First Baptist Church of Seminole
Come Alive is an invitation to a fresh start in life at FBC Seminole. Jesus initiates breakthrough as He overcomes sin and death. In these intense and intimate moments leading up to His sacrificial death, we find Jesus’ power, mercy, and love. And we find for ourselves the opportunity to Come Alive both with and through Jesus!
Isaiah 53:3 NLT
3 He was despised and rejected—a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.He was despised, and we did not care.
Luke 23:13-25 NLT
He was rejected so you could be accepted. He was rejected over and over and over again so you could be accepted by your Heavenly Father forever and ever and ever.
Jesus knew that God would have to treat Jesus like Barabbas, so He
could treat Barabbas like Jesus.
He is Barabbas
Matthew 27:15-16 NLT
15 Now it was the governor’s custom each year during the Passover celebration to release one prisoner to the crowd—anyone they wanted. 16 This year there was a notorious prisoner, a man named Barabbas.
Pharisees
Saducees
Essenes
Zealots
Barabbas is a living illustration of a helpless, hopeless sinner who in literal sense, could say Jesus died in my place.
We are Barabbas
2 Corinthians 5:21 NLT
21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.