Big Thought: God’s favor and blessing to us is not based on our status, effort, or our . We are because God loves us, chooses us, and calls us for His glory and our good.
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1. We are worthy because God us.
a. God’s love casts out .
1 John 4:18a (ESV) – There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.
b. God’s love is .
Romans 1:16 (ESV) – For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
1 Corinthians 15:1—8 (ESV) – Now I would remind you, brothers, of the Gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you – unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then He appeared to James, the to all the apostle. Last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared also to me.
c. God’s love .
John 3:16 (ESV) – For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
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2. We are worthy because God us.
a. We don’t have to belong to the social .
1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (ESV) – Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things – and the things that are not – to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before Him. It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God – that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
b. We don’t have to be the at what we do.
c. Our is founded on God and what He says about us.
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3. We are worthy because God us.
a. God is as we believe His Word.
John 14:15 (ESV) – “If you love Me, you will obey what I command.”
b. God is to His good news to us.
2 Corinthians 4:7 (ESV) – But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
c. God is as we and God for all we see and hear.
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