Living Fully Known
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🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As we are called to the light, we are called to be fully known. Many of us shudder at the thought of complete, total vulnerability, and fall subject to the lie that we could never be fully loved if someone saw all of us. Today we’ll explore why being fully known before God is so important and life-giving. May you walk away today free from shame and fear after having faced a holy God vulnerably and having encountered his unconditional love.
Our Scripture for today comes from Luke 8:17, and today's worship is Known & Loved by The Exchange Worship.
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| 0:00.0 | As we are called into the light, we are called to be fully known. |
| 0:08.0 | Many of us shudder at the thought of complete, total vulnerability, |
| 0:13.0 | and fall subject to the lie that we can never be fully loved as someone saw all of us. |
| 0:19.0 | Today, we'll explore why being fully known before God is so important |
| 0:23.6 | in life-giving. May you walk away today free from shame and fear after having faced a holy God |
| 0:30.8 | vulnerably in having encountered his unconditional love. Welcome to the first of teen podcast. |
| 0:51.5 | Our verse for today comes from Luke 8, verse 17. |
| 1:00.2 | Scripture says, for nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light. |
| 1:05.2 | To live in secrecy before God, man, and yourself is to live in darkness. We are made to be fully known. We're made to be |
| 1:15.6 | open and vulnerable. It's only in the place of living fully known that we can truly receive |
| 1:22.3 | the depths of God's love for us. It's only in being fully known that we discover who we really are |
| 1:29.6 | and the immensity of our need for God. Our culture values perception above reality. We work |
| 1:38.5 | tirelessly to create an image of perfection in the minds of others that requires a constant covering up of who we truly are. |
| 1:47.7 | We work to build up a facade, a false outer shell, and attempts to keep in darkness that which we |
| 1:54.7 | fear will cause rejection. But the greater our facade, the less we are truly loved. |
| 2:01.8 | When someone loves an image we've created that we know isn't truly us, we can't receive that love. |
| 2:08.9 | When someone compliments the image of perfection we've worked to create, we're all the time |
| 2:14.5 | thinking, if you only knew who I really was, you wouldn't be saying those |
| 2:19.1 | things. To be fully loved is to be fully known. The sobering truth of Scripture is that God |
| 2:27.4 | already knows the secrets of our heart, and will one day bring them out into the light, |
| 2:32.8 | whether we desire it or not. |
| 2:35.0 | Hebrews 413 says, |
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