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Pastor Henecke's Sermon Outlines

The Woodland Street Pulpit

Nashville’s First Church of the Nazarene

April 28, 2002 AM

Grace

Text: Romans 1:18

As sin reigned in death – God’s grace reigned in righteousness into everlasting life through our Lord Jesus Christ.

INTRODUCTION: Our paragraph begins this morning with the words, "While we were yet sinners" – salvation was accomplished for us. In our enemy status God acted on our behalf.

Chara JOY Charete REJOICE

Charis GRACE Charisma GRACEFUL

Charismata GRACE BEING EXPRESSED

Romans 5: 6-10 GAH

It was when we were powerless - at the appointed time - Christ died for the ungodly. Rarely will one die for a righteous person-- though perhaps for a good person someone might actually brave death; Christ died for us while we still were sinners, affirming God’s love for us. Surely having been justified through his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath. For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by his Son’s death, all the more, being reconciled, we will surely be saved through his life.

  1. WHEN WE WERE HELPLESS
    1. Salvation was accomplished for us
      1. God initiated our rescue
      2. God accomplished our transformation

      * understand the status of a slave – we are purchased

    2. We received our reconciliation
      1. A gift from God
      2. We call this grace

      Romans 3:23

      all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,

      Romans 3:23

      Since all have sinned and are excluded from God’s glory, all are freely made right by his grace, through the deliverance in Christ Jesus,

    3. Grace
      1. Is in our hour called permissiveness
      2. God does not wink at sin
      3. Grace is first of all a quality of God

        4. John 1:14

        And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth.

        1. He is graceful
        2. He extends grace – his nature
    4. We beheld his glory aorist middle indicative of spectacle
      1. The personal experience of John and of others
      2. Which is received – not achieved
      3. But how we respond affects us
      4. Full Of grace and truth
        1. (grace) (truth)
          1. Grace is of God
          2. We do not achieve it
          3. Grace is God’s nature extended

We receive GRACE from God. He does not call us to be holy but to be made holy. He wants us to put our self under his Lordship. We die or yield all right to self– submit to God. Grace is God being God.

  1. WE RECEIVE THE RECONCILIATION
    1. What we read in scripture or hear in teaching/preaching is only as good as the delivery system:
      1. Look at Romans 5:11 as an example
      2. The final pronoun is ‘our’

        3. RSV Romans 5:11

        Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received our reconciliation.

        1. It makes it ‘my’ reconciliation
        2. But, Paul included no pronoun
        3. The reconciliation is God’s

      GAH Romans 5:11

      But that is not all; we also rejoice through our Lord Jesus Christ in God, through whom we have now been granted reconciliation.

    2. Let’s step back and see the BIG PICTURE of life
      1. What was God’s original design?
        1. "Let us create man in our image"
        2. Mankind’s mission is to live in the image

        Genesis 1:27

        So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

      2. What did God see when he looked at man?
        1. – Himself
        2. – What did God say of all of us? GOOD!
    3. Only once was this design realized

      4. Colossians 1:15

      Christ is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation;

    4. Moses cried out in prayer, "Show me your glory!"
      1. Philip the apostle asked on that holy night, "Lord show us the Father."
      2. Jesus responded

      John 14:9

      Jesus responded, "Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you ask, 'Show us the Father'?"

    5. Learn the nature of salvation:
      1. God became man
      2. God condemned sin in the God-man

      Romans 8:3

      God has done, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to deal with sin, what the law, impoverished by the flesh, could not do - he condemned sin in the flesh.

    6. God lived in the truth and glory in Jesus
      1. Creating the new image of godliness
      2. Making us through new birth into the image of his Son
      3. This restores us to the image of his original place

    NEB Romans 8:29

    God knew his own before they ever were and also ordained that they should be shaped to the image of his Son

  2. WE SHALL BE SAVED
    1. Salvation is a relationship in process
    • Saved – a fact completed

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

    • Being saved – a work of the Spirit

2 Corinthians 2:15

For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,

    • Will be saved

Romans 5:10

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by his Son’s death, all the more, being reconciled, we will surely be saved through his life

      1. We are recipients of God’s work
      2. All this is of God
    1. It is called grace – Why?
      1. It is the salvation of God
      2. He accomplishes it

        3. Ephesians 2:10

        For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

      3. We are his creation
      4. It is his life that saves us!
        1. It is an ongoing process
        2. It is a relationship * This is why we reject eternal security
          1. Can I lose MY salvation?
          2. It was never yours - It is God’s
          3. It isn’t finished
          4. You are being saved
    2. The nature of this salvation - God looks and sees his Son.

John 5:20

We know that the Son of God has come and given us understanding, to know the true God; truly we are in his Son Jesus Christ – who is truth. This is the true God and eternal life.



Pastor Henecke's PM Sermon Outline

The Woodland Street Pulpit

Nashville’s First Church of the Nazarene

April 28, 2002 PM

Destiny Sealed

Rev. 22:11-13 (ESV)

"Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy. Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."

Introduction:

Revelation 22:11-13

Let the evildoer go on doing evil, and the filthy-minded continue in their filth, but let the good persevere in their goodness and the holy in their holiness. I am coming soon, and bringing my recompense to repay everyone according to his deeds. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

God has fixed life to have seasons for aspects of life:

As earth enjoys its seasons

    • Spring for blooming
    • Summer for mature life
    • Fall for reaping the life of the former
    • The winter before another generation

So also we have seasons:

    • Childhood in three seasons
      • Infancy
      • Childhood
      • Youth
    • Young adulthood for establishing
    • Rearing our young and passing
    • Maturity

Ecclesiastes 3:17 I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.

In each season we establish who and what we are more deeply – there is less ability to alter our nature as we age. When we end we are.

The early church preached: Acts 17:30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all men by raising him from the dead.

What you are molding you will be.

I. FOUR CLASSES OF CHARACTER TO GOD

    A. The unjust (aolkew)

      1. Defined – one who practices evil

      2. Characterized in acts of sheer sensate nature

    Colossians 1:19-21

    In Christ God in all of his fulness chose to dwell, and through him to reconcile all things to himself, making peace through the shedding of his blood on the cross. Formerly you yourselves were alienated from God, his enemies in heart and mind, which your evil deeds revealed.

    B. The filthy (puttapoc)

      1. Defined as of a corrupt mind

      2. Characterized as passive voice corruption and inner cravings

    James 1:21

    Therefore put away all filthiness and rank growth of wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

    C. The good (o olkaloc)

      1. Defined as doers of what is right

      2. Characterized as practicing God’s will

      3. One whose actions are in step with the next age

    D. The holy (o ayloc)

      1. Defined as cleansed within

      2. Characterized as an uncompromising heart

    Hebrews 12:14

    Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

    The states of both the evil and the good are now fixed forever. There is no word here about a "second chance" hereafter.

II. THE PAROUSIA (COMING) OF THE LORD

    A. Rev 22:12 - My reward is with me

      1. (o ulo0oc uov uet euov).

      a) It is Christ speaking again and he repeats his promise of coming quickly as in verse 7.

      b) He speaks now as the Rewarder

      Isaiah 40:10

      Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

      2.To render (attoooucal)

    B. The idea of reward is that which the sower gets at harvest

      1. We get exactly what we put into it

      2. The universal Law of sowing and reaping

    Galatians 6:7

    Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

    C. Learn the lesson of the harvest

      1. Jesus described the end of time in terms of the harvest

      Matthew 13:41

      The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers, and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.

      2. The crop is already being determined

      John 4:35

      Do you not say, `There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest.

    D. When harvest comes it is too late for sowing

      1. Learn the parable of the virgins

      2. The door was shut when the bridegroom came

III. THE SEASONS FIXED BY GOD

    A. There is a season for rapid learning

      1. A season for reproducing

      2. A season for rearing your offspring

      3. A time for mellowing

      4. An age for saying farewell

    B. There is also a time for shaping your character

    1. There will be slowly growing an inability to alter character and with it destiny

    Isaiah 55:6

    Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near;

      a) A wise person knows their season

      b) We must discern the age and times

    C. Our Text says eternity is fixed

      1. We are already becoming what we will be

      2. We are at this moment fixing our destiny

CONCLUSION

Luke 16:26

But that is not all, a great gulf is fixed between us; no one can cross from our side to reach yours, and none may cross from your side to us.







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