Today’s Passage: Genesis 4:9-14
Today’s Message: God is a judge, let us our blessings and our sins.
1. God of .
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- The Bible teaches:
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- God created and sustains life.
- God shows mercy.
- God is a righteous judge.
- God’s ways are supreme.
- God always relates to His creation, Creator and/or Redeemer.
2. The of Cain and Abel
3. The of a True Believer
- The Way of the Gospel.
- The way of the Gospel is a story and it tells us the truth, the life, and the way.
- The Way of the Gospel does not contradict our first point, the God of Life but marries it and applies it to those who bear the true faith.
- We have access to God because of Jesus, we are baptized because our union with Jesus, we partake in communion because we are citizens of God’s Kingdom, we have fellowship and share the same love and Spirit because of Jesus.
- The Marks of a True Christian, as stated in Romans 12:9-21.
Conclusion:
- Pastoral Charge: Our faith cannot be neutral. We cannot restrict our faith to church and home. We need to share our faith because the world to come is coming and this world will pass away and so will all who do not look to Jesus as the way the truth and the life. This passing world will also be like Cain, led by unbelief, enjoying their life buried in their sin and misery, they will not respect our faith if we simply keep it at church and in the home. Share Christ in your homes, enjoy the fellowship we have at church, but also be the light in the dark places in your vocational field. Your vocational field is your calling. Although we are not called to redeem organizations and create civil institutions to become Christian institutions (Kingdom of Common Grace) but we do call those within those environments to the blessed Christian institution of church, marriage, and family.
God is a merciful judge, let us count our blessings and confess our sins.