He Took My Sin!
Imagine that you are a young cowboy in 1875 living in a dusty Arizona border town. You are hanging out in the local saloon. You get into an argument and fight with another cowpoke. He draws on you, and you beat him the draw. Soon, he is lying dead on the floor.
The local marshal arrests you and a trial is put in place when the judge is in town next month. You are tried by a jury of your peers and convicted of murder. The judge sentences you to hang by the neck until dead. The sentence is to be carried out in one week.
Prayer Drill
Prayer Drill:
Acts 1:18, "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." (NIV)
Father, we accept your call to be witnesses to Tulare County, penetrating our culture for Christ! We know that your Holy Spirit has empowered us for that mission!
Nobody's Perfect
Nobody's perfect! What a weird thing to say! It affirms the world's biggest problem, that being that nobody's perfect.
The closest man to perfect I ever met in my life was my mother's father, my grandpa Bishop. He once told me he didn't like beer because it tasted like dishwater to him, which led meta understand he tasted it sometimes his life. So nobody's perfect, I guess.
Then there's his grandson Tom who tasted mucho beer between the age of 16 and 23. The world's biggest problem? Nobody's nerfect again!
Sin Canyon's Bridge. 1 Timothy 2:5
I Was raised in Flagstaff, Arizona, 82 miles from the Grand Canyon. Nothing compares to the Grand Canyon! I have been to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon dozens of times in my life, but never to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.
Many people might be thinking, "I didn't know there was a North Rim to the Grand Canyon." If you have a canyon running East and West and there is a South rim to that canyon, there has to be a North rim to that canyon. that makes sense to me!
The narrowest part of the Grand Canyon is 10 miles wide, with the largest distance across being 18 miles wide. No one has ever constructed a ten mile long bridge! So, to get to the North rim of the Grand Canyon you have to drive on US 89 North, and then on US 89A North for 196.8 miles to get to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
The Grand Canyon is known as the third largest Canyon on earth. But the largest canyon on earth is not physical. I call it Sin Canyon! Romans 3:23 defines Sin Canyon, "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (NIV) Sin forces a canyon between God and man.
There is a bridge across the world's largest canyon, Sin Canyon! 2 Timothy 2:5, "For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus." (NIV) Jesus is the mediator between God on one side of Sin Canyon and mankind of the other side of Sin Canyon.
How diid Jesus become the bridge across Sin Canyon? 2 Timothy 2:6A, "Who gave himself a ransom for all people." (NIV) He died on a bloody cross to pay the ransom to free us from our sin, becoming the bridge over Sin Canyon to get mankind and God back together in a relationship that lasts forever in God's heaven.
It there was a 10-mile-long bridge across the Grand Canyon, I aim not sure I woulds trust it! It would seem hard to trust a man made bridge that spanned 10 miles over the Grand Canyon. The bridge over Sin Canyon is God built and based on Jesus' sacrifice on the cross!
The bridge over Sin Canyon is a God thing and it is totally trustworthy! Trust Jesus and cross the Sin Canyon Bridge and be headed for a power relationship with God, along with being headed for His heaven.
Bless You, Tom West, Minister
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