Welcome to gospel in life. Did you I commend doktor killers to see podcast series to a friend if you, a friend whose exploring christianity we like to remind you that they can request a free copy of making sense of god through the offer in the queue see pot cast podcast, as it is if the christmas season we'd also like to encourage you to invite a friend who is curious about the christian faith, to read and discuss the gospel and life advent devotionals with you, you can find more information about them at gospel in life, dot, com, slash advent, that's gospel in life, dot, com, slash admin! Now! Here's today, teaching from doktor keller. Our scripture reading comes from the of hebrews chapter thirteen verses won through fourteen. keep on loving each other as brothers do not for to entertain strangers for by doing so, some people have entertained angels without knowing it

remember, those imprisoned as if you were their fellow prisoners and those who are mistreated, as if you yourselves were suffering mary. Should be honoured by all and the marriage. Had kept pure, for god will judge the daughter and all the sexually immoral keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have because god has said: never will I leave you never will I forsake you so we say with confidence. The lord is my helper. I will not be afraid can man do to me remember your leaders, who spoke the word of god to you, consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith this crisis is the same yesterday and today and forever d. Be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for hearts, to be strengthened by grace by ceremonial foods, which are of no value to those who eat them

We have an altar from which those who, minister, at the tabernacle, have no right to eat the hype. He's carries the blood of animals into the most holy place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. and so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people wholly through his own blood. Let us go to him outside the camp, bearing the grace he bore for here, do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come. The some of the lord Each week we ve been talking about christian practices we believe certain things, but those beliefs, don't necessarily change our lives and really change the way in which we live. Doesn't change our characters unless we instil those beliefs into our hearts through various christian

practices or spiritual disciplines. Now, today we're talking about a christian practice or spiritual discipline. The problem, probably don't think of as a christian practice. Virtual discipline is the practice of hospitality and we ve got some work to do because the word hospitality when you think, That word, when you hear that word does not make think of the same thing that the bible is talking about. through the scripture hospital? is extremely important. It's a sign of spirit maturity say when you I think, of hospitality, only what you think I'm, but if you but the word into a search engine right now and you Search the internet, almost all the first things that come up are either education resorts or martha stewart entertaining with everything, perfect everything's, perfect, that's hospitality

actually that's almost the opposite of what the bible means by it white men in ancient biblical times, so in order to get and one that we can look at this passage and this passage. We're going to see, first of all, a principle behind christian hospitality. then, the promise of christian hospitality and finally, the impetus for it, the principle behind it, the promise of it and the impetus for it, christian hospitality, first of all the principle behind it, the principle behind it is actually laid out in a startling way. In versus three four and five. Inversely we see it says, remember those in prison as if you yourself with their fellow dinners and those who were missed arm is treated as if you yourselves were suffering and then first five it

keep your eyes free from the love of money and be content with what you have now this A concern for social justice. Second word, though, where mistreated, means the oppressed, the victims of social injustice, the got a very ancient account from Lucian of some of saddam, who was a critic of christianity, critic of early christians and yet lucian tell us about a man named para. Grayness, arming pair greenest, proteus, who was the leader is actually a convert to Christine he was living in palestine and he was- prison for his faith and endless of some sort of tells us about how the christians, not only today protest, the arrest and they try to get em released, but when they couldn't Finally, some of the leaders of the christian community in palestine actually put themselves in print, and slept in a right alongside of.

There was a tremendous concern for social justice. There was this. Gold generosity to the poor, and yet it same time, in the middle of verse, for in the middle of three and four you have verse for which says that god will judge the adulterer and the sexually immoral, and was it you orton words adultery. You know that it means have sex with somebody when you're married. If someone else having being sexually unfaithful to you, why? For your husband, but the word sexually immoral is a more general word that mean sex outside of marriage. Now christians, We're radically concern about the poor radically generous, where their money do, They concern about social justice that make some liberal right and there,

absolutely against sex outside of marriage weight that makes them conservative right. The keeping of liberalising liberal, yet again It's a contradiction: isn't it no, chris we're very weird, then, in that culture, and they are just as weird and justice, if they just as much defy categories today in our culture when people say that's gonna contradictory right to be as they No sex outside of marriage and be sort of conservative, welcomes the sex and then and then very socially activists, when it comes to justice, now here's the reason why it's not weird and here's my question are what they are. There's a principle here: the enlightenment that happened in this certainly seventeen thoroughly eighteenth century in Europe that affected america and and europe and affected. What's we now western culture

It's a it's an enormous shift in the way of thinking and yet, and those very complicated is very great consensus that enlightenment created what we now call western individualism. in all of our cultures. We now believe very strongly that the right so the individual, the happiness interests of the individual always take precedence over tradition. They take precedence over the group over the family, over the clan over the community, the individual right, the individual fulfilment, that's what's important And that has received in everything and western culture, but the gospel system indifferent to you about your money and about your sexuality. Unlike western com, you're the gospel says about your money. If it has. Given you money that money is not. Yours is not yours for your own personal happiness, pleasure affluence status,

it's been given to you by god in order to build human community you're supposed to be putting it out, there just be investing it, giving it away. We ploughing into the neighborhood, into the city in order to build up in community, but the gospel says sexuality also is a gift to you and it's not something that you ve been given: for your own personal pleasure and happiness. It also is a way of building human community and ass, the reason why the Was always said: sexting Actually, a nurturing unifying practice. that is only to be shared between a man and a woman in covenant of an exclusive lifelong covenant. It's a nurturing unifying this flynn inside a covenant between one man, one woman in order creators able basis for families as the only basis for families

it's. The only environment in which children actually can be re safely emotionally safely, psychologically In other words, the gospels always said your money, Your own is for the building of human community, not just for your pleasure, your section, Are these not your own? It's there. For the building of human community, not just your pleasure, and where do we get this idea Jesus Christ did not treat his body ass if it was his own head. actually his glory is wealth is if it was his own, he gave them in order to make us a family in order to make us a community and what the esa principal, it's a pretty behind everything we do and it makes christians really weird calibre

some ways kind of concern in some ways it was true back then it's true now and I got a question for you. If you live in new york city and your christian, then you ve got is a question. How are you treat in your money? How are you treating you're sexuality, you going to be affected by the western enlightenment or by the gospel in how you live, so that's at princeton these things are not yours, not your own and ass, the principle behind hospitality However, now we're gonna look more specifically at that practice itself in you, civil well, word: hospitality come up what depends on it, translation some translations its inverse too. In our translation, it's not but inverse. Do it said, and it's a classic and a powerful text do not forget to, and this Translation is entertain strangers, for vice

How doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it? What is the first of all the word entertaining strangers or intervene. Strangers is a translation of a single greek word, and that greek word is philip senior. We, the word seen Zenos meant stranger, foreigner. And we get our word. Xenophobia from it fear The other a fear, people of other races. Rather, you know outsiders and the word philip through which means a love of people like us, are brothers and sisters. And ass. The word philadelphia, but this is this is a word philip senior and philip, senior means to love people who are different the near, but it had a specific meaning and what it meant eyes to bring them into your home, is guess for vice

we're doing. Some people have entertained angels unawares by the way it says angels that, knowing that the old king, James Bible, has a very felicitous way of putting it it says, for him. So doing some people have entertained angels unawares and you know what that's referring to genesis eighteen when Abraham brought three strangers in and he was very hospitable to them and he gave them a meal and afterwards it turned out. He was he'd, actually been entertaining the lord angel messengers. Now. What is this saying? Here's we're going to understand what we're being told We have to understand the background. In ancient times, hospitality to travellers was a high value. Here's why, when you and I go travelling, we expect either stayin hotels or in the homes of people. We know. but that was essentially impossible in ancient times,

never was very dangerous, very difficult and people didn't do it in any at all like the way we do it now. and because there wasn't that many travellers, because was so dangerous, you really couldn't have franchise as you can have in you, couldn't have hotels, how's used. There were enough people. There were some but very very few. Not only that people didn't move all the time, why did you now so, if you're Do another city avert regions. Are you know somebody there that just wasn't the case, so travel would have been impossible unless opened your home to strangers, or if you are traveller, unless somebody open their home to you, even though you didn't know where they were, and they didn't know, you. And, as a result, ass battalion, ancient cultures was very, very important terms. A high value Zeus was the god of hospitality, for example, and the ancient hospitality

code had four parts to it: invitation screening provision and departure very very it with there were their duties for the guests and for the house and here's what they were personal invitation. You can actually find this many places in the bible. If you are travelling, you would come to a city or a town or a settlement, and you would there come to the gate of the town or stay Outside and a well or some open place and wait for someone to come out and invite you to stay with him, you see this by the way and genesis. Nineteen. Since twenty four act, sixteen report comes to philip. I use it all the time. You would come outside right near the gate and wait for someone to invite you and then there, screening, here's. What screening was if you're invite strangers and you want to make sure they were strangers and not enemies who had in the middle of the night. We're gonna try to take the city over, so you do a little bit of screening a little bit of interviewing? Maybe this,

inches of their smart brought. Some letters of recommendation from some of the famous people of of you know high credibility and then, thirdly, then someone come out and bring them in, and if you were a host, it was your job to wash their feet and provide them a feast. Not just you know a few morsels and then give them rest. Give them refreshing rest cause. They were weary. Travelers traveling was much more weird, some even dangerous in those days and the next day you departed with thanks or the next day and actually ordinarily We never say more than two nights. That was ordinary. You never stayed more than two days. That was your job as a guest to get out two nights, and I said also that that's why it worked in ancient times two nights and there was your code high value, but when god made it with Israel in Sinai and he started to tell them the kind of community he wanted them to be. God took hospitality and ratcheted

an important way beyond. Its value in any other ancient culture. Hospitality to the Jews. Hospitality in Israel was way beyond anything. Is valued as it was elsewhere. This was way beyond that, and you can see it. some of them. For example, neutrality is one example of which god says about hospitality, geronimo, ten, seventeen nineteen. He says I am the great god- and I am not partial and I take no bribes. I execute justice for the orphan and the widow. I love stranger providing, him, with food and clothing and You too shall love the stranger and the alien, the wanderer for you are strangers in the land of egypt. Now, listen to that. Did you hear that there are two in which that wretched, hospitality way. Beyond anything than any other ancient culture held first of all, was a far deeper basis for hospitality, see an ancient.

Jesus. What was then why why was hospitality, valued expediency he couldn't have travelling? If you didn't have hospitality, and they are also sort of oriental ancient cannons of courtesy, courteous courtesy, a very big deal in those more patriarchal hierarchical, traditional societies, but god says They give you a whole different basis for why you need to be hospitable to the outsider, to the stranger here's. Why? Because you were aliens in Egypt and you were wanderers in the wood, as you were, weary wanderers and you would have died out there, but I closed you I fed you, and eventually I brought you who, like you, so you one groceries, I brought you home. You live by my hospitality. My salvation says: god was hospitality. If you can save on my grace than you are the recipient of life giving hospitality my spiritual hospitality and therefore

or because you are strangers, you are aliens see, You are weary wanderers. I saved you with hospitality. Now you turn around others and do the same things. Let them much more powerful basis, but not only that, if you Did you hear what it said? Their dinner enemy ten also has blown the scope out of the ancient hospitality was just foreign travellers for two nights, but god says to be: hospitable means care for the orphan and the widow one poor and cared for when he says strangers and aliens he's talking about immigrants, people who have come here from other lands. Refugees in many cases are people from other lands and when he, when he says, that's the your hospitality, that's not just travels for two nights. This is what he's saying. If you have the world's goods, the poor are like weary travelers

the immigrants in the and people of other ethnicities and races who have moved here without without money without power without connections we're supposed to spend your yourself. In other words, we gotta saying here is not that hospitality at this point is being redefined Not that is less than bringing people on your home is still that, but it's much more means to take your possessions. Take your things. Take your money. Take your goods, hake your home and spend it on people with less of the world's goods. Then you you're supposed to be so open to the outside or so open to people who are strangers so open to people who don't believe like you, don't look like you and I don't have the world's goes and you're supposed to be hospitable with them, because their like weary travellers, wow

hospitality, yes, and when you actually get to the new testament. If anything, the promise of hospitality is ratchet up even a little bit more and we see it right in his first, because this verses do not forget to do hospitality. Dont, forget it too, love the stranger for by doing so, some people have entertained angels unawares and bill lane and his commentary on bruce says: that's a fascinating little statement. We noticing it saying this for christians. The expectation is that god will play a significant in the ordinary exchanged between guests and hosts, and this expectation, linz hospitality, sacramento quality. Reference to those who entertained angels without knowing it reflects the writer sensitivity to the numerous qualities of hospitality it throws in a bold relief. The element of surprise. That is stressed in the biblical accounts, as with Abraham

many genesis. Eighteen, when the stranger received was god special envoy, as the amazed disciples and twenty four who discovered not that today unknowingly, taken in an angel but the law himself. Here's what this means Sacramento! This is very very interesting. What is a sacrament baptist? the lord supper. But what is the sacrament common stuff like water, bread, wine, come and get it anywhere see nothing special, and yet, when dedicated the god, when used by god, it's a vehicle. That common thing is a vehicle for gods, power and grace coming into our lives and in some ways that's what hospitality is here. That's the promise me. You know what that means.

to take somebody out for coffee and to listen to their problems, to meet somebody new who's different than you and your apartment building and invite them into your apartment and just listen to them and just welcome them. That's not that's not social work. That's not counseling! That's not spiritual direction! you're, not a train spiritual directly, not trained council usage. You know this is this is there's no technique involved? just common is just get together for coffee god, according to the text, can work powerfully in that, As the holidays approach, the days leading up to christmas can become very busy and it can be challenge to take time to focus on the glory and joy of Jesus birth. We want to help he prepared heart for christmas this year with a free advent, devotional email series, when you say today, you receive daily email devotional during I've been to help centre your heart on the meaning of christmas emmanuel god with us.

you also receive advent meditation videos each sunday by tim killer, followed by a bridge discussion of the meditation between him and his wife. Kathy Sinnott, today to receive this advent, devotional email series, gotta gospel and life, dot, com, slash admin, that's gospel in life, dot, com, slash advent! Now, here in color with the remainder of today's teaching John paper, road I did a sermon some years ago called strategic hospitality and he puts it like this. He says when we practice hospitality. We experienced the refreshing joy of becoming gods, can do it. Pardon me become The conduits of god's hospitality, rather than being self decaying, cul de sacs? Did you catch the imagery, their god has given you hospitality, if you're, safe you or the recipient of guns, hospitality places when we practise hospitality, we experienced a refreshing joy of becoming conduits of god's hospitality. Rather than being self. The king called sex the

joy of receiving guys hospitality, decays and dies who doesn't flourish and our hospitality to others. We should always be thinking things. like this. How can I draw the most people into a deep experience of gas hospitality by the use of my money by the use of my things by the use of my home by these of my church home? What might need apartment? Who right now needs reinforcements in the battle against loneliness who needs to be asked who needs to be asked in just because I'm only what two or three peoples, complimentary abilities might explode in a new ministry if they had two hours, a brain, some over dinner in my house. You know, and over the years, if you are right and you are consistent about hospitality all noticing somebody who feels seems to be on the outside our nuttin meeting new people. Seeing me

who seem to be lonely, seeing people who needed to be seen to be confused and caught and what doing what sometimes very very little you know, if you invite somebody into your home, it's not the silver in the china. That's the Martha stewart approach, no offense Martha, because after all in new york, so you might be here and secondly, because if you, if you can do it nicely, if you can do it nicely, it's all right, you know made, makes people feel special, but that's not the point. Peanut butter and jelly could be just fine its common, but it could change somebody's life and over the years, if you done as you know that in many cases I really don't even know just you know to what extent those conversations and that welcome and that reaching out to people has had an impact, and yet there are people there are people walking around right now, there's maybe some people in this room who remember a night like that or remember a conversation like that and they've. Never forgot it helped them. It puts them through got them through.

It's a tough patch and now you're out there doing all kinds of great things. In other words, that hospitality is been multiply the lives of all kinds of people. You know what that meant. You were entertaining angels unawares, it was an angel and you didn't know it. You never know, there's a sacramental quality. God works through your hospitality, having people in your home, you pressing your time and your effort and your money into the lives of the immigrants of the poor of the marginalized? That's gods, hospitality, Ok, let's summarize here for moving on what does hospitality mean? Hospitality is an attitude of heart and a practice. It's an attitude of heart that want that seeks to turn strangers into guests friends. And eventually brothers and sisters. It's an attitude of heart that goes after new people and makes them feel welcome just by the wind just by your facial expression, just by your spirit and especially

It goes after and welcomes people who the world excludes people who are different people who are unlovely people who are on wealthy people who are unconnected when you make people like that, feel welcome when you make people like that feel included, You ve got spirit of hospitality, says an attitude to heart, but then it's a practice, its brain people into your home you or taken people out. Do you favour places, yeah and with an attitude of heart opening to them. Listening to them and making them feel accepted? But beyond that, as we can see, it means the widow and the orphan and the immigrant and the homeless homeless, people You hospitality when anybody and it means finding ways to put your money and your goods and your time into their lives. So the refreshed. And would you like to know eight ways you could do hospital

only as a resident of new york city and maybe as and redeemer eight ways you can do it individually corporally here they go ready, here's for ways to do it individually. If you're a christian, you started you get. This the vision for hospitality ears for things you could do individually number one in your apartment building. You should be asking other people in your apartment billion a year, face and vitamin d your space. Our lot of I'm not gonna come. A lot of them are wonder what you're up to where they are they, basically an insurance sales person or something like that. You know and other. To spend a lot of people. Will the first thing is you to invite member people in your parent building in your physical homes? Secondly, you should sergeant colleagues friends. Neighbours in your spiritual home once you spiritual home this I mean hunter. I mean small groups. I mean

mysteries you're doing this city, I mean I mean worship, services to say, come with me to this meeting, come to meet with me to this event and afterwards worth and I'll pay its hospitality. That's not just inviting Members of your apartment, building into your physical home is inviting members of your networks into your spiritual home are just beginning to realize how expensive hospitality is it's expensive, not just the food? Oh no, don't forget. Peanut butter, sandwiches, maybe peanut butter and jelly- might be just fine, especially if you get the right kind of peanut butter, but is sticking check out when you out yourself as a christian and invite somebody in your spirits home. Here's a third way, christians who just be eating together in following all the time things happen there. That would never happen when you plan them to happen. Events, studies seminars where new york. firstly, when everything clean out bullet points agenda down to the five minutes

and then there's hospitality in which all the really great stuff happens and forth thing. You could do is you could host it's very important part of hospitality, hope host a small group in your home and watch people's lives change my little tiny home? Yes, my little tiny everybody's got a little tiny home. in new york, okay, so invite the people in your apartment and your physical home, invite the people in your networks into your spiritual home ate together, do hospitality one with another and host a small group and here's four corporate ways: real fast help, the diaconate. You know what are the akin. It is doing our diaconate is doing corporate hospitality. It's fine people with material needs in motion. problems and spiritual needs. Something very good. Financial needs are all over the map, but their working with, folks and you could either give money to the act on or even sight of them. Here's what I do for a living if you feel like this would be of some help in your greeting, and

welcoming in helping people, let me now so happy secondly volunteer through In new york and all the ministries out in the city, which is definitely part, the hospitality the god has enjoyed, thirdly, be an usher until these services help us do this in beyond one of the tables, the terrific way to welcome people. And fourthly, when you know, went when at the end of a prayer or at the end of you we say turned to each other in great wonder what what do you think that is not just an icebreaker? Now, do you realize, for two thousand years, has been a part of the current ancient christian liturgy called passing the peace. You know what that is We say: turned to somebody: greed someday! You know that is a sign that is so important What you're doing is your turning to other people. In saying I was a stranger, but god took me and now I don't want to be worshipping around any strangers its turnings.

Just a guess is turning strangers into potential friends, and so hospitality is now what you're doing when you pass the pace and greek one another. So there's eight ways hard expensive Why do we get the impetus for it? The great thing we see here is there's two great resources that god gives us two great resources for hospitality. One is in the past and one is in the future. Here's what's in the past, verse five If you want to have lies free from the love of money and be content with what you have If you want your life so free from fear and sell contented that you can? You can pay the price of hospitality you have to

this god is that I will never leave you. I will never forsake you now in the greek in the original greek. This is one of those wonderful verses in the bible, because the first time that the english translation almost never get this across the first clause as I will ever leave you to two negative I'll. Never never leave you and the second. As is, I will never never never forsake you, five negatives over the top dramatically. Just pounding us with the unconditional loyalty of what god is saying here. Do you know? Sometimes we we, we sing a hymn The line, the him that says that sole, though all, how should endeavour to shake I'll, never know, never know, never forsake, never know, never known.

I prefer signal when, when the writer of the lyric was writing that he wasn't just putting never never never, never just trying to fill out the line, because that's how much that's how many beats was in the line- and we just had to have words to fill up no he was. He was its literally. What the text says: I'll. Never, never, never, never, never forsake you! Absolutely! conditional. How can we know that seek out if you know that if you have an absolute certain if God love that absolute certainty have gotten, never abandoning you. Never that phrase you to be hospitable, but how can you get that? How do you know? That's true! Here's how you know it tells us

eleven and following so Jesus suffered outside the city gate to make the people wholly through his own blood. You know what that means outside the gate. When Jesus Christ died, he experienced the absolute opposite of everything the bible says about hospitality, yeah because you don't hospitality, is hospitality, is a stranger comes too near the city, gate and hospitality is going out. The cold and weary stranger in Jesus Christ was inside and he was thrown out and he was killed exactly the opposite of hospitality. Why. the reason why goes all the way? Back to the beginning? In the garden of Eden, we were home.

When you go back to the beginning of genesis in the garden of Eden, we were home. What do I mean it was that it was a place without death or parting, see home is a place where you loved home as a place of fits. You. A place for an in the garden of Eden, there was no death or parting. There was no decay. There was no fading. There was No disease are absolutely home and then we were lost. We lost it because when we turn away from god, we went into exile. You know, John Lynn, read the that great texts on in the front of your bullet and don't look at it now, but we even those people with great homes, even those people who have been born and raised in a particular country, in

Their sense in which none of those places are really home because, even if you to stay put, one of the worst things about staying put is to see change one of the worst things. having a wonderful homeless and watch people leave or die there. We aren't home, we're all wanderers innocence, we're all restless, wanders, we're cold and weary wanderers, we're all that it's because we're alienated from god and we deserve it and know it's a hard thing to say and hard thing to hear. but don't you ever in ancient hospitality, if you outside the gate. They green, you I am sure that you are trying to take over the city, but use That's the essence of sin. You know what your heart is: really wants your heart ones to be in charge. If you want to run the world, you don't want god to tell you how to do it. You want to run your own life. You don't want god to tell you how to do it, and because of that, we we,

should be an exile back, that's what we deserve, but on the cross, Jesus Christ was cast out of the gate. In fact, he started that where he was born in a feed trough and in not and I want when he says foxes have holes, birds have happiness, and the son of men has nowhere it into his head. He was homeless wanderer and he died outside the gate thrown out killed and on the cross. He said why, my god, my god, what has self forsaken me. Forsaken me, it's has never will I leave you. Never will I forsake you and yet I did it to Jesus. Yes, you know why it's what we deserve in our place: Jesus Christ, the cosmic homelessness. In our place: Jesus Christ, the exile we deserve

that our sins are paid for so that now god could bring us it? He was cast out, so the guy could bring us in. He was made homeless. So god could give us a radical hospitality and bring us into his family and it says so pulses approach. Equally in visions to worry, says, remember, then that you were separated from christ created and strangers to the covenants approach, having no hope and without god in the world. Now you are no longer strangers or no juniors, but members of the household of god Jesus died for us to make room in the household of god. He had no place to lay his head, so we could receive a place in the household of god and that's just the past and there's the future cause verse fourteen says we're waiting for the city which is to come. Do you know what city that class revelation twenty one, twenty two, the city of god at the end of time, and if

look in that city in revelation, twenty one and twenty two you'll see the tree of life. It's the garden of Eden. That's your real home in the future. God will. Finally, because of what use is crisis done, open the gates of real home and give you that final feast and show you the final homely your hearts been lying for and finally, you will no longer be aweary too, and finally you'll. You will find your heart's desire, and you know at the end of the narnia chronicles, there's a when they get to the very end of this very moment. One of the characters puts it like this. I've come home at last. This is my real country I belong here. This is the land. I've been looking for all my life, though I never knew it and that's what you're going to say on that. I belong here. This is the country I've been looking for all my life. This is the home. I've been looking for all my life and I never knew it and because jeez. Grace was cast out and experienced ultimate.

Witness. He now is the ultimate host. Do you know the needle most costly thing, Jesus is the ultimate host Thirteen Jesus washes our feet. John fourteen, I go to prepare a place for you. my father's home john who is lord of the feast Some of the banquet he's always feeding p. Feeding five thousand and feeding four thousand Y is the ultimate host and ultimately his radical hospitality is going to heal all of your weariness and satisfy all your heart's desires. And if you know that now verse, thirteen, let us follow him outside the gate. What does that mean? Let's pay the cost of hospitality because whatever cost us

be for you to stick your neck out to invite somebody to redeemer for you to spend your money on the poor for you to spend the money to bring people into your home all the time. That's nothing compared to the costs that Jesus Christ has paid to bring you home. So let's look for the outsider. Let's look for the seeker. Let's look for the the poor. Let's look for those people that must be hospitable to them, as Christ was hospitable to us and guess what you may find you're entertaining angels unawares. Let's pray! Thank you, father for giving us the promise that if we open our homes and our wallets and our hearts to strangers, you will work because that's how we were saved

expensive, but nothing like the expensive Jesus paid when he was cast out, so we can be brought in. We thank you for these resources and we thank you for this power in this motivation, and now we pray you make us a church filled with the spirit of the one who who said, I have a feast for you. I have water for you to drink. I have bred for you to eat that will finally give rest of your soul singer it's named parameters. We hope you enjoyed today's teaching. If you were encouraged by today's podcast, please rate and review it. So more people can discover the hope and joy of christ's love and thanks. For listening This meant sermons were recorded in two thousand eight, the sermons and cox. You here on the gospel, unlike podcast, were preached from nineteen. Eighty nine to two thousand. Seventeen was

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