One glorious resurrection day, the strategy was to lead this flock called the Church “through the valley of the shadow of death” to eternal life in His Kingdom forever.

Your listeners needed someone greater than Moses to ask for forgiveness (Luke 23:34) and make atonement (1 John 2:1-2). They needed Jesus.

Each week we are in Acts, the goal will be to find the Old Testament connection which can bring to light a faithful preaching of the Gospel that bridges the testaments during the Easter season.

Jesus is both “the way” and “the way out” of the nightmare called death AND He has secured it for you in His resurrection which you are connected to in the waters of your baptism.

We believe, not on account of what we saw or felt or because of any physical evidence, but we believe on account of the Word which came true!

In this sermon, we will begin with one of the oldest questions in the Bible: “Father where is the lamb?”

God will change His attitude towards His rebellious and idolatrous people and raise them from their graves. They will be His living people once again.

God identifies the savior as bearing the same problem all people have. But rather than bearing the problem because He Himself was a sinner, it is better to say He bore the problem with sinners, so He might bring them to salvation.

We live our lives of flesh dependent like slaves, but God has made us children and heirs through Christ. So, we must “unlearn” what we have learned in our lives of sin.

People often get confused by Abram’s blessing, believing it was about ethnicity or real estate, but we know the blessing of Abram was the promise that would be fulfilled in Christ for you.

Jesus reverses the curse on the tree! By His bloody sweat, suffering, death, and burial, He peeled away sins punishment.

Before we set out for the Lenten journey though, we meet with God on this mountain, at this moment, and in this holy gathering where our vision is transformed, looking forward to Jesus and knowing He will lead us all the way from death, to life, to a new life now, and a life in the Promised Land of Heaven forever.