Your Problem...My Situation

When you get angry it’s because you’re ill-tempered... It just happens that my nerves are bothering me.

When you don’t like someone it’s because you’re prejudiced... I just happen to be a good judge of human nature.

When you compliment people it’s because you use flattery to get your way... I only encourage people.

When you take a long time to do a job it’s because you’re unbearable slow and pokey... I take a long time because I believe in quality workmanship.

When you spend your wages in 24 hours, it’s because you’re a waster... When I do, it’s because I’m generous.

When you stay in bed until 11 A.M., it’s because you’re a lazy good-for-nothing... When I stay in bed a little longer, it’s because I’m totally exhausted.
How is it in life that we seem to find an excuse for our behaviour?
It’s all too easy to judge people by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intentions
I wonder what we think God’s view of us as mankind is?
View 1 God is not interested in me at all
View 2 God is watching over me just waiting for me to slip up so he can say I told you so
View 3 God knows what a mistake I am and He can’t wait until he can rub it out.
View 4 God seeks to find me He would love to show His kindness and eagerness to forgive if only I would ask.
Perhaps we have thought in some of these ways,
Do I have a purpose in life, where is my life heading, if God has a plan for me how would I know what it is?
As a Christian our belief in Christ as God separates us from all other religions, many can agree if you talk about God,
God is not threatening to anyone, people over the centuries have talked about a higher power, saying you believe in God does not cause people to stumble,
What we are saying is that Christ is God and he is the one to provide for us the way of salvation.
There are those who would have you believe that there is no God and just go along with the teaching we receive in schools.
The scientists among us would have us believe in evolution and the earth being millions of years old, they peddle their doctrine as fact
I would say that it takes more faith to believe that we are an accident than the idea of a intelligent being.
Having faith that by chance something, not sure what causing some molecules to react in a certain way, then some hydrogen exploding and cooling forming rock and them some goo with evolutionary properties
This idea if us being an accident and there is no consequence to our being here is such a dangerous thought and is one of the causes of social breakdown and reason society is the way it is today.
You don’t have to go far, to find someone to agree with you that there are problems we face today and that life somehow is not what it should be.
We have an in built sense that we are beings that require love and we are supposed to be loved in return.

Most people sometime in their lives have suffered heart ache and problems are caused when we don’t feel this love.

Have we ever loved and not feel this love in return.

Many search for a love that is unconditional,

we love these soppy songs that say I will love you forever, I would die for you, I would give my all for you. I would wipe away your tears,

We love these movies where there is this couple we know they are supposed to be together, then will they / wont they oh at the last second something goes wrong, seems hope is lost you cant stop the show there, if they did it would feel incomplete empty, we have to see the happy ending.

There is a book which has the greatest love story ever told, it is a story that we all have heard, there once was a love that that could not die, a love that would not separate even under the worst circumstances.

It was nearly nine o’clock on Friday morning when he was led out of the city to be crucified. He had to carry His own cross a part of the way, but later on a man on the way was ordered to carry it for Jesus. A large crowd followed Jesus, and many of the women cried aloud. Turning to the crying women, Jesus said ... “Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. The days are coming when you will wish that your children had never been born, and that the mountains and hills would hide you from the trouble your eyes shall see.”

There were two thieves who were to be crucified this same day, and they also were in the procession. They all marched out through the city gate to the place called Calvary, and there the cruel work was done.

There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,
nothing to attract us to him.
3 He was despised and rejected—
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.

Jesus was nailed to the cross which stood in the middle, and the thieves were placed one on Jesus’ right side and one on His left.

Jesus did not speak until the cross was being lifted; then He said ...

“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

What was it that this man had done to deserve such a punishment, what crime did he commit, he said once no one has the power to take my life, even though there were times they wanted to kill him,

Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows[a] that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
5 But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all.
7 He was oppressed and treated harshly,
yet he never said a word.
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.
And as a sheep is silent before the shearers,
he did not open his mouth.
8 Unjustly condemned,
he was led away.[b]
No one cared that he died without descendants,
that his life was cut short in midstream.[c]
But he was struck down
for the rebellion of my people.
9 He had done no wrong
and had never deceived anyone.
But he was buried like a criminal;
he was put in a rich man’s grave.
10 But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him
and cause him grief.
Yet when his life is made an offering for sin,
he will have many descendants.

I wonder what we think God’s view of us as mankind is.
Do we think that God has a purpose and plan?

Look at us we are no accident there is an intelligent design and purpose here

He had plan when he created the world and what if he had a purpose and a plan not only for creation in general but for your creation in particular?

What if that God wants to be in relationship with you?

God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

He is desperate to show his never ending love, to a world that has rejected Him.
There is a challenge going out this afternoon, what will you do with this Jesus will you reject his love or will you accept the price that he paid for your sin accept that

He loves you no matter what

Life has many choices eternity has only two what is your choice today. There is an opportunity to find life through Jesus Christ.

If you have not already now is a great time let us pray this together

Lord Jesus, I repent of my sin, I ask you to come into
My heart, I choose to make you my lord and saviour