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We are Beginning Easter Week
Easter week is the most important week in the Christian Church because our lives and our faith are based on the fact that Jesus is alive.
Everything in Christianity rests on one single incident - the RESURRECTION of Jesus.
If Jesus were not raised from the dead, all of this is a waste of time… it’s false and it’s a mess.
We could leave now.
Everything in Christianity Rests on the Resurrection of Jesus
Jesus said, “I am the SOG.”
Then he said he would prove it by dying on the cross for our sins.
But there was one difference.
He said , “Im going to come back to life.”
No other religious leader has ever made that promise let alone kept it, but Jesus did and he was resurrected from the dead and is alive today.
After the resurrection he walked around Jerusalem for 40 days, was seen by many groups of people including one time when he was seen by over 500 at one time.
It turned Jerusalem upside down to where that church in about 20 years had 150,000 plus people following jesus.
Why? Becuase there were so many eye witnesses.
Palm Sunday
This is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week.
I want to encourage you to plan to invite FRAN to church next weekend.
People are more open to coming to church on Easter than any other time of the year.
So don’t waste Easter… invite them to church with you.
This is also a time when you can see various movies about the Crucifixion of Jesus.
Passion, Jesus of Nazareth, The Bible… As you look at the ministry of Jesus in the Bible and the movies about him, it raises a question...
Why did God Come to Earth as a Man?
Whey did God put all that effort into coming to earth as a man, living a sinless life, dying on a cross and then being resurrected afterward?
One Reason.
Jesus said he came to seek out and save those people who were lost.
A lot of people are offended by this term.
Amazing Grace says we were lost but now we are found… It’s not demeaning at all.
It’s actually a term of endearment.
LOST implies value
Lost Implies Value
Credit Card - If you lose it you will search and search to find it.
Wedding Ring - If you lose it, you don’t want to lose it because it’s valuable - you look for it.
It’s still worth what you paid for it, it’s just lost.
Job - That’s valuable and you would not want to lose it, you want o find another.
Child - If you lose a child, You don’t say you misplaced a child, you lost your child.
You would search high and low for that child.
So when we use the term lost, it means they have great value.
You misplace a pen, you lose something valuable.
Lost implies value.
What Does it Mean to Be Lost Spiritually?
Disconnected
Disconnected from God.
Deceived
Deceived by Satan… we fall for his lies.
We don’t see things correctly.
Detoured
Detoured from God’s Plan for my life.
God has a plan and purpose for your life… a path for you to walk on.
But we get off the path and take a detour and we miss God’s best for our lives.
We make bad decisions and others make bad decisions that impact us.
We have all gotten off the path that God has for us at times.
Defeated
Defeated by their own habits and sins… unable to change.
Lost people are defeated by their own impulses.
There are things in your life you would like to change but you can’t seem to make it happen.
Will power isn’t enough, we needs God’s Power!
When we are lost, we lose our way, we lose our freedom, we lose our dignity, we lose our confidence, we lose a lot of things… potential.
When we are disconnected from God, it causes all kinds of problems in our lives.
We lose relationships, health, happiness and on and on.
This is what it means to be lost, but it also means you are deeply loved because Jesus came on a Search and Rescue mission for YOU
Jesus came on a Search and Rescue Mission for those who are Lost
We want to look at some people Jesus restored what they had lost.
Jesus had the same goal with everyone he met with - to restore to them what they had lost.
Jesus went into every village teaching, preaching and healing…
1/3 of Jesus ministry was healthcare.
Jesus doesn’t just care for your soul, he cares about all of you.
No matter where you go in the world, you will find a hospital founded by Christian missionaries.
Most people don’t know that the church invented hospitals.
Jesus teaches us how to live.
He educates us how to live in this world.
Jesus preaches the way to heaven is through Him.
We are going to look at some that Jesus Delivered.
Jesus Came to Heal Those who’ve Lost their Health
Jesus healed a lot of people but we will look at one.
He is a leper that Jesus healed.
In Jesus day, lepers had it bad.
It was a terminal disease for which there was no cure… or hope of cure.
It carried a stigma and caused people to live as outcasts from society.
The people believed that people with leprosy were living under God’s judgement for something.
So the damage on the outside was evidence of the sin on the inside.
They could not live in public places or even go into public places.
Lepers had to walk around with torn clothes, messed up hair, and shout Unclean so that others would know they were coming.
This caused great heartache and hopelessness in the lives of those suffering from this disease.
If you touched a leper, you would then be considered unclean and separated from society.
Leviticus said that Lepers that had to live alone as long as they were infected.
The places of worship were in the city and since the lepers could not enter the city, the could not worship.
So in His mind, God was against them.
If Jesus touched him, he would also become unclean.
Jesus did the unthinkable, He touched an untouchable man.
When he did that only one of two things could happen.
Either Jesus would be unclean or the man would be healed.
Jesus reached out his hand and then said I am willing be healed.
Jesus touched him before he spoke to him.
We have to touch people before we can speak to them as well.
We have to show the weak, the sick and the outcast the love of Jesus before we can speak it.
Jesus told him, Be healed and all of a sudden this man was healed.
Years of sickness were gone.
Years of being an outcast were gone… He could go home and re-enter society.
Who are some of the untouchable people in our area?
and are we willing to touch them?
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