Pastor Elio Marrocco's " Jesus' Answers To Life's Greatest Questions" sermon at New Life Christian Church on November 25, 2012. You can learn more about New Life Christian Church here: http://www.newlifecc.ca

1. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S
GREATEST QUESTION
Text: Luke 18:18-34
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2. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
1. HE CAME TO THE RIGHT PERSON.
John 6:68
“Lord, to whom shall we go? You have
words of Eternal life.”
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3. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
1. HE CAME TO THE RIGHT PERSON.
John 14:6
“I am the way, the truth, the life, no one
comes to the Father, but through me.”
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4. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
1. HE CAME TO THE RIGHT PERSON.
John 11:25
“I am the resurrection and the life.”
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5. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
1. HE CAME TO THE RIGHT PERSON.
2. HE CAME AT THE RIGHT TIME.
- Where do I come from?
- Why am I here?
- Where am I going?
- Does life end at death?
- Can we live forever? 5

6. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
1. HE CAME TO THE RIGHT PERSON.
2. HE CAME AT THE RIGHT TIME.
“I wonder what I was begun for
when I am soon done for.”
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7. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
“All life is brief.
What now is bud will soon be leaf.
What now is leaf will soon decay.
The blue eggs in the robin’s nest
will soon have wings and beak and breast
and flutter and fly away.
Too soon. Too soon
the noon will be the afternoon.
Too soon. Today be yesterday!”
(Longfellow)
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8. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
“This fundamental thing behind all
motivation and all activity is the constant
struggle against annihilation and against
death. It’s absolutely stupefying in its
terror and it renders everyone’s
accomplishments meaningless…
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9. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
…It’s not only that man dies. But that you
struggle to do a word of art that will last
and then realize that the universe itself is
not going to exist after a period of time is
sort of depressing, isn’t it? To be involved
in something, a work of art, and then the
work itself isn’t going to last because the
universe isn’t going to last.” (Woody Allen)
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10. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
1. HE CAME TO THE RIGHT PERSON.
2. HE CAME AT THE RIGHT TIME.
Woody Allen
“Who cares about achieving immortality
through achievements? I’m interested
in achieving immortality through not
dying.”
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11. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
1. HE CAME TO THE RIGHT PERSON.
2. HE CAME AT THE RIGHT TIME.
3. HE ASKED THE RIGHT QUESTION.
4. JESUS GAVE HIM THE RIGHT ANSWER.
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12. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
True Christianity
is not a mental assent.
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13. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
“Your belief has to impact how
you behave; how you live.”
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14. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
Jesus is asking him (and us)
for a commitment.
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15. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
True riches are not those things
outside of us,
Those are what we own!
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16. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
True riches are within us:
- Rich in our relationship with God.
- Rich in our relationships with
people.
- Having love, joy and peace.
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17. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
1. HE CAME TO THE RIGHT PERSON.
2. HE CAME AT THE RIGHT TIME.
3. HE ASKED THE RIGHT QUESTION.
4. JESUS GAVE HIM THE RIGHT ANSWER.
5. HE MADE THE WRONG DECISION.
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18. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
Paul Anka,
“Now the end is near
and so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I’ll say it clear,
I’ll state my case of which I’m certain.
I’ve lived a life that’s full
I’ve traveled each and every highway.
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way...
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19. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
... But what is man? What has he got?
If not himself, then he has got to say
the things he truly feels and not the
words of one who kneels.
The records show I took the blows
and did it my way.”
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20. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
We will all wind up with a
bottom line of sadness
if we do it our way
rather than Jesus’ way.
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21. JESUS’ ANSWER TO LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION
“With man it’s impossible,
but with God it is possible
to have Eternal life.”
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