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FULL AND OVERFLOWING
Rick Blount
Sometime ago I read about two villages in the Allegheny Mountains.
One of the villages was given its water supply by a modest little stream that trickled through the village.
In the summertime when the droughts came the stream was reduced to a very small flow and the people barely had enough water to get by.
The other village, on the other hand, had in the middle of the village a natural fountain.
That fountain was just constantly filled and overflowing and so regardless of whether there was dryness or not that village always had an abundant supply of water.
Two villages, one had water, but the other had water full and overflowing.
In Jesus said, “I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.”
You see there the same picture.
“I am come that they might have life (water) and that they might have it more abundantly (water full and overflowing).
Every born-again child of God has life.
says “the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
So, every Christian has life.
But the Bible says it is possible for a Christian not only to have life, but to have a life that is a full and overflowing life.
I want to talk about that particular kind of life today.
That’s really what the Scripture is talking about in these verses.
The verses we are going to study this morning really bring us to the climax of everything the Apostle Paul has been discussing in the book of Romans.
He begins in by giving us the theme of his letter.
“For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one who believes.”
He starts of f telling us about the mess we are in — we are all sinners.
He tells us what God has done to get us out of the mess — He sent His Son, Jesus to die on the cross that we might have life.
Then he tells us how it is possible for us to live a life of victory and abundance in the power of the Holy Spirit.
So in verses 8-13 you have a two-fold ministry which makes it possible for us life on the one hand and then life full and overflowing on the other hand.
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The Ministry of the SAVIOIJR FOR US.
Verses 8-12 tell us what Jesus Christ did for us when He came into the world and when He died on the cross.
Verse 8 says that Jesus is a minister of the circumcision.
The word, circumcision, is a rather technical phrase that simply refers to the Jewish people.
Verse 8 says that Christ came as a minister to the Jewish people.
Then you will notice in verse 9 that he says that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy.
In the Bible there are really only two groups of people given to us.
There are the circumcision — the Jewish people.
Then there is the Gentiles that represents all the other peoples of the world.
When Jesus came into the world He came to fulfill God’s promises to the Jews and also God’s prophecies concerning the Gentiles all the nations of the world.
Verse 8 — “...Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers.”
That simply means that when Jesus was born and came into the world, He made sure - He personally established all the many prophecies God had made to the Jewish people about the coming of the Savior in the world.
If you are familiar with any of the cultures of the peoples of the world, you will discover that all cultures of all people everywhere have stories about a god who will die and make it possible for people to have life.
Have you ever wondered why it is that all of the cultures of the world have stories like that?
It is because God has put into the consciousness of all the peoples of the world that there needs to be some death that will make possible forgiveness of sins and life for those who will receive the benefits of that death.
Out of all of the peoples of the world, God chose one particular people.
God chose one special people — the Jewish people and to them specifically He made promises about the coming of the Savior into the world.
That explains a lot of things you read when you study the life of Jesus.
One time a woman came to Jesus and she was not of the Jewish race.
She came to Jesus wanting to receive healing for her daughter.
Jesus made a rather stunning statement.
Jesus said I am not sent save to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
On the surface of that it sounded quite blunt but Jesus was trying to get across that He had come into this world specifically to fulfill the promises of God to the Jewish people.
That’s why in it says “I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, it is the power of god unto salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
When Jesus came He fulfilled all of these prophecies that God had made to the Jewish people about the coming of their Savior into the world.
I don’t know who counts these kinds of things and I’ve not verified it but I have read that there are 333 promises in the Old Testament made concerning the first coming of Jesus into this world.
Think for a moment.
What are the probabilities that all 333 of these promises would be fulfilled in one man -- Jesus Christ.
I have a book written by a man named Peter Stoner who was a mathematician.
Mathematicians do these kinds of things.
He studied the probabilities of the prophecies of the Bible being fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
Instead of taking the 333 he said let’s just take 8 of the promises concerning Jesus.
Let’s take His virgin birth.
His sinless life.
His death on the cross.
He picked out 8 of those prophecies.
He said what are the mathematical probabilities of all of these 8 prophecies being fulfilled in one person -- the Lord Jesus Christ.
When he got through with his calculations he said that mathematical probabilities of all those 8 prophecies being fulfilled in that one person — Jesus — were one in ten raised to the 28th power.
I don’t know about you but that doesn’t really mean a whole lot to me.
When I get my fingers counted and take my socks of f and count my toes that’s about as far in mathematics I can get.
I do know that a trillion is one with 12 zeros after it.
I think that’s right.
But he said the probability of all these being fulfilled in one person is one in ten raised to the 28th power.
That’s ten with 28 zeros after it.
I don’t understand that.
Let me give you an example that will get us a little closer to it.
Let’s just suppose that you took this many silver dollars.
You could take that many silver dollars - one in ten raised to the 28th power - and put them on the state of Texas.
If you did that, I am told there would be two feet deep of silver coins all over the entire state of Texas.
Then out of all of those silver coins, put a mark on one of those coins.
Then, blindfold a man, get some bulldozers all over the state of Texas and move those silver
coins around and then say to the blind man — pick out the coin that has the mark on it.
His chances of picking out the marked silver coin would be one in ten raised to the 28th power.
Yet this verse of Scripture says when Jesus Christ came into the world, He came to confirm everyone of the promises that God made concerning His coming.
Isn’t that marvelous!
Isn’t that wonderful!
In the Bible says “To Him (Jesus) give all the prophets witness that through faith in his name, whosoever believeth in Him might have remission of sin.”
That’s why Jesus came.
His ministry for us.
To die on the cross for His own people - the Jews.
The Bible says, unfortunately, in “He came into His own and His own received Him not.”
He came also to fulfill the prophecies of the Gentiles.
That’s why in verse 9 the Apostle Paul says “that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy.”
The Living Bible paraphrases that statement: He came also that the Gentiles might be saved.
Then in verse 9-12 he gives four Old Testament prophecies.
They are taken from the Psalms, Deuteronomy and Isaiah.
The Law, the psalms and the prophets.
Every major portion of the Old Testament Scriptures has clear predictions that the Savior had come into the world not only to die for the Jewish people but to die for the sins of the whole world.
Jesus Christ died that it might be possible for the Whole world to be saved.
In six hours of time, Jesus Christ bore an infinite burden of guilt.
All of the sins of the world in those hours were laid on Jesus Christ.
When Jesus suffered as no one has ever suffered in this world before or since — in that time all of our sins, all of the sins of everyone in the world were laid on Jesus Christ.
When we by faith trust Christ, when we by faith invite Jesus into our hearts the Bible says we are saved, we are forgiven of our sins and we receive the gift of eternal life in Jesus Christ.
That’s why he says in the last part of verse 12 - “In him shall the Gentiles trust.”
In Him shall the Gentiles hope.
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