Easter At Mosaic

God could have sent Jesus to condemn us and wipe us out if he chose to, but that's not what why Jesus came. God sent Jesus because he loved you too much, and he wanted to rescue you from your sinful condition, to rescue you from this corrupt and evil life that we live in. If there was anything that we could have done to save ourselves, guess what? We wouldn't have been able to do it anyway, and there was nothing we could have done. There's no there's not another person in this world who could save us because every single one of us are in the same boat that is sinking. [00:51:56] (34 seconds)

Saved. I want you to think about that for a moment. Saved. What does that word mean? Saved, rescued. That means we had no ability on our own to rescue ourselves, we need someone to come down and save me. I need someone to come and rescue me, to do what I can't do for myself. If we declare openly that Jesus is Lord and believe in our heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. [00:55:39] (26 seconds)

Amen. He broke through. Three days later, that grave couldn't hold him any longer. Three days later, it seemed that had been a loss to darkness but he broke through in life, in victory, in light. Three days later, Jesus forever broke the grips of sin and death and the sting of death and we get to celebrate today. We get to celebrate today that hope we have in Christ. For all who had come to Jesus, placing their faith in him, receiving him as Lord and savior, they too will stand in victory because Jesus stands in victory. Amen. [00:56:42] (33 seconds)

Absolutely nothing. So what I want you to know this morning is love, and that's why we're here today is we have hope because of love. It is because of love that we have hope. It is because of love that we can experience peace. It is because of love that we can have joy in face of whatever circumstances we ever face. Not only that love, but it's the greatest love that humankind has ever known. The love of God, our creator demonstrated through the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. [00:34:00] (29 seconds)

We live in a world where people fail us, even the people that we love the most. I I make mistakes, I I mess up, I fail people, But you know what? God will never fail us. His love will never change. It's not based on how good I am or how faithful I am to him. He is always faithful to me. If God wanted to withhold his love because of our sinfulness and unworthiness or anything else we have done or hadn't done, he could have done it and he had the right to do it, but that's not what he did, is it? He didn't. He sent Jesus to die on the cross. [00:51:01] (37 seconds)

A wage is something we earn, something we deserve, and so it's paid for based on what we deserve and what we've earned. He's saying because of our sin, the wages, what we deserve is eternal punishment. This is not talking about physical death. Of course, we're all gonna physically die, hopefully later than sooner. Right? But this is talking about a different kind of death. This is a spiritual death. This means we were created to be with God in a relationship, and to be ripped apart from that is death. It's spiritual death. [00:46:31] (30 seconds)

Saved from sin, saved from death, saved from eternal separation from God in a place called hell. God sent Jesus to save us, to rescue us from our simple condition, and that salvation is not based on anything we have done, anything that we could have done. It's based upon God's mercy. It's based upon on what the salvation that God's provided through Jesus Christ. It's because of that grace that we're able to be reunited with God in a right relationship, and it's because of Jesus that he went to the cross, that he was buried, and that he didn't stay in that grave, but three days later, he broke out. [00:56:04] (38 seconds)

And not only in this life are we separated from God, but because God is, we call we we say God's in heaven and we can't be in God's present because of our sin, therefore we have to be separated, can't go to heaven, there's only one other place to be, and that is hell. Now, hell is a real place. We're deserving of hell. God doesn't want us to go to hell. He wants to rescue us from that and bring us back into that right relationship. [00:47:01] (27 seconds)