Friday Notes - Night Teen Service (8/1/08)

Rated R Message = The 13th Floor
*Need your parents permission . . .

In many big cities the 13th floor doesn't exist. . . .

Caleb has been called several times to "the 13th floor" type of places.

Here's an example he shared:

Caleb shared that he felt God was calling him to go to a Rob Zombie / Godsmack concert. The ticket was going to cost $51.00. He felt God giving him an impression of girl crying in the upper left hand corner of the stadium.

It was not about a picket, but about a ticket.

While at the concert Caleb tried to get back stage to talk to Rob Zombie. He even made it to the front row and held up a sign that said "Can I Preach?" One of his buddies was on the upper floor (upper left corner) scoping things out when he heard a girl crying. His friend got to talk with this girl who recently found out she was pregnant. Caleb's buddy had some good conversation with this girl.

"I want to be like Jesus, but smell like Hell" meaning - in the thick of things, walk in places that Jesus would have walked.

The 13th floor could be places like the Middle East, North Africa, North Korea. It could even be the cliché at school, the kids at school that everyone makes fun of.

We are constantly avoiding the 13th Floor.

Hebrews 13:11-13 - 11 The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. 12 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. 13 Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.

Hebrews 13:13a Let us, then, go to him outside the camp,

Outside the camp was a dark place full of enemies and disease. It's where people were stoned. It was the most disgusting place imaginable. Jesus went to the places outside of the camp and meet with sinners in their own environments allowing him to build friendships.

When the sheep was lost Jesus when out and searched for the sheep. He went out into their land, on their turf. He didn't sit around and hope for the sheep to return home on it's own.

Think of Zacchaeus. He didn't say your coming to my house for dinner. Jesus told Zacchaeus that he was going to his house today. Jesus was the friend of sinners.

Hebrews 13:13b . . . "and bore the disgrace He bore."

If you visit 13th floor places, you will:
*Feel out of place / awkward
*it may cost you everything
*only a very few "unusual soldiers" are called to the 13th floor.
*You have to be unbreakable before you go!


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