The Last Kingdom, Part 2: Reclaiming the Plotline // Andy Stanley

North Point Community Church

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 26 January 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The term "Christ" was originally a royal title meaning "Anointed One" or “King,” not a name. And the message of the Gospel is not just about personal salvation, but about aligning with the reign of Jesus as King.

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0:00.0	So if you're watching or listening to this or and you're in one of our churches or you're gathered with somebody in a living room or somewhere and you would say, you know what, I'm not really a Christian anymore. I grew up in church, but I'm not a Christian anymore. Or maybe you never embrace Christianity at all. And you're not even interested in Jesus. And maybe somebody's making you watch or they're
0:21.7	forced you to come to church with them today. I just want to begin by saying something to you before we jump into
0:26.2	the content. If you're not a Jesus follower, my hunch is that the Jesus that you're not
0:32.1	interested in, based on what you know about Jesus, based on how Jesus was presented to you by friends or by the
0:38.0	church. The Jesus that maybe you're not interested in is not the Jesus that Matthew and John knew.
0:43.1	It's not the Jesus that Mark and Luke introduce us to. It's not the Jesus that James, the brother of
0:49.5	Jesus, grew up with. And if the teaching of Jesus, as it was presented to you, did not strike you as
0:59.7	good news, and I'm not trying to be, you know, cool, but this is, I don't know any other way to
1:03.8	say it. If it didn't strike you as good news, it really may have been the original and ultimate
1:07.6	fake news. So I'm so glad that you're listening, watching, that you're here, one of our churches
1:15.9	today, or you're here in the room with me.
1:18.4	Because I so want you, and we started this conversation last week.
1:23.0	I so want you and I want us and I want me.
1:26.1	And honestly, and this is kind of a big wish, but I so want our nation and I so want the world to recognize and to appreciate and ultimately to accept Jesus for who Jesus claimed to be, for who Jesus is.
1:42.1	And specifically for those, for who he is and who those
1:46.9	who knew him best knew him to be and who his enemies feared that he might be. And I want us to
1:54.5	discard and abandon the versions of Jesus that reduce Him, that reduce Jesus to, you know, in case of emergency,
2:05.6	you know, call Jesus, you know, say prayers, sin forgiver and forget her. You know, if you sin,
2:10.5	you just forgive, you know, ask him to forgive. You know, you reduce him to that. The verses that
2:15.3	reduce Jesus to, you know, heaven guarantee.
2:19.4	For so many of us, we were raised that Jesus is your ticket to heaven.
2:22.5	That's kind of how he's introduced.
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