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Grace Place Atlanta COGBF
4700 Mitchell Street
Forest Park, GA 30297
Website: atlantacogbf.org
Email: info@atlantacogbf.org
Phone: (404) 241-6781
Wayne D. Mack, Pastor
Pastor Wayne D. Mack Sermon Notes
April 17, 2022
The Meaning of Because He Lives (BHL)
Because He Lives, I Can Face Today
Matthew 14: 19-21; Act 3: 1-16; Acts 9
Matthew 14: 19-21
“A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me.
Because I
live, you will live also.
20 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me,
and I in you.
21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me.
And
he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to
him.”
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The privilege of coming together to worship God has no equal.
But because of the events of the past 24 months, makes this Easter Lord’s Day a little sweeter
and even more special.
Today, we all should give thanks with grateful hearts because God is Good, and we are so
blessed – but above all, He has given us life through Jesus Christ His Son.
We are truly Blessed
by God’s faithfulness, mercy, and grace.
Of all the Sunday’s and other very special Lord’s Days we come together for, Easter Sundays
seem to carry a noticeable spiritual radiance – and you don’t have to be saved to sense it.
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me, Easter wreaks of NEWNESS – and that newness is to all people from God. It’s an
opportunity to RESET and BEGIN anew with The Creator.
Moreover, this particular Easter Sunday should stand out as more significant than the last two.
It’s refreshing to celebrate together again in 2022.
I feel like what we’re experiencing is a slice
of the Jesus’ Resurrection Power.
Given that, let’s turn our hearts toward the message for today.
It is entitled: The Meaning of [BHL] Because He Lives!
Our Text is Matthew 14: 19-21
“A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me.
Because I
live, you will live also.
20 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me,
and I in you.
21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me.
And
he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to
him.”
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I believe the realness of experiencing Because He Lives [BHL] is the second phase of the
resurrection.
First, Jesus was resurrected.
Secondly, because He got up, have you and I
personally experienced the power of His resurrection.
It’s one thing to sing Because He Lives,
it’s another thing to experience it with meaningfulness.
But what happens to the person who doesn’t believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, or just
doesn’t get it or who hasn’t come into the knowledge of it?
The quick answer for them is that Jesus remains dead and done or never was.
Such was the case
for Saul of Tarsus in the book of Acts before he became the Apostle Paul.
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Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to
the high priest 2 and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he
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found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to
Jerusalem.
Acts 9: 1&2
He didn’t believe that Jesus rose from the dead; therefore, anything Jesus had promised,
performed, or proclaimed before He died in His 33 years meant nothing and went to the grave
with Him.
To Saul, Jesus – the so-called Son of God, was a hoax, a fraud.
There were many in Saul’s day, just as there are today, who have been deceived by Satan into
believing this narrative.
Such a scheme has been used by the devil over and over again through
the ages from believing that Because Jesus Live they too could live.
This Resurrection Easter,
we will learn the meaning of that truth.
I realize that we are most familiar with the saying: Because He Lives, I Can Face Tomorrow;
but though that belief is true, it becomes more a reality in the believer’s life to know that
“Because He Lives, I Can Face Today!”
Yet, what would God have every man know about the real meaning behind: “Because He
Lives”?
From a psalmist’s standpoint – BHL is a song of encouragement that gives Believers a booster
shot of hope and determination.
God sent His son, they called Him, Jesus
He came to love, heal and forgive
He lived and died to buy my pardon
An empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives.
Because He lives, I can face tomorrow
Because He lives, all fear is gone
Because I know He holds the future
And life is worth the living
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Just because He lives.
Moreover, from a personal testimony perspective – the words BHL are intended to dispel all
fear, worry, and anxiety about the future; and to give hope that tomorrow will come.
It gives us
the courage that Jesus has already gone before us to take care of what’s next -- even tomorrow.
BHL, helps us to rise above our pain and the gloomy circumstances of the moment to that place
we are able to declare: This Too Will Pass, or Trouble Don’t and Won’t Last Always!
Nevertheless, BHL is not really about tomorrow or the future.
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