Because Of HIM
(Revelation 1:5-7)
(Salvation, Will)
(Topical)
Intro:
Judas is dead. Pilate wishes he was.
The Cross has been taken down… The empty tomb is. Still empty.
Now what? What has this last 4 weeks accompolished.
As a third-century man was anticipating death, he penned these last words to a friend: “It’s a bad world, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy, which is a thousand times better than any pleasure of our sinful life.
They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people are the Christians—and I am one of them.”
There is joy beyond comparison in being a Christian. Henry Ward Beecher once said, "The strength and the happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too."
If you are a Christian, then you know the joy that I am speaking of, however, if you are not a Christian, you are missing out on the joy of life. Become a Christian this morning, and experience not only the forgiveness of your sins, but also the joy that accompanies ..
And it si all because of Him…. And lt me tel you what you have Because of him
Because of Him…
1.) I Have Peace With God
Veerse 5-6
It says to "Him who loves us”
In my encounters with people that do not know the Lord. I realize I hav to get some of them lost before I can get them saved. And one of my questions is are you an enemy of God?
Most will say, "of course not, I just don’t have to go to church to belived in God.."
Then I ask them if they like what the world ha to offer ?
Then I let them know that those who are not in love with Jesus are his enemies.
Then I quote Romans 5:8-10
See friends you cannot have peace from God is you have nevr accepted his love for you.
Peace is an offsprinmg of his love…
The Bible says that the wrath of God burns against all wickedness and evil and sin.
But it was the love of God that took his wrath out on his son.. it was beucuase of Him you have peace.
Alvin Straight, age seventy-three, lived in Laurens, Iowa. His brother, age eighty, lived several hundred miles away in Blue River, Wisconsin.
According to the Associated Press, Alvin’s brother had suffered a stroke, and Alvin wanted to see him, but he had a transportation problem.
He didn’t have a driver’s license because his eyesight was bad and he apparently had an aversion to taking a plane, train, or bus.
But Alvin didn’t let that stop him. In 1994 he climbed aboard his 1966 John Deere tractor lawn mower and drove it all the way to Blue River, Wisconsin.
We didn go after God.. He took the long journey of descended the stars to come and die for us to give us peace.
Col 1:21 says “ once you were alienated from God and were enemies because of your evil behavior., but now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death."
Phillipians goes on to say that Christians have a peace that surpasses all understanding”
Horatio Spafford, a businessman in Chicago, sent his wife and three daughters to Europe by ship while he remained back in the States, intending to join them later.
En route there was a terrible storm and a shipwreck during which their three daughters drowned. Mrs. Spafford made it to safety and wired back saying, "All of our daughters have been lost. Only I have been saved."
He took the next vessel. As they came near the place where his daughters drowned, the skipper of the ship pointed to the place where the other ship had gone down. It was there on the deck of the ship he wrote these stirring words:
When peace like a river attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
"It is well, it is well with my soul."
Becucse of Him we have peace and secondly because of Him
2.) I have Pardon From God
Verse 5
Fred us from our sins is our pardon. forgivenes
A cartoon in the New Yorker magazine showed an exasperated father saying to his prodigal son, "This is the fourth time we’ve killed the fatted calf." God does that over and over in our lifetime.
Microsoft has formally launched the final revision of its Windows operating system for PCs. It’s called Windows "Me"—short for Windows Millennial Edition.
One feature of Windows Me that has caused a stir is its new "system restore" feature. How does it work? Suppose you suffer a system crash on your computer this Thursday. You’re not a computer expert, and you don’t know how to recover the last two weeks of financial information you entered Wednesday, your daughter’s history report she started writing Monday, or your favorite game.
All you have to do is select "system restore" and specify the date to which you want your machine reset. Voila! Problem solved. All the things you somehow messed up are put back in their configuration as of that earlier day.
Wouldn’t you like to market that feature for human lives? Do you think you could supply it fast enough to keep up with the demand? Bob would "system restore" to the day before he began the affair. Sue would go back to the day before she tampered with payroll data. Ivan would choose the day before the big fight that caused his son to run away from home.
Maybe you can remember the day when things crashed for you—and you’d give anything you own to restore things to the way they were.
God won’t erase all the consequences of our actions, but he promises things far better: to forgive us, to work for the highest good even through what is bad, and one day to make all things new.
What Windows Me calls "system restore" God calls redemption.
Is 55 :6-7 “ seek the Lord while he may be found;cal on him while he is near.
Let the wicked forsake his way and evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for h will freely pardon.
*ILL of you killing a young boy.death penalty.Jesus takes the guilty verdict we walk out of courtroom free
Becuase of Him
3.) I have A Purpose In God
Verse6-7
The verse says he made us to be priests.
Since Jesus died there should be no difference between clergy and laity. We are all priest. I am not the minister and you all are the members. I am the paid member the trains you all how to be ministers.
In the back of the church in the welcome center on of our Elders Bud Johnston has made a plaque that reads: Every member a Minister.
Peter says you all are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a people belonging to God, tha you may delcar the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
We are saved to serve. Not saved by works, but saved to work!
My gifts are not for me, they are for you, your gfts
are not for you they are for me.
If I am not using my gifts I deprive you, if you do
not use your gifts you rob the church.
2 Timothy says that some people are sued for noble purposes some ignoble. If a man cleanses himself from the latter, he will be an instrument for nobles purposes, made holy, useful to the master and prepared to do any good work.
In the United States, businesses use millions of wood pallets each year to haul products. After a pallet has borne heavy, sometimes crushing weights and taken abuse from truck travel and forklifts, eventually it can no longer be used.
Now cracked and smashed, or loose and floppy, pallets are something businesses must pay other companies up to five dollars per pallet to dispose of. Disposal companies burn the pallets, chew them into wood chips, or dump them in landfills.
One nonprofit company in New York had a better idea, writes Andrew Revkin in the New York Times. Big City Forest in South Bronx takes other companies’ junk and turns it into treasure. The raw material of pallets is valuable hardwoods like rosewood, cherry, oak, mahogany, and maple.
Big City Forest workers dismantle the pallets, salvage the usable wood, and recycle it into furniture and flooring. Recycled wood chips are worth only $30 a ton. But when used as flooring the value of the recycled wood is $1,200 a ton, and as furniture $6,000 a ton.
If that is what can be done with lifeless wood, how much more can people be restored to lives of value. Like Big City Forest, God is in the business of restoration. He takes people that seem worthless, people broken by the weight of sin, and transforms them into works of beauty and
usefulness.
That story recape the other two points once we are forgiven and have peace and pardon from God and now we can have a brand new purpose in life.
Conclusion: A little boy who lived far out in the country in the late 1800s had reached the age of twelve and had never in all his life seen a circus. You can imagine his excitement, when one day a poster went up at school announcing that on the next Saturday a traveling circus was coming to the nearby town.
He ran home with the glad news and the question, "Daddy, can I go?" Although the family was poor, the father sensed how important this was to the lad. "If you do your Saturday chores ahead of time," he said, "I’ll see to it that you have the money to go."’
Come Saturday morning, the chores were done and the little boy stood by the breakfast table, dressed in his Sunday best. His father reached down into the pocket of his overalls and pulled out a dollar bill-the most money the little boy had possessed at one time in all his life. The father cautioned him to be careful and then sent him on his way to town.
The boy was so excited, his feet hardly seemed to touch the ground all the way. As he neared the outskirts of the village, he noticed people lining the streets, and he worked his way through the crowd until he could see what was happening. Lo and behold, it was the approaching spectacle of a circus parade! The parade was the grandest thing this lad had ever seen. Caged animals snarled as they passed, bands beat their rhythms and sounded shining horns, midgets performed acrobatics while flags and ribbons swirled overhead.
Finally, after everything had passed where he was standing, the traditional circus clown, with floppy shoes, baggy pants, and a brightly painted face, brought up the rear.
As the clown passed by, the little boy reached into his pocket and took out that precious dollar bill. Handing the money to the clown, the boy turned around and went home. What had happened? The boy thought he had seen the circus when he had only seen the parade!
Are you experiencing all that God has for you? The Christian life is a marvelous adventure, an exciting journey. Many people-including Christians-seem to be content to float in a sea of mediocrity, settling for second best. Do you want the abundant life that Jesus promised?
Do you want to live life to its fullest? Then aim higher. Don’t set your sights too low. Determine to become all that God created you to be.
Give yourself to Christ, follow Him completely, and allow the Holy Spirit to work in you and through you. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Because of Him!
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