This Won't Hurt a Bit
Joshua 7:1-6,10-12
Pastor Bob Hiller
5/3/2015
Series:
Liar, Liar
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/KZJLIuIfuaM
Romans 5:10 For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciles to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
+ Lie: Sin won't ____________ a bit.
+ Sin hurts our ____________.
+ Jesus ____________ us to ____________.
+ Sin hurts ____________.
+ Jesus brings ____________.
Scripture Readings
Joshua 7:1-6,10-12
1 John 4:1-11
John 15:1-8
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He was not like the Pharisee who said, "God, I thank thee that I am not like other men" [Luke 18:11], for that man was delighted that others were wretched; at any rate he was unwilling that they should be like him. This is the type of robbery by which a man usurps things for himself -- rather, he keeps what he has and does not clearly ascribe to God the things that are God's, nor does he serve others with them that he may become like other men. Men of this kind wish to be like God, sufficient in themselves, pleasing themselves, glorying in themselves, under obligation to no one, and so on. Not thus, however, did Christ think; not of this stamp was his wisdom. He relinquished that form to God the Father and emptied himself, unwilling to use his rank against us, unwilling to be different from us. Moreover, for our sakes he became as one of us and took the form of a servant, that is, he subjected himself to all evils. And although he was free, as the Apostle says of himself also [I Cor. 9:19], he made himself servant of all [Mark 9:35], living as if all the evils which were ours were actually his own.
Accordingly he took upon himself our sin and our punishment, and although it was for us that he was conquering those things, he acted as though he were conquering them for himself. Although as far as his relationship to us was concerned, he had the power to be our God and Lord, yet he did not will it so, but rather desired to become our servant, as it is written in Rom. 15[:1, 3]: "We... ought... not to please ourselves... For Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, 'The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell on me'" [Ps. 69:9]. The quotation from the Psalmist has the same meaning as the citation from Paul.
Martin Luther, On Two Kinds of Righteousness