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| SECRET CHURCH // THE GOSPEL, PROSPERITY AND POSSESSIONS Posted: 24 May 2011 11:00 AM PDT The following was taken from Secret Church – 8 "The Gospel, Possessions and Prosperity" Helpless and hopeless The glaring reality of the Gospel is that apart from divine intervention, apart from the work of the spirit of God, we are helpless and hopeless to do anything about our spiritual condition on our own. And that's huge. It's huge because we dumb this down at every turn with the Gospel in our culture. We live in a land of self improvement and we say, "Well, the problem is you've done some wrong things in your life," but the beauty is God has a plan for your life. So a few easy steps, pray this prayer, say these words and you're in.And it makes sense. We live in a land of self improvement, where a dose of church attendance followed by a prayer, pretty good moral, decent life, seems to overcome our sinfulness. But the reality is we cannot manufacture salvation and we cannot program it. We cannot even initiate it. We need God to do this in us. Now we're getting to the beauty of the Gospel, the sufficiency of Christ, because He has done it. In Christ, His life displayed the righteousness of God. We were slaves to sin, so we needed someone who was not a slave to sin, who conquered sin with their life. That's what 1 Peter 2, Hebrews 4, John 8 all say. "Fully man, fully God, He obeys the law perfectly. No deceit. John 8, He says, "Convict me. Show me where I have sinned." His life displayed the righteousness of God, his death satisfied the wrath of God. Romans 3:24, "God put him forward as a propitiation by His blood." That's a great word. Like, let's say that one together, all right. So one – on three, propitiation. One, two, three, propitiation. Isn't that a great word? It means one who would turn aside wrath. Let the wrath do your sin and my sin from a Holy God. His holy and good wrath, and His wrath is good. Like, we don't think of wrath as good, but it is a really good thing that God hates that which destroys us. And He poured out all of His holy wrath, threw your sin, my sin, upon His Son. And His Son turned aside His wrath from us. In my place, condemned He stood, and God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God. That's propitiation. That's really good. His death satisfied the wrath of God, and His resurrection demonstrated the power of God. God vindicated the work of Christ and the cross for our sins by rising Him from the grave. I love the end of Colossians 2:9-15. "He set it aside, nailing it to the cross and disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame by triumphing over them in Him." The character of God. Holy, just creator and savior. Sinfulness of man, dead objects of wrath, morally evil, sick. Christ comes. His life displays His righteousness, His death satisfies God's wrath and His resurrection demonstrates God's power. So how does this become a reality in our lives, the necessity of faith? Now, follow with me here. What we've just talked about, Christ is the basis of our salvation. Ladies and gentlemen, Jesus has done the work. Jesus has conquered sin, He has purchased righteousness for you and me, and what that means is there is no work for you to do. Like, none. Jesus has done it all. His work is the basis of our salvation. That's what Ephesians 2:4-7 are all about. For more content regarding Secret Church #8 The Gospel Prosperity and Possessions click HERE. |
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