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SHE DID WHAT SHE COULD DO BECAUSE JESUS DID FOR HER WHAT SHE COULD NOT DO.
Jesus did for her what she could not do.
What could she not do?
As we celebrate Easter today how many of us have considered this to be a celebration of what we could not do?
Jesus did for her what she could not do.
What could she not do?
As we celebrate Easter, how many consider it a celebration of what we could not do?
We, Americans, don't like to confess our ineptitudes and inabilities because we can do anything.
Our culture indoctrinates us with a mantra of "work on your weakness until it becomes your strength."
If we possessed strength enough to do what only Jesus can do, Easter would not be necessary.
John Newton, a converted slave trader, reinforces our genuine estate actually in his beloved hymn;
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound.
That saved a WRETCH like me.
I once was lost, but now I am found.
I was BLIND, but now I see.
As beloved as these words are too many, they are believed by fewer still.
Newton did not find His understanding of human nature in a dictionary, but in Jesus' words found in Revelation 3:17, Jesus reveals our actual heart condition;
Like a criminal sketch artist, Paul, in Romans 3:10-18, graphically portrays the wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked life.
Have plainer words ever been penned?
And just in case you attempt to argue your way out of this condition, Paul clarifies those who fit this category in Romans 3:23.
No one can escape such a designation because their condition is DNA-infused.
David establishes our wretchedness to our moment of conception (Psalm 51:5).
You did not become a sinner the moment you sinned; you sinned because you have been a sinner since birth.
Children in their earliest days must have their behavior corrected.
Where did such behavior originate?
Where does all behavior begin?
Jesus taught all behavior begins in our heart.
Every human being bears God's image and possesses immense dignity, value, and worth.
Yet, though we bear His image, we do not retain His perfection.
Unfortunately, our first parents forfeited this position when they chose to be god rather than worship the God whose image they bore.
As a result, our first parents sinned, and we, their offspring, have been sinning ever since.
Let me pause 30 seconds and answer the question; what is sin?
It is the glory of God, not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
The greatness of God not admired.
The power of God not praised.
The truth of God not sought.
The wisdom of God not esteemed.
The beauty of God not treasured.
The goodness of God not savored.
The faithfulness of God not trusted.
The commandments of God not obeyed.
The justice of God not respected.
The wrath of God not feared.
The grace of God not cherished.
The presence of God not prized.
The person of God not loved.
That is sin."
There are no good people.
People can do good, and we often see and experience their goodness because they bear God's image.
Yet their goodness is not pure and without defilement.
Do you feel the hopelessness in your efforts to earn God's favor?
Do you see that even your "good" works are not and will never be sufficient?
The Bible is a book of good news because it is a book that reveals to us the bad news of our condition.
Listen to one of the Scriptures, most religious people describe humanity's actual condition.
When God tells us that our sins have separated us, He is not bidding us to come up to him.
Instead, he is telling us that He is coming down to us.
Here is an essential difference between Christianity and all other paths that supposedly lead to God.
All other paths are bottom-up, while Christianity is unique for it is top-down.
In the person of Jesus Christ, only God can span the separation and bring us back to himself.
Only Jesus possesses those qualifications necessary to be our Savior.
First, he was born of the woman's seed
This means He was conceived supernaturally because women possess no seed.
Therefore, the Virgin birth of Jesus tells us that Jesus was born without sin.
Secondly, he must be tempted in all ways like us yet without sin.
Pilate said of Jesus in
Jesus was tempted like us in every way except that He never sinned.
He was accused of sin, yet no charge ever levied against him was proven credible.
He was, as John described him, "the spotless lamb of God come to take away the sin of the world."
Possessing the proper credentials to save Jesus went to the cross.
God required an innocent to die for the criminals.
He required sinlessness to die for the utterly sinful.
God's wrath against sinners could only be satisfied by crushing His Son, who had never participated in sin's curse.
The cross of Christ saves because God's wrath has been satisfied.
God did not recuse His Son because He was pleased by Him.
Jesus died to satisfy His Father's wrath against sinners so that those He created in His image could become children.
To summarize, Adam failed his test in the Garden of Eden, and we died.
While, Jesus passed his test in the Garden of Gethsemane, and we live.
She has done what she could do because Jesus did for her what she could not do.
Wait for a minute, preacher.
Are you saying she acted based on what Jesus did on the cross?
If you are, then you are wrong because Jesus has not yet died.
I'm not saying she acted in light of the cross.
I'm saying she acted in light of her sins having been forgiven, and her enlightened understanding of what was to happen.
This woman acted extravagantly because all her sins had been forgiven.
Jesus said in Luke 7:47
If someone could love Jesus so extravagantly before the cross image how great that love might be after it.
No one who has met the real Jesus ever responds to Him mildly.
In his classic Basic Christianity, John Stott says, "We must realize that the only possible way to respond to Jesus is extremely.
If you read the Bible, you'll see that nobody who ever met Jesus Christ had a moderate reaction to him.
There are only three reactions to Jesus: they either hated him and wanted to kill him, they were afraid of him and wanted to run away, or they were absolutely smitten with him, and they gave their whole lives to him”…
Jesus calls His followers to a life of extravagance sacrifice because He gave His life.
Therefore, Christianity cannot be something I say I possess; it must be something that possesses me.
Christianity does not make us perfect it puts us in the process of perfection, which means a process of change.
Imagine yourself as a living house.
God comes in to rebuild that house.
At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing.
He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised.
But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense.
What on earth is He up to?
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