Though we are not all married, we see what marriage points us to. The union of husband and wife is giving way to an even greater union that depends upon faith and repentance, as the Bride of Christ, the Church, is joined to the Bridegroom, Jesus Christ, and where we are His and He is ours.
In our text, we get a picture of the good life, the way things are supposed to be, and the way things will be once again. Though we all have failed to live perfectly before our Creator and King, Jesus Christ lived the perfect life and died the death we deserved to die and was raised from the dead in victory over sin and death, so that we can have eternal life through faith in Him.
After forming and filling the earth in six days, God rested on the seventh day. In this sermon, we’ll look at what God rested from, and why the seventh day is central, not only to creation, but also to the destiny of God’s people.
In Genesis 1, we see the apex of a fully formed and fully filled world. Looking at the second three days of creation, we see a remarkable correspondence to the first three days of creation, where God wondrously fills the creation He has formed, and how God can fill us with His forgiveness and righteousness.
In Genesis 1, we read the literal history of what God did when He created the heavens and the earth. Looking at the first three days of creation, we see the forming of the world that was once formless, and how God can bring form out of the chaos of our lives.
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." These words are more than an introduction to the first book of the Bible. These words are absolutely essential to understanding what the world is, who we are in the world, and who God is in relationship to us and His creation.
As we hear of wars and rumours of wars, and as we look around and see famines and earthquakes and pandemics, and as we suffer persecution for the sake of Christ, many wonder what’s going to happen next. In this passage, we take a look at the sure and certain hope for every follower of Jesus: The return of Jesus Christ for His people.
After Jesus’ death, the disciples secluded themselves in fear. A few weeks later, they were proclaiming that Jesus had risen from the dead. What brought about this change? The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. The historical facts of the resurrection of Jesus Christ confront our doubts and bring us face to face with life’s most important question: What will I do with the risen Christ.
With Jesus before him, Pilate faced a terrible dilemma. He found no guilt in Jesus, but the Jews wanted Jesus crucified. As we see in this passage, Pilate lacked the courage to stand up to the crowd, choosing instead to crucify the innocent Son of God. What will we do with the innocent Christ?
During His interrogation, it appeared that Jesus’ fate was in the hands of men like Pilate. But in reality, Jesus was in control. In this message, we look at how man’s attempt to crucify Jesus fulfilled God’s plan. We might think that we are not as bad as some of the characters in this story, but we need Jesus more than we realize.