Bring Jesus Home
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I absolutely love coming to church. The fellowship, corporate worship, mutual encouragement, accountability are all wonderful!
The ministry of the Word, the laying on of hands - all things i look forward to every week.
And of course the most obvious: Enjoying the presence of God.
However, we must be very careful not to equate a local church with the Old Testament tabernacle or temple.
Under the Old Covenent you had to go to the temple to worship and commune with God because in that covenant God dwelled in the temple, specifically by the Ark of the Covenent.
8 Have them construct a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.
So you had to go to the temple/tabernacle/synagog to be in God’s presence.
Jesus changed all that.
Yes church is both commanded and neccesery, yet you can do something in the New Covenent that was impossible in the Old.
Jesus and his disciples went to the synagoc one day:
21 They went into Capernaum; and immediately on the Sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and began to teach.
but then when the service was over:
29 And immediately after they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
You can go to church, as you all have today - but then when the service is over: You get to take Jesus home with you.
20 teaching them to follow all that I commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
He is Immanual - God with us.
And today i just want to talk about Jesus.
About why having Him with you is so incredible.
In the second chaper of Mark Jesus tells us why you want Him with you.
Jesus is the Great Physician:
Jesus is the Great Physician:
16 When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, “Why is He eating with tax collectors and sinners?”
17 And hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Jesus is the great Physicain.
He comes to us in our sickness to sin, He makes a perfect diagnosis, he provides a complete cure and then he pays the bill himself! What a physician he is!!!
Sin is a terminal disease of our soul - it will kills us.
But Jesus cleansed us by his blood, He healed us with his touch. He cured us by his grace.
Even as he can cure you.
However, there are 3 kinds of patiences that even the great physician cannot cure:
1: Those who do not know about Him.
14 How then are they to call on Him in whom they have not believed? How are they to believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher?
2: Those who know about him, but refuse to trust him.
9 Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
3: Those who will not admit they need him.
The pharasees are a perfect example of these kinds of patients as are all who are self righteous. The great pgysician can only heal sinners:
10 For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
Jesus is the Bridegroom:
Jesus is the Bridegroom:
18 John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and they came and said to Him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”
19 And Jesus said to them, “While the groom is with them, the attendants of the groom cannot fast, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.
20 But the days will come when the groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast, on that day.
The religion of the Pharasees only broufgh sadness.
But a relationship with Jesus always brings gladness!
If you are not in a relationship with Jesus then all of life is a funeral.
Death, loss and dispare is life. Laughter is forced and superficial and everyone cant wait for the reception so they can drink their sorrows away.
But with Jesus life is not a funeral, its a wedding!!! And arent weddings supposed to be a time of joy and celebtation?
Why do people get married? Thats easy: Because they love each other.
But why do people STAY married? Because they are commited to each other.
Salvation from sin at the hands of our bridgroom is very much like a wedding. Salvation is more than just “strong feelings” towards Jesus.
Salvation occures, not when you just love Jesus, but when you commit your life to him and say “I do”.
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
And then you enter into a covenant relationship with Jesus.
In this new covenent marriage we become partakers of his wealth and power, enjoying his love and presence and protection.
Out with the Old!
Out with the Old!
21 “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results.
22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”
Jesus taught 2 important lessons about his mission so far:
1: He came to save sinners.
2: He came to bring gladness and not sadness.
and here he is saying that to introduce something new, not patch something old.
Lets first make sure we understand the imergy Jesus is using since we dont really do this anymore:
A well used garment might tear and need a patch. However if you put a pience of new fabric on the hole, when its washed the new fabric would shrink while the old garment, having already shrunk, would not.
The patch would rip off.
Wine expans as it ferments in a wine skin. A new wineskin has give so it will strech as the wine expands.
An old wineskin has already strenched to its max, so putting new wine into it would cause it burst.
So what is this imagery telling us about the new covenent?
Simply this: The old Mosaic system had become old, decaying and obsolete.
13 When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is about to disappear.
This new covenet would not be based on the blood of animals but on the precious blood of of Christ.
4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
The Law will no longer be written on stone tablets but on human hearts.
16 “This is the covenant which I will make with them After those days, declares the Lord: I will put My laws upon their hearts, And write them on their mind,” He then says,
God will no longer dwell in a stone temple but through the Holy Spirit we would become the new temple.
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
With Jesus every single wretched sinner gets a fresh start. I do over.
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
Conclusion:
Conclusion: