Awake Church Podcast

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This Fall season is a prophecy and a sober and wonderful reminder that Jesus is soon to return to the earth. In this message, Matt shares about the fulfillment of Tabernacles being the return of Jesus, along with 'how' He will return, 'when' He will return, 'what He will do' when He returns, and how we are to be living as we eagerly await Him. GIVE HERE - https://awake.church/give

In this message Matt continues to overlay truth onto current cultural trends to see if they pass the test of truth or are a deception. He also shares about the pillar and support of truth in the world being the living church of God, and our role in sharing and living true lives of moral excellence. GIVE HERE - https://awake.church/give

With Jesus as The Truth, the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Truth, and the scriptures being the "Sum of Truth," we can know and have truth. We can also begin applying truth to every issue, cultural and societal trend to see if indeed it is true. In this message, Matt begins to apply truth to a few of confusing issues in our current culture. GIVE HERE - https://awake.church/give

As Truth has been established as the person of Jesus, the Spirit of Truth and the sum of the scriptures, we can overlay actual truth onto everything that arises in culture to see if it passes the test. Today, Matt begins to dive into some of the cultural lies that don't pass the test of truth and we can see the death and destruction that result. GIVE HERE - https://awake.church/give

This is the beginning part of the series about Truth. God has given us truth. Truth is His Son and His Spirit, summed up in the scriptures. The enemy has always and will always war against that which is true and attempt to undermine, twist and destroy truth, because freedom comes from truth. We can have confidence in knowing truth and building our lives on what is true not false.

Jesus made it clear how to identify one of His disciples - by their love for one another. Followers of Jesus don't just have truth, knowledge and have been saved eternally, they demonstrate and live a life of love. In this message, Matt shares about both the power of love and ways to show love.

God has provided everything related to life and godliness for us, but we have to apply and receive what is available by faith. Knowledge and information without application is useless and sometimes even harmful. In life there is God's part and our part.

Three people from Awake will share about the ways God has stirred their heart to take action in the world and help others.

After beautifully expressing the preeminence of Jesus and the supremacy of the New Covenant, the writer begins to show us how to apply faith to all we now understand. Faith like the saints of old is needed so that we don't shrink back, but live out His purposes for our lives and see the power of God working through us.

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The writer of Hebrews has established that Jesus is supreme above all angels, men and in today's passage, even the High Priest. Our hope, fixation and salvation are to be upon Jesus Christ. The forever High Priest whose one-time sacrifice for all time enacted a New Covenant, cleanses us from our sin and enables us to have personal relationship and closeness with God.

In these two chapters, the author of Hebrews is encouraging Jewish believers to hold on to their confidence in Jesus by pointing out that he is the only one that can lead them to rest. Even Moses, who was faithful to his calling, couldn't succeed at leading the Israelites to rest, but we have access to God's rest in Jesus. We'll end by talking through some practical ways to "strive to enter that rest" (4:11).

The scriptures are a treasure of priceless value and in them is the description and knowledge of Jesus. The book of Hebrews describes and reinforces the supreme nature of Jesus, reminding us that He is over all, has the greatest name and is superior in love to all.

Today we celebrate fathers and the Father. The Father is the source of life, the determiner of our identity and the one who first made and then loved us. People and individuals are unhealthy to the degree that their fathers are absent, and we are healthy as a person and a society when the Father is present. A part of every believer's journey in life is to develop a healthy relationship with our Heavenly Father.

Following Jesus means living counter-culture lives. Jesus did the opposite of everyone else and has given to us His Spirit to indwell us so that "as He is, so are we in this world." Our lives are to reflect His life, not just value His words and position. More than anytime in our lives, we are living in days where light is needed and we are the light of the world.

After it was prophesied for thousands of years, Jesus preparing people for His coming, 50 days after the death of Jesus, the promise of the Father came. The Holy Spirit came upon and within the followers of Jesus and the birth of the Church began. It was not just an event, but a beginning of a lasting empowerment and indwelling that would happen through every generation until Jesus returns and He is here, in us, helping us and overflowing through us to do the works of Jesus.

Jesus has a beautifully different view of women than you may have heard. Beth took us on a tour of women in the word beginning with Eve and how the Lord fashioned her and made her in his image. Finally we looked at how Jesus sees women, how that challenged the religious leaders of his day, and is continuing to challenge us today.

God commands and instructs people to do things so that they remain free, help and love others and avoid sin. And God invites all to receive, so that what He paid for and sent fills our lives. This infilling is empowering and the very promise of the Father that Jesus came to deliver to us. Our part is to believe in Jesus and then receive what He wants to give - His Holy Spirit.

The most ignored, misunderstood and avoided person in the Universe is actually the Spirit that Jesus sent to reside inside of His bride. He is the power of God and the comfort of God, doing what human strength and ingenuity cannot do and filling our lives with wonder.

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On a day of gloom, despair and hopelessness, God did the impossible and raised Jesus from the dead - raising hope for every person in every age to come. Today we celebrate and remember the victory over sin, death, Hell, and the grave...and our entrance into a new life with Jesus.

Celebrating Awake Church's 20th Anniversary!

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The Devil is our primary enemy, but like an intelligence agency, he works through inside secret agents. The inside agent we all carry and must put to death daily is selfishness. Jesus showed us the way and called all who follow Him to carry our cross daily, not allowing selfishness to operate or drive our lives.

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There are many ways to live in this world and then there are God's ways. God's ways are right-side-up from the ways of the world and include great blessing, but are also filled with difficulties. The difficulties are worth it as we don't live for ourselves but for the One who made us.

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In a world filled with distractions and false teachings, the Apostle Paul shared his deep concern with the Corinthian congregation to keep them from being deceived. In this message, Matt shares about the similarities we have to the Corinthian church and the many false gospels we must reject. He also talks about how we must remain devoted to Jesus daily.

Today, Matt continues to explore the Kingdom of Heaven with us, talking about the spectacular realm and domain of God - what it is, what is contains, what we receive, then share and give away.

Jesus talked about two things more than any other - His Father and the Kingdom of Heaven. As the King and representative of the Kingdom of Heaven, Jesus brought it, gave it away, and asked us to seek it above all else. In the first part of this series, Matt begins to explain elements of what the Kingdom of Heaven is and how we interact with and share it ourselves.

Proverbs tells us that wisdom has extraordinary value. Wisdom protects us from future regret. We want to dig into the book of Proverbs in order to live our best life. In this message, Debbie Peterson shares about discovering the difference between knowledge, understanding and wisdom, and learning how to apply them all.

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Christmas is the celebration of life, hope and peace arriving. It is remembering the love of the Father that dispatched and gave His Son to suffer a murderer's death in order to set free billions of enslaved. Christmas is the beginning of the gospel of the kingdom and the blood inside of the Messiah baby, the antidote to all enslavement and death. We celebrate Him coming and living even now in us.

Jesus desires first place in us. His sacrifice and love deserve the best, and He desires to have first place in our thoughts, decisions and devotion. He is deserving of all and whatever we surrender to Him, He is able to renew or restore. He is the answer to every human need, the desire of the nations and the lover of our soul. Jesus is King.

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We all face adversity, and holidays (particularly this year) can be especially difficult for many due to the loss of loved ones, isolation, rejection from friends and family due to personal choices, anxiety, depression and even suicidal thoughts. I am sharing parts of my testimony to impart HOPE and inspire us to Believe for our God of the impossible to help us overcome!

Just as an EKG provides a health-check of the natural heart, a lifestyle of thankfulness indicates a healthy person. Complaining and grumbling are irritants to God, while our gratitude invites His presence and help. We have the supernatural ability to choose to be thankful in "all things," which sets us apart as lights in a the midst of a dark generation.

described the greatest people as those who serve others. In a world surrounded by a consumer, self-focused mentality, the greatest and most joyful people in the world life in an opposite spirit - looking to give rather than get. There is great reward both here and in heaven for those who commit to a lifestyle of serving others, allowing their giftings, time and efforts to be used for others.

The definition of boldness for the gospel is being willing to initiate the conversation with people about Jesus. A person's answer to the question, “Who do YOU say Jesus is,” determines not only the rest of their life, but also their eternal destination.

Knowing about someone is significantly different than knowing them personally. The unique calling and invitation to every follower of Jesus is to know the Father and the Son - to use knowledge of God as a springboard into relationship, and enter the greatest adventure of all time. Christianity isn't following a system or a manner of living, but a thriving and living relationship where we invite God to be a part of all that we do, discovering Him.

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Life is about knowing God. Eternal life is about knowing God. The privilege and adventure of our lifetime is found in the invisible realm of relationship with the Creator, Father of all the living, and the King of the Universe. Throughout this series, Matt shares about how we can know Him more.

Life offers opportunities to be offended at every turn, even offended by the way that God does things. In this message, Matt shares about Jesus' blessing of not being offended by how God chooses to do things. It is vital that we aren't serving images in our minds of how something will look rather than denying ourselves and following Jesus daily, leaving the outcomes to Him.

Continuing on with some non-essentials, Matt shares about the essential of the return of Jesus and the Non-Essential of exactly when. He explores a possible timing that sets the course for believers to endure to the end and not be deceived or fall away from the faith before the Savior arrives.

Along with the essential doctrine and reality of who Jesus is, there are non-essentials that we are exploring for the sake of removing unnecessary stumbling blocks for others. Today, Matt focuses on a couple more non-essential elements of our faith, but important issues relating to the sovereignty of God.

We spend the vast majority of our time speaking about essential aspects of spirituality, the gospel of the kingdom, the person of God. Every once in awhile we discuss some non-essential things, that we may disagree upon, but can be helpful to discover, pray about and seek God about. In this message, Matt dives into the first non-essential which deals with the six days of creation and what a day is to God.

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