Reminder 1: He came to make the unclean clean!
Matthew 8:1-3
When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. 2 A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, (no one wanted to be near him - didn’t want to be infected, ever stay away from someone because you don’t want to be infected by their attitude?) “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean. Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy.
Reminder 2: He came to make the broken whole!
John 5:1-8
Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days. Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches. Crowds of sick people blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches. One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Will thou be made whole?” “I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.”
Reminder 3: He came to give our lives a new direction!
Luke 24:28-33 NLT
By this time they were nearing Emmaus and the end of their journey. Jesus acted as if he were going on, but they begged him, “Stay the night with us, since it is getting late.” So he went home with them. As they sat down to eat, he took the bread and blessed it. Then he broke it and gave it to them. Suddenly, their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And at that moment he disappeared! They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn within us as he talked with us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us?” And within the hour they were on their way back to Jerusalem.
“HOPE” is an acronym: Hope Opens People’s Eyes
“HOME” is an acronym: Hope Opened My Eyes
