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#270 Wonderful Words of Life
Holy is Our God
#435 What A Friend We Have in Jesus
Word of God - Hebrews 2:9-18 [Mary Brooks]
Message: “Born for a Purpose”
It’s hard to believe that we are only a week and a half from the beginning of the Easter season
Ash Wednesday is March 2 which begins our journey toward the gift of the empty tomb
This is a FAR more important time of year than Christmas
Because, it is the empty tomb that give us proof of the promises of God
That there absolutely is a RISEN Christ
I encourage everyone to join us for special services of Lent in order to fain in understanding
Ash Wednesday
Holy Week
Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter
Maundy Thursday, the Thursday before Easter
Easter Sunday we have the SonRise service at 7am and the regular service at 10:30
As you might have guessed, the fact that Jesus was “Born for a Purpose” folds very well into the coming celebration of Resurrection Sunday
I don’t want to get ahead of myself, so let’s talk about “Born for a Purpose”
We began our core text today with the same verse we ended with last week, Hebrews 2:9
I want you to hold on to this as we go through the passage today
The suffering and death of Jesus was a gift to us
A gift freely given by the grace of God
and the purpose of all this has to do EACH one of us
Many of us have heard, or said, “A loving God would NEVER let this or that happen”
A community wiped out in a earthquake or flood
Someone who dies before their time”
Or a child who dies a painful death
Clearly God has person experience with these
God has “been there, done that”
Takeaways
1. God Knows the Purpose
For each tragedy, there is a purpose
I have never seen the community around New Braunfels any stronger than after a disaster
When the floods came and people came out of the woodwork
Bringing by sandwiches
Helping to scrub the mud and kill the mold
Knocking down sheet rock and rewiring houses
Help came from and went to the wealthy neighborhoods JUST LIKE it went to and from the struggling
In those times we instinctively “come along side” those in need
Isn’t that what God did by sending Jesus to “come along side us”?
Leaving the heavenly realm to walk with mere humans
Even having to experience watching His Son, Jesus, die a painful death on the cross
In fact, let’s look at Hebrews 2:10 again
God the Father could have done this any way He wanted
but God ALWAYS follows His Word and the prophecy told the story of exactly how Jesus would come an die
It’s foreshadowing of what is to come, right?
The suffering Jesus went through was NOT the purpose of Jesus’ life
But suffering was a required component of life standing between Jesus and the purpose for which He was born
Takeaways
1. God Knows the Purpose
2. Trials Can Lead to Good
I know, if YOU were god, there would be no trials
No bad medical diagnosis
No financial crisis
Children would never cry
My favorite book is the book of James
it’s short, easy to understand and by living those principles you will get MUCH closer to God
Look at the great reminder in James 1:2-4
We will all have trials and we will be tested
Greater than all the pain of the crisis is our response to problems
I often counsel that we need to RESPOND to problems, not react to them
Remember that “react” is what your body does if you are allergic to something
It’s a negative when I react to peanuts
It might even be deadly
Once you know more, then you can RESPOND
I respond to the fact that I am allergic to peanuts by avoiding them
I carry an Epi-pen
I know what to do if something happens
which is a result of learning and training
And it is your reading and understanding God’s Word
That allows you to go from being tested to becoming perfected
As Hebrews 2:10 reminded us
Even Jesus was perfected by suffering
If suffering was good enough for Jesus
Why should we expect anything else?
Even more importantly is how we see ourselves in Hebrews 2:11
This is one of those times when I believe we must truly approach the text more academically
We must understand what the words mean in context and in that time
The word that is often misunderstood or overlooked is Greek word (hagiazō)
We read that word as “sanctified”
Lexham Theological Wordbook (ἁγιάζω)
ἁγιάζω (hagiazō).
vb.
To consecrate, to make holy, sanctify, hallow, treat as holy.
Describes the divine act of setting aside as sacred.
Can also refer to a human attitude of reverence shown to divine things.
We are to allow ourselves to be made holy by the touch of Jesus
We are to be “set aside” from our OLD self and become a new and sacred being
To show reverence to God always
Becoming holy and Brothers and Sisters in Christ
Takeaways
1. God Knows the Purpose
2. Trials Can Lead to Good
3. Jesus is the Source of Our Holiness
Part of Jesus’ purpose was, and is, to be our source of Holiness
But, Jesus was not the ONE source alone,
No, God the Father was and is the source for Jesus
Just as Jesus is now the source for us
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