Series “GOvember” — Sermon “The Message”

Series “GOvember” — Sermon “The Message”

Vision Statement:“Transforming Lives To Impact Their World.”    GLOBAL GLORY

Called to IMPACT your world!  The Method:   1. Aware. 2. Share. 3. Prayer. 4. Care

Sam Williams  “Evangelism is helping people discover how God is already at work in their lives.”

Genesis 1:28  “And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion”  

Colonize the earth! Adam didn’t lose a religion, he lost his place as ruler. 

Jesus Crowned Us To Reign 

Revelation 1:5-6  “To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”
Kings Reign = Priests Connect 

We Are Crowned How? 

Romans 5:17  “For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.” 

Romans 5:18-19 (Message). “Here it is in a nutshell: Just as one person did it wrong and got us in all this trouble with sin and death, another person did it right and got us out of it. But more than just getting us out of trouble, he got us into life! One man said no to God and put many people in the wrong; one man said yes to God and put many in the right.”

We Are Crowned What?

Psalm 103:4 “Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,…” 

Luke 16;16 “The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it.”

We Are Crowned Why? 

Romans 5:21  “…so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” 

Wherever sin and death have encroached on God’s eternal plan we have authority to remove it! 

2 Peter 2:9 “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light;” 

John 3:17 “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”

Acts 16:31 “So they said, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.’”

1 Timothy 1:15 “This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.”

Titus 3:4-6  “But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared,  not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,  whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,”

Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,”

2 Corinthians 5:21 “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

Mark 1:14-15 “Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.’”

Repent Metanoeo (met-an-o-eh’-o):– compound of after and thought; to think differently afterwards, that is, reconsider Changed mind in light of new evidence.  Can’t have repentance without new information.

Worst translated word in the Bible.  Metanoeo always = Repent

English word repent is from latin word Reponitet.  Reponitet:— to be sorry again, to do penance

Three Stages Of Metanoeo:

1. Revelation — New information

2. Realignment — Agreeing with the new information, Confession Homologueo :— Say same thing

3. Reassignment — Experiencing the promise.

Romans 2:4 “Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?” 

Romans 6:17-18 “Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you.  Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living.”

Romans 4:4-5  (NLT) “When people work, their wages are not a gift, but something they have earned. But people are counted as righteous, not because of their work, but because of their faith in God who forgives sinners.” 

Genesis 6:14 “Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.”

Pitch :– (kopher) the price of life, ransom, from the root word (kaphar) to cover, to purge, to make atonement  

Jesus Saves

Save (sozo):—  to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction to save from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health

Matthew 1:21 “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, (God Is Salvation) for He will save His people from their sins.”

Romans 3:21-23 “But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”