“The Me Inside Our Tents”
Sermon
Steve Jacobsen delivers the message "The Me Inside Our Tents" with music from Kathleen Sieck and the Music Team.
Scripture
Acts 18:1-4
18 After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them, 3 and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them. 4 Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.
2 Corinthians 4:16-5:5
16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
5 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
Choral Benediction
“The Love of God”
All: Who the Son sets free, Oh is free indeed,
I’m a child of God, yes I am.
In my father’s house, there’s a place for me,
I’m a child of God, yes I am!
I am chosen, not forsaken,
I am who You say I am.
You are for me, not against me,
I am who You say I am. (2x)