How Did Jesus Do It?
I.
Matthew 11:27-How did
Jesus live with such ease? How did he walk in these unforced rhythms of grace?
How did he live so freely and lightly experiencing all that he experienced?
A. Jesus was constantly
facing what would seem to be hard situations
1.
How
then did Jesus go experience and yet do it with what appeared to be such ease?
He said watch how I do it, so how did he do it?
B. Jesus said he could do
nothing of himself-John 5:19,30,8:28
1.
This
is a key revelation to living this grace-filled life of ease: if he could not
do anything of himself, then you can’t do anything of yourself
a.
You
can’t say the right thing, do the right thing, minister to somebody, believe
something in, pray something in, in your own might and power and ability
b.
4
in you truths
1)
In
yourself you are nothing-Galatians 6:3; In Him you are something-1Jn4:17
2)
In
yourself you know nothing-1 Cor 8:2; In Him you know
all things-1 John 2:20
3)
In
yourself you have nothing-1 Cori 4:7; In Him you have all things that -2 Peter
1:4
4)
In
yourself you can do nothing-John 15:5; In Him you can do all things-Phili 4:13
2.
Life
only becomes hard to those who bare responsibility not given to them
a.
Trying
to do something in your effort brings hard back into your life
b.
Jesus
never tried to do anything of himself, because
he knew he couldn’t
C. ***Jesus said I do only
what my father has shown me to do and I say only what he’s told me to say and
that is all I can do-Matthew 11:27MSG***
1.
He
never tried to bare the brunt of what was the Father’s responsibility
a.
John
14:12-He said the Father in me he does the works
2.
Jesus
did the hearing & saying and seeing and doing (this is being led by the
spirit) and the father did the work
a.
This
is why he lived so freely and lightly; He never tried to carry the Father’s
load
b.
EX:
He didn’t try to pick the load of somebody’s healing or deliverance; he stood
in front of them and looked inward and responded accordingly
3.
Faith
and trust always simplifies; fear and worry always complicates
D. Don’t
over-spectacularlize this seeing and hearing-John 8:38
1.
Satan
tries to keep people in confusion trying to make everything spectacular
2.
How
were they seeing their Father? They wouldn’t have called them visions, they
weren’t hearing audible voices, but something would come up in them and they’d
see it (think about it) and then they’d go say it or do it not realizing it was
the enemy revealing it to them; The are seeing and hearing inside
3.
Jesus
was hearing and seeing inside
II.
We see this grace coming
on Jesus in such a way that even when he faced hard and difficult situations he
did it with such an ease
A. Grace is the entity that
brings ease to your life
1.
Jesus
was walking the grace of God-John 1:14
2.
2
Corinthians 12:9-His grace is possessed with unfailing strength
3.
There’s
enough grace in God to make even the hardest stuff easy
a.
We
see hard stuff being easy all throughout the scripture
b.
EX:
David, Three Hebrews, Gideon 300, Moses and the red sea, Jehoshaphat
4.
Grace
is going to remove the struggle or the toil out of your life-Luke 5:1-6
a.
5-They
had been toiling and it was hard; NO grace
b.
5-We
seek meekness and humility out of Peter
c.
6-Once
grace got in the boat it wasn’t hard the toil was gone
5.
We’ve
looked at like with God’s grace we can struggle through, but not so
a.
Grace
(isn’t just the forgiveness of your sin) is the empowerment to experience
sweatless victory
B. Why is he getting this
grace?
1.
Looking
and yielding, humility and meekness are the two ingredients what will tap God’s
grace and produce and ease on your life-1 Peter 5:5
a.
Humility
looks for this grace because it knows it needs it
2.
He
is getting the grace in response to his humility
a.
Only
the humble get the grace and will experience this ease we’re talking about
b.
He
got this grace because the first thing he did when he got into hard situation
is he looked up and he looked in because he knew he could do nothing of himself
1)
His
first response in every situation was to look up/look in
c.
A
life of looking and yielding will be one full of grace and ease
3.
Grace
will be absent where meekness and humility are not present; where there is no
looking and no yielding, there will be no grace
a.
This
hardship, hard life was the result of Adam’s not being meek and not being
humble-Humility looks to God, meekness yields to him
b.
When
meekness and humility are removed grace is lifted and life will be hard
c.
If
you’re not looking up and looking in like Jesus did you there will be no grace
4.
Humility
is I have to see and hear first or I can do nothing, meekness is doing it and
these characteristics added and ease to his life
a.
When
you begin to live a life where you so dependent on God that you look to Him
before you do are say anything and then do what He says, you will tap His grace
in such a way that you’ll experience a supernatural ease, in the midst of the
hardest situations
b.
Jesus
simply heard and spoke and saw and did and then the Father would work through
and great things would happen; these are the unforced rhythms of grace
C. Eyes that are lifted
reveal humility of heart and those same lifted eyes will always see God’s grace
being poured down-Matthew 14:19, John 11:41
1.
People
aren’t looking to him because they lack humility and that’s why there’s no
grace and that’s why their lives are so hard
a.
The
more you recognize your dependence on God, the more you’ll look to him and the
more you look to Him the greater grace you’ll have on your life
b.
The
humble get the grace because they seek the grace and grace makes it easy
2.
Just
how much will you look up? it will determine the
amount of grace you see
a.
Your
grace/your anointing will never be any greater than your humility
b.
Your
grace/your anointing will be capped by your humility
III.
This whole thing come
down to being led by the spirit
A. You look to Him, hear him
and yield to Him and He is grace and He is your helper and the more of Him you
have the more grace you have the more help you have the easier life becomes
B. John 2-It’s the gateway
to the life of ease
C. The better we see, the
better we hear, the better we yield the easier life gets
D. The word says wisdom is
the principle thing and it’s hasn’t been anything to us-Prov
4:7
1.
Wisdom
hasn’t been the tenth thing to us; the problem has been we do all we know to
do, instead of doing what see saw and heard from him to do; when we do all we
know to do and nothing works, then we start seeking for wisdom