Good Friday - Casual

Opening

song

testimony

casual encounter with sin

just a taste

man named Lot (Abraham’s nephew)

is in a place called Sodom

the city was full of wickedness and sin

the Lord sent angels in form of man to warn Lot that God was going to destroy the city

men young and old came to be with the angels

Lot even offered his daughters to them to calm them down but they refused

they tried to charge into the place where the men who God sent were but the angels blinded them and led Lot & his family out of the city

Genesis 19:24–25 ESV

Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

Gen 19:24

God’s wrath was poured out onto this sinful city

WHY?

because God cannot stand sin

it is wickedness

it is against the Creator

it is death

Adam & Eve lived in the garden where they would live comfortably forever

BUT through sin came death

We love God’s grace right!

Paul spoke about God’s grace in Romans and knew that people would take advantage of what God had offered and miss the point SO

Romans 6:1–14 ESV

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 6:1-

it’s through Christ’s death that we have been set free

It’s because of Christ’s death that we must not have a casual encounter with sin

invitation

prep for communion

Jeff song & art

Closing prayer