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Unchained: The Freeing Power of the Resurrection
John 4:46-54
Bob Ingle
Open your bibles to John 4. Here in a moment, we're going to look at V46-54. Over the next several weeks leading up to Easter, we're going to look at a number of passages that focus on resurrection. Resurrection, of course, is the heart and soul of Easter. We do not have a Savior who is dead, but alive, and He puts His life into us. He raises us from spiritual death to spiritual life. That is the good news of the gospel. But sometimes God awakens our need His resurrection life in peculiar ways. That's what we will see over the next several weeks.
Today, we're going to see how God often uses physical pain and tragedy to awaken our greater spiritual need for resurrection. I read this week that in 1940, Canadian geologist John Williamson was working in Tanzania. One day, he got his truck stuck up to the axles in the mud. Pulling out his shovel, Williamson started digging into the mud to free his truck. After digging for a few minutes, his shovel struck something solid. He reached down into the muck and pulled out a large pink colored diamond: 54 carats. Ever wish you could find something that valuable in the mud of your life? In the grief, the despair, and the struggle of life you can often find something far better and far more valuable than a diamond, you can find God Himself.
Our passage this morning shows how God often uses a crisis in order to bring people to Christ. Charles Spurgeon once said: "Affliction may be the black horse that mercy rides to your door." More people meet God in the valleys of life than they do the mountaintops. We certainly see that here. (READ 46-54)
That last verse is the key to reading and understanding this miracle and all the miracles of Jesus. Jesus never performed miracles for miracles sake. Jesus never healed for healing sake. He did them so that we might believe and have eternal life. That's t ...
Unchained: The Freeing Power of the Resurrection
John 4:46-54
Bob Ingle
Open your bibles to John 4. Here in a moment, we're going to look at V46-54. Over the next several weeks leading up to Easter, we're going to look at a number of passages that focus on resurrection. Resurrection, of course, is the heart and soul of Easter. We do not have a Savior who is dead, but alive, and He puts His life into us. He raises us from spiritual death to spiritual life. That is the good news of the gospel. But sometimes God awakens our need His resurrection life in peculiar ways. That's what we will see over the next several weeks.
Today, we're going to see how God often uses physical pain and tragedy to awaken our greater spiritual need for resurrection. I read this week that in 1940, Canadian geologist John Williamson was working in Tanzania. One day, he got his truck stuck up to the axles in the mud. Pulling out his shovel, Williamson started digging into the mud to free his truck. After digging for a few minutes, his shovel struck something solid. He reached down into the muck and pulled out a large pink colored diamond: 54 carats. Ever wish you could find something that valuable in the mud of your life? In the grief, the despair, and the struggle of life you can often find something far better and far more valuable than a diamond, you can find God Himself.
Our passage this morning shows how God often uses a crisis in order to bring people to Christ. Charles Spurgeon once said: "Affliction may be the black horse that mercy rides to your door." More people meet God in the valleys of life than they do the mountaintops. We certainly see that here. (READ 46-54)
That last verse is the key to reading and understanding this miracle and all the miracles of Jesus. Jesus never performed miracles for miracles sake. Jesus never healed for healing sake. He did them so that we might believe and have eternal life. That's t ...
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