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Review of Man’s Condition
-Man is dead in trespasses in sins… meaning completely unable to do anything but sin before God.
He’s helpless.
He has now power or strength to change himself.
-Man walks the course of this world, helpless but not innocent.
He follows a path against God away from God.
Like Joseph’s brothers who couldn’t help but hate their brother, man cannot help but hate God and love sin.
(Slave to sin, son of Satan)
-This is true of all people whether pagan godless gentiles or religious Jews.
All follow the paths of their lusts .
All flesh is the same: spiritually separated from God, unable to please him, rebellious and disobedient.
If man is to have hope for change, it has to come from outside himself.
-The common understanding that is held of salvation is that God gives a little help.
Jesus came into the world to give men a fighting chance.
That God simply provides the opportunity for you to choose to be saved.
This means that the gospel we preach and the hope we have in Christ is universally applicable.
All men have the condition, their symptoms vary and there is but on solution.
The Point
Today’s verses teach us what happens when a man becomes a Christian, is that God exerts his power and resurrects him from the dead.
In Chapter 1 we saw what God does for believers in eternity past and through the life and death of Jesus Christ.
We see now in Chapter 2 what God does in believers to make them a Christian.
-The common understanding that is held of salvation is that God gives a little help.
Jesus came into the world to give men a fighting chance.
That God simply provides the opportunity for you to choose to be saved.
If that’s the case no one would ever become a Christian.
Man is like a pig who loves wallowing in the mire of sin.
You can clean him up and place him at the finest table.
Show him the sweet delicacies of grace, the finer delights of God’s love, spread to the natural man the feast of the Gospel and he turns his nose up to it.
I’m sure that many of you are doing that just now.
Why? That’s his nature!
He like pigs, loves filth, but rather the filth of sin.
In order for you to be saved, you need more than to hear glories and beauties of the gospel, you need a new nature, a new heart.
That’s what Paul is talking about in our text.
How God gives a new heart.
Paul wants us to see that our conversion was the result of the mighty power of God.
It’s not in any way because of you, it was in spite of you.
What God Does to Save Us.
What Motivates God?
-He sets his love on us.
Before the foundation of the world and nothing to do with us.
God is loving the unlovable.
He is choosing as an act of his will to love someone.
-He Gives us mercy and grace
This means its the opposite of what we’ve earned or deserved.
He is rich in these qualities.
He is wealthy with mercy.
This shows what kinda of God he is.
Illustration: Why does God save anyone?
Josiah: because he loves us.
What Does He Do?
He makes us alive
He infuses us with life.
It’s called regeneration or the New Birth.
It has to take place
It is a sovereign act of God
It is Through a Union With Christ
Dead with Him, raised with him, seated with him.
It is Evidenced By A Turning and Believing
So Far:
Chosen in Him, redeemed in Him, Inheritance in Him, Trusted in Him.
Redeemed in HIm
We have such an interest in Christ that we share in his death resurrection and ascesion.
We are Co-raised, co-ascended, co-seated.
The effects of Christ’s union bleed over to us.
We experience salvation through union with Him.
It is to show his grace in the coming ages.
Ezekiel 36:22-
It is Evidenced By A Turning and Believing
John 5:24
Conclusions
Salvation is not best pictured by the illustration of a man afloat on the ocean who is crying for help.
Other illustrations picture him next to Jesus and God the Father decides to throw the life reserver to you instead of Jesus.
Salvation is you dead and decayed rotting and stinking on the bottom of the ocean, and God makes you alive.
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2) We have hope in our evangelism/prayers/future of our Church
3) This is why we counsel people for Baptism.
We are acertaingin has God done a work on you?
4) This is why we don’t order our Church to please men.
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