God's New Year (John 8:12-18)
Gary McManus, 02/02/2014Part of the God's New Year series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
This is a new year. It is a NEW ERA.
Jesus declared it. (Luke 4:14 ff, Isaiah 61)
[Remember: you are a NEW person in Christ,
even if you messed it up; you go again!
Jesus ‘first worship address OUTLINES
what Jesus was GOING to do and
WHY Jesus was going to do it.
This is the year GOD'S DOING you a favor.
-this is the year you get accepted by God
--this is the year God starts accepting you
Yes, the time is here. Now!
Part of Messiah’s task was to bring light:
the people living in darkness
have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of the shadow of death
a light has dawned.”
(Matthew 4:16 Isaiah 9:1,2)
These are God’s NEW YEAR resolutions and
God doesn’t fail in His new year resolutions.
Whatever blindness you may suffer from,
whatever you CAN’T see—Jesus can help you with that.
See your hand? See your hand as Jesus sees it?
Peter had enough light to see that he was a sinner..
Peter didn’t see himself as Jesus did, yet.
(See Luke 5:1-11)
“Come, follow me,” Jesus said,
“and I will send you out to fish for people.”
See yourself as the beloved of God.
Jesus will bring THAT same light to you.
What do you need Jesus to bring light to in your life?
There are seven different accounts in the gospel
record of Jesus healing blindness. They were not all
the same type of blindness. But Jesus healed them all!
Pierre Paul Thomas’ can be found on happynews.com
Jesus is the light of the world.
This is JESUS’ own statement about Himself.
1 John 1:7: “walk in the light. . .”
There are all kinds of darkness:
--not JUST literal blindness
--not just the darkness of faithlessness
Jesus and the darkness knew much darkkness in their lives.
Jesus faced down the Prince of Darkness.
(Mt.4:1 ff Mk 1:13. Lk 4:1 ff. )
So, what kind of darkness have you known?
The Bible tells us that Jesus came to bring light
into EVERY darkness.
See John 1:5 (several versions)
From Isaiah 61: Jesus declared it:
to give sight to the blind and to proclaim
release from darkness for the prisoners. . .
That is THIS year. AGAIN. Amen.
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