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Breaking God’s Law

Scripture

  • Romans 6:23 – “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
  • Romans 2:6-7 – “He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey u righteousness, there will be wrath and fury.”
  • Galatians 5:17-21 – “For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
  • Numbers 32:23 – “But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.”
  • Galatians 6:7 – “Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.”

Statements

  • God’s rules, called Laws (or commandments) have GREAT and TERRIBLE consequences attached to them for when someone breaks them
  • Jesus was the ultimate rule keeper; we are the ultimate rule breakers
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Adam and Eve

Scripture

Statements

  • Rule keepers right up until they ate the forbidden fruit, then they became rule breakers

Questions

  • Are you a rule breaker or a rule follower?
  • Have you always been a rule follower?
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Attributes of God

God is One

God is Great and Perfect

God is Eternal, Self-Existent, and Immutable

  • Psalm 90:2 – “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.”

God is Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscient

Omnipotent

Omnipresent

Omniscient

  • Numbers 32:23 – “But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out.”
  • Hebrews 4:13 – “And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.”
  • Luke 12:1-3 – “In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.”

God is Holy

God is Righteous

God is True and Truthful

  • Titus 1:2 – “In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began”
  • Hebrews 6:18 – “So that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.”
  • Numbers 23:19 – “God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?”
  • 1 Samuel 15:29 – “And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.”
  • 2 Timothy 2:13 – “If we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.”

God is Faithful

God is Love

God is Creator and Sustainer

God is Lord Over All

God is Lawgiver and Judge

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God is Eternal

Scripture

  • Psalm 90:2 – “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.”
  • Isaiah 40:28 – “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.”
  • Hebrews 13:8 – “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
  • John 1:1 – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
  • 1 Timothy 1:17 – “To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.”
  • Romans 16:26 – “But has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith.”
  • Deuteronomy 33:27 – “The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, Destroy.”
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Only One True God

Scripture

  • Isaiah 43:10 – “Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.”
  • Isaiah 44:6,8 – “Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: ‘I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.’ // ‘Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any.'”
  • Isaiah 45:22 – “Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.”
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Eyes to See

Illustrations

  • My mom saw a jigsaw puzzle design on the wall for two days and just thought it was a random design. I come to the cabin and point out that this is a Christian owned cabin. And then she told me that the next morning she saw JESUS in the design. Before she didn’t have eyes to see. Now she does see it. Cool example.
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Mercy

Scripture

  • Luke 18:13 – “But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’”
  • Ephesians 2:4-7 – “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ-by grace you have been saved- and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.”
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Atheism

Scripture

  • Psalm 14:1 – “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.”
  • Psalm 53:1 – “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.”
  • Romans 1:18-21 – “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Statements

  • Psalm 14:1 and 53:1 are about total rejection of God, not intellectual blindness. These individuals want nothing to do with God.
  • God doesn’t believe in atheists.
  • Stardust vs. God’s image and value and worth
  • I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist.

Quotes

  • Richard Dawkins wrote, “In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.”

Questions

  • Are we merely fish turned philosophers? Bi-pedal protoplasm? Stardust? No.
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Repent

Scripture

  • Luke 13:3 – “No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”
  • Acts 3:19 – “Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out,”
  • 2 Peter 3:9 – “The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”
  • Matthew 4:17 – “From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.'”
  • Acts 17:30-31 – “The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
  • Romans 2:4 – “Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?”
  • 2 Chronicles 7:14 – “If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
  • Luke 5:32 – “I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
  • Matthew 1:15 – “And saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.'”
  • Matthew 3:2 – “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
  • Luke 15:7 – “Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.”
  • Luke 15:10 – “Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
  • 2 Corinthians 7:9-10 – “As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.”
  • Acts 8:22 – “Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.”
  • Ezekiel 18:32 – “For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live.”