Growth: Learning to Rest
Posted by Trevor Botha on Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Under: Word
When we truly understand the power of the victory of the cross, our thinking about God and ourselves will totally change. The blood of Jesus is powerful enough to destroy all sin. This is a huge thing to understand - sin is destroyed!
That means we are no longer bound to sin. The only sin that has any effect in our lives are the ones that we deliberately allow. And even those things can easily be taken care of by just simply asking God;s forgiveness. The power of sin is destroyed and we are totally reconciled to our Creator again because of Jesus.
Two things we should never ever do - underestimate the power of the blood of Jesus to destroy sin, and never underestimate the power of what it means to be created in God's image. The reason Jesus redeemed us from sin is because God loves us. When God created us in His image, it was the biggest risk anyone has ever taken. God did this knowing full well that we could turn our backs on Him. That is the reason He planned our salvation even before he created the world.
But what exactly does it mean to be forgiven and reconciled to God?
When man fell into sin he got separated from God and had no more relationship with Him. Satan then took over this planet and became the ruler of this world. On the cross, this was reconciled, and God restored man again to the rightful place of relationship with Him.
When we continue to see ourselves as sinners, we will never be able to really grasp how much the cross accomplished. We should start looking at the power of the blood of Jesus and realize how awesome this redemption is.
Here are the slides I used on Sunday to talk about this topic. Follow it along with the sermon uploaded on the media page.
That means we are no longer bound to sin. The only sin that has any effect in our lives are the ones that we deliberately allow. And even those things can easily be taken care of by just simply asking God;s forgiveness. The power of sin is destroyed and we are totally reconciled to our Creator again because of Jesus.
Two things we should never ever do - underestimate the power of the blood of Jesus to destroy sin, and never underestimate the power of what it means to be created in God's image. The reason Jesus redeemed us from sin is because God loves us. When God created us in His image, it was the biggest risk anyone has ever taken. God did this knowing full well that we could turn our backs on Him. That is the reason He planned our salvation even before he created the world.
But what exactly does it mean to be forgiven and reconciled to God?
When man fell into sin he got separated from God and had no more relationship with Him. Satan then took over this planet and became the ruler of this world. On the cross, this was reconciled, and God restored man again to the rightful place of relationship with Him.
When we continue to see ourselves as sinners, we will never be able to really grasp how much the cross accomplished. We should start looking at the power of the blood of Jesus and realize how awesome this redemption is.
Here are the slides I used on Sunday to talk about this topic. Follow it along with the sermon uploaded on the media page.
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