A Divine Interruption (Pt.2)

 “Jesus traveled through all the towns and villages of that area, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And he healed every kind of disease and illness.”-Matthew 9:35 

Jesus’ birth was a divine interruption in the lives of Mary, Joseph, the shepherds and wisemen; however they would not be the last people’s lives that Jesus would interrupt. Another thing that Jesus was notorious for interrupting was the cycle of sickness in people’s lives. 

 

Remember, if the Good News isn’t interrupting anything it’s not transforming anything! Healing every much part of the Good News message as salvation:

 

9 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. 2 “Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?” 3 “It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This happened so the power of God could be seen in him. 4 We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us.[a] The night is coming, and then no one can work. 5 But while I am here in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6 Then he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man’s eyes. 7 He told him, “Go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam” (Siloam means “sent”). So the man went and washed and came back seeing!”-John 9:1-7

 

The healing, that this man received is part of God’s plan to seek and save the lost. His healing was a divine interruption to the cycle of sickness he had been living with for years, decades in fact! However, it is a foreshadow of a greater healing God intended for us. Ultimately, Jesus came to interrupt our sinful condition! 

 

The Gospel is about transforming lives, meaning that the continuity of our sinful lives has to be interrupted if we are going to experience the new life that God has in store for us. Romans 3:23 declares that we have all sinned and come short of the glory of God and Romans 6:23 goes on to confirm that the wages of sin is death.

 

We were born into a cycle of sinfulness: 

 

“When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.”-Romans 5:12 

 

However, God’s gift to mankind was Jesus. Romans 5:8 declares that while were were yet sinners Christ died for us. He took the penalty of our sin upon himself and broke the continuity of sin. 1 Corinthians 15:21 tells us that just as sin entered the world through one man, resurrection unto eternal life comes through one man-Jesus!

 

Jesus didn’t free us to sin, He saved us from sin. That is why He told the woman caught in adultery to go and sin no more. He instructed her not to return to continuity of sin that He died to deliver us from:

 

“For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light!”-Ephesians 5:8

 

Christmas was designed to interrupt us! The Good News that we declare, when received, will interrupt our lives in so many ways. Jesus wants to interrupt your misery with joy, your internal conflict with peace, your mourning with laughter, your fear with faith. Jesus came to break the continuity of pain that you are experiencing with His love and purpose. He came to interrupt your journey on the road that leads to destruction with access to a path that leads to eternal life. 

 

Who is ready for a divine interruption in their life?

 

Scott Burr

Dayspring Community Church