“Crushing The Serpent's Head,” Gen 3:15. Pastor Jim Davis

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Genesis 3:15
Isaiah 64:6
Luke 19:10
John 14:6
I Timothy 2:5
Acts 4:9-12
I Peter 1:8, 9
Hebrews 3:15

You don't have anything God needs.

You can't do anything good enough to undo the bad.

Man searches for a human solution to a spiritual problem.

Man thinks, "If I can see how good I am, surely, God will give me a break."

Trying to appease God by good deeds is called, "Works."

"WORKS," DO NOT WORK.

Without Christ, you are still a sinner, no matter how well you clean up.

God has the solution.
It's called, The Cross.

We ssy,
"Don't make me feel guilty.
Tell me how to be a better 'ME.'"

The weakened, gospel anemic church of today, helps you stay on the throne of self.

Let's just slide Jesus in along side all the rest of their enjoyables.

Throw out the choir.
Donate the hymnals.
Budget for colored lights, and a fog machine.
Turn down the chandeliers.
Turn up the volume to ear piercing mode.

Now, we are really having church.

Pastor must also pass the "cool" test.

So he comes to the little plastic stand, looking as if he just crawled out from under an oil change.

Lost in the crowd, acceptable and most of all, non-offensive.

The sinner has been encouraged to be a better self.

The preacher goes home to read the next chapter of "How To Be a Success, When All Your Friends Are Failures, " by Johnny Blowhard.

You have a choice to make.
Try to work an "inside deal" with God, bringing him the trinkets of your trade...OR,
fall at his throne calling for mercy, saying, "What must I do to be saved?"

God made provision to crush the serpent's head. It's on the cross.

On that cross,
Jesus became sin.

In that grave,
Jesus conquered death.

At that tomb,
Jesus walked out, King of kings and Lord of lords.

I Tim 2:5
There is one God, and one mediator between God and man...

(No preacher, no priest, no apostle, no deacon, no church, no denomination, no saint, no religion),

...THE MAN CHRIST JESUS.

That is one of the clearest verses in the Bible.

"Guilt" is the right response to sinfulness. It is like pain to an injury.

It says, There is a problem,
do something.

It also means, your heart is not yet hardened.

It means there is hope at the cross.

The "Good News" is still the good news, but only after you accept the bad news.

The "Good News" is called, "joy unspeakable and full of glory."

That's what I want for you.