-God loves us.
-He wants a relationship with us.
-We were created to live in His world to honor God.
-We were created to be dependent on God.
Explain what has gone wrong:
-We have chosen independence from God our Father.
-The things we think will give us freedom actually enslave us.
-God is offended that we would seek to be independent of Him.
-His response is to cause our independence to be ultimately destructive and enslaving.
-Independence is expressed through specific acts of rebellion. What are some examples?
-The outward acts of rebellion stem from a fundamental problem with our heart (such as selfishness and pride).
-Because it is an issue of the heart, they cannot correct it by themselves.
-We need the offenses of our heart to be removed and our lives to be freed from the slavery of our rebellion so that we can live as we were meant to live, in a right relationship with God (dependence, joy, pleasure, etc.).
-His response is to cause our independence to be ultimately destructive and enslaving.
-Independence is expressed through specific acts of rebellion. What are some examples?
-The outward acts of rebellion stem from a fundamental problem with our heart (such as selfishness and pride).
-Because it is an issue of the heart, they cannot correct it by themselves.
-We need the offenses of our heart to be removed and our lives to be freed from the slavery of our rebellion so that we can live as we were meant to live, in a right relationship with God (dependence, joy, pleasure, etc.).
Explain that we cannot fix the problem on our own:
-We cannot do it ourselves because we have cut ourselves off from the source that can make us right with Him.
-Because He is the life-giving source, when we cut ourselves off, we can't find our own way back.
-Because He is the life-giving source, when we cut ourselves off, we can't find our own way back.
Explain how things can be made right again:
-God must fix the problem Himself.
-God wants to fix the problem, but God cannot ignore how He has been offended because it is a personal offense and because He is perfect.
-The personal offense must be paid for.
-Only someone who had not offended God could pay for the offense.
-Only God could be perfectly pleasing, but only man could make the payment.
-God must take on human flesh.
-Jesus claimed to have been both God and man.
-Jesus' life is the only one that fits with his claim.
-He lived a life perfectly pleasing to God.
-He died to make the payment that we owed to God for offending him.
-God raised Jesus from the dead to show that he approved of Jesus' payment.
-God removes our offense and reconciles us to Himself when we trust Christ alone.
-We must trust that Christ's life makes us pleasing to God and not our own.
-We must trust that Christ's death frees us from the offenses.
-We must trust that Christ's resurrection promises us that things will one day be as they were intended.
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