All right, King Jesus Gospel.

This is so much more than a series we did in the life of our church.

This is more than a season that happened in the fall of 2024 at our church.

This is a culture-shaping, DNA-defining sermon series for our church. King Jesus gospel is what we are trying to preach

through everything we do every Sunday. And it's really a reorienting of a lot of people who have been

quote unquote Christians their entire lives to see the gospel as more than a list of doctrines

that you believe in or don't believe in.

The good news of Jesus is so much more than, do you believe he died on the cross? Do you believe he rose from the dead? Do you believe he's coming again? Do you want to receive the free gift of Holy Spirit? Do you want to go to heaven instead of hell when you die? No, it is a story that includes some of those things, but it is a story about a kingdom. And a king, Jesus, who's king over Israel,

king over everything. And if you decide, I want to be a disciple, I want to follow him, he becomes

king over your life. That is a Christian. It's not an expert level Christian. It's not like a super

passionate Christian. That is a biblical Christian who says, I see the story of the kingdom of God,

the promised Messiah,

sent to Israel, who's grafting in all nations to become a part of his family. And through his

blood, he is reconciling what went wrong in the garden and bringing us back into a right

relationship with the God who created us. That is the full picture of the gospel. And it mandates a

full response from our lives. Now, we've talked

about King Jesus gospel for over a year. We finally put it into a sermon series and the election

happened during this series, but we have paid attention in November and said, oh my goodness,

the spirit of God is doing something different and new. I told you on November 3rd when I preached

radical discipleship right before the election, I said, I just don't think our church is going to be

the same after this moment. And then John Thompson was here. And the Holy Spirit fell in such a powerful

way on those gatherings. And then last Sunday for baptisms, Every baptism Sunday is significant and special.

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