Take this message with you through a journey of Scripture, reflection, and prayer.
Summary
Themes
Key Points
- 1.Jesus is our great High Priest who sympathizes with our physical and emotional infirmities and invites us to come boldly to His throne of grace to receive mercy.
- 2.Just as human infants shut down and perish without physical touch, believers suffer spiritually when they attend church without ever receiving a real touch from Jesus Christ.
- 3.Despite being digitally connected, millions of young people experience extreme loneliness because screens cannot satisfy the deep longings of the human soul.
- 4.When iniquity abounds, hearts can become cold, numb, and past feeling, causing people to stop reaching out for God's transforming presence.
- 5.Unlike the rest of creation which God spoke into existence, mankind was personally shaped by God's own hands and filled with His breath.
- 6.When Jesus touched the widow's son's coffin, He proved that He touches the limiting circumstances in our lives and raises dead things back to life.
- 7.The woman with the issue of blood pressed through distractions and touched the hem of Jesus' garment, demonstrating that faith and desperate hunger draw virtue from Christ.
- 8.Working tirelessly in ministry like Martha can lead to anxiety and burnout if we fail to sit at the feet of Jesus like Mary to receive a fresh touch from the King.
Sermon Moments
“How much dangerous is it for us to be clothed in his righteousness and know without a doubt that our name is written... but we go for weeks and months and sometimes years without even really being touched by the hand of our king?”
“44% of Generation Z suffer from extreme loneliness... Every now and then I need more than to touch glass. I need to touch Jesus.”
“All of God's creation... God spoke it. But when it came to mankind, God took mud with his own hands. He did not speak us into existence. He said, 'I've got to touch them.'”
“He didn't just touch the dead boy. He touched the thing that contained and limited and held the boy... when Jesus touches your coffin, dead things will live.”
“I'd rather have a fool on fire than a scholar on ice. It's a whole lot easier to cool down a fanatic than it is to heat up a corpse.”
“She never touched Jesus. She touched something that had touched Jesus... You carry the very presence of the Lord into the business, into the office, into the school... And if they touch the hem, they'll touch him.”
“The most dangerous place you can get is when you're working in the kingdom, but you don't get a fresh touch.”
This Week
Remember This
One fresh touch from Jesus Christ can break spiritual coldness, restore dead areas of your life, and satisfy the deepest longings of your soul.
A Challenge for You
If you haven't felt his touch like you want to in a long time, the key to it, if you want to get a touch again, is do not remain silent. The moment you reach out for him and start crying out to him, he will come running.These are personal sermon notes shared to help you remember the message — not a replacement for Scripture, your church, or your pastors.
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