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The Painted Door Church - Chicago

The Painted Door Church is church family that gathers in Chicago, IL. We are a people who share the same story; we are sinner, saved by grace. We draw our name from the Exodus account in the Hebrew Scriptures, when God spared his people from judgement, passing over all homes that had the blood of a spotless lamb painted across their doorways. Jesus is the new spotless lamb, his death on a Roman cross sparing the people of God from judgment once for all. He reconnects us to our Maker and to each other and invites us to participate in his grand work of restoring all things.

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The Pleasure of the Father / 2 Peter 1:16-21

October 27, 2019 • Pastor Mark Bergin

God made us to participate in his life with him. But we chose to go searching for life on our own. We found none. Nevertheless, God didn’t leave us wandering in death. He sent his Son into that death to rescue us from it. Jesus lived a human life the way his Father always intended, in full communion with the divine. In so doing, Jesus brought the pleasure of his Father to the human race. The Father had always been pleased with the Son. Now, that pleasure fell on human shoulders. In his letter to all Christians, the Apostle Peter charges people of faith to make every effort to walk in the life Jesus gives us. Why? So that we would live in the pleasure of the Father. Peter saw firsthand how pleased the Father is with Jesus. And all God’s prophets share the same testimony as revealed to them by the Holy Spirit. Jesus is the beloved one. To live anywhere outside of him is to spend your days forfeiting the most precious gift of all -- the pleasure of the Father.