2. Today’s Theme: Messiah Complex What can God do in 40 days?

3. Noah - 40 days of rain Moses - 40 days on Mount Sinai Spies - 40 days in the Promised Land David - 40 days challenged by Goliath Elijah - 40 days of strength on a single meal Nineveh - 40 days to change Jesus - 40 days empowered Jesus in wilderness Disciples - 40 days with Jesus post- resurrection

4. Target What it’s not… What it is…

5. Ephesians 5:1-2… Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

6. Ephesians 5:25… Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her…

7. John 17:22-23… I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

8. John 20:21… Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”

9. 1 John 4:12… No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.