We Believe In Redemption
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1 I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything,
2 but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.
3 In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.
4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
Gal 4:1-7
4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
We believe that God’s holiness and man’s sinfulness creates an inescapable problem.
We believe that God’s holiness and man’s sinfulness creates an inescapable problem.
1 The Lord said to Moses, “Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give it.’
2 I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
3 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”
4 When the people heard this disastrous word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments.
6 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,
7 keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Why will the Lord not go with His people? Because it is not safe. He is holy and they are sinful.
The quintessential issue in the Bible is how to reconcile God and man.
The quintessential issue in the Bible is how to reconcile God and man.
We believe that God provides reconciliation through Christ Jesus.
We believe that God provides reconciliation through Christ Jesus.
19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
Word Study
καταλλάσσω - To change the Disposition of one person towards another.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
We believe that reconciliation is the work of God.
We believe that reconciliation is the work of God.
We believe that the bible teaches that God takes the initiative in reconciliation.
We believe that God seeks.
We believe that God seeks.
Sometimes we embrace the misconception that our spiritual lives are like a hid and seek game with the Almighty.
Here is an important reality - man doesn’t seek God - God seeks man.
Man doesn’t seek God. God seeks man.
Man doesn’t seek God. God seeks man.
E. A. Sophocles, Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (From B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100) (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1900), 639.
10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands; no one seeks for God.
Rom 3
According to the Scriptures Who seeks God Church? NO ONE
What’s fallen man’s response to God’s presence?
8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God 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.
Man is not saying - Lets go find God! No man says hear comes God lets get out of sight.
Now consider this what are God’s first words after man’s sin?
9 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
The good news is that God seeks sinners who are lost.
The good news is that God seeks sinners who are lost.
I want to tell you unequivocally that God doesn’t just say well forget it.
John MacArthur stated,
It is important for us to realize that God is a seeking God. God is a God who pursues after sinners. Scriptures literally speak of that from the beginning of the Old Testament to the end of the New.
We believe that God sends.
We believe that God sends.
4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
The story of Christ is the story that at just the right moment in history God moves redemption along by sending His Son the seeker.
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
17 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.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
We believe that through the work of Christ God upholds His righteousness while dealing mercifully with sinners.
We believe that through the work of Christ God upholds His righteousness while dealing mercifully with sinners.
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
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Don’t put a period where God has placed a coma!
There is no compromise for God’s holiness.
There is no compromise for God’s holiness.
There is a promise of God’s provision in Christ?
There is a promise of God’s provision in Christ?
20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
15 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.”
The Scriptures make a promise of God’s provision in Christ?
The Scriptures make a promise of God’s provision in Christ?
Redemption is the saving work of Christ were he purchases sinners from bondage to sin.
Redemption is the saving work of Christ were he purchases sinners from bondage to sin.