The Redeemer We Need | Pastor Joel King

You don't need directions. You don't need advice. You need light. Now imagine, if you would in this scenario, the light doesn't doesn't just shine from a distance. Because even if it when that happens, right, you can trip over a bunch of things right in front of you, but it actually steps into the darkness right next to you. That's Jesus. That's the light. It didn't stay far away. The light came near. [00:31:02] (31 seconds)  #LightCameNear

But here we have the divine human who is sinless. His blood is shed. Woah. That could take care of my sin. That he can stand in my place. He can make that payment that we were talking about last week. That means that Jesus absorbed the wrath of God against sin. He doesn't ignore it, and that's very important. He doesn't explain it away. Oh, it's not their fault. He takes it upon himself. He takes it upon himself. [00:22:00] (36 seconds)  #ChristPaidItAll

He is divine. He wasn't only with, but he was God. And just to be clear then, verse three tells us what he did that only God can do. All things were made through him. Through him, the word. Jesus is not created. Jesus is the creator. He created everything. He has the authority. He is distinct. He is defined, and he has authority. Everything that exists, including your life, your breath, your story comes from him. [00:07:56] (35 seconds)  #JesusTheCreator

I want you to notice there that it the word the idea is the idea of receive. Those who receive. Not those who earn, not those who achieve, not those who fix themselves, but those who receive him. And then the result of receiving him, right, is that they that he gives them the right to become children of God. Not improved people, not religious people, children of God. In other word, adopted sons and daughters. [00:16:59] (34 seconds)  #ChildrenOfGod

In summary, it's fundamentally different because it's done. What what it's saying is what you cannot do, Jesus did. Now the Holy Spirit enters your life. We're gonna talk about the Holy Spirit later on in this in this series, and it empowers you to begin to do things. But but the whole of the of the meaning, everything is focused not on that do. That's the result of what was done. That's the main message. The done, not the do. [00:27:17] (30 seconds)  #FinishedWork

You can empathize with each other, but it's hard to help. But here's Jesus who empathizes but also knows the way that we can overcome. So when you struggle, you're not praying to someone who simply says, ah, just try harder. Be like me. But you're coming to someone who says, I know, and I will help you, and I can help you. He understands us, our temptation, our weakness, our pain. [00:24:27] (27 seconds)  #EmpatheticSavior

If you're sitting here today and you're and you're and you're deep down and going, I don't deserve forgiveness, I would say welcome to the club. Nobody here, including the pastor, is here because we deserve forgiveness. I finally got it together. We are we are here because Jesus did something for us that we could not do for ourselves. He paid that price. [00:22:36] (27 seconds)  #NotDeservingGrace

So what this says is the true light was coming into the world, and how does the world respond? Well, it says he was in the world that though they didn't recognize him, it says he came to his own, which were which were religious folks, folks who grew up with the Hebrew scriptures and believed them and followed him, but they did not receive him. The world is not neutral. It is hostile to God. [00:14:10] (27 seconds)  #RejectedByTheWorld