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Creating Your Own Jesus?

Scripture: Exodus 20:3
Devotional Series: Resurrection Power
Teaching: Resurrection Power pt. 1 (SUN_AM 2024-03-31) by Pastor Star R Scott


There are too many Christians that are becoming secularized, that are becoming secular humanists in many of the ways that they think and act.  Their world view is skewed.  There’s only one worldview for people who believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  There’s only one worldview for those of us who say that Jesus is our Lord and Savior.  And that worldview is this: “Thy word is truth” (John 17:17), praise God!  Today the church is drifting away from the absoluteness of Scripture, the inerrancy of Scripture.

As Jesus prays for us, and as we fellowship in unity one with another…that’s one of the great things that’s supposed to be being done in this hour—a fellowship, a community.  “Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace” (Ephesians 4:3); amen?  There’s only one thing that unifies us, and that’s each of our personal commitments to the fact that this is the final and absolute truth in the world today.  “Let God be true, but every man a liar” (Romans 3:4).  We make too many exceptions.  “Yes, that’s what the Bible says, but…”  And so much of Christendom today says, “Well, I know that’s what the Bible says, but my Jesus would never do that.”  Your Jesus needs to, then, change into the image of the Jesus of the Scriptures; amen?  So much of the church today is making Jesus in their own image.  “I’ll have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3).  You can’t create your own Jesus.  He’s revealed Himself, who He is, and what His will is in His Word; amen?  And that’s what the resurrection is about: Him becoming Lord; amen?  Absolute—the assuming of the role that He had prior to the incarnation.  And as He came in the incarnation and lived a sinless, perfect life before us, and more importantly, before God and the devil, because that’s where the conflict ended.  When Jesus said, “It is finished,” the conflict ended.  The war was won.  It was settled.  Man was set free from the dominance of sin, hallelujah!  

That sinless sacrifice that died on the cross and paid the debt for you and me and descended into the depths…that same Jesus who bore our sin, that same Jesus who experienced the wrath of God, that same Jesus that cried out with that broken heart, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me” (Matthew 27:46).  Just hours before, He had sweat drops of blood in the Garden of Gethsemane, crying to his “Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me.  Nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done” (Luke 22:42); amen?  He endured to the end.  And because of that, He sent His Spirit to dwell in us that we might endure to the end.  He lives in each and every one of us as we choose to abide in Him.

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