24 November 2019 - When the Son Stands Still - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPraise and Worship Songs Performed: 1. Latter Rain - New Creation Worship 2. The One Thing - New Creation Worship 3. This is Our God - Hillsong Music Job 29:6 - The Rock represents Jesus. When milk is rich, the top layer is made into butter. It refers to the richness of God’s word. When we keep washing ourselves in it, the anointing, like oil, flows for us. Rivers of oil also refers to prosperity—oil was a blessing of provision for the farmers in Israel. “when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,” (Job 29:6 WEB) You cannot make influence happen for you—it’s God who gives influence. Luke 18:43-19:2 - Last week Pastor Prince taught about Zacchaeus. Before that chapter is actually the story about blind Bartimaeus which will be the focus in this message. “Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God. He entered and was passing through Jericho. There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.” (Luke 18:43-19:2 WEB) In Luke 18, the rich young ruler boasted in his ability to do. Every time you boast about your law-keeping, the Lord will say “One thing you lack.” The Law is like a mirror that shows your flaws but has no power to change it. The rich young ruler is the only person whom Jesus told to sell all his possessions—he was unable to give even one shekel. In the next chapter, Zacchaeus was too short to see Jesus, so he climbed up a tree to see. Jesus called him “Zakkai” (meaning just) and said He must stay at his house. Zacchaeus wasn’t given any laws but his heart and wallet were opened through receiving Grace. What the Law couldn’t do, Grace can. The Law condemns the best of us, Grace saves the worst of us. The Gospel of Mark is the most chronological out of the four gospels. It takes Four Gospels to describe the beauty of Jesus. The Gospel of Matthew depicts Jesus as a King. The Gospel of Mark is the Gospel of the divine Servant. There is no genealogy in it because you don’t ask the pedigree of a servant. The Gospel of Luke is the gospel of the Son of Man. The Gospel of John is the Gospel of God from Heaven. Mark 10:45 - Mark who wrote the Gospel of Mark failed miserably as recorded in the Book of Acts. He was homesick and abandoned Paul and Barnabas when they still needed him on their missionary journey. This servant who failed was chosen to write about the divine Servant who never fails. Jesus came to Jericho to find someone to serve. Jesus came with His hands full of God’s blessings, healing and deliverance. “For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”” (Mark 10:45 WEB) We are saved by faith in Jesus. Good works come out of our saved state. Dads, God is using your child to raise you. You think you’re raising your child, but your child is actually raising you. When you choose to sacrifice your outings with friends, gaming or shows to take care of your child, you will never regret it—it cultivates your character. Some people ask why God never stopped Adam before he sinned. If God had done that, God would have made robots who don’t have a choice. God made us with free choice, so He has to respect that—He cannot infringe on our free choice, even when He is Almighty God. You are free to choose, but you cannot change the consequence of your choice. If you choose to touch fire, you choose to get painfully burnt. Jesus raised people from the dead at different degrees of the body’s deadness—Jairus’ daughter just died, the widow’s son in Naim died that day, Lazarus was dead for four days, etc. But dead is dead. Likewise, we were once all spiritually dead in our sins. Jesus didn’t come to make bad people good—He came to make dead people live. Before Jesus’ incarnation, He was a Spirit without a body. After His being, He received a body and even today He’s still at the Father’s right hand in a glorified man’s body. Jesus is forever God and forever Man. Jesus loves you and He wants to serve you. He wants someone to pour His love on. That’s why He made man last, after He had created the heavens and the earth. Martha was troubled and stressed about many things because she didn’t do the one thing that Mary did—Mary sat at Jesus’ feet and allowed Jesus to serve her through His word. We can serve out of the fullness of first receiving from Jesus—we can only give after receiving from Him. Exodus 21:1-6 - the Hebrew servant is a picture of Jesus. Jesus loved His master (Father) and wife (the church—His bride), so He decided to go to the cross to save mankind. He was pierced at the cross and is now a Man forever. ““Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself. But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’ then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever. “If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.” (Exodus 21:1-7 WEB) Psalms 40:6-7 - This passage was used in reference to Jesus. “Opened” also has the meaning of bore—like to bore the ears of the Hebrew servant who chooses to remain a servant in his master’s house forever. Jesus is our Servant King. “Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering. Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.” (Psalms 40:6-7 WEB)
Joshua, the commander of the army of Israel shouted and the sun stood still. Bartimaeus the blind beggar shouted and the One who made the sun stand still, stood still. This Servant King Jesus responded to the cry of a blind beggar. Jesus' heart is to serve us, and out of the fullness we receive, we can serve Him by loving one another.
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