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Sermon on Romans 8:18-25
Title: Groan
Theme: Jesus is the savior of all the created order.
Goal: to encourage Christians that Jesus is the savior of the entire created order.
Need: Personal salvation has become so important that we don’t think much of anything else.
Sermon Outline:
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Introduction
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Jesus means Joshua means Savior
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Jesus Saves me from Sins
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Jesus Saves us from Sin
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Jesus Saves all creation from Sin’s curse
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Conclusion- Jesus means savior.
Of me.
Of us.
Of all.
Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
What exactly are you doing here?
Why did you come to church this morning?
Is it because someone invited you?
Is it because you felt like it was about time to get back to church again?
Great! Did you make your way to church this morning to worship? Yes.
And I hope you came to church this morning because you want to get to know Jesus even better, and be amazed at how much really happened in that moment when Jesus came into the world.
Why is it hard for us to be amazed at Jesus?
Is it because we hear so much about him?
Is it because we have been doing this church thing for long enough?
Is it because we really aren’t so sure about him?
Could it be that we just need to be challenged again to think about how incredible baby Jesus really is?
*Throughout advent Pastor Jake and I have been challenging all of us be amazed at Jesus again.
To really get to know him.
To let it settle into your minds and your hearts about just how earth shaking, life changing, and mind blowing Jesus really is.*
If you have been here for the last several weeks, I want you to let these ideas wash over you again.
Jesus is I AM, God himself in a baby and a grown man.
Jesus is MAN, our brother who has gone through life and trials just like us.
God is a brother to us and walks along side us in everything.
God is Messiah, or the earth shaker, who came to help anyone who is broken and torn up and ready to be finished.
He came especially for the people ignored in the world.
Poor.
Sick.
Hurting.
He came to change the world, one insignificant person at a time.
*Today, the focus of our amazement is on how Jesus is the Savior.*
When I was a little kid, my mom had this interesting decoration.
It was handmade by one of her uncles.
For the life of me I couldn’t figure out what in the world it meant.
To me it looked like a thin piece of dark wood with some random lighter colored wood glued on in random patterns.
That was probably one of the first, “ah ha” moments I ever remember having.
You see after not really getting it for a long time, I finally asked one of my older brothers about it.
They showed me that instead of looking at the lighter colored wood glued on, I had to look at the dark spaces behind it.
And sure enough, just by changing what I had to focus on, it stood out to me. *In the negative spaces were the letters JESUS SAVES.
Jesus Saves it said.*
After that I started to notice the same decoration at lots of peoples houses.
And then I noticed that saying was showing up on bumper stickers and on needlepoints.
All over the place.
That phrase was all over the place so much that it almost lost its meaning.
It became kind of cliché.
Jesus saves.
Jesus saves.
Jesus Saves.
Whoopty-do.
*When “Jesus saves” loses its really meaning everything loses its real meaning.
Think about that.
If Jesus saves and that gives us reason for living, then if that salvation loses its meaning, then we are right back to a pointless existence again aren’t we?* Anyone here really enjoy a pointless existence?
No.
Well then, let’s think about Jesus Saves for real.
*The first thing we ought to realize with Jesus Saves is that to a Jewish person, that would be very redundant.*
Last week we looked at how the title Christ, means Messiah which means anointed one.
Jesus means the same as Joshua.
They are the same name just one is Hebrew and the other is Greek.
Joshua, Jesus.
They mean Savior, or saves.
*Jesus saves.
Its really double talk.
Saves Saves.*
But hopefully that helps us remember what Jesus was all about.
*Jesus saves.
That is the simple message of Christmas time, and the simple message of Scripture*.
Jesus came to earth to save you.
The baby in the manger didn’t come for some far off nation from some far off time.
The baby Jesus came to save you from your sins.
He lived his life to save you from your sins.
He didn’t hide from dying on the cross.
Why?
*Because he was ready to save you.*
That’s what is at the heart of *John 3:16 which we heard in our advent lighting for today isn’t it?
John 3:18, two verses later says, 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.g [1] *
Those are harsh words for the simple reality.
Believing in Jesus makes a person part of his salvation.
When you stop to think about it, and when you come to believe that Jesus SAVED YOU! Then you shouldn’t doubt any more about it.
Jesus is saving you for a life much better than this one.
Eternal life with him.
What’s holding you back from accepting that Jesus saves.
And Jesus saved YOU? Think about that over this Christmas.
Maybe as you see pictures of the baby Jesus or hear talk about his coming to earth, you might see Jesus looking at you and showing that he came to save you?
*Another result of Jesus Saves becoming a cliché is that the phrase becomes so familiar that we forget how many more layers there are to Jesus saving than just coming for ME.*
It is important that we all accept Christ personally.
No one can except eternal life on your behalf.
But to look at baby Jesus and think that he came just for ME.
Even saying it sounds a little bit cocky doesn’t it?
God became man because he loves ME!
*Well, remember what it said in John 3:16.
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