To Know Him and Make Him Known
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God could snap His fingers and make us do whatever He wants, but instead He extends invitations to us and gives us the freedom to accept them or reject them. Join us this morning as we explore an invitation that God extended to Israel in Isaiah’s day, an invitation that is also open to us…
When God shows up in our lives, there are some very specific ways that He wants us to respond. Join us this morning as we prepare for Thanksgiving by exploring the proper reactions to “being saved and knowing it.”
The problem of spiritual death can’t be solved just by making Jesus’s death available to us; a process was needed to apply that provision to our experience. God’s process involved sending “preachers” to plant the seed of His good news in our hearts, prompting us to respond to what we hear in faith, and then…
Humanity has a huge problem – we are all spiritually dead people in need of rebirth. Ignoring this problem could have eternally devastating consequences. Praise God for providing a solution for this problem through the death of Christ!
When deciding the question of who Jesus really was, it’s tempting to want to stay neutral and put it off until later. Pontius Pilate’s story shows us that you can’t maintain that neutrality forever – at some point you will have to make a decision, and that decision will have eternal consequences.
Sermon Summary: Jesus targeted the bad leadership of the religious leaders of his day for their lack of courage, their resistance to revelation, their unwillingness to admit their mistakes, and their cynical pragmatism. He came to offer a new kind of leadership that Israel desperately needed.