Freedom from Judgment
Good News from the Law • Sermon • Submitted
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· 3 viewsThe Gospel brings Good News, but why is it good? This sermon will explore the goodness through freedom from the consequences of law in judgment.
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9 “Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;
10 and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face.
11 Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.
27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
15 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Thank you pastor for inviting me to be the evangelist during your revival this year.
Believer, please hear my plea during these next few days: I want to be an encouragement to you who are striving to grow in intimacy with the Lord.
Strong believer: Thank you for your example, for the encouragement you are to others, and for the gospel witness you exude daily.
Baby or weaker believer: I hope you receive encouragement today, and even as the week progresses. You too need to be sharing the Good News of the gospel where ever you go each day.
Weaker believer, you might have many struggles each week that affect your walk with the Lord-be encouraged! He will sustain you and help you share the gospel/
Baby believer, you are in a prime place in your life to share the gospel. You’ve recently been born again and don’t know any better! You have lost friends; many Christians I talk to will readily say, “Bro. Toby I literally don’t know anyone who is lost!” Share with those people!
Dr. Charles Brock says, “If you choose to follow, you choose to fish!”
In a book entitled “Evangelism is...” by Earley and Wheeler, the authors wrote this statement that may be shocking to some, but Biblically hard to refute:
“No one can call himself a follower of Jesus if he refuses to obey His orders.”
Non-Christian-Lost person-Seeker-Interested guest: Please allow the scriptures to speak to your heart today. Do not harden your heart. Listen as you are here. Read the scriptures when you go home tonight and the rest of the week. Challenge what I’m saying to what you see in scripture. Allow the Holy Spirit to convict you and don’t let your heart be hardened to the saving words of the gospel.
As we read scripture together and I exhort you, I want to call special attention to this verse:
15 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
We will be referencing it all week.
“Jesus came into the world to save sinners.”
Church, I know we remember this and know it, but I can’t help but wonder why we don’t act upon it with urgency.
Lost person, if the only thing you know about Jesus is that “He loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life,” then we’ve let you down and it’s my prayer that when you leave today, you’ll leave with a clear understanding of what the gospel is and how you need to respond to it.
Judgment-An OT Background ()
Judgment-An OT Background ()
The idea of covenant (9)
The idea of covenant (9)
“Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;
Covenant is an agreement; a
Look with me to
So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
Consequences of breaking covenant (10)
Consequences of breaking covenant (10)
especially concerning the day you stood before the Lord your God in Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’
and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face.
Now check out what happens when a righteous God has His covenant broken.
15 and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,
16 I also will do this to you:
I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart.
And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17 I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies.
Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.
18 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
19 I will break the pride of your power;
I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
20 And your strength shall be spent in vain;
for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
Lev. 26:15-
A rubric to follow (11)
A rubric to follow (11)
11 Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.
Deut.
Friend, you might try to make yourself feel better by saying, “Well, Bro. Toby, we don’t live under the OT law, we are in a new time and now live under the NT law.”
This is true only for those who have received Christ as their Savior.
You see, we’ve all sinned against God.
The same is true for those living prior to the Genesis flood, as was for those in Babylonian captivity, and for those who watched Jesus overturn the tables in the temple courts.
We’ve all sinned against God.
Judgment-A NT Reality ()
Judgment-A NT Reality ()
15 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Judgment comes because of His righteousness
Judgment comes because of His righteousness
18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
16 After he begot Jared, Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters.
6 And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.
3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 4 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.
5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,
The word used here that is translated “accounted” is a legal term called “imputation, or imputed righteousness.”
That means you didn’t earn it, but it was credited to you by another person.
Think quietly to yourself and listen to this:
If you have a fine at the courthouse, who can pay that fine for you? Anyone who is willing right? No many people would do this.
You owe God a fine due to your sin. The Bible says the payment for sin is death. Who is righteous enough to pay this debt?
No one! That is why His righteousness is credited/imputed to those who repent and receive Christ.
It is given to us because there is nothing we can do to earn it.
Judgment comes because of His holiness
Judgment comes because of His holiness
A righteous judge illustration.
Ultimate judgment comes to all of us (9:27)
Ultimate judgment comes to all of us (9:27)
27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
There’s Good News!
There’s Good News!
15 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.