The Story of Our Scars

-We are taking a 1 week break from our series entitled “What’s the Difference.”

-Next week Pastor Frank will resume and complete the series with a study on Hinduism and Buddhism.

-TODAY Pastor Danny uses Isaiah 53 to share about scars and healing.

Verses used: Isaiah 53:1-5, Ecclesiastes 3:2a, 8b, 11, John 20:27-28

Key verse: Isaiah 53:1-5. (ESV)

1 Who has believed what he has heard from us?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his wounds we are healed.

Sermon Notes:

1. Trauma: Jesus entered into our trauma.

2. Treatment: Jesus embraced the fallenness to become The Way.

3. Transformation: Jesus’ work enables us to live a new life.

4. Testimony: Jesus equips us now with our stories to tell His story and carry out the great commission.

Some questions to consider this week:

1. What is one thing that stands out to you from the message on Sunday?

2. Do you have a physical scar? If so where is it and how did you get it?

3. What are some of the emotional scars in your life and how are you pursuing healing or how have you been healed?

4. How has your life been transformed in the aftermath?

5. How have your scars become your testimony?

6. How can we be “stirring in” the sermon’s verses into our lives this week?

Word for thought:

When we think of our spiritual scars of sin that we all have been born with, praise Jesus for paying for our sins with His scars that he endured for us!

Rev 5:1-7