Sermon Note
Pastor Lawrence
What would your responsibility be, if the entire world is with virus and you are the only one with the antidote ?
The wages of sin is death. The soul that sin must die. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son
He who has the Son has life!
The church has secured for the dying community. The cure is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Our God loves. He is loving you today. Actually He loved you yesterday. Tomorrow when the sun rises, He loves you
We have a responsibility to work together as a team to work this out.
The gospel is going around the world
Do not be afraid. Be bold and courageous
There is power when the people of God come together.
It is a privilege to give to God
It is a privilege to come to church
Whatever little you can give, God can transform and give people life
The greatest salvation is everything.
If you have nothing but you have salvation, you have everything
Your life continues. God does not want anyone to perish. He wants everyone to be saved.
What is the gospel?
What exactly is the gospel?
The gospel is abc to z, to infinity and beyond. Gospel speaks of grace, grace is the Person of Jesus Christ.
When Jesus was born, He was given a specific name. It means Salvation. Jesus will save His people from their sin.
In the gospel the full forgiveness of sin provides everyone who believes
If you are in Christ, ALL your sins are forgiven
The bible declared in Him we have forgiveness of our sins through His blood
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
Only a child of God can walk in the light.
The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sins.
1 John 2:1-2
My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
John refers to the believers as little children
These things i write to you that you may not sin.
Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself is our Advocate.
He is for us and not against us.
He Himself became proposition for our sin and also for the entire world. He is the mercy seat that covers the sin of men.
Your defence counsel when He fights for you, has a unique advantage.
Today when we stand before God, He is for us and not against us.
Sinful men have been forgiven of all our sins.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ!
God is merciful and gracious
Hebrews 8:7-12
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
I deliver to you of first important. The most important truth!
The first thing is Christ died for our sins! We are forgiven ! God is not holding your sins against you!
Do not undermine the goodness of God
Those forgiven much will love much
When you understand you are truly forgiven
Let your thinking, feelings be subject to the authority of the holy scripture
Your sin is forgiven. Why don’t you believe?
Without hesitation we have been forgiven of all our sins. God loves you. He is not holding your sins against you. When you believe right you will walk right
Psalms 130:3-4
If You, LORD, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
But there is forgiveness with You,
That You may be feared.
It is the goodness of God that leads one to repentance
He was nailed to the cross, He said Father forgive them for they know not what they do.
