Come to the Cross of Christ
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Come to Jesus
5-16-2021
(As I begin to put things on)
SIN - OVERALLS
FINANCES - COAT
MINISTRY - BACKPACK
WORRY - BLACK BAG
FAMILY - SUITCASE
WORK - TOTE
SCHOOL - WHITE BAG
Through life this is what we do church
We pick up the different dramas of family, we pick up the stress of family, the stress of work, finances
Maybe we have a difficult boss, or we struggle with work, or school
Maybe we have struggled in sin for far to long
I know we have talked before about this but you and I were never intended to carry those many burdens around
Actually we were not intended to carry the burdens of life around
But something has happened church
See I believe this is the life of a believer
We do this
How then can expect to go and be used by Christ
How are we then prepared to go out and do ministry
How can we expect to put on the armor of God
Church we can’t
Church We have forgotten the words of scripture
28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 29 “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Church we have forgotten that we are to go the cross with the burdens of life
We are to come to Jesus with these things
Part of problem church is we have become so used to carry thing these burdens around that they have almost become part of who we are
Church we are settling for carrying around these burdens
Church we have complicated or forgotten scripture
It says that we are to come to Christ
See church one of 2 things has happened
One we believe that we have to get things in order before coming to Christ
31 And Jesus answered and said to them, “It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick.
10 “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
Christ came to deal with our burdens
Christ came to save us from the many burdens
Because if we are not carful this will kill us
You and I do not have to have our burdens taken care of before we come to Christ
So stop buying into the lie that church is not for you
That you have to be righteous before you come to Christ
It is Christ in you that makes you righteous
Scriptures call your best works are filthy rages
So church stop trying to fix your burdens before you come to Christ
You are to simply come to Christ as you are this morning and lay your burdens at the cross and leave them there
Church the second lie is that we have almost glamorized the cross of Christ
Thinking that we cannot come to the cross of Christ because it is a nice pretty thing
Church the cross of Christ is not a nice pretty thing
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—
Paul talks about the cross of Christ that those who hang on a cross are cursed
The cross of Christ is not a pretty thing
And church sadly we have glamorized it
We have turned it into a nice picture of the church
Paul is using scripture found in
23 his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.
People who died on the cross were accursed by God
It was not a nice and pretty thing
But like we said church we have turned it into a nice fluffy happy symbol
And because it is like that we as believed begin to think
There is no way I can come to Christ
The cross is such a nice thing and I am so dirty
I don’t want to dirty up the cross with my sin
And so church we hold onto our junk
We hold onto our sin
We hold onto the baggage you and I were never intended to carry around
22 Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.
Church we are to cast our burdens upon the Lord
We are to leave our burdens at the foot of the cross never to pick them up again
It’s time we start to believe in the scripture we read instead of the lies we read everywhere else
It’s time we start to obey scripture instead of what society tells us is normal and cool
Church you no longer have to carry that junk around any more
And you know exactly what I am talking about
START TO LEAVE BURDENS AT THE CROSS
You no longer have to believe in the lie that you have to get everything in order first before you come to Christ
Believe you me He can handle it
You no longer have to believe in the lie that you shouldn’t make the cross dirty with your sin
Believe you me it is already dirty and that is where church we find the Grace of Jesus
That is where we find the mercy of Jesus
That is where church we find healing from the hurt inside of us
And church that is where we find life from the death inside of us
20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Church it is at the cross that we find life and we find it through Jesus
Because Jesus died for you and I we know have life
Where as before we did not have live
Jesus gave us life by dying on the cross
And church that is where we get forgiveness for our sin
All the junk you no longer have to carry around the forgiveness is found at the cross
There is no sin too sinful for God church
It is at the cross we find grace
Which is getting something we do not deserve
We do not deserve life and we get life
It is at the cross church that we find Gods mercy for us
God poured out his punishment for us on Jesus
We are not getting God’s wrath because of Jesus’s death on the cross
Do we understand how important it is to come to Jesus
To come to the cross of Christ
When we do what says
28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 29 “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
This morning church is it about coming to Jesus
AS THE BAND COMES UP
Maybe you are here this morning and have never given your heart to CHrist because you have bought into the lie you have to have it figured out and be all righteous before you come to Christ
This morning God is inviting you just as you are to the cross to meet with HIM would you come
Or maybe you are here and you have a relationship with Jesus but have bought into the life that you can no longer dirty up the cross with the burdens you have been carrying around
This morning God is calling you to come and leave your burdens at the cross never to pic them up again
As you can see we have a cross up front, we have some hammers, we have some paper and nails
Maybe you are carrying around burdens or some hidden sin that you need to leave at the cross this morning
You are welcome to write in on the paper and spend sometime in prayer and then nail it to the cross and leave it there
God will deal with it
The altar is open