Weekly "Call To Worship" Encouragement

We live in a fallen world 

• Bad things happen to good people

• Good things happen to bad people

• A world where we labor our lives away

• A world of discrimination and hatred and war and disease and death

This is not the world God wanted for us 

• God created the perfect world where we would live with Him

• But we messed up and got kicked out

The problem with the fallen world is that we all will sin and we all will die

• This death is not our physical death it is the death of our soul in the lake of fire

• This is a penalty that all humanity deserves for our crime, our sin, our shame

But this is not what God wants, so God chose to forgive us. This was His grace.

• The path of Grace was and is through Jesus Christ

• God sent Jesus into this world so that, through baptism, our sin would be nailed to the cross of Jesus

• Jesus showed us that, for those who believe, death is not the end, but it’s the beginning

• Jesus is the pathway away from the lake of fire and back to the world of God

That is the message of Easter

• The tomb was empty

• Jesus rose from the grave

• And through Jesus, our sins will be nailed to the cross, and we will also rise from the grave to eternal life with God.