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Now if he would have stayed like that (dead) we’d be in a jam, because that would mean that death was more powerful than God. We are the champions.Īnd then Jesus died. Then Jesus cried out: It is finished! The victors cry. That is why he yelled out: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Because at that moment God was punishing Jesus with hell for our sins. He suffered the punishment of our sins of evil thoughts, angry words, selfishness, gossip, pride. Jesus suffered the punishment of sin, he suffered hell on the cross: complete separation from God’s love. Then one dark Friday afternoon nearly two thousand years ago, he hung on a cross and punished himself for us.
#WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD FREE#
Christ came freely in love and lived a perfect life, free of lustful thoughts, angry words and selfish deeds. And what price did Christ pay? His holy precious blood. To redeem means to pay the price to set a slave free.
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When the Bible calls Jesus our “Redeemer”, that is what it’s talking about.
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We sin, so we deserve hell.īut God has freed us from that law. Any honest judge would look at this evidence and see that there is only one possible verdict (guilty) because God’s law is clear. Worse than the most terrible, painful place you could ever imagine and with no chance for parole. We are all by nature slaves to sin.Īnd because of those evil thoughts, angry words and selfish actions we are forced to face the consequences: Jail time, the eternal slammer in hell. There are so many different temptations, sins that we fight against, that we don’t want to do, but we still end up doing them. I’m not going to get mad next time.” And then you do. Or maybe it was a magazine or on the internet.even though you knew it was bad and didn’t want to do it.Īll of us here, how many times do we tell ourselves, “I shouldn’t get angry so quickly. Well, let me ask the men that are here, when was the last time you were flipping through the cable late at night and you came across one of “those” movies, and even though you knew it was wrong, that you shouldn’t do it, you couldn’t help but watch at least for a while. “I’m free to live as I want, to make own choices. Since the moment we were conceived we could do nothing else. You see, each and everyone of us was born a slave to a cruel and demanding master: sin. So I guess to follow a logical order, we need to first talk about how sin was conquered to understand how death was conquered. sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned. The Bible tells us clearly that death is the result of sin. Through the efforts of our risen Lord Jesus, sin and death have been conquered. It’s the victory that we see here in our text for this morning. But there is a victory that lasts, a victory that nobody can take away. Even those individuals that maintain their grasp on power, money and prestige their whole life, soon find that they can’t take it with them. That’s a common theme throughout history, isn’t it? The fleeting nature of victory. Their conquering of the world didn’t last very long, did it? And so in this song they boldly boasted: “We are the champions of the world.” A couple years after the song came out, Freddy Mercury, the lead singer of the group died of AIDS and the group ceased to exist. They were one of, if not the most famous rock group of their time. At the time the song came out, the group was at the peak of their career. Well, that rhythm is taken from a song called “We are the champions” that was made famous by a group named Queen in the early 80’s. Where have you heard that rhythm before? Sporting events. I would like everybody to clap along with me or stomp your feet or hit your chairs, but like this.OK.
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We’re going to do something a little different this morning.