Mustang Creek Community Church Podcast

CARRIERS | Robert Kennedy | Mustang Creek Community Church

2 Corinthians 5 NLT 18 God has given us this task of reconciling people to him.
2 Corinthians 5 NLT 19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5 NLT 20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”
2 Corinthians 5 NLT 21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ. Be a Carrier Do we hear those cries in our own shadows?
2 Corinthians 3 NLT 9 If the old way, which brings condemnation, was glorious, how much more glorious is a new way, which makes us right with God!
2 Corinthians 3 NLT 10 In fact, that first glory was not glorious at all compared with the overwhelming glory of the new way.
2 Corinthians 3 NLT 11 So if the old way, which has been replaced, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new, which remains forever!
2 Corinthians 3 NLT 12 Since this new way gives us such confidence, we can be very bold.
2 Corinthians 3 NLT 13 We are not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so the people of Israel would not see the glory, even though it was destined to fade away.
1. Are we contagious or innocuous? Pandemic Stats: COVID-19 has killed 6,147,878.
Pandemic Stats: COVID-19 has killed 6,147,878. Influenza 25-50 million. Pandemic Stats: COVID-19 has killed 6,147,878. Influenza 25-50 million. HIV AIDS 36 million.
Pandemic Stats: COVID-19 has killed 6,147,878. Influenza 25-50 million. HIV AIDS 36 million. Bubonic plague 150 -200+ million.
Pandemic Stats: COVID-19 has killed 6,147,878. Influenza 25-50 million. HIV AIDS 36 million. Bubonic plague 150 -200+ million. Smallpox, 300 and 500 million.
Article Headlines: China’s Communist Party is intensifying religious persecution as Christianity’s popularity grows. A new state translation of the Bible will establish a ‘correct understanding of the text
2 Corinthians 4 NLT 3 If the Good News we preach is hidden behind a veil, it is hidden only from people who are perishing.
2 Corinthians 4 NLT 4 Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.
2 Corinthians 4 NLT 5 You see, we don’t go around preaching about ourselves. We preach that Jesus Christ is Lord, and we ourselves are your servants for Jesus’ sake.
2 Corinthians 4 NLT 6 For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 4 NLT 7 We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. And this makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.
2- We must be carriers of the solution. If this good news is hidden, it is hidden to those that are perishing! 3 Are we of any use to God?
2 Corinthians 5 NLT 10 For we must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in this earthly body.
2 Corinthians 5 NLT 15 He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.
2 Corinthians 5 NLT 16 So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now!
2 Corinthians 5 NLT 17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
2 Corinthians 5 NLT 18 And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him.
2 Corinthians 5 NLT 19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. 20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” 21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ. God is Active in us doing this Great Work! Reconciliation = The restoration of God and man’s relationship.
2 Samuel 18 KJV 22 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready? Ambassador = One who is sent as a representative of another person or country
2 Corinthians 5 NLT 20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; And God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”

All - Week 6 | Robert Kennedy | Mustang Creek Community Church

ALL - Heart
First Love
 
Revelations 2 AMP
1 “To the angel (divine messenger) of the church in Ephesus write: “These are the words of the One who holds [firmly] the seven stars [which are the angels or messengers of the seven churches] in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands (the seven churches): 
Revelations 2 AMP
2 ‘I know your deeds and your toil, and your patient endurance, and that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and have tested and critically appraised those who call themselves apostles (special messengers, personally chosen representatives, of Christ), and [in fact] THEY are not, and have found them to be liars and impostors; 
Revelations 2 AMP
3 and [I know that] you [who believe] are enduring patiently and are bearing up for My name’s sake, and that you have not grown weary [of being faithful to the truth]. 
Revelations 2 AMP
4 But I have this [charge] against you, that you have left your first love [you have lost the depth of love that you first had for Me]. 
Revelations 2 AMP
5 So remember the heights from which you have fallen, and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek God’s will] and do the works you did at first [when you first knew Me]; otherwise, I will visit you and remove your lampstand (the church, its impact) from its place—unless you repent.
 
Mark 12 ESV
29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 
Mark 12 ESV
30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 
Mark 12 ESV
31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
 
1- I want God to be attracted to our hearts for Him.
 
1 Samuel 13 ESV
14 The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince over his people,
 
The only reason my heart can fully belong to my spouse is because it fully belongs to God.
 
2- Does God have first place in your heart?
 
I KNOW your :
Works
Holiness
Knowledge of my Word
Faithfulness
 
You have “left” your First Love!!!!
 
Left = au-fee-a-me
To send away. A husband divorcing his wife. To let go. To disregard. To omit OR neglect. To leave or go away from.
 
3- What have we allowed to compete for first place?
 
Mark 4 ESV
18 And others(people) are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, 
Mark 4 ESV
19 but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
 
Mark 4:19 NIV
…making it unfruitful.
 
Enter in...
Greek word pronounced (Ice-pie-roo’-e-my)
to go into or be carried into or be put into like food into the mouth.
 
Is He our first love or Just a love?
 
4- Repent and return.
 
Revelations 2 AMP
4 But I have this [charge] against you, that you have left your first love [you have lost the depth of love that you first had for Me]. 
Revelations 2 AMP
5 So remember the heights from which you have fallen, and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek God’s will] and do the works you did at first [when you first knew Me]; otherwise, I will visit you and remove your lampstand (the church, its impact) from its place—unless you repent.
 
Mark 4 NIV
21 He said to them, “Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand?
 
They can’t see our love for people unless it radiates from our love for Him.
 
Exodus 33 ESV
9 When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the Lord would speak with Moses. 
Exodus 33 ESV
10 And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, each at his tent door. 
Exodus 33 ESV
11 Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
 
Pursue God
 
Jeremiah 29 ESV
10 “For thus says the Lord: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. 
Jeremiah 29 ESV
11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 
Jeremiah 29 ESV
12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. 
Jeremiah 29 ESV
13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. 
Jeremiah 29 ESV
14 I will be found by you, declares the Lord,
 
Do you know God or do you just know about God?
 
Is He our first love or Just a love?

Unstoppable | Rod Collver | Mustang Creek Community Church

Unstoppable When the people of God get behind the man of God, empowered by the Holy Spirit, they will be unstoppable.
John 4:35 Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.
I Corinthians 12:28 And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues.
Matthew 10:41 Anyone who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and anyone who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.
What you make happen for someone else, God will make happen for you.
Luke 16:12 And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who will give you that which is your own?

All - Week 5 | Robert Kennedy

All - Week 4 | Judy Kennedy

All means ALL
Mark 12 ESV 29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Mark 12 ESV 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
Mark 12 ESV 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” How marvelous is the grace of God that it is able to cover our constant failure. When we decide to seek Him with all of our heart - we will find Him. When we find Him we will fall in love with Him. Contrite: feeling or expressing remorse or penitence; affected by guilt.
Psalm 51:10-11 ESV Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Psalm 51:17 ESV The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Psalm 26:2 Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart… Broken: having been fractured or damaged and no longer in one piece or in working order; having given up all hope; despairing.
Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick. We can love Him with our messed-up hearts until He completes the work He began in us. Seek the Lord with my whole heart Find Him and Know Him Love Him with all my heart
We can love Him with our messed-up hearts until He completes the work He began in us.
Seek the Lord with my whole heart
Find Him and Know Him
Love Him with all my heart

All - Week 3 | Robert Kennedy

All - Week 2 | Robert Kennedy

What does it look like to love with ALL of your Heart, soul, mind and strength?
Do we love God with all of our heart? Vs. Are we loving God with all of our heart?
1. The most wicked thing on earth is the heart of man.
2. Our heart is a replica of the Father’s Heart.
3. God wants us to love Him with All of the heart He gave to us.

Serve Sunday | Brian Loudermilk

1. Serve one another through love
Galatians 5 ESV 13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. Galatians 5 ESV 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
 
2. Serve God out of crazy love not obligation
 
3. Created to serve
Ephesians 2 ESV 1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience- 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
 
4. Empowered to Serve
1 Corinthians 12 ESV 4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. 7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.