Message: “Growing What Is Good, vol. 3: How Jesus Rules and How It Frees Us” from Ross Stackhouse

As we talked about last week, everybody wants to rule the world–well, perhaps not the world but our world. We get lost in wanting what we don’t have–approval, admiration, power, money, status–and we create our own kingdoms with our own rules so we can get what we want but don’t have. Or, we just escape or numb ourselves. We participate in the forces of sin and evil and death. None of these things is what we’re made for. We’re made in God’s image to grow and multiply good with God and with each other. God actually did create us to be rulers of sorts, but not the kinds of rulers that have become so common in our world. If we want to know how to live as we’re made to and rule as God rules–as a sharer and a servant–then we need to look no farther than God’s Son, Jesus. Jesus comes to Earth to take on what has destroyed us and restore us to our original goodness. He comes to teach us how to be good rulers in a kingdom of goodness.

Scripture References: Luke 22:24-30

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From Series: "Growing What Is Good"

When we talk about “growing what is good”, we are not just talking about growing something outside of ourselves. We are talking about growing…us. We are originally good, supremely good, according to Genesis 1. Jesus comes to Earth to take on what has destroyed us and restore us to our original goodness. He is the first of the New Humanity in the New Creation. He calls us to become part of the New Humanity in the New Creation.