EXPERIENCING HIS PASSIONATE FORGIVENESS (2 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Isaiah 53:4-12
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Experiencing His Passionate Forgiveness (2 of 4)
Series: Experiencing the Passion
Jeff Strite
Isaiah 53:4-12
OPEN: In a speech Mark Twain gave before the Society of American Authors in 1900, he said: ''I am constructed like everybody else and enjoy a compliment as well as any other fool, but I do… have… another side. I have a WICKED side. Estimable friends who know all about it would tell you and take a certain delight in telling you things that I have done and things further that I have not repented. The real life that I live, and the real life that I suppose all of you live, is a life of interior sin.''
Another time Twain commented: ''Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody''
ILLUS: The preacher in a small country church had just given a fiery sermon that powerfully told of the evils of sin and how all men are sinners with no exceptions. When he got to the end of the sermon he asked this question:, ''Does anyone here think they are without sin?''
Almost immediately, a man in the back row of pew stood up.
The preacher was astounded. He said: ''Sir, do you mean to tell me that you really think you are completely without sin?''
The man quickly answered, ''Oh no sir. I'm not standing up for myself, I'm standing up for my wife's first husband.''
APPLY: All of us in this room are sinners.
Everyone in the city of Logansport is a sinner
Everyone in the state of Indiana is a sinner
Anyone who is anywhere on the face of the earth, where anyone lives and breathes…
… we're all sinners.
I. God tells us as much
Isaiah 53:6 ''We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way…''
Isaiah 64:6 ''All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.''
Romans 3:23 ''… all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God''
1 John 1:8 (addressed to Christians) ''If we claim to be without ...
Series: Experiencing the Passion
Jeff Strite
Isaiah 53:4-12
OPEN: In a speech Mark Twain gave before the Society of American Authors in 1900, he said: ''I am constructed like everybody else and enjoy a compliment as well as any other fool, but I do… have… another side. I have a WICKED side. Estimable friends who know all about it would tell you and take a certain delight in telling you things that I have done and things further that I have not repented. The real life that I live, and the real life that I suppose all of you live, is a life of interior sin.''
Another time Twain commented: ''Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody''
ILLUS: The preacher in a small country church had just given a fiery sermon that powerfully told of the evils of sin and how all men are sinners with no exceptions. When he got to the end of the sermon he asked this question:, ''Does anyone here think they are without sin?''
Almost immediately, a man in the back row of pew stood up.
The preacher was astounded. He said: ''Sir, do you mean to tell me that you really think you are completely without sin?''
The man quickly answered, ''Oh no sir. I'm not standing up for myself, I'm standing up for my wife's first husband.''
APPLY: All of us in this room are sinners.
Everyone in the city of Logansport is a sinner
Everyone in the state of Indiana is a sinner
Anyone who is anywhere on the face of the earth, where anyone lives and breathes…
… we're all sinners.
I. God tells us as much
Isaiah 53:6 ''We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way…''
Isaiah 64:6 ''All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.''
Romans 3:23 ''… all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God''
1 John 1:8 (addressed to Christians) ''If we claim to be without ...
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