Broken-Down Relationships - Broken-Down House: The Sinfulness Of Sin (Part 7)

THE SINFULNESS OF SIN Broken Down House • Spiritually Dead • Minds • Emotions • Will & Desires • Conscience • TOTAL DEPRAVITY • Bodies “Sin will always take you further than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, cost you more than you want to pay.” Getty Images/BananaStock RF Titus 3:3 …hated by others and hating one another. God Created Us for Relationship Trinity • John 17:20-21, “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.” God Created Us for Relationship Trinity • Genesis 1:26, Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…” God Created Us for Relationship With Him • Genesis 3:8, And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day… God Created Us for Relationship With Him • Genesis 2:15, The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. God Created Us for Relationship With Others • Genesis 2:18, Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Broken Down Relationships Genesis 3 • How do they respond to God? • How do they respond to each other? Broken Down Relationships Today Isolation Immersion • Safe • Fierce Independence • Impersonal • Relationships are everything • Co-dependent Solution: Jesus 1 Peter 3:18, For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God… Solution: Jesus 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, …and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Solution: Jesus 2 Corinthians 5:20-21, Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Solution: Jesus Church – Ephesians 2:11-19 …But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility Solution: Jesus Church – Ephesians 2:11-19 …and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. …no longer strangers and aliens, but …fellow citizens…and members of the household of God… Solution: Jesus Forgiveness – Matthew 18:21-35 Summary 1. You were made for relationships 2. You can never sin “privately” 3. God keeps us in messy relationships for redemptive purposes 4. The Church is God’s display cabinet of His gospel power 5. Forgiveness is the language of Heaven