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“The Newness of Easter”
Many of us love new things. I love a new pair of Brooks tennis shoes, a new pocket knife, and a new short-sleeve button-down shirt with a pocket.
You all love a lot of new things as well. In fact, I asked many of you on Facebook to share new things that you like. Here’s what some of you said:
New art supplies, new babies, new crayons, new bars of soap, new bag of coffee beans, new orange blossoms, a new day, new improvements, new pens and markers, new car smell, new friends, new beginnings, new book smell, newly tilled soil, newly cut grass, meeting new Christian friends, new opportunity to share the gospel, new sunsets, new opportunities to be a better person, newly baked bread, new believers in Christ, new adventures, new leather baseball, new leather baseball glove, new car, new puppy, new planner, new school supplies, new sunrise over the ocean, new group of students, new house, visiting a new city or country, trying new foods, the smell of a newborn baby, new jar of peanut butter, a new Bible, a new violin, new sheets on the bed, new wiper blades on your car, new mercies each day, new sprouts in your garden, newly brewed coffee, new closeness to the Holy Spirit, new shoes, new gallon of ice cream, new stick of deodorant, new grandson, new lumber, new taste of coffee, new spring blossoms, new Play-dough, new fabric and patterns, and new clothes.
We like new things, don’t we?
Well, there is also a newness that’s associated with Easter. In fact, even the bunnies, eggs, and spring flowers associated with Easter have their origins in celebrating newness and birth.
However, there is a much greater newness that Christians associate with Easter. That newness is found in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
This morning’s sermon is entitled “The Newness of Easter.”
Let’s pray together before we go any further.
(prayer)
So, how is there newness associated with Easter? How is their newness in Jesus? Well, let’s discover that. First, in Easter, we see . . .
I. The newness that Jesus brought to the world.
You see, everything in this world has been messed up since sin first came into our world.
We can learn about this catastrophe in Genesis 3. Sin messed up everything.
Then, God started to intervene to fix what people messed up. He established a covenant with His people; this covenant involved prophets and sacrifices. It was a good system, but it wasn’t the full blessing that God would bring.
What God established then was not the full plan. That plan was a temporary plan until He would give something better; until God would do something new.
Then, through one of God’s final prophets before Jesus, God sent a message that something new was about to happen.
God’s prophet, John the Baptizer, said this about Jesus in Matthew 3:2: “Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near!”
You see, something new came with Jesus. The kingdom of heaven was revealed in a new way. There was a newness that Jesus brought to the world, and John the Baptizer said at that time that it was near.
When Jesus began His ministry on the earth, that message of newness continued.
Speaking the same message that John spoke about Him, Jesus said about Himself in Mark 1:15: “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”
Jesus was saying that something new was here! Jesus was calling people to Himself to experience the kingdom of God in a new way; He was calling them to experience newness in Him!
Near the end of His ministry on the earth, as Jesus instituted what we now know as the Lord’s Supper, Jesus said this in Luke 22:20, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.”
Jesus brought a new and better way to know God.
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Many of us love new things. I love a new pair of Brooks tennis shoes, a new pocket knife, and a new short-sleeve button-down shirt with a pocket.
You all love a lot of new things as well. In fact, I asked many of you on Facebook to share new things that you like. Here’s what some of you said:
New art supplies, new babies, new crayons, new bars of soap, new bag of coffee beans, new orange blossoms, a new day, new improvements, new pens and markers, new car smell, new friends, new beginnings, new book smell, newly tilled soil, newly cut grass, meeting new Christian friends, new opportunity to share the gospel, new sunsets, new opportunities to be a better person, newly baked bread, new believers in Christ, new adventures, new leather baseball, new leather baseball glove, new car, new puppy, new planner, new school supplies, new sunrise over the ocean, new group of students, new house, visiting a new city or country, trying new foods, the smell of a newborn baby, new jar of peanut butter, a new Bible, a new violin, new sheets on the bed, new wiper blades on your car, new mercies each day, new sprouts in your garden, newly brewed coffee, new closeness to the Holy Spirit, new shoes, new gallon of ice cream, new stick of deodorant, new grandson, new lumber, new taste of coffee, new spring blossoms, new Play-dough, new fabric and patterns, and new clothes.
We like new things, don’t we?
Well, there is also a newness that’s associated with Easter. In fact, even the bunnies, eggs, and spring flowers associated with Easter have their origins in celebrating newness and birth.
However, there is a much greater newness that Christians associate with Easter. That newness is found in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
This morning’s sermon is entitled “The Newness of Easter.”
Let’s pray together before we go any further.
(prayer)
So, how is there newness associated with Easter? How is their newness in Jesus? Well, let’s discover that. First, in Easter, we see . . .
I. The newness that Jesus brought to the world.
You see, everything in this world has been messed up since sin first came into our world.
We can learn about this catastrophe in Genesis 3. Sin messed up everything.
Then, God started to intervene to fix what people messed up. He established a covenant with His people; this covenant involved prophets and sacrifices. It was a good system, but it wasn’t the full blessing that God would bring.
What God established then was not the full plan. That plan was a temporary plan until He would give something better; until God would do something new.
Then, through one of God’s final prophets before Jesus, God sent a message that something new was about to happen.
God’s prophet, John the Baptizer, said this about Jesus in Matthew 3:2: “Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near!”
You see, something new came with Jesus. The kingdom of heaven was revealed in a new way. There was a newness that Jesus brought to the world, and John the Baptizer said at that time that it was near.
When Jesus began His ministry on the earth, that message of newness continued.
Speaking the same message that John spoke about Him, Jesus said about Himself in Mark 1:15: “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”
Jesus was saying that something new was here! Jesus was calling people to Himself to experience the kingdom of God in a new way; He was calling them to experience newness in Him!
Near the end of His ministry on the earth, as Jesus instituted what we now know as the Lord’s Supper, Jesus said this in Luke 22:20, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.”
Jesus brought a new and better way to know God.