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Welcome! Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 PM www.SunsetchurchofChrist.net
Romans 9: Identifying Israel Romans 9 – Israel missed the mark and will receive God’s wrath Romans 10 – Israel could be saved by faith but not by the covenant of Moses Romans 11 – The remnant are the core of the Kingdom
Romans 9: Identifying Israel Physical Imperfection vs Spiritual Perfection Worship Sacrifices Priests Temples ISRAEL
Romans 10 Christ: The End of the Law "For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled” Matthew 5:18
Romans 10 The Law as a course of Justification If kept, then a man could be justified It did not solve the problem of death
Romans 10 How could a Jew be justified? Must live absolutely by the Law Still would die Justification of the Law of Christ Therefore the Gospel applies
Romans 10 Israel has heard the Gospel Most reject it The remnant will be saved
Romans 11 The historical remnant Noah Joshua & Caleb Elijah’s remnant The restored remnant The remnant in Christ
Welcome! Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 PM www.SunsetchurchofChrist.net
He has put a new song in my mouth- Praise to our God; Many will see it and fear, And will trust in the LORD. Psalm 40:3
Please Solve Our Problems….. Save me from my sins Make my life better Help me with my home Fix my finances Make my work better
……But Save Our Pigs Don’t make me sacrifice for salvation Don’t ask me to use my life to serve you Don’t make me abstain for a better life
“Then they began to plead with Him to depart from their region”
Solving Problems Means Killing Pigs Walking in the Light Being Spiritual Living for Heaven Walking in the Darkness Being Worldly Living for now Ends
Solving Problems Means Killing Pigs Having salvation means giving up old ways For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. 2 Corinthians 5:14
Solving Problems Means Killing Pigs Having salvation means giving up old ways And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. Romans 6:13
Solving Problems Means Killing Pigs Having church family means being there Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works Hebrews 10:23-24
Solving Problems Means Killing Pigs Having Godly lives require sacrifices Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. Ephesians 4:31
Solving Problems Means Killing Pigs Having Godly lives require sacrifices When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1 Corinthians 13:11
Solving Problems Means Killing Pigs Having better marriages means giving Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them. Colossians 3:18-19
Solving Problems Means Killing Pigs Having better marriages means giving Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered. 1 Peter 3:7
God Will Not Solve Our Problems AND Save Our Pigs There is no “easy” button for Spirituality No pill No simple statement No one time fee
God Will Not Solve Our Problems AND Save Our Pigs There are “hard” words to consider “Diligence” “Patience” “Effort” “Sacrifice”
God Will Not Solve Our Problems AND Save Our Pigs But He WILL solve them if we desire Giving up our “pigs” is a small price to pay to save our souls
"Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.“ Matthew 11:28-30
“Do you want to be well?” Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, "Do you want to be made well?“ John 5:5-6
“Do you want to be well?” Salvation is Free Romans 5:17 Salvation is Conditional Work of Faith – John 6:29 Work of Confession – Hebrews 10:23 Work of Repentance – Acts 26:20 Act of Baptism – Mark 16:16