sermon notes

Here are my sermon notes from yesterday, when I spoke at the afternoon service at Harvest House. Gary, Shannon, and I (and Chris made a guest appearance on keyboard) did the worship, which I thought was extremely entertaining. Then Shannon spoke for about 15 min, then I took them home by preaching 'the Gospel'. Good times, we had about 30 (Iguess) in attendance.

THE GOSPEL
- evagellio (Gr) means 'to good to be true' news
- We have strayed from preaching 'the Gospel' in the Church and have moved on to the 'deep, mature' things.
-The Gospel in the 3rd World is backed up by Jesus, is our message here?

SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD HAVE BEEN DEALT WITH
-1 Peter 3:18. Why, other than sin, did Jesus die? So that He might bring us to God. Religion is about man reaching 'up' to God, Christianity is about God reaching 'down' to man.
- 1 John 2:2. How many of you know that the whole world isn't saved? That's not God's fault! Jesus atoned for the sin of the world. He finished His work, sat down in Heaven, and gave us the job of telling the rest of the world.
Romans 5:8-10
-Romans 5:8. To be saved, you have to be a sinner. It's a requirement. No one became saved while already righteous, we just had to become aware that God really had made us righteous, in Jesus. Therefore, the whole world of sinners has already had their sins forgiven but they will only become saved when they figure it out. That's our part!!
-Romans 5:9. Wrath of God?! So, why is wrath coming if sin is already dealt with? Wrath is coming for those who don't believe in Jesus. That's the only sin that God is really concerned with dealing with. That's the sin that Holy Spirit is now dealing with.
- John 16:8-9. Believing in Jesus makes all other sin of no importance. When we believe in Jesus, truly believe He lives in us, has imparted 'His' righteousness to us, and has made us new creations, than sin has lost it's power over us. ie: 1John 3
- Romans 5:10. Interesting scripture. Our sins were dealt with when Jesus died on the cross. But we recieve eternal life when we belive He rose from the dead. Romans 10:9

MISCONCEPTION ABOUT GOD'S JUDGEMENT OVER SIN TODAY
-Twisted Gospel: God of love/God with a big stick. Which is it?
- ie: WW2, September 11, Tsunami, New Orleans (Katrina)
- To suggest that God is still judging sin today implies that Jesus didn't accomplish enough at Calvary.
- Acts 4:32-5:14. Ananias and Sapphira. (I had to cut this example out of my sermon for lack of time. Too bad though. Ananias and Sapphira were not as a lot of Christians believe them to have been.)

WHAT TO DO WITH THE OLD TESTAMENT
- God: the same yesterday, today and forver? God can't stand sin so He had a plan to deal with it. Plans have a timeline, think of plans you have made. God dealt with sin by Jesus.
- How to practically apply the Old Testament to your life.

WHAT TO DO WITH THE GOSPEL
-Grace leaves no loophole for sin. Romans 6
-We need to get the world to repent. (I didn't get to teach this point either for lack of time. I was gonna share about what I thing repentence mean, and it's not 'turning from our sin', it's 'turning from our way of thinking that we can deal with our sin ourselves, by our own self effort'.
-2 Corinthians 5:17-21. ambassador: an accredited diplomatic agent of the highest rank, appointed as the representative of one government to another. reconcile: to bring back to friendship after estrangement (seperation)
- Practically applying the New Testament to your life.