Four Things We Are Saved From

Opening - Video with Painting

Worship – part 1

Preaching – Communion

Offering

Worship – part 2

Phil 3:8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ-- the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. 12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection…

These other things will not happen till I know Christ and what he did by his sacrificial death for us.

1. He takes away the sin that separates us from God
1. So we can be connected to God

                                          i.    Which fulfills our spiritual longing

1. Jesus takes away the sin that separates us from each other
1. So we can be reconciled to each other as the Church

                                          i.    Which fills our social longings

1. Jesus forgives us for sins we have committed
1. Cleansing us from our filth

                                          i.    Which fulfills our emotional longing for forgiveness

1. Jesus cleanses us from what others have done to us. (or what we have allowed others to do to us)
1. So we can have a new beginning

                                          i.    Which fulfills our Psychological need for Cleansing, Healing and Hope.

Luke 22:14 When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table. 15 And he said to them, "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. 16 For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God." 17 After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, "Take this and divide it among you. 18 For I tell you I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes." 19 And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me."

20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

• Take the bread and give thanks and broke it.
• Receive the bread (Christ)
• Give thanks for what he has done.
• Took my sin
• The sin of others so I can forgive too.
• Took my separation
• Broke it
• Eat half of the bread
• Put the nail through the other half
• You crucified Christ with your sins.

Isaiah 53:4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. NIV

20 …he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

• Re-establish the covenant with him tonight.
• Say: Jesus I enter in to this covenant with you by the blood that you shed for me.
• Say: