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Show WHEN JESUS BREATHED ON THEM John 20: 21-23 Sunday evening and there was a murmuring around town. The disciples of Jesus were hiding out in a house. They were trembling in their stockings and worrying about what the Jews might It was do. Thomas doors were Jesus came without was somewhere else. The shut and the book says that and stood in their presence opening the door. He you." (John 20: 19. He showed this bewildered bunch and be unto spoke to said, "Peace them the holes in His hands and side to prove that He resurrected a little was the crucified now disciples breathed easier and were made glad when one. The 1 they realized it really was the resurrected Jesus. second time, "Peace Then he said, I have Jesus told them a you." something I want you to do. be unto "As my send I you." Father hath sent me, even so (John 20: 21) In other words, what I came to do is not yet finished. I enlisted you, I trained you, I need you, and I want to empower you to carry on what I started. What that Jesus who a magnificent commission, was the God-man would beings to finish what He That's just what He did. "And entrust human started! when he had said this, he breathed on them and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained." 2 (John 20: 22-23) The first thing we need to know is that there is life in the breath of God. When God created the world and populated it, He created man different from everything else. He spoke everything else into being but when He got ready for something shaped in His own image and likeness, God made man. Then, He distinguished man from every other creature by breathing into his nostrils the breath of life and man living soul. (Genesis 2: 7) I tell you one more time, there is life in the became a breath of God. Here the Master breathes disciples and imparts eternal spiritual life so that they would have the on His power to do God's will here on earth. Can I tell you, my sisters and my 3 brothers, that you and I cannot do the work of God without the power of His breath. W e can do nothing in our own He is The One who empowers to acts. Y ou and I will never be the strength. us same when God breaths on us. Second, God wants us to be empowered by His breath. He want us to get up and live, to enjoy life and that more abundantly, to be like Him and to do His will. In fact, Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my Father." (John 14: 12) He was saying His disciples will carry the gospel of His kingdom by the power of the Holy Spirit out of Palestine and into the whole 4 world. If we would have revival, we must accept the Holy Spirit and let Him glow praise in anticipation of eternal glory. For God wants nothing less than harmony and holiness as we prepare for eternity. So my prayer is with joy and "Breath on me, Breath of God, Fill with life anew, That I may love what thou dost me do what thou wouldst do. Breathe on me, Breath of God, Until my heart is pure, Until with Thee I will to endure. Breathe on love, and one will, to do and me, Breath of God, Till I wholly Thine, Until this earthly part of me Glows with Thy fire divine. am 5 Breathe shall I on never me, Breath of God, die, But live with Thee the perfect eternity. AMEN" (Hymn 3, by Edwin Hatch Thine Jackson in Favorite so life of and Robert Hymns of Praise) i-/ \) I 1 _ f0 c::; ,_.- d.-7l/-i r: bfatv1 ]), yq /.A;_,_;jf- h?AVIN (l_f 4. C<.u.c).if 0q"Jib t_..I._f-{a, f (Cf,Jd-0r7(ff{/f_tJ J> 1,£e.-C{fL J)/)'..§-h (1tIA_S 0G.(ry "4_lfflg f(_ b /- b r(I-+t rr» ,.( hi,J :r::t0' 5h(.s ,I. oS 5' _f <-R.J R-4V\_e b 1],( rJ_},- I Tr-t.t r; () l 6 u.. r't2 a +0 1 !V8Jfe r-dcr d,,/ J'ltR ' |
