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Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley season one.
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Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
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I was becoming the bridge between Jeremy Scott and the son he'd never known.
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At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer.
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Listen to new episodes of bone Valley Season 2 starting April 9th on the iHeartRadio app app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Hey, this is Steven Furtick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you, hope it builds your faith, hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. We are in the middle of something and that's where God is. That really blesses me to know that, because waiting for the finished product until I can have joy, have peace, trust God, be happy. That doesn't sound very promising to me. But if God is an ever present help in trouble, in times of trouble, that's one thing the Bible says about God. If he'll walk up to me in the middle of a storm, if he'll be with me in the middle of the fire, if he'll split the sea so I can walk through it and drown my enemies behind me, I can keep moving forward with the faith that God has my back in every situation. I think the idea of process has really been challenging us and celebrating our progress rather than awaiting our perfection. It's revolutionizing me and Autumn talk every week. She's been in our church 11 years and she's like, I never have seen Jesus in the way I've been seeing him in this series. She grew up. She's such a church girl, y'all. I mean, seriously. She has Leviticus memorized in Hebrew. She's like, it's just opening my eyes. That's the revelation factor. Revelation. Today I want to talk about revelation in the context of relationship. Please write this down. The greatest pain and pleasure you will experience in your life will be in the context of. Of relationship. I did you kind of dirty. I didn't give you a chance to get your pen out or get your thumbs warmed up. So I'm going to try to say it again. The greatest pain and greatest pleasure in your life will be experienced in the context of relationship. One of the words Jesus spoke from the cross is commonly called the word of relationship. We're going to deal with that today. But I've been using A flashback technique. I try to be creative in the way I present the word. I don't know if it makes sense to everybody else, but just ways that make it exciting for me. I figure I'd like my own sermons if nobody else does. I'll subscribe to the podcast. I've been looking at Luke 24. These two people. One is called. We call him Cleo. His full name is Cleopas. He has an unnamed traveling companion. They're going the wrong way to a no name village called Emmaus. I mean, it has a name, but you can't find it. If you go to the Holy Land today, they'll say, we think this is where Emmaus was. But they don't even really know where it was. It wasn't some metropolitan major area where commerce happened. It was where they lived. And they were going back from the scene of the cross where they had watched their hope extinguished. And they had watched the one that they thought might be the one die. And they were burying their dreams along the road when the one whose death they were mourning walked up right beside them. And they didn't know it. So they're like walking back the wrong way. There's this whole thing about why would Jesus follow people who are headed in the wrong direction? Why would he leave the 99 righteous to find the 1? Why would he come for the sick and not stay with the well? I think that's one thing that, that we misconstrue about God's presence in our lives is that he's going to be with us as long as we're doing what he told us to do and going where he told us to go. Yet we're surprised by the grace of God just busting up in the middle of our conversations and our hopeless situations and chasing us down to the wrong destination so he can turn us around. When they got where they thought they were going, they saw who Jesus really was. I think they saw it in his scars when he broke the bread, which is an everyday event. You eat every day. God is often found in the common parts of our lives. I'm teaching already, if you didn't know. This is not a review. Seeing where he had been wounded and now seeing his scars, which were the greatest demonstration of his strength that proved his resurrection. They had their eyes open and he was revealed and recognized by them in that moment. One thing I didn't point out that I think is very important. I'm going to read the text and I'm going to emphasize certain words and see if you can find the theme. The Bible says in verse 32 that after they recognized Jesus, you have these moments where you're like, oh, yeah, that was God. Oh, yeah, that was God who had him break up with me. He was broke. God was looking out for me. But sometimes you don't see it on the road. You only realize it in reverse. You see their picture ten years later, and you're like, oh, thank you, Mother Mary. They're like, oh, that was him. That was the one we were crying over. But he's not dead. He's risen. Look at this. I'm going to emphasize certain words they asked each other. Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us? Are you noticing anything? Okay, one more verse. Make sure you get it. They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. They found the 11 and those with them assembled together. Their revelation of Jesus was completed not in the context of their conversation with him, but in the context of their conversation with each other. This message is called Complete the Cross. It is meant to confront some of the things we say in church that sound spiritual but really make no sense in real life. Things like, all I need is Jesus. As long as I have Jesus, I.