VBS Commencement

Thank Everyone!

All week This week, we have learned about the goodness of God.

We’ve talked about how when life is unfair, God is good.

We’ve talked about how when life gets scary, God is good.

We’ve talked about how when life changes, God is good.

When life is sad, God is good.

All week, the one thing we have stressed is that God is good.

No matter the situation you and I find ourselves in, God is unchanging, and therefore, he is always good.

We learned about the Israelites, their slavery, and how God fought for them to bring them out of the land, and we’ve learned about how God is good to them throughout their journeys through the wilderness.

The Bible teaches us that God is good, but the Bible also teaches us that all us are not good.

Most of us at this point may turn up our nose.

We may say something like: “You know I feel like I am a good person. I don’t do this this or this.”

But when we do that, we are measuring ourselves against other people who are imperfect, rather than properly measuring ourselves against God who is perfect.

God’s standard of good is of good is different than our standard.

We think that because we sin less than someone else we are good.

The Bible teaches us something completely different than that:

Romans 3:10–12 NASB95

as it is written, “There is none righteous, not even one; There is none who understands, There is none who seeks for God; All have turned aside, together they have become useless; There is none who does good, There is not even one.”

There is no one, hear me, not one person other than Jesus Christ who can biblically call themselves a good person.

Romans 3:23 NASB95

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

God’s character is unchanging and becasue of that his goodness is never failing, but we change. We fail. We sin against God. Whether is be lying, stealing, disobedience to parents, disobedience to God, murder, adultery, bad language, drunkeness, idolatry, you name it, All of us, every one of us, have sinned against a holy God.

And the bible teaches that because we are imperfect, the payment for our sin is death.

Romans 6:23 NASB95

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Wages means whats owed to us. You and i deserve the wrath of God because we have sinned against him, and if not for God’s grace bringing us to an understanding of our sin and drawing us to faith in Christ, we would perish eternally in hell.

That’s the bad news.

Explain the gospel.

Jesus lived up to God’s standard of good. He was perfect.

This is the message we constantly poured over your children this week and this is the messaeg that we want to convey to you today.

Your life may be an absolute wreck. You may have difficult days. Some of it may just be things that have happened to you some of it may be things that you have caused.

The message that we want to share with you this morning is God is good, and his goodness is most evident when we look at what Jesus did for us on the cross.

And even though he was perfect, because God is good, Jesus became our substitute.