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*God’s work in this world*
/God is working in our lives/
Preached in Worc on 10~/21~/07
*Introduction*
There is a denominational pastor, preacher named Joel Olsten and he has a huge following and ministry.
He makes millions of dollars and sells all kinds of books and audio CD’s.
He was recently on a talk show being interviewed and he was answering all kinds of questions but the one thing that kept coming up he never really preaches Christ.
He constantly preaches self help.
That you can do anything, be self reliant, self sufficient.
The problem is the Bible doesn’t teach what Joel Olsten teaches.
We are not able to be good people on our own; we can’t save ourselves by ourselves from sin, death, and Satan.
We need God to work in our lives, and he does.
You see in God we live and move and have our being.
This morning we are going to look at three ways God works in our lives.
God works for us in salvation
God works in us to change us.
God works through us to save this world.
*1.
**God works for us in salvation*
/a. /God works for us in salvation.
God doesn’t work for us like he is in our employ, like and Employer employee relationship.
But it’s God that does the work of saving.
/ESV /*/Psalm 71:15/*/ My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge.
/Psalm 3:8 says /ESV *Psalm 3:8* Salvation belongs to the LORD; your blessing be on your people!
Selah/
b.
Saving is God’s business.
Someone might say why do I need to be saved?
Or what do I need to be saved from?
Here is the problem, sin.
Sin is the problem, sin has separated us from God and the danger we are in is an eternal danger.
But what is sin?
c.
*Adam and Eve in the garden and sin*–
i.
To understand what sin is we need to go back to the Garden of Eden.
Most here have heard or studied about the Garden of Eden and creation but we need to go back and think about it for a moment.
God created the universe and the earth in perfection and then he created man and woman.
Originally they lived in a perfect world and universe with everything they needed provided by God.
1. *Health* – they were healthy and didn’t get sick.
They didn’t need cough syrup or to go to the doctors.
2. *Home* – they had a home which was rent free as someone once said.
The garden was their home.
3. *Job* – they had purpose and meaning in life and had jobs, they were gardeners.
They trended the garden and that would have been artistic and a rewarding job, not burdensome.
4. *Fellowship* – they had fellowship with each other, man to man relationship or human relationship but also they had a husband wife relationship and they had fellowship with God.
They had everything they needed.
ii.
*Deceived into sinning* –
1.
One day Satan in the form of a serpent comes along and tempts Eve.
He asks her a question about what God commanded.
He said did God really say that you can’t eat from any of the trees in the garden?
And then goes on to tell a flat-out lie.
She tells Satan that if they eat the fruit they will die but Satan says you will not die.
God is afraid of you becoming like him that’s why he doesn’t want you to eat the fruit.
Eve is deceived by the serpent and she takes the fruit and eats it.
And in that moment she sinned, sin is rebellion, disobedience to God; it is missing the mark of perfection.
The word for sin in the original language came from archery terms.
A person had a bow and an arrow and they had a target set up down the way and if they missed the target that was missing the mark.
That’s what sin is; missing the mark of perfection.
iii.
*Sinning and knowing it*-
1. Then Eve after sinning gives the fruit to her husband Adam who wasn’t deceived he ate that fruit knowing it was wrong which is even worse in my opinion.
We read “/ESV /*/1 Timothy 2:14/*/ and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.”/
Adam followed in his wife’s footsteps knowing it was sinful.
And from that point on sin entered the world and we have grown up in a world of sin and were taught to sin and teach others to sin.
2. Just like Eve we are sometimes deceived into sinning and other times we are like Adam and know we are going to sin we know that it is sin and jump headlong into sin anyway.
d.
*We were dead in sin* (could not save ourselves) –
i.
Paul tells us in “/ESV /*/Romans 3:23/*/ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God/.”
We also know that “/ESV *Romans 6:23* For the wages of sin is death/”.
Physical and spiritual death.
ii.
*Law breaker* –
1.
We broke the law of God.
Even if we only broke one of the commands of God we would be guilty of breaking them all.
It only takes one sin to be eternally condemned but we have done much more than that.
2.
*Speed limit* –
3. Think about it this way if you were on the highway and the speed limit was 55 and you went 60. Would be guilty of breaking the law?
Yes, the law says 55 not 60 in fact if you were to go 56 miles an hour you would be a law breaker.
What if you slowed down would you still be a law breaker?
Yes, you broke the law and no matter what you do you are still a law breaker.
Even if you were to pay a fine you would still be a law breaker.
The payment we owe God for sin is death, physical and spiritual.
And we can’t get out of it by doing good works or trying to live good lives.
We by ourselves are hopeless.
iii.
*Titanic* –
1.
Most of you probably saw the move Titanic or at least have heard about how the historical event; unsinkable ship that sank.
Well if you were on that ship when it sank and there were no life jackets or life boats and you were drowning how would you save yourself?
What could you do?
You couldn’t do anything to save yourself and we can’t save ourselves either.
We were drowning in sin with no hope at all.
e.
*God made us alive in Christ* –
i.
But God loves us.
He loves you.
You might ask “why does he love me?”
Because you’re you and there is no one like you.
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