Salvation and Judgement
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Intro Salvation and Judgement
Intro Salvation and Judgement
6 Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
7 And the peace of God, which surpasses every thought, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable—if there is any moral excellence and if there is any praise—dwell on these things.
Reminder of a Christian worldview and fix ourselves on truth this morning
Salvation and Judgement
The feeling that church is the safe place and the feeling of not wanting to leave.
This is not the full picture of Salvation
Salvation: Rescue
We are not only saved from something but we are saved for something. -N.T. Wright
Judgement: Putting everything to right
Anxious: being pulled in different directions. These last months it feels very much like being pulled different directions.
Life and death. This topic has been brought to our attention a lot lately and at times feeling as though these two things are battling each other or at odds with one another.
Death Arrives
Adam and Eve in the garden and God gives them a parameter. They break that and death is the result.
Genesis 3:22-23
Everything desires Judgement and Salvation
Everything desires Judgement and Salvation
Romans 8:18-23
Acts 17
What God did for Jesus’s body on Easter was setting it right by raising the body from the dead.
Death is defeated
Death is defeated
1 Corinthians 15:20-26
The task of the Messiah is to put all things right
Life has purpose
Life has purpose
N.T. Wright on a angled mirror
Ephesians 2:8-10
We are God’s poima where we get the English word poem. We are his creation, his artwork, his masterpiece and created in Christ to do good works.
Spending time with my dad
He valued life so much.
Not a fan of the phrase quality of life...
God uses humans to bring Glory to his name and bring about the Kingdom of God.
To be a Christian is not to be a better version of you, but to be Christlike. Jesus came and lived in the flesh and modeled for us the Kingdom coming on this earth.