Repeated Words: Most Quoted Verese: Grace
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What do I believe God wants them to know? The grace of God
Why? It changes us from dead to alive, from outside to inside
What do I believe God wants them to do? Rejoice and proclaim the Good News
Why? It brings us joy and brings others joy
ME/WE/INTRO
Our world like to create two groups
those who are in, know as the in group
and those who are OUT, out of the group
This might harken up thoughts and experiences from childhood where we FIRST EXPERIENCE BEING IN or OUT
It could have happened with your neighborhood kids or school kids that formed in a matter of time was a group for the IN people and those who were OUT people…those people
IN neighorhood amonst 3 friends that all you need to create an IN and OUT group, though many times it is more
What got you into the in group is that you were cool or popluar:
What got you in the OUT group was not being cool of popluar
This reality didn’t just stop at childhood, right? It has traveled from childhood though adulthood and where do we see it take affect in many of our lives? At our work places
Those people are in the IN group…the company loves them
Those people are in the OUT group…and maybe one day out of a job
ANYBODY BEEN AT A JOB LIKE THAT WHERE THESE GROUPS ARE FORMED
How many have every said I thought I left high school behind!?!
A couple more examples and we will turn to our text for today
We have also seen 70 or so years ago this reality come to the forfront in our nation and the IN and OUT group was not based on COOLNESS OR POPULARITY but on the color of your skin
If you were WHITE you were in
If you were BLACK you were out
BUT IF WE ARE HONEST IT WOULD BE SO EASY TO POINT THE FINGER AT THE WORLD AND OUR CHILDHOOD AND WORK PLACES AND AMERICA’S RACIST HISTORY
BUT how many of us have experienced the IN and OUT group at church
You came to realize that though you are a Christian, apart of the family of God but felt like the abadoned step child???
Let alone if you not a believer???
IS THIS HOW IT SHOULD BE???
the family of God have divisions???
HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN???? Is the way God designed it???
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Gen 12:1
HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN??
SIN: it means to miss mark for what God has for us?
-God’s mark is to have everyone in, His desire…some will choose to be out
What sin??
The sin of favoritism and pride
We want to be FAVORITED in the family of God over someone else....PUFF OURselves up more
Like we can do our own family
Here i the reality
God doesn’t play favorites: everyone is favorite
For God shows no partiality.
This Here is the ironic part for you and for me: If you are a Christian you already are favored by God, you’re in His family…you are seeking something you already have
THIS SIN IS SO DEADLY AND DANGEROUS AS WILL SEE BECAUSE IT HAS THE ABILITY TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM THE FATHER WHEN WE SAY YOU ARE OUT THAT GOD’S GRACE IS NOT FOR YOU
NO ONLY IS THIS DANGEROUS IT HAS DEEP ROOTS
This sin has deep roots…it has been passed down from generation to generation
This system of playing favorites
This is an ancestoral sin…a sin past down from generation to generation
It is a sin of the flesh that we inherited from our ancestors
Not created with my generation or your generation
We know this spiritual reality in the natural
Look at the sin of racism
Why didn’t we like them?? Because our Grandparents didn’t like them and taught us not to like them…it was passed down from one generation to the next.
THE PASSAGE WE WILL BE IN TODAY IS GOING TO ADDRESS THIS FAVORITISM AND PRIDE THAT WAS GOING ON IN THE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM OF JESUS DAY....He is going to show us the beauty of WHO HE IS.
Tackle what Jesus wants us to tackle is to tackle generational roots!
What was the religious system of Jesus’ day? (WE ARE GOING TO REMNANTS OF THIS TODAY, SPLINTERS OF THIS TODAY) of Jesus breaking genrational roots of favoritism
THE RELIGIOUS System of Jesus day formed 3 groups to get right with them and right with God.
If you want to get with God and with them
There is the IN
and OUT, there is HOPE
and OUT OUT no hope
WHAT DID they teach that BROUGHT YOU IN THE GROUP?
BIRTH (ARE YOU ARE JEW) AND BEHAVIOR (ARE YOU GOING TO FOLLOW THE 613 COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE 1000 OTHERS ONES FROM THE MISSNA?
What had you in the out group?
You were born a Jew but you didn’t behave and follow the 613 commandments
What put you in the OUT OUT group???
You were not BORN a JEW and NOR BEHAVED and followed the 613 commandments??
What is the problem with these groups? To get right with the religious leaders and with God?
Is this the heart of God??? Is the
1.IT MISSES THE HEART OF GOD
IS GOD’S HEART TO HAVE AND IN GROUP AND AN OUT GROUP AND OUT OUT GROUP
...God came to bless the whole world
It was not their birth that gets them IN with God.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
GEN 12 BLESSING TO THE WORLD
God didn’t come to save the IN group, those who call themselves in, He came to save the whole world those who are considered OUT and OUT OUT
Not only that!!!
THERE IS A HUGE PROBLEM....WHAT’S THE PROBLEM!?! IF WE TRY TO GET RIGHT WITH GOD ON OUR BIRTH OR BEHAVIOR? AM I GETTING IN?
If our entrance examine to get in a right relatoinship with God is based on our merit and behavoir are we getting in???
YOUR BIRTH, MY BIRTH AND BEHAVIOR CANNOT GET US RIGHT WITH GOD
HUH I AM TOLD GOOD PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN AND BAD PEOPLE GO TO HELL
NOPE
PERFECT PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, IMPERFECT GO TO HELL O
Though we have tried
Many of us have tried to earn our way to a RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
But the problem is this for you to earn on your BEHAVIOR YOU MUST BE PERFECT....
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
If you show up to the heavens gates and say why should we let you in and you give your
Behavior
If we show up and look at my behavior, I served
OR LOOK AT ME Birth born in Cleveland, born in a Christian family
DEPART YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED IN ON YOUR BEHAVIOR
WHAT HOPE IS THERE FOR US???? IF WE CAN ONLY GET IN IF WE ARE PERFECT AND SINLESS??
JESUS
Jesus lives the life we should have lived:
Perfect birth, perfect behavior…Jesus is IN
But Jesus’ heart, the Father’s heart is
THE ONLY WAY FOR YOU OR I TO GET IN IS SOMEONE TO LET YOU IN
JESUS
THE Good news OF THE GOSPLE it is not your It is not your BIRTH or BEHAVIOR that BRINGS YOU IN WITH GOD OUR FATHER.
IT IS JESUS BRITH AND BEHAVIOR
JESUS LEAVES HEAVEN TO EARTH BORN SINLESS AND LIVES SINELESS BEHAVERS SINLESS
AND THEREFORE HAS ACCESS TO HIS FATHER
BUT WHAT IS THE PROBLEM???
YOU AND I ARE THERE AND HE IS THERE…THIS WHAT GOD’S HEART IS …GOD AND JESUS SAME WANTS US HERE
HOW CAN GOD GET US FROM HERE TO THERE
JESUS DOES THIS RADICAL THING AND JESUS SAYS I AM GOING TO THIS GREAT EXCHANGE
I AM GOING EXCHANGE MY LIFE FOR THERES, FOR YOU
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
IT IS JESUS Sinless BIRTH and BEHAVIOR, perfect sinless obedience that gets us in…WITH
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Great exchange how?
Jesus was obedient to the point of death on the cross
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Why? Why does this sinless man get crucified??? Because of His great love
Jesus says the only way you are in is by BELIEF IN ME
HOW WE RECEIVE THIS GIFT OF BEING IN WITH GOD IS AN ACT OF GRACE
because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Do you see what Jesus did for us…We could not get in with God on our behavior or our birth…we get in with God upon His BIRTH, BEHAVIOR, and SACRIFICE
JESUS SAYS MY HEART IS FOR EVERYONE AND ANYONE TO BE IN RIGHT RELIATIONSHIP WITH GOD
THIS IS AMAZING GRACE....which is the next word in most quoted verse
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,
What is grace?? Unmerited favor to someone who doesn’t deserve the favor
Hebrew: I like what the Hebrew adds to grace…it is to look with favor, joy, and beautiy…ANY ONE SEE THE CHOOSEN?
THIS GRACE IS SOMETHING THAT GIVES FREELY TO THE WHOLE WORLD
WE SEE THIS TRUTH COME TO LIFE IN THE STORY OF LUKE....LUKE TARGETS THE OUT OF THE OUT GROUP IN THE WORLDS AND RELIGIOUNS AND SAYS YOU CAN BE IN BY THE GRACE OF GOD TOO.
WE SEE THIS COME TO LIFE IN THE STORY OF ZACCHAUSE A TAX COLLECTOR
LUKE IN GERERNAL WANTS TO BRING THE OUTCAST TO FOR FRONT
He entered Jericho and was passing through.
And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich.
And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small in stature.
So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way.
And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.”
So he hurried and came down and received him joyfully.
And when they saw it, they all grumbled, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”
And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.”
And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham.
TAX COLLECTORS WERE HATED AND HE WAS RICH…ALLL PARTIES HATE THEM…THEY WERE OUT OUT
JESUS LOOKED…JESUS SHOW GRACE WITH HIS EYES....AND SAYS I MUST GO TO YOUR HOUSE....
JESUS YOU CAN’T GO THERE…ZACHEASUSU IS OUT OUT…YOU KNOW
JOYFULLY....J
JESUS TO HIS HOUSE!?!?
WHAT!!!
DOESN’T JESUS KNOW THAT ZACHEASUS IS OUT OUT
ZACHEASUS WAS RADCIALLY CHANGED
WE WANT YOU TO MEET JESUS THEN YOU ARE READICALLY CHANGED
HIS HIS WHOLE LIFE WAS CHANGED BY THE GRACE OF GOD
SALVATION CAME TO HIS HOUSE.
NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN LIFE JESUS CAME TO SEEK AND SAVE THE LOST
Some of you today are IN but you feel OUT....others are OUT or OUT OUT and God says you can come in