"Jesus Makes New" | Spoken Word

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Pastor Adam James delivers a Spoken Word he wrote for our Easter Celebration on April 20, 2014. For more information on Grace City Church visit us at www.gracecitychurch.com LYRICS: JESUS MAKES NEW. Hear ye, Hear ye - Good news for me... Good news for you... Jesus Makes New. Jesus. The God-man who took on flesh, resisted temptation, and conquered death...for you. Jesus Makes New. He's the Son of God, the Author of Life, the Ancient of Days, the Perfecter of faith. He's the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, he's our true older brother and the true faithful friend. Before Abraham was He is the great I Am, but you may not be sure if you can make that stand. There's so much confusion about this man. But let's be clear why we're here. Easter. Resurrection Sunday. Jesus rose from the tomb. The death that you and I deserved, that you and I earned, because the wages of sin is death... now you've learned that no one can be justified by the law because we're all law-breakers... Action, word, thought & motive of the heart...breakers. Fakers. Haters. We're runners and hiders, blamers, defenders, & justifiers. But God is a seeker and a finder. Jesus Christ came to seek and to save that which was lost and to give up his life, an incredible cost. Does that include you? Understand that Jesus is the only man who has the authority to lay down his life and take it up again. You see it was for the joy that was set before Him that he endured the cross & despised its shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. The joy that he saw was the aim of his death bringing life in His name...things would never be the same for me or for you...because Jesus makes new. There was an empty tomb, so that you could be an empty soul made full. A broken soul made whole. Jesus makes new. From dark to light, slave to son, filthy to clean... Guilty to free. Jesus makes new. From lost to found, from chained up to unbound, from addicted to adopted, you're no longer unwanted. Jesus makes new. Easter. The point is to ease him & her, yes you, of the burden of sin. Since that terrible Fall the blow of sin made our run a crawl, a death brawl, a sick and twisted brutality of idolatry where we look to created things instead of the Creator, resulting in depravity and spiritual insanity, drinking at empty wells (sex, money, fame?) of rebellion & gluttony or man centered self righteous religiosity. As long as we call the shots our hearts remain dark until ONE DAY....a word, a voice, a thought, a light shines in... a light shines through... And Jesus makes new. Our pride caves in subtly or suddenly, brokenness leaves in its place a sweet humility - now I see - now I see... Friday night... It was me. I mocked & spit & beat His majesty. I turned and ran and betrayed Him at Calvary. And his prayer? Father forgive them? Was for me. Now I see. It was Friday night. But Sunday's comin'. What's THIS Easter mean for you? JESUS. MAKES. NEW.

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• Jesus Christ