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Hillside United Methodist Church
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11/06/2022 Church service
周日礼拜
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HUMANITY 人性
Psalm 139:23-24: Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
诗篇 139:23,24: 神啊！求你鉴察我，知道我的心思；试验我，知道我的意念。看看我里面有甚么恶行没有，
引导我走永恒的道路。 (page 1023)
1 Cor 1:18: The message about the cross doesn't make any sense to lost people. But for those of us who are being saved, it is God's power at work.
哥林多前书 1:18: 因为十字架的道理，对走向灭亡的人来说是愚笨的，但对我们这些得救的人，却是 神的大能。(page 1848)
James 5:16 - Admit your faults to one another and pray for each other so that you may be healed.
雅 各 書 5:16: 要互相坦白自己的罪过，为彼此祈祷，
以便上帝治愈你们。正义的人所做的祷告是会奏效的。(pg 1964)
John 1:14 - The Word became a human being. He made his home with us. We have seen his glory. It is the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father. And the Word was full of grace and truth.
約 翰 福 音 1:14: 道变成了肉身，生活在我们中间。我们看到了他的荣耀－父之独子的荣耀，他从天父那里来，
充满了恩典和真理 (page 1716)
Galatians 4:4,5: “But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.”
加 拉 太 書 4:4,5: 但是当适当的时刻到来时，
上帝就派出他的儿子。他为女人所生，生活在律法之下，
以便能够解救受律法约束的人，使我们能够成为上帝的孩子。(1889)
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HUMANITY
HUMANITY
Gal 4:4-5
Psalm 139:23-24: Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Mandarin translation: “lead me in the eternal path”
We all have these moments of overwhelm – for whatever reason – where we need to just lay it all at Jesus’ feet and find rest from the storms of life
…and maybe to find help to rise up from our own human condition
Last Wednesday morning, in my early-morning prayertime, I had one of those mid-week overwhelms.
Feeling that sense of overload – and more than a little bit of disappointment and discouragement over my lack of progress on my to-do lists.
All I could do was just give it all over to God.
I saw my need – and I recognized my own weakness.
It was in that same prayer time that God just poured His love out on me.
His Presence and Peace washed away my anxiety and I knew His strength was there IN my weakness to accomplish what needed to be done. And may to put to the side some things that didn’t need to be on my plate anyway. (can you relate?)
Everyone has their Wednesday morning of overwhelm
Their Midweek - Midlife - Mid-moment
At that point, we have to acknowledge our humanity – even as much as it hurts
If we weren’t human, we wouldn’t have needed a savior
1 Cor 1:18: The message about the cross doesn't make any sense to lost people. But for those of us who are being saved, it is God's power at work.
…and we are “being saved” We need daily grace
It is hard sometimes for people of faith to admit their humanness. We want to rise above ourselves, even though we need Jesus to be the one to lift us up (daily)
As much as we strive for perfection, the reality is we will always have our humanity as part of who were are as press on toward the mark.
Isn’t it wonderful to know God understands our humanity?
“Jesus knows our every weakness, take it too the Lord in prayer.”
The key thing is for us to understand that GOD has already made provision to complement every form of weakness we may have. To replace them with His strength.
Don't dwell on your weaknesses. Dwell on the provision God has already made to help you succeed.
God understands our humanity. He will never leave you without help.
As we recognize our humanity and our need for a savior - we also need to become willing to bring our weaknesses to those people who can encourage us – pray for us – and who are leading the Body of Christ by their life’s example.
James 5:16 - Admit your faults to one another and pray for each other so that you may be healed.
As we get closer to Advent, we think about the message of the season –
Emmanuel – God with us. God took on the form of man and lived among us.
John 1:14 - The Word became a human being. He made his home with us. We have seen his glory. It is the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father. And the Word was full of grace and truth.
The humanity of Jesus is as equally important as the deity of Jesus. Jesus was born as a human being while still being totally divine. The concept of the humanity of Jesus co-existing with His deity is difficult for the finite mind of man to comprehend.
Nevertheless, Jesus’ nature—wholly man and wholly God—is a biblical fact. There are those who reject these biblical truths and declare that Jesus was a man, but not God. There is also the viewpoint that says Jesus was God, but not human. Both viewpoints are unbiblical and false.
Jesus had to be born as a human being for several reasons. One is outlined in Galatians 4:4–5: “But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.”
Only a man could be “born under the law.” No animal or angelic being is “under the law.”
Only humans are born under the law, and only a human being could redeem other human beings born under the same law. Born under the law of God, all humans are guilty of transgressing that law.
Only a perfect human—Jesus Christ—could perfectly keep the law and perfectly fulfill the law, thereby redeeming us from that guilt.
Jesus accomplished our redemption on the cross, exchanging our sin for His perfect righteousness
2 Corinthians 5:21: For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
“…so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
“we are made right with God because of what Christ has done for us.”
Another reason Jesus had to be fully human is that God established the necessity of the shedding of blood for the remission of sins
Hebrews 9:22: without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
The blood of animals, although acceptable on a temporary basis as a foreshadowing of the blood of the perfect God-Man, was insufficient for the permanent remission of sin because “it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins” (Hebrews 10:4).
Jesus Christ, the perfect Lamb of God, sacrificed His human life and shed His human blood to cover the sins of all who would ever believe in Him.
If He were not human, this would have been impossible.
Hebrews 4:15: “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin”
Only a human could sympathize with our weaknesses and temptations.
In His humanity, Jesus was subjected to all the same kinds of trials that we are, and He is, therefore, able to sympathize with us and to aid us. He was tempted; He was persecuted;
He was poor; He was despised; He suffered physical pain; and He endured the sorrows of a lingering and most cruel death. Only a human being could experience these things, and only a human being could fully understand them through experience.
Declaring that Jesus has come in the flesh is the mark of a spirit from God, while the Antichrist and all who follow him will deny it
1 John 4:2–3: This is how you can know God’s Spirit: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ came to earth as a human is from God. And every spirit who refuses to say this about Jesus is not from God. It is the spirit of the enemy of Christ, (the spirit of the antiChrist) which you have heard is coming, and now he is already in the world.
Jesus has come in the flesh; He is able to sympathize with our human frailties; His human blood was shed for our sins; and He was fully God and fully Man.
These are biblical truths that cannot be denied.
Isn’t it wonderful to know God understands our humanity?
“Jesus knows our every weakness, take it too the Lord in prayer.”
By embracing our humanity we see our need for a savior. We need a power great than ourselves.
Recognizing our access to God’s grace, mercy, strength and power, we can look forward in hope.
In this brave new hope, we can recognize our new chance – our brand-new moment in Christ.
With a grateful heart, we should direct this new hope towards greater levels of service to our God.
Being a Light.
Being blessed to BE a blessing to others.
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Hillside United Methodist Church
3739 US 80
Phenix City AL 36870
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