1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,900 But this series is called The Gospel, the gospel. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,600 Now I do hope that you hear the gospel from this Pulpit every 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:11,200 week. I do hope that you hear about 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:15,700 Jesus and how he saves us. But, you know, whenever I and 5 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:18,600 whenever any of us preach, we really ask three questions, when 6 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,900 we come to prepare, our talk or indeed, think through a series, 7 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,700 and they are these three questions number one, what is 8 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:27,800 your word saying? What is your words saying? 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:32,100 Lord number two, how do we apply that to our lives? 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,400 And then this is the other question that I asked, why are 11 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:41,700 you telling us now about it? Because the reality is, is that 12 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:47,000 this is all amazing, is it not? But God speaks to us. 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,600 And highlights things, when we need to hear certain things. 14 00:00:52,300 --> 00:00:54,400 And as I was praying through and thinking, through this new 15 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,300 series, The Gospel. I really felt as if God was 16 00:00:57,300 --> 00:00:59,200 sent. You need to preach this Mark? 17 00:00:59,700 --> 00:01:01,400 Why? I think there's a few reasons. 18 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,600 I think truly. We don't fully understand it. 19 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:09,100 We talked about the gospel and we saved by the gospel. 20 00:01:09,100 --> 00:01:12,600 But do we truly understand what the gospel is? 21 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:16,000 Or should I be more specific and say Whom The Gospel is? 22 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,400 Do you understand the ramifications of it? 23 00:01:19,900 --> 00:01:24,900 Are we bold and courageous in sharing the gospel? 24 00:01:24,900 --> 00:01:27,300 Do we have fully understand how we can share it? 25 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,300 I also think another reason Is that quite frankly? 26 00:01:32,300 --> 00:01:35,600 There is a force, there are many false gospel is being preached. 27 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,500 And I'm going to touch on some of those variations as we look 28 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:45,200 through this series. And lastly, I think when we 29 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,400 fully comprehend to the degree that we were able to in this 30 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:53,700 life, certainly it leads to praise and adoration and pouring 31 00:01:53,700 --> 00:01:56,800 out. When we fully grasp the 32 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:01,100 magnitude of the Gospel, it causes us to fall on our knees. 33 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:05,600 And so I feel for those reasons, the Lord is leading us to look 34 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:07,500 at the gospel. And if I'm honest with you, I do 35 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:11,400 so with a level of trepidation because I recognize that I 36 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:18,000 cannot fully convey nor explain the magnificence of the Gospel 37 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,900 to us all. But I nevertheless Endeavor to 38 00:02:21,900 --> 00:02:25,600 do so with the help of his spirit and I pray that this 39 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,000 would be edifying and lifting for you and to give you maybe 40 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,900 some fresh insight into the gospel. 41 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,000 So we often hear the word gospel. 42 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,600 We know we've heard that word gospel. 43 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:40,300 What does it actually mean? Well the gospel is an angolans 44 00:02:40,300 --> 00:02:44,200 Anglo-Saxon word. That's taken from a Latin word 45 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:45,900 that essentially means good news. 46 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:52,900 Gospel means, good news. And we read the gospel accounts 47 00:02:52,900 --> 00:02:54,500 of course, which is the good news. 48 00:02:56,100 --> 00:02:58,300 But good news of what and of whom. 49 00:02:58,300 --> 00:03:00,200 It's the question that I'm going to address. 50 00:03:01,100 --> 00:03:04,100 And so the next few weeks I'm going to look at four areas. 51 00:03:04,300 --> 00:03:08,100 We got four weeks or topics. This week's topic, is why do we 52 00:03:08,100 --> 00:03:10,900 need a gospel? But why do we even need it? 53 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:12,400 What's the point of the good news? 54 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,900 Next, we're going to look at what is the power of the Gospel? 55 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,300 Then the third week is, how do we live by the gospel? 56 00:03:19,300 --> 00:03:22,400 And by the way, that might be news to you, we're not just 57 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,000 saved by the gospel but we live by the gospel. 58 00:03:25,700 --> 00:03:27,900 And we're going to unpack that. And then the final week is how 59 00:03:27,900 --> 00:03:32,300 do we share the gospel? And if you have any questions, 60 00:03:32,300 --> 00:03:35,200 I'd like to address question throughout the series so 61 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,000 questions. Such as, can you lose your 62 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:42,600 salvation is a great question. We appointed or not, do we have 63 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,200 free choice, do we not? I'm going to try and address a 64 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,800 lot of these questions through this series, but if you have any 65 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,700 questions, you would like to ask email office at The Vineyard 66 00:03:51,700 --> 00:03:54,000 Church .co.uk and I will collect them. 67 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,200 And through the course of the four weeks, I will address your 68 00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:01,700 questions office at The Vineyard Church. .Co.uk send me your 69 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:03,700 questions. So let's kick off with this 70 00:04:03,700 --> 00:04:05,500 week. So why do we need a gospel? 71 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:10,700 Well, you see in one sense, the existence of good news in a Why 72 00:04:10,700 --> 00:04:14,900 do we need this? Good news suggest that bad news 73 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,500 exists or has the potential to exist? 74 00:04:19,100 --> 00:04:25,100 Follow me. That the existence of good news, 75 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:28,900 suggest that there is bad news or the potential for bad news. 76 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:30,700 We've heard the saying, haven't we? 77 00:04:30,700 --> 00:04:32,200 I have good news and I have bad news. 78 00:04:32,700 --> 00:04:34,500 It's that duality of news, isn't it? 79 00:04:35,100 --> 00:04:38,800 Let me give you an example. You know, the doctor has given 80 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,400 me the all-clear. It's great news, why? 81 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,100 Because the opposite could have been true which is a bad news. 82 00:04:45,500 --> 00:04:48,600 Or good news the car passes at Mighty. 83 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:53,300 Thank the Lord for that. Because the bad news was that, 84 00:04:53,300 --> 00:04:55,500 well, it wasn't going to pass as mot and I would have had to 85 00:04:55,500 --> 00:05:00,000 spend lots of money on the car. And there are many examples that 86 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:05,000 I know you have around that duality of good news and bad 87 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,000 news because if every news was good news there wouldn't be good 88 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,200 news with their, it will just been used. 89 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,500 So good news is contrasted by the bad news. 90 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,800 You see, this is what I want to unpack today. 91 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,900 You see, the gospel message, isn't a message of, I've got 92 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:24,900 better news for you. It's I've got great good news 93 00:05:24,900 --> 00:05:29,100 for you. Now follow me with this often, 94 00:05:29,100 --> 00:05:32,600 this is how the gospel is presenting presented. 95 00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:37,500 I know you're a good person. I know you live a good life and 96 00:05:37,500 --> 00:05:39,800 it's great for you. There's a better way. 97 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,500 That's not the gospel. Isn't it? 98 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,200 No. Where was the bad news in any of 99 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:47,400 that? Well then what's the point of a 100 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:53,300 better life? It's like that's not the gospel, 101 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,600 the gospel is not You're a good person. 102 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,700 I know you. Like I know that your life is 103 00:05:59,700 --> 00:06:01,600 good at the moment, but it could be better than that. 104 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:06,200 If you sign up to Jesus, you'll get more comfort more things and 105 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:07,700 you're going to really have a lot of fun. 106 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,900 That is not the gospel message. But I would suggest that that is 107 00:06:11,900 --> 00:06:14,200 the prevalent message these days. 108 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:16,600 I mean you go into any Christian book. 109 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:18,000 Shop is not that many of these days. 110 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,900 We buy online of course and you look at a row of books on the 111 00:06:20,900 --> 00:06:24,100 gospel and most of them look like self-help books or coaching 112 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:27,000 books, how you can lead your best life? 113 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,800 I'm sorry to say. And listen if you're visiting I 114 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,000 don't always get like angst like this. 115 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:37,000 But that is not the gospel. We have watered it down so that 116 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,600 it is pleasing for people. It says in the scriptures that 117 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:46,200 in the last days people will be looking for doctrine that 118 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:49,900 tickles. Their is that pleases them but 119 00:06:49,900 --> 00:06:52,000 it says in the scriptures, the gospel is offensive. 120 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,100 You know, and that's why I have a real problem with Seeker 121 00:06:56,100 --> 00:07:02,100 sensitive churches. Don't offend people just water 122 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:05,300 down the truth to the point at which it's comfortable for them. 123 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,500 You find you want to do that. You're going to preach another 124 00:07:08,500 --> 00:07:11,900 gospel. Don't mention thin. 125 00:07:13,100 --> 00:07:15,500 Am I think that bad? Well, I'm sorry to say we are 126 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:19,000 all bad. Until we become New Creations in 127 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,700 Christ, Jesus. And we don't get me started. 128 00:07:21,700 --> 00:07:23,000 I've got notes Here, I should follow. 129 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,400 See, the gospel is good because the good news exists because 130 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,500 there is bad news and the bad news is terrible news. 131 00:07:36,700 --> 00:07:41,200 And for this week in answering the question of, why do we need 132 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:42,900 good news? I'm going to spend a lot of time 133 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:46,300 on the bad news. Sorry to say thank you. 134 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:49,300 Sally encouragement next week the week after and the week 135 00:07:49,300 --> 00:07:52,900 after that, it will be much better entertainment in regard 136 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:55,200 of been good news. So if you're here, visiting you 137 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:57,500 must be here next week. Lest you leave? 138 00:07:57,500 --> 00:08:03,500 This place in despair, okay? But I am trying to for us to 139 00:08:03,500 --> 00:08:08,300 fully comprehend, how good the good Good news is and I can't do 140 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:10,300 that. If I don't tell you how bad the 141 00:08:10,300 --> 00:08:13,500 bad news is otherwise, what's the flipping point? 142 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:16,100 You might as well go home? All right. 143 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:18,500 I said flipping, that's not a swear word, is it? 144 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:22,400 That is the extent of my bad language. 145 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:27,300 I have to say Let me use an illustration to Labour the 146 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:30,300 point. If I were to say to you Chris, 147 00:08:30,300 --> 00:08:32,799 I've got a key for you and it unlocks and gives you lots of 148 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:36,200 freedom. And assuming Chris, doesn't yet 149 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,500 know Jesus, of course, he does. It would say, well, I don't need 150 00:08:39,508 --> 00:08:41,299 the key. I'm free already have a great 151 00:08:41,299 --> 00:08:43,000 life. You like their point. 152 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:46,600 What if I said I've got a key for you because what you don't 153 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,500 realize is, you are locked in a prison cell and you can't get 154 00:08:49,500 --> 00:08:52,200 out. Then all of a sudden that key is 155 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,300 very valuable and that truly is good news. 156 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,100 You understand that illustration? 157 00:08:57,600 --> 00:08:59,900 Jesus is the key, but if we don't realize we're locked up 158 00:08:59,900 --> 00:09:02,000 then, who cares? I don't need Jesus. 159 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,800 My life is perfect. Right? 160 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:11,400 And so I would like us to start at the beginning Genesis because 161 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:16,000 it is in this place that we uncover the bad news and let's 162 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,400 turn together to look at Genesis chapter 3 is going to be on the 163 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:24,200 screen and if you are at home or and maybe mobile watching this 164 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,100 on your mobile phone, the the scripture will be on your screen 165 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:30,300 as well. It's a rather large portion of 166 00:09:30,300 --> 00:09:33,500 scripture, but I decided that I would like to read it all. 167 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:37,200 And you'll see why later as we unpacked this fully. 168 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,900 Now, the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the 169 00:09:40,900 --> 00:09:42,700 field that the Lord God had made. 170 00:09:43,100 --> 00:09:47,000 He said to the woman did God actually, say you shall not eat 171 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 of the tree in the garden. The woman said to the serpent. 172 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,800 We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden but God said 173 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,700 You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst 174 00:09:56,700 --> 00:09:57,900 of the garden. Neither shall you? 175 00:09:57,900 --> 00:10:02,000 Touch it, lest you die. Serpent said to the woman, you 176 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,800 will not surely die for God knows that. 177 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:08,400 When you eat your eyes will be opened and you will be like God 178 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:12,500 knowing Good and Evil. so when the woman saw that the tree was 179 00:10:12,500 --> 00:10:16,000 good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the 180 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,000 tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit 181 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,500 and ate and she also gave some to her husband who was with her 182 00:10:23,500 --> 00:10:28,100 and he ate then the eyes of both were opened and they knew that 183 00:10:28,100 --> 00:10:31,400 they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made 184 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:36,400 themselves loin cloths loin cloths and they heard the sound 185 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:38,200 of the Lord. God Walking In The Garden. 186 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:39,800 In the cool of the day in the man. 187 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,200 And his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God 188 00:10:43,300 --> 00:10:47,300 Among the Trees of the garden. Little God Called To The Man 189 00:10:47,300 --> 00:10:48,500 said to him. Where are you? 190 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:55,100 Instead, I heard that the sound of you in the garden and I was 191 00:10:55,100 --> 00:10:58,400 afraid because I was naked and I hid myself. 192 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,000 He said he told you that you were naked. 193 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,700 Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to 194 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:09,300 eat. The man said the woman whom you 195 00:11:09,300 --> 00:11:11,400 gave to be with me. She gave me the fruit of the 196 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:16,200 tree and I ate and the Lord God said to the woman, what is this? 197 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,100 That you have done? The woman said, the serpent 198 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:23,700 deceived me and, and I ate The Lord God said to the serpent 199 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,800 because you have done this cursor, you above all. 200 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:30,600 Livestock and above all Beasts of the field on your belly. 201 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:34,900 You shall go and dust. You shall eat all the days of 202 00:11:34,900 --> 00:11:38,000 your life. I will put enmity between you 203 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,300 and the woman and between your Offspring and The Offspring. 204 00:11:41,700 --> 00:11:45,500 He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel. 205 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,900 The woman. He said, I will surely multiply 206 00:11:49,900 --> 00:11:52,400 your pain in. Childbearing in your pain, you 207 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:56,000 shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to 208 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,300 your husband that he shall rule over you. 209 00:11:58,300 --> 00:12:01,700 And Adam he said because you have listened to the voice of 210 00:12:01,700 --> 00:12:04,900 your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you. 211 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:09,200 You shall not eat it. Cursed is the ground because of 212 00:12:09,208 --> 00:12:13,300 you in pain, you shall eat of it all the days of your life thorns 213 00:12:13,300 --> 00:12:15,400 and thistles it shall bring forth for you. 214 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:17,200 And you shall eat the plants of the field. 215 00:12:17,208 --> 00:12:19,500 The field by the sweat of your face. 216 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:23,100 You shall eat bread till you return to the ground for out of 217 00:12:23,100 --> 00:12:24,300 it. You were taken. 218 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,800 You were dust, and to dust you shall return. 219 00:12:28,900 --> 00:12:32,100 The man called his wife name, Eve, because she was the mother 220 00:12:32,100 --> 00:12:34,400 of all living. And the Lord God made for a 221 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:36,200 demand. For his wife, garments of skin 222 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,700 and clothed them. And the Lord God said, behold 223 00:12:39,700 --> 00:12:44,200 the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. 224 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,700 Now lest he reached out his hand and take also of the tree of 225 00:12:47,700 --> 00:12:52,200 life and eat and live forever. Therefore the Lord God sent him 226 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:55,900 out from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he 227 00:12:55,900 --> 00:13:00,900 was taken, he drove out. The man and at the east of the 228 00:13:00,900 --> 00:13:04,500 Garden of Eden, he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword, 229 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,500 which turned every way to God, the way of the tree of life. 230 00:13:08,700 --> 00:13:13,100 Oh my word. What an account, what a story, 231 00:13:16,500 --> 00:13:20,500 And this is the Genesis of the bad news. 232 00:13:20,500 --> 00:13:22,700 This is the start of the bad news. 233 00:13:24,700 --> 00:13:28,300 And momentous events which changed the course of our 234 00:13:28,300 --> 00:13:31,700 history. Adam and Eve. 235 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:38,000 Because of the pride. The sin of Pride disobeyed God 236 00:13:38,300 --> 00:13:42,400 and sin, came into the world. And what was the impact? 237 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,300 Well, God says, in verse 5, you will die. 238 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,600 That didn't mean a physical death, although they were going 239 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,700 to die prematurely that was not the intent that they would see 240 00:13:52,700 --> 00:13:56,400 Decay but a spiritual death occurred. 241 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,000 They were no longer able to have a relationship with God. 242 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,800 It says that in verse 7 to 13, they experience shame. 243 00:14:06,900 --> 00:14:10,200 They experience guilt. Bitterness, who want towards 244 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:14,600 one? Another There was a curse placed 245 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:18,200 upon them and upon this Earth of decay. 246 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:23,700 And God drove them out. No longer. 247 00:14:23,700 --> 00:14:25,700 Could they be in the presence of a holy? 248 00:14:25,700 --> 00:14:33,000 God, that is pretty bad news if you ask me Now, at this point 249 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,300 you may say to me well I understand that I've obviously 250 00:14:35,300 --> 00:14:38,900 heard that Mark, but the question you might be asking is 251 00:14:38,900 --> 00:14:43,000 what's that got to do with me? I mean that was Adam and Eve to 252 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,500 be fair. I would have done that probably 253 00:14:45,500 --> 00:14:50,200 would have But you know, why does that impact me today? 254 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:55,700 Like this is the 21st century. What has their action got 255 00:14:55,700 --> 00:14:58,600 anything to do with my present reality? 256 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,200 Why is there bad news my bad news? 257 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,900 In order to answer this I'd like us to look at Romans five verse 258 00:15:05,900 --> 00:15:12,500 12 and in this scripture Paul gives us the answer to this. 259 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:17,200 He says this therefore just as Sin came into the world through 260 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:22,100 one man. And death through sin. 261 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:27,500 And so, therefore death spread to all men because all sinned. 262 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:33,800 Now, Scholars, couldn't theologians call this the 263 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:39,500 doctrine of original sin. Original sin that sin that we 264 00:15:39,500 --> 00:15:44,400 experience originated from Adam and as the seed of Adam, you see 265 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,500 we inherit that that is what Paul is saying. 266 00:15:47,500 --> 00:15:51,900 You see, therefore just as Sin came into the world through one 267 00:15:51,900 --> 00:15:57,000 man and death through sin, that is the consequence of sin and so 268 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,000 death, spread to all men, all men. 269 00:16:02,100 --> 00:16:05,500 That's why. It's important to us today in 270 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:08,900 the 21st century because we are from Adam. 271 00:16:09,700 --> 00:16:11,700 And as we find out next week, the good news. 272 00:16:11,700 --> 00:16:15,800 Is that Jesus is the second Adam that where death had come 273 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:17,600 through. One man, life comes through 274 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:21,800 another man, Jesus. You see God the only way God 275 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:29,300 could solve this issue. Was sending Jesus, incarnate 276 00:16:29,300 --> 00:16:32,200 fully, man. Fully God be our second. 277 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:37,600 Adam just either. And I want to tell you how bad 278 00:16:37,700 --> 00:16:40,900 the news is. That we inherit this sin. 279 00:16:42,100 --> 00:16:46,300 We inherit the impact and the consequences by the fact that we 280 00:16:46,300 --> 00:16:49,300 come from Adam, right? We see in fact we see that 281 00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:52,700 around us and I talked about this last week that we see the 282 00:16:52,700 --> 00:16:56,000 world falling apart the planet Earth because it is under a 283 00:16:56,008 --> 00:16:58,400 curse. Now, as I said net last week, 284 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,400 that doesn't mean that we don't have any responsibility to be 285 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:05,500 good stewards, of course we do. But we can't say this planet, 286 00:17:06,300 --> 00:17:08,599 God is going to have to redeem this planet. 287 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:15,200 Just as his redeeming us But you see the curse is everywhere 288 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:19,800 around us, and the impact that we see the, the thickness that 289 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:25,000 we experience, the bitterness, the anger that lasts all of 290 00:17:25,008 --> 00:17:30,000 these things are a result of the fact that we come from Adam that 291 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,800 sin is coming through. But it gets even worse than 292 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:38,700 that, really? That's pretty bad Mark or we get 293 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:41,000 to terrible. You see what we need to 294 00:17:41,008 --> 00:17:44,300 understand is we are not merely affected by that sin. 295 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:50,000 But we are completely corrupted by it. 296 00:17:52,700 --> 00:17:55,400 It's in the Bible. I'm going to show you in a 297 00:17:55,408 --> 00:17:58,600 moment. But listen, I want us to I want 298 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,400 to drive the point home because the more I can get us to 299 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:03,500 understand how bad it is. The more the good news is 300 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:07,800 amazingly good. Every aspect of our nature, when 301 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:11,700 we are born our mind, our emotions, our will is Tainted by 302 00:18:11,700 --> 00:18:16,500 sin. Meaning that we are unable to 303 00:18:16,500 --> 00:18:21,400 save ourselves and perform good works because everything all our 304 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:25,000 righteous acts are as if filthy rags as Impossibles. 305 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,800 That is the state that we are brought into and I'll give you 306 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,100 another doctor in it's called the doctrine of total depravity. 307 00:18:34,300 --> 00:18:38,300 That is what Scholars refer to as the impact of original sin. 308 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,700 We are totally depraved. Now, you might get a fence built 309 00:18:42,700 --> 00:18:45,900 offended by that. I don't wish to offend I wish to 310 00:18:45,900 --> 00:18:49,600 paint the picture that the Bible paints for us, which is when we 311 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,300 are born, not only are we born into the consequences of a 312 00:18:52,308 --> 00:18:55,800 sinful world and the sinful flesh, but we need to be 313 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:58,000 recreated. We sing. 314 00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,300 We Are New Creation in Christ Jesus. 315 00:18:59,500 --> 00:19:03,500 Why do you think we think that because our Nature has been 316 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:08,000 corrupted and it needs to be a new No point telling people your 317 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:12,200 saviors, I will say from what? Why am I New Creation in Christ 318 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:13,500 Jesus? Because I'm afraid to say your 319 00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:14,900 corrupted right now. What? 320 00:19:15,300 --> 00:19:19,500 Hey, I was a sinner want to do. And now he's pretty hard, isn't 321 00:19:19,500 --> 00:19:21,200 it? And yet, this is the gospel 322 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,000 message. Now, by the way, when we look at 323 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,500 sharing the gospel I'm not going to suggest to you. 324 00:19:25,500 --> 00:19:27,700 That you walk up to your closest and dearest who don't know. 325 00:19:27,700 --> 00:19:29,200 Jesus, there you are. Corrupted. 326 00:19:31,100 --> 00:19:33,000 I'm not suggesting. That's how we present the gospel 327 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,300 in word and In Deed. I'm trying to unfor us all here 328 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:40,600 to understand the reality of the bad news is that we can see how 329 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:45,800 amazing the good news is. So let me, let me just for you 330 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,300 just sum up in a nutshell, the bad news. 331 00:19:49,100 --> 00:19:50,300 We will move onto a bit of good news. 332 00:19:50,300 --> 00:19:53,300 In the moment, you are born. We are born into a state of 333 00:19:53,300 --> 00:19:57,900 separation from God, okay? That is how bad this is, and our 334 00:19:57,900 --> 00:19:59,800 very nature when we are born before. 335 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:03,100 We notice a yesterday Jesus has been corrupted, to the extent 336 00:20:03,100 --> 00:20:06,900 that we are an enemy of God and the destination. 337 00:20:06,900 --> 00:20:10,000 We are taken. Unless Jesus saves us, is that 338 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:14,500 we're going to hell. That is it in a nutshell that is 339 00:20:14,500 --> 00:20:20,100 how urgent and how important it is to get the gospel out. 340 00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:26,600 You know, recently a vicar came to speak at my alien Daniels 341 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,600 primary school. And I was a little bit dismayed 342 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,600 to hear when they reported to me, that the vicar said, number 343 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,700 one, Adam and Eve didn't exist. Which kind of breaks apart the 344 00:20:36,700 --> 00:20:39,300 whole Redemptive story of the Bible, quite frankly. 345 00:20:40,700 --> 00:20:44,900 Number two, that Evolution was how things were created. 346 00:20:46,300 --> 00:20:47,900 And number three, there is no hell. 347 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,200 I rather wonder what Nerf this Vic is preaching. 348 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,300 What gospel are you preaching vicar what they're preaching? 349 00:20:55,300 --> 00:20:58,800 A gospel of you can be better. You're great now but have a 350 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,600 better life that's not the gospel. show me a scripture that 351 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,400 says that and I'll show you a hundred more that tell you, 352 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:11,000 otherwise, I've got time for a side note. 353 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:15,100 Probably obvious. I'll take your encouragement. 354 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:18,000 I'm reading the really fascinating book at the moment 355 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,700 called beyond the cosmos over. I would like to tell you who the 356 00:21:20,700 --> 00:21:23,700 author is, I think it's Russ, somebody is an astrophysicist. 357 00:21:24,700 --> 00:21:28,300 And it is amazing to see how science is proving the creation 358 00:21:28,300 --> 00:21:32,600 event that actually. In fact Albert Einstein's theory 359 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:36,100 of general relativity, proves that time is actually one of our 360 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:39,300 Dimensions time and space is a dimension. 361 00:21:40,100 --> 00:21:45,800 And so therefore time had to have a beginning One of the 362 00:21:45,808 --> 00:21:48,900 common questions is how if God exists who created God? 363 00:21:48,900 --> 00:21:52,500 Well, that's the wrong question. There isn't a timeline outside 364 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,500 here. Eternity isn't just a lot of 365 00:21:55,508 --> 00:21:58,500 time. It's a place that doesn't have 366 00:21:58,500 --> 00:21:59,900 the time constraints that we have. 367 00:22:02,300 --> 00:22:04,900 Anyway, it's a fascinating book. And also, I read a book 368 00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:08,000 recently, about DNA about the story of how they found 369 00:22:08,300 --> 00:22:12,800 intelligent design embedded in DNA, which couldn't have come 370 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,500 from some kind of primordial soup, where we just kind of 371 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:20,700 blob, blob, blob to something something, there is actually 372 00:22:20,700 --> 00:22:22,900 code. If you like to use that, that 373 00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:28,000 phrase of intelligent design, And in fact, I heard a report 374 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,700 that recently an evolutionist was speaking at a conference and 375 00:22:30,700 --> 00:22:33,900 says I'm about to say something, I hope there's no creationists 376 00:22:33,900 --> 00:22:35,300 around. I people that believe in 377 00:22:35,300 --> 00:22:39,200 intelligent designer, we believe in God, that I don't believe 378 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,800 that Evolution can exist because there's too much intelligence in 379 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,800 the design. I love it. 380 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,700 When science catches up with the Bible, don't you? 381 00:22:46,700 --> 00:22:49,600 It's save you a lot of time if you just read but the point I'm 382 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:54,400 trying to make why why do you think the enemy is out to 383 00:22:54,408 --> 00:22:58,400 discredit Genesis the Book of Genesis because everything 384 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,100 hinges on it, you take away Genesis and the account of 385 00:23:02,100 --> 00:23:04,600 creation everything. There is no need for Jesus. 386 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,200 And there is no Redemptive story. 387 00:23:09,100 --> 00:23:14,500 If more time, honestly. Let me just read Ephesians 2 388 00:23:14,500 --> 00:23:16,500 1-3. Lest you think I'm making this 389 00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:20,300 up? This is the Apostle Paul telling 390 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:24,300 us about the impact of sim and he's speaking to Christians and 391 00:23:24,300 --> 00:23:27,500 you were saying you were once you were before Christians and 392 00:23:27,500 --> 00:23:32,100 you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once 393 00:23:32,100 --> 00:23:36,200 walked you were dead. There was no Beating around the 394 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,900 bush. That's following the course of 395 00:23:39,900 --> 00:23:42,600 this world, following the prince of the power of the air. 396 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,600 You see as I said last week, you're not a child of God until 397 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,800 you say yes to Jesus because you need to be adopted back into the 398 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,400 family and have and be a new creation in Christ, Jesus. 399 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,200 Following the prince of power of the air, the spirit, that is now 400 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,000 working in the sons of Disobedience. 401 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,100 You see, you have a choice to be, which part of which family 402 00:24:02,100 --> 00:24:04,500 you want to be part of among whom. 403 00:24:04,500 --> 00:24:08,100 All once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the 404 00:24:08,100 --> 00:24:11,800 desires of the body and the mind and we're by Nature children of 405 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,600 Wrath like the rest of mankind, heavy words but this is the 406 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,300 gospel message. You know, it says in Galatians 407 00:24:20,500 --> 00:24:24,700 Chapter 2, no chapter 1 when Paul was addressing the church 408 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,900 Larry says for I would I'm astonished his verse 6 that you 409 00:24:28,900 --> 00:24:31,400 are so quickly. Deserting him, who called you in 410 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,100 the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel. 411 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,600 Not that there is another one. Of course, there's only one good 412 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,100 news, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort, 413 00:24:41,100 --> 00:24:45,100 the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from 414 00:24:45,100 --> 00:24:48,700 heaven, should preach to you a gospel, contrary to the one we 415 00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:52,000 preached to you. Let them be accursed. 416 00:24:52,900 --> 00:24:54,900 I mean this is how serious this is. 417 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,100 As we have said before. So now I say, again, if anyone 418 00:25:02,100 --> 00:25:04,600 is preaching to you a gospel, contrary to the one, you 419 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,400 received, let him be accursed strong words from the Apostle. 420 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,500 Paul. It wasn't you, then it's not 421 00:25:09,500 --> 00:25:11,200 new. Now, there is other gospels out 422 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:15,000 there that it distortions, enough of the truth in there to 423 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,000 think we'll that must be true but not the full truth. 424 00:25:20,100 --> 00:25:23,000 Now, as I said to you next week, we're going to really dive into 425 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,600 the good news, but I felt like I didn't want to leave you in this 426 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:30,800 place of actual despair. And I want to show you something 427 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:35,800 fascinating and interesting that we find in Genesis because the 428 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,700 good news is that the gospel. The good news was declared 429 00:25:38,900 --> 00:25:42,700 declared and demonstrated in chapter 3 as well. 430 00:25:43,500 --> 00:25:46,000 All you're going to love this. And I suspect some of you know 431 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,900 this but some of this may be new to you. 432 00:25:48,700 --> 00:25:50,900 Can we read Genesis 3:15? Again, we'll have it on the 433 00:25:50,908 --> 00:25:53,200 screen. This is what God Said. 434 00:25:54,500 --> 00:25:56,900 I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your 435 00:25:56,900 --> 00:26:01,000 Offspring and her Offspring. Listen to this, he shall bruise 436 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,600 your head. And you shall bruise his heel. 437 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:09,200 There you go. That is a prophetic declaration 438 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,100 that Our Redeemer was going to come to crush the head of Satan 439 00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:19,500 and redeem mankind. Right here in Genesis is the 440 00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:23,500 gospel you know it's called the protoevangelium that's a flash 441 00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:26,900 word that Scholars like to use Proto meaning. 442 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:31,100 First Evangelion is a Latin word for gospel. 443 00:26:31,300 --> 00:26:34,800 That is the dick Declaration of the First Gospel of the good 444 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:39,000 news of Jesus. Jesus God didn't play catch-up. 445 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,500 It wasn't like he got rid of Adam and Eve and then spoke to 446 00:26:43,700 --> 00:26:45,200 Jesus. And the Holy Spirit said, we've 447 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:46,500 got a bit of a problem going on here. 448 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,200 Anyone up for solving. This know, there was always a 449 00:26:50,208 --> 00:26:53,400 plan, God is outside time because God is Not restricted to 450 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,200 our Dimension. He saw the end from the 451 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,700 beginning. Imagine if you see a parade, I 452 00:26:57,700 --> 00:27:00,200 pray that's going on outside and you go to the highest building. 453 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,000 What do you see? You see the start of that 454 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:03,500 parade? You see the end of that parade. 455 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,300 That's God in you. Right? 456 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,200 And so in that very moment, he declared the gospel. 457 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,300 Now why do you think now listen, if you fully get this, it will 458 00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:16,500 give you a different lens by which you read the Old 459 00:27:16,500 --> 00:27:18,500 Testament. Why do you think Pharaoh tried 460 00:27:18,500 --> 00:27:20,100 to get rid of all the first forms? 461 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,500 Hmm, he didn't want the, he didn't want Jesus coming. 462 00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:28,200 Why do you think Herod wanted to get rid of all the firstborns? 463 00:27:28,300 --> 00:27:31,500 It's a seed War. You read other accounts in the 464 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:33,600 Old Testament, we don't have time to go into it now about the 465 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:38,300 Nephilim and other things and you read about the wars that 466 00:27:38,300 --> 00:27:40,100 Israel had with the Canaanites and others. 467 00:27:40,300 --> 00:27:42,600 What do you think's going on? There is a seed War. 468 00:27:44,100 --> 00:27:46,900 Because the enemy did not want the Savior to come. 469 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,500 This is the gospel. This is the story that we read 470 00:27:51,500 --> 00:27:54,500 in here. You take away Genesis, take away 471 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,500 the Bible. But it gets even better than 472 00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:00,000 that. Oh my word. 473 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,200 I'm getting too excited. Because not only was there a 474 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:08,100 declaration, a prophetic Declaration of the Gospel, there 475 00:28:08,100 --> 00:28:13,800 was a prophetic act right there in the same chapter chapter 3 476 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:18,600 verse 21, and the Lord God Made For Adam and Eve his wife 477 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:24,200 garments of skin and closed him. What on Earth was that the 478 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,700 shedding of blood in order to cover over the sins of Adam and 479 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:30,800 Eve? Why? 480 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,200 Because the Fig leaves weren't cutting it. 481 00:28:35,100 --> 00:28:38,300 Our own human attempts to cover over ourselves. 482 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:45,000 Don't cut it. You see it says in Hebrews 9:22 483 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,000 without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins. 484 00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:55,000 and so in one chapter, We see the bad news and we see the good 485 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,300 news. In one chapter, we see the 486 00:28:59,300 --> 00:29:04,200 gospel declared. Isn't God amazing. 487 00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:08,100 I told you that when you fully grasp it, we leased the praise 488 00:29:08,100 --> 00:29:11,400 right, like to invite the band up to help us with that police. 489 00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:20,200 As I end. I want to say this, the bad news 490 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,100 is terrible news but the good news is all so much great. 491 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,900 This, if you're here this morning and you're wondering 492 00:29:26,900 --> 00:29:28,800 what the gospel is all about, want to tell you this, the good 493 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,700 news is this a currently? If you don't know Jesus, you are 494 00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:34,500 dead in Christ. You're separated. 495 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:36,800 So you're dead. You're separated from, G from 496 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:43,800 God. And for all eternity, you will 497 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,300 miss out on being with him in heaven. 498 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,400 In fact, there is a destination called hell. 499 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,000 Here's the good news Jesus has made a way for you to be born 500 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,200 again. Born again, to be a new creation 501 00:29:58,100 --> 00:30:01,100 to walking, good things to have relationship with God, no more 502 00:30:01,100 --> 00:30:05,800 shame, no more guilt to walk in peace and joy with a God who 503 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,600 loves you, who has called you to be his son and his daughter. 504 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,700 And how do you say? Yes, you just allow God to 505 00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:17,600 clothe you, but the shed blood of Christ that's it. 506 00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:23,000 You don't need to put together. Any fig leaves, God has created 507 00:30:23,700 --> 00:30:25,300 so much better for you than that. 508 00:30:26,300 --> 00:30:28,700 Let us stand as I pray. Thank you Jesus.