Because He Did

Put Me in His Story...

(PUT your name in the blank)

____________ wept. John 11:13

____________ thirst. John 19:28

_____________ was hungry. Mark 11:12

___________ often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. Luke 5:16

______________, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime. John 4:6

______________ learned obedience from what _____________ suffered. Hebrews 5:8

They took offense at _____________. Mark 6:3

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken _________________.” Matthew 27:46

Hmmm...

Can you relate?

Have you wept?

Have you been thirsty?

Have you been hungry?

Have you prayed?

Have you been tired and weary?

Have you learned obedience through suffering?

Have you every been rejected?

Have you every been forsaken?

Hmmm...

Put Me in His Story

Jesus' Story

Now

Put Him back into the above blanks.

Does that sound like Someone who can relate with you~

A Man

Who wept, who thirsted, who hungered, who prayed, who was weary, who learned obedience,

who was rejected, and who was forsaken...

just like me

just like you.

Put Me in His Story (PUT your name in)

They stripped ___________________ and put a scarlet robe on __________________,

and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on ________________'s head.

They put a staff in _____________________'s right hand.

Then they knelt in front of __________________ and mocked _________________....

They spit on _________________ , and took the staff and struck ______________ on the head again and

after they had mocked ___________________, they took off the robe and put ________________'s own clothes on ___________________.

Then they led ______________ away to crucify ___________________. Matthew 27:28-31

Yikes...I don't like seeing my name in those blanks, do you?

Now I don't want to be

put into His Story~

A Man Who was crucified

Not like me

Not like you

But He did what He did

so

He could

Put Himself in our story

He Himself bore our sins” in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness;

“by His wounds you have been healed.” I Peter 2:24

What, then, shall we say in response to these things?

If God is for _______________ who can be against _______________?

He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for _____________________

how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give __________________ all things?

Who will bring any charge against _________________ whom God has chosen?

It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one.

Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for _____________. Romans 8:31-34

Okay...

Now

Put Me in His Story

His Love Story

For God so loved

_____________________ (PUT your name)

that He gave His one and only Son,

that ______________ who believes in Him

shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16