Salvation Greater Than Condemnation - John 3

Salvation Greater Than Condemnation - John 3

1. For the healing of the nations, O God, you raised up your Son on the cross and exalted him as the Lord of all creation. Grant that all you hav e made will find their truest life in him and share in the glory of your kingdom, where you live now and forever. Amen. OPENING PRAYER

2. SUNDAY // SEPTEMBER 15 Salvation > Condemnation

3. Rod/Staff of A sklepios / Aesclepius Caduceus

4. ORIGINAL SIN humans, (through the male sperm) at birth, genetically inherit a tainted nature with a proclivity to sinful conduct which requires regeneration; infants are damned at birth; free will is impaired, but not destroyed

5. Sin is not the primary thing that is true about us. Before anything else, we are made in God’s image, …made to reflect that image in the way we live. Before scripture tells us anything else about ourselves, it tells us we are good…because that’s the way God intended it. When we ground ourselves in the fact that God created us good, we are capable of confronting all the other things that are true about us… DANIELLE SHROYER

6. JOHN 3:14-17 …just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that God gave God’s only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

7. NUMBERS 21:1-3 When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim , he fought against Israel and took some of them captive. So Israel made a vow to the  Lord  and said, “If You will indeed hand over this people to me, then I will utterly destroy their cities.” The  Lord  heard the voice of Israel and turned over the Canaanites; then they utterly destroyed them and their cities. And the place was named  Hormah .

8. NUMBERS 21:4-6 Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient because of the journey. So the people spoke against God and Moses: “Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we are disgusted with  this miserable food.” Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died…

9. NUMBERS 21:7-9 So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and against you; intercede with the Lord, that He will remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded for the people. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and put it on a flag pole; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, and looks at it, will live.”  So Moses (did so); and…if a serpent bit someone, and he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.

10. ROMANS 7:21-25a I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. For I joyfully agree with the law of God in my inner person, but I see  a different law in the parts of my body waging war against the law of my mind, making me a prisoner of the law of sin, the law which is in my body… What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

11. ROMANS 7:25b; 8:1-2 So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. Therefore there is now no condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 

12. JEREMIAH 31:31-32 Heb 8:8-12 The days are coming,” declares the Lord,     “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel (and) Judah. It will not be like the covenant     I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand     to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant,     though I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord.

13. JEREMIAH 31:33-34 This is the covenant I will make with (them…) “I will put my law in their minds     and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will they teach their neighbor,     or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”

14. JOHN 3:16-17 The Great Spirit loves this world of human beings so deeply he gave us his Son – the only Son who fully represents him. All who trust in him and his way will not come to a bad end, but will have the life of the world to come that never fades away, full of beauty and harmony. Creator did not send his Son to decide against the people of this world, but to set them free from the worthless ways of the world.

15. For the healing of the nations, O God, you raised up your Son on the cross and exalted him as the Lord of all creation. Grant that all you hav e made will find their truest life in him and share in the glory of your kingdom, where you live now and forever. Amen. CLOSING PRAYER