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In this world of IPODS, microchips, and ultrasounds, can I ask:  what amazes you?  What excites you, truly?  Is it creation or something created?  Are we so inundated with technology that NOTHING amazes us anymore? 


If you try and recall some of the miracles Jesus did that are recited in the Bible, do they amaze you?  Or are they just “stories” we have read and really don’t think much about?  I mean, we’ve got the healing of the woman who bled continually or the feeding of the 5,000 with one boy’s lunch.  Or how about when Jesus healed Peter’s mother-in-law or raised the only son of the widow and Lazarus from the dead?   There’s also the healing of the lepers and the crippled and the blind.



WOW - that’s some amazing stuff !!!!  I guess what even seems MORE amazing is when you group them all together like that (and that’s not all of the miracles either) and remind ourselves that He did them while He was on earth for only a few years.  Yep, truly amazing!

Then there’s the empty tomb – on its own, that doesn’t sound too amazing.  Of course, the amazing part about it is that the Person who was in the tomb was once dead.  D-E-A-D.  And the tomb was sealed with a huge rock.  No one in, no one out.  That really didn’t matter to Jesus though, did it?

Ephesians 1:19-20

. . . and His incomparably great power for us who believe.  That power is like the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms.

That’s some amazing power I’m thinking!  God raised Jesus from the dead, not for Jesus’ sake, but for our sake.  Why? 

John 3:16 (say it with me now):  For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him, shall not die, but have everlasting life.

That was Jesus talking, you know.   He says that.  It wasn’t something one of the disciples figured out.  It wasn’t a statement made by a prophet, but a promise from a Savior, THE PROMISED MESSIAH, the Living God.

Salvation - the truly amazing gift God gave to us.   And do you know what’s the most amazing for me?  The reason.

LOVE.


Amazing Love - You are My King
 Listen to this -  (it says it all)


The LOVE that God gave us in His Son - that’s amazing! 

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