17 March 2019 - The Story of Job Through the Lens of Grace - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPraise and Worship songs performed:
God is a loving God. Man not knowing this was the source of the original sin. Eve didn’t believe that God’s commandment was for her own good. The devil always presents God as not generous and always out for His own gain. If God compromises on His righteousness, the whole universe would disintegrate. God is holy in all He does, but the essence of God is love. God is self-sacrificing and loving. You don’t have to give Him a reason to love you — that frustrates His Grace. He is good to you because He is good. Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. This was shown even in the Garden of Eden when God clothed Adam and Eve with the hide of the dead animal and its blood. Every man has sin in his blood. That’s why the virgin birth was needed. Medical science has discovered that the placenta only brings food to the baby and brings waste away from the baby — it does not bring the mother’s blood to the baby. Mary’s sinful blood didn’t taint Jesus. The mystery of the Triune God: Three in One and One in Three. Jesus, one of the Three, came down to earth. Today if God rejects the sinner who believes in Jesus, in essence He’s saying that “Jesus’ work at the cross wasn’t perfect,” and He would have to apologize to Jesus. But God doesn’t need to apologize to anyone. He never recalls His word and doesn’t make any mistakes. God sent Jesus for this purpose. Through the cross, the holiness of God is magnified. The devil understands the Law, but Grace is beyond him. The devil is a lawyer. Jesus is also a lawyer. Today God is righteous in making us righteous. The righteous basis is the cross. Our salvation came at such a cost, such that God’s only Son had to die for us. Without the cross, God cannot make us righteous. Imagine you’re standing in front of the world’s worst criminal. You feel love for him, compassion for him, and you want to die in his place for his crimes. To add to that, you even want to give all your assets to him. To man, that is double-whammy weird, but that is what God did for us.
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