Luke 24:5-6 The women were terrified and bowed with their faces to the ground. Then the men asked, "Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive? 6 He isn't here! He is risen from the dead! Remember what he told you back in Galilee,
That same love's so wide (it'll take forever just to get 'round it)
But love died somewhere
Behind that cross you wear, you're afraid when you look at me
That ain't real love
Not the kind from above, hmm
But there's a friend of mine (that stays closer than a brother)
Oooh, love laid down his life (so why do we still fight one another?)
All this hate I see on the TV screen
In my country 'tis of thee
(God help us to love) to love the way that you love me
Hmmm, God help us to love the way that you love me, oh oh
This world is weeping, hurting, broken and begging for change
Oh yeah
But still we marching, praying, dying, and things stay the same
When will we see?
Till everyone's free
There'll never be peace between you and me
God, your love is the cure
For the rich and the poor
God, please will you open our eyes?
'Cause I want a love so high (that you cannot get over)
Ooh, I want a love so wide (it'll take forever just to get 'round it)
No, no, no, no, no
But it don't come cheap
It takes everything to make love more than a dream
God help us to love (God help us to love)
God help us to love (this world needs your love)
We need your love (what we need now is love)
Fill us with your love, Lord (unconditional love)
We need your love (rain down on us, your love)
Oh, we need your love (fill us please with your love)
God help me to love the way that you love me
God's Love Must Be Shared
2 Corinthians 5:14-15 Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. 15 He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.
1 Peter 4:8 Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Hebrews 6:10-11 For God is not unjust. He will not forget how hard you have worked for him and how you have shown your love to him by caring for other believers, as you still do. 11 Our great desire is that you will keep on loving others as long as life lasts, in order to make certain that what you hope for will come true.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
1 Peter 2:22-25 He never sinned, nor ever deceived anyone. 23 He did not retaliate when he was insulted, nor threaten revenge when he suffered. He left his case in the hands of God, who always judges fairly.
24 He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you are healed. 25 Once you were like sheep who wandered away. But now you have turned to your Shepherd, the Guardian of your souls.
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What does it mean that Jesus took our place? (gotquestions.org)
Until he was thirty when public opinion turned against him
He never wrote a book
He never held an office
He never went to college
He never visited a big city
He never traveled more than two hundred miles
From the place where he was born
He did none of the things
Usually associated with greatness
He had no credentials but himself
He was only thirty three
His friends ran away
One of them denied him
He was turned over to his enemies
And went through the mockery of a trial
He was nailed to a cross between two thieves
While dying, his executioners gambled for his clothing
The only property he had on earth
When he was dead
He was laid in a borrowed grave
Through the pity of a friend
Nineteen centuries have come and gone
And today Jesus is the central figure of the human race
And the leader of mankind's progress
All the armies that have ever marched
All the navies that have ever sailed
All the parliaments that have ever sat
All the kings that ever reigned put together
Have not affected the life of mankind on earth
As powerfully as that one solitary life
Dr. James Allan Francis 1926
Our world is a messed up place but it would be so much worse if it wasn't for the influence of this one solitary life. Before Jesus stepped into our world the evil, barbaric condition of mankind was so much worse, we think it is bad now but injustice and hate were at much higher levels in society before Jesus than we have today.
He didn't have a blog or social media, he didn't have a talk show or become a star in Hollywood and he certainly wasn't a politician but his influence on our world is huge. Maybe you have never considered how much different the world would be without him.
It makes me wonder why we spend so much time listening to the people that have any of those things going for them. The people that read the news to us or sing songs or play games in sports or politics are nobody special.
So many of them think that they have the answers and we need to hear what they are because they are special and they are enlightened. We allow these people to elevate themselves and pretend to be relevant to the latest social issues that the media is focusing on.
The problem with these enlightened people is they are here today and gone tomorrow and then they are replaced by a new group of enlightened people that are supposed to be more relevant than the previous ones. As Pastor Timothy Keller once said, todays wise people always think themselves to be wiser that the ones before the.
Wouldn't we be better off if we found out what this one man said and did?
He made some outrageous claims that should not be ignored because if they are true then we will be in serious trouble. God wants us to dig into his word so we can understand who Jesus is and what he has done for those that believe.
The same power that moves mountains when He speaks
The same power that can calm a raging sea
Lives in us, lives in us
He lives in us, lives in us
We have hope
That His promises are true
In His strength
There is nothing we can't do
Yes, we know
There are greater things in store
We will not be overtaken
We will not be overcome
Greater is He that is living in me
He's conquered our enemy
No power of darkness
No weapon prevails
We stand here in victory
Our Hope And Our Power
Ephesians 1:18-21 I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance.
19 I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power 20 that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms.
21 Now he is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else— not only in this world but also in the world to come.
The only requirement for this healing is belief in the healer.
Isaiah 53:4-5 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins!
5 But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.
A pandemic of epic proportions has been raging throughout the ages. There are a lot of different reactions to it, most of us will deny the seriousness of it, a lot of people will attempt to use protective equipment, and others will claim that they have found some medicine that will make it all go away but the problem continues to get worse.
The fake news tries to give us hope but because the disease is hereditary, we are all suffering under this condition, so a mask and gown and social distancing isn't useful. This sickness isn't a virus or bacteria so man made medicine will never give you relief.
The healing that we need requires greater wisdom and power than the best trained doctors can provide. Their schooling and textbooks aren't adequate for this world wide condition that threatens civilization.
The world is desperate for a cure but they are prejudiced against the only source of hope that we have. There isn't any reason to allow the infection to continue, the suffering and death needs to stop, but the bias against this doctor is incredibly strong.
1 Peter 2:24 He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you are healed.
Jesus is the great physician that can heal our greatest sickness and stop the devastating effects that sin has on our world. Doctor Jesus doesn't discriminate, he loves to make house calls to any neighborhood, he is willing to touch anybody and he works after hours.
He doesn't ask you to make promises to him or offer to change yourself, there isn't even a copay, it cost him everything but he takes great pleasure in giving it away.
Do you know the great doctor?
John 1:10-12 He came into the very world he created, but the world didn’t recognize him. 11 He came to his own people, and even they rejected him. 12 But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.
The only requirement for this healing is belief in the healer, but you don't need to believe without any evidence, his credentials are available in his best selling book. It is sad that so many people refuse to read his book and learn about him so they don't really know him.
Knowing about Jesus is very common but do you know Jesus? Has he healed you from the greatest sickness that you can possibly have? Find out more about Jesus.
Helpless sinners without hope have been given the ultimate hope, the powerful contagion called sin has lost its power, everyone that is healed will spend eternity with the healer.
