Unpunishable

the gospel of grace

How would you rate...

your level of enthusiasm for church? your overall fulfillment in life? your level of satisfaction with your
spiritual growth? your level of involvement in church related activities?

The Presumption
Should be a strong relationship between-

Time spent in church activities Spiritual Growth and Fulfillment

The Surprise
25% of the people surveyed were-

Stagnant and Unsatisfied

Whats the Message?

How can those most active in Church be stagnant and dissatisfied?

Substance of our Message Not our Structure What is the Content of our Message?

The Quiz
1)Christians should ask God to forgive and cleanse them when they sin. 2)Christians struggle with sin because of their old self within. 3)We should wait on God even before making everyday decisions.

The Quiz
4)When we sin against God, were out of fellowship until we repent. 5)Old Testament law is written on Christians hearts so we want to obey it. 6)The Bible tells us that Christians can obtain many rewards in heaven.

The Quiz
7)Christians will give an account for their sins at the great white throne. 8)God gets angry with us when we repeatedly sin against Him. 9)God looks at us as though were righteous even though were really not.

Ex 24:3
So

Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words which the LORD has said we will do.

Ex 24:7
Then

he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, All that the LORD has said we will do, and be obedient.

The Law

Over 600 Commandments More than 350 actions and items to

abstain from Nearly 250 actions on their to do list Some violations punishable by Death!

Psa 78:5659
Yet

they tested and provoked the Most High God, And did not keep His testimonies, But turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; They were turned aside like a deceitful bow. For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images. When God heard this, He was furious, And greatly abhorred Israel,

Mal 2:12
And

now this admonition is for you, O priests. If you do not listen, and if you do not set your heart to honor my name, says the LORD Almighty, I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not set your heart to honor me.

R o m 7: 1 5

do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

am told God loves me--- and yet the reality of darkness and coldness and emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul. Before the work started, there was so much union, love, faith, trust, prayer and sacrifice. Did I make mistake in surrendering blindly to the Call of the Sacred Heart?
Mother Theresa

J o h n 14 : 6
Jesus

answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Heb 12:2122
The sight was so terrifying I am trembling with fear.

that Moses said,

But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,

Heb 12:2324
to

the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Gal 5:1
Stand

fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Unpunishable
the gospel of grace