It Can Happen: Nothing Is Impossible With God

It was impossible. We weren't inconvenienced. Sin didn't just make it to where we had to try hard to be good. It was a spiritual impossibility for us to live, but God, and his rich mercy and his great love for us made us alive in Christ. Because of God, we're spoke for life always. Because of his great mercy and his love, it can happen. The world has a way of of beating that childlike imagination and hopelessness out of us, those hopeful expectations. But through God and his love and his mercy, which he has sown to us in his son, Jesus, it can happen. [00:28:19] (51 seconds)  #AliveInChrist

Have you felt sidelined in life, feeling like hope and joy has passed you by that's maybe something reserved for other people. My friend, it can happen because God can make it happen. Have you wondered if an all knowing, all powerful God could could truly love you, could truly bring you to life after a life of sin? My friend, it can happen because God can make it happen. Have you struggled praying for that family member, that friend, that the Lord would move powerfully in their life and and rescue them out of the death of sin and raise them to new life? My friend, it can happen because God can make it happen. [00:29:10] (51 seconds)  #RescuedAndLoved

But are we really better off from losing that childlike enthusiasm and and imagination and and hopefulness about the world where we say, oh, I'm just gonna be realistic about all this. Don't extraordinary and miraculous things still happen? Aren't we right to still believe that those things can still happen? We wanna answer that question this morning with a resounding yes. The extraordinary can still happen. Amazing things can still happen. The miraculous can still happen, but not because we make it happen. [00:01:43] (46 seconds)  #MiraclesStillHappen

That's the the caveat this morning. It's not because we work really hard to make it happen. This isn't gonna be an an American dream type of sermon where if you want it, go out and get it, and you can make it happen. It's not gonna be any of that. But whatever that hope and whatever that expectation is in your life, especially when it comes to the spiritual, It can happen because when God speaks, impossibilities become reality. Impossibilities become certainties. It can happen if God wills it to act. So [00:02:29] (44 seconds)  #ImpossibilitiesMadePossible

And to Sarah, the custom as to women had ceased. And so do you see it? Do you see what the the text is actually saying about Sarah? I won't be sensitive here, but, basically, it's saying that Sarah was postmenopausal, that you didn't think that was in the body. But it is Sarah, the text is is saying, it it wasn't just difficult for her to have a child. They weren't just having a hard time in their old age having a child. It was biologically impossible for Sarah to have a child, and yet she's being told in a year's time, you will have a son. [00:24:05] (48 seconds)  #PromiseBeyondBiology

And so Paul's saying that that sin isn't just an inconvenience for us. Sin doesn't just inconvenience us and and and make life harder. Sin doesn't just make life more difficult, and, man, if we try really hard, then we can overcome it. Yey. No lust. Right? That's not what scripture says. Scripture says that that we're dead in our sin. Paul says we were dead in our trespasses and our sins. Apart from Jesus Christ, it is a spiritual impossibility to live. [00:26:59] (38 seconds)  #SinIsSpiritualDeath

Much like with Sarah, it was a biological impossibility for her to have a child. Apart from Jesus Christ, it is a spiritual impossibility for us to live. But Paul goes on. He says, but God but God who is rich in mercy, It's always what you least expect. Because of his great love that he had for us, made us alive with Christ. Even though we were dead in our trespasses, we were saved by grace. [00:27:37] (42 seconds)  #MadeAliveByMercy

Sarah says of her and Abraham. She lumps Abraham into all that too. She says, look at us. We're old. We're worn out. We're tired. Surely, this cannot be for us. Will there be a chance of joy for us? I think one of the great ironies of the Bible has to do with really this situation and the name of their future son, Isaac. The name Isaac, it means he laughs. And so there would forever be this reminder to Abraham and Sarah, maybe especially to Sarah, that there'd always be joy on the table for them. [00:13:17] (46 seconds)  #LaughterAndPromise