God Saves (3)
Series: It’s All About God
Jeff Strite
1 Peter 2:22-24
(Open): A woman recalled the hardship of growing up... different. As a child she’d grown up with a cleft pallet which made it so that she had a misshapen lip, a crooked nose, lopsided teeth, and garbled speech.
When schoolmates asked, ‘What happened to your lip?’ She’d say she’d fallen and cut it on a piece of glass. Somehow that seemed more acceptable to have suffered an accident than to have been born different. She was convinced that no one outside her family could love her.
In 2nd grade there was a teacher named Mrs. Leonard that all the kids loved. She was a short, round, and happy - sparkling lady. Every year, the school had hearing tests for the students and Mrs. Leonard gave test to everyone in her class. Finally it was this little girl’s turn. Students would stand against the door and cover one ear, then Mrs. Leonard would sit at her desk and whisper something, that the students would have to repeat it back - things like ‘‘the sky is blue’’ or ‘‘do you have new shoes?’’
The woman recalled: ‘‘I waited there for those words that God must have put into her mouth, those seven words that changed my life. Mrs. Leonard said, in her whisper, ‘I wish you were my little girl.’’’ (‘‘The Whisper Test’’ by Mary Ann Bird)
Among the favorite verses we’re preaching about in this sermon series is THIS one that essentially says ‘‘I wish you were my little girl. I wish you belonged to me.’’ In 1 Peter 2:24 we read ‘‘He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds YOU have been healed.’’
This is personal.
This is about God loving you so much that He DIED so you could be healed of your guilt and shame. It’s a little bit like the other favorite verse that echoes this which says ‘‘For God so loved YOU (the world) that He gave His only begotten Son...’’
In that single act - of Jesus dying on the cross - God said ‘‘I wish yo ...
Series: It’s All About God
Jeff Strite
1 Peter 2:22-24
(Open): A woman recalled the hardship of growing up... different. As a child she’d grown up with a cleft pallet which made it so that she had a misshapen lip, a crooked nose, lopsided teeth, and garbled speech.
When schoolmates asked, ‘What happened to your lip?’ She’d say she’d fallen and cut it on a piece of glass. Somehow that seemed more acceptable to have suffered an accident than to have been born different. She was convinced that no one outside her family could love her.
In 2nd grade there was a teacher named Mrs. Leonard that all the kids loved. She was a short, round, and happy - sparkling lady. Every year, the school had hearing tests for the students and Mrs. Leonard gave test to everyone in her class. Finally it was this little girl’s turn. Students would stand against the door and cover one ear, then Mrs. Leonard would sit at her desk and whisper something, that the students would have to repeat it back - things like ‘‘the sky is blue’’ or ‘‘do you have new shoes?’’
The woman recalled: ‘‘I waited there for those words that God must have put into her mouth, those seven words that changed my life. Mrs. Leonard said, in her whisper, ‘I wish you were my little girl.’’’ (‘‘The Whisper Test’’ by Mary Ann Bird)
Among the favorite verses we’re preaching about in this sermon series is THIS one that essentially says ‘‘I wish you were my little girl. I wish you belonged to me.’’ In 1 Peter 2:24 we read ‘‘He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds YOU have been healed.’’
This is personal.
This is about God loving you so much that He DIED so you could be healed of your guilt and shame. It’s a little bit like the other favorite verse that echoes this which says ‘‘For God so loved YOU (the world) that He gave His only begotten Son...’’
In that single act - of Jesus dying on the cross - God said ‘‘I wish yo ...
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