August 18, 2024 – “Restoration”

Obadiah 1:19-21

Joel 3:4-6

“The line between good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

God saw that it was .

He said it was very good.

Charles Spurgeon Quotes to Follow

“We declare on scriptural authority that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will, will ever be constrained toward Christ.” – 

“I seemed to be all rottenness, a dunghill of corruption, nothing better, but something a great deal worse.”

He follows that up with:

“If God does not send me to hell, He ought to do it.”

“You are a great sinner, but he is a greater Saviour.”

“As far as God is concerned, your sin has ceased to be. He laid it on Jesus Christ your substitute, and he took it and bore the penalty of it – nay, the thing itself; he as your scapegoat, carried your sin right away, and it is lost in the wilderness of forgetfulness.”

Jeremiah 32:37-41

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”