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He revealed Himself
we make plans a lot.
plans to work, build, visit, rest, and even sleep.
we plan our lives.
some people plan more than others, some a lot less than others, but we all make plans.
for instance, you must have a few plans for the summer?
We all have ways.
Ways we do things.
The way we do life.
Our plans need our ways to fulfill the goal of the plan.
yesterday we got cleaning, organizing and wood taken care of.
we had a plan, we had a way to do it, and it worked.
The plan of God was to save people.
the way in which He did it was through revealing His Son.
would that have been the way we would have done it?
probably not.
Scripture says things like
God has His own ways.
God has His own ways, doesn’t He.
What it is speaking of in this text includes an abundant pardon for the wicked!
Something people in this world don’t like to do unless it’s a pardon for their sin....
God has a way with plans.
He has thought it out completely and entirely.
that is some forethought!
God has a way with plans.
He has thought it out completely and entirely.
He says in verse 9 of Isaiah 55
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version.
(2016).
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Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.
When I think about the plans of God and what He chose to do for the people on earth, I am humbled and overwhelmed.
And this was a plan that was spoken long before it came to pass, in such great detail that when we look at it now, hindsight is 20/20 we might tend to wonder how so many missed what was happening.
God’s plan to send His Son is seen throughout the Old Testament in numerous passages.
strikes me as one of those portions of text that clearly show what will happen to Jesus.
we read texts like this.
v. 16
a song written by David but also a prophecy about Jesus.
when Christ came to earth, the Romans were performing the death penalty using the Crucifixion, which would pierce the hands and feet.
The coming of Jesus was the right time for Him to experience this verse.
what about v. 7 & 8
Remember what the Jewish leaders spoke at the crucifixion.... telling Jesus to come down and we will believe, saying things like, He saved others but can’t save Himself.
Do you ever have people kicking you when your down?
Ouch! it hurts!
one of the question that comes from the death of Jesus, especially from people who don’t believe, is why did He have to die?
Why couldn’t He save the world without suffering?
We know, He died in our place, taking the punishment for our sin, that’s why He could say in verse 1
this statement is big. it is huge.
Why?
What Jesus had with the Father for all eternity was perfect oneness......
But for us,
Jesus experienced a separateness from the Father that He had never experienced before.
was God still there? of course God was still there but Jesus couldn’t connect with Him. that is what our sin does.
disconnects us from God. Jesus became disconnected with the Father!
Jesus became sin.
our sin.
I think this should just floor every Christian that hears this, especially when we look at our realness, and see that we still sin.
that sin is on Jesus.
this knowledge, this revelation of what Jesus did for us wrecks us and transforms us.
we learn grace.
and as for those who haven’t known or believed what Jesus has done....well, if they think church is about do’s and don’t for a reward to heaven, they are sadly mistaken.
it is about Jesus, isn’t it church, and the work that He did for you and I.
another question that arises while thinking about God’s plan is how did Jesus get to the place where the Pharisees wanted Him dead?
Jesus could have lived under the radar, an undercover God man, but He stood out in who He was.
He didn’t shy down or back off, He was who He was and lived it.
this is what we will dig into a little bit today.
Jesus
Jesus challenged the Jewish leadership in many ways.
He challenged their leadership and authority.
He challenged who they were in light of who HE was.
Jesus lived who He was, always.
Let’s look at how He did this.
if your taking notes today, jot down 4 words
Forgiveness, Sabbath, King, Temple.
-Forgiveness.... How did Jesus show His power
In
sometimes, well, all the time, what people do really plays out and speaks to people differently, depending on the perspective or position that each person is in.
Jesus heals someone.
but let’s catch what He really did to the Pharisees.
backstory,
Jesus was preaching in a house and this crippled man on a mat is being lowered down through the roof.
Jesus, instead of just healing the mans obvious issue, forgives the man’s sin.
I am sure everyone was surprised, especially the crippled man.
but the Pharisees had the hardest time with it.
and we jump into verse 6.
and the man was healed..... what a question Jesus asks! which is easier!
forgive or heal?
but look back to verse 6, we see the Pharisees questioning, blaming, they are thinking that only God can forgive sin so this man is taking the place of God.
Well, you and I know Jesus is God, but we must remember, they don’t know that.
They think He is just a man!
how many of us know that when we look at someone a certain way, that is what they are to us.
We judge someone as stupid, then everything they do seems to fit that.
the stuff that doesn’t fit it, we don’t see.
it’s not really about them so much, but more about how we see them.
it’s about our perspective on people.
and the Pharisees aren’t seeing Jesus for who He really is, so they think He is trouble.
But Jesus is challenging their thinking about God and displaying His authority over sin by forgiving the man,
and then Jesus goes all the way to prove the authority He had to forgive sin in the physical by healing the paralytic.
Listen to His very words.....”But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic— “I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home.”
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