Clear Thinking...

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Clear Thinking...

• About New Life Part 5
• Text Luke 736-50 and Selected

Pastor Dave Martin Cross Creek Community Church
Nov 14, 2004
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New Life...

• 1. God sees the REAL YOU, He looks into your
  Heart. Vs 39-40
• Pharisee Self-righteous
• Woman God-righteous

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1. God sees the REAL YOU, He looks into your
Heart.

• 1 Samuel 167b ...The Lord does not look at the
  things man looks at. Man looks at the outward
  appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart."
• Hebrews 413 Nothing in all creation is hidden
  from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and
  laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must
  give account.

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New Life...

• 2. We Must Understand our SINFUL Nature. Vs 37,
  39
• What is Sin?

• Breaking Gods Law
• (breaking the 10 commandments)
• Missing the Mark
• (Trying to merit salvation)

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New Life...

• Eccles. 720 There is not a righteous man on
  earth who does what is right and never sins.
• Galatians 322a But the Scripture declares that
  the whole world is a prisoner of sin...

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New Life...

• How many murders do you need to commit to make
  you a murderer?
• Have you ever told a lie?
• How many sins do you need to commit to make you a
  sinner?

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New Life...

• 3. Believe Jesus is able to CANCEL OUT your Sin
  Debt. V42
• Romans 623 For the wages of sin is death, but
  the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus
  our Lord.

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New Life...

• Romans 58 But God demonstrates his own love for
  us in this While we were still sinners, Christ
  died for us.
• Romans 323-24 for all have sinned and fall short
  of the glory of God, and are justified freely by
  his grace through the redemption that came by
  Christ Jesus.

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New Life...

• 4. Receive New Life by REPENTANCE and FAITH in
  Christ. Vs 48-50
• Trust in Christ alone to save you Vs 48-50 Acts
  412
• Showing evidence of a repentant heart Vs 38, 47
  Acts 2620

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New Life...

• Acts 319 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that
  your sins may be wiped out, that times of
  refreshing may come from the Lord,
• John 336 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal
  life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see
  life, for God's wrath remains on him."

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Listen quietly...

• Do you hear the sound of Grace?

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Do you hear the Sound of Grace?

• Pictures from film...
• Passion of the Christ

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Is Your Name Written?

• Rev. 2127 Nothing impure will ever enter it
  (Heaven), nor will anyone who does what is
  shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names
  are written in the Lamb's book of life.

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Clear Thinking about New Life...

• He who has the Son has life he who does not have
  the Son of God does not have life.
• 1 John 512