{"id":3646,"date":"2021-04-23T22:58:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T22:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygracepresby.org\/?post_type=sermons&p=3646"},"modified":"2021-04-23T23:16:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T23:16:29","slug":"christ-open-our-minds-sermon-by-alexander-a-agyare","status":"publish","type":"sermons","link":"https:\/\/mygracepresby.org\/?sermons=christ-open-our-minds-sermon-by-alexander-a-agyare","title":{"rendered":" CHRIST, OPEN OUR MINDS, Sermon By Alexander A. Agyare <\/bold>"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHRIST, OPEN OUR MINDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

PS 14
\n1JOJN 3: 1-7
\nLUKE 24: 36-48<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/strong>
\n1. I am the Bread of Life. 6:35
\n2. I am the Light of the World. 8:12
\n3. I am the Gate for the sheep. 10:7
\n4. I am the Good Shepherd. 10:11,14
\n5. I am the Resurrection and the Life. 11:25
\n6. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. 14:6
\n7. I am the True Vine. 15:1<\/p>\n

Meaning of and why Jesus focus was on the Mind<\/strong>
\n1. The element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought.
\n2. A person’s ability to think and reason; the intellect
\nthe part of a person that makes it possible for him or her to think, feel emotions, and understand things:
\nImportant of mind<\/p>\n

\u2022 Remember do you remember when her birthday is?
\n\u2022 Recall I don’t recall arranging a time to meet.
\n\u2022 Recollect I didn’t recollect having seen him.
\n\u2022 Remind Every time we meet he reminds me about the money he lent me.
\n\u2022 To I forgot his name but it’s just come back to me.
\nPsalm 14:2<\/p>\n

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.<\/strong>
\nPsalms 14:3
\n\u2022 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
\n\u2022 They are all gone aside – the condition by nature of all without exception: “children of men”
\n\u2022 (Ps 14:2). “The generation of the righteous”
\n\u2022 (Ps 14:5) also “were by nature the children of wrath, even as others”
\n\u2022 (Eph 2:3). Grace makes the difference between them and the general mass.
\n\u2022 The children of grace are comparatively few (Matt 7:14).
\n\u2022 He accumulates words to express the wide prevalence of the corruption, “all (literally, ‘the all:’ the whole of humanity) … together … there is none that doeth good, no not one.” Their ‘going aside’ or “away” (from God) stands in contrast to ‘seeking the Lord.’
\n\u2022 They are all together become filthy – literally, ‘become rancid’ [\u200e\u00b0aalach\u200e, Job 15:16].
\n\u2022 Suicidal blindness of the workers of iniquity in assailing the Lord’s people, and so bringing destruction on themselves from the Lord.
\n\u2022 Its describes the state of man and our understanding<\/p>\n

\u2022 Doubt
\n\u2022 Uncertainties
\n\u2022 Sin
\n\u2022 Gossip
\n\u2022 Wickedness
\n\u2022 Unbelieves<\/p>\n

\u2022 Today in Luke\u2019s gospel Jesus comes along and stands among His disciples to connect to the again
\nAnd the disciples are \u201cstartled and terrified\u201d verse 37 says.
\nNot wanting to waste any time Jesus leaps into re-assuring them so that He can get to what he wants to share.<\/p>\n

\u2022 He shows them His hands and His feet and then eats a piece of fish in front of them. He doesn\u2019t want them thinking they had imagined Him being there like some kind of ghost as He says in verse 39.
\n\u2022 Once He\u2019s done what He can to settle the doubts and uncertainties He speaks and He clarifies.
\nSaying –\u201cThese are the words that I spoke to you while I was still with you that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.
\n\u2022 On this day Jesus comes to His disciples to make it abundantly clear and finally clear that He is the fulfillment, the completion and the consummation of God\u2019s will and desire nothing more need or ought to be added. The Jews awaited tended to the fulfillment and Jesus is just this.
\nBut.
\n\u2022 The Disciples aren\u2019t quite sharp enough to put this all together.
\nSo Jesus comes stands among them and as verse 45 says \u2013
\n\u201cOpened their minds to understand\u2026\u201d
\n\u2022 Jesus comes to His disciples to explain to open their minds to connect the dots in scripture so that they can see clearly and plainly that there is nothing else to wait on and anticipate. He is the all in all the fulfillment the perfect completion to which nothing can be added or taken away.
\n\u2022 In a nut shell this is the whole purpose of this visit with the disciples to make sure that they get that it\u2019s all done God has spoken finally there isn\u2019t another chapter in terms of His will and desire for His creation save of course the second coming.
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