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A Need for Hope
The Sin Problem
Creation was perfect, but temptation was introduced through the Serpent.
God’s creation was perfect, but where there is free choice, people will choose wrong.
Satan & his angels fell from heaven, and now we battle against those spiritual forces (, , )
Adam & Eve faced those same forces in the Garden when the Serpent visited.
The Fall of Man
Sin = Anything in God’s rightful place
The temptation is “YOU WILL BE LIKE GOD”
This was the desire to be like God, and we still struggle with this today.
WE can handle our problem.
We don’t need help, etc.
A Need for Hope
From that moment humans needed hope.
ALL SIN AND FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD.
Every one of us suffers from the same problem as Adam and Eve.
WE WANT TO BE LIKE GOD!
And they had hope.
The promise is Eve’s offspring would crush the head of the Serpent.
That GOOD would destroy EVIL.
Over the years this hope would fluctuate.
More promises led to more hope.
Rough times, the destruction of Solomon’s Temple, exile into Babylon, spirits crushed, but still hope!
NEXT WEEK WE’LL LOOK AT THESE PROMISES.
The problem with sin is you are powerless to stop it.
Knowing something is wrong doesn’t really help (LAW).
People were still powerless.
God gave them a way to deal with their sin through sacrifice, but he had a better way…a perfect way - AT THE PERFECT TIME!
Hope Delivered
Paul shows us the HOPE received by those long ago that still gives us hope today.
God sent his MESSIAH, (anointed one, CHRIST), the only one who could deal with our sin problem!
If you look at the next verse, you’ll see Paul sets up the argument that just as sin entered the world through one man, the world is also saved by one man, JESUS.
Waiting for Hope
Just as the world waiting with anticipation for the coming of the Savior, we too wait for the Savior to come again.
It was a confusing time in the first century.
Many felt Jesus would be right back.
And as believers began to die, the people wondered what would happen to them as they died waiting for his return.
& - Jesus says the Gospel must be preached in all nations first, and then the end will come.
(It still hasn’t, that we know of…I wouldn’t rest too easy on that one.)
But a real crisis of faith arose around those who had died.
Would they miss out on Jesus’ return?
Would they even see him at all? Would we have to spend eternity without them in heaven?
Encourage one another with these words.
Waiting for Hope
Those in Christ will not remain in the grave.
Their bodies are just resting until he returns.
We have a job to do.
Some have not surrendered to Christ…they have not made him Lord of their Life, they have not been baptized.
THEY DON’T ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, SO HE WON’T ACKNOWLEDGE THEM.
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They will not experience BEING WITH THE LORD FOREVER.
THEIR CONSEQUENCES WILL BE ETERNAL.
THIS NEEDS TO BE KNOWN.
AS THE WORLD CELEBRATES HIS FIRST COMING, ARE WE PROCLAIMING THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING?
JUST AS ISRAEL LOOKED FOR THE COMING MESSIAH, ARE WE ABOUT THE WORK OF THE MESSIAH AND PREPARING FOR HIS RETURN?
What is Jesus calling you to do today?
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