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Whatever your age--high school student or person of retirement age, early 50s or late 80s, you call it--the truth is that you CAN know God’s desires on a daily basis. Submit to the promptings of your experienced teacher, the Spirit of Jesus. Don’t resist him--or ignore him--or question him. Instead, when he makes his will known, obey instantly. Let this be a decisive new day in your ongoing relationship with the Lord. To personally experience the Passion, those final hours of Jesus’ life, ask to in time become the person your king intended, starting this very day. Whatever your testing, it will be nothing compared to what the Son of God was asked to do! In the time of quiet before I pray, tell the Lord that for the rest of this day it’s your choice to be taught by his Spirit. And if this turns out to be a good day, you want to continue the practice tomorrow and the next day until pleasing God is as natural to you as breathing out and breathing in. * All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (R). NIV (R). Copyright (C) 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright (C) 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.
Experience Everlasting Life David Mains In Southern Judah, during the reign and spiritual revival under King Hezekiah, the Northern Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrians. This same bunch of ruthless and arrogant invaders also attacked Jerusalem, the capitol city of the Southern tribes. You may recall reading in the Bible how the distressed king, Hezekiah, sent for the prophet Isaiah to see if he had “a word from the Lord.” Isaiah’s response was that he did. “‘Assyria will not enter the city, or shoot an arrow here. . . . I will defend this city and save it,’ says the Lord” (2 Kings 19:32, 34). And the next paragraph reads, “That night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death 185,000 men in the Assyrian ranks. So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew” (vv. 35–36). So on one hand in the north there’s humiliation and defeat, while in the south on the other hand there’s exaltation and victory. All through Isaiah there’s a balancing act going on like I’ve just illustrated between humiliation and exaltation. Balancing these two is also a part of my agenda for this morning. With all of its good qualities, the new Mel Gibson movie The Passion of Christ only reveals a day in the life of Jesus--the worst of days. That’s also true of the scripture quoted from Isaiah 53 at the start of the film, “He was pierced for our transgressions . . . “by his wounds we are healed” (v. 5). You see, Isaiah wrote in that chapter about the exaltation of our Lord as well as his humiliation. “I will give him the honors of one who is mighty and great, because he exposed himself to death,” reads Isaiah 53:12 (NLT). Reading that verse gives exposure to the opposite extreme. One value of Mel Gibson’s remarkable movie is that it reveals the darkness of the downside. Enduring the cross was not an easy assignment. The upside of
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Experiencing the Passion of Christ
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writes sermons that are tied closel
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Dr. Chuck Moore - Since 2001 Dr. Ch
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skeptics: "At the moment of Christ'
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heavens also dropped rain at the pr
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protected under the Constitution as
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Jesus Died for You - True or False?
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34:7). Divine wrath against sinCthe
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Of course, Christ's sacrifice is of
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double-minded, miserable, wretched,
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the full price of sin, and He now o
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guilty of all (cf. Jas 2:10). That
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Jesus is Alive - True or False? By
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So the resurrection is the linchpin
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Friends, nobody came down from a cr
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Jesus' body was laid to rest in a t
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doubters, to tough-minded people an
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Jesus Is the Son of God - True or F
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Even a skeptic like H.G. Wells admi
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he was crushed for our iniquities;
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Jesus once asked His disciples the
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soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to
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How to: Jesus began by asking God a
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Jesus Died for You - True or False?
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The Soldiers Mock Jesus 27 Then the
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Eye-witnesses Saw It Not only did J
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Jesus was crucified and buried, and
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to be baptized. His commands are su
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Is Pilate off the hook? Does he hav
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