Jon Laughinghouse - October 16, 2022
The King Who Carries Our Sickness
We live in a technologically advanced society. We can communicate with people on the other side of the planet in an instant. We access unlimited information at the click of a button. We explore outer space and have pictures of places light years away. The James Webb Space Telescope has the capacity to look 13.6 billion light years distant. And yet we still suffer with the common cold. We have mastered so many things but we have not been able to stop sickness....from the smallest cough to the deadliest disease, we are still a species susceptible to sickness and death. Jesus came and gave us a glimpse of a Kingdom with no sickness or pain. He took our sin, death, and sickness upon himself so that we could be set free from their pain and punishment.
From Series: "Your Kingdom Come"
The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! Those were the first words that Jesus used when he began to preach. He went throughout Galilee, teaching and proclaiming the gospel of the Kingdom. He said that the Kingdom of Heaven was for the poor in spirit, for the meek, for the pure in heart, and for the persecuted. He said that the self-righteous could never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. He told us that the thing we should be seeking first and foremost in this life is the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. If we do that, he will take care of everything else. Let’s abandon our anxious pursuit of the treasures of this earthly kingdom and instead live as citizens of the Kingdom of God.
