Yesterday was an amazing day for Jesus Christ, Mars Hill Church, the greater region of Seattle, the Driscoll family, and your pastors. Despite the rain and cold, we saw at least 17,500 people at Qwest Field meeting as Mars Hill Seattle, in addition to roughly 1,200 people at Mars Hill Albuquerque. We saw 724 people baptized (682 at Qwest and 42 at ABQ) after they met with leaders who sought to confirm their conversion. The volunteers were world class and did an amazing job. Thank you! The donors were generous and paid for it in advance. Thank you!
Some people have asked to see my sermon notes. Rarely do I use much in the way of sermon notes, as I tend to study and pray a lot, get a general direction, and then just go for it, trusting the Holy Spirit to guide me along. But, since the event was so big and my time so limited, I chose to use more detailed notes this time. Here they are:
Resume simple (few hundred miles home, broke single, died young)
Famous – billions, calendar, Christmas birth, Easter resurrection
1. Jesus Said He Came Down from Heaven
John 6:38, 42 – "I have come down from heaven." … They said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?"
Jesus – descend not ascend
God a man, NOT a man God
2. Jesus Said He Is More Than Just a Good Man
Mark 10:17–18 – As he [Jesus] was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone."
No good people – all sinners
Not good man, God man
3. Jesus Performs Miracles
John 10:36–39 – "Do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works. …" Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.
Fed hungry, healed sick, blind see, lame walk, deaf hear
Rule over physical world
Words & works
4. Jesus Said He Is Sinless
John 8:46 – "Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?"
Thought/word/deed/omission/commission
"No one perfect"
Muhammad & Ghandi & Mother Theresa & Me– sin
Jesus alone good, category alone
5. Jesus Said He Is God
John 10:30–33 – [Jesus said,] "I and the Father are one." [They] picked up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?" [They] answered him, "… because you, being a man, make yourself God."
Buddha, Krishna, Muhammad, and Ghandi said not God
True or False
6. Jesus Forgives Sin
Mark 2:5–7 – When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven." … [Critics said,] "He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
Sin against God (Ps. 51:4)
Only God can forgive (cross)
7. Jesus Said He Is the Only Way to Heaven
John 14:6 – Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
From heave, only way to heaven
Life, Death, Burial, Resurrection, Ascension – our way
Narrow Door – 1. Exclusive & 2. Inclusive
8. Jesus Said He Would Resurrect from Death
Mark 8:31 – He [Jesus] began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.
He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world
He is the sinner’s friend
He is the Great High Priest
He is the King of Kings
He is the Lord of Lords
He is the Way, the Truth, & the Life
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His love is glorious, marvelous, gracious, generous, matchless & priceless
He came the first time in humility, He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead & to establish a Kingdom that will never end
He has sent me to command you – Acts 2:38 "repent and be baptized"Watch the full sermon after the jump:Stay tuned for a video of the full Easter service, which will be available later this week.
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Yesterday was an amazing day for Jesus Christ, Mars Hill Church, the greater region of Seattle, the Driscoll family, and your pastors. Despite the rain and cold, we saw at least 17,500 people at Qwest Field meeting as Mars Hill Seattle, in addition to roughly 1,200 people at Mars Hill Albuquerque. We saw 724 people baptized (682 at Qwest and 42 at ABQ) after they met with leaders who sought to confirm their conversion. The volunteers were world class and did an amazing job. Thank you! The donors were generous and paid for it in advance. Thank you!
Some people have asked to see my sermon notes. Rarely do I use much in the way of sermon notes, as I tend to study and pray a lot, get a general direction, and then just go for it, trusting the Holy Spirit to guide me along. But, since the event was so big and my time so limited, I chose to use more detailed notes this time. Here they are: