Renewal and Hope: The Transformative Power of Easter
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We need good news. We need good news, new news in a sense that's worth living for and worth building a life upon. [00:06:51] (11 seconds)
And that during the Black Plague in Alexandria in the 1300s, when nearly everyone else fled the city to escape the disease, the early Christians risked their lives for one another by simple deeds of washing the sick, offering food and water, and consoling the dying. They risked their lives to stay in the city full of hope and full of peace, to care for those that nobody else would care for, and something that had turned the world upside down. [00:09:21] (30 seconds)
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that everyone who believes in him will not perish, perish, but have eternal life. [00:12:18] (18 seconds)
This is actually part of the power of the message of Jesus, is that God came down in Jesus Christ, fully God, fully man, and he walked among people and encountered brokenness over and over again. See, God sees your life. He sees our world. His heart breaks, and he desires to renew it, and to fix it, and to change it. God so loves the world. [00:13:24] (28 seconds)
And Jesus says, Does not the shepherd leave the 99 to go after the one? See, what that parable shows us and teaches us is that God doesn't just love the whole world, but the reason he loves the whole world is because his love is consumed by each individual person in the world. [00:15:34] (25 seconds)
That's why he leaves 99 to get the one. The one who wanders away from the flock and the fold, he would actually go after them. He wouldn't look at the 99 and just say, Well, I still have enough sheep. Instead, he sees the one, and he so loves the world that he would pursue them and love them. [00:15:59] (20 seconds)
See, the power of this is I re-center my life when I want to build something that's got sure-footed so my soul is consistent, is I re-center on a message that knows that the creator of the entire world loves and cares for me with every large, medium, and small detail of my life. [00:16:53] (25 seconds)
So when I choose to pray, whether you're a praying person or not, I would invite you to become one, is I pray to God knowing that he's not too big for my problems, he's not too big for my life, that he detailed cares about every little thing. You know, the Bible says that he has every hair on your head numbered, every hair. [00:17:41] (25 seconds)
Heaven, in a sense, volunteers. Jesus, God the Son, volunteers to give his life, to take on death and instead take on sin on himself on the cross, to take every punishment that we deserve, every wrongdoing, every brokenness, to face that for us to die. Because the wage of sin is death, according to the word, according to God. [00:23:13] (27 seconds)
He takes the punishment for those evil on himself. Why? So that those who want can experience forgiveness for their wrong, but also a freeing and a healing spiritually from the disease that permeates the world called sin. [00:23:56] (19 seconds)
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And that during the Black Plague in Alexandria in the 1300s, when nearly everyone else fled the city to escape the disease, the early Christians risked their lives for one another by simple deeds of washing the sick, offering food and water, and consoling the dying. They risked their lives to stay in the city full of hope and full of peace, to care for those that nobody else would care for, and something that had turned the world upside down. [00:09:21] (30 seconds)
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that everyone who believes in him will not perish, perish, but have eternal life. [00:12:18] (18 seconds)
This is actually part of the power of the message of Jesus, is that God came down in Jesus Christ, fully God, fully man, and he walked among people and encountered brokenness over and over again. See, God sees your life. He sees our world. His heart breaks, and he desires to renew it, and to fix it, and to change it. God so loves the world. [00:13:24] (28 seconds)
And Jesus says, Does not the shepherd leave the 99 to go after the one? See, what that parable shows us and teaches us is that God doesn't just love the whole world, but the reason he loves the whole world is because his love is consumed by each individual person in the world. [00:15:34] (25 seconds)
That's why he leaves 99 to get the one. The one who wanders away from the flock and the fold, he would actually go after them. He wouldn't look at the 99 and just say, Well, I still have enough sheep. Instead, he sees the one, and he so loves the world that he would pursue them and love them. [00:15:59] (20 seconds)
See, the power of this is I re-center my life when I want to build something that's got sure-footed so my soul is consistent, is I re-center on a message that knows that the creator of the entire world loves and cares for me with every large, medium, and small detail of my life. [00:16:53] (25 seconds)
So when I choose to pray, whether you're a praying person or not, I would invite you to become one, is I pray to God knowing that he's not too big for my problems, he's not too big for my life, that he detailed cares about every little thing. You know, the Bible says that he has every hair on your head numbered, every hair. [00:17:41] (25 seconds)
Heaven, in a sense, volunteers. Jesus, God the Son, volunteers to give his life, to take on death and instead take on sin on himself on the cross, to take every punishment that we deserve, every wrongdoing, every brokenness, to face that for us to die. Because the wage of sin is death, according to the word, according to God. [00:23:13] (27 seconds)
He takes the punishment for those evil on himself. Why? So that those who want can experience forgiveness for their wrong, but also a freeing and a healing spiritually from the disease that permeates the world called sin. [00:23:56] (19 seconds)
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