Episode Transcript
[00:00:02] Speaker A: Welcome to the Crema Chaj podcast.
[00:00:12] Speaker B: Good morning.
You may be seated.
Yeah, we. We were five when we got married. That's what it was.
Must be because the math doesn't quite work out. But, yeah, what happened was earlier on in the week, I think Monday, sue texted me and said, hey, I'd like to go to Cromer on Sunday.
And then I texted back and said, well, why don't we get a hotel the night before, go out the night before.
And then it's like where we're staying. Good food, text goes back and forth and it's like, see if Steve and Juliet are free on Saturday night. So we ended up coming up last night having a meal with Steve and Juliet and coming here this morning. And then Steve said, do you want to preach? And I said, well, I'm visiting family, but I don't mind cooking while I'm there sort of thing. So basically, that's what it is. And this is my hobby. So preaching is just a hobby.
Seriously, I love it.
I love what I get to do.
And actually, the other strange thing was we went to London on Tuesday to buy something, and when we went to the shop, which isn't a big change shop, store or anything, you had to have an appointment and we didn't have an appointment.
[00:01:23] Speaker C: And then when we walked out the
[00:01:25] Speaker B: store, we noticed that there was a branch in Leicester. So we came to Leicester yesterday and bought what we hadn't managed to buy in London. So it was perfect day, really.
Like, thanks for having us. Yeah, it's great.
Thanks for always welcoming us, making us feel like home. And it is, it is home. It's beautiful to be here.
I'm going to share something.
It never comes out the same twice with me.
I. I had a go. First service, we'll see what comes out. Second service.
I have something to say for sure.
And what happened was that a few weeks ago, it was actually linked to my message on friends. I was following a thread in the Bible, which is, I read the Bible. Like, I investigate the Bible, I ask the Bible questions and I'll follow threads. And I preached a message on friendship and I quoted that Abraham was a friend of God. And I was in the passage in James where it says that. And I just noticed something there that I then started studying and I saw it in a number of other places and it was at that moment, it was just some notes in my Bible for me.
And then what happened was that this last week something, you know, came against us, a specific situation.
And. And I realized that not Only were they notes for me, but they were notes I'd have to live.
Not in a have to live. But, you know, it's like you were. You were setting me up to live this. And then Steve said, will you preach? And it's like, I have something to say.
And I'm kind of preaching to me, really.
[00:03:07] Speaker C: So.
[00:03:08] Speaker B: So if you want to join in, you're welcome. But I'm preaching to Paul Manwaring because I need it. And so that's kind of what got me to. What I'm going to share. And some of the things that I learned about reading the Bible, particularly from Bill Johnson, is that you read to learn, not to teach.
Don't pick up the Bible to teach. Teach. Pick up the Bible to learn.
And I think that's really important. And then if you're in the Word, you've got a word.
So if you've been in the Word today, you've got a word.
Don't doubt it. Don't make this just for us. People that stand up here with microphones, like, fall in love with this extraordinary book. I'm going to take you on a little bit of a. Of a journey through some verses. And honestly, they amazed me.
I found something. It just amazed me. I've never seen that before. And if it doesn't amaze you, that's okay. Just find something that amazes you for you when you read it.
Is that okay?
So I'm gonna do what you love to do here and invite you to stand and just read one particular passage. But I'll be in quite a few verses.
But why don't you stand up, grab hold of your Bibles, James 2.
Kind of being a bit locked in Hebrews James and John recently, I don't think they get enough credit.
They wrote some amazing stuff. Whoever wrote Hebrews AI says it was probably, probably not Paul, but what does AI know?
Verse 14. What use is it? My brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works, can that faith save him?
If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, go in peace, be warmed and filled. And yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so, faith, if it has no works, is dead being by itself. But someone may well say, you have faith and I have works.
Show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that God is one. You do. Well, the demons also believe and shudder.
But are you willing to Recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless.
Was not Abraham our father, justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
You see that faith was working with his works. And as a result of the works, and this, I want you to just like embrace this.
As a result of the works, faith was perfected and the scripture was fulfilled which says, and Abraham believed God and it was reckoned to him as righteousness and he was called the friend of God. You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.
In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
Amen.
[00:06:33] Speaker C: I don't know.
[00:06:34] Speaker B: Public reading the Bible always makes me want to go Anglican. Go. Thanks be to God. It's probably what we should do. Really thank you for the most extraordinary book.
[00:06:46] Speaker C: What happened was that I read that and I read the word in there perfect.
And it started me on a kind
[00:06:57] Speaker B: of a trail of some other verses that also say that something was made
[00:07:02] Speaker C: perfect and made perfect because of our involvement in something.
And that was.
It just struck me as quite extraordinary, this kind of awareness that we co labor with God and that there are things that become perfect because of our involvement in God.
So Abraham's faith was perfected by his works.
That's amazing to me. But then what I started to do
[00:07:31] Speaker B: was go on a little bit of a journey.
[00:07:34] Speaker C: And the first place I actually went was Matthew 5:48, which is impossible because it says be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. That's impossible. Excitement this side of heaven because I am never going to stand up and
[00:07:54] Speaker B: say that I don't sin.
[00:07:56] Speaker C: That's not, I'm forgiven of all my sin and I will be perfect one day. But that perfect definition, when I read it, you see, if I read be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect, I read an English word which isn't what the Bible means it to be.
Because actually perfect in English prior to the 15th century meant finished, completed. It was only 15th century that they actually added the letter C to the word perfect and made it perfect. And it became flawless.
And so the definition became flawless instead of complete.
And what I began to do was go on this journey of first thing I did was went to my iPad and looked up what the Greek word for perfect was. And the Greek word for perfect is teleos T E L E I O S and it means complete, lacking in nothing, it doesn't mean flawless.
Which means whenever you read perfect in the Bible, which I think is nearly always translated from that Greek word, make sure you're not reading the English perfect, flawless. Make sure your thinking is it says complete, lacking in nothing.
So when the King James version was written, it was probably correct to translate teleos as perfect because perfect then didn't mean flawless.
[00:09:36] Speaker B: Is everyone okay?
[00:09:39] Speaker C: Because I'm not flawless.
[00:09:41] Speaker B: I just want you to know that
[00:09:43] Speaker C: I can't speak for you, but I
[00:09:45] Speaker B: can speak for me and my wife could speak for me that I'm not flawless.
She will confirm that revelation.
[00:09:54] Speaker C: So I started really on something of
[00:09:58] Speaker B: a journey of reading these verses and
[00:10:06] Speaker C: seeing the way that they actually apply to my life if I read what
[00:10:09] Speaker B: the word perfect really means.
[00:10:13] Speaker C: Because if I read flawless, it's impossible.
Be flawless as your Heavenly Father's flawless. That's impossible. This side of heaven. It's impossible. Yes, I am made perfect by the blood of Christ, but I am not yet fully perfect because I'm incomplete.
So I went on a little bit of a trek. You see, really, teleos contains this extraordinary truth that there's an end in mind.
So the very word itself contains the sense of an end in mind, which you know, because the word tele, telescope, it's got an end.
And actually fascinating. There's a philosophy called teleology which derives from that word, which is to study things with the awareness that there's an end.
Which I actually think maybe we Christians should do a little bit more often. Study things with the awareness that there is an end, there is a goal.
So being perfect is a word that really means being complete, lacking in nothing. And it needs to be read from the point of view that it is in relation to us because there is an end in mind for our lives.
And so teleos is the English word's impossible to achieve. Perfect means perfect, flawless.
But teleos is a definition which includes complete lacking in nothing. In fact, James, when he used perfect, and I'll use this verse again in a little while, but when he used the word perfect in James 1:4, he said, and let endurance have its perfect result. We'll come back to this because it's encouraging so that you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing. He actually wrote out the definition for us as well as the word perfect.
Let endurance have its perfect result.
And then he defines it so that you may be perfect, complete, lacking in nothing.
If I want to give you one thing today, it's that you leave this place today and you enter into the week with this phrase in your mind, I lack nothing.
Now you know it's true.
I know it's true. I knew it was true before I started studying this, but it's taken on a fresh depth for me. Plus, as I'm facing something, I realized a truth for me and I'm going to try and help you to apply it.
So Abraham, his faith is made complete, lacking in nothing, by his works.
Colossians 1:28 says, we proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man.
[00:13:25] Speaker B: There's a lot of every man's in
[00:13:27] Speaker C: there, but complete in Christ, the word complete there is teleos. You'll find that this word pops up in loads of places.
It also pops up in Ephesians 4, the passage that includes the five gifts of Christ to the church. Ephesians 4:13. Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, the word mature there is teleos.
Until we all attain to a mature man. The purpose of the fivefold, the apostle, the prophet, the evangelist, the pastor and teacher, is not to build five offices in a church and build a structure around five people. It's the purpose of it is to take the five gifts of. Of Christ, which are who he is. Because he was the first apostle. Well, he is the first apostle. He is prophet and priest and king. He is the evangelist, he is the chief rabbi and he is the chief shepherd. And those gifts are given to us, to the church, that we might be completed.
That's what they're given to us for, that we might mature, grow up, be complete.
So we see it pop up in Ephesians there. It's maturity. You see, I want to be mature. But even then I read mature. It's a bad translation.
I want to be complete. I want to live lacking nothing. That's maturity.
If I read perfect, it's flawless. I can't achieve flawlessness, but I can live knowing that I'm complete, lacking in nothing.
I used the illustration in the first service and then somebody said to me, have I got a sponsorship with lego? I don't, unfortunately. I wish I did. But, you know, you go and buy a Lego, a box of Lego, it's complete.
Even before you build it, it's complete. Hopefully all the bits are in there.
That's you and me. We're complete, lacking nothing. We're just being constructed. We're on a journey of being put Together, but all the bits are available. You lack nothing.
I lack nothing. I face a situation. I have something come against me. I've got to work out that I lack nothing. Because if I don't respond from an I lack nothing, I will respond from some other places.
I want to be mature. I want to respond from. I lack nothing. I want to respond from. All the bits are in my Lego box. Excuse me a minute. I'm putting a few bits together.
I might not look quite complete, but I'm complete. All the bits are in here.
So we see this word teleos, popping up in a number of places. What's beautiful is that in Ephesians 1:23, we see what he fills us with because it says the fullness of him who fills all in all. And in John 1:16, it's his fullness we've all received. That's why we lack nothing.
He's the fullness of him who fills all in all. That's you and me. We're filled by Him. We lack nothing.
You see, perfect is an impossible goal.
I would love it if now, every time you read perfect in your Bible, you don't read perfect.
You don't read flawless.
You read, I'm complete, I lack nothing. Read maturity in Ephesians. It's like I lack nothing. I want to attain to the place that I live, knowing I lack nothing.
And in James there 2:22, I've got a new 2:22. I love 22:22. I love Isaiah, key of the house of David on the shoulder to open the door. No man was shut. Shut the door. Now no one will open. I. I love that. So you sometimes will go upstairs to bed and say, hey, it's 2222.
What's that mean? And it means something for us, and it means something for me. But I've got a new one, James 2:22, that my faith is made perfect by works.
I'm going to give you a few more examples of where this word occurs.
And I think that you will be surprised at where it pops up.
And hopefully I'm going to give you a strategy for how to live to live out of place. I lack nothing.
Funny thing is, with me, some of you know I have a life motto, he wastes nothing.
Now I've added lacking nothing.
This week I scribbled down a few more. Nothing separates.
Nothing compares.
Nothing's impossible. I think we could start a church called Nothing.
Nothing compares. Nothing's impossible. I lack nothing. He wastes nothing. Nothing compares.
[00:18:31] Speaker B: I want to learn to live Because I want to grow up. I want to be mature.
[00:18:38] Speaker C: I don't want to pursue an impossible goal. I don't want to beat myself up that I failed to be perfect.
I want to live from a place of declaring.
[00:18:47] Speaker B: I lack nothing.
[00:18:49] Speaker C: So we have. Our faith is perfected by our works. Our faith is completed by our works. But then in 1 John 4 it says, by this love is perfected with us.
How is love perfected? His love, John says, this is extraordinary. Is perfected in us.
[00:19:16] Speaker B: How?
[00:19:18] Speaker C: By how we love if we don't love others.
His love is in the ether, floating around. It's beautiful, but he needs to actually come into us, flow through us, be expressed to other people for his love to be perfected in us, made complete. It's as if it doesn't get given a place to land. It's incomplete, it's an unfinished work. It gets finished when it flows through me to you.
His love is perfected in us. You can read a number of examples of it.
In 1 John 4, there's two or three places that it comes up.
You see, his love is perfected in you. As you love others. Your faith is perfected in through your works.
[00:20:14] Speaker B: It actually goes on one john somewhere. Where have I got it? 17.
[00:20:20] Speaker C: This is amazing. There's no fear in love.
[00:20:24] Speaker B: I noticed this in the break. Okay, so this is messier.
[00:20:28] Speaker C: There's no fear in love, but perfect love.
So I've read that I'm trying to cast out fear with perfect love, defined by English perfect, not by Greek perfect.
If I try and cast out fear with perfect flawless love, I'll fail.
But if I cast out fear through a love that says I lack nothing, his love flowing through me is complete. I can cast out fear. I don't know whether I'm about to get more breakthrough in that, but maybe I am.
But perfect love casts out fear. Teleos. Love casts out fear.
Not the impossible goal. Does that make sense to anyone? Anyone else been banging away at that fear and not got quite as much
[00:21:15] Speaker B: breakthrough as you wanted?
[00:21:16] Speaker C: It's because it's not perfect, flawless love. It's the complete love, the lacking nothing love, the awareness in our mindset that we're living out of a place of I lack nothing that will cast out fear.
But striving love, trying to make it perfect love, it won't work.
This. I love this 1/2 Corinthians 12, 9.
There's lots of reasons why I love this. I love that there are red letter
[00:21:50] Speaker B: verses not in the gospels, like they're my Favorite red letter verses.
[00:21:55] Speaker C: When Jesus shows up.
Paul has red letter verses in Corinthians. He never met Jesus in the flesh.
[00:22:08] Speaker B: My grace is sufficient for you.
[00:22:11] Speaker C: My power is what perfected.
His power is perfected in your weakness.
If you need some power in your life right now, it might require you
[00:22:25] Speaker B: to embrace your weakness.
[00:22:27] Speaker C: To embrace your weakness. And in your weakness say, I lack nothing, not of what I'm doing, but because of what he has done, his grace is sufficient. His power is going to be perfected.
The perfecting, the completion, the fullness of him who fills all in all is going to happen when you embrace your weight. Weakness. When I embrace my weakness. It's the same word.
It's teleos.
It's not the flawless English word. It's teleos.
So we've got faith perfected by works. We've got love perfected by loving other people. We've got power perfected by weakness.
I've never seen this before. If you have and you've written a
[00:23:14] Speaker B: book on it, let me know.
[00:23:17] Speaker C: James 1:4.
And let endurance, which is one of
[00:23:23] Speaker B: my favorite words in the Bible.
[00:23:25] Speaker C: Let endurance have its perfect result.
I hadn't seen this till I came here. I said it first service, but I hadn't seen it.
But I want to declare this kind of prophetic declaration over you, Cromer. Your endurance for a building will have its perfect, lacking nothing, complete result.
It will have that.
Your endurance. Now, endurance is another. It's one of the few words I know in Greek. I don't want you to be impressed because honestly, I just look them up on an iPad, but it's hupomona. It's probably my favorite word in Greek. Hupomone.
And it actually means this. The character of a man or woman of God unswerved from their deliberate purpose in life by even the greatest trials and sufferings.
That's what it means.
But that word hupomona appears in Romans, Romans 5. Rejoice in your tribulations, knowing that tribulations produces endurance. Hupa monae.
Endurance produces character.
And character. Hope. What's the perfect result?
The endurance will have its perfect result. It will be hope. So what have we got?
Faith perfected by works. Love perfected by loving others. And hope is. Is the result of endurance having its perfect result. We got faith, hope and love. They're the big three of the Bible.
Faith, hope and love. And we're engaged in them all.
The manifestation of them requires us to co labor.
I've got to perfect my faith by my works. Perfect his love in me by how I love you and that my endurance will have its perfect result and all of those are this word teleos but then related to that I had this fun moment this week and had a
[00:25:36] Speaker B: man came around for coffee and actually
[00:25:41] Speaker C: the same day as my mom passed,
[00:25:42] Speaker B: his wife of 32 years passed. She was here at leaders gathering earlier on this year, 32 year old mother of three called Lizzie and she, she passed to Glory January 31st and he was down and, and I'd said hey, it's always good coffee in, in Windsor if, if you, if you want to pop in. He's a wonderful man and serves in the army.
He's just lost his 32 year old wife. He started asking me difficult questions, you know and, and that's my territory of I don't know, I'm, I, I love you. I'm just here, just be there. And he asked me something and I
[00:26:20] Speaker C: ended up going to Hebrews and I said to him, I said this is the only answer I got.
If you don't carry on doing what she believed, it's in the Bible she will not be made perfect.
It's in the Bible.
It says this in the great hall of faith. All these at the end of the Hebrews 11.
All these having gained approval through their faith. We're talking about the big boys and girls of the Bible.
All these having gained approval through their faith did not receive what was promised because God had provided something better for us that apart from us they would not be made perfect.
And I said to him, I said if you could have one conversation with Lizzy right now in the great cloud of witnesses and ask her, should I carry on believing for healing when you weren't healed? She will tell you yes, because she's seen it.
She knows the truth.
And what's more, we have to carry that on because without us carrying it on, they will not be made perfect. Blew my brain. I'd never seen it before. I'm sitting there, he's writing notes, I'm writing in my Bible, oh my.
That they're waiting for us to finish what they started and they won't be complete. You see, it's not perfection flawless.
It's finished, it's completed, it's lacking nothing. What an assignment we have. If you've lost anybody recently or ever, just know this. They're cheering you on to finish what they started. Because if you don't carry on there will not be completed.
[00:28:16] Speaker B: That's mind blowing to me.
[00:28:18] Speaker C: Anyway, so we've got faith and works Love and love, grace and power, endurance having its perfect result.
And then Colossians 3:14, beyond all these things, put on love, which is.
[00:28:36] Speaker B: I wrote this in. I made an amplified translation of myself,
[00:28:40] Speaker C: which is the perfect, complete, lacking in nothing, with the end in mind, bond of unity.
Unity won't happen without us putting on love.
Perfect unity is the result of us loving.
So I see this sequence.
We have faith, love, power, endurance, hope and unity. We have perfect love casts out fear. And these are not quite as direct, but I believe they're kind of related.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
We co labor and wisdom is complete.
But it relies on us to walk in the fear of the Lord to access the complete wisdom.
Again, like love, wisdom, not just going to float around.
It has to be made manifest in us. And it starts with the fear of the Lord.
It has to be. It's like. It's similar to me for Habakkuk 2:14. Habakkuk 2:14 says, the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord. With the earth's already full of his glory. Isaiah 6:2 says, it's already full of his glory. This room's full of his glory, but it will be filled with the knowledge of his glory. You see, we have to co labor for the earth to be filled with knowledge because we have to know what we're looking for.
Wisdom begins with the fear of the Lord. Perfect wisdom will not manifest through us if we don't co labor.
The wisdom's perfect. The wisdom flung stars into space. The wisdom that was there at the beginning created all of this. But we must co labor with the fear of the Lord, because that's the beginning of wisdom.
And another one that's not quite as direct is mercy.
James says in James 2:12.
Scary verse, really.
So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.
For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. You see? Mercy.
I've heard that verse quoted so many times. I bet you have. Don't worry, brother. Mercy triumphs over judgment. It's not. Again, it's not just something in the ether that suddenly drops down and lands on a judgment.
It will only happen if I show mercy. For the mercy of the Lord to triumph over judgment requires me to show mercy.
It's this co laboring.
And before I kind of go to an application.
[00:31:29] Speaker B: This is just beautiful to me.
[00:31:32] Speaker C: Because in John 19:20, I think it is.
I got it right. 19:30.
Jesus, one of the great sayings on the cross, what he says on the cross, the root word is teleos, perfect.
When he said, it's finished, he said teleos. Now, many people believe that it's telestai, which is more of a kind of a word that was used in the culture of the day to stamp on a bill paid in full. I don't question that. But the root words, teleios, complete, lacking nothing.
Jesus on the cross used that same word.
It is finished, it lacks nothing.
And Paul, of course, writes to the Colossians and says that you may be found complete in him, the One who gave it all on the cross and, and said, it's finished, it's complete, it lacks nothing.
Tetelestai.
And in terms of application, see, this is what I know I must do. I need to mature because maturity means I need to live complete in Him. I need to live knowing that I lack nothing. It's not about being perfect or flawless. It's about a mindset that says I lack nothing.
You see, you can do nothing to complete the work of Christ. It's already finished.
It's already complete.
But you must co labor with him to maturity for the manifestation of maturity, completeness and lacking in nothing to be seen in and through you. If you don't co labor, it won't be seen in you. You won't be seen as mature and lacking nothing, complete. Having grown up, you can't sit doing nothing.
And you see what happened this week. Something came at us.
It's a challenge.
A challenge to show mercy, a challenge to walk in faith, a challenge to endure. A challenge to say, no, your power will be perfected in my weakness.
And I stood at the front after first service and received prayer.
[00:33:57] Speaker B: Because I'm not preaching to you, I'm preaching to me.
[00:34:00] Speaker C: I want to get this.
I want my faith to be perfected by my works. I want his love to be perfected in me by the way I love others.
I want the endurance of my life to have its perfect result.
I want to be merciful so that I can receive mercy.
I want to grow in the fear of the Lord, so that I can grow in wisdom.
I want to walk that journey not to be perfect, but to know that
[00:34:26] Speaker B: I'm complete and that I live lacking nothing.
[00:34:31] Speaker C: You see, lack.
God's plan all along was for us to be complete.
That's his plan. Starts in the garden. It's not good.
How I wish he'd said, it's incomplete. But I think. I think it's Close enough.
It's not good. It doesn't meet the standards of the created order. It's incomplete for man to be alone. So he creates woman to complete us. Because without woman we could not fulfill the assignment on earth which was to go forth and multiply, subdue and to govern. His plan from beginning to end is complete when he's leaving the planet. When Jesus says, I've got to go now, he says, I'm not going to leave you as orphans. I'm not going to leave you in lack. You're incomplete. I'm going to send my Holy Spirit to complete you. The same word holy Spirit, helper, as the word used for the woman in Genesis. I'm going to complete you. You're incomplete.
He won't leave us as orphans. He won't leave us as slaves. In fact, Paul in Romans, I think he uses preachers. Perfect in romans, there in 8, 15, if you've not received the spirit of slavery leading to fear again, you received a spirit of adoption. It's the same sense there that he wants us to be complete. And heaven is a new heaven and a new earth, which means that it's absolutely complete, it is finished, it lacks nothing, and there is no evidence of it being worn out by age or use because it is new, it is complete, it is perfect.
You see, lack will cause me to fear when something comes against me this week, and I'm here with the sense of, oh, there's lack coming in.
It will cause me to step into fear when something comes against me, which is a judgment against me.
I know that in order for me to receive mercy, I have to show mercy when something comes against me that causes me anger to rise up, which was my first response. I didn't hurt anybody, but I was angry.
I know that the answer to that is to show love. Because lack will cause me to step into anger when something comes against me, I can end up feeling powerless.
I can act without wisdom.
[00:37:02] Speaker B: Stupidity, it's called.
[00:37:04] Speaker C: And I can step into impatience.
But all of those are what these verses are, inviting me to do the opposite.
To have my faith perfected, to show mercy, so I receive mercy.
To have his love in me perfected by showing love to someone else.
To not feel powerless, but to know that his power is perfected in my weakness, to ask for wisdom so that I don't act in stupidity, and to know that endurance will have its perfect result. And impatience must not be a part
[00:37:40] Speaker B: of my plan from here on out.
See, I want to basically invite you to a journey of Growing up maturity
[00:37:50] Speaker C: a journey to be found complete in Him. To live with the phrase first on my lips, I lack nothing.
See, if I go into every situation, whatever happens, go I lack nothing.
[00:38:04] Speaker B: It's going to change everything.
[00:38:07] Speaker C: Because I move from lack to abundance.
I move from hate and anger to love. I move from powerlessness to embracing my weakness and seeing his power.
I move from judgment to mercy and
[00:38:20] Speaker B: I receive his mercy.
[00:38:23] Speaker C: I move from impatience to endurance and
[00:38:25] Speaker B: know that endurance will get its perfect result.
I want to invite you to live lacking nothing.
I want to invite you to live knowing that you are complete in Him.
[00:38:38] Speaker C: You might be a rattly box of lego bits right now, but all the bits are in there. You're complete.
Just read the manual, start putting the bits together.
Start co laboring with Him.
Let your works perfect your faith. Let your love perfect his love in you. Let your endurance have its perfect result.
Show mercy so that he can show mercy to you. Walk in the fear of the Lord so that his wisdom can be perfected in you. And know that perfect, complete, lacking in nothing.
[00:39:15] Speaker B: Love casts out fear.
And I'd invite you every place you see that word perfect in your Bible, check that it's teleos and then write down lacking nothing. It might change the way you read your Bible.
I think it will change the way you live. So I'll invite you to stand. I know Steve's going to come up and close.
See I want to remind you. Thank you.
What Jesus did on the cross lacked nothing.
Your invitation is to live your life from the place of lacking nothing.
Maybe I've just started chain of thoughts in your mind, but whatever you face right now, as we face something this week and we're doing good, we lack nothing.
We're found complete in Him. But I want to encourage you walk into the situations of life knowing that you're complete in him and that you lack nothing.
And I'll invite Steve. He's going to come and close and then there'll be opportunity for ministry around this theme.
After that.
[00:40:32] Speaker A: Thanks for listening to the Chroma Charge podcast. If you enjoyed this message, you can like and subscribe can also join us in person or online every Sunday at Cromer Church. For more information about us, including our ministries, events, worship and how to donate, visit our website at Cromer Church.
