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Living Hope SDA Church

Christian Martin

The Incomparable Life

And when we invoke his presence, he comes.

Thank you voices of praise for that beautiful message.

You know in this sermon series we've been sharing together for the last couple of weeks, we've been lifting up a Savior who cannot be compared.

In part 1, we magnified the name, the name of Jesus, the name above every name, the name that saves, the name that heals, the name that delivers.

And we declared that His name is incomparable, incomparable.

There's no other name given among men by which we must be saved.

In part 2, we stood in the country with a group of disciples, rather shepherds, and they were abiding in the fields.

And the angels appeared and they marveled at the good tidings of great joy, that he was born to be born in us, a birth like no other, because it was incomparable.

But today, we move from what they called him to how or and how he came into the world to how he lived once he was born.

Because if you think about it, a name like that, a birth like that, could only lead to a life like no other.

Today we behold at the center, the truth at the center of it all, Jesus' incomparable life.

Let's bow our heads together as we acknowledge him once more.

We worship Him who's worthy to be praised.

And as we turn our attention now to His very life, His unique, incomparable life, We ask, Lord, that You would draw near to us and speak to our hearts like only You can, with that powerful, convicting voice, yet that gentle and loving voice.

So we thank you, Lord, for meeting with us here today, and we thank you in Jesus' name, amen.

You know, some people make a good living pretending to be someone they are not.

Actors and actresses, they step on a stage and in front of a camera, and they pretend to be someone else.

And they're rewarded, as a result, with applause, with fame, and with fortune.

Others pretend to be somebody they are not, but they're not entertainers.

They deceive, pretending to be someone else.

They cheat honest people out of hard-earned money.

And when they're exposed, they're not rewarded with applause or with fame.

Spies, They pretend to be someone they're not.

But they've sold their allegiance to another power.

And so all over the world, there are famous people, actors, musicians, political leaders, people that are admired and adored by the public.

You know, many of you know that I'm from Argentina.

And in Argentinian history, 1 such famous person was the wife of President Peron.

And women, for years, decades after her death, they styled their hair like Eva Perón.

It was quite a fascinating thing to witness.

But here in our country, we're not foreign to that kind of thing.

Here in America, Elvis Presley became so famous that decades after his death, even till this very day, you can find hundreds, hundreds, maybe even thousands of men who impersonate Elvis Presley.

There was only 1 genuine Elvis and all the rest are impersonators.

But there is another man who has more impersonators than Elvis ever did.

There has only been 1 true Messiah in all of human history.

That no 1 else could imitate, replicate, or duplicate Because Jesus' life was incomparable.

Most biographies, when you take a look at biographies that are written, whether it's in a bookstore or in your own shelf, most biographies are written after someone has died.

But Jesus, His life, something different about it.

You see, His life was written before He was born, Before Mary ever held him, before Joseph protected him, before the shepherds worshipped him, his story was already on the page.

His life was already written on the page.

And I wonder, does he do the same with us sometimes?

You know, there was a season in my life that I could not understand why God allowed us to leave the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest, and end up in Denver, Colorado.

As you can only imagine when you're a pastor, you depend entirely on the will of God to open doors before you, to call you when he calls, and to discern his voice.

And I could not understand why God would allow us to move to Denver, Colorado.

Well when we arrived within a few months, I'm talking like 1 or 2 months, the conference, the place of employment that coordinates the work of pastors within a territory.

The conference, they announced that we're gonna have a citywide health series.

And it was gonna be planned right there in the center of downtown Denver.

So we were just 3 miles from down city center, Denver.

And so for us, this was quite an exciting report and exciting news.

And the health series was planned with the evangelist, Mark Finley.

Very dear evangelist, not only to the World Church, but of course to this church family.

We were excited about this initiative until the city venue, right there in downtown Denver, they informed us that, well, unexpectedly, because we didn't see this coming, But they informed us that we would have to, well, relocate due to a conflicting, some schedule conflict, conflicting schedule.

And we were somewhat, well, didn't know what to do because this was timeless of the essence.

And to get a venue of a considerable size with the intentions to do a citywide initiative, well you just can't coordinate a location in a few weeks.

So we didn't know what we were going to do.

And so a meeting was called of all the area pastors to discuss what they were gonna do next.

And at this particular meeting, Elder Finley was actually at the meeting himself.

And after much discussion, a solution had not been reached.

There was no agreement on what we're going to do next.

And 1 might have questioned that there was even a high interest to do this, to do this health public evangelistic initiative.

And it was a little bit disheartening to kind of sense that, are we going to do this or not?

And when it seemed like the event was just gonna be all out, canceled, I felt a nudge of the Holy Spirit like, elbowing me saying, you gotta speak up now.

I raised my hand right there in that hall and I said, listen, fellow pastors, you know, our city needs this message.

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