The Bad News First, Part 2

The bad news is that we are sinful as individuals caught up in a culture that sinful people have developed–intentionally or not. But as followers of Jesus and as agents of this Kingdom, one of our primary jobs is to give our sinful world tastes and glimpses of this new and better future.

You’ve Already Won
Shane & Shane

Death Was Arrested
North Point Worship

Communion
Brooke Ligertwood

Lamb of God
Vertical Worship

Romans 12:1-2
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

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Our sin not only affects us individually, but it affects us communally.

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The root of sin is found when we value ourselves over everyone else, including our creator.

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Romans 6:23a
For the wages of sin is death…

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Exodus 32:2-4
So Aaron said to them, “Take off the rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

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Genesis 3:15
“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

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Genesis 3:21-23
And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

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Erik Raymond
“When we collect the details of Joseph’s life we see a glorious reflection that closely mirrors another life we are so intimately familiar with. In fact, when you look at a list of the details, sometimes it’s hard to discern whether we are talking about Joseph or Jesus. This is not because Joseph was Jesus’s favorite Bible hero he wanted to emulate. It is because God is sovereign, and he has been laying the tracks for the glory of Christ throughout redemptive history.”

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Exodus 34:6-7
The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

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John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

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John 1:16-17
For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

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Tim Mackie
“John is claiming that the one Moses met on Mount Sinai became human, and he describes this human with the words of Exodus 34:6 , “full of grace and truth.” These words are one of the main ways the Septuagint (the Greek Old Testament) translated loyal love and faithfulness. Jesus is the incarnate God of Exodus 34:6-7.”

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We respond with Grace and Truth.

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Romans 12:1-2
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

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Repentance
In light of truth, repent of where we fall short.

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Worship
In light of grace, respond with our lives.