I'm Kind of a Big Deal
Romans 2:17-24,28-29
Pastor Bob Hiller
5/10/2015
Series:
Liar, Liar
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/CoQR8xQp6QA
1 John 3:1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!
+ Lie: Our ____________ make us a big deal.
+ Measuring our value based on our accomplishments leads to ____________ or ____________.
+ Your value is found in Christ because:
+ You are His ____________.
+ He gives you ____________.
+ He ____________ you.
Scripture Readings
Acts 1:12-26
Romans 2:17-24,28-29
John 17:11b-19
Take It With You!
As we learn how to live as disciples of Jesus Christ, here helpful tools will be offered to aid in your study.
But if the Law and the Gospel, likewise also Moses himself [as] a teacher of the Law and Christ as a preacher of the Gospel are contrasted with one another, we believe, teach, and confess that the Gospel is not a preaching of repentance or reproof, but properly nothing else than a preaching of consolation, and a joyful message which does not reprove or terrify, but comforts consciences against the terrors of the Law, points alone to the merit of Christ, and raises them up again by the lovely preaching of the grace and favor of God, obtained through Christ's merit.
As to the revelation of sin, because the veil of Moses hangs before the eyes of all men as long as they hear the bare preaching of the Law, and nothing concerning Christ, and therefore do not learn from the Law to perceive their sins aright, but either become presumptuous hypocrites [who swell with the opinion of their own righteousness] as the Pharisees, or despair like Judas, Christ takes the Law into His hands, and explains it spiritually, Matt. 5:21ff ; Rom. 7:14. And thus the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all sinners [ Rom. 1:18 ], how great it is; by this means they are directed [sent back] to the Law, and then first learn from it to know aright their sins-a knowledge which Moses never could have forced out of them.
The Epitome of the Formula of Concord, Article V: Law and Gospel.
