Sugarfest:A Hero Has Come
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A Hero Has Come
A Hero Has Come
I remember being a Kid and pretending I was a super hero. I would run around fighting the evil forces and defeating them. When I had a stick in my hand I became a Ninja Turtle or a Power Ranger, and that stick became the most deadly of Weapons.
In My mind it Felt like this- StarWars Video
But in Reality it probably looked more let this grand production
I may have look like a goon at the time but in my mind I was the greatest warrior, conquering evil forces- As cars drove by thinking I was a little touch in the head
But Hero’s have become a major theme in todays world
We have comic books written about their stories, and movies that are constantly breaking box-office records
Hero’s fight for those who can’t fight for themselves
in the movies the hero fights for those who are oppressed by something or someone
Batman Fights for a city oppressed by crime lords- Gotham City
Spiderman swings into action and fights for those who are afflicted in New York
The Avengers fight for the world...
For each Hero the Scene is set-
For each Hero the Scene is set-
For our story the scene is dark- a people in slavery with no hope
Matthew 4:16 “the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.”
For us this is the scene in which we need a Hero to step in
We live in a world where terrible things happen
Parent Abuse Children
There are broken families
Parents Abandon their Children
Drug Addictions
Murdering
Violence
School Shootings
Bullying
This is all in the world that surrounds us
This is the darkness that surrounds us
But the darkness creeps in
These things that happen around us begin to creep in to the way we think
“Well I must be unloved because that is the way I get treated”
“Why am I not good enough for them?”
“Why am I not enough?”
“No one loves me”
“I am always going to be this way”
The Darkness creeps in and now begin to control us we are oppressed just like Gotham with darkness telling us who we are and what our actions should be.
And because Hurt and brokenness have become our reality our actions begin to change
For attention we do things that we should
for value we start to act a different way
we start to dress a different way
We give ourselves away so that we can belong to something
And when it ends we are more broken then before cause all it did was confirm what the darkness has been saying all along
We need a heron to save us
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
This describes that scene- We are dead just following everyone once else hoping one day to feel some sort of happiness, but we are just dead
Walking like Zombies aimlessly following everyone else
There is a reason why Statistics only go up
Suicide
Drug addiction
self-harm
Divorce
Follow this world and get the same results
But there is hope
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
There was a savior who came and made a way so that we would no longer have to continue being Dead
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
And he came while we were stuck in the brokenness
while we hated ourselves for our choices
while we were hurting and feeling no good
This is when Jesus Christ came
There is a quote form The Dark Knight that Commissioner Gordon Says “Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now.”
Christ is the Hero we need but don’t dersever
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Christ stepped into our brokenness and darkness and brought light at just the right time
We no longer have to live according the brokenness to the hurt
We don’t have to listen to those voices that say we aren’t good enough
In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
We have a source of Life that shines in the darkest area’s of our life and brings light-
brings hope
brings and new way of living
We were once those living in darkness but a light has shone
There is a story in the bible possibly one of my most favorite stories:
The Story of the Women at the well-
She lived a broken life
She was alone and labeled by others
She was used by men
she had no value
But Christ Shows up at just the right time
He doesn’t condemn her
he doesn’t say “can’t you just get you life together and stop being so stupid.”
He says, “If you knew the gift of God that stood before you, you would ask and I would give you.”
This is what Christ offers us today
New life
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
The old ways are no more
they no longer define who you are they are deleted and there is new life
Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations 5352 The Boy Crawled Forward
Dr. Marshall Craig, preaching in a southern university, pleaded for young men and women to place their all on God’s altar. They began to come—the president of the student body, football players, beautiful girls, campus leaders—sincerely, honestly giving themselves to Christ. And then Dr. Craig saw a strange thing. Far back toward the rear of the auditorium, he saw a boy start down the aisle toward the front. And that boy was crawling on his hands and knees.
Dr. Craig turned to the president of the university, who said, “It’s all right, sir. That boy is one of our students, but he is a hopeless cripple, and the only way he can get around is on his hands and knees.” Dr. Craig waited until the boy had made his way to the front, then leaned down to greet him.
The young man looked at the great preacher, and said to him, “Sir, you said God had a place for a man. I know God has a place for these athletes with their muscles of steel; I know God has a place for these campus leaders. But tell me, sir, does God have a place for a wreck like me?” And Dr. Craig told him through his tears, “Son, God has just been waiting for a wreck like you.”
—Charles Wellborn
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
God came and died for a wreck like me and like you