Come Alive - Easter Morning
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The Power to Change
The Power to Change
You may be thinking I don't have the power
No change in attitude, or outlook
No strength to to hold on, or break addiction
No power to forgive or to love enemies
Good news - you have no power
Jesus does - Paul says
My goal is to know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,
Easter Prayer
Ephesians
power- dunamis - dynamite
Not just about forgiveness - power to live
Resurrection Power
Power to cancel out, past, present future sins
We walk around with weight of past mistakes
Start over - can’t get over pas, controls present, dictates future
And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive with him and forgave us all our trespasses. He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.
Resurrection Power
Done away with our record of charges
Sin - archery term - not just missing the mark -
it is shooting at everything other than the target
Sin is not only forgiven it is blotted out
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “For I will forgive their iniquity and never again remember their sin.
Resurrection Power
In Christ makes it possible
not on us
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus,
Resurrection Power
Give you a new identity
Identify ourselves today - race, religion, political and cultural views, our jobs, hobbies, etc
Hidden identities -r about what we have done
Resurrection changes that - we are no longer defined by our failures
But to all who did receive him, he gave them the right to be children of God, to those who believe in his name,
Resurrection Power
I am His child - adopted - we have His name
How do I know?
He has also put his seal on us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.
Resurrection Power
No image or label outside of God's defines you
Not defined by feelings, circumstances, successes, or failures
You are who God says you are - no one oles has a say
“The only person in the universe whose opinion counts looks at me and He finds me more valuable than all the jewels in creation” - Tim Keller
Resurrection Power
Strength to face challenges
We are not only saved by His death, also by His life
We face each day in the strength of a Risen Savior
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Resurrection Power
Life is unpredictable
It is the power of Jesus through the Holy Spirit within us that sustains and sometimes carries us
Paul said it
And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then he who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through his Spirit who lives in you.
Resurrection Power
Through the most joyful times He is there
Through the darkest times He is there
We are more than conquerors - nothing can separate us
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The Power to Change
The Power to Change
not just an ancient event
The tomb is empty
The power is available
We can shout
Christ the Lord is risen today, Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.
Charles Wesley