2023 Wk 16: Easter
Made New: Easter Changed Everything • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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Many things happen because of Easter—it changed EVERYTHING.
ENCOUNTERING JESUS BRINGS NEW LIFE
If Jesus is ALIVE—then God can be trusted, because God keeps His Word.
10 And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God.
6 He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead! Remember what he told you back in Galilee, 7 that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and that he would rise again on the third day.”
God’s Love Was Put On Public Display
16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
MOVIE NOTE: Ticket to Paradise with George Clooney and Julia Roberts
In reading about Bali, Indonesia I found that...
it is disrespectful for lovers to kiss in public.
No PDA except for holding hands.
Father God — rips off the Band-aide and sends his son for all to see how much He really LOVES YOU AND ME…and the WORLD!
THANK YOU FATHER
Without DEATH there is NO RESURRECTION.
No sacrifice for sin
No sacrifice for forgiveness
Without Death--No New Hope of a New Life
NO WAY TO BE MADE NEW!
10 I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death,
Jesus Christ WON!
All of Mankind is deserving of death… (page 16)
34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.
Not Information, BUT Transformation.
6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
Transformation by:
the Way, not by works
the Truth, the Bible can be trusted
and the Life. life evermore that bring peace and fullness in God.
Who is on the THROWN of your HEART?
Can this lordship be changed?
CONFESS & BELIEVE in Jesus Christ
9 If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved.
We are not talking about Fire Insurance, but Assurance.
Walking in Christ
Finding that RELATIONSHIP NOW!
CRACKER JACKS and the Prize.
Prize = eternal life
The sweet caramel taste = Knowing Christ.
It is enjoying his Lordship over our life. Able to enter into God presence and stay there.
overcoming death, sin, temptation
Christ CRUSHED the Power of Sin.
8 And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him. 9 We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. 10 When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God. 11 So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus.
What is keeping you ENTOMBED?
LOCKED IN TO SIN—Fear, torment, shame and brokeness?
TRUST the PROCESS!
Being alive unto God trumps the pain, the nails, the tomb, and Death.
Through the Holy Spirit we have POWER over...
temptation
addiction
habits
relational conflict
private sins against our own body
We must see that we are Victorious in Christ when we Encounter Him.
Enter into this New Life and be Made New
When you do Encounter Jesus--You are in a New Family!
You will find on Page 39...
Becoming apart of this New Family is like being Adopted
It means you are fully INTEGRATED into the Family of God.
koinonia
Koinonia embraces the concepts conveyed in the terms of community, communion, joint participation, sharing and intimacy
GOD DESIRES KOINONIA WITH EACH OF US…
TRUE RELATIONSHIP BEYOND JUST ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN
HE WANTS IT TODAY
HE WANTS YOU TODAY
The VICTORIOUS Lamb wants a relationship with you today.
One that is vibrant and alive!