Sin Kills, Hell is Real, God Can Save You and Jesus is the Passport

Notes: Happy Christmas!
SPEAKER:
Joni Eareckson Tata
WORSHIP TEAM:
Harvest Worship Band
Welcome to Harvest!
Thursday, December 17, 2015 — 7:00 p.m.

God permits what he hates to grow what he loves.

Joni thinks God is using people with disabilities to wake up the church.

God isn't abandoning those with disabilities, He is speaking through them.

Some say happiness depends on what happens and Joy does not depend on what happens. Joni doesn't believe that, she thinks the Bible uses them interchangeably.

Joni says she is the happiest person you will ever meet. Even though she is a quadriplegic.

Jesus had to "break the bread" before he blessed it. Joni feels like she was broken before she was blessed.

She has been in a wheelchair for over 48 years.

Often, unfortunate circumstances have the biggest part of the key to the blessings in our lives.

Joni wakes up every morning needing Jesus Christ.

She says she can't do this thing called life, but God can.

James 4:6 NKJV
[6] But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble."

God resist the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.

God always seems bigger to those that need him most.

Matthew 1:23 NKJV
[23] "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which is translated, "God with us."

God participates in our pain. The greatest display in Gods power is in our human weakness.

The Lord Jesus was the most God Forsaken man to have ever lived.

There is no circumstance that can ever touch you that has not gone past God. If it has gone that far, then it was sent with great purpose.

Hope for most people is hoping that things will get better.

Jesus Christ is the blessed hope.

In the end Jesus is the only one that will make everything okay. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

The real hope tree was on the hill of Calvary.

Why doesn't God do away with evil? If God was to get rid of all suffering, then he would have to eliminate all sin, and to eliminate sin, he would have to wipe out all sinners.

2 Peter 3:9 NKJV
[9] The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

God is being terrifyingly patient with evil.

What would you trade for your soul... The whole world isn't valuable enough to trade.

2 Corinthians 6:10 NKJV
[10] as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Isaiah 25:8 NKJV
[8] He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken.

Compared to Heaven, all of our hardships will be worth it.

Jesus is the only human being ever born to die for you.

Sin kills, hell is real, God can save you and Jesus is the passport.