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Introduction:
If you have been around here at all you know that we have come to understand that relationships determine your happiness.
“Ministry Runs on the Rails of Relationships”
“Relational Reconciliation”
Many of our relationships, if not all of them are tattered and scared by all the times people have hurt us or abused us in some form or fashion.
And just like a flag being whipped around in the wind we are supposed to bounce back and be new again.
We are full of manipulative relationships where people really just want something from us and if they don’t get it, they get angry with us.
But just like that flag there is evidence of the abuse.
There are rips and strains and sometimes pieces are missing.
These are pieces of our heart.
So what if you could “right the wrongs” that have been done to you.
What if you could look at your family, your spouse, or even your neighbor with new eyes.
Not worried about what they had done to you, not holding in grudges or animosity toward them.
Being secure enough in yourself that forgiveness would come more natural to you.
I believe we would live in a different world.
Now think about God for a moment.
Think about all the times we have wronged Him.
How many times God has shown mercy and pardon in our lives.
All the times we put him on the back burner until we need something.
Then WE become the manipulators.
The only time we talk to Him or fellowship with Him is when we need something and even then we demand it and get angry with Him if we don’t get it.
If we treated each other the way we treat God all of our relationships would be broken.
People would see right through us.
Is God any less than Man.
This is true because God is a relational God.
He is a God of feeling and emotion.
He can be sad, and angry.
He shows companion and mercy.
He forgives and he punishes.
God is a relational God.
He has the ability to love the unlovely.
He is a God of feeling and emotion.
He can be sad, and angry.
He shows compassion and mercy.
He forgives and He punishes.
Any emotion that you have, you have as a reflection of the one that created you.
So how does God do it?
Why doesn’t he, in His wrath, just kill us all and be done with it?
Why are His mercies new every morning?
It’s not only because God is love, but that love demanded a sacrifice.
Someone had to pay for the broken relationship.
Recompense had to be made.
Restoration could not be attained until the balance of emotion, strife, pain, and separation were settled.
This is something we are unable to do.
Every time we try and fix a relationship we just end up breaking it more.
Have you ever tried to go to a person and reason out a problem and you end up just making it worse.
This is the best we can offer God.
We have no solutions for our sin.
We have no way to “Right the Wrong” we have done against God.
Our relationship with God left in our hands is completely broken.
(Pause for dramatic effect)
But I have some good news this morning.
There is a word that we find in the Bible that changes everything about our relationship with God.
One phrase that can completely restore your relationship with God and “Right all the Wrongs” that He has against you.
The word is an old Anglo-Saxon word that comes from the phrase “God’s Spell.”
God has done something that we could never do.
He has found a way for sinners to be cleansed, for the unrighteous to become righteous again, and for the broken to be made whole.
It’s Called “the Gospel.”
Oh you are not hearing me this morning, It’s Called “The Gospel.”
The definition of the Gospel is simple enough.
It’s the good news of Jesus Christ.
The implications of the Gospel are so far reaching that it saves even the most destitute soul and builds a sure foundation on which we stand and can stand for all eternity.
The Gospel cannot be wrapped up in a song or fully expounded on a Sunday morning.
The Gospel has the power to save your souls from hell and allow you to experience heaven on Earth.
The Gospel is the love story of God sending his only Son Jesus to “right every wrong” and pay every penalty of mankind.
“For by his stripes we are healed.”
The Gospel is the way, the truth, and the life, by which we are restored to God again.
I hear the word gospel today when Jesus is never mentioned.
Let’s just be clear: There is no Gospel without Jesus Christ.
He is the gospel and the power of it.
This is the good news that we proclaim.
The Gospel is the reason for Easter morning.
But you can’t have an Easter morning before a Thursday at Noon.
When the clouds drew dark and the wrath of God was poured out on His Son and every “Wrong was made Right.”
This is our declaration.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the hope of the entire world.
People have left the comforts of home and the security of family to proclaim this good news around the world.
People have given their lives so that others may have life through the power of the Gospel.
The Gospel is the reason we build relationships at Allgood Elementary.
The Gospel is the reason why 10 of us are traveling to Mombasa, Kenya in two weeks to go hut to hut telling people of this good news.
The Gospel is the reason we go door to door in our community as IMPACT did yesterday.
The Gospel is the reason we support our friends in Arminia that minister in that part of the world.
It is the good news that Jesus Christ has “Righted the Wrongs” we had against God and has made us righteous in his sight.
Look with me at the words of Paul in as he proclaims the Gospel.
and as your turning I want you to think about this truth.
When the Gospel is proclaimed people call on His name.
When the Gospel is proclaimed people call on His name.
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