Jesus – The One Who Always Was, Part 1


Recently, our pastor asked me and 2 other church members to preach a series of 6 sermons on Jesus. Perhaps you think this would be a pretty easy undertaking. After all, he’s the central focus of our Christian faith. Even the name Christian has his title of Christ at the very core of it. We are Christ followers. Without Jesus and his death on the cross, there would be no salvation, and we would still be without hope, facing a lost eternity. Yet the trouble is that there’s just so much to say about him. Since I had to go first, I pondered where to start, and I came to the conclusion that we should start at the very beginning.
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Don’t Hold The Past Against Them.


In Acts chapter 9 verse 10, we meet a man called Ananias. He is a devout believer, eager to hear and obey the word of the Lord. That is until his Saviour gives him a message he can’t fathom. Appearing to him in a vision, the Lord says: “Go over to Straight Street, to the house of Judas. When you get there, ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul. He is praying to me right now. I have shown him a vision of a man named Ananias coming in and laying hands on him so he can see again.” (Acts 9: 11-12.)
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Quadrophonics


I once learned that quadraphonics was the earliest form of surround sound, where 4 speakers were placed in the 4 corners of a room to widen the soundscape. Of course, things have moved on a lot since then, and we now have much more complicated surround sound setups, with up to 10 speakers being placed anywhere from floor to ceiling, but for the purposes of today, let’s stick to 4.
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