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Beauty for Ashes Where We’ve Come From Jeff Kobes May 9, 2004

Beauty for Ashes Where We’ve Come From Jeff Kobes May 9, 2004.

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Beauty for Ashes Where We’ve Come From Jeff Kobes May 9, 2004

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  1. Beauty for AshesWhere We’ve Come FromJeff KobesMay 9, 2004

  2. “Why are we enchanted by tales of transformation? I can’t think of a movie or novel or fairy tale that doesn’t somehow turn on this. Why is it an essential part of any great story? Because it is the secret to Christianity, and Christianity is the secret to the universe. ‘You must be born again’ (John 3:7). You must be transformed. Keeping the Law, following the rules, polishing up your manners – none of that will do. What counts is whether we really have been changed into new and different people (Galatians 6:15). Is this not the message of the gospel? Zacchaeus the trickster becomes Zacchaeus the Honest One. Mary the whore becomes Mary the Last of the Truly Faithful. Paul the self-righteous murderer becomes Paul the Humble Apostle.” • John Eldredge, Waking the Dead (p57)

  3. 3rd Degree DepravityActual Sin • . . . for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God • Romans 3:23 (NASB) • For the wages of sin is death • Romans 6:23 (NASB) • But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God. • Romans 2:5 (NASB)

  4. 2nd Degree DepravityInherited Guilt • So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men. For as through the one man's [Adam] disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One [Jesus Christ] the many will be made righteous. • Romans 5:18-19 (NASB)

  5. 2nd Degree DepravityInherited Guilt • And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. • Ephesians 2:1-3 (NASB)

  6. 1st Degree DepravityInherited Corruption • Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. • Genesis 8:21 (NIV) • To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. • Titus 1:14-15 (NASB) • The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; • Jeremiah 17:9 (NASB)

  7. 1st Degree DepravityInherited Corruption For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, … Romans 1:18-21

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