incarnation december 4 2005
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Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You
Calvary Baptist Church
Paul L. Davis
Sunday Morning, December 4 2005
Incarnation?
Phenomenal cosmic power!
Itty bitty working space.
Salvation and Deliverance• The Bible teaches that the reason that the Son came into
the world was to save sinners
• “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
• “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved” (Jn 3:16-17).
• “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” (1 Tim. 1:15).
At the Name of Jesus…
Our English word “Jesus” is a transliteration of Jesus’ name from Greek…
Which was a transliteration from the Hebrew word for Jesus which is Ya hoshua or Joshua…
Which literally means “Yahweh is Salvation.”
Kids Corner
Did you know when ever you say the name “Jesus” you are saying God saves!
He Took The Initiative
• No other Gods • Create no idols• Be careful with my Name• Keep the Sabbath• Honor your parents
• Do not murder• No adultery• Do not steal• Do not lie• Do not covet
If God were to Judge you right now based on His standards How would you fair? Innocent or guilty?
Where You Lead Me I will Follow…
We too, as believers need to be “incarnational.” We need to move toward the lost and the hurting. To be like Christ requires us to physically go to those who do not know.
We are to go out into the “highways and byways” (Luke 14:23) and become “friends of sinners” (Luke 7:34).
We cannot wait for the sinners to come to us; we must go to them, our motto as believers should be…
“Don’t call us, we’ll call you.”
Mixing Freely?…mixing freely with people like us, he never sacrificed, or even for one
moment compromised, his own unique identity. His was the perfection of ‘holy worldliness’ And now he sends us out into the world as he was sent into the world (John 17:18; 20:21).
We have to penetrate other people’s worlds, as he penetrated ours –
The world of their thinking (as we try to understand their misunderstandings of the gospel)
The world of their feeling (as we try to empathize with their pain)
The world of their living (as we sense the humiliation of their social situation…).
John Stott “Decisive Issues Facing Christians Today,” 1992:244
Take it Home
Salvation and deliverance from our sins are available to us…
Have you received it?
Have you shared it?
Are you hording it?
Who do you know that needs it?