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Introduction
Introduction
As we begin our sermon this morning, I want you to stop and survey you life?
If you could ask Jesus to fix one thing immediately, and finally what would it be?
Perhaps you have a need needing supplied?
Or a worry needing calmed?
Or a problem needing solved?
Or a relationship needing restored?
Or a disease needing healed?
And lets say for the sake of argument, you lived in Jesus’ day, and a friend of yours brings you to see the Lord.
He tells you, I am telling you Christ can help you.
You aren’t sure whether you believe the hype or not, but you go anyway— it’s what friends do.
But as we shall see, when he meets Jesus this man gets much more than he bargained for.
We See a Savior Who Likes to Talk:
We See a Savior Teaching the Word:
We serve at God who likes to talk.
He made the world with words.
He reaches out into this world with Words— Words that define.
Words that give perspective.
Words that teach.
Words that Direct.
Words that Command.
Words that Judge.
Words that are alive.
During His ministry on earth Jesus Christ was first and foremost a preacher (not a healer).
He spoke to people the Word of God.
He helped people see things from God’s perspective, He shared God’s mind with them.
John of course makes this crystal clear.
He introduces Jesus to us as the eternal Word of God:
So when you come to Jesus, you need to realize first and foremost, before He wants to do anything else in your life, before he wants to fix any other problem, he wants to teach you TRUTH.
John 1:1:1-3, 14, 18
JOhn 1:14
There is a great illustration of a street preacher by the Name of Charlie King who had a unique way of gathering a crowd to hear his message.
He would throw his hat onto the ground and, pointing at it, he would run around it crying out, “It’s alive.
It’s alive.
I’m telling you its alive.”
Needless to say people would quickly gather to see what all was the commotion was about.
When a crowd gathered.
He would pick up his hat.
Under his hat was his Bible.
And he would say, “This book is alive, living and active, sharper than any two edged sword.
Can I show you?”
So when you come to Jesus, you need to remember that.
Dont’ be coming to Jesus with your agenda, with what you want to see happen, or with what you want to see done.
Come to Jesus and let Him speak to you— about His Father, the Creator of the ends of the earth, about what’s really wrong with this world, and more than that, about what’s really wrong in your life, and in your heart!
Have you done that?
Will you do that?
This is always the primary context of Christ's work amidst His people.
He works through His Word... We Worship a God who likes to talk.
This is always the primary context of Christ's work amidst His people.
He works through His Word... We Worship a God who likes to talk.
We see a Savior Who Knows Us Well
He Knows Our Real Problem
He Knows Our Real Problem
He knows what’s really wrong with us.
Everyone thought they knew this man.
Everyone thought they had his real problem pegged.
I mean it was obvious.
His body was profoundly broken.
He couldn’t walk for crying out loud.
He wasn’t able to live life to the full.
And Jesus had the power to fix Him.
But Jesus saw a different problem.
He saw through the broken body and He saw broken soul, paralyzed, and crippled by the cords of sin and iniquity.
Now remember the context here.
We are in the middle of 3 stories, 3 cameo portraits that are linked together by the subject of sin.
What sin is, and what sin does to people.
It all began last week, you remember, with the leper: the dirty sinner.
Sin makes us dirty before the eyes of God.
We are not fit to stand in His presence.
The leper was an object lesson of this principle.
Next week we will Levi/Matthew the tax collector— He is he despicable sinner.
Distasteful to nice people.
The kind of man from whom you would normally like to keep your distance, and Jesus has dinner with Him.
Jesus welcomes Him to table fellowship!
This week we see the man with the disabled body, but his real problem is a disabled soul.
What does sin do to us?
It cripples us.
It prevents us from serving God as we ought.
I came across an interesting bug this week in my studies.
It’s called Ambulex Compressa- The Jeweled cockroach wasp.
The interesting thing about this wasp is that it has venom peculiarly suited to coackroaches.
Here’s how it works.
The beautiful green wasp finds a roach and then he quick as a flash jumps on top of him and stings him twice.
The first sting paralyzes the roaches front legs.
The second sting, he delivers to the base of the roaches skull, injecting its venom right into the roaches brain.
This venom disables the roaches escape reflex, it removes its will to escape.
Then the wash leads the stupiefied- Zombiefied roach by its antennae to its layer where it lays an egg in the soft place between the cracks of the roaches abdomen.
In a few days the egg hatches.
The larvae burrows into the roaches belly, and eats the roach alive from the inside out.
Now get this the larvae is smart enough to start off with the nonessential bits of the roach so its food supply stays alive as long as possible!
Amazing beastie!
I use this illustration because sin has exactly this kind of effect upon us.
It makes us its willing slaves.
We only see what we want to see.
We only do what we want to do.
And we bitterly resent God and His efforts to show us otherwise.
The poison of sin, working in our brains makes us addicts to self serving, self satisfaction, self exaltation.
All we care about is having it all our own way, and we will fight with anyone who stands in our way.
We see this everywhere in everyone:
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