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Good Morning!
It is so exciting to get to celebrate Easter with all of you.
This week as I prayed about whether we should continue with our series, Love Like That, or do a one-off for Easter, I felt led to do a one-off.
I taught a brief lesson with our Thursday night crew on Why Jesus matters.
Whether you grew up in church or this is your first time, it is to our benefit to be reminded of what we are celebrating and why what Jesus did is relevant to us today.
There are two moments prior to and during Jesus’ crucifixion that made me really key in on what we will talk about today.
Something specific happens that was so significant it overshadows the pain of crucifixion.
Look with me at Luke 22:39-44
It is obvious that Jesus doesn’t want to experience what is coming and certainly, the pain of what he is about to endure is part of it.
However, there is something he says while on the cross that reveals more than just the physical pain that he is enduring.
We believe that Jesus is part of the trinity.
He is referred to as the son of God and He was with God in the beginning, when all was created.
In the moments just prior to him breathing his last breath, when his friends and family had abandoned him, he experienced something that all of us are born into.
For the first time in all of history, Jesus experienced separation from God the Father.
As he took on the sins of the world, he had to endure it alone.
Mark (Mark 15:34)
while he bore the sins of the world, God could not be with him; and he was literally abandoned not only by his disciples but also by his Father.
What caused Jesus so much anguish in the garden was the knowledge of what was going to happen on the cross.
Not the physical pain, but the separation from God.
You may not have realized this before today, but we are born separated from God and Jesus’s purpose in coming to earth was to rejoin us with God.
He came to Make Us Whole.
This is the focus of our message today.
Jesus experienced what we all experience in order that He could overcome it.
The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus have made us whole.
To fully understand that statement we have to look back at our redemptive history.
I’d like for you to go on a little adventure with me today through scripture.
Your story, my story, and the stories of every man, woman, and child all start at the same place.
As children, a lot of the stories we read began with “once upon a time”.
Our story begins with “In the beginning”.
Let’s go back to the beginning and see what caused us to all be born separated from God.
Our Separation Began With Sin.
By choosing to sin, Adam and Eve separated themselves and all of mankind from God.
Our mistakes, and our sins make us feel guilty and our natural response is to avoid what makes us feel guilty.
But rather than running from sin, we run from God.
This is what happened with Adam and Eve and the same thing happens with us today.
That’s what is being shown in verse 8 of Genesis 3.
Our sin causes us to hide from God, to run from him, to be separated from Him.
God’s desire isn’t for us to be separated.
God created us to know Him and to have a relationship with Him.
But the sin in our lives puts a barrier between us and separates us from Him.
We can’t experience the pure bliss of knowing God because of that separation.
Yesterday we had the oppertunity to help Ben, Anna, David, and Sarah move their belongings to their new home.
In between loads, I stepped away for a moment to just take in what God had done in their lives.
Ben walked over and basically said that he was at a loss for words.
He is in awe of what God has done in their lives.
Now, they spent over a decade living with family and not having a home of their own, but God finished the work he told them that he would do.
They only got to experience this joy because they have a relationship with God and have learned to listen to his voice.
This is the kind of relationship that God created us to have!
God wants us to know Him and there is inexpressible joy for us in knowing Him!
Unfortunately, all of us are born in sin and therefore separated from God.
But as the kid's video this morning pointed out, there is good news!
Jesus came to repair the broken relationship.
Unlike you and I, there is no sin in Jesus.
He didn’t have the same separation that you and I have.
We see that fact all through his ministry and specifically when he would say things like we see in John 5:19
Jesus came to bridge the gap that exists between God and his people.
God Has A Plan To Bring Us Back.
Right after Adam and Eve sinned, God began the work required to bring us back.
There are a couple of key moments that show God’s work to restore the brokenness.
One of those was the First covenant.
The First Covenant
God enacts this covenant right after he frees Israel from slavery in Egypt.
After God led Israel through the Red Sea and across the wildness, He brings them to the foot of a mountain.
God shows His power in freeing the nation of Israel from slavery in Egypt.
God tells Israel that He wants them to be His Holy nation.
In other words, God wanted to reunite himself with his people.
God is communicating that he wants to bring us back to himself.
He is restoring what was broken.
In order for that to happen, God said that they needed to listen and obey.
God held up his end of the covenant, but Israel didn’t.
Israel turned down the relationship that God wanted and settled for a list of rules to be followed.
They were still running from God.
They wanted to be in charge.
They were choosing to stay separated.
We are still running today.
Just like we talked about a few moments ago, we still choose sin and run from God.
Thankfully, God was not done yet.
He later sends prophets to tell the people that one day he would enact a new covenant.
The New Covenant
One of those prophets was a guy named Jeremiah.
God tells Israel that He is going to do something even greater than what He did in the wilderness.
He is going to reveal himself to his people and instead of the law being only in their minds, he is going to move it into their hearts.
God makes a promise that one day He will restore the broken relationship!
He will Make Them Whole!
God’s desire to know us is so great that He did the unthinkable.
He came to earth, born as a helpless baby so that he could experience life as we do.
The Birth and Life of Jesus.
God sent Jesus, his son, to reveal to the world who God really was and what it looks like to live in a relationship with God.
He came to show us how much the father loves us.
Jesus came to do what we could not.
He did what Adam and Eve couldn’t do.
He resisted Satan’s temptation and choose to stay connected with God.
Adam and Eve were tempted by Satan and they choose to listen to him instead of God.
Jesus faced the same temptations as Adam and Eve, and Satan tried to twist God’s word to confuse and mislead Jesus, but it didn’t work
Jesus accomplished what we could not, he lived a life that was sinless.
In doing so, Jesus revealed to the world the kind of relationship that God desires to have with all people.
Jesus loved people like no one has ever loved.
He saw those that were overlooked.
He healed the sick.
He stood up for others.
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