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Jesus, The Transcendent Culture

Pastor Kerry Wilson


Jesus, The Transcendent Culture
• Culture is from the latin word” cultura, or
colere, it literally means to cultivate. Culture is
the actions, knowledge and values shared by a
social group. It is a seed planted that has it’s
expression found in it’s effects on the
adherents of that culture. In the area of
biology a culture grows. A culture or group can
be characterized and or defined by what they
are doing, and what they believe.
Jesus, The Transcendent Culture
• Culture affects how we think and even how
we perceive the world around us.
• Our message to you today relates to the fact
that Jesus is “ The message of Hope”.
• In the media, telecommunications and
everyday conversation I am hearing questions
that have arisen based on the perception of
people in our generation.
Jesus, The Transcendent Culture
• Questions like (ie)
• Why be good? Eat drink and be merry for
tomorrow we die
• Why make plans for the future, we have no
natural resources, the global warming issue,
atomic threat, changing economics,
• Am I going to grow old, have children, raise a
family
Jesus, The Transcendent Culture
• Is the American Dream still a reality, that if I
work hard and save that I can live better than
my parents did?
• Am I going to have a job, be able to work and
make money to support my family?
• Am I going to be able to retire?
• There is no use, I can’t make a difference
Jesus, The Transcendent Culture
• My life stinks, it would have been better if I would
have never been born.
• I wish I were dead!!!!
• I have no friends, no one to talk to, I’m so lonely
and nobody cares.
• Our culture has impacted the way that we think,
that is what we are here for, to give hope to
people who have lost hope, thrown in the towel
and are ready to jump the ship of life.
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• A familiar story
• 2 Timothy 1.2-7 “ To Timothy, my dearly beloved
son: Grace, mercy and peace, from God the
Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I thank God,
whom I serve from my forefathers with pure
conscience, that without ceasing I have
remembrance of thee in my prayers night and
day; Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful
of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
Jesus, The Transcendent Culture
• Cont. “ When I call to remembrance the
unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt
first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother
Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that
thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by
the putting on of my hands. For God hath not
given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of
love, and of a sound mind.”
Jesus, The Transcendent Culture
• Your life “a mission” or an “intermission”
• Timothy’s culture (His exhorters dying and now
he is at the crux of his calling)
• God is looking for people of Hope, to stir up the
gift, rekindle the fire, throw wood on the embers
of their life to put them in a position to affect
others around them. Your not infected or affected
by this culture. Jesus said,”Be of good cheer, I
have overcome the world”
Jesus, The Transcendent Culture
• Heaven subscribes to a different set of values,
knowledge and growth than this world. Satan
is trying to snatch the life out of this
generation by taking all their hope of any
future.
• This culture has permeated the church, we
are the salt and the light, if we have lost our
savor and our illumination this generation will
be lost.
Jesus, The Transcendent Culture
• There is a cultural war going on right now between
Jesus and His words versus Satan and this world. The
culture of heaven is revealed in the word of God, the
culture of this world is plainly seen in the behavior,
attitudes and hopelessness of this world.
• This war has been fought in the trenches of our media,
telecommunications and classrooms across America.
The effect can be seen by the fact that the stage is
being set to provide security for your freedom,
entitlement for your sense of self worth, and
victimization for the ills of your life. Who will you
blame?
Jesus, The Transcendent Culture
• The Bible has been attacked in its
authenticity, and inerrancy.
• The historical Jesus, abandoned because of
the lack of reason in the supernatural Jesus
• In the nineteenth century the questioning of
the validity of the Bible caused more literate
men and women to lose faith in Jesus than
any other single cause.
Jesus, The Transcendent Culture
• When the adherents of a culture become
disillusioned with the promises of that regime
then revolution soon follows.
• When this culture comes face to face with no
hope of the future, then chaos will ensue and
chaos is only conquered by anarchy.
• The culture of heaven says, “ In my Father’s
house there are many mansions…….
Jesus, The Transcendent Culture
• Origin of Man
• Attacks on the differentiation of the creation
of man
• The eradication of gender
• The elevation of plant and animal creation to
God’s special creation of man
• The culture of Heaven says that “We are
fearfully and wonderfully made…..
This is the Mindset of the a deceived Godless world
and culture, if this is our source than what is our
resource.

If we really believe this is our origin than we’re in bigger


trouble than we think!!!
Jesus declared He was the Original,
when you see me you see the Father
I’M Alpha & Omega
• Understanding our Origin means according to
Webster we understand our source.
• Understanding our Origin we know our
Ancestry.
• Origin references the Original.
• Derivation > means root, seed, or source.
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• The Goodness of Man is not evolutionary, a new
study says that man will evolve to goodness in
time if they could just eradicate religion.
• The culture of this world mocks the culture of
heaven.. Nietzsche said this, “ Christianity
demanded a useless and debilitating sacrifice of
the flesh and spirit rather than full blooded
heroic living and daring.. War and courage have
accomplished more great things than love thy
neighbor:.
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• Christianity is a religion of sheep that glorified
weakness rather than the strength that life
required.
• We’re not weak, we understand that when we
are weak then we are strong. I would rather come
with 3 stones and a slingshot against the giants of
my life than all the armies of this world.
• We understand that when we humble ourselves
God exalts us, I understand that God has chosen
the foolishness of preaching to confound the wise
of this world.
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• The Attack on God, many clergy have been
infected by this delusional thinking of this world.
From the inerrancy of the scripture to the innate
goodness of man. The devil wants you to blame
God, who is our only hope for all the ills of this
world and our personal woes.
• The accusation of this culture says, they have to
question the morality of a God who would
sacrifice for His own satisfaction the only perfect
being ever to walk the earth.
Jesus, The Transcendent Culture
• They just don’t get it do they! The cause of
Jesus Christ and the reason that were having
service today is John 3.16 “ For God so
loved the world that He gave
His only begotten Son that
whosoever would believe in
Him…….

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