Church 3/27/2024
Sermon message:
Thesis: The power in Jesus’s Name.
Jesus healed people when He was on this earth. He cast out demons as well. He also raised people from the dead, and He did miracles.
John 21:25
And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.
We know Satan is afraid of Jesus and of Jesus’s name. We know that the devil tried to wipe Him out from the very beginning. He tried to use Herod to this end.
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men.
Satan even tried to use the crowd to kill Him. But it failed because it wasn’t His time.
Luke 4:28-30
So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff. Then passing through the midst of them, He went His way.
John 7:30
Therefore they sought to take Him; but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
John 8:59
Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
John 10:39
Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.
No one had power over Jesus. No one killed Him. He laid down His life.
Point #1: Jesus is more powerful than your problem.
If Jesus was so powerful that no one could kill Him, wouldn’t it follow that He is also bigger than your challenges?
The night Jesus was arrested by the temple guards and the Roman soldiers, (some say anywhere between 300-600 of them) Jesus showed His power, but laid down His freedom and let them arrest Him.
John 18:1-6
1 When Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples over the Brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which He and His disciples entered. 2 And Judas, who betrayed Him, also knew the place; for Jesus often met there with His disciples. 3 Then Judas, having received a detachment of troops, and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons. 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that would come upon Him, went forward and said to them, “Whom are you seeking?”
5 They answered Him, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
Jesus said to them, “I am He.” And Judas, who betrayed Him, also stood with them. 6 Now when He said to them, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
Point #2: You have power in you.
1 John 4:4
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
Point #3: Jesus released power when He spoke.
John 18:4-6
4 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that would come upon Him, went forward and said to them, “Whom are you seeking?”
5 They answered Him, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
Jesus said to them, “I am He.” And Judas, who betrayed Him, also stood with them. 6 Now when He said to them, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
No man could take Jesus’s life, but He willingly laid it down. No man could take His life because he used words to stop it from happening.
Point #4: Speak and release the power of Jesus’s name.
Philippians 2:9-11
9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Every situation that you face has a name. But Jesus’s name is higher than that situation, than every other name.
We learn from Jesus. We learn from Him on using His name (honorably) against everything that tries to set itself against Him.
~ Communion ~
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
23 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 25 In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.