Give God What He Wants, He Wants To Save You!
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3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
I. God’s Desire For All To Be Saved
I. God’s Desire For All To Be Saved
4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
A. Are you Afflicted?
A. Are you Afflicted?
Are you in trouble? THE BIBLE SAYS IN JOB
1 “Man who is born of woman Is of few days and full of trouble.
Living this life will bring trouble,
YOU HAVE TERROR AND TORMENT
YOU HAVE PRESSURE AND PAIN
YOU HAVE FEAR AND FRUSTRATION
YOU HAVE GUILT AND GRIEF
YOU HAVE MADNESS AND MISERY
YOU HAVE SORROW AND SADNESS
23 For all his days are sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
B. Are you Alienated?
B. Are you Alienated?
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
ARE YOU CORRUPT? DO PEOPLE DESCRIBE YOU AS POISON?
ARE RELATIONSHIPS TOXIC?
ARE YOU PROFANE, PERVERSE, OR DEPRAVED?
DIRECTION: Walk in Darkness
5 They do not know, nor do they understand; They walk about in darkness; All the foundations of the earth are unstable.
IS THIS THE DIRECTION OF YOUR LIFE
EYESIGHT: Spiritually Blind
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, And we grope as if we had no eyes; We stumble at noonday as at twilight; We are as dead men in desolate places.
UNDERSTANDING: Spiritually Ignorant
18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;
INSTEAD OF
HAVING JOY, PEACE, AND HAPPINESS.
YOU LOOK AT all the works OF YOUR hands And the EFFORT YOU HAVE PUT INTO IT And YOU CONCLUDE EVERYTHING IS FLEETING AND LIKE TRYING TO GRAB the wind WITH YOUR HANDS. LIVING LIFE THIS WAY DOES NOT PRODUCE A PROFITABLE LIFE.
C. Are you an Adversary?
C. Are you an Adversary?
4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
3 You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah
IS YOUR LIFE CHARACTERIZED BY
Galatians 5:19–21 (ESV)
sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these.
D. Are you an Arrestee?
D. Are you an Arrestee?
but I’m asking if you are a servant to sin (John 8:34)? Who do you obey? Who do you answer to? ARE YOU BEING HELD CAPTIVE BY SATAN OR BY THE DEVIL
1. Children of
10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.
2. Blinded by
4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
Deceived, Enslaved, AND Troubled by THE Father of lies. ARE YOU walking according to the DEVIL? IS HE WORKING IN YOU PRODUCING A spirit of disobedience. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT YOU ARE ENSNARED of the devil!
1 John 3:8a He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning.
II. God Wants All To Be Saved!
II. God Wants All To Be Saved!
4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,
12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
50 For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
A. ARRESTEE, God Wants To RESCUE You!
A. ARRESTEE, God Wants To RESCUE You!
HOW DO I KNOW, Jesus RESCUED ME
I WAS A PRISONER OF SIN AN ARRESTEE. I WAS
Christ CHANGED MY RULER
CHANGED MY RESIDENCE
CHANGED MY REPUTATION
I WAS CONVICTED BUT NOW I’M FORGIVEN
I WAS IMPRISONED BUT NOW I’M PARDONED
I WAS BOUND, IMPRISONED
SHACKLED
HANDCUFFED
CHAINS
BUT CHRIST ACCORDING TO GALATIANS 1:4
4 who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
B. ALIENS, God Wants To REDEEM You!
B. ALIENS, God Wants To REDEEM You!
Jesus REDEEMED ME
I WAS NOT ONLY A PRISONER BUT I WAS IN DEBTORS PRISON. CHRIST DID NOT SNEAK THROUGH THE BACK AND PERFORM A JAILBREAK. HE PAID FOR MY RELEASED.
CHRIST HAS PURCHASED OR REDEEMED ME WITH HIS BLOOD
18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,
19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
C. ADVERSARIES, God Wants To RECONCILE You!
C. ADVERSARIES, God Wants To RECONCILE You!
10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.
D. AFFLICTED, God Wants to REGENERATE You!
D. AFFLICTED, God Wants to REGENERATE You!
3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
5 Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faints.
6 From the sole of the foot even to the head, There is no soundness in it, But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; They have not been closed or bound up, Or soothed with ointment.
Listen to CHRIST
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
ARE YOU IN BONDAGE, IN PRISON, ON OUR WAY TO HELL?
BE HONEST TODAY! ARE YOU IN
CHAINED BECAUSE OF YOUR CRIMES
CONFINED BECAUSE OF YOUR CORRUPTION
IMPRISONED BECAUSE OF YOUR INIQUITY
TRAPPED BECAUSE OF YOUR TRANGRESSIONS
SENTENCED BECAUSE OF YOUR SINS
DO YOU NEED TO BE RESCUED, RECONCILED, REDEEMED, AND REGENERATED?
DO YOU NEED SOMEONE TO POST YOUR BOND, TO PAY YOUR DEBT?
I GOT GOOD NEWS
4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
GOD THE FATHER SENT GOD THE SON
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
WILL YOU PUT YOUR TRUST IN God’s Remedy for Man’s Ruined life?
56 For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.” And they went to another village.
WILL YOU PUT YOUR TRUST IN God’s Cure for Man’s Curse of sin?
WILL YOU LET God’s Compassion for YOUR Corruption RECONCILE YOU
WILL YOU LET God’s Pardon for YOUR Pollution RESCUE YOU?
WILL YOU LET God’s Healing for YOUR Hurt REGENERATE YOU
WILL YOU LET God’s Grace for YOUR Guilt REDEEM YOU
WILL YOU LET God’s Mercy for YOUR Misery
God’s Provision for YOUR Problem SAVE YOU?
WILL YOU GIVE GOD WHAT HE WANTS?
WILL YOU GIVE GOD HIS DESIRE?
HE WANTS TO CHANGE
Fools to Followers of Christ
Backbiters to Believers
Criminals to Christians
Depraved to Disciples
Transgressors to Transformers
Rebels to Righteous
Wrongdoers to Worshippers
Sinners to Saints
THERE IS AN OLD HYMN THAT SAYS I CAME TO JESUS JUST AS I AM