Apr
24
2011

Keith Ford – Gift within a Gift – Sunday 24th April

 

Romans 6:23 (NIV)
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Gift of Salvation
Gift within a gift

 

 

 

No point having a gift when you are not connected. Ie a satnav that is not plugged in is if no use.

When your a Christian your destination is heaven, the coordinates are set to heaven.

At the nearest point turn around… Like repentance
God leads us one way and we go another, but the coordinates are set for heaven…

Once we have accepted Jesus asout lord and saviour, the coordinates are set for heaven, we can have eternal life

The death and resurrection of Christ enables us to have eternal life…

If we had done the Easter story, we would not have done it the way God did, Jesus was plugged into the eternal, he had to go through what he did

Jesus’ coming allowed man to come back and have a relationship with God.

Get so bogged down in the now, caught up in stuff that we forget that the coordinates are set and we are parts Kees of the eternal.

When things don’t work out right and we don’t understand, that’s because we are dealing with it in the natural, not the eternal.

Jesus didn’t take 3 days to die, but 3 days to get ready to live!!!!

The wages of sin maybe death

Christ has risen and linked us in with the eternal. We are not in the worlds system, it doesn’t dominate our thinking..

The bigger picture is God in the eternal……

Through Jesus Christ we have eternal life, that’s what keeps us going, when we feel like giving up when we go wrong.

John 5.
For there are three….

John 5:36-40 (NIV)
“I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the very work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me. [37] And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, [38] nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. [39] You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, [40] yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

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