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Come Alive: The Power to Change Your Life
Easter Sunday:
Easter Sunday:
Good Morning and Welcome to the most wonderful celebration of the year.
Today we celebrate together the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
More than two thousand years ago, God’s plan of redemption altered the world forever.
The power of sin and death was broken through the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ that first Easter.
Death was defeated.
True life, spiritual life, God’s life triumphed.
Today we celebrate!
Jesus is alive, and through His resurrection, we come alive to His power to change our lives and to transform each one of us into a new creation.
You may be thinking, “I don’t know if I have the power to change.”
“I just don’t know if I have the power to change my attitude or my outlook on life.”
Or, “I don’t know if I have the strength to continue on in this marriage.”
Or, “I don’t know if I have the ability to break this addiction.”
Or, “I don’t know if I can truly forgive this person who has hurt me.”
Or, “I don’t have the power to love my enemies.”
“I don’t know if I have the power to live the life Jesus is calling me to live; I don’t know if I have the power to change my life.”
The good news today is that you don’t have the power to change and transform your life, to become a new creation, to live the life Jesus is calling you to live.
That’s why we need a Savior!
And that’s the good news of Easter!
You may be wondering, “How in the world is that good news?”
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth in the flesh to live among us, to show us how to live.
He then took our sins upon Himself and died for them on a cross, defeating the power that sin and death had over us by raising from the dead three days later!
And as a result of the resurrection, every person who has received Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior now has the power of God within them, not only to change their life but to live a victorious, abundant life.
That’s what Easter is all about!
In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul, a man who actually persecuted Christians and then experienced a radical life change through an encounter with Jesus, knew that his life depended on Jesus and the power of the resurrection.
Listen to what he said:
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That was the goal of Paul’s life—to know Jesus and to know the power of His resurrection in his everyday life.
Paul’s ability to get through every day was dependent on Jesus and His power living through him.
That was the goal of Paul’s life—to know Jesus and to know the power of His resurrection in his everyday life.
Paul’s ability to get through every day was dependent on Jesus and His power living through him.
And Paul wanted this same thing so badly for his friends as well.
Listen to how he prayed for his friends in the church of Ephesus:
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Think about this!
The same power that raised Jesus from the dead and now gives Him the ability and authority to rule over the universe is available to you and me.
Think about this!
The same power that raised Jesus from the dead and now gives Him the ability and authority to rule over the universe is available to you and me.
And the Apostle Paul said, “I want to know it!
Give me a piece of that!
It’s my goal in life to know Christ and to know the power of His resurrection.”
And he prayed that we would know it as well.
And the Apostle Paul said, “I want to know it!
Give me a piece of that!
It’s my goal in life to know Christ and to know the power of His resurrection.”
And he prayed that we would know it as well.
The good news of Easter is that Jesus Christ not only died for your sins and offers you forgiveness today, but that same power that raised Him from the dead two thousand years ago is available to change your life right now.
What Is Resurrection Power?
It’s the Power to Cancel Out Your Past, Present, and Future Sins
So many people walk through life carrying around the weight and burden of their past failures, their past mistakes, and their past sins.
They become overwhelmed by regret over the past.
When I say “cancel out your past,” I’m not talking about denying it or saying it never happened.
Cancel means to eliminate, to remove, or to delete.
Have you ever gotten halfway through a project and thought, this is right.
I can work with wood, but and artist I am not.
I can remember working on this drawing in middle school art class, the more I drew the worse it got.
I just need to start over with a clean piece of paper.
A lot of people feel that way about life.
“I just wish that I could start over.
I’ve made so many mistakes.
There are so many failures, problems, and bad decisions.
I just wish I could hit the delete button and start over.”
Some people can’t seem to let go of their past, and as a result they let their past control their present and dictate their future.
They live in a constant state of regret.
They continually second-guess themselves because they’re tortured by painful memories.
God says, “That’s unnecessary.
You don’t have to walk around with a heavy load of guilt, old hurts, and painful memories.”
How can that be?
Listen for a moment to what has happened as a result of the death and the resurrection of Jesus.
Paul said,
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Let me say that again: Christ has done away with the record of charges against you by nailing it to the cross.
Let me say that again: Christ has done away with the record of charges against you by nailing it to the cross.
This verse says, “He forgave all our sins.”
What is sin?
Sin is an archery term.
It is bows and arrows.
Sin doesn’t just mean to shoot and miss the target with our lives; it means to turn our backs and shoot in every direction except for the target.
We completely ignore the true target of pleasing God with our lives, and we set our sights on seductive targets that don’t save us or satisfy us; they actually make us feel miserable and empty.
Here’s the good news: God offers complete forgiveness.
He says that He cancels every record of the charges against us and He forgives them all.
The words that God uses in the Bible to describe how He forgives us are words like “blot out,” “wipe out,” “washed away,” “canceled.”
That means our sins are not only forgiven, but they are forgotten.
That doesn’t mean Jesus doesn’t know the sins that you have committed.
It just means He didn’t come to rub them in; He came to rub them out.
He didn’t come to condemn you; He came to change you by saving you from your sins.
John told us,
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Do you remember Etch A Sketch.
You drew something with the knobs, and when you messed up, what did you do?
You flipped it over and shook it to wipe the slate clean, and then you started over.
One of my favorite toys growing up was an Etch A Sketch.
You drew something with the knobs, and when you messed up, what did you do?
You flipped it over and shook it to wipe the slate clean, and then you started over.
The Bible says that God has the ability—because of the sacrifice of Jesus, His death and resurrection—to take all of the messes and sins and regrets in your life and wipe them clean.
That happens at the moment we trust Him alone to be our Savior.
But it gets even better than that.
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