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Speaker 2: Welcome to our seven pm service. We're starting a new
Speaker 2: series entitled Grace Changes Everything. This is what Abram was
Speaker 2: talking about a while ago as he exhorted the word
Speaker 2: and uh. This is a four weeks series of four
Speaker 2: different people in the life or in the time of
Speaker 2: Jesus where they encounter Jesus personally. It's four weeks on
Speaker 2: encountering Jesus in their way, in their personal context. When
Speaker 2: we talk about the word encounter, it's actually defined as
Speaker 2: an unexpected meeting or experience with someone. A lot of
Speaker 2: us we've encountered people that are you big names Maria Young,
Speaker 2: the Stars, Trachio, Marina Banha, experienced when you see probably
Speaker 2: for the eighties kids Pagna and you see Robert Jowerski, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and men and Sally Lang.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know a.
Speaker 2: Lot of people we encounter when they're big. We are
Speaker 2: caught off guard, We.
Speaker 3: Are sometimes excited, we sometimes are embarrassed.
Speaker 2: We say the weirdest things when we encounter people unexpectedly.
Speaker 2: And this is my personal story about Pastor Steve. When
Speaker 2: I encountered If you're familiar with Pastor Steve, he was
Speaker 2: one of the missionaries who traveled here in the Philippines
Speaker 2: who started Victory.
Speaker 3: In nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 2: He was only supposed to be here for three months,
Speaker 2: but he ended up staying here, raising his family and
Speaker 2: being part of the Filipino church here in Victory. And
Speaker 2: this is who started Victory, you know. And so when
Speaker 2: I encountered Pastor Steve the first time he was about
Speaker 2: to preach here in Victory Green Hills, it was twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: I was still a volunteer. I wasn't in full time
Speaker 2: ministryt and so Pastor Larry, because Pastor Steve was coming
Speaker 2: from the fourth he preached there, he rushed here and
Speaker 2: he was he will be late for the service. I
Speaker 2: think it was around the two thirty service. My litle
Speaker 2: late Napusha and so Sabini Paslari bro, are you okay
Speaker 2: to park Pastor Steve's car because say he's in a hurry.
Speaker 2: So yeah, sure, but that's a parking Say hi, Pastor
Speaker 2: Steve feeling close now on the encounter, Now you feel
Speaker 2: like nimolam feeling mokluska nimo a lama blah bah nina
Speaker 2: mansha Japanese nimolam No.
Speaker 3: So it was an encounter that was awkward for me.
Speaker 2: Hi Pastor oh hih, I party his car.
Speaker 3: That was my first encounter. It was awkward.
Speaker 2: But wait till you hear my second encounter with Pastor Steve.
Speaker 3: Do you want to hear the second encounter? Okay?
Speaker 2: For the half of you who want to hear and
Speaker 2: for those who don't want, I'll share it anyway, get
Speaker 2: to put in arena. So twenty sixteen, I was in
Speaker 2: every Nation in our office in the fort the church there.
Speaker 2: I was processing some documents. I was about to enter
Speaker 2: full time ministry. I pulled out the building and I
Speaker 2: saw a familiar face one of my good friends, Pastor Jojo,
Speaker 2: and so I said hi, Hi, Hi, bather Jojo from
Speaker 2: Oh Francis sta nandun Dinzy Pastor Steve the glaa Azil.
Speaker 3: I think they were on their way to the coffee shop.
Speaker 2: And so Pastor Steve being Pastor Steve, he was just
Speaker 2: there and you know, excited and real means and your
Speaker 2: close case in the go on Facebook and stands. So
Speaker 2: she Pastor Steve was standing there, and this is what
Speaker 2: I said, Hi, Pastor Steve, you remember me? H? And
Speaker 2: I blurted these words, I parked your car for you,
Speaker 2: Sabin Pastor, Oh that was a long time ago. Grabby
Speaker 2: Alamo as soon as I put the window up.
Speaker 3: But I'm feeling let me know the full time.
Speaker 2: When I encountered Pastor's geo, why it was an embarrassing
Speaker 2: uh story. It's something although I know that he didn't
Speaker 2: mind me reacting that way. It's like you guys, when
Speaker 2: you see Cardo the Lisa ganba Jarama than when we
Speaker 2: encounter people, especially people that are popular, what happens We
Speaker 2: get excited, We get this feeling of oh, how is
Speaker 2: he normal? Bahan Tao just like me. But this is
Speaker 2: my question for today. What happens when we encounter Jesus
Speaker 2: in our lives.
Speaker 3: Is it just that exciting feeling, Oh I met Jesus,
Speaker 3: or is there something that happens to us? Are we
Speaker 3: changed forever? Are we made different by the encounter we
Speaker 3: have with Jesus?
Speaker 2: And that's what we're going to talk about today actually
Speaker 2: for the next four weeks.
Speaker 3: And if you have your.
Speaker 2: Bi with you, I'd like to ask you to open
Speaker 2: it in Luke chapter seven.
Speaker 3: This is our main text today.
Speaker 2: This is the encounter of Jesus with a widow and
Speaker 2: her dead son. This is the story that we will
Speaker 2: go through today Luke chapter seven, verse eleven to seventeen.
Speaker 2: And I hope you have your bibles vide so that
Speaker 2: we're going to go through that verse eleven. It starts
Speaker 2: with this soon after Jesus went with the disciples to
Speaker 2: a village of nine and a large crowd followed him.
Speaker 2: You have to remember that in chapter seven, this was
Speaker 2: just the start.
Speaker 3: Of the ministry of Jesus.
Speaker 2: He was just starting. So kab Illnian disciples. Yeah, twelve,
Speaker 2: so nabula yan twelve neen twelve. Now the twelve accompanies
Speaker 2: him as he ministers. Now he does some miracles. When
Speaker 2: he would go to villages, he would pray for the sick,
Speaker 2: he would heal the blind. He was doing the miracles already,
Speaker 2: but at this time, hind Papusha as popular Lapa among
Speaker 2: social media. So every town that he gets to he
Speaker 2: was doing and ministering. He was teaching the world and
Speaker 2: also doing miracles. But again Dipapusha gena popular during this time.
Speaker 2: In Luke six, this was also the time, if you
Speaker 2: remember the Beatitudes, he was up on the hill. The
Speaker 2: crowds were there and he was talking about how it
Speaker 2: is to live a life that is blessed.
Speaker 3: So Luma lagging popularness. Jesus.
Speaker 2: At chapter seven of Where We Are Today, Jesus now
Speaker 2: begins to travel from Capernum. Now he travels to a
Speaker 2: town called Nain. Nain is around twenty five to thirty
Speaker 2: five kilometers away, do you picture it? Green Hills to
Speaker 2: fourth is around twelve probably twelve kilometers, so at all
Speaker 2: major significant cha twenty five to thirty five kilometers. During
Speaker 2: this time, people won from town to town and to
Speaker 2: take Jesus almost the whole day to get to the inn.
Speaker 2: Imagine Jesus, why he would actually go from town to
Speaker 2: town the whole day. They would walk with him. Why
Speaker 2: because they're excited to learn more about this Jesus. They're
Speaker 2: excited to experience what he's been doing, and so they
Speaker 2: follow him. A crowd full of hope built up, built
Speaker 2: up young faith as they experienced Jesus from town to town.
Speaker 2: As soon as he enters this town verse twelve. It
Speaker 2: says here that they enter the inn the gates and
Speaker 2: a funeral procession was coming out. As he approached the
Speaker 2: village gate Merumpong Lamai. They were doing a procession on
Speaker 2: Mayna pum Namatai Saito. The young man who had died
Speaker 2: was a widow's only son, and a large crowd from
Speaker 2: the village was with her. You often to understand during
Speaker 2: this time, culturally Jewish people, when somebody dies, he has
Speaker 2: to be buried the same day twenty four hours, Compel said,
Speaker 2: But the same day Malibin Shahai, because they were concerned
Speaker 2: about getting contaminated.
Speaker 3: Well happen. A manzillam system probably.
Speaker 2: Know on how to keep the body on, how to
Speaker 2: make sure they preserve it, and so the tradition is,
Speaker 2: or the rule is that they need to bury that
Speaker 2: person the same day. What was going through the mind
Speaker 2: of the mom Sipinmono. That means she just lost her
Speaker 2: son that day, very fresh. She was going through so
Speaker 2: much emotions. And in this crowd. You have to understand
Speaker 2: there were two crowds, one with Jesus full of hope
Speaker 2: and the other one with this widow.
Speaker 3: Full of hopelessness and despair.
Speaker 2: The two crowds meet. Don't rain Pono Jewish culture.
Speaker 3: When you are when you're doing your when you have your.
Speaker 2: Business, or when you're in the neighborhood Dinell Napoleon Coffin,
Speaker 2: you're asked to stand up.
Speaker 3: And then follow the procession Genzilla. They do it in community.
Speaker 2: And so now imagine there was a crowd, probably this
Speaker 2: left side with Jesus and this crowd with the one
Speaker 2: that will go to the cemetery. But Jesus focuses his
Speaker 2: eyes on one person. Who's that person? It was not
Speaker 2: actually the sun, it was actually the widow verse thirteen,
Speaker 2: that the Lord saw her his heart overflowed with compassion, Tiana.
Speaker 3: We can spot easily a person when they are going
Speaker 3: through something.
Speaker 2: The experience be on you're in an MRT and then
Speaker 2: you nasa patnaic the text speak of text. Possibly that
Speaker 2: breaks judgmental is a fame place. You're not ready to
Speaker 2: the church that he make no.
Speaker 3: Churchurch that.
Speaker 2: And Sabino Indian dial is a preaching and we see
Speaker 2: people and their emotions correct, we try to decipher what
Speaker 2: is going through their minds.
Speaker 3: We try to feel what they're going a n now
Speaker 3: we go sah.
Speaker 2: We can probably predict what is happening when we see
Speaker 2: ficial reactions, when we see emotions, when we see a childrums,
Speaker 2: we know what's happening. But for Jesus it's different. It
Speaker 2: was not a speculation. He was zeroing in in this
Speaker 2: widow and he actually the Bible says, his heart overflowed
Speaker 2: with compassion. Jesus saw her for what was happening in
Speaker 2: her circumstance. There is a picture I got of what
Speaker 2: probably would she look like during this time. She was
Speaker 2: a widow meaning mat and the Bible says she.
Speaker 3: Lost her son.
Speaker 2: You know they say that for parents, the worst thing
Speaker 2: that could ever happen is to bury your child. Why
Speaker 2: because our role as parents is to bring them out
Speaker 2: into the world, but not bring.
Speaker 3: Them to their resting place.
Speaker 2: For this widow, I'm sure not only did her son die,
Speaker 2: some part of her during.
Speaker 3: That day she also died.
Speaker 2: I met one person and we ended up talking about
Speaker 2: his situation. We ended talking about his concern in life,
Speaker 2: and I was encouraging him.
Speaker 3: And this is what he blurted out.
Speaker 2: Alamo Brolan hopeless case. Hopeless situation, a situation where you
Speaker 2: know you can't get out of, and this was the
Speaker 2: situation of this mother. You have to understand when you
Speaker 2: are a widow, it means you don't have any opportunity
Speaker 2: to earn for yourself. Culturally, the men would provide for
Speaker 2: their wives. And if the husband dies as a widow,
Speaker 2: who takes care of you it's the male son. And
Speaker 2: that's why when you read the scripture, it's very clear
Speaker 2: it's arrows in on a hopeless situation. After she buries
Speaker 2: her son, what happens. She now has nothing, She has
Speaker 2: to beg for food. She has to live a life
Speaker 2: waiting for people to help her. But what if nobody
Speaker 2: helps her.
Speaker 3: A life of a widow is difficult.
Speaker 2: During those times, nobody would take care of them. That's
Speaker 2: why when you read scriptures, the widows were attracted to
Speaker 2: the church. Why it was the church who was helping them.
Speaker 2: This widow didn't have any options. She had so much emotions.
Speaker 2: Imagine in burgas Jesus saw her situation and Jesus sees
Speaker 2: the future situation that she was entering. This is how
Speaker 2: much Jesus knows what was going on through her. And
Speaker 2: that's compassion. Loops, I need help, that's compassion. Compassion is
Speaker 2: defined as involves allowing ourselves to be moved by suffering
Speaker 2: and experiencing the motivation to help alleviate and prevent it.
Speaker 2: An act of compassion is defined by its helpfulness. It's
Speaker 2: also like empathy is transfind there now, elemin is transfined
Speaker 2: strengths find okay. Empathy is the ability to understand and
Speaker 2: share the feelings of another that whenever you see people,
Speaker 2: you know what they're going through, You feel their pain,
Speaker 2: you feel what they're going through.
Speaker 3: And this is who Jesus is, this is his nature.
Speaker 3: He knows what was exactly happening with this widow question.
Speaker 2: We may not have the exact situation as the widow,
Speaker 2: but there are parts of our lives where there seems
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 3: No life anymore. Paran patina in our lives.
Speaker 2: The dead situations or the hopeless situations that you see
Speaker 2: in your life that when you think about it. Parbuy
Speaker 2: paranga di deteriorate notamayari. Let may be a relationship that
Speaker 2: you have that never seems to get reconciled. You know,
Speaker 2: I've heard families who have never reconciled even until the
Speaker 2: day na nasa kafinna. They would say this theoda dialog,
Speaker 2: dead situation in our lives. We may be alive today,
Speaker 2: but there are things that are dead in our lives.
Speaker 2: The dreams that we have might be dead anymore that
Speaker 2: you stop believing for it, the finances that you used
Speaker 2: to have and it seems like it's not coming back.
Speaker 2: It's a hopeless situation. You know, Jesus sees and knows.
Speaker 3: What you're going through.
Speaker 2: You know, the biggest lie of the enemy is this
Speaker 2: that nobody understands and knows your situation. You know, the
Speaker 2: world we live in will try to convince ourselves that
Speaker 2: we are okay, okay okay TiO in social media, but
Speaker 2: pas vacation.
Speaker 3: O laha pe pam an broken.
Speaker 2: We can put this wall, we can put this facade,
Speaker 2: this smile that we are okay, but really deep inside
Speaker 2: we are already broken. A lot of people are going
Speaker 2: through depression because of this one big lie that the
Speaker 2: enemy tells them. Nobody knows what's going on in your life,
Speaker 2: and nobody understands what you need and where you are.
Speaker 3: You want to know the truth?
Speaker 2: Are you guys excited for the truth that God wants
Speaker 2: to tell us today? This is the truth that Jesus
Speaker 2: sees you and knows.
Speaker 3: What you are going through today.
Speaker 2: The dead situation, the hopeless situation in our lives. You
Speaker 2: you know what God is telling you.
Speaker 3: He sees you and knows exactly what is going on
Speaker 3: in your life.
Speaker 2: You know the place in in scripture when you read
Speaker 2: Itasi Jesus done.
Speaker 3: He actually went to this town.
Speaker 2: He walked the whole day, and when he got there,
Speaker 2: his only and only intention.
Speaker 3: Was to meet this widow.
Speaker 2: I want to encourage you. God knows where you are
Speaker 2: and is willing to travel that far to see you.
Speaker 3: I really this now.
Speaker 2: When I was preparing for this preaching you first encounter,
Speaker 2: Golly Jesus. The first encounter I had with Jesus was
Speaker 2: not an accident. When I met him first time, he
Speaker 2: knew exactly what was going on in my heart. He
Speaker 2: knew exactly that I needed someone to save me. How
Speaker 2: many of you have experienced or an encounter.
Speaker 3: With Jesus already, you.
Speaker 2: Know your encounter with Jesus when you met him. It
Speaker 2: was not the first time he saw you in need
Speaker 2: to accidente see Jesus, he's been looking at you, he's
Speaker 2: been watching over you, and he knows what you are
Speaker 2: going through, exactly what you're going through. As you continue
Speaker 2: in verse thirteen, it says you're When the Lord saw her,
Speaker 2: his heart overflowed with compassion and he said, don't cry.
Speaker 2: Have you experienced going to awake? And then somebody is
Speaker 2: saying an insensitive thing in that experience came?
Speaker 3: And why would you say that.
Speaker 2: Yum belongs to Oh come quick abimo? Why? Because it's
Speaker 2: not okay when we are going through something.
Speaker 3: We go through it.
Speaker 2: We are people who feel something when we are hurt.
Speaker 2: It's okay to be heard when we grieve, it's okay
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 3: Grief, to grieve.
Speaker 2: But Jesus might have been insensitive for the woman. You
Speaker 2: have to remember number one, Dinas.
Speaker 3: Jesus that we do in Ala. It's her first.
Speaker 2: Encounter, doesn't even know why he's there, and now Jesus
Speaker 2: tells her don't cry?
Speaker 3: Ama?
Speaker 2: Was Jesus insensitive? Probably for some No, why would he
Speaker 2: say that, you know, Jesus said that because he was
Speaker 2: about to do something. He was about to do what
Speaker 2: nobody could ever do Verse fourteen. Then he walked over
Speaker 2: to the coffin and touched it, and the bear stopped.
Speaker 2: You have to understand, you and young. They carried the
Speaker 2: dead in a stretcher. It's an open coffin, so nakamammi
Speaker 2: fai yanyan. So people would see. They would see kumatanga
Speaker 2: so nila takaboo at front and back. What Jesus did
Speaker 2: was he went to the dead person and stopped it.
Speaker 3: Culturally that that was not allowed.
Speaker 2: When you touch the dead body, you have to be
Speaker 2: quarantined for seven days. They say you are now unclean.
Speaker 2: But Jesus, the son of God, the holy one, the
Speaker 2: pure one, goes to the unclean. He was never concerned
Speaker 2: about being unclean. He was never concerned about rituals. He
Speaker 2: was never concerned about what others would say. He just
Speaker 2: went there and touched the body for it to stop.
Speaker 2: You know, Jesus has been like that all throughout his
Speaker 2: earthly life. Why he would go out to people who
Speaker 2: are lepers, you might outcast you mind Digumaga, and Jesus
Speaker 2: would go to them.
Speaker 3: Jesus goes to the broken.
Speaker 2: Jesus goes to the people who feel like nobody wants
Speaker 2: to go to him, and so he says, he walks
Speaker 2: over and touches it. You know, sometimes God wants to
Speaker 2: intervene in your situation. God wants to speak to the
Speaker 2: dead situation that you have. God wants to do something
Speaker 2: in your hopeless situation. But at the same time, the
Speaker 2: question is are we continually walking? He stops them so
Speaker 2: that they would.
Speaker 3: Not move it and go anywhere. So he touches the body.
Speaker 2: And this is what he says, young man, I tell
Speaker 2: you get up. The only thing, the only thing he
Speaker 2: said to the man, young man.
Speaker 3: I tell you get up. What happens.
Speaker 2: You'd see here that the heart of Jesus is not
Speaker 2: only in our dead situation, in our hopeless situation.
Speaker 3: Is to go to us, but also he's there to
Speaker 3: speak life in our situation. This is his heart.
Speaker 2: He wants you to live a life to the full,
Speaker 2: not having a sectioned life, no merum dead and then
Speaker 2: the rest is alive. Second point I want to make
Speaker 2: Jesus goes to you and speaks life in your situation.
Speaker 2: He's the one who reaches out. He's the one who
Speaker 2: encounters us. The question is are we allowing him so
Speaker 2: that he can do his work in us? He goes
Speaker 2: to us. He's the one who reaches out to us.
Speaker 3: Verse fifteen.
Speaker 2: Then the dead boy sat up and began to talk.
Speaker 3: And the year it does a dead boy nabu hi
Speaker 3: ah patai.
Speaker 2: First time in scripture, especially in the context of the
Speaker 2: Gospel of Luke, Jesus does this first miracle and raises
Speaker 2: a dead man to life.
Speaker 3: First miracle of resurrection. It was a preview of his resurrection.
Speaker 2: Imagine, no, I hope when you read your Bible you
Speaker 2: try to imagine what's going on in the context.
Speaker 3: Oh, it needs to go in.
Speaker 2: Imagine the naxalitada. What do you think he said? Imagine
Speaker 2: I man, okay i. I was trying to imagine it,
Speaker 2: and it unna come up on the best answer. N
Speaker 2: you want to know, Yeah, yeah, okayo, yes, all right.
Speaker 2: This is not reading the Bible. This is my own interpretation.
Speaker 2: Jesus get up.
Speaker 3: Sabina Hindi to yolo, gets me, He gets Hindi.
Speaker 2: Those show oncelo No no, no Ah anyway, let's move on, okay, Sabina.
Speaker 2: Then the dead boy sat up and began to talk.
Speaker 2: We have to understand this that no matter how we
Speaker 2: do it, no matter how much money we have, we
Speaker 2: don't have the capacity to raise the dead and bring
Speaker 2: back to life. No matter how many connections did we have,
Speaker 2: the situation that we think is impossible, no matter how
Speaker 2: much resources we have, we can never resurrect the dead
Speaker 2: and put it to life. And what do we learn here?
Speaker 2: Only Jesus can bring the.
Speaker 3: Dead to life.
Speaker 2: I challenge you today the things that you are saying, Alana, hopeless,
Speaker 2: not us a life go You know what, Only Jesus
Speaker 2: can resurrect that situation in your life. The things only
Speaker 2: Jesus can resurrect that situation in your life, The restoration
Speaker 2: that you've been one thing, the restoration that you've been
Speaker 2: working hard for, Pero Ayau.
Speaker 3: Only Jesus can raise that to life.
Speaker 2: You know a lot of people live in the past.
Speaker 2: My wife and I know someone very close to us
Speaker 2: that whenever we spend time with him, get anything Abah
Speaker 2: big time remembers.
Speaker 3: That boy Parangla.
Speaker 2: He's stuck in the past. You know what I'm saying
Speaker 2: Why is he stuck there?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 2: Because for him that's life, but the life he now
Speaker 2: has is dead for him, Junandatku boy and I'm stuck there.
Speaker 3: You know what, if you want to move on.
Speaker 2: Only Jesus can resurrect that situation you're in and give
Speaker 2: it life. And so what happens next? He says, here
Speaker 2: and Jesus gave him back to his mother. That when
Speaker 2: he was raised from the dead, he gives him back
Speaker 2: to his mother. What does that mean? Jesus is the
Speaker 2: only one who can give life back. Imagine now two
Speaker 2: minutes ago now cementarial ili li binga instantly when Jesus
Speaker 2: showed up, he just touched it and said something rise up,
Speaker 2: go up.
Speaker 3: And a reaction No mom anything you happy back? Classic
Speaker 3: mom happy bayoo.
Speaker 2: Shake, rattle enroll. Would you celebrate the goodness of God? Yes? Why?
Speaker 2: Because we are on our way to hopelessness. To get
Speaker 2: buried now and join a taio guy in and a celebration?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 2: Well, an situation of hopelessness. Jesus has intervened and there
Speaker 2: is a good picture though. When Jesus gave the son
Speaker 2: back to his mother, what does she regain? She regains
Speaker 2: the status of living a life.
Speaker 3: And she regains the life that she lost.
Speaker 2: You'm feeling the Noahlanka, you have it one hundred percent,
Speaker 2: it's back. Only Jesus can make that happen in your
Speaker 2: context that the situation you feel is impossible. He is
Speaker 2: the only one who can give it back to you
Speaker 2: and say an app enjoy it. Imagine a relationship dida
Speaker 2: wela Christian stay.
Speaker 3: He called.
Speaker 2: You grab by Why this is his check and second
Speaker 2: chance of life. A lot of things change when we
Speaker 2: experience the goodness of God. When God speaks life to
Speaker 2: our situation.
Speaker 3: What happens?
Speaker 2: Are you thankful? Yes, we are thankful? Why because the
Speaker 2: dead is now alive. Just put yourself in the position
Speaker 2: of the mom What would you feel?
Speaker 3: And now you're back? Can alam?
Speaker 2: Only Jesus can turn our mourning in the dancing. Just
Speaker 2: one chapter before Luke six, Jesus I was talking about
Speaker 2: this a while ago.
Speaker 3: He was at the hill and he.
Speaker 2: Was sharing this abigne, blessed are those who weep, now
Speaker 2: for you shall laugh. He was actually proving to the
Speaker 2: crowd that was with him that this is what I
Speaker 2: was saying that if you live your life with me,
Speaker 2: I am the one who will make your mourning into dancing.
Speaker 2: I'll be the one to bring the hopelessness and give
Speaker 2: you what hope.
Speaker 3: This is the God that we serve.
Speaker 2: He's the one who resurrects the dead inner life, and
Speaker 2: he's also the one who.
Speaker 3: Gives us hope. As you continue.
Speaker 2: Verse sixteen says great fears swept the crowds, and they
Speaker 2: praised God, saying a mighty prophet has risen among us,
Speaker 2: and God has visited.
Speaker 3: His people today. I like the message version.
Speaker 2: It says God is back looking at the needs of
Speaker 2: his people.
Speaker 3: Their response was thankfulness to God.
Speaker 2: They saw the miracle of resurrection as what as God's work.
Speaker 2: They saw the miracle as something that they should celebrate on.
Speaker 2: They saw the miracle of God as something that is
Speaker 2: about his faithfulness to his people. This is the response
Speaker 2: of an encounter with God. You know this is sad,
Speaker 2: but this is true. And I'm gonna say this out
Speaker 2: of love. Some of us here in this room have encountered.
Speaker 3: Jesus already, but our response is to go back to
Speaker 3: the old ways.
Speaker 2: Some of us have encountered the goodness of God. Some
Speaker 2: of us have been resurrected from a life that is dead,
Speaker 2: but our response is to still go back to the
Speaker 2: old ways that we know. What's a proper response to
Speaker 2: give back glory to him Lord. Put yourself in the present,
Speaker 2: in the shoes of that sun.
Speaker 3: What would you tell the person who gave who may
Speaker 3: gave you life. Most of the time people will say
Speaker 3: thank you, But for some their responses, I will follow you.
Speaker 3: I will do whatever you ask me to do.
Speaker 2: I will make my life about you. I will devote everything,
Speaker 2: I will try to please you. Why because that is
Speaker 2: a response of being thankful.
Speaker 3: I'm going to end with this. Think about it.
Speaker 2: Out of the many miracles of Jesus, this was very
Speaker 2: unique number one because it's the first miracle of resurrection.
Speaker 2: And number two. You know why because if you think
Speaker 2: about it, the mom did that.
Speaker 3: Asked Jesus to do the miracle?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: How about the sun? Did the son ask for the
Speaker 2: help of Jesus? Did the crowds ask.
Speaker 3: For help Jesus by and.
Speaker 2: Who asked.
Speaker 3: No one?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: That is what we call the grace and love of God.
Speaker 2: And that's why I want to leave you with this,
Speaker 2: that our encounter with Jesus is an experience of his grace,
Speaker 2: the undeserving love of God. We receive even though we
Speaker 2: were not asking for it. That's how much the Lord
Speaker 2: loves us. You know, some of you we feel like
Speaker 2: when encounter God Hindigan ito Hindi kona gets getting to Palawan. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that it's so much love for us that when I
Speaker 2: encountered him, Pano, not.
Speaker 3: All your down good news.
Speaker 2: You can experience Jesus every day of your lives. You
Speaker 2: can experience his grace in every day of your life.
Speaker 2: You can encounter him every day of your life.
Speaker 3: The question is are you inviting him the time that
Speaker 3: he's been running after you? Are you welcoming him? Are
Speaker 3: you pausing just like.
Speaker 2: That dead bearers? Are you stopping for him to be
Speaker 2: able to touch the life, for him to be able
Speaker 2: to speak life in your in situation? I know all
Speaker 2: of us want to encounter Jesus right and as we
Speaker 2: encounter who he is, we will encounter his grace, encountered
Speaker 2: and grace.
Speaker 3: Ney Lord, Ibah and Ibah.
Speaker 2: When you go back, why you've received undeserving love in
Speaker 2: favor and now when you go back to the world,
Speaker 2: kait magul, Lord, I'll be okay. He has made me
Speaker 2: alive again. Dinahpatai and I'll be okay. Check the person
Speaker 2: tore right, think them slip in milam yeah, mohambang binuhai
Speaker 2: Ni Lord, how many of you are glad that God.
Speaker 3: Has given us a second chance? Amen?
Speaker 2: You know, the question is what are we doing about it?
Speaker 2: How do we respond in a life that is given
Speaker 2: to us? In Greece, this is what happened to the
Speaker 2: crowd verse seventeen, and the new about Jesus spread throughout
Speaker 2: Judaea and surrounding countryside.
Speaker 3: It means it did not stop with them.
Speaker 2: It means they talked about it. They shared the goodness
Speaker 2: of Jesus. Even the crowds witnessed a miracle, and they
Speaker 2: never stopped talking about it.
Speaker 3: Kumala ja. This is a rule.
Speaker 2: It's either where the mom that God sees today that
Speaker 2: there's that hopelessness, or we're the kid, We're the boy
Speaker 2: where the sun who has been raised from the there
Speaker 2: or were the crowds that had experienced and seen the
Speaker 2: goodness of God and the people around you?
Speaker 3: You know the work that we need to do.
Speaker 2: Is for us to share the grace of God outside
Speaker 2: these four walls. Why and I'm in Angila and a
Speaker 2: PAGNAMAI Lord, Zellabus. There's so many people outside these four
Speaker 2: walls who need to receive and experience the goodness and
Speaker 2: grace of God. How do we respond and in experiencing
Speaker 2: the life of chrise?
Speaker 3: What's the best movie that you've watched this year? End Game?
Speaker 3: This year? By end Game or you? Kay?
Speaker 2: Katherine Bernardo? Hello, Love, goodbye Magana? Is it good? Would
Speaker 2: you recommend it?
Speaker 3: Would you rate it?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: One out of five? Six?
Speaker 2: Indeed a man five and a half rate it? Hi?
Speaker 3: Would you recommend it to your friends? Yes?
Speaker 2: How would you share it? The ball? Did you know?
Speaker 2: It's no different from sharing our encounter with Jesus. So
Speaker 2: sometimes the world will tell us don't share it, so
Speaker 2: being like, oh, you know, life alone. But you know,
Speaker 2: sometimes they need to hear the goodness of God because
Speaker 2: a movie would excite them, but meeting an encounter in
Speaker 2: Jesus would change them. An encounter with Jesus is an
Speaker 2: experience of grace. I hope that grace does not stop
Speaker 2: with us. It has to overflow and affect the lives
Speaker 2: of the people around us. Imagine imagine your lang in
Speaker 2: your home that everyone knows the real meaning of grace.
Speaker 3: No, Ka, sure, grace.
Speaker 2: Why we are more generous when experience the grace of God.
Speaker 2: We are more loving when experienced grace of God. We
Speaker 2: are more patient when we experience.
Speaker 3: The grace of God.
Speaker 2: And this is my prayer for everyone, that all of
Speaker 2: you will encounter and experience the grace of God.
Speaker 3: Amen. Yeah, let's all stand as we close in prayer. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So if curious scaled in a movie, you can ask,
Speaker 2: she will recommend. Yeah, all right, we're gonna pray.
Speaker 3: Lord. Thank you. Today you remind us of your grace
Speaker 3: for us. Thank you Lord.
Speaker 2: Just like our series the title it says, grace changes everything. Lord,
Speaker 2: Today remind us of the things that you still want
Speaker 2: to change.
Speaker 3: Lord.
Speaker 2: Let us grasp the entire picture of undeserving love. Thank you,
Speaker 2: Lord that you love us so much. Thank you Jesus
Speaker 2: that you are speaking in our situations today.
Speaker 3: The most hopeless situation. Today.
Speaker 2: You are drawing near, you are reaching out, and you're saying,
Speaker 2: rise up. I'm reversing that situation that you are in today.
Speaker 2: That's the power of the one and only Son that
Speaker 2: God's said with all that's bout down in nice clothes.
Speaker 2: If you are somewhat in a part of you in
Speaker 2: that kind of hopeless situation you want to pray for
Speaker 2: you today.
Speaker 3: Just raise your hand so that we know who you are.
Speaker 2: Yes, Lord God, thank you Lord. Yes, yes, Lord, you
Speaker 2: see these hands. Thank you Lord that you're reminding them
Speaker 2: that it's not an accident that they're here today. Lor Today,
Speaker 2: allow them to picture you Jesus, going to them, reaching out,
Speaker 2: making them pause and stop. And now you speak to
Speaker 2: their situation. You're telling their dead situation. You're speaking to
Speaker 2: their hopeless situation. You're telling them, rise up because I
Speaker 2: desire a full life for you, my son and my
Speaker 2: daughter nor Thank you for that faith to believe that
Speaker 2: you are rising the dead things in our lives resurrection
Speaker 2: to be upon you in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 3: Thank you Lord, you are faithful. Thank you for listening.
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