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05/15/2022 Church service

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Divine Access
Eph 2:11-18

We live in an age where distribution is key – and distribution should be smooth and efficicient.

We know, in this country, we have an abundance of fuel – and we have an abundance of food…

…and yet, word of shortages is on the news every day now.

We live in an information-rich age. Through technology – especially the internet, we should be able to learn about anything we need to learn about.

…and yet, much is being blocked and censored in a very deliberate manner. Something new and unsettling to Americans, and to anyone else living in what they believed was a free society.

shadow-ban  VERB

shadow-banning (present participle)

1.     block (a user) from a social media site or online forum without their knowledge, typically by making their posts and comments no longer visible to other users

some information is deliberately withheld – and you only can access the viewpoints of those in control of that media outlet.

What about our need and our desire to gain access and help from our Creator?

Did you know a lot of manmade religion attempts to shadow-ban us from God’s Presence and Power?

Heb 4:16: Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

How can we have confidence that we can find help from God when we hear and believe that we are not worthy – or that we must go through a man-made channel to get to God?

Eph 2:18: Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us.

Today’s scripture says: “But now, because of Jesus the Anointed and His sacrifice, all of that has changed. God gathered you who were so far away and brought you near to Him by the royal blood of the Anointed, our Liberating King.”

The Blood of Jesus speaks to us - shouts to us today that the time of shadow-banning has come to a close.

How do we come to the Father?

By believing what we have heard about Jesus.

Gal 3:2: “Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by believing what you heard?”

“Let me ask you this one question: Did you receive the Holy Spirit by obeying the law of Moses? Of course not! You received the Spirit because you believed the message you heard about Christ.”

Have you heard about Jesus?

Jesus came to heal us.

Not just to heal our physical bodies –

-      but to heal our spirits, our broken hearts and to heal us of our shame.

In Mark 5 we read about a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years.

She had spent all she had – but no doctor could cure her.

Mark 5:27-29: When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.”  Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.

In Matthew 8 we read about a man with leprosy who heard about Jesus and His miracle-working healing power and decided to defy the world’s system and reach out for his miracle

 “ … a leper appeared and went to his knees before Jesus, praying, “Master, if you want to, you can heal my body.”

Jesus reached out and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be clean.”
Then and there, all signs of the leprosy were gone.”  (MSG)

Here, again, is another person in need of healing.

Like before, because of their health and social restrictions, the best they had going for them up to this point was that they had heard about Jesus.

·        The woman’s situation

·        The leper’s situation

Both of them could not legally get anywhere near Jesus. (not even close)

Somehow they both got in close to where Jesus was.

They both defied the manmade separation that was holding them back from receiving their miracle

They both gained access to God despite what the outside world was trying to do to hold them back – to keep them from their miracle.

Jesus told the woman: “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”

Jesus told the leper: “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” And instantly the leprosy disappeared. “

In that moment, the Jesus didn’t just restore their health – he also restored their humanity. Their value. Their dignity. Their destiny.

The bleeding was gone. leprosy was gone – and so was the separation – the rejection – and the shame.

Under the law, when the clean touches the unclean, the clean becomes unclean.

Under grace, when the clean (Jesus) touches the unclean, the unclean become clean.

This is the Love of God. This is the Compassion of Christ.

This is what He offers you and me today, too.

Jesus came to heal us.

Not just to heal our physical bodies –

-      but to heal our spirits, our broken hearts and to heal us of our shame.

We do not doubt God has the power to heal.

What we may struggle with is if He is willing to heal us.

Matthew 8: “ … a leper appeared and went to his knees before Jesus, praying, “Master, if you want to, you can heal my body.”

Jesus reached out and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be clean.”
Then and there, all signs of the leprosy were gone.”  (MSG)

Salvation and Healing are through God’s grace toward us.

It isn’t earned through our good works.

It is available because of the sacrifice of Jesus.

Jesus paid too great of a price for you to be denied access to Him today.

Eph 2:13: But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Eph 2:18: Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us.

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Hillside United Methodist Church
3739 US 80
Phenix City  AL  36870
United States
Pastor: Mike J Koger

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