- Mar 31, 2024Easter Series: Matthew 27 – The Greatest Miracle, Easter Sunday
Easter Series: Matthew 27 – The Greatest Miracle, Easter SundayThe Greatest Miracle - Matthew 27, Luke 15 (Title Slide)"He was cut off from the land of the living. For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. And they made His grave with the wicked, but with the rich at His death."THE CRUCIFIXION of JESUS is the GREATEST MIRACLE in the UNIVERSE Because Jesus is the One, True, Living God who created the universe. "All of us, like sheep, have strayed away (from God). We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD has laid on Him (Jesus) the sins of us all.""And the LORD passed before him (Moses) and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing the guilty.”Jesus was not a victim on the cross. He was a Savior on the cross. The Bible plainly says JESUS IS GOD (and it says it repeatedly) "He (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.""All things were made through Him (Jesus), and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it."'“I and My Father are one.” Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?” The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.”'We should not think it strange that God would come to us to save us One look at the world and IT SHOULD BE OBVIOUS WE CANNOT SAVE OURSELVES We need God. • We need divine forgiveness. • We need divine healing. • We need divine guidance. • Jesus came to give us all these things the parable of the PRODIGAL SON - Luke 15 Jesus taught this parable because HE WANTS SINNERS TO COME HOME TO HIMTHE GREATEST MIRACLE IN THE UNIVERSE IS THAT JESUS PAID IT ALL TO SAVE YOUVisit us at TheMissionChurch.net
- Mar 29, 2024Easter Series: It is Finished: Luke 22 – Good Friday
Easter Series: It is Finished: Luke 22 – Good Friday
It is Finished: Luke 22 - Good Friday. Why do we call the Friday Jesus was nailed to the cross "good?" It's difficult to fathom the thirty-six hour period Jesus went through, but Luke 22-23 provides incredible detail of His road to the cross. Beatings, illegal trials, scourging and cruel mocking all marked the night and early morning of Jesus' final day. Worst of all was that Jesus who knew no sin bore the sins of many and exchanged His life for the worst of sinners by enduring God's wrath against sin. Don't miss a powerful message from Pastor David Menard leading us to understand why Good Friday is more than just the day Jesus died on the cross!
"Then Pilate entered the Praetorium again, called Jesus, and said to Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered him, “Are you speaking for yourself about this, or did others tell you this concerning Me?” Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered You to me. What have You done?” Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.” Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no fault in Him at all.”
John 18:33–38 NKJV https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/jhn/18/33-38/s_1015033
When we fail to STAND FOR TRUTH WE DENY JESUS
JESUS IS SILENT if we come to Him with wrong motives
But He is full of grace to an honest heartTHREE HOURS OF DARKNESS upon the face of the earthTHE DIVINE EXECUTIONER UNLEASHED HIS WRATH NOT UPON SINNERS BUT UPON THE SIN BEARER
"For He made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."
2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/2co/5/21/s_1083021"In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins."
1 John 4:10 NKJV https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/1jo/4/10/s_1163010INTIMACY WITH THE HOLY GOD is now available TO ALL WHO ARE IN CHRISTCOMMUNION - Our salvation has been finishedVisit us at TheMissionChurch.net - Mar 24, 2024Easter Series: Matthew 21:1-17 – Jesus Cleanses the Temple
Easter Series: Matthew 21:1-17 – Jesus Cleanses the TempleWhat are Your EXPECTATIONS for King Jesus? The Temple was the DWELLING PLACE of God“'What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy—full of greed and self-indulgence! You blind Pharisee! First wash the inside of the cup and the dish, andthen the outside will become clean, too.'"
Our Hearts & Minds can easily become CROWDED
Jesus comes to CLEANSE YOU of Sin and CorruptionWhat does Jesus want to DRIVE OUT of your Heart to make room for Him?Jesus RESTORES His House to bring HEALING to the WHOLE PERSON "Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger."– Psalm 8:2 (NKJV) https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/psa/8/2/s_486002 An Indignant Heart Hinders You from worshiping Jesus with JOYFUL PRAISE! Have You Not Read? Jesus is The Messiah & He Desires All of Your HeartVisit us at TheMissionChurch.net
