What Separates Us From God?

Pastor Rob McCoy of Godspeak Calvary Chapel in California will defy the Ventura County emergency order tomorrow demanding they cease having church services. They lost their case before the Judge this weekend and it is slowly making national news Per the ruling, the pastor and the first 1,000 attendees will all be issued misdimeanor citations for worshipping together at the church building. On social media tonight, the man of God said he is not backing down and is asking for our prayers as the body of Christ. Would you join me in lifting our dear brother up in prayer tonight asking for: 1. Boldness and Courage 2. 10,000 worshippers tomorrow morning 3. The Emergency Order to be Overturned 4. A Mass Harvest of Souls 5. California be Shaken for Jesus Yes, this is 2020 in America where a pastor and his congregation are being harassed by a government who swore to protect their religious liberties all in the name of a “virus”. If you are attending church tomorrow without fear of reprecussions, remember your brethren in California! -Jeremiah Johnson

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When God made man and woman he declared them to be good.

Genesis 1:31 MEV

God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

That means that they had no imperfections.

But they didnt stay perfect. They disobeyed God.

Romans 5:12 NLT

When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.

1. Sin separates us from God.

What is sin? How do we know what sin is? We start with the Law.

Many people will tell us that the law is past away but it is not.

Jesus said.

Matthew 5:17–20 MEV

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish, but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one dot or one mark will pass from the law until all be fulfilled. Whoever, therefore, breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will in no way enter the kingdom of heaven.

Exodus 20:3–17 MEV

You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself any graven idol, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water below the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of them who hate Me, and showing lovingkindness to thousands of them who love Me and keep My commandments. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold guiltless anyone who takes His name in vain. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or your sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.

Did you know that the idea that the devil or someone else makes you sin is not correct?

You have free will. You make the decision to sin. We have to take responsibility for our actions and stop blaming something else.

Look at the commandments. God is talking to us individually.

But something great is waiting for those who want it.

When we give our lives to Jesus everything changes. Because when we give our lives to Jesus no longer can sin separate us from God.

2. Nothing can separate you from God is you have given your life to Jesus.

Romans 8:35–39 NLT

Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.