What Selfless Love Has Done
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Intro and Tension
Intro and Tension
Live in a society where have to measure up | Just about everything in life measured by performance.
Job | Sport | High School
Anyone ever tell you, you don’t measure up?
Did you know - Bible - Only place in world where “You don’t measure up” is Good news.
This is the truth - You don’t measure up - God loves you anyway - Couldn’t measure up, and yet, God sent Son to die for you. .
among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
You don’t measure up, God loves you anway
Title: The Performance that matters
New series - Re-visiting our yearly theme
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Yearly theme - Sefless Love. - but we going on the other side.
This theme - What Sefless Love Has Done
Based in Romans 8.
Today - I want living word - Wash over you - Spark something in you that will give you Desire to give Jesus whole heart.
don’t want to sit here + inform | Want TRUTH of God’s LOVE to turn to Praise for Him -
Want what GOD has already done and what HE is going to do turn into Praise and Worship.
Best Worship yo can give = Give him your Heart, life, mind.
Today - Might have come in here with mess, shame, guilt, working 9-5, trying to get through week - but TODAY - hope you realise truth of Romans 8:1 - The weight of it - Transform you inside out.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
When there is a therefore, must ask yourself - what is it there for.
Paul has spent 7 Chapters showing us we are condemned - Explaining holiness of Law. How the Mosaic Law, shows us need for saviour.
Today explain God’s Purpose, the Problem - Plan.
This series is about ^^ - understanding Gospel from every Angle.
**Diamond**
Purpose - Paradise and Communion with God | Start of Bible - Paradise, Garden of Eden - It was good | End of Revelation - Refining fire, Paradise - New Creation with God - It will be good.
The problem is, ever since fall, born of Sin, born with sinful nature - Paul explains his awakening to this in Romans 7..
Before saved - walking along - think - i’m a good person = but once saved, confronted with holiness of God.
Paul explains this battle, between understanding who we are, and comparing it against holiness of God.
Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
which is good (The Law) - It wasn’t the Law that was problem, it was our Sinful Nature.
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
Domino Effect from Adam’s Sin. We need an outside Agent.
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.
Going to unpack more next week- This battle between Law of Flesh and the Law of Spirit.
*Alexis jumping off chair* - good news someone to catch you.
Anyone else here today? Doing what they don’t want to do? You know you want to… Be closer to God? Have more peace? but just seem to come up against a wall.
**Listen, so beneficial you come to this whole series** - If this is you, I got you.
So this is problem - Our sinflul flesh.
it says;
We are Children of Wrath - We have Wrath coming;
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
When holiness meets Ungodliness = Wrath.
We where already heading that way - We want God to erradicate Sin - Brokenss, Suffering- This will happen - Refining fire.
But God had a Plan; Who remembers John 3:16? Anyone?
“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.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
already heading somewhere | But God had a plan - The innocent for the Guilty, so the Guilty, would become innocent.
One man was condemned to death - so we don’t have to be.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Condemnation; Not fit, for purpose, unfit for service.
**picture of a condemned building*
The enemy has been speaking to some people and saying that you are unfit for purpose.
God is saying to you today - That’s the voice of a LIAR.
No condemnation - Aint going to Hell - Going to eternity More than that- Fit for Purpose in the Kingdom. Potters Clay - His Workmanship - His Good work.
There is no condemnation, but only for certain people - who IN CHRIST.
Question; are you IN CHRIST today.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
It’s about Performance, but not your performance, it’s about your Position, that qualifies you, not your performance.
***Illustration*** - Look at this good news.
Paul says we are IN CHRIST - Seated with Him - Coming back with Him when he comes - IN CHRIST. ANd also Chrsit is IN US. and then
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Now we are hidden WITH CHRIST, in GOD…Look at the position that you have IN CHRIST.
*Out here by yourself*
*Someone else - Jesus - Crushed - Came back, and now HS lives in You - IN Christ and CHRIST is IN YOU.
When Wrath Comes = protected -that’s why Paul can say - If God is for you - who can be against you.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Enables us to live by the Law - Is that the mosaic law? no! NEW Covenant
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Romans 13:9 as well.
Yes - Purpose - With God in communion.
Problem - Our Sinful Nature
Plan - Salvation - but there is plan here in messy middle for you - doesn’t end at salvation - it begins.
Main Point; You are fit for purpose because of your position, not because of your performance.
You can’t do ANYTIHNG to be IN CHRIST, apart from Give your life TO CHRIST.
NO ANY - but we need NE - NOT ANY, but NE
Look…DO….DONE (N E).
Purpose - To you be in communion with him
Problem - Sin
Plan - Jesus Christ,
Wrath is coming , wipe away every sin and rubbish -
However;
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Because you in Christ, saved - more than that - Made fit for Purpose.
There is no condemnation for those that are in Christ Jesus.
Yes, it’s about performance, but not your performance, it’s about Jesus performance, and His Performance has given you a position…in Christ and more than that - To be led by the Power of the Spirit ,and not your flesh.
It’s been DONE, so you can do, and what do we do?
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”