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Introduction:
Alan Sinclair, who is the founder of Cryonics in the UK, does not want his death to be permanent.
In fact, after he dies, his blood will be flushed from his body and replaced with antifreeze.
The technicians will then cool the body with dry ice and fly it to his cryogenics center in Michigan.
Once they receive his body, they will freeze him at minus 320 degrees.
He will remain frozen until a cure for whatever killed him is found.
Once they find a cure;
Future technicians will thaw him out.
Thereby curing him of whatever killed him and Alan will exist alive on this earth once again.
As Christians, we are not like Alan.
While we can think that the research they do is cool or neat;
Our hope is not found in the advancements of future medicine.
Our hope as Christians is knowing that God, in the person of Christ Jesus will resurrect us.
We’ve no need to wait upon a cure from medicine;
The cure for what ails us as fallen humanity has already been taken care of.
Sin and death have both been defeated in the triumph of Jesus Christ!
Yet, though we as pastors should know and affirm this with all that we are.
Could we say that this is truly reflected in our preaching and our dependance upon Christ?
Do we preach to a lost and dying world like we truly believe this?
Do we preach to knowing that the God over all of creation, in all of His splendor will work.
Flesh and Blood Scenario:
Or do we preach as though we are like Thomas.
We walk alongside of Jesus, knowing what He says.
Listening to His Words in Scripture.
Yet still doubting the aspects of who He is?
It wasn’t the idea of a new year with new goals and purposes.
It wasn’t the fact that they would have the next couple days off.
Instead, they were rejoicing that the night before, at 11:59, their new bundle of joy entered into the world.
And as if the excitement of a new child wasn’t enough, their excitement was long overdue.
They had tried since they were married at the age of 18 to have a child, and for 22 years, they always fell short of their desires.
Yet it was not for a lack of trying.
They had multiple miscarriages and even one still born.
They had finally given up all hope that they would one day have a child.
At the age of forty they decided to shoot for adoption and they were halfway through the process when Amy found out she was pregnant.
They decided immediately to set this over into the hands of the Lord to see what He would do with it.
In a surprising way, Amy’s body carried the child just fine and she was able to finally bring the child she had always wanted into their home and their family.
Joe and Amy had many reasons to rejoice and praise God and that they did.
Yet the great and wonderful news of this newborn child didn’t stay happy for long.
About a week into his birth, his parents noticed that there was something off with their child.
They took him to the doctor who ran a myriad of tests, only to find out that he had Tetralogy of Fallow.
A rare heart disease where there is a combination of four defects within the heart.
A hole in the wall between the heart’s ventricles, a narrowed passage between the right ventricle and pulmonary artery, a shift connection of the aorta to the heart and a thickened muscle in the right ventricle.
This news for Joe and Amy was beyond depressing.
This meant that their newborn son wouldn’t live past a few weeks without a miracle.
Their newborn bundle of joy needed a new and without one, he wouldn’t live to see the next month.
Without their son receiving a new heart, all of their desires and hopes of finally having a family were going to be over.
To say that they were heartbroken is an understatement.
The first week went by and their Doctor did all that he could do to get their child on the Donor list.
At the same time, the Doctor knew the odds were stacked against the child and he prepared the parents for the worst.
With every passing moment, the anxiety of Amy and Joe grew to a place where it became unbearable.
They couldn’t sleep and they wouldn’t eat.
They spent all of their remaining time with their beloved son, desperately clinging to him in the precious little time that he had left.
One the very same day that their son hit his lowest peak on his health, a group of nurses burst through the door of the hospital room, quickly grabbing the young child without saying much at all.
The parents were confused and wondered what was taking place.
Amy cried out to one of the nurses begging to know where they were taking her son.
The nurse turned and proclaimed to Amy, “We’ve got your child a heart.”
The tears and moaning of celebration could be heard clear across the NICU as Amy and Joe praised God for his grace in the life of their son.
Today, it is by God’s grace that little Joe jr. is alive and well.
His parents still to this very day have a glowing light encompassing their appearance when they begin to talk about the grace of God in their sons life.
While for many of us, stories like this reach far beyond our scope of imagination, for Joe and Amy, this was their testimony of grace.
While most of us will prayerfully never encounter such horrendous hours of pain in the raising of our children, I can’t help but wonder if we know of this same grace from the Lord?
You see, just like Joe jr., each of us, both redeemed and unredeemed had a heart that was in desperate need of a transplant.
Each of us either were or currently are terminally ill due to a heart that sought after evil continually.
And my question for you is, have you truly been given a new heart?
Joe jr. is alive and well, progressing like every little child of his age which is a testimony to what the Doctors did in his life.
There is no question in the minds of those around him whether or not he has a new heart, his very presence speaks to the transformation in his life.
Do you have such an evidence and testimony in your own life?
Is your very presence here this morning proof that God has transplanted the heart of stone which you once had, and given you a heart of flesh?
Secure Interest:
My presumption is that if you’re in this room today as a follower of Christ;
A preacher of His Word;
We don’t do this with the lost and dying world.
We may do this inside our Churches and chaplain the people God has given us.
Scripture tells us that this man was a learned man with a very thorough knowledge of the Scriptures.
He had been taught much about Jesus and even had the ability to teach about Jesus.
Yet the heart transplant that he so desperately needed was not truly there.
We see this by way of imposition as he had never truly heard of the Messiah who had come.
But we don’t go out into the world with this message.
Instead, he was to teaching of a messiah who was to come.
We can see this from the text where in the very first part, he taught about the Messiah and in the latter part, Scripture says that he showed by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Messiah.
Instead of teaching about a Messiah, He taught about Jesus as being the fulfillment of the Messiah.
This for all purposes reveals to me a heart change where he went from a mere knowledge to a transformed heart.
Vital Personal Questions:
So the question I have for you this evening Pastor is this:
1. Do you truly believe that through your preaching, God will draw men unto Himself?
2. Is your preaching based on the truth of God’s Sovereign work in salvation?
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If so,
Crucial Assertions:
If you are anything like me, you find it easier to hunker down and quietly talk about Jesus than to proclaim it from the rooftops.
That as sad as this may be, many will live out their days never knowing of the grace of God which truly redeems.
You allow your fear and timidity to overrule you and because of that, the message of Christ is not going forward.
They hear messages about this Jesus and how change is possible, yet they have never been given the true assurance which reveals faith.
Determinative Difference:
If today, we would all look upon this text for what it says, we would be able to see how the Trinity is involved in every aspect of our proclamation of Christ Jesus.
Purpose:
My reason for choosing this text is for us to see that as the mouthpieces of God;
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