2023 Wk 17: Easter
Made New: Easter Changed Everything • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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Easter—Changed EVERYTHING.
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.
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!
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.
Christ CRUSHED the Power of Sin.
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.
The VICTORIOUS Lamb wants a relationship with you today.
One that is vibrant and alive!
NOW WEEK TWO… Joining God’s Family
The Family of God is made up of unique people—all with a common ground founded in Christ Jesus
Spiritual Newborns, New Birth, New Hope…New Life!
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation,
Fresh start
New beginning
New possibilities
To get to this newness came through death. Jesus died for you and for me
Does a baby…
know how to walk?
know how to talk?
Can it eat steak and bake potatoes?
No, baby’s need help and must grow into this new life.
So do we as new babes in Christ!
We don’t mature over night.
We need help and guidance from others who have learned to walk and run—pray, have faith, wart off the enemy with the Armor of God
Born of God…It is His Grace
But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.
Baby seeing it’s parent is different than just looking at their parent
They may even smile 😃
When we finally SEE Jesus we realize what he did for us.
This birth comes by receiving God’s Grace— It causes us to:
Follow His Lead
Rest in His Mercy and
Trust in His Protection
Jesus— our Cornerstone
example:
Morning coffee
cooking—clean kitchen (Feng shui)
Craft—clean workspace, sort your items, have a plan or idea.
GOD HAS A PLAN FOR YOU...
Clean slate
Jesus’ Blood
A Cornerstone
Right angle
Right foundation
Right position
That Position is through forgiveness that results in a relationship of righteousness.
You become Right with God by trusting the process, God’s plan for you.
19 So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God’s holy people. You are members of God’s family. 20 Together, we are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself. 21 We are carefully joined together in him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord. 22 Through him you Gentiles are also being made part of this dwelling where God lives by his Spirit.
We are no longer slaves
We are no longer strangers
We are God’s Chosen and we can now build our lives on a solid foundation— because we have The Cornerstone to pattern our life after.
LOVE IS THE KEY...Choose Life
34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.
Without LOVE:
we loose the ability to be patient
we can’t forgive
we can’t show kindness
we can’t serve one another
With LOVE:
we choose a new attitude
we choose to see people as precious
we choose to expect to act like Jesus
we choose to accept our new family position as son or daughter.
C. S. Lewis quote
“Don’t waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.”
We learn this language from Father God.
He speaks to us in “Agape” Love.
“self-sacrificial Love”
“self-giving Love”
Choose Life—Choose the way of Love
and give it to everyone!
Keep Growing...Imitate God
1 Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. 2 Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.
The greatest form of flattery is said to be imitating someone—
Walking as a Christian is to do what the title implies: Walk like Jesus walked.
thus…Christ followers should
look like Jesus
talk like Jesus
show love like Jesus and
follow Jesus
How are we going to give hope to a Broken World???
we must join into the Family of God and blossom from one step to the next.
Abba Father…Daddy, Daddy!
14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
15 So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.” 16 For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children. 17 And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.
Adoption is becoming a family member where you become fully Integrated into the family.
You are fully known and fully loved
You are a complete member of the family.
We have become Fully Integrated into our heavenly Family.
We are fully known and fully loved by Father
We are a complete member of the Family of God…NO LONGER SLAVES!
We discover
freedom not bondage
accepted not turned down
forgiven not blamed and punished
love not detested and hated
As we identify with Christ and His suffering, His death on the cross, we too will find the Life giving Resurrection of Jesus!
BLESSING OF LIFE AND LIFE EVERMORE!
Tuning to Jesus…One of Unity
20 “I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. 21 I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.
22 “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one.
My Dad was a pretty smart guy.
He may have not really been a master at things, but he could invent it, build it, and make it work if he could see it!
CUT THE BOARDS!!
(This may be kind of like a Gallagher moment)
Story about building the church: teaching a person to cut the rafters with template...
EACH BOARD WAS DIFFERENT
THAT DOESN’T BRING ABOUT UNITY.
A.W.Tozar wrote about becoming unified as the Body of Christ using a similar example.
Tuning 100 pianos to each other would be labor intensive—going from one to another and trying to get them in tune.
88 Keys usually represent 230 strings.
Best way is to have a single pitch that all of them are tuned to…like a Tuning Fork.
It consistently hums at 440 waves per sec. know as the concert pitch of A 440hz.
We can not align ourselves with each other. Perfect pitch and a unified Body comes by aligning ourselves to Jesus Christ.
A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. A psalm of David.
1 How wonderful and pleasant it is
when brothers live together in harmony!
2 For harmony is as precious as the anointing oil
that was poured over Aaron’s head,
that ran down his beard
and onto the border of his robe.
3 Harmony is as refreshing as the dew from Mount Hermon
that falls on the mountains of Zion.
And there the Lord has pronounced his blessing,
even life everlasting.
Becoming like Christ is to Hum at Christ 440!
It changes our will to His Will
It changes our thinking to His Thinking
It changes our way to His Way
It changes our dysfunctional life to His Life of Unity making us all living after the True Standard in Life.
This is the only way that we can Love, Serve, Forgive, and show Kindness to this Broken World.
Prayer…
“teach me to Hum like Christ!”