Listen, Look, and Live Forever

I. Listen:  We must Prioritize Pure Proclamation over Performance.

• Jesus tells his disciples in John 6, that “The Words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. “
• Romans 10:14 — “How shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?”
• Challenge: Be careful whose you follow.

• Romans 10:15 “How can they hear preach unless they’ve been sent.”
• Matthew 13:3 — “A sower went out to sow.”
  • No fancy description, no dramatic antics — just a plain, faithful sower sowing seed.
  • It wasn’t the sower’s shout, run, or rhyme that grew the crop. It was the in good soil.

• Application: Listening isn’t passive; it’s purposeful. Don’t just hear — hunger for truth. His led the salvation on her entire home!

• II. Look: We look to Christ and His work on the cross for our Redemption.

Read: Numbers 21:4-9

• Israel sinned, God sent serpents — the serpent represents sin (as in Eden).
• In Numbers 21:9, the bronze serpent was their sin lifted up.
• John 3:14 — “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up.”
• 2 Corinthians 5:21 — “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us.”
• Mark 15:33-34; Matthew 27:45-46 — In those hours of darkness, God poured out holy wrath on His own Son. Darkness for 3 hours. “My God, My God, Why has thou forsaken me?”
• Isaiah 53:4 — “Smitten by God.” Isaiah 53:6 — “The LORD laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”
• Key Point: The God of Christ and the man of sin (our sin) both met at the cross.
• Application: The cross is where your sin was judged, not ignored.

III. Live: We must understand the Victory of the Resurrection and the Promise of Eternal Life.

Read: Matthew 28:5-7; John 10:17-18; 1 Corinthians 15:20-23

• Matthew 28:6 — “He is not here, for He has risen, as He said.”
• Jesus laid down His life and picked it up again. No one took it from Him (John 10:17-18).

• Roman soldiers couldn’t stop it. A sealed stone couldn’t hold it.
• 1 Corinthians 15:20 — “But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.”

• 1 Corinthians 15:21-23 — “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.”
• If He lives, we too shall live!
• Application: That’s our hope. Eternal life isn’t just someday — it’s secure today because Jesus lives.