1 Corinthians 15:1-4
Think about a time when your life completely changed. I’m talking about a complete 360. A 100% flip upside down. Think outside the box here; I’m not looking for the church answer! For me, I think about my wedding day or the day that my son was born. My life was completely different after those things happened. The day that I said “I do” I became one with my spouse; I had to lay down my selfish desires to serve him first. Living with another human and doing life together. When my son was born, my heart was immediately rewired to nurture and care for a new life; my selfish desires, yet again, were laid to rest.
We have all had moments in our lives that completely changed or altered our futures. For many of us, the Gospel also did that. That time that we heard the Gospel and it finally clicked. The day that we fully surrendered our hearts and lives to Christ and were granted a new life. The day that we became dead to sin and alive in Jesus Christ. The day that we passed from death to life.
Some of you may have heard the Gospel many times before it became personal to you. Some of you may have heard it once and you were changed from that day forward. Some of you may remember exactly who shared it with you, what month/day/year it was, where you were and how it happened. Each of us has a different journey of faith. We each have a different testimony of who we were before Jesus saved us, how we got there, where we got there and when we got there. But the thing we all have in common is: the Gospel. The other thing that we all have in common: sin.
However, some of you may have heard the Gospel and are still waiting for it to click. You may attend church, a growth group, read your Bible and pray; but you still haven’t surrendered your life fully to Jesus in salvation. Or maybe you recently did that and you’re working on trying to digest God’s word and apply it to your life.
We are each walking a different journey of faith here at Emmanuel. But the Gospel not only transforms us through salvation; it goes on to change everything about our lives. It molds how we act, how we treat others, how we speak, how we love people, how we pray, how we serve, how we see things, how we read God’s word, how we hear things, how we interpret things; the list goes on. When we view these things through the lens of the Gospel, it is different from how the world views things. The Gospel changes everything.
We have all had moments in our lives that completely changed or altered our futures. For many of us, the Gospel also did that. That time that we heard the Gospel and it finally clicked. The day that we fully surrendered our hearts and lives to Christ and were granted a new life. The day that we became dead to sin and alive in Jesus Christ. The day that we passed from death to life.
Some of you may have heard the Gospel many times before it became personal to you. Some of you may have heard it once and you were changed from that day forward. Some of you may remember exactly who shared it with you, what month/day/year it was, where you were and how it happened. Each of us has a different journey of faith. We each have a different testimony of who we were before Jesus saved us, how we got there, where we got there and when we got there. But the thing we all have in common is: the Gospel. The other thing that we all have in common: sin.
However, some of you may have heard the Gospel and are still waiting for it to click. You may attend church, a growth group, read your Bible and pray; but you still haven’t surrendered your life fully to Jesus in salvation. Or maybe you recently did that and you’re working on trying to digest God’s word and apply it to your life.
We are each walking a different journey of faith here at Emmanuel. But the Gospel not only transforms us through salvation; it goes on to change everything about our lives. It molds how we act, how we treat others, how we speak, how we love people, how we pray, how we serve, how we see things, how we read God’s word, how we hear things, how we interpret things; the list goes on. When we view these things through the lens of the Gospel, it is different from how the world views things. The Gospel changes everything.
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