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Living for Resurrection
We were made for eternity, we were made to live forever, we were made to live for life and life to the full.
But this has not been our experience.
Our lives and our world is filled with the reality of death.
I remember one of the hardest things I ever had to endure.
Cardarian’s death!
Ever since Adam and Eve sinned in the garden and man was kicked out of the garden we have been looking at ways to get back to our original design to live forever to be immortals.
God said you will surely die.
And that reality is what you live with, what I live, what we experience.
But man has tried to find a solution on how to solve this problem of death.
We try to do it our way apart from God.
In Genesis they built the tower of Babel.
They said instead of doing what God said-Fill the earth and multiply we are going to stay put and build a tower to heaven.
They were super successful until God said yeah, no you are not going to succeed at disobeying me.
My favorite basketball player growing up is trying to get back to that tree of life.
Magic Johnson got HIV back when it was a guaranteed death curse.
But he had money and lots of it so he was able to postpone it longer than the average person who would have gotten.
But not even Magic can live forever apart from God.
Jack LeLane, does anyone know who this is.
Get a picture.
Man has been looking to defeat death ever since man had sinned and were cut out of the tree of life.
Jack LaLane-at the age of 15 he decided to stop eating sweets and committed himself totally to fitness.
1979 (age 65) – Towed 65 boats in Lake Ashinoko, near Tokyo, Japan.
He was handcuffed and shackled, and the boats were filled with 6,500 lb (2,950 kg; 460 st) of Louisiana Pacific wood pulp.[39]
This guy lived until he was 96 in great shape but still died.
But guess what we are in need of a greater solution than anything this world has to offer.
As believers in Jesus are Faith is pointless without the resurrection.
Paul says it like this.
So far Jesus has made some outrageous claims:
I am the bread of life (6:35)
I am the light of the world (8:12)
I am the gate (10:7, 9)
I am the good shepherd (10:11, 14)
Today he makes another one:
When he asks this question he is not asking it in the past tense:
Did you believe this?
He is not asking it in the future:
Are you going to believe this?
He is asking it in the present:
Do you believe this right here and now?
When we believe this statement we are exercising are faith.
Today I want to challenge us to exercise our faith in the resurrection:
I want to ask you a question do you believe this right now?
TODAY I WANT US TO GET IN THE FAITH GYM
If you workout and want to get in shape you have to do the exercise, eat right and rest.
It is no different spiritually if we want to shine the light of Jesus we have to exercise our faith.
What happens when you are working out:
You get sore, but it is a good soreness....
Building our faith on the resurrection.
Today I want to give us three reasons we must exercise our faith in the resurrection.
The first reason we must daily exercise our faith in the resurrection:
1.
Because Jesus desires to be our friend (1-16, KV-11).
When life got rough these sisters went straight to Jesus
Just look how they talk to the God man the one who created them: HE WHOM YOU LOVE IS SICK!
Notice Jesus first response is not to fix our problem he reminds us of his perspective.
God is the ultimate redeemer
The whole book of John was that we would believe in Jesus and that we would have life.
We just saw Jesus give sight to the blind.
Now he was going to raise a man from the dead.
Jesus was going to receive even more glory, because of this and this is directly related to what he would do in the future When he would defeat death and be resurrected.
God’s love is personal
It does not just say God loved the world, it says God loved Martha and her sister.
Read the Bible: one thing that is a great practice is inserting your own name.
One of the amazing things about christianity is that we did not love God first he loved us even in our mess.
Jesus was a hot item, some believed but the leaders were ready to kill him.
So the disciples were like be careful, is this a good idea.
Religion over relationship
Are you a friend of God?
Are you an acquaintance?
Jesus called this man a friend.
I talk a lot about sports and growing up Magic was my favorite player, but if Magic walks into this service he is not going to say that is my friend Nate-I know Magic, but he don’t know me.
That is how a lot of us are with God.
We know about him but we aint’ his friend.
Do you know what the most important part about exercising our faith is spending time with the master.
I was reading in my devotional this walk psalm 15, and had a list of a Godly person and I was overwhelmed.
I thought to myself there is no way I can do these 20 things.
But here was what the first verse said:
Psalm 15:1 “O Lord, who may abide in Your tent?
Who may dwell on Your holy hill?”
Then I had this thought if I focus on being in God’s tent the other things will come.
How is your time with God right now?
Did you know this is the most important thing you can do in your walk with God Is spend time with him.
The disciples are just on different wave lengths right here.
I love how sometimes Jesus is trying to teach the disciples and they are just not getting it.
The first reason we need to exercise our faith is Jesus wants to be close to us.
Not just there but right there.
He wants to be closer to us than we can ever imagine.
Are you spending time with him.
The next reason we must daily exercise our faith in the resurrection:
2. is because we were meant to grow as his students.
(17-37 KV-21 & 27,).
We want the Jack Lelayne body without doing the work and without dieting.
Christianity is the same way.
We want to be Godly without having to meet with God, without dying to sin, without..FILL IN THE BLANK.
We should want to grow as deep as possible.
But God wants us to seek him with all our hearts and souls
As believers are classroom is in the crucible of life.
Faith Seeking understanding
God can handle our questions!
Martha really believed in the messiah and she had a real question.
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