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Normally I only preach through a passage - but today is more topical for Co-Mission Sunday - so we’re going to do more of a big picture overview…
Pray
I see trees of green
Red roses too
I see them bloom
For me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
I see skies of blue
And clouds of white
The bright blessed day
The dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Old Louis Armstrong sounds quite convincing doesn’t he.
When we forget the realities of life and just concentrate on the wonder of it - well it is wonderful - for a time.
After all - God did make it wonderful
A wonderful garden - trees of green.
PLeasing to the eye and good for food,
And there in the middle - do you see it - a magnificent tree - the tree of life.
And next to it - the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The tree of life - well that is a tree of eternal fruit - eat from it often and enjoy the refreshing fruit of life - and Adam and Eve - would never know sickness, or frailty, pain or fear.
A wonderful life indeed.
A life and garden full of wonder, and full of Yes’s from God. - As the ‘Hope Explored Course’ puts it.
And just one tree of No.
The tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil.
In a garden full of yes’s it would be easy to dispair at Adam and Eve as in the next chapter they decide they want more!
They eat from the forbidden tree - Wonderful is not wonderful enough!
But we would have done the same wouldn’t we.
We buy a nice car - and we then want a better one - or to improve the one we have,
We marry and good person - but we still fantisise about another.
We have a job - but desire a better one.
- more money, less work.
Even In a world of yes - we too would choose the no.
Adam and Eve set the scene for us - and face the consequenes
The wonderful world - the tree of life - joyous and rewarding work - gone.
Sin has entred the world - death and God’s judgement was it’s consequence.
Louis Armstrong calls the night sacred - but those of us who have lived more than a few years will know darkness is not sacred.
Still born children,
Cancer,
Suffering,
Mental Illness,
Starvation,
Financial troubles.
Accidents,
Lies,
broken relationships.
Sure there are plenlty of glijmpses of the wonderful World - we can even sing about it when times are good.
But the night will come - it is not sacred - it is dark.
Death will come.
We are separated from the river of life that feeds - the tree of life.
We will sweat and toil in this life - just to eat at times.
How sin has destroyed our world - and yet we all choose the no.
We all choose sin.
If this is where the story ends - well it’s not looking good is it.
God has given us everything - a wonderful world,
we have rejected him in sin and chosen our own way.
and the consequence is a hard life followed by death only to face God’s right judgement for rejecting Him.
And this is where the story ends for 8million people living in London.
Over 90% of this great cities population facing this alone.
A not so wonderful world - death - and eternal judgement.
Sad isn’t it.
But it doesn’t have to be.
A great reversal of all that went wrong has and will take place.
And God’s people - His church - All Nations here - knows of this great reversal.
The Lord Jesus - God became Man,
entred our broken world,
lived the perfect life we have not,
and died a death on the cross to take the judgement we deserve.
A reversal.
We have been seperated from the river and tree of life but Jesus offers us it again.
John 7:37–39 (NIV 2011)
… Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, ‘Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.
Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.’
By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive.
For those facing death - it’s quite a statement to offer them a river of life that will flow within them through Jesus!
The Holy Spirit is given to all those who repent and believe in the Lord Jesus - and He is the Spirit of Life!
The great rivers of Eden that support all life are now being seen in those who profess faith in Jesus.
The curse is being reversed - by our Lord.
This is a message London - your neighbour's - your families - we need to hear.
Jesus - the one to give us life - he is their - he is our - only hope.
He gives us eternal life now in our hearts by His Spirit.
We may still live in this less than wonderful world - but we have a deposit - and garuntee of something truly wonderful.
The great reversal of our sin and judgement was won fully on the cross of Jesus’ death,
But - as we’ve thought about - it’s not yet fully here - it’s not a wonderful life - yet
But There is a great day to come - when Jesus will return and bring all who believe in Him into glory.
Into a new Eden.
This time not a Garden - but a magnificent and wondrous city.
Many have tried to describe what God’s new creation - for his people will be like - but we can’t do better that the Word of God itself.
Revelation 21:1–5 (NIV 2011)
Then I saw ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Look!
God’s dwelling-place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them.
They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.
“He will wipe every tear from their eyes.
There will be no more death” or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.’
He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’
Then Moving into imagery to represent the wonder of this new creation this vision in Revelation of the coming home for God’s people continues...
When we commissioned Rick and Esther to come over to this part of London to begin a new church - we had to give them up.
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