Well, we sprang-forward. And as promised we feasted.
Of course, we feasted on donuts to infuse our bodies with sugar for our drowsy eyes.
But as Walt mentioned yesterday, we feasted in fellowship. We spent time together, worshiping God, listening to his word, and rejoicing over the truth that our Lord can save anyone–even us! It was a feast.
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Below are Walt’s Scriptures and quotes from the message.
SermOn outline
Main point: The way to God is always & only Jesus.
1. Jesus saves the unsavable.
God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12-13
“How does John understand the relationship between our act of believing and God’s act of begetting? . . . Does the new birth bring about faith, or does faith bring about new birth? The answer is clear. The whole burden of these verses is to deny (“not . . . nor . . . nor”) that human causes can bring about a child of God. Not human, but God. God’s begetting, not man’s believing, is decisive in bringing about the new birth.” John Piper
2. Jesus loves the unlovable.
“It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of table fellowship for the cultures of the Mediterranean basin in the first century of our era. Mealtimes were far more than occasions for individuals to consume nourishment. Being welcomed at a table for the purpose of eating food with another person had become a ceremony richly symbolic of friendship, intimacy, & unity.” Scott Bartchy
“The generous representation of destitute people and outcasts in the Gospels reflects the way in which Jesus seems not only to have attracted such people, in search of healing or forgiveness and acceptance, but also deliberately to have sought them out. It was part of his understanding of his mission to pay attention to those whom most people brushed aside or scored. It was to them especially that the kingdom of God belonged.” Richard Bauckham
My song is love unknown, my Savior’s love to me
Love to the loveless shown, that they might lovely be
Oh who am I that for my sake
My Lord should take frail flesh and die?
Samuel Crossman
3. Jesus ushers in the unbelievable.
On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined. And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken. Isaiah 25:6-8