Mystery of Life

But that is the mystery. That is the essence of the gospel. The rest is important, but not as important as this. We can go to the world with confidence. We can go to the world and we can say there is more to life, and we can lay it out. Now, advice here, if you go and tell somebody they're going straight to hell, you may not get to the bit about telling them about heaven. Just think how you word it, how you explain it. But we know we know how to answer that question. That is what we take. That is what we carry. We carry a hope for a future, a hope of eternal life. [00:32:39] (63 seconds)  #GospelHope

Now, the wrath of my wife can be quite scary, but I imagine the wrath of God. I mean, she's close, but not God. The wrath of God. I'm in so much trouble. I'm not looking at it. The wrath of God poured out on the cross. He didn't hold back. He poured it out on Jesus so that if you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you are redeemed. You are purchased back into his family. Mark 10 verse 45 says that a ransom was paid for you. That is the mystery unpacked. Hey, I still don't know who let the dogs out. But what I do know is that there is more to life than this. [00:29:47] (73 seconds)  #RansomPaid

And you see what that means for us is when Jesus comes back, when he returns, he will bring with him a time when there will be no more illness. There will be no more sin. There will be no more suffering. There will death will be finally defeated. A time when this broken world will be finished. Just reflect on this for a moment. Whatever you are going through now in your life, if it is bad and challenging, or what you have whatever you have been through, it will be replaced. It can be replaced by heaven, by a place where there will be no tears, no suffering, a perfect place. [00:08:52] (49 seconds)  #JesusReturnsHope

You see, our model for what the world should be like is the God of Eden. And we only have a few chapters in Genesis one, two, and three that really kind of paint a picture of what the the created earth was like before sin entered it. That was the ultimate. That was the the the that was what God wanted. He wanted a close relationship with humanity. That's the picture that we see and then sin entered in and messed it completely up. And so since that time, God's plan, God's will has been that that will be restored, that unity will come back, and we will be able to enter into a perfect relationship with him. [00:08:05] (47 seconds)  #RestoreEden

And as as as as evangelists, we often say that, don't we? It doesn't cost you anything. It's free to become a Christian completely true in the sense of the, you know, you don't have to give me £10 and sign a card to become a Christian. It's not like that. You accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. But it did cost God. And sometimes we forget that. But the cross taking communion should remind us of that. That it cost God sending his son, Jesus, to die on the cross so that we could accept him as our Lord and savior and accept that he paid the price for our sins. And on the cross, the wrath of God was satisfied. [00:28:58] (49 seconds)  #GracePaidOnCross

And you know that when you you commit a crime and you you serve your time in prison, if that's the appropriate punishment. And then when you leave prison, your conviction eventually becomes spent. It's called a spent conviction. And that means that you've paid your price for your for your crime, for your indiscretion, and you have it's spent. It's done. It's it's not forgotten in the sense of it's you people can't see it, but it's it's not there. It's you've you've cleared the deck, so to speak. But Jesus did that for us. But unpaid sin has a different destination, as I said. If we die outside of Christ, if we haven't accepted him as our Lord and Savior, then we will pay the price for our sin and that is eternal separation from God. [00:16:25] (69 seconds)  #DebtPaidByChrist

But I need to highlight something because it's so crucial. It speaks out against universalism which I'll touch on in a moment. It says, you can be. You can be. It isn't gonna be for everybody because not everybody is gonna accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Because to come into heaven to have eternal life, to be free of suffering and pain and sickness When when Jesus returns, we need to be part of his family, when we come to to that through Jesus Christ. Ephesians one five says, he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ in accordance with his pleasure and will. [00:09:40] (54 seconds)  #AdoptedInChrist

That actually, we take our eye of what God's will is, what God's purpose is for his church, and that is to go and make disciples. I'm not we're we're not turning our back on some Definitely not turning our back on some church. But if we move into Saint Charles in the next six months, whatever it will be, whatever it's finished and all the work is done and we move in and we have stopped making disciples, we will have failed at what God has called us to do. And so while we go and while we invest energy and time and money into St. Chad's, at the same time we go next Saturday to do the town center outreach. In the summer, we go to the Hengshood Fair. We do all of those things that help us to bring people into knowing Christ. [00:27:39] (56 seconds)  #MakeDisciples