Oftentimes, we are unwilling to value good news until we see it against the backdrop of bad news. In fact, the good news is often appalling to us unless we first hear the bad news.For instance, what would you think of a doctor who came up to you and said he wanted to schedule an appointment next week to take your kidney out? You'd run the other way, wouldn't you? That news is offensive and it doesn't even make sense. Yet, what if he told you that a scan that he took of your kidney last week revealed that there is a large mass, it almost certainly is cancer, left alone it will grow until it kills you but surgery would get rid of it and you could live a long life? You would schedule the surgery, wouldn't you?
Against the backdrop of bad news, good news becomes GREAT news!
In Isaiah 9:6, we read that Jesus is our Prince of Peace. Yet, if that doesn't have a context, it doesn't make sense. It's not really even attractive to us. But when we realize how utterly hopeless our condition was and how a Holy God was going to rightfully judge us and sentence us to a place in Hell and yet He determined to send Jesus to pay our sin debt and bring peace between Him and us, that good news becomes great news!
This sermon develops these thoughts and shows how Jesus, our Prince of Peace, has fixed our 'unfixable' problem - making peace between us and a Holy God.
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