If you have your Bible go ahead and open to Genesis chapter 3.
Genesis chapter 3 as well. World will get rolling today.
We are currently in the series called Advent, I kind of got
over this each week but Advent means coming and what we're
looking at specifically is the first coming of Christ we're
reflecting on it. We're looking at Old Testament
passages on it, with it predicted it.
We're going to get into some Old Testament today.
Some new testament also to see how Christ has fulfilled.
I'll promise that was made Long Ago by the father.
And and so I'm excited to share these things with you today.
And what we're saying is that for unto us, God has come.
This is what we're saying with Advent.
And as we look at the first Advent, we have in mind the
second ad in Christ will return again to gather his people.
Amen, it returned and gather his people.
We Judgment of the living and the dead, according to the
righteousness of Christ. Those found in Christ will rise
to eternal life. Those not found in Christ will
be eternally condemned and so this is a message that matters
for all eternity. This is a truth that matters for
your life. It matters for the lives of your
neighbors. It matters for the lives of your
friends, your family. This the story matters, right?
For all eternity and so Want to get into that today before we
do. Let me pray for us.
Heavenly Father, we thank you for your word.
Got to thank you that your word is good and right, that's true.
That it doesn't fell us. That that in its are everything
sufficient for life and salvation and godliness.
And father we come to your word. Today is those who are in need
we don't come as those who have things figured out, we don't
come as those who I feel like we might educate you about
something father. But we need to be educated by
you. We need to be trained by you.
We need to be equipped by you. And father, your word promises
and second Timothy to do exactly that.
And so father, we thank you that we're here today.
We thank you that we have this opportunity to hear from your
word God. I'm but a man finites.
Unable Lord to save anyone by my work and so I lean on the power
of your word. Today, I trust your word to be
sufficient and the lives of my heroes this morning of your
people and maybe those who are yet to be your people.
Father, would you speak today? It's in Christ's name.
We pray these prayers. Amen.
So what we've said, thus far in
this series by way of very brief recap, is we've described a God
who is unlike all others He's unlike all others and one of the
big ways that God is unlike all the others.
One of the the most important way actually is that God is
Triune. He's three persons in one God,
there is one Essence to God and three persons.
And so in week one, we talked about that I'm not I'm not going
to go back down that road too far.
If you want to hear that sermon, it's available.
What we talked about how he's eternally Triune, what this
means is that God is able to be self existent.
He's not dependent upon any one or anything for life.
He's able to exist completely and himself, and he's all
sufficient, which means he has everything he needs for life.
God is not in wants, God is Not lacking, something, God has all
that he needs, he is all sufficient.
And weak to what we saw is that he's the creator of Heaven and
Earth and everything else that exists, God created all things
and at the end of Creation in Genesis chapter 1, we read that
he says it is very good, it's very good creation.
And what we talked about last week is that he did this out of
the Overflow of his own love, an overflow of Love, which was
being experienced already within the godhead within the Trinity.
The father loving the Sun, by the spirit.
Sun, loving the father by the spirit.
And this is what. Michael Reaves, author of
delighting in the Trinity says about this.
God, he says, how radically different Well he says how
radically an overwhelmingly difference is the god of the
Bible, he's not needy, he's not solitary and he's not selfish.
He says he goes on to say but he is Bountiful He is loving and he
is self-giving at the very heart of who he is.
This is who God is, and who God has created a perfect world, a
very good world. and he's place, man and woman in the garden and
he's given them the command to be fruitful to multiply To fill
the Earth to exercise Dominion to subdue all creation.
And that was their purpose. Adam was created to work and
keep the garden that the, by his working, by his, keeping the
garden would flourish into all the Earth.
It would be cultivated it would be protected.
And so that the glory of God would spread throughout
creation. This would happen with his
marriage and what happened in the work that he put his hands
to, it would happen in parenting, it would happen as
Generations came from Adam and Eve.
And Eve was created to be a help meet for Adam.
To be a helper by his side. This is why she was created from
the side of man to be nearer to him.
To be in conjunction with him as Adam exclaims, bone of his bone,
flesh of his flesh, they were like and every way yet
distinctly different as one was a man, one was a woman and the
so the roles were different but complementary and they were to
help one another and exercising Dominion subduing, the Earth.
and so God places them into the garden and and then he gives a
command to Adam And he says, you may eat of every tree of the
garden except this one tree, which is the tree of knowledge
of Good and Evil. It says you shall not eat of it.
In fact, in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.
And so Adam and Eve were put into the garden.
They're given a command one. They're given a blessing to be
fruitful multiply fill the Earth.
Exercise! Dominion subdue all creation.
And then they'll give it a command, do not eat of this
tree, but every other tree is yours. in the garden was also
the Tree of Life, which was theirs for the taking And in
Genesis chapter 3 were introduced to another character
look at Genesis 3:1. Now, the serpent was more crafty
than any other Beast of a field that the Lord God had made.
And he said to the woman, Did God actually say you shall not
eat of any tree in the garden? And the woman said to the
serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden but
God said You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in
the midst of the garden. Neither shall you?
Touch it, lest you die. I want you to notice something
here about the way. The enemy works.
Well the enemy still works today the way we see the world doing
this, even now it's questioning what has God said.
Did God actually say that you shall eat of none of the trees?
On Genesis chapter 2. We see that's not at all what
God Said and evening that's not what God Said.
But she adds to the command of God, at least from what we
understand. She says, neither shall you
touch it, lest you die. And so the serpent says to the
woman continuing to get her to doubt the goodness of God her
Creator. He says you will not surely die.
How many have ever been on maybe in the heat?
The heat of Temptation. You know, the heat of Temptation
where your you're overwhelmed by?
This filling to do something. That's contrary to what God's
word says and you know, God's word as a Believer, you know
what, the Lord has said. and in those moments you find yourself,
did God actually say, if I do this, will I really Well, I
really die. Will I really be separated?
And so you start to finagle a b with God, you start to tamper
with his words, soften the blow of your sin and this is exactly
what the enemy is doing here. You will not surely die for.
God knows that when you eat of it or as 5, your eyes will be
opened. And you will be like, God
knowing good and evil. You're not surely going to die.
In fact, you'll become like, God, And so what God is doing is
trying to keep you down, he's trying to keep you from being
like himself. And then we read.
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, she
looks at it. She sees that it's good for
food. It was the Delight to her eyes
again Temptations. Rarely probably never.
Something that's not a delight to your own eyes to your own
desires. And that the tree was to be
desired. To make one wise, she took of
its fruit and ate and she also gave some to her husband who was
with her and he ate so Adams there.
He's not keeping the garden to keep means to protect. to keep
out that which goes against what God has commanded that, which
goes against what God Has given them as a blessing to do.
He's not protecting his bride. Adam is passive.
And here we see the first of the two sins.
That man, a man is most prone to one is passivity. men are prone
to be passive to just let things go, especially spiritual things
to not be concerned about the health of a marriage, the health
of their own hearts, their own walk with the Lord even It's
just not a big deal. They're more concerned with the
minion work. Putting their hands to something
getting their hands dirty, which is not bad.
This is what they're created for.
And then we see. In the curse here in the moment.
The second sin, that man is prone to is to exercise dominion
and a domineering fashion. And so we have Eve here
questioning Now, to the point of she has taken hold of the fruit.
She's eating it. She's given her some to her
husband who is now eating. It also an in verse 7.
It says both of their eyes were opened and they knew that they
were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made
themselves loin cloths. And they heard the sound of the
Lord Walking In The Garden, in the cool of the day and the man
and his wife, hid themselves from the presence of the Lord
God Among the Trees of the garden, but the Lord God Called
To The Man and said to him, where are you?
As if God doesn't know, right? And he said, I heard the sound
of you in the garden. And I was afraid, because I was
naked and I hid myself. He said who told you that you
were naked. Have you eaten up the tree of
which I commanded you not to eat.
This is the this is the result of sin.
This is what sin does, every single time it fills you with.
Guilt, it fills you with shame, it robs you of your innocence.
It exposes you. And rather than run to their
creator. Runs to the one who might make
all things right, they hid from him.
How often do we do that in our sinned?
We do we not go to the Lord in prayer.
We not quick to repent because we see God not as a benevolent,
father, but more as a distant dictator.
A distant God who wants nothing to do with the sinfulness of
man. And so he hides himself for men
as our understanding of this and we must hide ourselves from him.
And the man said to God, after he said, have you eaten of this
tree? The man said, the woman whom you
gave to be with me. She gave me fruit, the fruit of
the tree and I ate she gave me right?
Again, this is a another result of sin, a failure to take
responsibility. A desire to blame someone else
for your failures for your sins again, this is passivity Adam is
not wanting to take responsibility for his own life.
He's been dealt a bad hand. God, the Lord the woman.
You gave me caused me to do this.
It's your fault. God.
And then that you need to pay attention to this because and
women also. But men we were prone to this We
are prone to blame people. I believe, blame our fathers.
Blame our parents for the raising we had, we didn't get
the opportunities that everyone else got.
We didn't learn the things that others got to learn, maybe we
blame. The life we had.
We blame a teacher, a coach. A boss.
A woman. Take responsibility for your own
actions. This is Godly.
And so the Lord said to the woman, what is this?
That you have done in the woman said, the serpent deceived me.
And I ate And so, Adam and Eve were here and they are now about
to hear the curse in the day of eat you eat of it, you will
surely die. They're going to hear what the
curse is. And so the Lord God says to the
serpent because you have done this verse 14.
Cursed, are you above all livestock and above all Beasts
of the field on your belly? You shall go and dust.
You shall eat all the days of your life.
And then in verse 15, he says I will put enmity between you and
the woman and between your Offspring and her Offspring.
He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.
If you're in the underlining or circling or highlighting versus
Genesis 3:15, is one you need to highlight underline Circle
something. So what theologians call the
protoevangelium? It's a fancy word for the first
announcement of good news. This is the first time you see
the gospel. Announcement made in Scripture
that there will be one born. There will be one born who will
crush your head. You Wiley Serpent and you might
bruise his heel but you'll be dealt the deathblow.
And so to the woman, he says, I will surely multiply your pain
and childbearing. So ladies not that there wasn't
already pain, it's just been multiplied in pain, you shall
bring forth children, And your desire shall be contrary to your
husband, but he shall rule over you. this is where we have the
really the introduction of marriage strife.
A woman Desiring. The role of her husband.
Wanting her role for his role for herself, wanting to be the
leader wanting to be the head. And then we have the husband's
response. Is domineering rule.
He shall rule over you. These are fractures.
These are not, this is a result of the fall.
This is not the way God established things in Genesis
chapter 2. And then in verse 17, he speaks
to Adam, he says to Adam because you have listened to the voice
of your wife and you have eaten of the tree of which I commanded
you saying you shall not eat of it.
Cursed is the ground because of you in pain, you shall eat of it
all the days of your life thorns and thistles it shall bring
forth for you. And you shall eat the plants of
the field by the sweat of your face.
You shall eat bread till you return to the ground for out of
it. You were taken for.
You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
And so we see the infusion here of difficulty in work, work was
always a part of creation. Men were always going to be
working and keeping this is Who We Are.
But now there's thorns and thistles and our work parenting
is laborious. It's difficult.
Marriage is hard. Learning to love a sinner from
now until the end of your life is not an easy thing to do as a
fellow sinner. Work the work.
You put your hands to is hard. It's difficult.
It feels fruitless at times and what you see here is that you
are dust And to dust you shall return.
It's a reminder of the fragility of life, that life is, but a
vapor as James puts it. The psalmist says it's here.
One day and gone. The next you're like a flower
being blown away in the Wind and now in Genesis 320, we have the
man and woman in her acting again, the man called his wife's
name, Eve, because she was the mother of all living, What's
interesting about this is, this is pronouncement of Hope.
Adam has understood something from the curse on the serpent
about life. Eve will be the mother of all
living that through her will come one who brings life.
Again, there is death but there will be life.
And the Lord God Made For Adam and for his wife, garments of
skins and clothed them. Before the fall, there was no
death. There were no animal skins.
Post-fall there's death. There's animal skins available.
But think further about what being closed by God might later
look like in Christ. You were clothed in the
righteousness of God. Amen.
Naked in your sin clothed in the righteousness of Christ.
Jesus. I'll talk more about that as we
go. then the Lord God said, Among himself among the godhead.
Now, the godhead is talking. The man has become like one of
us in knowing good and evil. Now list he reached out his hand
and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever.
And then, it's thought Just Brakes.
And I think part of it is because, as we looked at last
week, both in Sunday school, and in here, is Humanity as the
crown jewel of God's creation. Amen.
Humanity is the only thing that was created in the image and
likeness of God. And now what God sees is that
humanity is fractured It's broken.
The image is broken. And he says, less they eat of
the Tree of Life. And live forever.
There must be something done, it's too much.
Too great for God to bear that the crown jewel of creation
would live in their sins forever more.
And so, in verse 23 says, therefore, the Lord God sent him
out from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he
was taken, and he drove out the man and at the east of the
Garden of Eden, he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword
that turned every way to guard the way to the Tree of Life.
Mankind is separated from God. It's the result of sin and
death. Now embarking on a new life
outside. The fruitful Garden guarded from
the Tree of Life. but in Christ, there would be another tree.
A tree that Christ would hang on which we which would lead to
life for all who trust in the Lord.
This is what we read about Mankind and Romans, 3:10 through
18 Mankind in his Fallen state that says as it is written, none
is righteous. No not one, no one understands.
No one seeks. God all have turned aside
together they have become worthless.
No one does good. Not even one.
Their throat is an open grave. That use their tongues to
deceive the Venom of asps is under their lips.
Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.
Their feet are Swift to shed blood in their paths are ruin,
and misery. And the way of peace.
They have not known. There is no fear of God before
their eyes. Paul is using the profits to
describe mankind who is now full of Decay and destruction and
death. And Romans 5:12, we read about
our own guilt for Adam sin. How is it that mankind by his
nature? Is sinful. it is therefore, just
as Sin came into the world through one, man and death
through sin, and so death, spread to all men, because all
sinned, That spread to all men because all sinned.
So You and I by our very Nature by both birth and action are
sinful. We're guilty of sin.
You can run through the Ten Commandments if you're familiar
with even just a few of them. You'll see yourself very quickly
as a sinner. So the question becomes.
If there's a promise in Genesis 3:15 for the serpent to be
crushed, yet, man, is now separated from God.
The question is, then how is mankind going to attain
Redemption from their sins? How do we take, hold of
Redemption? How do we take hold of life
again, if we are Death. If we were walking corpses,
spiritually speaking. This is where things for me get
really. Enlightening, I think.
If you survey. Most of at least the popular
more thought of world religions. They have a monotheistic God,
which we have a monotheistic God, but their God is more of a
Taskmaster. Their God is demanding.
Their God is Not benevolence. There is no Grace and the god of
other religions. And to gain salvation to gain
Redemption. You, they do have that.
This tells us that what we read in Genesis 3 is true.
One of one of the ways we can do this is apologetically speaking
is just by looking at other religions other religions have a
way to Salvation. They all understand that you are
broken and that you're in need of rescue.
There's a Plan of Salvation and all other religions.
Here's a few examples and Judaism, you must obey the law
and the customs of the Old Testament.
Perfectly, you must keep the law.
We read about this a lot as we preach through the New Testament
passages when they were judaizers present.
In the first century church has false teachers, Paul calls them
and Islam. Muslims must maintain the Five
Pillars successfully which are all based on Works similar to
keeping the law. In Buddhism, you must fully
renounce yourself before you can reach nirvana.
This is a kind of state of Salvation.
You must fully renounce yourself.
You must deny yourself. In Hinduism, the individual must
purify himself from evil in life.
After Life, After Life, After Life.
Until maybe you become a cow. This is salvation in Hinduism.
Reincarnated over and over again.
Maybe as a person, maybe a, some other created thing.
So that you can. Renounce yourself and Life After
Life, After Life, deny your sins, try to live perfectly. so,
these religions do nothing about a God who is loving I know
nothing about a God who is merciful, they know nothing
about a God, who is filled with grace toward his people
salvation for them is dependent upon, man and not God.
And if you look at some of the other great religions out there,
atheism is a religion. Agnosticism is a religion.
There's still filled with works. Salvation.
However, In the Christian God is based upon the work of the
Triune. God, a work that man cannot
accomplish. It's not not the work of you and
I not even in our faith. It, there's no work that we can
do to achieve salvation and that's really bad news.
It seems except that our God is full of grace and mercy for all
who humble themselves and turn to him.
And so in Philippians 2, 6 and 8, the Apostle Paul describing
the kind of mind you ought to have about yourself as you dwell
together in the church, says some amazing things.
About Christ. The second member of the
Trinity, the Son of God, this is what he says.
He's telling them have this mind of Christ in you.
And then in verse 6, he says who, though?
He was in the form of God, meaning he was of the essence of
God. He had the full deity of God.
He did not count equality with God.
A thing to be grasped. In other words, he didn't count
equality with God, a thing to be exploited.
You know, who exploited a desire to be equal with God Satan.
And Jesus says I saw him from eternity past fall.
To the Earth. It wasn't that he just fell.
He was cast out. But we read about Christ that he
was in the form of God. He had the essence of God, he
doesn't count the equality with God.
A thing to be exploited, to be grassed, to be maintained, but
he empties himself. but taking the form of a servant being born
in the likeness of men, And being bound being found sorry in
human form. He humbled himself by becoming
obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Now what we see here is that Christ, this is the Incarnation
being described. We talk about the Incarnation,
we're talking about the second member of the Trinity not having
a body not existing, like he does in the Incarnation.
This is what makes the birth of Christ.
So fantastic is that. God becomes man.
But he's fully God and fully man.
This is not saying that he emptied himself of his godness.
He said, he emptied himself of the glories of Heaven.
Temporarily. Taking on the form of a servant
being born in the likeness of men.
Being found in human form obedient to the father to the
point of death, even death on a cross.
And so what we see is that while the gods of other religions, sit
back like an evil ruler and they're waiting to be served by
Man without any promise of salvation.
What was no guarantee that, you'll be rescued, they're
waiting to be served. We have the god of the Bible,
the creator of Heaven and Earth, the Triune God, stepping into
the Fallen were laying aside, the glory of Heaven taking on
the form of man. He's a servant as Isaiah says
who will suffer in chapter 53. In Christ obeys, the father to
the point of death on a cross. So that God might finally save
his people from their sins. Romans 3 describes the salvation
for us. It says that the purpose of this
is so that God mode can be both just and justifier someone had
to die. This is why the Old Testament
sacrificial system was in place, but there would be no end.
Hebrew says to the sacrifice of bulls and goats Because there
would be no end to sin. And less.
There's a lamb of God sent Christ.
Sent to die for our sins. It's a story that's long
foretold, it starts in Genesis 3:15, and The Narrative of the
Old Testament is leading to the coming of Christ Jesus.
In the gospels, it's the point of all that you read in the Old
Testament. Jesus Christ is on every page of
the Old Testament, not those words specifically. but his
image, Because his word points to him.
That's why Christ after his death and Resurrection.
He joins the two disciples on the road to Emmaus.
And what does he do for them? He explains to them all the law
and the prophets concerning himself.
He opens their eyes to see that scriptures pointed to his
coming. It was always about him.
It's always about who he is. It's well-documented, my friends
that the mission of Christ Jesus, the mission of the Son of
God was to save Sinners by God's marvelous Grace.
That what the first Adam failed to do the second Adam does
perfectly In Matthew 1:18, 20 through 25.
We have the announcement of the birth of Christ.
Matthew writes here, he says, now the birth of Jesus Christ
Place in this way. When his mother Mary had been
betrothed to Joseph before they came together, she was found to
be with child from the Holy Spirit and her husband.
Joseph being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame
resolved to divorce her quietly. He's like, oh my goodness, it's
woman. I'm engaged to has not been
pure. She has someone else's child but
I don't want to embarrass her. And so you see the Integrity of
the man? But as he considered these
things behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream
saying Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your
wife for that, which is conceived in her, is from the
Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you
shall call his name, Jesus. By listening to this for, he
will save his people from their sins.
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken.
By the prophet. Behold, the Virgin shall
conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name
Emmanuel, which means god with us.
Thank you in verse 24. When Joseph awoke from sleep, he
did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and he took his
wife, but he knew her not until she had given birth to a son and
he called his name, Jesus. What an astounding revelation?
Concerning Christ. Jesus Christ, Son of God
incarnate deity. Come to save God's people from
their sins by his own life. There is own death and
Resurrection. And if you'll believe, if you'll
trust the Lord for the Salvation of your sins, trust that his
work is the finished work trust. That salvation is found only in
him. Then you too can be saved.
I love these words from a rider named Frederick buechner.
The word became flesh, ultimate mystery born with a skull.
You could crush one handed Incarnation.
It is not tame. It is not touching.
It is not beautiful. It is uninhabitable Terror.
It is Unthinkable. Darkness Riven with unbearable
lights agonize. Laboring led to it.
Vast upheavals of Intergalactic space and time split apart a
wrenching and tearing of the very sinews of reality itself.
You can only cover your eyes and shutter before it before this,
God of God, light of Lies. Very God of very God who for us.
And for our Salvation as the Nicene Creed puts it came down
from heaven for unto us, God Has Come amen. and when God by his
mercy, and God by his love, and his grace, when he saves
someone, When God Saves you, you are united to Christ.
Jesus, the Incarnate deity and Ephesians 2:10, the Apostle
explains what happens. I briefly mentioned this last
week, but it's mention it again. For we are his workmanship
created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared
beforehand that we should walk in them.
The fall fractures. Good works.
The false stains Humanity. The fall brings death spiritual
death. But when you come to Christ
Jesus for the Salvation of your sins, when you come to Christ
Jesus by faith in him alone, you are a new creation in Christ,
old things, pass away, All Things become new, and in that
way. God is saying here in Ephesians
2:10. You are his workmanship, you
were my workmanship. I have recreated you in Christ
Jesus. Do do good works.
You see the difference? Our God is unlike all others for
them. Good works, is your only hope
for salvation but still, no guarantee for us.
Good works. As a result of our Salvation,
it's mint. to exercise Dominion to be fruitful and multiply It's
meant to subdue creation. It's meant to spread the glory
of Christ into all the world. Redeeming the fall.
Until one day Christ makes all things new at his return,
Christians brothers and sisters. You are the workmanship of God
you have been saved completely by his work.
You've not been saved by your own doing.
And if God has recreated you in Christ Jesus, even you are
united together with Christ for eternity, free from sin and
death. Able to put it to death by the
power of the spirit. It's a book about John Owen,
called communion with the Triune God.
It's a wonderful work. There's a little bit modernized
version of it, which is edited by a guy named Kelly Catholic.
and this is what he summarizes about one of the points in this
book, about the union of Christ, the union with Christ that
Believers know, This is, this Union is a unilateral action by
God, which means it's not dependent upon you.
It's not a bilateral, its unilateral In which those who
were dead or Made Alive, those who lived in darkness, begin to
see lights, those who were enslaved to sin are set free to
be loved. And to love when one speaks of
Union with Christ, it must be clear that the human person is
merely receptive. He is the object of God's
gracious action. And this is the state and
condition of all true Saints. Brothers and sisters live as
though. You serve a God who is unlike
all other gods. You're free from sin live.
A holy life, do good works but not to attain salvation For,
that would be to serve a god, like their God.
Serve God because he saved you serve him because you love him.
Love others because He commands you to do.
Good works to spread the fruitfulness of Christ, The
Glory of Christ and to all the nations into all the Earth, and
if that seems too daunting, I think about this as we think
about Matthew, 28, to go into all the nations.
It's like how got one life God you know my bank account.
It's hard to leave my family for more than a few days at a time.
Like I'm, I going to go into all the Earth.
Christ was not making a command to one specific disciple.
Amen. Christ is making a command to
all his disciples that wherever you are.
Go into the Earth and Make Disciples of Christ, Jesus start
in your home, parents Make Disciples of your children.
Starting your marriage. Like Disciples of your spouse.
Encourage discipleship, find others to disciple.
Be a part of a local body, get discipled so that you might
disciple in return. Spread the glory of Christ and
to all the World by doing exactly what God's called you to
do, live a new life in Christ. Wherever you're at?
You don't have to change jobs necessarily betting on what you
do for a living and I'm going to keep slinging drugs, right?
It's God's. Not going to let you do that.
but wherever you're at, God has given you the ability to be
fruitful and multiply fill the Earth.
For the glory of Christ Jesus, not our own glory.
Amen. Would you stand to your feet
this morning? Going to sing a song.
And I think the song is perfect. For a time of response.
The song is called yet. Not I, but through Christ.
In me. and so, whether you're a Believer or not, our, let's
start this way, as Believers, what we are saying is yet, not
I, but through Christ in me, And all things yet.
Not I but through Christ in me. And so you may be guilty this
morning of some of the things I've talked about passivity.
Have you have allowed the enemy to come into your camp?
to tempt you with unrighteousness, to tempt you
with sin that you might fall, And so you need to repent today.
You need to confess your sins to the Lord.
Trust in his grace to save you. trust in his grace to train, you
ask the Holy Spirit to help you out of that.
But you might crucify the Flesh and live by the spirit of God.
And if you're an unbeliever today, Questioning unsure,
skeptical. I'd be a mocker even the same is
true for you. You will not achieve salvation
on your own. And whether you believe it or
not, you will stand before the Lord on the day of judgment.
And you will not utter one accusation against him.
Not one because in all his ways, he's righteous.
And in all your ways, your unrighteous And so you two need
to humble yourself and say yet not I but through Christ save me
from my sins today. Let me pray for you.
Father, we love you got a, thank you for your word.
I thank you for this moment. We have now to respond to you at
your word, Holy Spirit. Would you lead us now to help us
to respond in the right way? Grant us wisdom?
Heavenly father, I asked you. Will you save by your grace
anyone in here? Who is far from you?
Did you lead those to repentance who are yours?
But who have strayed by your grace also?
or today we say yet, not I but through Christ, we thank you
that you are a god unlike all others That you've stepped into
darkness. But you might grant us,
Marvelous Light. Help us to believe in Jesus
Christ today. Help us to trust him for our
Salvation. Help us to trust him for our
growth, in Holiness, our growth in godliness, Help us to spread
the name of Christ, into all the Earth, starting in our homes,
and our friendships and our workplaces.
I'm a social media accounts wherever you've given us
influence wherever you've placed us help us to have the name of
Christ Jesus on our lives, the good news.
Father we love you we thank you for the Incarnation of your son.
I thought he was God of very God.
He became like us that he might die for our sins.
We trust you for that, we trust you for salvation in Christ
name, I pray. Amen.
I thought he was God of very God.
He became like us that he might die for our sins.
We trust you for that, we trust you for salvation in Christ
name, I pray. Amen.