Sunday, January 04, 2009
Stages of Life
Genesis 1:1-28, etc.
INTRO: This week as we began reading through the Bible again, we read in Genesis and Matthew. The first day's reading seem to mesh together to tell the story of our life. If we see life as a play, it would have 4 acts or scenes.
LIFE BEGAN IN INNOCENT PERFECTION (Genesis 1)
We see an orderly progression.
Each day God made something different and good.
Finally He made man, male and female, in His image.
He put man in dominion of the rest of creation.
What happened? Life today is quite different!
LIFE IN REBELLION (Genesis 3)
Adam and Eve was put in a garden with one forbidden tree.
Satan in the form of the serpent came to tempt them.
He accused God of being selfish. (He still does!)
He promised wisdom if they ate of the forbidden fruit.
So Eve and then Adam ate and the result we experience.
Life in rebellion from God is a life of confusion, etc
LIFE SAVED (Matthew 1)
Into a troubled world a Savior was born.
He was prophesied by prophets of old.
Even His name, Emmanuel, was announced by Isaiah.
Emmanuel means "God with us".
He came to save us from a life of rebellion.
LIFE REDEEMED
God gave His only Son that we might have life. (John 3:16)
Jesus called us to Himself to receive love and forgiveness.
We must choose today. Choose rebellion or forgiveness!
WHERE DO YOU STAND TODAY? WHICH SCENE ARE YOU IN? You can choose redemption today as you choose Jesus as savior and accept God's forgiveness.
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Pastor Fred D. Kerr
Greenville (CA) Southern Baptist Church
January 4, 2009
