Daily 7A Movement Launch Meeting Launch Code

Ron and Nick talk about the necessity of having a community of people around us to help us hear and hold what God is telling us AND we announce our daily online meeting of the movement to encourage us to live like the gospel is true.

Notes:

Acts 1:8

Identity

The Holy Spirit is power if a new and different kind than any power ever entrusted to men. It is a received power not an earned power or a built power.  He is the power and it cannot be separated from his presence.

At This Time

Jesus's teaching about the kingdom must have been like his other teaching: plain in some aspects and completely opaque in others. After 40 days of teaching about the kingdom the followers of Jesus are anxious for the kingdom to come but mistaken about what the kingdom meant. 

Is it God's fault we don't understand his teaching?  Sometimes I tend to subconsciously place the blame for my misunderstandings at the feet I God. And there is some evidence that Jesus taught the crowds in ways they could not understand (mt 13:10-17) but not these people. They are the ones who have the keys and he tells them plainly about the kingdom. And still they are struggling to understand.  Why?  God's teaching is clear but our paradigms are not changed. In order to have God teaching we need God hearing. These followers heard kingdom and thought of power exercised through men. But God was telling them about a kingdom where power would be exercised through a Spirit.