Leader:
He is risen!
Congregation:
He is risen indeed!
2000 years
ago, the Israelites were fed up with Roman occupation. They were sick and tired
of the rules, the soldiers, the taxes and also sick and tired of being governed
by people who did not know God. They prayed and prayed for God to rescue them,
to anoint a leader who would free them from Roman oppression.
God did
send a Messiah, His own Son Jesus Christ, to rescue the people of God. But
Jesus was not sent with a political agenda – rather, he had a theological
agenda. The Israelite leaders were worried about the Romans; God was worried
about our sin.
Governments
come and go. In the US, we have elections every 4 years, and our country often
switches directions. So the winds of our political circumstance can easily
change direction.
God is
more concerned with substance than circumstance, and while we often seek a
solution to our circumstances, God wants to give us something more, something
of substance, something that really matters. God sent his Son, so that all who
would believe in him could have their sins forgiven, become brothers and
sisters in the Holy family, and live in the presence of God, for ever and ever.
And that’s Good News!
Always
choose substance over circumstance.
Norton
Lawellin
This Sunday, our lead
Pastor Michael Pilla returns to the pulpit, fully healed from 3 types of
pneumonia. He’ll teach some Bible, but also include personal testimony about the
Lord’s healing. Join us Sunday 10:30am, Jesus in the City Fellowship (JICF), in
the North end of the Oliver Ministry Building, 27th Street & Bloomington
Avenue, Minneapolis.
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