Following Jesus Son of God …

Tip Kamm – harmonica; Chuck Butterfield – guitar & vocal; Dave. 🙂

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

(John 8:36 ESV)

We are indebted to our servicemen and servicewomen who have made sacrifices great and small to secure the freedoms we enjoy in this great country in which we live. And we do want to show them this weekend (and always) our appreciation and honor.

However, there is a freedom which knows no boundaries of any social or political structure on Earth. A position of freedom that Jesus Christ states to be “free indeed.”

This freedom is the greatest freedom of all, given by God, purchased by the shed blood of Christ, and always safe and secure in the promises of God. This is the freedom I would like to examine today. This freedom has its roots and foundation in the only true gospel. The gospel that comes to us by grace through faith and not of works.

Free indeed …

• Freedom forever: For eternity; for all future time; for always; an endless time; without ever ending; eternally; for everlasting time.
• Freedom to infinity and beyond: Limitless, boundless, never-ending, impossible to measure or calculate; having no boundaries or limits; immeasurably great or large.
• Freedom from everything that constrains us on this Earth: In Christ we are free from our sin and everything that sin would touch and stain in our lives, including our emotions, our intellect, our spirituality, our relationships. We also will one day be free from the physical restraints of this life: our bodily limitations, sickness, general frailties that go along with being a human who was born to die while living on a planet that is under the judgment of God because of our rebellion.

Message Title: The Freedom of the Cross!

Message Text: Galatians 5:1-15

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SUNDAY AM

Four Questions Everyone Needs to Ask!

Genesis 3:6-13

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SUNDAY PM

Is God Looking for You?

2 Chronicles 16

• In an instant the original couple passed from life to death, from sinlessness to sin, from harmony to alienation, from trust to distrust, from ease to dis-ease. It did not take a day. It happened in a millisecond! [Hughes, R. K. (2004). Genesis: beginning and blessing (p. 76). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books.]

Message Title: Four Questions Everyone Needs to Ask!

Message Text: Genesis 3:6-13

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Message Title: Life Lessons from Our Mother Eve!

Message Text: Genesis 2-3 & Selected

◼︎ Advice to mothers …

• Trust God.
• Love God.
• Always stay with the word of God.
• Always stay with the plan of God.
• Always reverence God.
• Always obey God.
• Know the battlefield on which you must fight for your children.
• Focus on forever.

Message Title: Life Lessons from Our Mother Eve!

Message Text: Genesis 2-3 & Selected

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Here is the audio for the last two Genesis messages.

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GENESIS MESSAGE 4 – The Account of the Creation of the Heavens and the Earth

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GENESIS MESSAGE 5 – The Serpent Deceives the Woman

We could almost say that the Man (Adam) and the Woman (Eve) had no chance against their adversary. 

Almost … But they did have very clear instruction from God himself.

Yes, they were overmatched as the devil used the crafty serpent to spark their rebellion against God. And they made the same mistake we sometimes make. They took their eyes of the very clear line of obedience that God had given them.

“Don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” 

Clear and plain.

• Kenneth Mathews makes this comment: “… the participant structure of Genesis 2–3 shows implicitly the hierarchy of creation: God, the man, woman, and animal (serpent). But this was reversed in the fall: the woman listens to the serpent, the man listens to the woman, and no one listens to God. [Mathews, K. A. (1996). Genesis 1-11:26 (Vol. 1A, p. 220). Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.]

And think about this. The Woman was deceived. Her husband was not deceived.

• (2 Corinthians 11:3 ESV) But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
• (Genesis 3:13 ESV) Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
• (1 Timothy 2:11–14 ESV) Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.

So why did the husband eat the fruit?

I guess you will have to listen to the message. Audio will be posted shortly.

Message Title: The Serpent Deceives the Woman

Message Text: Genesis 3:1-7

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“Shout with joy to the LORD, all the earth! Worship the LORD with gladness. Come before him, singing with joy. Acknowledge that the LORD is God! He made us, and we are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and praise his name. For the LORD is good. His unfailing love continues forever, and his faithfulness continues to each generation.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭100:1-5‬ ‭NLT‬‬

http://bible.com/116/psa.100.1-5.nlt

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• (Genesis 2:4 NASB95) This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven.

God gives his account of creation. The Creator reveals the events of the origins of our universe. God tells how he did it and pronounces it very good.

And, yet, billions reject his account for the account of a human or humans who travel the planet an average of seventy years.

Well, that makes sense.

Two things that we should be aware of as we make decisions that will impact our lives forever.

1. God has given his account of life and truth and forever.
2. We will one day be called to give an account for our lives before the God who has given us his account.

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• (Romans 14:11–12 ESV)¹¹ For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” ¹² So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.
• (Matthew 12:36 NASB95)³⁶ “But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment.
• (Revelation 20:11–15 ESV)¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. ¹³ And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. ¹⁴ Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. ¹⁵ And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Personally, I’m going with God’s account.

• (1 Timothy 1:17 ESV) To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
• (Titus 1:2 ESV) In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began.

Message Title: The Account of the  Day that the Lord God Made the Heavens and the Earth!

Message Text: Genesis 2

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