The Plan

The Plan

Learning about God's Plan for Salvation at South Shore Trinity Lutheran Church

John 20:24-30

Thomas does what we all would have done

Week 57 – “I love it when a Plan comes together”

In the 80’s there was a TV show called the A-team. It wasn’t the best acted show on TV but it was fun and people loved it. One of the parts of the show people always looked forward to was the elaborate contraptions and gadgets that the team would put together to defeat the bad guys. No show would be complete without the A-team creating amazing fortifications, traps and vehicles out of scraps which were just lying around. And at the end of every episode, after the bad guys had been vanquished by the A-Team’s elaborate plan, Hannibal, the leader of the team, would say, “I love it when a plan comes together!”

            This week we get to say, “I love it when a plan comes together!” Or in century’s old Theological lingo, we can say: “Christ is risen!!!” From the fall into sin to this, the final week of Jesus earthly life, the Lord’s plan had been steadily marching toward the defeat of Sin, Death and the Devil. This week we see the success of that plan when Jesus’ borrowed tomb is broken opened open and Christ walks out.

From that moment on, everything in our lives and in our future was going to be different. Our relationship with God is restored and made new. We no longer need to fear death because death had been made the door into eternal life.  Everything is changed and believers are born again to a new life, bought and paid for by Christ’s sacrifice on the cross and His resurrection from the grave.

            Take a few minutes this week to sit and meditate on God’s amazing plan and what that plan means for your life. And when you do, you will say, “I love it when a plan comes together! Christ is risen!!!”

John 17:1-26

Jesus prays for those who believe in Him

Week 56 – The Passion

All of human history since the fall into sin has been moving to these events recorded in the Gospels. These accounts, inspired by the Holy Spirit and recorded by those who were there, recall the moment all of our sin was loaded upon God’s Son and He paid the price to erase them. No words can summarize the magnitude and no actions can repay what God has done for us on that hill outside Jerusalem. We are only to believe in the gift which is given to us and give thanks for the overwhelming blessing which Christ has won for us.

John 16:16-33

¨ The grief of the disciples will ultimately turn to joy

John 15:18-27

The world will hate those that follow Jesus

John 15:1-17

Jesus is the vine and we are the branches.

John 14:25-31

Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit

John 14:1-14

Jesus tries to comfort the disciples at the last supper.