Easter: "God Will Make A Way”

Easter: “God Will Make A Way”

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As I was thinking about what to say on this day that we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, I remembered what the Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15:3-4.

“For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.” (1 Corinthians 15:3-4 NKJV)

Therefore, keeping with Paul’s admonition, this is what I’d like share with you today. Now, as a lot of you know, when I put together messages, I like to give you points of application as to how the Bible relates to our lives, and how it isn’t some old, irrelevant, and outdated book, but rather it’s a book, or better yet, a letter from the Lord God Himself that speaks to our time and to our lives.

But today, I want to take a different approach and share with you about this title, which I took from the song we sang in our time of worship, and that is, “God Will Make A Way.”

As we enter this time where we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, which the world calls Easter, we see this theme of God making a way for humanity in order to skip the fires of hell for the beauty of heaven.

And this overall theme and its conclusion is what I’d like to share with you this morning, also in keeping with what Paul said to the church in Rome. He said, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.” (Romans 15:4 NKJV)

God shows us through these examples written down in the Bible what He was and is going to do through His Son, Jesus Christ.

And so, through these stories and the teachings, God has revealed many things for our lives today, especially as it relates to what we are talking about in how God has made a way. And so, God has put all this down in writing to give us that full assurance that Jesus is our sacrifice, taking our place and dying the death we all deserve (Remember that the wages of sin is death), so that all who believe can be forgiven, where sin, death, hell, and Satan no longer have our souls in bondage, but instead we have been saved and set free, as Paul said, so that God’s gift of salvation and heaven can be ours.

The first and most dramatic way that God made is found in the story of Noah and the Ark.

Back in the time of Noah, humanity spurned God’s love and did great evil. They flaunted their freedom in the face of God, which is not so much different than what we see happening in the world today. In fact, the Bible talks about when the end of times comes, it will be like the days of Noah (Matthew 24:37-39; Luke 17:26-27).

Through Noah, God made a way for humanity not to get completely wiped off the face of the earth because of their great evil. You see, Noah remained faithful to God by keeping himself separated from the world’s wickedness.

God created humanity in His image and according to His likeness it says in Genesis 1:27. God did this so that He could have a special relationship with us. You could say that this image and likeness God created us in, is relational. In other words, God wants to have a relationship with us, and so He made a way for that to happen.

But sin entered the picture back with Adam and Eve, and because of it, God removed them from the Garden of Eden. And what is sad is that sin has now become a part of humanity’s DNA, where we no longer have that close and personal relationship with God because of it.

At the time of Noah, sin and wickedness had gotten out of hand. It had gotten so bad and so out of control that God’s heart was grieved. Humanity spoiled, beyond recognition, what God had created as being good and special.

So, God brought down His judgment. He was going to wash away what had become polluted, but not without first making a way for His creation to survive.

God made a way of escape from His judgment through Noah and the Ark God instructed him to build. God made a way through the great flood and delivered humanity.

“By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.” (Hebrews 11:7 NKJV)