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Opening Comments
· Happy Easter – Resurrection Day! – Victory in Jesus day!
· Welcome all
· Thank workers
· Thank visitors
· Test again
Boudreaux Joke
· Recently a routine police patrol was parked outside a bar in Houma, Louisiana.
After last call, the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk.
The man stumbled around the parking lot for a few minutes, with the officer quietly observing.
After what seemed like an eternity, in which he tried his keys on five different vehicles, the man managed to find his car and fall into it.
He sat there for a few minutes as a number of other patrons left the bar and drove off.
Finally he started the car, switched the wipers on and off ( it was a fine, dry, summer night) flicked the blinkers on and off a couple of times, honked the horn and then switched on the lights.
He moved the vehicle forward a few inches, reversed little and then remained still for a few more minutes as some more of the other patrons vehicles left.
At last, when his was the only car left in the parking lot, he pulled out and drove slowly down the road.
The police officer, having waited patiently all this time, now started up his patrol car, put on the flashing lights, promptly pulled the man over and administered a breathalyzer test.
To his amazement, the breathalyzer indicated no evidence that the man had consumed any alcohol at all!! Dumbfounded, the officer said "I'll have to ask you to accompany me to the police station.
This breathalyzer equipment must be broken."
· "I doubt it", the truly proud Cajun said.
"Tonight I'm the Designated Decoy."
The Kiss of Life
· 1967
· Rocco Morabito
· Randal Champion
· J. D. Thompson
· 1968 Pulitzer Prize: The Kiss of Life
· Mouth to mouth has become known as “the kiss of life”
Show Picture
First Kiss of Life
· So where did this “kiss of life” come from?
Perhaps:
· It was God’s “kiss” that made us into living beings – able to walk, think, FEEL, and LOVE
Elisha and the Boy
· Elisha’s “kiss” brought life to the boy
Kissing in the Bible
· Accepted – WELCOMED form of greeting showing affections, respect, humility, etc.
· Everywhere we see kissing in the bible, it generally points to life and something good about life
· A deep respect for life
· EXCEPT one:
The Kiss of Death?
· We know what this kiss led to – the crucifixion of Jesus
· Surely this kiss was a kiss of death – the one that ended the life of the Messiah
This Kiss of Death led to:
· Matt 26:56 – disciples deserted him and ran away
· Matt 26:61 -- Falsely accused
· Matt 26:67 – Spit in his face, beat him, slapped him, taunted him
· Matt 26:69-74 – Denied 3 times by Peter
· Matt 27:2 – tied him up and handed over
· Matt 27:12 – falsely accused by priests and elders
· Matt 27:21 – a guilty man took his place of freedom
· Matt 27:25 – flogged
· Matt 27:25 – handed over to be crucified
· Matt 27:28 – stripped naked, crown of thorns, reed in hand, mocked and humiliated
· Matt 27:35 – crucified
· Matt 27:37 – one last mockery: THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS
· Even as He hung there:
· EVERYTHING was accomplished
Death and Burial
· And so the kiss of death given by the betrayer, Judas, had its final result – the life of Jesus Christ was over.
· But wait!
God’s Kiss of Life
· Grave clothes left.
Napkin about his head left.
EVERYTHING, every vestage of his earthly life was left in the grave.
He HAD to do it
· He had to suffer AND THEN enter his glory
· Why?
· So that he could give us the kiss of life, just as God gave him the kiss of life and delivered him from grave and the effects of his earthly life
He Suffered as We did So he can Help Us
· He has suffered what we suffer
· He intercedes for us – no one can condemn us, because HE died AND HAS BEEN RAISED
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