I can't seem to get my life together

Sunday May 27 2012

Guilt Free Christianity
*No one is as awesome as they appear to be
*All of us find it difficult to get our lives together

Book of Romans

*1 of the significant books in the bible
*Explain the gospel at depth

*Unbeliever-> Missionaries
*Message of gospel to unbelievers
*New Christians, growing Christians and missionaries have to believe the law (but its gospel for all)

*We will never get pass the gospel but get further and further to it
*Dive deeper into gospel for both unbelievers and believers

Romans 3:9-18:

New International Version (NIV)

No One Is Righteous

⁹ What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. ¹⁰ As it is written:
“There is no one righteous, not even one;
¹¹     there is no one who understands;
    there is no one who seeks God.
¹² All have turned away,
    they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
    not even one.”
¹³ “Their throats are open graves;
    their tongues practice deceit.”
“The poison of vipers is on their lips.”
¹⁴     “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
¹⁵ “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
¹⁶     ruin and misery mark their ways,
¹⁷ and the way of peace they do not know.”
¹⁸     “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
*Gentiles and Jewish all sin
*Doesn't matter if your irreligious or religious
*We might think that good heart, doing good things and occasionally bad things or
not a good heart, do bad things and occasionally good things but according to the bible,
we are evil people with a sinful heart
*We turn away, no one does good, no one who seeks God before their eyes

*Hebrews 11:6: ⁶ And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

"without faith, it is impossible to please God"
*works of flesh and spirit
*we need to repent our sins and whole body

John 15:5: ⁵ “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
*If Jesus is in us- we can do heaps good

1 Corinthians 2:14: ¹⁴ The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
*Confusing until God comes and break their eyes

2 Corinthians 4:3-4: ³ And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. ⁴ The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
*The reason we can't see God is because Satan has blinded the eyes of unbelievers

Mark 4:11-12: ¹ He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables ¹² so that,

“‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,
    and ever hearing but never understanding;
otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!"

John 6:44: ⁴⁴ “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.

Calvinism

t - total depravity

u - unconditional election

l - limited atonement

i - irresistible grace

p - perseverance of the saints

*Some people are chosen to come to God

Arminianism

total depravity

pervenient grace

atonement for all

irresistible grace

*Stop having faith for Christ- no longer secure security in Christ
*not all go across

*God chooses people base on his foreknowledge
*no what god does but observes (active not passive)
*removes the mist, not everyone will come
*God choosing humanity and we choosing him:
Balance between humanity and free-will
*Everyone has free will- they can resist but its irresistible

*Paul hated the church but Paul has experienced to be called and appointed as leader to gentiles

*We having freewill to turn away but not to turn to

*The most important thing is to believe that Jesus is the Saviour of our sins

Calvinism and Arminianism
-may be dangerous, have to go back to the bible
*Many non-Christians does good but we have to check what is pleasing to God and do it with our faith of God
*Our call is to spread the gospel and get people to know Christ
*Worship God regardless of our views
*We worship because of what he has done for us

     

**Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path**