this story intersect with and apply to each of our stories as we sit here today?

If you brought a Bible today we are going to pick up where we left off in the story and start in Luke chapter 7 today. If you don’t have a Bible they are back on the back tables that you can grab right now if you would like if you close or on you can always grab one on your way out. As always you can hit our app or the YouVersion app too. Or you can ignore all of that and read along with me on the screens. So here we go, Luke 7 verse 18...