The story companionship with god

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The storycompanionship with god
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• Matthew 713-14
• Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the
  gate and broad is the road that leads to
  destruction, and many enter through it. But small
  is the gate and narrow the road that leads to
  life, and only a few find it.

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• I. Companionship Lost Because of Sin

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I. Companionship Lost Because of Sin.

• A. Creation (Genesis 11-29).

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I. Companionship Lost Because of Sin.

• A. Creation (Genesis 11-29).
• B. Man women were created to have intimate
  fellowship with God (Genesis 38-9).

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I. Companionship Lost Because of Sin.

• A. Creation (Genesis 11-29).
• B. Man women were created to have intimate
  fellowship with God (Genesis 38-9).
• C. The Temptation (Genesis 31-7).

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I. Companionship Lost Because of Sin.

• C. The Temptation (Genesis 31-7).
• 1. Why create the tree the serpent?

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I. Companionship Lost Because of Sin.

• C. The Temptation (Genesis 31-7).
• 1. Why create the tree the serpent?
• 2. What was Adams Eves sin?

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I. Companionship Lost Because of Sin.

• A. Creation (Genesis 11-29).
• B. Man women were created to have intimate
  fellowship with God (Genesis 38-9).
• C. The Temptation (Genesis 31-7).
• D. The Fall (Genesis 322-24).

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I. Companionship Lost Because of Sin.

• D. The Fall (Genesis 322-24).
• 1. Sin separates mankind from God.

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I. Companionship Lost Because of Sin.

• D. The Fall (Genesis 322-24).
• 1. Sin separates mankind from God.
• 2. Sin separates man from woman.

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I. Companionship Lost Because of Sin.

• D. The Fall (Genesis 322-24).
• 1. Sin separates mankind from God.
• 2. Sin separates man from woman.
• 3. Sin separates mankind from his society.

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I. Companionship Lost Because of Sin.

• D. The Fall (Genesis 322-24).
• 4. Sin separates mankind from animals.

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I. Companionship Lost Because of Sin.

• Genesis 91-3
• Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to
  them, Be fruitful and increase in number and
  fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will
  fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the
  birds of the air, upon every creature that moves
  along the ground, and upon all the fish of the
  sea they are given into your hands. Everything
  that lives and moves will be food for you. Just
  as I gave you the green plants, I now give you
  everything.

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I. Companionship Lost Because of Sin.

• Separation from God
• Created a
• One Way Street!

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• I. Companionship Lost Because of Sin
• II. Companionship was Made Possible Because of
  the Cross

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II. Companionship was Made Possible Because of
the Cross.

• A. God Became One of Us!
• Matthew 122-23 - All this took place to fulfill
  what the Lord had said through the prophet The
  virgin will be with child and will give birth to
  a son, and they will call him Immanuelwhich
  means, God with us.

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II. Companionship was Made Possible Because of
the Cross.

• A. God Became One of Us!
• 1. What holiday do we celebrate because of
  this? Christmas!

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II. Companionship was Made Possible Because of
the Cross.

• A. God Became One of Us!
• 1. What holiday do we celebrate because of
  this? Christmas!
• 2. How does this affect the Lords Supper? You
  eat the unleavened bread to remember this!

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II. Companionship was Made Possible Because of
the Cross.

• A. God Became One of Us!
• B. Then - He went to the Cross!
• Colossians 213-14 - When you were dead in your
  sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful
  nature, God made you alive with Christ. He
  forgave us all our sins, having canceled the
  written code, with its regulations, that was
  against us and that stood opposed to us he took
  it away, nailing it to the cross.

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II. Companionship was Made Possible Because of
the Cross.

• A. God Became One of Us!
• B. Then - He went to the Cross!
• 1. Why the cross? To show you how horrible
  sin is!

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II. Companionship was Made Possible Because of
the Cross.

• A. God Became One of Us!
• B. Then - He went to the Cross!
• 1. Why the cross? To show you how horrible
  sin is!
• 2. How does this affect the Lords Supper? You
  drink the cup to remember this!

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II. Companionship was Made Possible Because of
the Cross.

• The One Way Street
• became a
• Two Way Street
• at the cross!

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• I. Companionship Lost Because of Sin
• II. Companionship was Made Possible Because of
  the Cross
• III. Companionship Restored Because of Your
  Response

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III. Companionship Restored Because of Your
Response.

• A. What is the response?

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III. Companionship Restored Because of Your
Response.

• A. What is the response?
• 1. Faith.

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III. Companionship Restored Because of Your
Response.

• I Peter 13-5
• Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new
  birth into a living hope through the resurrection
  of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an
  inheritance that can never perish, spoil or
  fadekept in heaven for you, who through faith
  are shielded by Gods power until the coming of
  the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the
  last time.

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III. Companionship Restored Because of Your
Response.

• I Peter 16-9
• In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a
  little while you may have had to suffer grief in
  all kinds of trials. These have come so that your
  faithof greater worth than gold, which perishes
  even though refined by firemay be proved genuine
  and may result in praise, glory and honor when
  Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not
  seen him, you love him and even though you do
  not see him now, you believe in him and are
  filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
  for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the
  salvation of your souls.

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III. Companionship Restored Because of Your
Response.

• A. What is the response?
• 1. Faith.
• 2. Repentance.
• 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.

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III. Companionship Restored Because of Your
Response.

• A. What is the response?
• 1. Faith.
• 2. Repentance.
• 3. The Good Confession.

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III. Companionship Restored Because of Your
Response.

• Romans 109-10 - That if you confess with your
  mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart
  that God raised him from the dead, you will be
  saved. For it is with your heart that you believe
  and are justified, and it is with your mouth that
  you confess and are saved.

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III. Companionship Restored Because of Your
Response.

• Romans 109-10 - That if you confess with your
  mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart
  that God raised him from the dead, you will be
  saved. For it is with your heart that you believe
  and are justified, and it is with your mouth that
  you confess and are saved.
• I Timothy 612-13 - Fight the good fight of the
  faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you
  were called when you made your good confession in
  the presence of many witnesses. In the sight of
  God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ
  Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate
  made the good confession.

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III. Companionship Restored Because of Your
Response.

• A. What is the response?
• 1. Faith.
• 2. Repentance.
• 3. The Good Confession.
• 4. Baptism.
• I Peter 321 - this water symbolizes baptism that
  now saves you alsonot the removal of dirt from
  the body but the pledge of a good conscience
  toward God.

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III. Companionship Restored Because of Your
Response.

• A. What is the response?
• B. What is the result?

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III. Companionship Restored Because of Your
Response.

• A. What is the response?
• B. What is the result?
• 1. The promise.
• Acts 238 - Repent and be baptized, every one of
  you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the
  forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive
  the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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III. Companionship Restored Because of Your
Response.

• A. What is the response?
• B. What is the result?
• 1. The promise.

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III. Companionship Restored Because of Your
Response.

• A. What is the response?
• B. What is the result?
• 1. The promise.

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• I. Companionship Lost Because of Sin
• II. Companionship was Made Possible Because of
  the Cross
• III. Companionship Restored Because of Your
  Response
• IV. Companionship Enhanced Because of the Church

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IV. Companionship Enhanced Because of the Church.

• A. A genuine conversion will make you weird to
  the world.

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IV. Companionship Enhanced Because of the Church.

• A. A genuine conversion will make you weird to
  the world.
• 1. Because you will look at life from a
  different perspective.

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IV. Companionship Enhanced Because of the Church.

• A. A genuine conversion will make you weird to
  the world.
• 1. Because you will look at life from a
  different perspective.
• 2. Because your new lifestyle may start to
  separate you from your former companions.

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IV. Companionship Enhanced Because of the Church.

• A. A genuine conversion will make you weird to
  the world.
• B. So - God supplies a support group for you -
  the church!

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IV. Companionship Enhanced Because of the Church.

• I Thessalonians 59-11 - For God did not appoint
  us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation
  through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so
  that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live
  together with him. Therefore encourage one
  another and build each other up, just as in fact
  you are doing.
• Hebrews 1023-25 - Let us hold unswervingly to
  the hope we profess, for he who promised is
  faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one
  another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not
  give up meeting together, as some are in the
  habit of doing, but let us encourage one
  anotherand all the more as you see the Day
  approaching.

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• The Story!
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