Sr High Thursday Night

We should all be too far gone

There isn’t anybody who can be considered close enough to God to be “on his good side”

Even Naomi and her family, Israelites and people of God, were by nature sinful and liable to God’s wrath.

In Paul’s time, the Jews, those who had God’s word, his prophets, his promises, failed to see the Son of God in the flesh and ultimately crucified him- proving that they are by nature sinful and liable to God’s wrath.

You and I are certainly no better off than those people who were in special relationship with God. We are also by nature sinful people and are liable to God’s wrath. So are our families, friends, and everyone else we meet back at home.

The gospel shows us that everybody within reach of God’s saving hand

There isn’t anybody so far away from God so that they can’t be considered apart from his love.

Naomi and Ruth received grace and mercy in the form of a kinsmen redeemer

Paul has confidence that the Jews would also receive mercy and grace through the redeemer they killed

You and I can also experience grace and mercy through Jesus, our own kinsmen redeemer. Nobody is too far gone to experience the grace of Jesus.

We need to go and proclaim to everyone

There are many who don’t know about God’s love displayed in the gospel. It’s our job to let them know.

Ruth 4:18–22 ESV

Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez fathered Hezron, Hezron fathered Ram, Ram fathered Amminadab, Amminadab fathered Nahshon, Nahshon fathered Salmon, Salmon fathered Boaz, Boaz fathered Obed, Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David.

Romans 10 ESV

Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down) “or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for “Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.” But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry.” Then Isaiah is so bold as to say, “I have been found by those who did not seek me; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.” But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”