The Glorious ‘BUTS’ of the Gospel
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The basic story line of the Bible is this:
Here’s the BAD news.. BUT here’s GOOD news.
In this week’s sermon, Linc Ashby explores various passages of Scripture that highlight this truth.
Linc used the following two paintings from 20th-century French Catholic painter Georges Rouault to illustrate his point:
Charge it to Me
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Paul’s shortest letter to his good friend, Philemon, is really about someone else, a former slave, Onesimus. Paul pleads with Philemon to receive Onesimus back into his family and to restore him completely. Now that Onesimus has become a follower of Jesus, Paul tells Philemon to charge whatever sin Onesimus committed against him to his own account; thus, providing a picture of Christ’s love for us.
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The End of the Matter
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While nothing stays the same, some things don’t change as quickly as we would like. The preacher in Ecclesiastes takes a head-on look at one area of change we can’t escape- aging and death.
Universal wisdom says to live life well, we must be mindful of death. The Christian view also notes that all wisdom about life and death is found in Jesus, the wisdom of God. Aging allows us to better know Jesus and become more like him – ‘though our outward self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.’
We can look ahead with hope.
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What Do We Really Know?
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This sermon from Ecclesiastes 8:14-17 and 9:11-12a puts forward the Preacher’s bleak observation about the unattainability of human knowledge. Jumping forward to the New Testament, in 1 Corinthians 1, we see that the message of the Gospel, of “Christ crucified,” does bring us true, humble knowledge of what really matters. Partly due to this preacher’s ailing health, the sermon at Westside that morning was half-baked, but fortunately he had the opportunity to get it at least two-thirds baked that night, as a guest preacher with our friends at East Point Church.
What Money Answers
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With nearly everyone’s attention turned to the economy these days, people are wondering how to handle the money they have left. Conventional wisdom might say we would all be better off with just a little more money. Ancient wisdom from the Preacher of Ecclesiastes, however, says a little more money – or even a lot more money – will not satisfy. Yet even these wise words need to be re-cast in light of the work of Christ. When he is our Master, money can become our useful, if unruly, servant.