Part of the Good News of the Gospel is that the Resurrected Jesus is still actively speaking in our world today to bring about healing, deliverance and change. So, no matter what you may be going through, some kind of a trial, a painful emotional situation, a battle with sin, hurt and disappointed by God, or you’re just somehow “stuck” and can’t seem to move forward, the Lord cares and wants to meet with you and speak to you in that place.
Sermons on Living with our Resurrected King
Have you been disappointed by God? On the Sunday after Jesus’ crucifixion, two of His followers were walking away sad because they thought God was going to work differently than how reality played out. In this message we discover that God uses our spiritual disappointments to correct and then deepen our youthful, blissful and inadequate views of Him and His mysterious ways.
The resurrected Jesus has been given all authority. What is this authority and what does it look like? Jesus strategically linked His cause for the disciples with His authority. What would His authority look like in the life of a Jesus-Follower and what difference would it make?
Have you ever been a bad friend? Have you ever shrunk back from a challenge because you were scared? Have you ever been unfaithful to someone who has only ever been faithful to you for years? A common feeling we have when we recognize we’ve done something like this, is shame. Peter must have felt shame after he denied knowing Jesus, 3 times. When Jesus forgives Peter joyfully, removes Peter’s shame completely, and invites Peter to follow him courageously, he empowers Peter to live like Jesus, resurrectedly.
Home inspections reveal that which is good and that which needs improvement. So, our world is filled with shooting stars and shooting victims. Jesus began a cosmic restoration during His brief life and He invited others to join Him in healing the world and humanity. For united with Him, His death was the death of the project for worldwide renewal and personal wholeness. So, His resurrection, was more than His resurrection. It was the rebirth of all that He began, His disciples now continue, and He will complete when He comes again at the end of the age – the renewal of all things!
We long for the fantastical and we long for the relational. Our resurrected king is the origin and perfect embodiment of them both; the only one who can fully fulfill our longing.
Whether Jesus rose from the dead is the central issue of the Christian faith. If false, the implications are huge. If true, the implications are infinite. As we begin a new series entitled Living with the Resurrected Jesus, this message raises questions about the resurrection and then presents some of the many reasons to believe Christ is risen!