Reviewing the Basics (11) What means does God use for our salvation and growth?
Reviewing the Basics (10) Why is the Church so Important?
Reviewing the Basics (8) How Does Salvation Change Us?
Reviewing the Basics (7) How Do I Know That I Am Saved?
Reviewing the Basics (6) "What Must I do to Be Saved?"
Reviewing the Basics (5) “Who Makes the First Move?”
Reviewing the Basics (4) “What is the Good News?”
Reviewing the Basics (3) “What Does it Mean to be a Sinner?”
“Our status needs to be changed. In order to be saved our status needs to be changed from guilty to not guilty – from guilty to righteous. But we need more than a change in status before God’s law. The kind of people we are needs to be changed. Our nature needs to be changed. We need to be changed from people who are inclined towards evil to people who are inclined towards obedience.”
Sermon Series: Reviewing the Basics
Reviewing the Basics (2) “Why does God make such a big deal about sin?”
Read: Genesis 2:1-17
“And so it is possible for us to have life instead of death. We are born dead in sin, but by grace through faith, we can be reconciled to God on the basis of what Jesus has done and so begin to experience the fullness of life that is rooted in a relationship of love with God. The richness of that now already is beyond words, but what we experience know is just a foretaste of what is to come. And the key to it all is giving God his due – living for him and not for ourselves and finding our great joy and satisfaction in him.”
Sermon Series: Reviewing the Basics