Come Closer
Colin Wimberly
Hebrews 4:16
CIT- Christians can approach God confidently in prayer.
Proposition - You can draw near to God this morning and find help.
Question: Will you come close to God this morning?
INTRODUCTION:
How near to Christ as you this mooning?
Are there issues in your life that you need to bring to Him?
Let me answer that question for you - yes there are.
Before we take communion this morning I want to encourage you and challenge you to come close to Christ. Bring your fears, your worries, your pain and you heartache to Him.
Come close.
- WHO ARE WE APPROACHING?
2 names for God in these verses which speak volumes about who Christ is.
- A GREAT HIGH PRIEST - His sympathy. To sympathize is to feel or to suffer with. God became a man.
ILLUS: Jesus Shares the Depths of Our Darkest Times
In Jeffrey Eugenides's novel The Marriage Plot, the character Mitchell moves to India as a young man to volunteer. After a couple of weeks, he is faced with a man who has massively defecated in his own bed. In the midst of the chaos, Mitchell suddenly cannot stand it. Despite knowing he will forever regret this, he turns away from the wretch he should be taking care of, runs out of the building, scoops up his belongings and escapes by train.
Mitchell discovered something true and awful about himself: There were things he could not stand, depths into which he could not plunge. He discovered that he had untested limits.
But not for Jesus. To enter the human condition, Jesus came down from heaven. Then down further. He pierced into the saddest and lowest human conditions-grief, degradation, betrayal, and torture. Then he died in the worst way possible, his unimaginable physical pain accompanied by the mental anguish of being abandoned by God. There is no darkness into which a human being can descend that Je ...
Colin Wimberly
Hebrews 4:16
CIT- Christians can approach God confidently in prayer.
Proposition - You can draw near to God this morning and find help.
Question: Will you come close to God this morning?
INTRODUCTION:
How near to Christ as you this mooning?
Are there issues in your life that you need to bring to Him?
Let me answer that question for you - yes there are.
Before we take communion this morning I want to encourage you and challenge you to come close to Christ. Bring your fears, your worries, your pain and you heartache to Him.
Come close.
- WHO ARE WE APPROACHING?
2 names for God in these verses which speak volumes about who Christ is.
- A GREAT HIGH PRIEST - His sympathy. To sympathize is to feel or to suffer with. God became a man.
ILLUS: Jesus Shares the Depths of Our Darkest Times
In Jeffrey Eugenides's novel The Marriage Plot, the character Mitchell moves to India as a young man to volunteer. After a couple of weeks, he is faced with a man who has massively defecated in his own bed. In the midst of the chaos, Mitchell suddenly cannot stand it. Despite knowing he will forever regret this, he turns away from the wretch he should be taking care of, runs out of the building, scoops up his belongings and escapes by train.
Mitchell discovered something true and awful about himself: There were things he could not stand, depths into which he could not plunge. He discovered that he had untested limits.
But not for Jesus. To enter the human condition, Jesus came down from heaven. Then down further. He pierced into the saddest and lowest human conditions-grief, degradation, betrayal, and torture. Then he died in the worst way possible, his unimaginable physical pain accompanied by the mental anguish of being abandoned by God. There is no darkness into which a human being can descend that Je ...
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