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As you know, we’ve been lingering over - The Armor of God in chapter 6 of Ephesians...
The apostle Paul has been highlighting for us - the different pieces of armor that we are called...
…to adorn ourselves with - as we BATTLE our true enemy...
The Spiritual forces of evil at work in this world
So far - we’ve seen various pieces of God’s Armor...
The belt of Truth
Breastplate of Righteousness
Shoes of Readiness
And LAST WEEK - we saw the Shield of Faith
And ALL of these things - REALLY - blessings of God - GIVEN to us...
SO THAT we might - STAND against the schemes of the devil!
And TODAY - we CONTINUE!
TODAY - we look at our 5th piece of Armor...
The Helmet of Salvation!
NOW - when we think about the Helmet of Salvation...
There are some foundational things we need to address FIRST...
Think thru this...
*If someone came up to you after church today and said - OH MAN....I was RESCUED this past Thursday!!
If I was a BETTIN MAN - i would bet A LOT of money what would come out of your mouth!!
I know EXACTLY what you would - SAY...
You would say - RESCUED - FROM - WHAT?
It’s a LOGICAL question!
A GOOD question...
The same is true when it comes to - SALVATION!!
• AND SO - when we ask the question - How Do I Come Into a Saving Relationship With God?
• I think we've all heard the common approach that you should take in trying to answer this question for someone...
• That if you're going to explain the Gospel to someone....the Good News of Christ....
• THAT you should probably start with - the BAD News...
• Why?
• Because if you don't UNDERSTAND the bad news...then you'd never fully understand the Good News!
** To hear a daughter say - My Mom is healthy!.... is a good thing
• BUT - to know that she's now in remission from Brain Cancer gives you a different perspective....
• To hear a dad say - My son took his first steps yesterday ... is a good thing
• BUT - to know that that little boy - when born - was tossed into a dumpster by his mom who didn't want him, then rescued, and put up for adoption - makes you say - OH WOW...
• When we understand the BAD news, ONLY THEN - can we truly embrace the NEWS - as GOOD NEWS!!
• And so today - we're going to look at SALVATION - and looking at the whole of salvation, we'll see:
• The Problem (the bad news)
• The Solution (the good news)
• The Outcome
• And so (SLIDE), we start with the PROBLEM that we have as mankind...
SLIDE: The Problem: Born In Rebellion Against God
Salvation: The Problem
• I’m not sure about you - but I OFTEN hear that Religion is about RULES...
And Christianity is about - RELATIONSHIP!
That IDEA EXISTS - because people don’t believe that UNBELIEVERS - HAVE a relationship with God...
• Reality is - EVERYONE is in a relationship with God!
- EVEN - unbelievers!
• The problem is - It's a relationship of REBELLION AGAINST God!
• We've read and hopefully know - that in the beginning, Adam and Eve in the garden, lived in perfect relationship with God.
• The relationship between God and man was one of PURE LOVE...
• There was UNHINDERED Worship!
• There was NOTHING between God and man except for the Worship of God...
• There was NOTHING between God and man EXCEPT for - 'LOVE for God'!
• BUT THEN.....DISOBEDIENCE happened.
• SIN happened...
• God warned Adam and Eve of the consequences of SIN, and yet...
• Sin entered the world through one man - ADAM...and the consequence of that SIN reached through time and KILLS all of us...
• Why?
Because we ALL sin...
• Sin entered the world...and it shattered creation (what was good)
• ...Shattered the unhindered worship of God... • AND NOW, man was separated from God.
• Physical death and Spiritual death now came into the world...
• FOR ALL MANKIND.
• This is OUR PROBLEM...Sin has separated us from God...
• Sin has LITERALLY killed us...we're born = DEAD - spiritually dead.
• Now you may think that's a strong word...
• By nature....DEAD.
• By nature....DEAD.
• Children of WRATH...
• Now - this is our PROBLEM...
• But - I want to see how this deadness will show itself in our lives...(what are some symptoms of this deadness?)
• Let's look at Luke 4:14-30
• If you notice, in the beginning of this text, we see that Jesus returned to Galilee at the beginning of His ministry...
• ...and He was received well by all who heard him...
• But then we see Jesus come back to His hometown of Nazareth...
• Nazareth was situated in Galilee...
• ...and it was an area in which God's people were surrounded by Gentiles.
• Now we know that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, BUT He would grow up in Nazareth...
• He would come to be known as "Jesus of Nazareth".
• Nazareth itself is not even mentioned in the OT....but we see in the NT that it was regarded with contempt...
• In the book of John, Nathaniel says this - Can anything good come out of Nazareth?
• So - BASICALLY - modern day equivalent might be - Pittsburgh :)
• But at first glance....we see that people had accepted Jesus....probably even in Nazareth!
• He was their hometown Kid who grew up and made a name for Himself...
• And so they were probably anxious to see Jesus 'DO HIS THING'....
• and so they were probably happy He returned.
But what happened?
• Jesus reads an OT prophecy of the Messiah PROCLAIMING Good News...being ANOINTED by the Holy Spirit...
• And then says - "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing"!
• He claims to be the Messiah...
• and the response goes from...
• Yeah - this guy's a great speaker...to....
• ...WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS??!!
• "Is NOT this Joseph's son?!!" - they said
• And so I think what we see here...
(SLIDE) - a SYMPTOM of our Spiritual Problem is...
We will accept but not submit...to Jesus
• Initially, they accepted Him...
• Maybe they liked His delivery...
• His style...
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