April 20, 2025
Easter with Kingsway 2025
- Matt Nickoson
Sermon Notes
Everything is worth what another person is willing to pay for it.
John 3:16a NIV
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
“…if there is nothing more precious to the Father than (Jesus), there cannot be any blessing higher than him or anything better than him. In every way, he himself must be the “very great reward” of the gospel. (Jesus) is the treasure of the Father, shared with us.” – Dr. Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ
John 3:16b NIV
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 10:10b MSG
“I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.”
All of this was accomplished through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.
John 3:17 NIV
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
God wants to save me.
Colossians 1:13-14 NLT
For he [God] has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son, who purchased our freedom and forgave our sins.
Why did God do this?
Colossians 1:19-20 NIV
For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
Why would God do this for me?
Colossians 1:22 NLT
Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
“Sometimes we find ourselves tiring of Jesus, stupidly imagining that we have seen all there is to see and used up all the pleasure there is to be had in him. We get spiritually bored.” - Dr. Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ
“But Jesus has satisfied the mind and heart of the infinite God for eternity. Our boredom is simple blindness. If the Father can be infinitely and eternally satisfied in him, then he must be overwhelmingly all-sufficient for us. In every situation, for eternity.” - Dr. Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ
Because of Jesus…
I am forgiven
I am unashamed
I am redeemed
I am renewed
I am reconciled
I am restored
I have peace
and…
I am a dearly loved child of God
Galatians 3:26-27 NIV
So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.