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Good evening.
I want to thank Mike Newman for inviting me to come and be a part of your revival.
I also want to thank you for accepting me into your body to bring you God’s Word this evening.
When Mike asked me to bring the message this evening I asked him is there a theme for the revival, he said no preach whatever God lays on your heart.
I said okay is there a time limit, he said no whatever God wants you to bring, bring that.
Now I realize this is a baptist church and it is good to be in a baptist church....you may or may not know that I am the pastor at Community Christian Church in Nevada mo.
I was saved at the age of 9 at Calvary Baptist in Nevada and we attended First Baptist in Nevada for many years.
I went to college and fell away from church and God brought me back to Him through a wonderful, beautiful redhead and her young son.
I should also add crazy to that list because next month Melody and I will be married 22 years.
I wake up everyday and thank God that He blessed me with her and that she has yet to come to her senses because living with me for any length of time, especially 22 years is beyond hard!
Before we get into what God has for us tonight I want to share a bit of my story because it ties in to where we are headed this evening.
My parents were divorced when I young and that is how we ended up here in Nevada.
My mom actually was hired to be the 5th grade teacher at Schell City by Glen Wilbanks.
She taught there for a short time before being hired at the Nevada State Hospital in Nevada.
We attended FBC in Nevada and that is where she met my step-dad, Kenny.
What a blessing he has been and still is in my life.
I had the pretty typical life, I was a three sport athlete for NHS and all the time attended church and youth, even was part of the youth choir and was a clown make up and everything as part of the youth missions.
Some say I still am a clown but that is okay.
I lived a double life however.
I was one way at church and home, the good Josh and another way at school and sports, the bad Josh.
I knew Jesus but for sure never lived from Jesus.
I was saved but I was not living from that salvation and love Jesus showed me on the cross.
I found pornography as a young teen and it was a part of my life for 20 plus years off and on but for sure an addiction.
God delivered me from that addiction and so many other things in November of 2015 when I attended Men’s Encounter and figured out what being a follow of Christ was all about!
I think I have always felt the call of Christ on my life to be a pastor but He really cemented that during that weekend and the following months.
After Encounter my family and I ended up at Sheldon Baptist Church with Pastor Jerrod and Josh Lamb.
I was in the mens group with Josh and also played guitar on the praise band.
It was then that God prepared me to be ready to answer the call in August of 2018 when He called me to CCC in Nevada.
As I was praying about what to bring tonight God laid a sermon on my that I preached back in Nov of 2021.
I went back to that sermon and revised it for tonight and I am excited to see what God is going to do with His word this evening.
This message came as a result of a devotion plan on the Bible app for pastors.
There were 4 statements in the plan that hit me and led me to the message I am bringing tonight.
God intended to get His Kingdom plans to operate in the earth by flowing through us
God’s original design was for me to do things from Him, not for Him
Effective ministry is more about what Jesus can do through us than what we can do for Him
Our churches are in desperate need of leaders who no longer minister for Jesus but instead minster from Jesus
Before we begin, however, I feel it is very important to realize that we serve in Christ because of Christ.
I want to start at the cross and make sure we have a clear understanding of what happened on the cross.
So many times today the cross is just a necklace or a bumper sticker or something we have hanging in our churches but it is not looked at or remembered for what it truly was.
Jesus, while he was on the cross, became your sin....became my sin.....not just taking our sin but became our sin.
That means He knows your sin intimately.
He knows your sin better than you do
When the devil tells you no one understands
Jesus understand because He felt exactly what you feel in your sin
The pain
the anguish
the embarassment
the hurt
the desperation
the hoplessness
He knows because he felt it
He became it
He forgave it and He defeated the power of sin in your life
That is where we must start this evening
Matthew 27:45-50
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“From noon until three in the afternoon, darkness came over the whole land.
About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Elí, Elí, lemá sabachtháni?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”
When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “He’s calling for Elijah.”
Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a stick, and offered him a drink.
But the rest said, “Let’s see if Elijah comes to save him.”
But Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and gave up his spirit.”
This is the moment when Jesus became our sin.
He felt two things He had never felt before
Sin
And the Father looking away from Him
As I said earlier He felt your sin
He felt my sin
He felt the sin of the past, present and all sin that will be committed until He returns
He became that sin so that He could die as a payment for that sin
He was perfect
He had never sinned but yet chose to become sin
The second and much more painful was that when He became sin God turned away because God is holy and cannot look upon sin
As Jesus became our sin God had to look away
God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit have been together for eternity and this is the first and only time God had ever looked away from Jesus.
Think of the hurt that had to cause, the rejection He must have felt.
I believe this moment is what Jesus was praying about in the garden, remove this cup…He was praying so intensely that His sweat was blood.....remove this cup but nevertheless your will not my will.
That is the price that Jesus paid to reconcile us to God.
That is the price God paid to have us reconciled back to Him
Your sin
My sin did that to Jesus
What does all that mean and how is that tied to the question are you serving for Jesus or from Jesus?
Great question.
Here is what Jesus becoming our sin and then dying for that sin means to you and me…look back at
Matthew 27:51
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“Suddenly, the curtain of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom, the earth quaked, and the rocks were split.”
The curtain that separate the holy of holies from the people which separated God from the people was torn in two from top to bottom by God himself to signify that the wall between us, God and people was gone
Through Jesus, from Jesus we have direct access to the Father.
That is huge
We pray directly to God
He speaks directly to us
There is now nothing including sin that blocks us from God.
Your sin and my sin is already paid for
That then gives us freedom to live from Christ.
II Corinthians 5:17
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“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!”
If any man be in Christ he is a NEW creature.
All of the old is dead and gone.
Old thoughts
Old attitudes
Old behaviors
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