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The Color Purple (Mark 15:20)

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  The Color Purple (Mark 15:20)     Are you a purple person? Do you wear the color purple? Do you know what the color purple means? How many of you have seen the movie The Color Purple , the musical The Color Purple , or both? Whether it's the old or new movie, The Color Purple is one of my favorite stories. The lies, the music, the characters, the story, and, of course, the purple flowers captivated me. For a long time, I wondered how it got the name The Color Purple . Eventually, I realized the flowers inspired it. Today, I invite you to dig deep into the meaning of purple. We see the color purple in the story of Jesus on the cross. They stripped Him naked, took all His clothes, and put a purple robe on Him, along with a crown of thorns on His head so that they could mock Him. They used purple to ridicule Him, laughing at Him and calling Him "King of the Jews." It wasn’t meant in reverence, honor, celebration, or praise. It was mockery and persecution. Yet Jesus ...
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  What’s Going to Last? (Matthew 24:35) My question for today is: what’s going to last forever? A lot of things that we place great emphasis on are only temporary and have no eternal value. They are not everlasting; they are just temporary. As the song says, "Build your hopes on things eternal." The things we can see are temporary, but the things we cannot see are everlasting. Jesus said to them, "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away." So, even heaven is temporary. I know people talk about the walls of jasper, the streets of gold, and the crystal sea, but Jesus said heaven is temporary. Scripture speaks of an old heaven and a new heaven if there's an old one and a new one, it means heaven must be temporary. Many times, people put all their energy into dying and going to heaven, or they focus on the belief that when Jesus returns, we'll go to heaven. But heaven is not everlasting; it will pass away because heaven is a physica...
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  The Real JESUS (Matthew 24:31-46)   Who Are You Following: The Real Jesus or the Religious Jesus? Are you following the real Jesus or the religious Jesus? The biblical Jesus or the whitewashed Jesus that is often presented in Hollywood and the movies? The real Jesus is not who you think he was. The real Jesus came from a blended family everyone didn’t have the same father in Jesus’ household, and they weren’t all full-blood brothers and sisters. They were a blended family. If Jesus were around today, he might have been on Maury Povich to find out who the father was because Joseph wasn’t the biological father. The real Jesus had anger issues. He came to the temple and threw people out, turned over tables, and cleared out the church. Today, we would have called the police and had him locked up or committed to an insane asylum. The real Jesus needed therapy. In modern times, his friends and family might have taken up a collection because he didn’t have insurance. He was bur...
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   Voyeurs: Some People Like to Watch (Luke 14:1-6) Some people are voyeurs; they just like to watch. You can't stop people from watching you or control people from watching you, but you can determine what they say. Jesus was in the synagogue, and the scribes, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the chief elders, they were watching him. They were trying to get him; they were trying to catch him on something so that they could crucify him and destroy him. They wanted to see if he would heal the swollen man on the Sabbath. Since they were watching, Jesus gave them something to see. Don't allow people watching you to stop you from being who you are. Since they are watching, give them something to see. Let them watch you be who God created you to be. Don’t allow people watching you to stop you from being who you are. Since they are watching, give them something to see. Let them watch you be God’s unrepeatable expression of the divine. Let them watch you be a spiritual being. Let t...
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 God is Progressive, Why Are You Stuck (2 Corinthians 3:18) “And we all, who with unveiled faces reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into God’s image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” ‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭3‬:‭18‬ ‭KSB ‬‬‬‬‬ God is progressive, calling you to advance to the next dimension of His good for you. What you have experienced is not all there is; God is not withholding any good thing from you. As long as you are in touch with the divine presence within, you and God are always moving forward, reaching new dimensions. God is elevating you to greater heights and depths, expanding your perspective and consciousness, even as many people remain stuck in outdated ways of thinking and doing things. We are not living in the past, and God’s progressive nature guides us to embrace the future with new approaches.  He will always lead you from one level of faith to another, as faith is essential to please Him. Your faith will contin...
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    Seeking, Searching, and Settling (Mark 1:36-37) People are seeking and searching, and they don’t even know it. They don’t realize that what they are looking for is God, and God is within. They are seeking, searching, and settling for a person, a place, a thing, a substance, a behavior, or an activity, not realizing that what feels missing in their life is God. What feels broken in their life is because they are looking for God. They are seeking and searching without even realizing it. You think it’s in a person, and that’s why you’ve been impacted by what people say and do and by the rejection you’ve experienced because you believe it’s found in a person. You think you are seeking love from this person, but love is already inside you because God is inside you. You’ve moved from relationship to relationship, but what you are truly seeking is God. You go to a place, thinking it’s the location you are looking for. If only you could move to this city, this state, this coun...
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   The Real JESUS (Matthew 24:31-46)   Who Are You Following: The Real Jesus or the Religious Jesus? Are you following the real Jesus or the religious Jesus? The biblical Jesus or the whitewashed Jesus often presented in Hollywood and the movies? The real Jesus is not who you think he was. The real Jesus came from a blended family everyone didn’t have the same father in Jesus’ household, and they weren’t all full-blood brothers and sisters. They were a blended family. If Jesus were around today, he might have been on Maury Povich to discover who the father was because Joseph wasn’t the biological father. The real Jesus had anger issues. He came to the temple and threw people out, turned over tables, and cleared out the church. Today, we would have called the police and had him locked up or committed to an insane asylum. The real Jesus needed therapy. In modern times, his friends and family might have taken up a collection because he didn’t have insurance. He was burie...
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