The Divine Crash

This morning’s sermon was quite the experience.  When I started the sermon, my sermon notes did not show up on the projector and as a result some were confused so I stopped to regroup and help get the slides back up. Then I continued and all of that is on the recording, found here.

We are starting a new four-week sermon titled “Where else is the cross true?” We will be jumping around the scriptures to see if the is cross merely fire insurance or does it have cosmic significance for our daily life? We started in Matthew talking about the things that Jesus experienced.  Here is a list of what happened in the last few days and hours of Jesus’ life:

• Questioned
• Betrayed
• Deserted
• Denied
• Spit On
• Struck
• Slapped
• Mocked
• Stripped Naked
• Beaten
• Insulted
• Lied about
• falsely accused
• Condemned
• Crucified
• Bruised
• Rejected
• hated
• pierced
• Stared at
• left naked in public to die
• Killed

Then I mentioned that the Bible isn’t relevant to anyone today because those things never happen to us today, right?

Then we talked about Jesus’ response to all of that evil.  He responded with forgiveness, invitation, caring, and love.

Jesus always responded with love.  He never responded with evil to the evil that happened to him.

Next, we talked about how Jesus had a choice to respond with love or evil and we have a choice. We can love or not love.

However, love is the only thing that overcomes and is the only thing that wins because when someone does the worst they can do to you and you are still alive, you win right?  So if you respond with love, you win because love wins.

The cross changes everything about the universe because it means that good wins over evil and that love wins over the evil.

The cross then is more than just fire insurance it is God’s reminder that “Love never fails.”

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