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PEOPLE MUST KNOW
By Rev. Will Nelken
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Presented at Trinity Community Church, San Rafael, CA, on Sunday, February 20, 2022
Last Friday, for our Third Friday PrayerPOWER, Linda led us in a prayer exercise, based on a familiar passage of Scripture: John 3:16.
She broke it down as follows, and had us pray through each line, one by one:
God so loved the world (this is what compels Him)
that He gave His only begotten Son (this is His marvelous remedy)
that whoever believes in Him (this is our part, anyone’s part)
will not perish (what would have been, will never be)
but have everlasting life.
(the LIFE with neither beginning nor ending)
What an illuminating time of grateful prayer together!
The world without God is desperately lost.
We’re not just mildly misguided, but undone, hopelessly and utterly lost, incapable of healing ourselves, headed for eternally inescapable aloneness—without God.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who think they can manage life’s uneven
road, and those who doubt they ever will.
Or, put in terms that relate to God’s plan—those
who think they are worthy of love and favor, and those who feel utterly unworthy of anything
good.
These are actually two sides of one coin, and all of us are tossing it into the air to see what today will be like.
Heads, I’ll be all right!
Tails, I think I’ll stay in bed.
We all vacillate between these two opinions, until God rescues us, and our hearts become
joined in Jesus Christ.
For God conceived all that is and by His Word brought all things into being, and then set His
love upon us.
He didn’t simply approve or admire what he had made (Saying, “Good job” or
“Well done.”),
but He loves what He made—passionately, unconditionally, unwaveringly.
Draw a deep breath and just take that in for a moment…
Our Way, His Way
And when we, the product and object of His love, prefer ourselves to Him, and our way to
His—ignoring, disobeying, rebelling, rationalizing, excusing, disregarding—He sends His one
and only “well-beloved” Son to buy us back and bring us back to Him.
All that frustrates you and breaks your heart, all that frightens you and leaves you anxious, or
disappoints and grieves you, is all the product of people sinning against God in those ways.
And you get caught by the undertow or clobbered by the waves.
And there are others who suffer in similar ways
as the result of your sins, even the unintentional and unknown sins.
Because hurt people hurt
people.
I suffer, you suffer, we all suffer, because of people’s sins—yours, mine, and theirs.
Yet God has set His love on us, because He alone can rescue us from that not-so-merry-goround.
He can overcome the wickedness within us and give us a new heart—a righteous heart,
a truly loving heart—like His.
Whoever you are, whatever your background, whatever you’ve done amiss or failed to do
aright, the God of the universe has set His wondrous, saving, liberating love on you.
He’s never
forgotten you, and He’ll never abandon you.
He wants you to be with Him, because He knows that just being with Him will transform your
heart and life.
Oh, what a Savior!
Do you know Him?
Only Jesus
No one compares with Jesus!
God and man wedded together in one bodily frame, in one Person.
He came from the Father, and He returned to the Father.
He remained faithful to the
end—the dreadfully bitter end.
Opposed by the leaders of His faith, and deserted by His own disciples, He was beaten as a
traitor and executed publicly as a criminal—yet He was called King of the Jews, and we know
Him as the Christ, the Savior of the world.
No one else died as Jesus did.
Oh, many thousands were also crucified by Roman might, but
none of them died as he did.
The sunlit sky turned dark in the middle of the day, and as He
drew His last breath, the earth trembled and shook in response.
Buildings crumbled and graves
burst open, and many dead came back to life.
Jesus released His Spirit back to the Father, and the Father released His Spirit on the earth,
tearing the Temple’s great curtain in two, from top to bottom.
God and man—all humanity (the Jew and the non-Jew, the good and the bad)—could be
joined together again, restoring and renewing their fellowship in unity and love through Jesus
Christ.
God’s mighty saving grace would clear their consciences, and soften their hearts, and give to
them a new birth, a spiritual birth, leading to a newness of life.
Do you know Him this way?
You can! Everyone can.
ANYone can! That’s what Jesus provides.
Whoever wants to, whoever chooses to, whoever trusts His provision and responds.
That’s not
my promise; that’s the promise of God!
Come to Him
When you come to Him in the way He has chosen, He will surely receive you.
His way brings
hope and delivers freedom.
Believe Him.
Believing in Him today, come!
Give your heart to Jesus.
Move your self off the throne and make Jesus King of your heart today
Once you do that, nothing and no one will ever be able to separate you from His love again.
You’ll thank the Lord and love Him forever.
What did He say?
You will not perish.
To perish is more than to die; it is to cease to exist, to
never be remembered anymore—as if you never had been born at all.
But that won’t be you, if Christ is in you.
He will share with you His eternal life—the life that
has neither beginning nor ending.
The God-kind of life.
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